Recent Posts by Lynne Sampson

For the 5th year in a row, Gartner has named Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP as a Leader in its 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises. We’re thrilled to make this report available to readers with our compliments. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Oracle....

At Oracle, we love to celebrate our customers’ success. Over the past few years, we’ve been fortunate to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world—many of whom have women leading their finance and operation teams. As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, we’d like to look back over the past year, at the women in finance and operations who have inspired us. In alphabetical order: Amrita Ahuja, CFO, Square with Oracle CEO Safra Catz Lisa...

When was the last time somebody wrote a song for you? The first time I heard this tune, I was impressed with the melody and the guitar work. But the lyrics! “Another risk analysis by morning”—this is a song written especially with finance pros like you in mind. We’re thrilled to have this gem topping the lineup for our online event, Oracle Cloud ERP Virtual Summit: Big Moves to Pivot Forward. It’ll take you about an hour to watch all the segments from start to finish, and I...

2019 seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? All during the 20-teens, CFOs everywhere were under pressure to build digital finance teams that could respond quickly to rapid change. Then came 2020. Almost overnight, businesses everywhere had to change everything. More than a year into the global pandemic, seismic changes are still shaking the globe. Rapid changes in customer behavior during COVID-19 have made it clear that companies must innovate to survive, compete, and reignite...

The Oracle team is excited to announce that we’ve been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. Our team here at Oracle takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our products and services. The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is a recognition of vendors in this market by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number...

It’s not hard to guess what the top news story of 2020 was: COVID, COVID, COVID. (Oh, and there was an election in there somewhere, too.) As businesses everywhere were upended by the global pandemic, our regular coverage shifted to focus on how finance teams could cope with the crisis. Our coverage this year ranged from business continuity, to scenario planning, to how to return to work safely. Yet even amidst all this, there was still an appetite for stories that addressed...

By Lynne Sampson and Margaret Harrist, Oracle In a year when nothing went as planned, many companies faced the fact that their current systems don’t provide the data insight or flexibility they need to adapt to change. A number of trends were fast-tracked this year, from online shopping to curbside pickup to food delivery. While younger consumers tended to use such services more frequently, the needs and expectations of a wide swath of consumers suddenly changed—and business...

What happens when a government agency has ever-increasing responsibilities but continually diminishing budget and staff?  The Lambeth Borough Council, a local authority in south London, England, was in this position. The Borough has 3,500 staff responsible for more than 800 types of essential services to local businesses and the wider community—including trash collection, recycling, parking, housing, social care, going-green initiatives, and education—and demand for all these...

There’s been a lot of exciting product news in our blog this month. In addition to a couple of favorable analyst reports, we recently announced new capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain & Manufacturing. Those announcements seem to have been well-received by another industry analyst: Patrick Moorhead, founder of Moor Insights & Strategy, who says the updates make Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP smarter and more intuitive. According to his...