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Lynne Sampson

Managing Editor

  • Lynne has 25 years experience in journalism and marketing. She spent the first 10 years of her career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, covering major news events such as the Quebec referendum, two federal elections, and the crash of Swissair flight 111 - coverage of which won a Gemini Award for “Best News Special Event Coverage.” Since then, Lynne has worked in marketing and communications for high technology companies such as Whitehill Technologies and Skywire Software. She currently works at Oracle as managing editor of The Modern Finance Leader, winner of a 2018 Killer Content Award from Demand Gen Report.

    Lynne has 25 years experience in journalism and marketing. She spent the first 10 years of her career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, covering major news events such as the Quebec referendum, two federal elections, and the crash of Swissair flight 111 - coverage of which won a Gemini Award for “Best News Special Event Coverage.” Since then, Lynne has worked in marketing and communications for high technology companies such as Whitehill Technologies and Skywire Software. She currently works at Oracle as managing editor of The Modern Finance Leader, winner of a 2018 Killer Content Award from Demand Gen Report.

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Recent Posts by Lynne Sampson

A Smarter, More Intuitive Cloud ERP

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...

Oracle ERP Cloud the ONLY Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises

For the second year, Oracle is the only Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. Gartner positioned Oracle ERP Cloud highest for “Ability to execute” with second-furthest positioning on the “Completeness of Vision” axis. We’re happy to make the full report available to you, 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...

Oracle ERP Cloud is a Magic Quadrant Leader 4 Years in a Row: Find Out Why

For the 4th year in a row, Gartner has named Oracle ERP Cloud a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises. We’re thrilled to make this report available to our 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. Gartner does not...

Chief Academics Ring the Alarm on the State of Higher Education

The state of higher education continues to be in flux as institutions face tough choices about their future.  Colleges and universities are stretching their resources, trying to reduce rising costs while maintaining the quality of education for students. Many institutions are implementing serious cutbacks to work in this new reality, and it affects how chief academic officers view their role within higher education and the overall state of education.  The 2020 Survey of College...

Our Annual Look at the Top Stories of the Year

The holidays are a time for celebrating traditions and reflecting on the year just ended. Here at The Modern Finance Leader, we’ve developed our own traditions and reflections; every year at this time, we take a look back at the year’s most popular stories. This year’s crop ranges from ground-breaking research, to customer success stories, to “how-to” articles, to comparisons between cloud providers. The wide range of interests are a reflection of how the finance profession is...

"Our users are ecstatic!" Reimagining Business at Western Digital

If you have photographs, memories, personal records, or work files on digital storage, the odds are good that you’ve been using at least one solution from Western Digital. Bill Roy, a senior director at the company, describes their customers as, “The everyday person who's taking digital photos, needs storage for their computer—all the way through to hyperscale data center customers and scientists imaging black holes. Data is integral to virtually every aspect of how we live,...

AI, Predictive Planning, and Software You Can Talk To

Oracle OpenWorld kicked off yesterday with the first of two keynotes from Oracle founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison. The big news coming out of that keynote was the “world’s first truly autonomous cloud,” intended to automate many of the manual patches that often leave an organization’s data vulnerable to a breach. Today, the focus was on Oracle’s cloud applications with a keynote from development EVP Steve Miranda. The audience heard from such iconic...

Learning to See Data in New Ways

If you're a regular visitor to this blog, you'll notice some changes: new color scheme, new font, even a change in the Oracle logo. It's all part of a new design system launched this week at Oracle OpenWorld called "Redwood." Why would finance professionals care about a company rebranding exercise? Because in this case, it goes beyond marketing. It's intended to extend to the user experience in the finance applications that your teams use every day. The redesign starts with a ne...