Recent Posts by Lynne Sampson

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...