Recent Posts by Lynne Sampson

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...

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,...

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...