Recent Posts by Oracle Cloud

An ethical approach to data starts with employees. If people don’t manage information responsibly, how can we hope to track it, much less protect it? Education is the key to driving awareness, which is why HR must take the helm in driving this behavioural change across the business. Who would have thought flash drives would become our worst enemy? The convenience of USB sticks and mobile phones has made us more productive, but it has also created a logistical nightmare for...

If customers are going to trust that brands use their personal data responsibly, marketers first need confidence in their company’s ability to handle this information internally. We outline the crucial role marketing leaders will play in fostering a more ethical approach to data management. Today’s data protection regulation is not intended to punish brands.  Its aim is to make them accountable for the significant power they hold. And if harnessed correctly, it can even be an...

If customers are going to trust that brands use their personal data responsibly, marketers first need confidence in their company’s ability to handle this information internally. We outline the crucial role marketing leaders will play in fostering a more ethical approach to data management. Today’s data protection regulation is not intended to punish brands.  Its aim is to make them accountable for the significant power they hold. And if harnessed correctly, it can even be an...

Finance leaders have always felt responsible for company data, but the spotlight has shifted to protecting people outside the business. Customer and employee data breaches can swing reputations and valuations overnight, making ethical data management a priority across the organisation. We squirm when an invasion of privacy feels personal, even if it doesn’t affect us directly. This is why recent data breaches – from the man who hacked German government officials to companies...

Data may be invisible, but its effect on your business when something goes wrong is all too tangible. As the team that feels most accountable managing data, IT can teach us a great deal about the power of information and how to approach it more ethically. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? For years, people have quoted George Berkeley’s adage to distance themselves from problems that felt beyond their responsibility. It is this...

Consolider des chiffres de filiales ou d’usines dans 50 pays, parfois informatisées localement? Permettre à ces utilisateurs de les manipuler ? Corréler l’information avec des données externes ou la partager avec des partenaires… Pour relever ces défis, TechnipFMC a adopté Oracle Analytics Cloud. Fruit de la fusion du français Technip et de l’américain FMC Technologies en janvier 2017, TechnipFMC est un leader mondial des technologies pétrolières et gazières (Oil & Gas)...

Not all clouds are created equal. And when it comes to performance, our benchmarks speak for themselves. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers significant performance improvements over the competition, according to independent testing. "When our Oracle account rep brought Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to the table as a viable option, we did our due diligence of proving out the value of OCI over AWS, and OCI won," said Nickoria Johnson, Senior Director of IT Planning and...

S’adapter ou disparaître. Karine Picard, EMEA Vice-President Applications Strategy & Sales Development chez Oracle, explique en quoi la connectivité constitue la prochaine étape de l’évolution des entreprises dans l’économie de l’expérience – et pourquoi elles doivent s’en préoccuper Nous vivons aujourd’hui dans une économie de l’expérience, dans laquelle les innovations sont en réalité suscitées par les clients dont les attentes poussent les marques à aller toujours plus...

This is a guest post by Chris Pasternak, Managing Director, Accenture. Why do more and more enterprises want to move to the cloud? In my work with clients around the world, I’ve heard a lot of good reasons: “I don’t want to be in the data center business anymore.” “I need to move to cloud so we can start saving money.” “I need a solution that will support our applications over the long haul.” Here’s the problem: Simply moving existing workloads to the cloud as-is rarely delivers...