Recent Posts by Richard Lefebvre

The Oracle team is pleased to invite you to a 4-day hands-on workshop on Extending Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Oracle will organize two 4-days Workshops between March – June 2015. We invite you to join the workshop InClass or Remotely (avoid travel time and travel costs by joining remotely). These Invite-Only hands-on workshops will be delivered by Oracle Development at No-Fee to Partners. Workshop training dates: NEW DATES: 4th - 8th May, 2015....

The world of user interface design continues to evolve, and the UI for enterprises today stretches across desktop browsers to multiple channels including that of mobile. Oracle's Alta UI was introduced in late 2014 to ensure that Oracle's own applications lead this trend, and more importantly to you Alta is available to customers to adopt in their own desktop browser and mobile application development. In a Linked In continuing mobility Q&A series we take the opportunity to...

The growing desire to seek competitive advantage from the use of data and the challenge of managing an increasingly complex and heterogeneous data landscape have created the right conditions for data-as-a-service (DaaS) to emerge. The debate over what format DaaS should take, who is positioned to provide it, and how it will evolve into a component of the as-a-service category is only just beginning. The ongoingconsumerization of IT – an overarching trend affecting every...

The old way of doing things, by which companies had to wait years for an IT project to be finalized, is no longer sustainable, says Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle. Read this article to find out why, he believes, IT has embraced Cloud.

Kronos helps organizations in 100+ countries manage their most strategic asset with workforce management tools. After offering on-premises solutions for 35 years, Kronos has transitioned into a cloud solution provider with Oracle CPQ Cloud. Sr. Director Leah Hill, Kronos Global Service Business Development, talks about the minimal costs of adoption and the culture they've built based on standards and efficiency. Watch Video »

Leading CRM expert, best-selling author, analyst and regular contributor to ZDNet, Paul Greenberg, has listed Oracle as a 2015 winner on his CRM Watchlist. Paul is an advisor to both public and private organizations and continues to define the landscape of CRM including industry trends, challenges and opportunities. As the Executive Vice President of the CRM Association, and Chairman of the University of Toronto’s CRM Centreof Excellence, Paul is considered one of the...

Using Big Data to improve customer experience [video]: http://ora.cl/d6b

Service leaders, here’s a mustread report for you: Reinventing customer retention success with the help of customer psychology. ‪See this nice animation here: http://ora.cl/S7p

By John Bara, the President and CMO of Mintigo Big data and marketing clouds require modern marketers to further embrace analytics.  For some marketers, this means getting out of their comfort zone. The stereotype of marketers is that they are in marketing because they are not good in math or science. That myth is not exactly true.  Most marketers choose the career because they enjoy the energy of a dynamic environment, and have skills in creative, planning and projectmanagement...