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It hardly needs saying that higher education, alongside all industries, is currently experiencing tremendous challenges. We at Oracle have been truly impressed and humbled by how our schools are working tirelessly to support students and staff to provide a high quality remote educational experience. We are so proud to be a partner to this incredible community.    At last month’s Oracle’s virtual Higher Ed Forum, which can be viewed here, executives representing three of our...

By Smita Singh, IFRS 17 Product Manager, Oracle Financial Services IFRS 17 Transforming The Accounting Mechanism IFRS 17 is transforming the age-old accounting mechanism of insurance companies. Its objective is to achieve more transparency, make insurance accounting comparable to other industries, and increase confidence among investors to encourage more investments in the insurance industry. The Insurance Accounting Standards Board (IASB) prescribes the Building Block approach...

By Frédéric Boulier, Global Head of Financial Crime and Compliance Management Solution Consulting, Oracle Financial Services 5AMLD, A New Directive for Europe The Fifth European Union (EU) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive—commonly known as 5AMLD— is officially in force as of January 2020. It hasn’t been smooth sailing, however, for all member states. As of today, six EU countries—Cyprus, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain—have not yet transposed the...

By: Allison Fitzgerald   Higher Education is in a period of unprecedented industry disruption. Academic and financial models, the regulatory environment, and even the students who cross the campus gates—brick-and-mortar or virtual—are changing in ways that will stretch the limits of existing processes and systems. The continuous innovation of cloud offers a potential path forward, but navigating it will require new thinking on change management, solution selection, and...

‘Your Future Runs in the Cloud.’ Onder dat thema organiseerde Oracle op 12 maart zijn jaarlijkse Cloud Day, die ook deze editie weer honderden bezoekers trok. Tientallen partners presenteerden zich in de speciale exporuimte. Bezoekers konden zich over de laatste stand van zaken rond de cloud informeren door het bijwonen van verschillende keynotes en klantpresentaties. In zijn openingswoorden wees Wilfred Scholman, country leader Nederland van Oracle, erop dat de cloud een zaak...

Henley Business School, part of the University of Reading, and Oracle have announced they will be partnering to help prepare students for the workplace, through a series of skill-based workshops, lectures and student mentoring.       By becoming a Henley Business School Corporate Patron, Oracle will work with Henley Business School to ensure that students are not only aware of cutting-edge business theory but are also equipped with the skills required by undergraduates...

StorONE S1 Software Defined Storage (SDS) is a unified enterprise storage solution. It is hardware agnostic and can be deployed on bare metal or as a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). StorONE S1 provides enterprise-class storage performance, resilient data protection, unlimited snapshots, and data retention in a single software stack. StorONE S1 comes with all storage protocols included; Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NAS, and Object and can run on the same or different storage media...