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Mapping a Path to Profitability for the Banking Industry
Just over 20 years ago, a supercomputer named Deep Blue made history by beating the world’s best chess player, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match. It was able...
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The Future of Banking: How AI is Transforming the Industry
Today's blog post is a Q&A session with top fintech influencer and founder of Unconventional Ventures, Theodora Lau. Named one of 44 "2017 Innovators to Watch"...
Engineered Systems
Coming to a Cloud Near You: Backup Made Easy
When it comes to business, the only thing you can expect is the unexpected. That’s why offsite backups are so important. As more and more of the business comes...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Why Should CMOs Care About GDPR?
What GDPR means for CMOs: “Is all the hype justified?” As a direct link to customers and their data, marketers will be uniquely affected by GDPR so we asked...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
What is IT's Role in Regards to GDPR?
Usually when any sort of new compliance and regulation regarding personal data comes out, it is automatically assumed to be solely ‘IT’s problem" because...
Supply Chain Management Is Evolving: How Will It Affect Your Enterprise?
Today's blog post is a Q&A session with leading supply chain and ERP influencer, Lisa Anderson. Operational efficiencies, productivity improvements, and cost...
Infrastructure
May Database IT Trends in Review
April and May flew by! Check out the latest database infrastructure happenings you may have missed in the last 2 months... In case you missed it... General Data...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
It's Not Too Late: 5 Easy Steps to GDPR Compliance
GDPR went into effect last week May 25th with, unsurprisingly, many organizations scrambling to make the deadline. If you've been keeping up on this blog, you...
How to Build a Digital Business Model
Many companies understand the opportunities presented by digital technologies, but lack a common language or framework to transform their organizations. Through...
Data Protection
GDPR: Too late? Too complicated? Too flexible? Don’t panic.
‘GDPR is coming tomorrow!’ The Wall Street Journal just reported today that as many as 60% to 85% of companies say they don’t expect to be in full compliance by...
Engineered Systems
Cognizant Guest Blog: Supercharged JIT and How Technology Boosts Benefits
Just-in-time manufacturing (JIT) strategies date back to the 1980s, and manufacturers today continue to embrace JIT as they navigate a fast-changing business...
The Transformative Power of Blockchain: How Will It Affect Your Enterprise?
Today's blog post is a Q&A session with blockchain expert and founder of Datafloq, Mark van Rijmenam. According to the World Economic Forum, 10 percent of the...
Engineered Systems
Oracle Database Appliance: Simplicity and Performance Go Hand-in-Hand
Financial transactions are an essential part of life. For retail bank customers, paying monthly bills online helps avoid late fees. For business owners, rapidly...
Going Boldly into the Brave New World of Digital Transformation
Today's blog post is a Q&A session with influencer, internationally recognized analyst, and founder of CXOTalk, Michael Krigsman. Digital innovation disrupts...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Telcos, Your Future Is Calling: It Wants to Show You What’s Possible
With more than 107,000 visitors from 205 countries or territories, this year’s Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona provided a glimpse into the future of...
Welcome to the ‘Self-Driving’ Autonomous Database
Maria Colgan, master product manager, Oracle Database, started her career at Oracle over 20 years ago as a developer. Today, she creates best practices for...
Cognizant Guest Blog: Uncovering the Keys to Success in Today’s Retail Industry
Innovation and Integration For modern retailers, success remains a moving target... Today’s retailers know from experience that there’s no place for complacency...
Customers
SAP Reveals Much Longer-Term Commitment to Oracle
Today's guest post is from Mustafa Aktas, Head of Oracle on Oracle Solutions, EMEA Region, Engineered Systems for Oracle Applications, ISVs and SAP. SAP has...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Telcos, Your Future is Calling! Is Your Back Office Holding Your Back?
Telecommunications service providers (telcos) have faced an ongoing assault on their business the past decade from some unlikely sources. How nimbly their...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Your Future Is Calling: Surprise! There’s (Always) More Regulation on the Way
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a cave for the past couple of years, you know that the always-highly-regulated telecommunications industry is about to be hit...
Data Protection
No Downtime for the Enterprise, Part 2: A Fresh Look at the Value of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
In a recent blog post, my colleague Andre Carpenter argued that a successful digital transformation requires zero downtime—a goal that can only be achieved with...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
4 Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2018
Today's guest blog comes from Andre Carpenter, Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle. 2018 is already shaping up to be an exciting year which has already shown...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Your Future Is Calling: Get Connected—With Everything
Mobile devices play a pivotal role in the technology innovations that continue to transform the business and consumer worlds, as attendees at the recent Mobile...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
March Database IT Trends in Review
Check out the latest database happenings you may have missed in March... In Case You Missed It... Forbes - Larry Ellison: Oracle's Self-Driving Database 'Most...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Your Future Is Calling: How to Turn Data into Value-Added Services
Maybe it’s time to stop calling them smart “phones.” After all, we use them to shop, do our banking, watch TV, take photos and videos, wake us up in the...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
What is GDPR? Everything You Need to Know.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation explained... The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on May 25th 2018. For those still...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Time to See GDPR as an Opportunity, Not a Chore
When many people think of data-driven businesses the temptation may be to think of major consumer facing websites, online retailers or social media companies....
Going the Extra Mile: From Fleet Management to Digital Freight Management
In a recent blog post, we talked about the new, consumer-driven supply chain—the mile after the last mile—in which consumers expect order delivery wherever and...
Engineered Systems
Big Data Can Power a Superior Bike-Sharing Experience
It should come as no surprise that a superior customer experience (CX) drives growth in customer acquisition as well as in customer revenue, and a recent...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
The Gaming Industry Bets on Cloud-Ready Solutions
Today's guest post comes from Robert Garity, the Senior Sales Director for Gaming for Oracle Hospitality. The gaming industry has seen a remarkable...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
February Database IT Trends in Review
February, 2018 newsworthy happenings in review: Oracle’s Cloud-Ready Infrastructure emerges as key element for database workload demands of modern...
Manufacturers Turn to Cloud-Ready Infrastructure to Tame an Unruly Internet of Things
The last thing a manufacturing IT leader needs is another issue to keep them awake at night. But for many, that’s exactly what the Internet of Things (IoT) is...
Virtual Reality in Manufacturing: Technology at a Tipping Point
Virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies are getting a lot more attention lately. Even as VR/AR moves quickly into the consumer mainstream,...
Engineered Systems
Digital Transformation and the Future of Manufacturing - How Today’s Technology Drives Improved Just-In-Time Manufacturing
Unified commerce (in which multiple retail channels are connected to one real-time version of information), mergers and acquisitions, and new retail formats...
What’s the Point of Backing Up If You Can’t Recover?
While backup and recovery may not be the most glamorous job in an organization, have a failure when restoring critical data and you’re suddenly the center of...
Engineered Systems
Manufacturers Benefit While Transitioning to the Cloud
Manufacturers are always looking for ways improve the performance, efficiency, and availability of their operations and business processes, so they can...
Customers
4 Steps to Enhance Financial Data Security in Your Organization
Did you know... Financial Services Organizations Are Now the #1 Target for Cyberattackers? The WannaCry ransomware attack that broke out May 12 attacked...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
2018 Prediction: Key to Business Growth Lies with Empowered DBAs
Data is the backbone of every organization, and IT is the first part of the organization that touches it. So when you streamline IT, you enable the business to...
Selling the Future: Where Can Your Supply Chain Take You?
The retail industry turned 180 degrees when shirts, coffee pots, convenience-store snacks, and other retail goods took on secondary lives as data points in...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Selling the Future: You’re Not Selling Goods. You’re Selling an Experience
As we saw in part 2 of our "Future of Selling" series, today’s consumers are often digital natives who don’t shop the way their parents did. With expectations...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Selling the Future: Designing Experiences Your Customers Crave
The rulebook for competing and winning in the modern retail climate is entirely different than it was a decade ago . Back then, retailers were able to capture...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
GDPR Compliance and the Cloud – Help or Hindrance?
Today's guest post comes from Paul Flannery, Oracle's Senior Director, Business Development, Systems in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region....
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Selling the Future: The Last Days of Retail or the Best Days of Retail?
We’ve been hearing the term “retail apocalypse” ad nauseam. Is it really the last days of traditional retail? Or do the best days of retail still lie ahead? In...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How 2 Manufacturing Companies Are Preparing for the Cloud
When I hear “manufacturing,” my mind immediately shifts to sepia-toned steam-powered factories. But the adoption of innovative technology is putting that...
Data Protection
No Downtime for the Enterprise
Today's guest blog comes from Andre Carpenter, Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle. It is astounding to think that IT availability concerns in this day and age...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
AT&T’s Strategy for Cloud Transformation Is Oracle Cloud at Customer
There’s a cloud for every organization. AT&T adopts Cloud at Customer, proving that even the largest and most complex organizations can get the agility and...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How 3 Companies Reestablished Their Competitive Advantage
It's difficult to mention digital transformation without the word "agility" entering the picture. Gaining a competitive advantage in the business world...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Backup is Worthless If You Can’t Recover
Today's guest blog is by Kerstin Woods, Director, Converged Infrastructure and Cloud Storage at Oracle. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But if...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Grow Your Customer Base With the Right Infrastructure
With the global economy on the upswing, organizations have the opportunity to lay the foundation for business growth. But slow, outdated IT systems can act as...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
8 Questions to Ask When Migrating to Cloud Infrastructure
Migrating to the cloud is never simple, especially if you have a large investment in traditional on-premises data infrastructure. Ask yourself these eight...
An Important Announcement From This Year’s Oracle OpenWorld
Did you get a chance to visit Oracle OpenWorld 2017? If so, you probably learned about some of the major announcements Larry Ellison made about automation, AI,...
Infrastructure
5 Things at OpenWorld That Made Me Rethink Oracle
If I had to describe my first Oracle OpenWorld in two words, they would be disruptive innovation. I’m not going to lie. When I first joined Oracle, I thought of...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How Cloud Infrastructure is Reshaping the European Enterprise
Today's guest blog comes from James Stanbridge. Europe’s CIOs are under enormous pressure to rethink their IT strategies. Around them, information-driven...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Automation Provides the Key That Makes IT Thrive
Is there anyone in IT who doesn’t have competing priorities? The reality is that IT will always be called on to provide faster performance, more functionality,...
So Much Data, So Little Hassle: Building an Infrastructure to Tame Your Data
The promise of big data is essentially unlimited. Organizations across the globe are just scratching the surface of vast data mines to reveal new insights and...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
What’s New with Exadata? Oracle OpenWorld Exadata Power Hour Sessions Will Unveil More Than You Think
Oracle Database technology is evolving to be autonomous. Our pricing models are shifting too. You’ve heard a lot of new stuff from Oracle over the past few...
How 2 IT Service Providers Built a Growth Strategy With Cloud
When businesses need to scale their IT infrastructure to adapt to fast-changing business conditions, they increasingly look to third-party service providers...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Don't Miss! Oracle OpenWorld Exadata Session Catalog - Top Sessions
We've pulled together your personal, must-attend Exadata sessions for #OOW17 – all in one place. Mark your calendars and register today to get your seat....
Data Protection
Why Co-Engineering Matters: Fastest Speed, Highest Security with New Oracle M8 Systems
Today's guest blog comes from Renato Ribeiro, Director for SPARC Systems Engineering at Oracle. Oracle has just announced a new microprocessor, and the servers...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Digital Business Transformation Starts with the Right Infrastructure
Your Company’s Data Is a Source of Value—Whether You Know It or Not Whether your organization is a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer, a healthcare...
Customers
3 Companies Harness Big Data to Drive Big Returns
Executives must confront an unsettling reality in the era of digital business: despite growing volumes of data and increasingly sophisticated tools to analyze...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
4 Reasons Cloud at Customer Gets Top Marks from Colleges and Universities
While trust in the security of public clouds is growing, still only 23% of organizations trust public clouds to keep their data secure, according to Forbes...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Finding Your Way to the Cloud
Today's guest blog comes from Angie Dorfman, Vice President of Global ACS Marketing, Go To Market, and Cloud Services at Oracle. Many businesses looking to...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Reinventing Banking for Speed and Security
Bank customers today expect a better digital experience from their banks. How can banks efficiently build an IT infrastructure to delight customers?
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Consolidating Databases the Right Way: Here's How
Today's guest blog comes from Rodrigo Righetti, Practice Director at Accenture Operations. Oracle Exadata makes consolidating databases so easy that it just...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
IT: Your Secret Weapon for Superior Customer Service
A fast, agile, and flexible IT framework is critical for providing exceptional customer experiences. When discussing how the right IT infrastructure can deliver...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Preparing for Cloud: Is Your Infrastructure Cloud-Ready?
These days, talking to IT leaders about cloud is eerily like talking about retirement. Even though it might not be here yet, you know it's coming soon—and...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Tapping into Data Capital with AI and Machine Learning
As companies begin to understand the vast potential of their data, the question they face is: How does our business make the most of it? The answer lies in...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Tomorrow’s Digital Fleet Management...Delivered Today
Featured Guest Blogger: C. Prasanna Venkatesan, Director of Digital Solutions, Oracle Industry Solutions Group The transportation and logistics industry is at...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
New Job Roles in the Age of Cloud and Big Data
Not so long ago, the net worth of many large enterprises derived from their physical assets. Today, the source of an organization’s value is its data. Data,...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Data Monetization and Acquisition: Here’s What It Takes
Data is an organization’s most valuable tangible asset. A cloud-based strategy built on integrated infrastructure facilitates data mining to maximize its value....
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Tame Big Data with the Right Data Storage Infrastructure
Today's Guest Blog Author is Nick Collins, the Oracle Big Data Practice Lead at Accenture. Just how big is big data? Huge, and growing bigger every minute....
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How to Best Support Your Company's New Out-of-the-Box Thinkers
In the hardware and IT infrastructure business, we often focus on how to best support our customers. This is by no means a misguided notion, but it does leave...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Driving Innovation and Profitability with Modern Cloud Infrastructure in the New Digital Economy
Companies are recognizing that getting real-time insights from their own data is key to building and maintaining their competitive advantage. Those insights...
Engineered Systems
Announcing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Enhancements
Today, we’re pleased to announce Oracle Private Cloud Appliance release 2.3.1. These latest enhancements build on our strategy to deliver a uniquely flexible...
Data Protection
New Ways to Leverage Data to Drive Business Value
No longer the exclusive domain of tech companies or IT departments, data has become a business driver in a just about every industry and line of business. Data...
Moving Business-Critical Applications to the Cloud
Today's guest post comes from Laura DuBois, Program Vice President for IDC's Storage practice. Today’s businesses face the challenge of building for the future...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
3 Key Pillars of the Modern Enterprise
What runs the modern enterprise? “It’s not what you know. It’s what you do with what you know.” So says Daniel Newman in a January 2017 Forbes article. This...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Spreading the Wealth of Data Capitalism
Today's guest blog comes from Oracle's Big Data Strategist Paul Sonderegger. Two weeks ago The Economist's cover article was about the data economy. It declared...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Getting Clear About Clouds: How to Find the Best Approach for Your Enterprise
Most business and IT executives understand the extent to which cloud computing is transforming business and disrupting IT organizations. These services and...
Customers
How the Right IT Infrastructure Can Deliver an Extraordinary Customer Experience
It's no secret that digital business requires tools, solutions, and technologies that allow data and information to flow through the enterprise efficiently....
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Future-Proofing Your Cloud Journey
As the new operational model of choice, cloud is changing how organizations work. It enables you to create new technologies, new applications, and new delivery...
IT Infrastructure for the Data-Driven Era
by Beth O'shea We’re in the midst of a data explosion. According to Forbes, by 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created EVERY second for...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
3 Cloud Skills You Need to Get Hired
In a recent blog post on cloud competency, we put the spotlight on three key cloud skills that companies are looking for on candidate resumes - cloud security,...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
4 Simple Tips for Evolving Your Database Landscape
Today's guest blog is by Ian Price, Oracle Propositions Manager, Fujitsu EMEIA The database landscape is evolving again. And it couldn’t come at a better...
Engineered Systems
Don't Let Infrastructure Be a Roadblock to Business Success
It’s safe to say that in many cases, decisions on what to do with enterprise data center infrastructure are still driven by the hardware; how to upgrade it, how...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Want More from Cloud? New Exadata Subscription-Based On-Premise Services
Cloud-integrated engineered systems for Oracle Databases address many of the key concerns that inhibit enterprises from making a swifter transition away from...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
What Does a Modern Digital Customer Experience Database Look Like?
Oracle’s Marketing Automation systems including segmentation, reporting, analytics & Marketing Digital Lab all run on Oracle Exadata. I sat down with Dan...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Are You Cloud-Competent? Add These Cloud Skills to Your Resume
I think that by now, it’s pretty clear that cloud computing has gone from emerging technology to mainstream. According to a recent IDG survey, 70% of companies...
Data Protection
Meeting the IT Demands of Modern Tech Jobs with Oracle MiniCluster
Modern enterprises have rapidly expanded their use of applications from day-to-day operations like customer-facing e-commerce applications and management of...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
What If You Could Put a Public Cloud Behind Your Firewall? (Spoiler Alert: You Can.)
The move to the public cloud continues unabated. Spending on cloud IT infrastructure worldwide is expected to reach $44.2 billion this year, doubling in only...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer Works
Despite the well documented stampede to the cloud, many companies don’t have the luxury of fully abandoning their on-premises infrastructures. How do you get...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Cloud Bound? Pick a Path That Works for You
If your company is like the majority of enterprises today, it’s running at least one app in the cloud. And chances are you’re planning to use the cloud to...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How 9 Enterprises are Making the Cloud Work for Them
Enterprise cloud adoption shows no signs of slowing down. IDC reported that among more than 6,000 IT organizations surveyed, nearly 2/3 were using or planning...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
The How & Why of Running SAP on Oracle SuperCluster
Recent research from ESG revealed that enterprise IT teams prefer to upgrade their mission-critical applications on their own terms versus a vendor's predefined...
Data Protection
Painting a Picture of Cloud Agility with SuperCluster
According to RightScale's 2017 State of the Cloud report, cloud adoption continues to rise with private cloud proving to be a popular and flexible option for...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Take the Risk Out of a Cloud Lift-and-Shift
For businesses large and small, speed and agility are now at the center of success. As digital technologies take hold—and requirements for IT flexibility...
Engineered Systems
FSS Company Tightens Belt with Database Appliance
Guest blog by Michele Egerter of Oracle Gold Partner, Eagle Datagistics. Located in St. Petersburg, Florida, Eagle Datagistics is a leader in providing clients...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
How Agnitum Delivers Flexible and Secure Cloud Services
Today's guest post is by Rafie Issa, Deputy CEO at Agnitum Information Technology AB. Swedish companies are no strangers to the cloud. By the end of 2014,...
Cloud Infrastructure Services
Supersize Your Private Cloud with Oracle Exalogic
Faster. Bigger. Better. As our technology continues to evolve and annual IP traffic is forecasted to reach 2.3 Zettabytes by 2020, IT infrastructure must...