When it comes to technology, finance leaders in the higher education sector are worried they’re not making the grade. The most recent Inside Higher Education...
When it comes to technology, finance leaders in the higher education sector are worried they’re not making the grade. The most recent Inside Higher Education survey found significant challenges in getting the right data to make well-informed decisions. Among the 415 chief business officers (CBOs) or senior finance officers who responded, less than half (49%) said that their institution makes efficient use of technology resources and services. Their biggest beef: CBOs have too...
When it comes to technology, finance leaders in the higher education sector are worried they’re not making the grade. The most recent Inside Higher Education survey found significant challenges in...
Here at Oracle, we make our customers (and their business processes) the focal point of our business. When you brush away all the jargon and technical-speak,...
Here at Oracle, we make our customers (and their business processes) the focal point of our business. When you brush away all the jargon and technical-speak, we feel that we are responsible for the success of our high-growth company customer base. And the key to facilitating success is helping our small-to-medium business (SMB) customers achieve measurable business outcomes. Therefore, we struck out to gather some of these tangible results for Oracle Enterprise Resource...
Here at Oracle, we make our customers (and their business processes) the focal point of our business. When you brush away all the jargon and technical-speak, we feel that we are responsible for the...
By Mark Rinaldi, Director of Product Management, Oracle According to PwC’s 21st Annual Global CEO Survey, 80 percent of CEOs worry about the availability of key...
By Mark Rinaldi, Director of Product Management, Oracle According to PwC’s 21st Annual Global CEO Survey, 80 percent of CEOs worry about the availability of key skills in the future. This figure is up from 77% in 2017, and 63% five years ago. CFOs are even less optimistic: a new report from The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and Oracle finds that only 10 percent of finance leaders are confident their teams have the skills needed to support...
By Mark Rinaldi, Director of Product Management, Oracle According to PwC’s 21st Annual Global CEO Survey, 80 percent of CEOs worry about the availability of key skills in the future. This figure is up...
By Robert Churchyard, Global Oracle Leader, IBM Imagine, for a moment, that you’re getting a promotion. You’re moving up from an individual contributor to a...
By Robert Churchyard, Global Oracle Leader, IBM Imagine, for a moment, that you’re getting a promotion. You’re moving up from an individual contributor to a management position, which impacts your purchasing authority, approval workflows, travel allowances, and pay structure. On top of that, you’re moving from North America to Europe, where your company operates under a different legal entity. First of all, congratulations on that new job! Secondly, let’s take a guess: How...
By Robert Churchyard, Global Oracle Leader, IBM Imagine, for a moment, that you’re getting a promotion. You’re moving up from an individual contributor to a management position, which impacts...
Few tech executives have advocated as strongly for the use of artificial intelligence as Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Although some leaders prefer to focus on AI’s...
Few tech executives have advocated as strongly for the use of artificial intelligence as Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Although some leaders prefer to focus on AI’s distant potential, Hurd knows AI provides us with many benefits in the here and now. CFOs and other finance professionals are gaining widespread awareness of these benefits now that Oracle ERP Cloud and other core Oracle Cloud suites feature integrated AI in a number of critical strategic functions. Hurd also understands...
Few tech executives have advocated as strongly for the use of artificial intelligence as Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Although some leaders prefer to focus on AI’s distant potential, Hurd knows AI provides...
A colleague of mine recently invited me to co-host a webinar with her, on the topic of how to come up with great story ideas for your business. For those of us...
A colleague of mine recently invited me to co-host a webinar with her, on the topic of how to come up with great story ideas for your business. For those of us in the marketing world, this traditionally would be considered “top of the funnel” content. Yet when I started looking into our most popular stories of 2018, I found that the majority of them leaned towards “middle of the funnel” content—more focused on Oracle, its products and its direction—the type of articles you...
A colleague of mine recently invited me to co-host a webinar with her, on the topic of how to come up with great story ideas for your business. For those of us in the marketing world,...
Gartner recently released its first Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Midsize Enterprises. We’re pleased to announce that Oracle ERP Cloud is the...
Gartner recently released its first Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Midsize Enterprises. We’re pleased to announce that Oracle ERP Cloud is the only cloud ERP positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of this report. We’re making the full report available to 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...
Gartner recently released its first Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Midsize Enterprises. We’re pleased to announce that Oracle ERP Cloud is the only cloud ERP positioned in...
In June 2018, Kimberly Ellison-Taylor (CPA, CGMA, and Global Accounting Strategy Leader at Oracle) completed her term as chairman of the Association of...
In June 2018, Kimberly Ellison-Taylor (CPA, CGMA, and Global Accounting Strategy Leader at Oracle) completed her term as chairman of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association), the global association created by the integration of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). Earlier in the year, Ellison-Taylor had already finished her tour as chairman of...
In June 2018, Kimberly Ellison-Taylor (CPA, CGMA, and Global Accounting Strategy Leader at Oracle) completed her term as chairman of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants...
Don't Let Customizations Get in the Way By Paul Laverty, Oracle Americas Practice Leader, DXC Technology Early on in the evolution of cloud technologies, many...
Don't Let Customizations Get in the Way By Paul Laverty, Oracle Americas Practice Leader, DXC Technology Early on in the evolution of cloud technologies, many PeopleSoft customers were resistant to adopting cloud because they were burdened with heavily customized applications. Since SaaS applications are based on standardized processes, many companies found this to be a point of resistance. However, the standardized processes are based on best practices, which means that most...
Don't Let Customizations Get in the Way By Paul Laverty, Oracle Americas Practice Leader, DXC Technology Early on in the evolution of cloud technologies, many PeopleSoft customers were resistant...
