By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Ever wonder what the best companies do to get ahead? What is it that allows them to outperform their...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Ever wonder what the best companies do to get ahead? What is it that allows them to outperform their competitors? How can the average company do what leaders do? According to Aberdeen Group, the difference comes down to the technology that leading companies use, and the capabilities it enables. In a recent webcast, Aberdeen shared highlights from its research into the current state of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Ever wonder what the best companies do to get ahead? What is it that allows them to outperform their competitors? How can the average company do what...
Not too long ago, business leaders liked to say that the only constant in their world was change. That’s still true, but managing change is no longer the...
Not too long ago, business leaders liked to say that the only constant in their world was change. That’s still true, but managing change is no longer the biggest business challenge. Today, the challenge is moving faster and more confidently while managing change. Technology-driven disruption now happens at breakneck speed compared with the recent past. Businesses must sprint to keep up with fast-changing variables, but they also must respond strategically when threats or...
Not too long ago, business leaders liked to say that the only constant in their world was change. That’s still true, but managing change is no longer the biggest business challenge. Today,...
By Joakim Johansson Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are revolutionizing the way we manufacture our products and the way we make decisions....
By Joakim Johansson Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are revolutionizing the way we manufacture our products and the way we make decisions. Hari Sankar, group vice president, EPM product management at Oracle, shares some of his insights about a fast-arriving future. Oracle is a world leader when it comes to business-related software. As such, they are also at the forefront of the “new industrial revolution” sweeping through the manufacturing industry. I had...
By Joakim Johansson Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are revolutionizing the way we manufacture our products and the way we make decisions. Hari Sankar, group vice president, EPM...
ERP is getting smarter, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. With new innovations coming to finance seemingly faster every day, not keeping up is the same as...
ERP is getting smarter, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. With new innovations coming to finance seemingly faster every day, not keeping up is the same as falling behind. Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are bringing new capabilities to the finance space, decreasing time spent on routine tasks and lowering TCO. So how will the future of ERP systems integrate these new features? Hurd has some predictions on how enterprise applications will...
ERP is getting smarter, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. With new innovations coming to finance seemingly faster every day, not keeping up is the same as falling behind. Technologies like artificial...
3 Steps for Moving Finance and HR to the Cloud
By Mike Baccala, PwC Assurance Innovation Leader & Ed Ponagai, PwC Finance Consulting Principal When it comes to automation and artificial intelligence (AI),...
By Mike Baccala, PwC Assurance Innovation Leader & Ed Ponagai, PwC Finance Consulting Principal When it comes to automation and artificial intelligence (AI), the future is now for the CFO. It’s not because AI is upending the structure of the finance labor market; that effect likely won’t be felt for many years, as we point out in our AI predictions for 2018. (See our first prediction: AI will impact employers before it impacts employment.) And it’s not because finance...
By Mike Baccala, PwC Assurance Innovation Leader & Ed Ponagai, PwC Finance Consulting Principal When it comes to automation and artificial intelligence (AI), the future is now for the CFO. It’s not...
By Chris Germann, VP, Cloud Applications Strategy, Oracle Digital As Harvard Business Review declared in Nov. 2017, “Your strategy won’t work if you don’t...
By Chris Germann, VP, Cloud Applications Strategy, Oracle Digital As Harvard Business Review declared in Nov. 2017, “Your strategy won’t work if you don’t identify the new capabilities you need.” For businesses embracing the potential of digital business, it’s not enough to buy the technology and turn it over to the millennial-run marketing team. Chief executives must own the vision and build critical organizational capabilities that lift the entire organization to compete in...
By Chris Germann, VP, Cloud Applications Strategy, Oracle Digital As Harvard Business Review declared in Nov. 2017, “Your strategy won’t work if you don’t identify the new capabilities you need.” For...
For the first time in a long time, education is high on the public agenda in the United States. Student and teacher walkouts from K12 schools across the country...
For the first time in a long time, education is high on the public agenda in the United States. Student and teacher walkouts from K12 schools across the country are shining a spotlight on the long, steady decline in public funding. To date, higher education institutions have mostly stayed out of the fray. Yet their challenges are similar to those facing K12 schools. Public funding to colleges and universities continues to be cut in the name of fiscal prudence—leaving...
For the first time in a long time, education is high on the public agenda in the United States. Student and teacher walkouts from K12 schools across the country are shining a spotlight on the...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle Even with all of the hype around advanced technologies such as blockchain, AI and machine...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle Even with all of the hype around advanced technologies such as blockchain, AI and machine learning, many finance professionals are still struggling to understand the technologies’ potential impact on their jobs. Earlier this month, Oracle hosted the NorCal ERP Cloud Customer Community Day — an event where customers throughout the San Francisco Bay area gathered at Oracle headquarters to learn best practices...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle Even with all of the hype around advanced technologies such as blockchain, AI and machine learning, many finance professionals...