By Sanjay Mathew, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry, Oracle Insurance is now another industry that’s worried about a seismic shake-up by digital...
By Sanjay Mathew, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry, Oracle Insurance is now another industry that’s worried about a seismic shake-up by digital disrupters. Annual investment in insurtech start-ups rocketed 500% over three years, with cumulative funding reaching $3.4 billion since 2010, reports PwC. As of October 2016, 91 deals raised a total of $1.5 billion in insurtech investment this year alone. Not surprisingly, traditional insurers are fretting. Almost half...
By Sanjay Mathew, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry, Oracle Insurance is now another industry that’s worried about a seismic shake-up by digital disrupters. Annual investment in insurtech...
There it is. You can see it: A modernized, streamlined, and cloud-delivered ERP system that is just the rocket fuel your business needs to reach the next...
There it is. You can see it: A modernized, streamlined, and cloud-delivered ERP system that is just the rocket fuel your business needs to reach the next level—whether it’s optimizing growth opportunities, investing for business improvement or enabling a new business model. There are three primary reasons why so many companies are accelerating their shift to the cloud. First, the shift increases productivity across all employee roles, including IT staff (eliminating mundane...
There it is. You can see it: A modernized, streamlined, and cloud-delivered ERP system that is just the rocket fuel your business needs to reach the next level—whether it’s optimizing growth...
by Laurent Dechaux, Vice President, Digital Finance, Oracle @LaurentDechaux For the CFO who favours a quiet life, the economic uncertainty and political change...
by Laurent Dechaux, Vice President, Digital Finance, Oracle @LaurentDechaux For the CFO who favours a quiet life, the economic uncertainty and political change that have defined 2016 have certainly disrupted the peace. Finance leaders were already under considerable pressure to modernize business processes and help their organization stay ahead of disruptive competitors, and June’s EU referendum vote has only made their jobs more complicated. The Brexit vote caught many...
by Laurent Dechaux, Vice President, Digital Finance, Oracle @LaurentDechaux For the CFO who favours a quiet life, the economic uncertainty and political change that have defined 2016 have certainly...
Journalists, news industry leaders, readers, and even technology companies are struggling today with the proliferation of “fake news.” Many news stories posted...
Journalists, news industry leaders, readers, and even technology companies are struggling today with the proliferation of “fake news.” Many news stories posted and shared online contain inaccuracies or misleading information—often by accident, sometimes deliberately. The constant intake of unfiltered and unvetted information makes it increasingly challenging for the average person to know when they are seeing an objective truth they can trust. While this is a relatively new...
Journalists, news industry leaders, readers, and even technology companies are struggling today with the proliferation of “fake news.” Many news stories posted and shared online contain inaccuracies...
by Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle As we start this new year, it has become a tradition to drive predictions on future business outlook. I felt I...
by Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle As we start this new year, it has become a tradition to drive predictions on future business outlook. I felt I could share with you my top 3 predictions for the year to come as our region continues to rapidly change with major transformation programs touching all—governments and citizens, businesses and employees—driven by a huge appetite for technology-led innovations or simply new legal requirements. So here are my top 3: 1....
by Arun Khehar, SVP Applications ECEMEA, Oracle As we start this new year, it has become a tradition to drive predictions on future business outlook. I felt I could share with you my top...
“If you can’t count the number of ERP applications in your company on one finger,” grumbled an ETL-weary friend, “you’re running too many.” While I suspect that...
“If you can’t count the number of ERP applications in your company on one finger,” grumbled an ETL-weary friend, “you’re running too many.” While I suspect that a number of CIOs would probably agree, many companies still run their businesses through a tangle of multiple ERP systems. And often these tangles get more tangled each year. How they all ended up with a bunch of ERP licenses is pretty common. For many businesses, an over-population of ERP systems is the legacy of...
“If you can’t count the number of ERP applications in your company on one finger,” grumbled an ETL-weary friend, “you’re running too many.” While I suspect that a number of CIOs would probably...
If 2016 has taught us anything, it’s that making predictions is an inexact science. There is much that has happened over the past 12 months we would have been...
If 2016 has taught us anything, it’s that making predictions is an inexact science. There is much that has happened over the past 12 months we would have been hard pressed to predict this time last year. But as one year draws to a close we must plan for what may come in 2017 and based on this year, the first thing we should predict is unpredictability. Digital transformation will continue at a pace that makes 12 months a very long time in business. Predicting the extent to...
If 2016 has taught us anything, it’s that making predictions is an inexact science. There is much that has happened over the past 12 months we would have been hard pressed to predict this time...
By Steve Cox, Vice President, Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud Go-to-Market For the last several years, we’ve been hearing that the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming,...
By Steve Cox, Vice President, Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud Go-to-Market For the last several years, we’ve been hearing that the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming, and it’s going to change the way we do business. But as my colleague Rudy Lukez noted recently, IoT is here and the changes have already started. Our friends at Gartner tell us that 5.5 million new things are being connected to the internet every single day—thermostats, kitchen appliances, smoke detectors, devices that...
By Steve Cox, Vice President, Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud Go-to-Market For the last several years, we’ve been hearing that the Internet of Things (IoT) is coming, and it’s going to change the way we...
It’s surprising what finance teams can get used to. As long as the hassles of completing a specific process don’t get any worse—and produce a generally...
It’s surprising what finance teams can get used to. As long as the hassles of completing a specific process don’t get any worse—and produce a generally acceptable outcome—many people never give much thought to doing it faster and easier. Every now and then, a new team member may suggest that there’s a better way. Or a bored-with-the-process colleague will wonder if doing things “the way we’ve always done them” could be done—well, differently. At those moments, you may be...
It’s surprising what finance teams can get used to. As long as the hassles of completing a specific process don’t get any worse—and produce a generally acceptable outcome—many people never give...
