By Vince Vickers, Principal, Advisory Consulting, Healthcare and Life Sciences, KPMG The healthcare industry is poised to get a lot healthier – and it couldn’t...
By Vince Vickers, Principal, Advisory Consulting, Healthcare and Life Sciences, KPMG The healthcare industry is poised to get a lot healthier – and it couldn’t come at a better time. The sector has been battling rising costs for decades, putting healthcare on an unsustainable trajectory, according to new research by Dr. Michael Mandel, senior fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School. In his report commissioned by Oracle, Mandel asserts...
By Vince Vickers, Principal, Advisory Consulting, Healthcare and Life Sciences, KPMG The healthcare industry is poised to get a lot healthier – and it couldn’t come at a better time. The sector has...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018. They’re all of particular importance to the finance function because—unlike autonomous cars and cancer cures—AI is ready for actual production in finance. Indeed, the finance function is one place we had in mind when we wrote: “AI will come down to earth—and get to work.” By “get to work,” we...
By Mike Baccala, Assurance Innovation Leader, PwC and Ed Ponagai, Principal, Finance Consulting, PwC Earlier this year, we made 8 predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) in 2018. They’re all of...
Tony's Chocolonely has a vision: to produce and sell 100-percent slave-free chocolate. But delivering on that vision means keeping a watchful eye on every part...
Tony's Chocolonely has a vision: to produce and sell 100-percent slave-free chocolate. But delivering on that vision means keeping a watchful eye on every part of its supply chain, from farm to customer. The majority of the world's cocoa beans are grown and harvested in western Africa, and the chocolate produced is sold on the open market. In anonymous situations like these, it's difficult to tell whether the producer used forced labor during harvesting or production. So,...
Tony's Chocolonely has a vision: to produce and sell 100-percent slave-free chocolate. But delivering on that vision means keeping a watchful eye on every part of its supply chain, from farm...
By Neil Sholay, Vice President of Digital, EMEA, Oracle With GDPR compliance now mandatory, European businesses are razor-focussed on their data protection...
By Neil Sholay, Vice President of Digital, EMEA, Oracle With GDPR compliance now mandatory, European businesses are razor-focussed on their data protection measures, and with good reason. The regulation brings some long-overdue structure to today’s data economy, and the public is clearly eager for greater transparency into how their information is being used. How did we get here? When did data make the leap from static figures in a spreadsheet to one of our most valuable...
By Neil Sholay, Vice President of Digital, EMEA, Oracle With GDPR compliance now mandatory, European businesses are razor-focussed on their data protection measures, and with good reason. The...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The pace of change is picking up in the financial services industry. Rising interest rates are roiling financial...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The pace of change is picking up in the financial services industry. Rising interest rates are roiling financial markets again, putting pressure on banks to find new ways to grow and secure profits. The challenge is compounded by rising costs — which is hurting operating efficiency — and a flurry of technological advancements that are enabling upstarts and incumbents alike to reinvent financial services and forge new markets. New,...
By Sarosh Khan, IBM Global Business Services The pace of change is picking up in the financial services industry. Rising interest rates are roiling financial markets again, putting pressure on banks...
“The movement to cloud is an inevitable destination; this is how computing will evolve over the next several years.” So said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd at Oracle...
“The movement to cloud is an inevitable destination; this is how computing will evolve over the next several years.” So said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Based on the results of new research, that inevitability is here, now. In our first ERP Trends Report, we surveyed more than 400 finance and IT leaders. We found that 76 percent of respondents said they either have plans for ERP in the cloud or have made the move already. They are recognizing that waiting...
“The movement to cloud is an inevitable destination; this is how computing will evolve over the next several years.” So said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Based on the results of...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire source-to-pay process. Their biggest obstacle: supplier management. That was one of the key findings of a new report from Gatepoint Research, sponsored by Oracle. Of more than 100 procurement and operations executives surveyed, 41 percent said qualifying and managing suppliers is their most pressing problem. » 2018...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire source-to-pay process. Their biggest...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle It's no secret that emerging technologies are changing the game in finance. Machine learning,...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle It's no secret that emerging technologies are changing the game in finance. Machine learning, IoT, blockchain and other innovations are disrupting every industry. In response, the most agile companies are taking advantage of these innovations — using technology to make a measurable impact and drive growth in their own businesses. In a series of recent interviews, we got to hear from some of our customers who...
By Jarred Boone, Product Marketing Manager, ERP EPM Cloud, Oracle It's no secret that emerging technologies are changing the game in finance. Machine learning, IoT, blockchain and other...
3 Steps for Moving Finance and HR to the Cloud
