Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are growing and they need people to support that growth. In fact, the average employment growth rate within the middle market...
Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are growing and they need people to support that growth. In fact, the average employment growth rate within the middle market was at 6.4 percent (3Q18), well above the historical average of 4.2 percent. Growing companies need people, and talent recruitment may be the most important factor to growth. Change is never-ending as companies grow from $100 million to $300 million to $500 million and beyond. As your SMB transforms, every aspect of...
Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are growing and they need people to support that growth. In fact, the average employment growth rate within the middle market was at 6.4 percent (3Q18), well above...
To classify 2018 as a year of experimentation would be an understatement. For small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) especially, moving workloads to the cloud...
To classify 2018 as a year of experimentation would be an understatement. For small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) especially, moving workloads to the cloud became the single highest priority, allowing them to reduce capital expenditures while continuing to innovate, compete, and grow at scale. But challenges along the way scarred some SMBs more than others. To learn how SMBs surmounted their mistakes and ended the year on a high note, read our top 5 SMB Forbes articles of...
To classify 2018 as a year of experimentation would be an understatement. For small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) especially, moving workloads to the cloud became the single highest priority, allowing...
Moving to the cloud just got a lot easier—and faster. On June 5, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the “Soar to the Cloud” solution, the...
Moving to the cloud just got a lot easier—and faster. On June 5, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the “Soar to the Cloud” solution, the world’s first automated enterprise cloud application upgrade product. What does that mean for Oracle’s on-premises customers? It will enable them to reduce the time and cost of cloud migration by up to 30 percent by leveraging a complete set of automated tools and proven methodologies. And, it’s the last upgrade they...
Moving to the cloud just got a lot easier—and faster. On June 5, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the “Soar to the Cloud” solution, the world’s first automated...
As the holiday season ends, a new season begins – the “Top 10 List of XXX of 2018.” We love our lists. We always have. Otherwise, how could you explain the...
As the holiday season ends, a new season begins – the “Top 10 List of XXX of 2018.” We love our lists. We always have. Otherwise, how could you explain the popularity of America’s Top 40 Countdown, and popular lists that include “Top 10 Most Useful College Degrees” or “Top Jobs Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cannot Take Away From Humans or “10 Strange Things Found Underwater.” With that in mind, we would like to introduce another Top 10 list of our most popular blogs, specially...
As the holiday season ends, a new season begins – the “Top 10 List of XXX of 2018.” We love our lists. We always have. Otherwise, how could you explain the popularity of America’s Top 40 Countdown,...
Just beneath the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, Santa Claus and his elves are feeling particularly joyful. Not because it’s almost Christmas at their...
Just beneath the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, Santa Claus and his elves are feeling particularly joyful. Not because it’s almost Christmas at their cavern in SantaPark, but because this once-troubled amusement park now welcomes thousands of visitors daily as a far more impressive theme park and is producing double-digit annual revenue growth. Katja Ikäheimo-Länkinen and her husband, Ilkka Länkinen, acquired the park from the Finnish government and city of Rovaniemi in...
Just beneath the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland, Santa Claus and his elves are feeling particularly joyful. Not because it’s almost Christmas at their cavern in SantaPark, but because...
Throughout the world and across every industry, cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business...
Throughout the world and across every industry, cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business landscape. Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are gearing up to prepare for the future today. But how do you continuously innovate, adapt, secure and stay ahead of the curve? Tune in to our Tomorrow’s Enterprise, Today podcast series, where we dig deeper into how some SMBs are taking this challenge head-on to drive rapid and...
Throughout the world and across every industry, cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business landscape. Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are...
Growth requires customers. Continuous growth requires advocates. Customer advocates are your biggest marketing asset; people trust them. They bring in more...
Growth requires customers. Continuous growth requires advocates. Customer advocates are your biggest marketing asset; people trust them. They bring in more revenue, and they are more willing to forgive mistakes. So to get more customers and build the relationships to make those customers into advocates, your growing small-to-medium business (SMB) needs more customer-facing (i.e., front-office) employees, including sales, customer/field service, and marketing talent. What can...
Growth requires customers. Continuous growth requires advocates. Customer advocates are your biggest marketing asset; people trust them. They bring in more revenue, and they are more willing...
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Siddhartha Agarwal, Group Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Oracle Cloud Platform, and Steve Cox,...
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Siddhartha Agarwal, Group Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Oracle Cloud Platform, and Steve Cox, Group Vice President, Oracle ERP EPM Product Marketing, for the second podcast in our “Tomorrow’s Enterprise, Today” podcast series, where we are discussing how organizations are embracing cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to drive rapid and continuous innovation to...
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Siddhartha Agarwal, Group Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Oracle Cloud Platform, and Steve Cox, Group Vice President, Oracle ERP...
After following thousands of startups, small, and medium size businesses, Oracle’s JD Weinstein says the ones that succeed steer clear of five common pitfalls....
After following thousands of startups, small, and medium size businesses, Oracle’s JD Weinstein says the ones that succeed steer clear of five common pitfalls. The cold, hard fact is that within a decade of their launch, 70 percent of companies go out of business. And those failed companies tend to make the same mistakes, notes JD Weinstein, head of the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem, in Austin, Texas. Throughout his career, Weinstein has managed multiple venture capital...
After following thousands of startups, small, and medium size businesses, Oracle’s JD Weinstein says the ones that succeed steer clear of five common pitfalls. The cold, hard fact is that within...
