Cloud Leader, Week of June 19, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Better and Faster Analysis If you've ever been involved with the financial close process at a large organization, you know how time-consuming it can be. That's why it was a big deal for KuoBrothers, a popular online retailer in Taipei, to close the books on the 5th of each month instead of the 10th, thanks to its new cloud-based financial software. Likewise, investment consultancy ClearView Wealth in Sydney and electricity provider Access Power in Dubai are now much faster at producing financial reports and reconciling tax rules and accounting practices in the various countries where they operate. The common thread is that these companies are turning to Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud to spend less time on spreadsheets and more time on strategy and analysis while minimizing IT spending. 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Ask a Software Developer "I honestly cannot think of a better job for a mom than being a software engineer," says Leor Chechik, an Oracle software developer. Chechik uses Java to write new cloud-based financial applications. At home she is mom to Evan, 4, and Aurora, 2. How the nature of the development work makes balance possible for tech professionals and their families. Oracle Coherence Clusters on Docker Swarm For developers working with Java in-memory data grids, some traditional techniques they've used for managing Java virtual machine clusters don't work as well with containers. With the introduction of Swarm Mode in Docker, forming clusters of containers using Oracle Coherence has become much easier. Discover how it's done. Free Oracle Cloud Trial Experience Oracle Cloud with $300 in Free Credits Sign Up Video Jungle Juice Bar's CEO Plans for Growth Need a quick and healthy smoothie in Finland? 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