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| | Editor's Note |  | Bend the Innovation Curve
I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in during my career where a businessperson says, "Hey, we should take a look at XYZ," whether it's big data, artificial intelligence, or some other Next Shiny Thing. And the response from IT is, "Well, it's a lot harder than it looks." And, historically, IT has been right. IT environments are connected beasts; no single technology is useful by itself.
But with cloud computing, the innovation equation shifts dramatically. New technologies present themselves as just additional features of what you're using today. Read more on how the cloud bends the innovation curve, delivering results at orders-of-magnitude faster speeds and at orders-of-magnitude lower cost.. | | —Chuck Hollis, Senior Vice President, Oracle |
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| | More Cloud News | | How a B2B Company Makes Complex Customer Self-Service Easy
To provide its B2B customers a more consumer-like experience, the telecommunications product company Calix used Oracle Commerce Cloud to enable customer browsing and buying. It integrated that system with its current Oracle Configure, Price, and Quote Cloud implementation so customers can select the parts they want and complete a quote on their own if they choose. The new system is in a controlled availability test phase. What's Phase 2? | Running Docker Store Images on Oracle Container Cloud Service
Oracle just announced the availability of commercial images of its enterprise software in the Docker Store, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Coherence, and more. Since the announcement, questions have been coming in about how to pull and deploy a Docker Store image with Oracle Container Cloud Service. Here's how to do it in just five steps. | How Higher Education Is Transforming in the Cloud
One key insight from a recent Higher Education Cloud Symposium panel—which included the University of Wyoming and Birmingham University—was that their old, on-premises ERP and HR systems couldn't provide the reports or analytics requested by their presidents, boards of directors, faculty, or campus administration teams. For them, moving to the cloud is less a technology strategy and more a business transformation strategy. What else was discussed? |
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