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| | Editor's Note | | Fail, and Learn, Fast
If you want to succeed in business these days, producing innovative products isn't enough. You have to produce—and deliver—software-powered experiences faster than the competition. To do that, your dev teams need to learn how to fail fast, and often.
"Business executives want to experiment with 12 to 15 different projects, get them out to market in weeks to months, get feedback from the user community, and move forward with only 2 or 3 of these projects," says Oracle's Siddhartha Agarwal. "The surviving projects have the biggest chance of success, because users were part of validating the prototype."
What makes that kind of quick-fail, continual-success development possible is a cloud platform, of course. Get more advice from Agarwal. | — Leslie Steere, Oracle editor at large
Oracle's Siddhartha Agarwal on API-First Development | | |
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| | More Cloud News | | The Digital CFO Challenge
Cloud technology won't guarantee success, or even survival, but it gives finance leaders a fighting chance to keep up with regulations and customer expectations, says Oracle Senior Vice President François Lançon. By the time on-premises software is implemented, it will be "several generations behind," he writes. Plus, upgrades will require more investment—and months or even years to fully implement. Additional advice for finance leaders. | The Cloud Combats Employee Attrition
Convenience store chain Royal Farms needed a better way to recruit, onboard, and train its people and to manage employee attrition, which has hovered at almost 80 percent a year. With the help of Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud, employees are prescreened "to give the store leaders the best candidates," says Christopher Kiessling, human resource information system manager. "Before, when candidates walked in, the store managers had no clue who they were." Getting good data with the cloud. | How to Ease Tech Headaches During M&A
In Europe mergers and acquisitions are up 16 percent in the first quarter. How can the cloud help merging companies efficiently integrate their technology without losing valuable data? Unlike inflexible legacy systems, cloud platforms are highly configurable and can be adapted to changing business needs almost overnight. Because they're not limited by physical space, they can also accommodate growth more quickly. More tips for M&A success. | | Oracle Plans Cloud Data Centers in Germany, India |
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