Strong Momentum Emphasizing strong momentum in the “two strategic products that will determine our future,” Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said during Oracle’s first-quarter earnings call that the company is “well on its way” to becoming the world’s largest cloud application vendor and is poised to gain share in the cloud infrastructure segment “very, very rapidly.” Those two strategic products? Cloud-based ERP and Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service. Oracle already has more than 20,000 customers for its Oracle Fusion cloud ERP and NetSuite cloud ERP services. And offering Oracle Database as an autonomous cloud service means that the world’s most popular database is now self-managing and self-patching, so it not only performs substantially better than comparable Amazon Web Services products, Ellison said, but is also more reliable, more secure, and much less expensive to operate. Read more of Ellison’s perspective. — Rob Preston, Oracle Editorial Director |
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| | Is Blockchain Right for You? How can a company sidestep the hype to determine whether a specific use case is better implemented with blockchain or another data management solution? The Oracle Insight group has developed a simple framework with six qualifying criteria that business leaders can use to evaluate the pros and cons, starting with how many parties will be sharing data. |
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| | ‘Bob’s Spreadsheet’ and Other Signs of Finance Failure Does your finance team depend on a spreadsheet named for one staff member, such as “Bob’s spreadsheet”? And did Bob leave the company four years ago? This is just one of many warning signs that your finance department isn’t updating its processes the way a modern finance department must. Here are three critical actions every finance department should undertake. |
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Oracle Cloud Platform: Up to 3,500 Free Hours |
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Events | Application Development Day September–January | various locations |
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| Oracle IMPACT: Your Tomorrow, Today September–November | various locations |
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| Why Oracle Applications Run Best on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure October 2 | online |
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| Oracle OpenWorld 2018 October 22–25 | San Francisco |
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Oracle Code One 2018 October 22–25 | San Francisco |
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| Oracle Cloud Day 2018 November 22 | Milan |
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