Avoid Buyer’s Regret As CFOs explore options for moving their company’s core financial systems to the cloud, they want to be sure they’re asking the right questions of ERP cloud vendors. The answers can uncover big differences between vendors that can limit future operations and strategy. Discover what Oracle executives suggest CFOs should ask ERP cloud vendors so they can avoid buyer’s remorse, starting with the first question: Is it a true cloud? — Margaret Harrist, Oracle Director of Content Strategy |
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More Cloud News | Get Miles and Hotel Points for Buying Gas? The founders of startup Drop Tank set out to digitally stitch thousands of independently owned gas stations together so they could give customers a loyalty plan that offered sought-after perks such as airline miles and hotel-chain points. The biggest challenge: getting data from myriad point-of-sale systems. How did cloud streamline integration? |
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| | How Blockchain Could Transform Telecommunications Telecommunications might not be the first area you think of when it comes to blockchain. But the technology could play a significant role, particularly in roaming—the handoff of a call or a data session from one network provider to another, which generates a lot of data. Blockchain could validate the accuracy of the files being transitioned through the system, curbing redundant work and adding a bit more trust to the existing process. |
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| | For Developers: More Than 500 Speakers at Oracle Code One There’s been a lot of change in the Java community in the last year, with the world’s most popular programming language moving faster than ever. The JavaOne developer conference has been renamed Oracle Code One, expanding to explore more languages and technologies, but it still has the same deep Java technical content as always. |
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Oracle Cloud Platform: Up to 3,500 Free Hours |
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Events | Application Development Day October–January | various locations |
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| Oracle IMPACT: Your Tomorrow, Today October–November | various locations |
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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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