|
Cloud Leader, Week of March 27, 2017 |
Web View |
|
|
|
CLOUD LEADER |
|
News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy |
|
|
 |
|
|
Editor's Note |
 |
Hurd:
How Simplicity Accelerates Efficiency
Gone should be the days when the burden falls on IT departments to
undertake the arduous task of cobbling together various
applications—"piece parts," in the words of Oracle CEO Mark
Hurd—into a functioning system a business can rely on. Today's
cloud-based technology can offer more than the well-understood
benefits of shifting the financial burden of maintaining
applications and hardware and delivering much-more-rapid software
innovation. If companies choose a cloud suite, Hurd said recently,
they also get a new level of efficiency that comes with
simplicity.
Hurd said companies will hold onto their on-premises, customized
applications only when they represent a true competitive
differentiator. As the rest of applications move to the cloud,
"suites will win," Hurd said during a keynote
presentation at Oracle Industry Connect. His
reasoning: "I don't think we'll return to the complexity we've
created in the past." |
— Michael Hickins, Oracle director of strategic content
Video: How PaaS Is Helping
Developers Move into the Future |
|
|
|
|
|
More Cloud News |
|
|
How
CFOs Can Prepare for an Uncertain Future
To help their companies make the right bets, chief financial
officers need a finance system that lets them model and test many
scenarios quickly. With a cloud-based system, real-time data can
flow between lines of business and finance, giving CFOs
more-complete, more-accurate modeling. Learn more, including a
webcast on demand. |
How Volunteering Helps Millennials Connect to Employers
Among millennial employees taking part in their organization's
volunteer activities, 55 percent report being very proud of their
company—nearly 20 percentage points more than among those who don't
participate. Oracle's forthcoming My Volunteering option in Oracle
Human Capital Management Cloud will make it easier to get involved.
Learn how to spur
volunteering. |
How the Cloud Changes BI Engagements
The cloud is changing the execution of business intelligence, data
warehousing, and analytics projects. With the cloud, "we can design
a working system, build a prototype, deploy it for a small set of
users, pay for only a small set of users initially . . . and ramp
up the production environment later," says AST Corporation's Mat
Vranicar. Watch: Oracle Magazine
asks other BI veterans: How is Oracle Cloud changing your
business? |
70-Year-Old Swiss Hotel Chain Gets a Modern Makeover
Mövenpick has some 30 hotels or resorts planned or under
construction, but profit margins in the industry are being squeezed
by a changing distributor landscape, tighter management agreements,
and higher capital requirements for borrowing. "We have to rethink
our business model," CEO Olivier Chavy says. To avoid landing in
"the cemetery of brands," Mövenpick is using Oracle Hospitality
OPERA Cloud Services to unify customer account management, revenue
management, and business information applications. Check in for the whole
story. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Please send questions or comments to
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. |
|
This document is provided for information purposes only, and the
contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document
is not warranted to be error-free, nor is it subject to any other
warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in
law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any
liability with respect to this document, and no contractual
obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this
document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose,
without our prior written permission. |
|
Copyright © 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle
and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective owners. |
|
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and
are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International,
Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX
is a registered trademark of The Open Group. |
|
|
|
Oracle Corporation - Worldwide Headquarters, 500 Oracle Parkway,
OPL - E-mail Services, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, United States |
|
Your privacy is important to us. This email was sent to you because
you subscribed to this newsletter.
Unsubscribe from this newsletter. |
|
|
