by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | Wow, sometimes you know the steps you need to take, but when you see someone else map it out, you have to catch your breath. It is going to be quite a journey. The Top 10 Strategic CIO Priorities of 2018 in Forbes Magazine BrandVoice is one of those times.…

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | Calling all Oracle Cloud customers! COLLABORATE 2018 is just around the corner at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. We invite you to join us and your peers for the largest user-led conference featuring Oracle Cloud content. Whether you’re evaluating, implementing, expanding, or adopting Oracle Cloud,…

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | Calling all Oracle Cloud customers! COLLABORATE 2018 is just around the corner at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. We invite you to join us and your peers for the largest user-led conference featuring Oracle Cloud content. Whether you’re evaluating, implementing, expanding, or adopting Oracle Cloud,…

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a business model. In order for the business to succeed, the vendor must succeed. Forrester’s report outlines a life-cycle approach for customers to achieve success with SaaS vendors. While customers love SaaS, they do encounter challenges as they adopt SaaS. SaaS requires frequent and automatic…

Ready or not, here comes the cloud. This is one of the key takeaways of this report, with a close second being, no two cloud experiences are alike. Even more pertinent though, this article will help you use Forrester’s Preparedness Assessment to gauge your organization’s cloud timeline. First, let’s identify the key factors for creating…

Road Map: The Business Applications Playbook discusses the importance of application change, how the change should be influenced by technological innovation and takes your enterprise step-by-step through the process of creating a Business Applications Road Map. The road map is intended to help application development and delivery professionals sustain a viable set of business applications.…

This is the season for predictions; Super Bowl, Oscars and Olympics. Those are all fun but one list of predictions this season could be transformative for your business. Oracle’s experts published “Cloud Predictions 2018” for leaders like you who aren’t interested in watching and waiting for your competition’s next move. Oracle’s list is for those…

If there’s one phrase that strikes fear in business people and developers alike, it’s "the Cloud." No one knows exactly what it is and how it operates, but we know how powerful it is. Cloud connects all of us -- giving us a platform to protect mission-critical information while creating a scalable, automated environment to share…

In the age of the customer, the focus of technology management must shift toward winning, serving and retaining customers. Understanding how and where to prioritize this shift is a critical aspect of technology leadership. This report describes the landscape of options CIOs must navigate—options that both simplify existing information technology services and accelerate new business…

Business applications’ effectiveness is crucial to an enterprise. It is important to understand the effectiveness of an application to determine whether to upgrade or replace the application. By using Forrester’s Balanced Scorecard, Application Development and Delivery (AD&D) professionals can assess the applications and improve customer experience and product innovation. Forrester’s survey in 2016 found that…