In March 2017, Quest International Users Group commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study of 100 organizations that run core business applications in a hybrid cloud environment, ones whom are highly satisfied with the value they receive. The survey explored skills and strategies critical to success when running business applications in hybrid cloud, as well…

Forrester’s Ten Key Strategies for Pivoting Business Applications to SaaS discusses ten key strategies, the traditional approach of the strategy and the SaaS applications approach of the strategy. The ten key strategies fall under several different categories – positioning of SaaS within the organization’s technology strategy, focusing on SaaS buyer behaviors and SaaS deployment and…

Small businesses have completely different needs than large businesses and many companies avoid Cloud as though it’s exclusively a large-company asset. The majority (81 percent) of businesses with more than 100 employees are using cloud services, as opposed to the smaller percentage (37 percent) of small businesses currently implementing cloud solutions, says this IDC study,…

Who did the award-winning business magazine strategy business choose to feature for their first interview of the series “Inside the Mind of the CEO”? None other than Oracle’s Chief Executive Safra Catz. Strategy business focuses on management and corporate strategy and is published by firms within the PricewaterhouseCoopers network. Catz is an excellent choice for…

If you need any indication of how 2017 went regarding cloud implementation, CIOs prioritized (1) security, (2) cloud computing and (3) big data analytics and mobile in their 2017 IT budgets, according to Nomura Holdings’ CIO Survey from March of last year. What’s next for cloud computing? Oracle has lofty goals for cloud implementation in…

A new year often means reflecting on the past year and establishing new goals and metrics for the current year. For many organizations, these goals may involve Cloud. As you begin to seek out resources that can assist you in reaching your established Could goals and objectives, I thought it might be helpful to recap…

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | The next generation of Oracle’s market-leading cloud database is soaring in the business world and it’s leading to impressive financial results, according to Rob Preston in Forbes BrandVoice on Sept. 21. Preston, the previous editor-in-chief of InformationWeek, outlines the new database’s key features and the numbers behind the…

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | The next generation of Oracle’s market-leading cloud database is soaring in the business world and it’s leading to impressive financial results, according to Rob Preston in Forbes BrandVoice on Sept. 21. Preston, the previous editor-in-chief of InformationWeek, outlines the new database’s key features and the numbers behind the…

The next generation of Oracle’s market-leading cloud database is soaring in the business world and it’s leading to impressive financial results, according to Rob Preston in Forbes BrandVoice on Sept. 21. Preston, the previous editor-in-chief of InformationWeek, outlines the new database’s key features and the numbers behind the financial results. So, what makes the Oracle…

What’s it going to take to get big businesses to finally make the jump to the cloud? According to Jeff Erickson in Forbes BrandVoice on Sept. 21, Oracle has the answer. Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison introduced Universal Credits, the new buying and consumption model for cloud services. Universal Credits give customers access…