Oracle has released a brand new white paper discussing how Oracle EPM is the bridge to Fusion applications. While the white paper does not contain a lot of specific details, it does provide a nice foundation to begin to outline a strategy if an organization is considering moving to Fusion and either has Oracle EPM
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Read More...Know This Steven Soderberg’s media stream: here’s a list of Soderberg’s favorite books, movies, TV shows, plays and short stories he enjoyed over the past year. The science of why we don’t believe in science. Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore? Robert Scoble on the PC-to-Mac ratios he’s seeing in major tech
Read More...CFO.com’s Alix Stuart: Business Failures Down, but Not Done: Bankruptcy has been in the headlines recently, thanks to the high-profile Chapter 11 filings of companies such as gourmet-food retailer Harry & David and bookseller Borders. But business failures overall have been declining, according to the most recent data from Dun & Bradstreet. Formal bankruptcy filings
Read More...This is hardly tech related, but it’s a passion of mine, so please bear with me while I climb atop a nearby soapbox. Ah, there’s one. Ahem. Formula 1 racing is the pinnacle of autosport. It’s widely regarded as the absolute top of the heap, attracting the best of the best, and is not comparable
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) with a nice synopsis of Oracle’s new ‘choice’ messaging. Given Oracle’s incredibly wide (and premium) stable of offerings, combined with its recent cloud-facing announcements, this is smart, solid positioning: He emphasized choice in other ways as he discussed Fusion apps – more choice in portfolio of ERP apps versus competitive
Read More...CFO/CIO alert! Have you reviewed the cost of your custom interfaces lately, particularly those associated with your “third party” software systems? Best-of-breed app systems have been on the decline for years, as clients realize enormous savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by going to mature, integrated ERP software add-on modules, by such providers as
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Read More...CIO.com’s Kristin Burnham outlines a Forrester Research report that details whether Gen Yers or Gen Xers are more problematic to a smooth running IT department. Despite how the question is positioned, it turns out they’re not as dissimilar as one may think: You’ve heard the Gen Y stereotypes before: They’re lazy workers, exude entitlement and
Read More...Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg with a nice recap of Oracle’s 5th Annual Maintenance Summit, easily the premier conference for anyone interested in maintenance management and enterprise asset management (EAM): Third, we on the Oracle team responded to participant feedback from the last Summit, and the increased attendance and survey ratings this year proved we got it
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