A few weeks ago at an Oracle conference, Mark Hurd, Oracle’s CEO, laid out the advantages of the Cloud: A lower cost of ownership Eliminating the need for expensive upgrades Brand new functionality delivered every few months versus every few years A simplified approach to applying updates and bug fixes. What blew me away was
Read More...By now, if you’ve been working with or researching PeopleSoft 9.2/Tools 8.54, you’ve heard about the new PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. It’s responsive design done right for PeopleSoft, and it truly modernizes the PeopleSoft experience across all types of devices. PeopleSoft is no longer tied to a specific client or client environment, and now it’s
Read More...(Editor’s Note: Todd Rayburn is MIPRO’s HCM Practice Manager.) I have been in the HCM application space for over 17 years. The first 15 were focused on HCM PeopleSoft implementations. During the last two years I have been a part of multiple Oracle HCM Cloud implementations. While the product had it challenges in the early
Read More...In case you missed it: here is Larry Ellison’s keynote speech at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, presented last week on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Definitely worth an hour of your time.
Read More...MarketWatch: National Instruments (NI) equips engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery to meet not only grand but also daily engineering challenges in an increasingly complex world, and continues to experience growing demand for its technology. To help meet that demand and scale its business, NI selected Oracle Human Capital Management
Read More...Steven Norton and Clint Boulton, writing for the WSJ: While many larger companies have turned to cloud software to manage systems like human-resources management, they are slower to adopt the cloud for applications that handle inventory management, billing and other processes they rely on to run their businesses on a daily basis. For companies using
Read More...This video is making the rounds, and yes it’s a marketing animation, but it really hits on a key point of cloud provider consideration: asking the right questions. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Most organizations we work with are looking for cloud solutions in one way or another. They want to ask the right
Read More...Terms like, the cloud, on-premise,co-existence: these are just but a few of the current strategies that most organizations contend with today in determining how they are going to manage their enterprise applications that run their businesses. It can feel like a daunting task, often equal parts confusing and overwhelming. The truth of the matter is,
Read More...Increasingly, I have taken to using Google Drive for document creation and collaboration. Last week, Google announced add-ons for Google Docs (text documents) and Sheets (spreadsheets). Here’s Google’s Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager: You use Google Docs and Sheets to get all sorts of stuff done—whether you’re staying up late to finish that final paper or just
Read More...In early 2012 I wrote a blog entitled, Mainframe, Distributed, Personal, Cloud – Back to Where We Started? My hypothesis was how we have come full circle – mainframe back to “mainframe-like” in order to access the applications we somehow cannot live without. Except now these apps reside in a “cloud” somewhere in a massive server farm
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