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Senior managers out of touch with technology needs, survey

According to a new study by Gartner among +3,000 digital workers in the US, Europe and Asia/Pacific, many of them that work in non-IT departments believe their CIO is out of touch with their technology needs. Less than 50 percent of workers (both IT and non-IT) believe their CIOs are...

May

Why now is the time for ERP in the cloud

By Steve Cox, Group Vice President, Cloud Business Group, Oracle – “The movement to cloud is an inevitable destination; this is how computing will evolve over the next several years.” So said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Based on the results of new research, that inevitability is...

May

The Future of Data Management is Autonomous

The rise of data as a valuable asset of your organisation, and therefore your enterprise database, will have a direct impact on the future success of your business. In this video, Vice President of Oracle Cloud Platform Product Marketing, Monica Kumar, discusses how Autonomous Database Cloud can transform your business...

May

Cloud automation boosts revenue and profits

Companies using cloud technologies to automate their legacy applications and IT operations processes are gaining a significant competitive advantage over those behind the curve, according to a new report from Capgemini and Sogeti. Among so-called fast movers, 75 per cent have seen an increase in revenue and profitability while 80...

May

Blockchain deployments still scarce

Despite the hype, the actual use of blockchain isn’t very widespread. Only 1 percent of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, and only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, according to a recent survey by analyst firm Gartner. Furthermore, 77...

Apr