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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison introduced Universal Credits, the new buying and consumption model for cloud services. Universal Credits give customers access to all current and future Oracle Platform Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services. A Breakdown of Oracle Universal Credits Here’s what Ellison means by Universal Credits: Through one simple contract, the…

The YouTube description of Inderejeeet Singh’s presentation “Accelerate Apps Development and Innovation” calls it an “in-depth overview.” That might be an oxymoron but it comes as close to accurate as it can. Singh, the EVP, Global ISV, OEM and Java for Oracle, outlines the services and then briefly explains the Oracle innovations within each. You…

In a recently released white paper “Ensuring That Your Enterprise is Cloud-Ready,” Oracle’s experts offer advice on developing a transition plan to support on-premise applications and workloads today while setting the stage for an easy migration to the cloud. What to Wish & What to Watch IT departments with established data centers want the benefits—the…