Joe McKendrick, author, independent researcher and speaker, wrote an article in Forbes about the best qualities that today’s digital leaders should have. It requires a little something borrowed and a little something new. Not only do digital leaders need to be able to embrace cutting-edge technology, but they also need to maintain some of the same tried-and-true management principles that have been around for the last 25, 50, or 100 years. Skills like communication are still just as important as understanding AI, Internet of Things, and Blockchain. McKendrick explained that “digital leaders must blend legacy skills with those of the digital era.”

Chris Murphy, Director of Cloud content at Oracle, wrote an article in Forbes after talking with Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison about integrated Oracle Cloud suites and how they affect Oracle’s future growth.

Genpact is a global professional services firm that makes business transformation a reality for its customers. They drive digital-led innovation and digitally-enabled intelligent operations for clients. The company was founded in 1997 as a business unit within General Electric. Genpact became an independent company in 2005 and became a publicly-traded company in 2007. They have over 80,000 employees and bring in over $3 billion in annual revenue. The company began using Oracle Analytics Cloud, part of the Business Analytics platform, to innovate and provide customers with data and insightful predictions about their business. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a single platform that empowers your entire organization to ask any question of any data in any environment on any device. Oracle Cloud Platform (Platform as a Service) in general is designed to help customers take advantage of agility and innovation, and Genpact did exactly that.

Enterprise security teams face unrelenting risks like phishing attacks, unpatched systems, and unauthorized Cloud applications. The best way to tackle those challenges, according to the Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019, is through the automation of threat monitoring and patching of software vulnerabilities. Alan Zeichick, Director of Strategic Communications for Oracle, wrote an article in Forbes about how automation is increasingly becoming the only effective way to tackle Cloud security threats. Research from Oracle and KPMG examined the threats that organizations are faced with and how automation can help combat them. The report, which came out in February, collected data from 450 cybersecurity and IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore.