Tag: Oracle Cloud Applications

Is a SaaS Knowledge Strategy a Necessity or a Luxury?

Kem Butler, Senior Principal Customer Success Manager for Oracle, wrote about whether having a SaaS knowledge strategy is a necessity or a luxury for organizations. Many customers aren’t aware of the many capabilities available with Software as a Service (SaaS) that could benefit their business. This can lead to the wasting of time, money, and resources to try to address business needs that aren’t being met by current enterprise applications. When a software solution is assumed to not meet a specific need, organizations can respond in several ways with varying implications.

Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2019-2729

Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2019-2729 was released on June 18, 2019. Oracle strongly recommends that customers follow the recommended actions in the Security Alert.

IaaS: Transform Your Organization On-Premises or in the Cloud

Nancy Swanson, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Oracle Database Appliance Portfolio, wrote about how companies can move to a new stage of competitiveness and growth when they transform their organizations on-premises or in the Cloud.

An increasing number of businesses are discovering that infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a catalyst for digital transformation, accelerated application development, and increased customer engagement through mobile applications and social interactions. Gartner forecasts that IaaS spending will grow 27.6 percent and reach nearly $40 billion in 2019. That would be a nearly $10 billion increase from last year.

Jun.  13 @  11:00am
Cloud Applications – Back to Basics

  Nothing New, but if you are new to Cloud Apps, or looking at them for the first time, this is a whistle stop history trip, how did we get here? What’s different than EBS? Design Principles, Analytics available, all the things Oracle assume you know. Objectives: Understanding SaaS Understanding Options Presented by Debra Lilley, Assoc…

Jun.  11 @  2:00pm
Lessons learned: Caltech's Expansion with Jaggaer for Unified Procure-to-Pay Platform

Caltech extended their Jaggaer e-Procurement Platform to accept vendor invoices and to expose invoice Payment information to 1700+ end users of the Platform. Shopping, ordering, two/three-way matching and receiving all became enabled in a single Procure-to-Pay platform. To this, add Jaggaer's brand new PO Change Orders functionality and the integration challenges to Oracle are immense.…

Benefits of Blockchain in Finance According to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd

Lynne Sampson, Oracle’s managing editor of The Modern Finance Leader, wrote a blog about Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s thoughts on the benefits of leveraging blockchain within Finance.

Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Today for Consumer Goods
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Consumer Goods companies continue to struggle on creating a clear demand picture inclusive of Weekly / SKU / Location specific forecasting netted against projected supply being driven by Trade Promotion spend generally between 25 and 37% of Gross Sales. Oracle uniquely provides capabilities for CPG companies to generate and evaluate their forecasts providing a base volume showing Trend and Seasonality impacts, as well as evaluating each element of the trade spend across price, merchandising such as Ads, Special Store Placement, Consumer incentives, etc. Being able to generate an “explainable forecast” across all of these levers and evaluate the volume, revenue and margin contribution of each lever is industry leading.

Presented by Linda Peel, Oracle

Tips for Large Scale Migrations to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

If your company is looking to transform systems that have an overwhelming quantity, diversity, and/or complexity, you fall under the umbrella of “large scale migrations.” These situations often involve multiple business units, and there are very demanding operational and security requirements in production workloads.

Jun.  4 @  1:00pm
Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Today for Consumer Goods

Consumer Goods companies continue to struggle on creating a clear demand picture inclusive of Weekly / SKU / Location specific forecasting netted against projected supply being driven by Trade Promotion spend generally between 25 and 37% of Gross Sales. Oracle uniquely provides capabilities for CPG companies to generate and evaluate their forecasts providing a base…

How Yum! Brands Conquered Challenging Cloud Payroll Business Requirements

At COLLABORATE 19, Hunter Bohannon, the HR Oracle Cloud Support Analyst at Yum! Brands, spoke about how Yum! Brands conquered challenging payroll business requirements with Oracle HCM Cloud and Cloud Payroll.