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Unnecessary roughness: Does Oracle need to beat up Amazon to stay profitable? | #OOW
Oracle came out swinging at its OpenWorld event, blasting Amazon Web Services and stating that Oracle is the better enterprise cloud choice, full stop. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder and chief executive, delivered a point-by-point takedown, aiming to prove that Oracle beats AWS on the fronts that matter, including cost, speed and flexibility. One might think Oracle has ...
‘Big Data on steroids’: Cognitive is so big, IBM isn’t adding it, they’re building for it | #IBMEdge
Optimizing an enterprise for Big Data can be a frustrating scrabble from open-source platform to proprietary vendor to SaaS subscription. And don’t look now — here comes cognitive computing, which is going to demand even more from all levels of the stack to get up and running. One company is already building with this in ...
Too many cooks: Making the Big Data marketing soup consumable to enterprises | #OOW
Digitization is changing the role of marketers in enterprises. Big Data and predictive analytics are creating osmosis between marketing and technology departments. IT teams are realizing that marketers can bring invaluable customer data to the table; likewise, marketers are injecting cutting-edge tech into their day-to-day work to hone customer relationships to unprecedented levels. As these ...
As infrastructure shape-shifts, vendors and customers look for the ‘sticky’ | #OOW
It’s no wonder technology startups are by and large focusing on applications right now. First of all, customers are hungry for easy solutions that give them control over application development and deployment at the level of the application level itself. And the real draw for vendors is that once they capture a company’s applications, they ...
Do you have a business or a hobby? Open source versus proprietary in the real world | #OOW
The open-source world is an endlessly interesting and exciting place for developers. The inventory of technologies is always growing, and bleeding-edge software platforms often debut in open source marketplaces. For these same reasons, however, enterprises can grow weary of open source, a seemingly endless tweaking and tinkering game to customize software for business purposes. Some say ...
New school: How is Oracle fostering tomorrow’s tech talent? | #OOW
For some time, there has been controversy over a so-called “tech shortage” — a dearth of highly skilled tech workers in the U.S. There is a growing contention that companies looking to save a buck by hiring foreign workers have blown the idea of a native shortage out of proportion. Wherever the truth lies, one ...
Enterprises want industry cloud: Are legacy companies like Oracle better resourced to bring it? | #OOW
Enterprises looking to migrate to cloud and enter the Digital Age can sometimes assume that the newest vendors on the block are best suited to job. Eyeballs naturally gravitate to the shiniest, most-hyped businesses that are not only cloud experts, but perhaps cloud-native themselves. But are there some key advantages to hiring an old hand, even ...
Two heads are better than one — unless one of them is a self-driving vehicle | #FordTrends
Autonomous vehicles present such a revolutionary change to the way we commute, it’s sometimes hard to envision the day they will rule our roads and highways. But the manufacturers and engineers hard at work perfecting them tell us that in a few years, this may be the reality. How do they work? Are they safe? Are ...
Can Ford future-proof business by being its own disruptors? | #FordTrends
Disruption is a looming reality for pretty much everyone in business these days. For digital-native companies, another digital-native company with a newer or smarter technology could come in and take them out. Many non-digital-native companies feel like sitting ducks. Silicon Valley contains a universe of technology that might well do their jobs better than them, ...
Can an auto manufacturer segue from the ‘car’ business to the ‘mobility’ business? | #FordTrends
The automotive industry is under Darwinian pressure to revamp its business model. Owning a car is still expensive and perhaps inconvenient, especially for urban drivers for whom finding a parking spot can be a daily nuisance. Add to this the growing number of ride-sharing apps, and individual car ownership is becoming a hard sell. A ...