Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
February 21, 2018
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News Flashes
At its Modern Finance Experience 2018 in New York, Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud. Part of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud, the new offering will help customers manage important metadata structures related to their financial applications to avoid misalignment and lack of consistency, said Hari Sankar, group vice president, EPM product management, Oracle.
Oracle says it plans to significantly expand its modern cloud infrastructure footprint with 12 new data center regions and to increase the breadth and depth of Oracle Cloud services available across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Think About It
Large enterprises are facing a debt crisis. Not financial debt, but "data debt." It's a form of technical debt, and it can hamstring an organization's capacity to tackle new challenges and stifle its ability to innovate. For most large enterprises, the root of this problem lies in years of treating the data generated by their operational systems as a form of exhaust rather than as a fuel to deliver great services, build better products, and create competitive advantage.
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There have been studies done by various researchers and companies on the causes of data loss. Generally, these lists include hardware failure, human error, software corruption, and computer viruses.
Will you write a book? Publishing is an excellent way to establish yourself as an authority and lift your career. IOUG Press is looking for authors with something to say on Oracle's new, Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service, as well as on other cloud topics such as running Oracle on AWS, Azure, and Google's cloud platform.
Last year, more than 400 executives and professionals participated in an Oracle DBTA multi user group survey to assess the delivery of IT performance excellence across a range of enterprises and how this is translating into business profitability and growth.
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