Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
March 18, 2015
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News Flashes
Axxana's Phoenix System for Oracle version 1.2 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready, Oracle Big Data Appliance Ready, and Oracle Linux Ready status through Oracle Partner Network (OPN). Axxana's Phoenix System for Oracle provides a disaster recovery solution for Oracle environments.
Oracle announced that fiscal 2015 Q3 total revenues were unchanged at $9.3 billion. Without the currency headwinds caused by the strengthening of the U.S. dollar, the company said total revenues would have been up 6% as measured in constant currency. "Oracle now has a cloud revenue run rate of well over $2 billion a year. We are already the world's second largest SaaS and PaaS company," said Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison during a conference call discussing Oracle's third quarter financial results.
Oracle has announced Oracle Data as a Service (DaaS) for Customer Intelligence. The new Oracle Data Cloud product is designed to help organizations increase customer understanding and extract insights from unstructured data assets. This information can then be used to create a complete view of customer input across social and unify and enterprise channels, identify and manage customer issues, understand how customer voice is impacting sales, and ultimately arm businesses with the intelligence to create happier customers.
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IOUG and EMC invite you to participate in this one day Master Class which includes complimentary registration, lunch, networking and presentations from industry leaders. Hear from Michelle Malcher, Enterprise Database Security, Wells Fargo; Matt Kaberlein, Information Technology and Services Consultant, EMC; and Neil Cameron, Oracle Global Presales Director, EMC at this complimentary event.
COLLABORATE 15 - IOUG Forum is the premier Oracle user-driven event of the year. Don't miss out on your chance for valuable user-focused education and networking opportunities with Oracle technologists and professionals.
IOUG encourages you to check out March's spotlighted member, Gary Gordhamer. Gary has been a member of IOUG for fifteen years and currently works as an ERP Infrastructure Principal Technologist at GE Power &Water.
IOUG webcasts explore important technologies such as enterprise technologies such as Engineered Systems, Enterprise Manager 12c, storage appliances - and more.
Oracle provides educational webcasts on range of topics such as digital marketing, engineered systems, and cloud platform strategies.
The Large Tape User Group's (LTUG) Annual Spring conference is on April 27-30, just outside of Denver, Colorado. Anyone interested in large Oracle StorageTek robotic tape libraries and storage devices cannot afford to miss out on this educational and networking event.