oracle in comment and analysis
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment After seven years at IBM she joined the investment banking sector team at Oracle. The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the votes of 25 CIOs and an expert judging panel. Votes were based on a CIO's leadership ability, delivery and... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group
Comment Go Ahead works closely with its key tech suppliers - ABS, Atos Origin, Cable & Wireless, Cedar, Edenbrook (for Oracle applications) and Orange. We have never signed up Oracle to deliver more than a single project. [30 Jan 2008]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile His company, Oracle, has fought off and swallowed up the competition to transform itself from one of a number of database specialists to a provider of complete back-end systems. Always outspoken, Ellison's undeniably larger-than-life ego would... [12 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment There is more to ERP than Oracle and SAP as this interview makes clear Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [04 Oct 2007]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment SAP has thousands of happy customers, as does Oracle. Lawson isn't a familiar brand in the corporate IT world, especially in the UK and Europe, but the company is one of the ERP vendors behind the big two of Oracle and SAP and it competes with the... [01 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Ashwin Goyall, Oracle VP of industry strategy for financial services
Comment Oracle created a global financial services business unit in June to bring together a number of assets and acquisitions under one umbrella. What impact did that switch have on the way Oracle does business? [23 Jul 2007]
Leader: ERP consolidation matters
Leader A few years back, when Oracle was making its audacious bid for PeopleSoft, which had in turn only just bought an ERP rival in the form of JD Edwards, regulators knew as much and scrutinised the deal closely. [30 May 2007]
Information overload
Comment Netsuite, an Oracle spin-off that provides a hosted business management for SMEs, is carving out a niche for itself here. Businesses are drowning in data - but how much good is it doing them? Stewart Baines finds out how to retrieve and understand... [30 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: SAP-Oracle news spreads
Comment Searching under "SAP + Oracle" in Google News now shows me (at latest count) 700 articles on the subject of Oracle bringing legal action against its German arch-rival. Can I still write the original story when, understandably, readers would think... [23 Mar 2007]
Editor's blog: Rambling questions, tricky answers
Comment The first panel of the day - starring old adversaries Microsoft and Oracle - which could have been good, sadly fell very flat. My sympathies went out to the panellist from Oracle - a slightly harassed looking Mark Woollen - who launched into one... [07 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park
Comment Satyam has 260 people in Hyderabad working for Reuters, supporting 73 applications including Oracle Financials and HR support, working in areas including consulting and architecture; SOX scoping and remediation; and legacy systems. [07 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn
Comment I think the real issue - and one that we need to get better at measuring - is that while companies like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM do require the great skills that come out of computer science departments, the internet has moved much more into... [01 Mar 2007]
'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'
Comment If you think your supplier is ripe for takeover, or if it has already been bought, you might be considering a change to another supplier - perhaps to bigger names such as Oracle or SAP. If your ERP vendor is acquired, don't panic. [05 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment At the enterprise level both SAP and Oracle are positioning their respective NetWeaver and Fusion Middleware application integration platforms as linking BI to overall business processes. Pure-play BI vendors may not feel an immediate impact... [01 Dec 2006]
View from Stanford: 'Offshoring works for us'
Comment It has outsourced a wide range of work for its internal administration systems to Indian IT services company Infosys - including maintenance and support of Oracle and PeopleSoft applications and databases - in a deal worth about $5m this year. [21 Nov 2006]
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