• Oracle puts AI center stage at OpenWorld

    If you’re an Oracle customer, you’ve probably been invited to move some of your spending with them to a subscription model. Now Oracle wants to make it easier for you to move your own customers to subscription-based pricing too.Oracle Subscription Management is a new cloud application the company unveiled at its OpenWorld event in San Francisco this week. Oracle also upgraded existing cloud apps with a host of new automation and personalization features based on artificial intellige
  • IDG Contributor Network: Driving digital strategy

    In Sunil Gupta’s book “Driving Digital Strategy,” he explains why incumbents are increasingly struggled as new and nimble players enter their established markets. Disruptors or challengers offer customers new, innovative business models and in many cases redefine long established market boundaries. This poses a significant threat to the old guard especially if they are found to be asleep at the wheel.For this reason, Sunil suggests that the leaders of legacy businesses need to
  • IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons why data lakes are vital for startup analytics

    You might not be so familiar yet with the buzz term “data lake,” but if you’re at an early stage startup, you probably soon will be.Whereas data warehouses and data marts tend to force companies into narrow data paradigms and silos, data lakes emphasize a more holistic and expansive view of analytics. Data lakes deliver a more adaptive approach towards analyzing data, and stress the value of all information, instead of pre-screened bits and pieces.The controversy in the big da
  • IDG Contributor Network: The incumbent’s advantage

    It may seem like the odds of successfully navigating the digital transformation journey are stacked against many of our organizations. And why shouldn’t it? Proven, traditional enterprises have an overwhelming number of planned and in-flight efforts in the pipeline just to keep the business running, encounter challenges finding and retaining the right talent, and wonder if their organizational culture is hindering innovation. What’s more, it seems like a particular jungle-named comp
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  • 5 ways AI is transforming customer experience

    Cutting-edge companies are turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform how they interact with customers, strengthening those relationships, distinguishing themselves from competitors, and increasing revenues.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

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