Oracle News & Articles

Over the last two years, Gartner considers the ecommerce space to still be dominated by the same leaders named in its last Magic Quadrant report, namely IBM, Oracle and hybris.

Oracle may have outlined how the inability to break-down information silos was negating many of the positive benefits of the cloud yesterday, but today Forbes highlights yet again the business value of the cloud, particularly in facilitation with effective enterprise collaboration.

 While concerns over cloud deployments are now a thing of the past, the cloud is still proving difficult for many enterprises. In fact, new research form Oracle shows that the dual promise of business efficiency and IT agility is still eluding many enterprises.

Leading marketing automation vendor Marketo floated its initial public offering this week and raised nearly US $80 million as its shares were traded on the NASDAQ exchange.

To see CRM as a market made up of one single type of technology would be a mistake. There are many different technologies in the CRM mix and the technology that is really driving growth, according to Gartner, is lead management.

If Google, Microsoft and Oracle are the only three vendors that made it into the Leaders Quadrant of this year’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search, Gartner has identified many other vendors in the Challengers quadrant that are jostling for position next time round.

In a subtle shift from the days in which content was king, the International Data Corporation semiannual Software Tracker published this week reaffirms what we are now seeing on a daily basis -- that data is king. In this scenario though, data access and analytics software is the king-maker and this report makes that clear.

B2B commerce is trending towards the B2C model, an Oracle report has found, and companies are looking to expand their online sales because customers' expectations have changed in the face of those consumer buying practices.

Larry Ellison has a dream. And at the moment it might be less about winning new customers than keeping the ones he already has.

Marketing automation vendor Marketo previewed an upcoming Hootsuite integration and its Marketing Financial Management suite at its annual summit this week.

The latest WCM Wave from Forrester has hit the market and the key focus is on integration. It's time for a vendor deep dive.

Oracle has released its Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g, and among the dozens of changes is a Microsoft Office update that adopts the Oracle Smart View for Office as the single Microsoft Office add in for Oracle BI, Essbase and Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management apps.

What large company doesn't need to make itself more efficient? However businesses define that term, and no matter what sector they are in, companies like Oracle are working to make their business decision management more unified and standardized.

Oracle is extending its infrastructure to Japan, offering local access for its customer experience services. This week, the technology giant announced that it was opening a data center in that country, especially to support its RightNow Cloud Service. 

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud infrastructure resources and also work in public and hybrid cloud environments.