Oracle News & Articles

How do the major vendors of master data management for customer data stack up? Taking a shot with its evaluation is Gartner and its newly released Magic Quadrant report on this field.

Customer Experience Management vendor, Oracle, has released a new version of its Oracle Retail Category Management product, which includes updates to its data integration, planning and insight to drive store performance features.

Infusionsoft, a marketing automation vendor, has announced it raised US $54 million from investment firm Goldman Sachs. The company will use the cash to continue focusing on small businesses with up to 25 employees.

Need to add more websites to your growing company or just testing out a few systems to make a short list of new Web CMS candidates? We've gathered up a few highlights from the past year to help nail down a few contenders.

One of the biggest names in IT, Oracle, has announced it plans to purchase Eloqua, a cloud based Marketing Automation provider that had been positioning itself as a revenue performance management company.

In an effort to better support organizations trying to get a grip on Big Data, Oracle is releasing several new versions of hardware and software applications.

Economically, we still haven’t left the Great Recession behind. It’s everywhere; in every enterprise balance sheet, in every merger and acquisition, in R&D departments on both sides of the Atlantic. That said, it hasn’t really dampened enthusiasm for buy-outs and there were many this year across the entire IT spectrum.

Oracle is attempting to enable more proactive customer service by integrating the Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service with the Oracle Engagement Engine Cloud Service as part of its new Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service release.

Companies use business intelligence to analyze key data on their hard assets, but why don't they do a better job of looking at the data they have on the people that work for them? Oracle surveyed 400 companies in UK, France, Germany and Australia to find out. 

Information continues to grow more important for gaining a competitive advantage, but managing it isn't getting any easier. The challenge is making some organizations take another look at knowledge management platforms. Oracle wants to ensure it will be at the top of mind when they start looking by making some significant updates to its Oracle Knowledge platform.

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Instantis, a project portfolio management (PPM) technology vendor. Instantis offers both on-premises and cloud-based versions of its PPM solutions.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has a new report out that says don't be afraid to fail -- great innovation can come of it.

In our first look at Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management 2012 we saw that mobile, cloud and composite apps are increasingly important in the Enterprise CMS space. Now we will take a look at those vendors that made it into the Leader’s Quadrant.

Despite all the changes across the information management industry, the management of content still remains a core goal. According to Gartner’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), demand for Enterprise CMS continues to grow as enterprises struggle to feed business applications with appropriate content.

The term “Social” means different things to different people. Same for “Big Data” (believe it or not, some people even use it as a verb). And while in one sense their precise definitions don’t matter, if you’re using them as labels, they do. We need some clarification. Now, before their meanings get lost and become irretrievable.