Oracle News & Articles

Two of the biggest enterprise players have their conferences almost back-to-back this year. While Salesforce's Dreamforce conference has just ended, we're daring you to look forward another week and a half to Oracle OpenWorld.

Oracle Financial Services has introduced a suite of applications to help financial services companies obtain and manage a more complete view of customer relationships.

There is always something to mull over in Oracle’s results and quarterly earnings calls, and the one this week for Q1 was no different. Oracle narrowly missed financial analysts’ estimates, but the stock markets don't seem too bothered. It was in the earnings’ call this time that the real action was to be had.

Oracle is entering an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications. 

Oracle has been hard at work on the commerce portion of its customer experience portfolio. Today it releases updates to two of its Commerce products and offers a chance to dig into the details at Oracle OpenWorld in San Fransisco the end of this month.

It's that time again. Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for web content management. The leaders haven't changed, with one exception.

It's quiet in the wake of Labor Day, but document automation vendor Eclipse isn't resting as it moves to Silver level membership of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN).

Oracle is providing a lot of updated and new Java functionality in one fell swoop with today’s multi pronged release. Let’s dig into a few highlights of each individual solution.

It’s the middle of the holiday period, so it’s a little bit surprising to see Gartner release another one of its Magic Quadrants. This time it’s the Sales Force Automation quadrant that features quite a number of the vendors we've seen in the customer experience management space, except this one has a slightly different focus.

Oracle continues to snap at Salesforce’s heels in the CRM space, this time with an upgrade to its CRM on Demand product. Release 20 adds industry-specific functionality for the financial, automotive life sciences and insurance sectors.

Software-defined networking. That’s the latest thing to have, if you’re a giant software company intent on being a player in the age of the cloud. On Monday, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to buy Xsigo Systems, a move that strengthens the company's position in the cloud computing realm.

It was announced nearly two months ago, but the ink has finally dried on the contract. Vitrue has been swallowed by Oracle as it continues to build and peruse social media capabilities that will tie into its customer experience management strategy.

In the first part of this examination of Forrester’s Wave: CRM Suites for Large Organizations, Q3 2012 earlier this week we saw that organizations are struggling to define a CRM strategy for their organization. Even still, the CRM market is one with seven companies making it into the Leaders section.

Despite investment in, and deployment of customer relationship management applications in close to 75% of large organizations, it seems that many enterprises are struggling to clarify, or even define, a distinct and lucid customer relationship strategy.

Larry Ellison has been wandering around town again with his checkbook out. This time he has bought Skire, a provider of program and facilities management software. With this buy, Oracle adds further functionality to complement its already extensive range of applications in the cloud, as well, of course, as its on-premise applications.