By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 26, 2016
Larry Ellison joked at Oracle OpenWorld he was told Fusion applications would be developed in 4 years. They have taken over a decade. Snicker all you want. The flip side of that is Oracle started developing cloud apps years before most others. While IaaS and Amazon got a lot of attention during OOW, the winner […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 21, 2016
As Steve Miranda previewed last week, one of the more interesting announcements this week at Oracle OpenWorld is around its Adaptive Intelligent Applications. Steve had said “Basically, what we’re doing is leveraging our data cloud, which I know you’re familiar with (having profiled BlueKai), together with machine-learning algorithms and incorporating that into our transactional applications […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on September 19, 2016
Successful AI Projects Seek A Spectrum Of Outcomes As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to move from the summer of hype to the fall tech conference news cycle, mass confusion has begun on what AI can be used for. From fears of SKYNET, to hopes for the computer in StarTrek and Jarvis in Iron Man, the value […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 19, 2016
Three things were striking about Larry Ellison’s kickoff keynote at Oracle OpenWorld last night a) he was at his late night host best – I must have been a sight as I burst out in humor every few minutes b) he must have spent the week reading all the press releases Oracle issues during this […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 9, 2016
These days , far removed from the origins of Greek mythology, it is easy to feel sorry for Sisyphus as he pushes a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down. He is cursed to repeat this action over and over again. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. But read the […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 25, 2016
The Rush To Artificial Intelligence Will Enable Augmented Humanity While market leaders and fast followers have not yet achieved mass personalization, the next rush is focused on investments in artificial intelligence (see Figure 1). Searching for a competitive advantage and fearful of disruption, board rooms and CXO’s have rushed to artificial intelligence as the next […]
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By Denis Pombriant on August 18, 2016
The platform land rush is definitely on. You can’t swing a dead cat, as the saying goes, without finding an announcement about some new platform or some established vendor’s attempt to enhance its existing platform. Some sorting out seems to be in order. What’s not a platform these days? Well, if you can easily substitute […]
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By Michael Fauscette on July 28, 2016
Which one of these statements is true? If you play “Stairway to Heaven backwards it’s a prayer to Satan” Oracle buys Netsuite. If you swallow gum it takes 7 years to digest. You guessed it? Well, this morning the wires are a buzz with tales of the next big Oracle acquisition, Netsuite. This is an […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 28, 2016
Oracle Bring Netsuite Back Into The Fold Oracle’s 9.3B acquisition of Netsuite came as no surprise to valley insiders. The rumors have surfaced for weeks. The surprise came as how badly Oracle sought cloud revenue and to bring a friendly partner back into the family. Constellation sees the following for the buy side: Battle […]
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By Denis Pombriant on July 28, 2016
You had to believe this day was inevitable. Oracle announced it was buying NetSuite a cloud ERP provider with over 30,000 customers worldwide for about $9.3 billion. Oracle founder, Larry Ellison also had a large part in founding NetSuite including being one of its top investors. I have always looked at it as Larry’s experiment […]
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