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Oracle sharks Cerner 

Posted on December 22, 2021 by - News

Oracle has snapped up the digital medical records business Cerner for $28.3 billion an all-cash tender offer for $95 per share and the transaction is expected to close in 2022.

For those who came in late, Cerner is a leading provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems to enable medical professionals to deliver better healthcare to individual patients and communities. Oracle said the company has more than 40 years of experience in modernising electronic health records, improving caregiver experience, and streamlining and automating clinical and administrative workflows.

Eureka Solutions scores Wasps cloud drive

Posted on November 25, 2021 by - News

Eureka Solutions scored after sports club Wasps headed towards the cloud buzz.

Eureka Solutions is an Oracle partner specialising in the NetSuite ERP product. The East Kilbride-based outfit works with numerous sporting organisations, including Luton Town FC and the Ageas Bowl, the home of Hampshire Cricket, where the complexity of the business is very similar to that at Wasps.

Wasps cloud plan was spearheaded by Tom Bonser, Finance Director, who has been charged with building the club’s success to achieve long-term financial security.

He worked with Eureka Solutions in his previous role at another English Football League club this time to transform the back-office function for Wasps.

Enterprises spend more on clouds

Posted on November 3, 2020 by - News

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services in the third quarter of this year increased by 33 percent to $33 billion

Figures from Synergy Research Group showed that the year-on-year growth rate for Q3 was higher than the 32 per cent growth seen in the previous quarter. T

Amazon and Microsoft accounted for over half of the global market, with Amazon’s market share staying at around 33 percent, while Microsoft’s share was over 18 percent.

Google, Alibaba and Tencent were growing quicker than the overall market and are increasing market share . Together they account for 17 percent of the market.

The other cloud providers in the top ten rankings include IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, NTT and SAP. 

Microsoft, c3.ai and Adobe take on Salesforce

Posted on November 2, 2020 by - News

Microsoft campusMicrosoft and Adobe are launching a new platform to take on the market dominance of Salesforce.

C3 AI CRM is powered by the core functionality of Dynamics 365 and is combined with Adobe’s real-time customer profiles and journey management, as well as c3.ai’s industry-specific AI capabilities.

The AI-driven CRM platform is, it’s claimed, purpose-built for specific industries and uses data from any source to produce meaningful business insights. The collective claims that conventional CRM is not sufficient for the modern age, given that AI can’t be used to analyse much of the data because they weren’t built with the appropriate architectures.

Cyber security providers benefit from EU and local regulations

Posted on November 2, 2020 by - News

Enterprises in the UK are looking to cyber security providers to help them comply with European Union and local regulations, and protect data as employees work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published today by Information Services Group (ISG).

The 2020 ISG Provider Lens Cyber Security – Solutions & Services Report, for the UK finds enterprises in the country counting on cyber security providers to help them comply with UK privacy and cyber security rules passed as the country separates from the European Union. At the same time, U.K. companies must continue to comply with E.U. data privacy regulations because of the country’s economic connections to continental Europe.

Jan Erik Aase, director and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research said that UK enterprises are prioritising cyber security as most business processes have gone digital.

Oracle releases dual-region government Cloud product

Posted on October 27, 2020 by - News

Oracle has announced a ‘dual-region Government Cloud’, private cloud infrastructure for the UK government.

The dual-region cloud consists of two data centres for disaster recovery purposes – an existing facility in London plus a new one in Newport, Wales  – connected by an Oracle-owned high speed network.

It expands on the company’s existing UK Government Cloud Region, by allowing data to move between the two regions, and includes services such Autonomous Database, Kubernetes, OCI services and Fusion Cloud apps as well as storage.

Oracle senior vice president Richard Petley said that the dual clouds will mean all Oracle’s customers across the UK can get their paws on  Oracle’s second-generation cloud.

“This is a completely unique offering to the UK government – no other cloud provider offers the sovereignty and performance we are announcing today.”

Ocado books into Oracle’s cloud

Posted on October 1, 2020 by - News

Ocado Group said it is using Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud to help support its expansion into new industry verticals and international markets.

Oracle said its Cloud ERP system will let Ocado adapt to changing customer demands. It will also help Ocado to capitalise on new growth opportunities by enhancing its business processes.

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) suite that helps companies manage their enterprise functions, including financial management, project management, accounting, and procurement. The suite runs on an Oracle technology stack in Oracle’s cloud centres and can be accessed through public or private cloud implementation.

Five cloud services providers took more than a third of the market

Posted on August 21, 2020 by - News

Beancounters at IDC claimed that the global public cloud services market totalled $233.4 billion (£176 billion) in 2019, representing a 26 percent increase year on year.

The report claims that the top five public cloud service providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce.com – accounted for more than a third of the worldwide total, growing a combined 35 percent year over year.

Software as a service (SaaS) remained the largest segment of public cloud spending with revenues of more than $122 billion in 2019, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year. IDC expects SaaS growth to continue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as businesses shift to subscription-based models and look to software collaboration tools to facilitate remote working.

IDC’s Rick Villars said that the cloud is expanding far beyond niche e-commerce and online ad-sponsored search and underpinned digital activities that individuals and enterprises depend upon as we navigate and move beyond the pandemic.

There is gold in BYOL for robots

Posted on May 29, 2020 by - News

Oracle Partner Blue Prism has noted that its Bring your own licence [BYOL] is doing rather well with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) users.

The new Oracle Cloud Marketplace offering makes it easier for customers to run Blue Prism on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it’s claimed. It also gives customers access to end-to-end automation solutions that cover the broadest range of IT environments — including on-premises, hybrid and SaaS — an industry first, the company claims.

The BYOL listing on Oracle Cloud Marketplace is Blue Prism pre-installed on an image for easy deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; those with existing Blue Prism licences can migrate software licences to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle customers can also use existing Oracle Universal Credits to pay for cloud infrastructure services. The offering gives Oracle customers an opportunity to experience Blue Prism on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as well as introduces them to the possibilities of intelligent automation.

Oracle hires former VMWare channel man as Cloud boss

Posted on January 22, 2020 by - News

Oracle has appointed former VMWare channel chief Ross Brown as vice president of its Cloud GTM division.

Brown’s LinkedIn profile has revealed his new position as Oracle’s Cloud chief, where he will be responsible for leading its go-to-market operations. According to the brief entry on his page, he will lead the segment from Seattle, Washington, where the firm has recently expanded its cloud infrastructure workforce.

Brown joins the business after 20 months off after leaving his role as senior vice president of VMWare’s WW Partners and Alliances division.

Hurd gives the word on Oracle’s plan

Posted on May 6, 2019 by - News

Expenses master Oracle CEO Mark Hurd warned hacks at Oracle Media Day that overall growth in the U.S. and global economies is not translating directly to increases in B2B spending.

He said that midmarket businesses were seeing an infusion of capital in the current environment, which has supercharged Oracle’s NetSuite business.

Red Reply wins Oracle “Partner of the Year: Autonomous” award

Posted on February 18, 2019 by - News

Red Reply, which specialises in the Oracle Cloud IaaS and PaaS platform, has been named as Oracle “Partner of the Year: Autonomous” for its work as an Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider Partner in developing projects using the Oracle Autonomous Database technology.

Red Reply had launched a project aimed at re-engineering the Policy Enterprise DataWarehouse of Verti Assicurazioni, company operating in the online insurance sector, using the Oracle Cloud Autonomous data warehouse service. The Autonomous DataWarehouse is a cloud-based database that uses machine learning to eliminate manual labour in operations such as tuning, security, backups, updates and other routine activities.

Oracle wants fewer and better cloud partners

Posted on January 18, 2019 by - News

Oracle will be going through its cloud partner friends list and culling those who it does not think are up to snuff.

Javier Torres, VP of EMEA channels said that the switch to cloud-based services would eventually result in “fewer and better” partners specialising in Oracle’s cloud services.

Speaking to the assembled throngs at an Oracle OpenWorld event in London, Torres said that although this may look like a threat to partners’ current business models, they should view it as an opening to win more business.

Oracle refugee replaces Greene on Google’s cloud

Posted on November 20, 2018 by - News

Thomas Kurian, former Oracle President of product development and technologist, is going to head Google Cloud from early next year.

The current CEO of Google Cloud Diane Greene will continue through January, working with Mr Kurian to ensure a smooth transition and will remain a Director on the board of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.

Kurian worked at Oracle for 22 years but quit over disagreements with Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison over the future course of the company as the Cloud business gets highly competitive.

“Kurian, a respected technologist and executive, will be joining Google Cloud on November 26 and transitioning into the Google Cloud leadership role in early 2019”, Ms Greene said in a statement on Friday.

Oracle snaps up Talari

Posted on November 19, 2018 by - News

It seems everyone wants a slice of SD-WAN – now Oracle has bought Talari to spruce up its offering.

For those who came in late the SD-WAN market has become one of those spaces that have the analysts predicting great growth. Now Oracle has acquired Talari. Talari has been actively pitching itself as a channel-friendly SD-WAN option, initially working with networking specialists but then attracting more activity with resellers with unified comms specialisms.Douglas Suriano, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications Global Business Unit, said that the deal would combine the SD-WAN technology with its network management offering.

“Talari’s Failsafe SD-WAN solution complements Oracle’s enterprise communications portfolio by delivering high availability and Quality-of-Experience connectivity and cloud application access across any IP network with the reliability and predictability of private networks,” he said.

CEO of Talari Networks, Patrick Sweeney said that SD-WAN played a significant role in digital transformation projects and it came to Oracle with a 500 enterprise strong customer base across 40 countries.

“When the transaction closes, we’ll serve a vastly expanded landscape with Oracle, Both company’s customers will be the beneficiaries of this transaction.”