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Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By Carl DCosta, worldwide vice president of Alliances and Channels Sales for Oracle Communications We recognize that our partners realize greater margins and revenues if they offer more services to their customers than just product resale. Our experience says that approximately 70% of partner revenue comes from services delivered around products, and so it becomes mutually beneficial for Oracle and our partners to focus where the margins are higher. To cultivate our partners’ ability to increase revenues and keep customers happy, we have developed one of the most comprehensive partner programs in the Communications industry, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle Data Cloud today announced that the Media Rating Council (MRC) has accredited Oracle’s Contextual Intelligence for Property-Level Ad Verification under the MRC and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Guidelines for the Conduct of Ad Verification. Developed via technology from its Grapeshot acquisition, Contextual Intelligence’s accredited database offers property-level categorization and can be used by marketers and agencies to avoid unsafe and brand inappropriate content, based not simply on keywords but also on the context in which they appear. To earn its MRC accreditation, Oracle Data Cloud completed a comprehensive audit and review of its technologies, ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. During the months of August and September, Oracle Volunteers worldwide Focus on Education by finding or creating volunteer opportunities with their favorite education-focused nonprofit or public school. One educational nonprofit that is near and dear to our hearts is Oracle Education Foundation. Oracle Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and staffed by Oracle employees. Its mission is to help young people develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems. In the Foundation’s program, Oracle Volunteers coach students ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. SoCalGas and Oracle today announced that the Home Energy Reports SoCalGas customers receive each month have helped reduce natural gas use by 10 million therms since the program began in 2013. This has resulted in customers saving more than $11 million on their bills. The savings is enough to supply 21,000 Southern California households with natural gas for a year and also has had the effect of eliminating more than 53,000 metric tons of carbon emissions. Home Energy Reports, included with most customer’s bills, show how much energy each household is using compared to similar ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Rimini Street’s latest attempt to avoid the District Court’s injunction barring Rimini Street from engaging in conduct that infringes Oracle's intellectual property rights. The Appeals Court also affirmed the trial court’s $28.5 million attorneys’ fees award to Oracle, rejecting Rimini's absurd claim that it had prevailed at a trial where the jury found Rimini infringed Oracle’s copyrights. Rimini Street has paid more than $90 million to Oracle as a result of that infringement, and the trial court issued a permanent injunction.   "We are extremely gratified that the ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By Ivgen Guner A few weeks ago, I was privileged to sponsor a master class in digital finance technologies, hosted by the Financial Women of San Francisco (FWSF), an organization dedicated to advancing the success of women in finance in the Bay Area. The goal of the master class was to help female finance professionals reimagine finance processes using emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation (RPA), and digital assistants, with the ultimate goal of accelerating their careers in the industry.  Joining me to share their expertise in these areas were Delphine ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. When you really think about it, what we call “work” hasn’t evolved much since the Industrial Revolution: While the technology has made most tasks easier, the name of the game is still mass production—codifying business processes using technology and scaling it across the entire enterprise. But artificial intelligence (AI) changes the game. Rather than fitting people into a repetitive process, AI offers the opportunity to liberate them from it altogether, freeing their time and creative energy for more strategic and meaningful work. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, technology is being used ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Fast-casual continues to be a hot and growing segment of the pizza industry. With 10 locations in Winnipeg and Toronto, Za Pizza Bistro is focused on taking its slice of the market by serving up delicious, “custom, fast, fired’ pies to customers. Whether it’s a Za Pizza storefront or its inaugural food truck, Oracle MICROS Simphony Point of Sale helps the chain deliver speedy service and seamless ordering and payments for guests. Click here to hear more about Za Pizza’s Oracle growth story. “Oracle MICROS Simphony allows us to easily scale our business,” said Manley ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. SINSA, the largest home improvement retailer in Nicaragua, has tapped Oracle Retail as the foundation to deliver superior customer experiences and propel growth. In business for nearly 30 years, the family-owned retailer operates 24 retail stores and wholesale properties, offering 65,000+ SKUs in 15 categories of home improvement products and services for the remodeling, construction, decoration and electrical industries. By adopting Oracle Retail technology, the Do-it-Yourself (DIY) retailer can now provide improved customer service through better inventory control. “Innovation is at the core of our DNA and SINSA is constantly looking at how we can ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Nonprofit organizations are struggling to demonstrate the outcome of their work according to a new study conducted by Oracle NetSuite. The study, Connecting Dollars to Outcomes, which provides insights from more than 350 senior nonprofit executives in the U.S., found that while nonprofit executives believe that outcomes measurement supports their top three priorities for 2019 - financial stability, staff turnover and donor retention—only 29 percent of nonprofits are able to effectively measure the outcomes of dollars invested. “Nonprofits have consistently been challenged with measuring their impact,” said Lauren Woodman, CEO of NetHope. “As these organizations ... Read More