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Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. challenging the legality of the system of enforcement and adjudication established by the U.S. Department of Labor and its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for discrimination claims against government contractors. The complaint alleges that this system was not authorized by Congress or the President and contravenes statutory authorities.  Oracle’s complaint states that under the current system, claims against government contractors are not prosecuted in federal courts with a federal jury. Instead, the Department of Labor itself serves as investigator, prosecutor, judge, ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. “Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it.” ―Albert Schweitzer These sentiments underly everything we do in the Oracle Volunteering program. Every day, we support employees to design and implement projects to advance education, protect the environment, and strengthen communities. Today, we celebrate Oracle Volunteers as part of International Volunteer Day (IVD).  Established by the United Nations in 1985, IVD applauds volunteers and their commitment to serving diverse communities and causes ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. At a time when better, less expensive products and services seemingly are just a click or two away, the conventional wisdom might be that brands are less important than they once were. And that conventional wisdom would be dead wrong. Vibrant brands—and not just the biggest ones like Coke, Mack Trucks, Target, and FedEx—are more important than ever in this digital world. But with great power comes great responsibility to earn customers’ loyalty by engaging them in creative, nonintrusive, authentic, even subtle new ways. Engagement Plans Back in 2016, Samsung opened a 56,000-square-foot wonderland ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The role of the enterprise database has evolved, and its importance has increased tremendously since Oracle pioneered the technology more than four decades ago. Today's databases perform near real-time processing for the most important enterprise workloads in the world, such as at telecoms and financial institutions. They handle petabytes of data, and that data comes in many forms.At Oracle, we are bringing enterprise-grade database technology to the cloud and making it dramatically simpler and more cost effective. Now every user in enterprises of every size of can get the benefits of database technology that was ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Shruti Shukla. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for some time now. What was once an elusive technology only accessible to those with vast resources and budget is now being democratized and attainable for every organization. With prebuilt AI capabilities embedded in enterprise solutions, organizations can now benefit from AI. Organizations can process and interpret enormous volumes of data at scale in order to derive insights that power more informed business decisions and better customer experiences, all with less time, effort, and cost.Customer experiences help organizations stand out from the competition, but it's impossible ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Priya Shetty. Since the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in February 2019, customers have been getting insights at cloud scale faster than ever before. Integration to analytics engines is critical for their analytics workloads and equally important is the ability to programmatically ingest, manage, and analyze data. This ability is critical for key areas of enterprise data lakes such as data ingestion, event-driven big data platforms, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Programmatic access is possible today using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 REST APIs or Blob REST APIs. In addition, customers can ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Saket Gupta. Many customers have questions when it comes to managing cloud operations. How can I implement real-time cloud governance at scale? What’s the best way to monitor my cloud workloads? How can I get help when I need it? Azure offers a great deal of guidance when it comes to optimizing your cloud operations. At the organizational level, the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure can help you design and implement your approach to management and governance in the cloud. At the cloud resource level, Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lili Cheng. This post was co-authored by Omar Aftab, Partner Director of Program Management, Power Virtual Agents. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling organizations to improve their business in areas like customer service and employee engagement by automating some of the most commonly requested services, which frees up employees to take on more value-adding activities. While the benefits of conversational AI are well established, determining who in an organization should build these solutions is not always clear. As is true of many applications, conversational AI solutions (or bots) can be built using software-as-a-service (SaaS) or ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. 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 through multiday classes at the intersection of design thinking and STEAM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This is a guest blog post by Bella Dosovitsky, who has served as a volunteer coach in four Oracle Education Foundation classes. Bella Dosovitsky is a senior sales consultant ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By Hari Sankar, group vice president for EPM apps, Oracle Enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions should have the functional breadth and depth as well as the scalability and flexibility to address all your EPM needs across the enterprise. But this isn’t always the case, and many solutions, despite their tall claims, fall well short. It’s important to be able to identify these “EPM imposters” because otherwise, your investments will deliver sub-optimal value—due to functional gaps, undue implementation costs and risks, or both. If you are already experiencing these imposter penalties, know that it’s not difficult to switch ... Read More