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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. Oracle’s user base grows. Oracle did have results to brag about, in terms of growing its cloud user base.

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DevOps Momentum Builds at Oracle CloudWorld 2022

Flexagon

In October we were excited to be back at Oracle’s main annual event, now under a new name as Oracle CloudWorld. It was nothing less than exhilarating to engage with existing customers, prospective customers, partners, and members of the Oracle team in business and social settings. Cloud, Cloud, and Multi-Cloud .

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What Microsoft wanted from a TikTok deal, and why its bid for the hit social video app didn’t pan out

GeekWire

Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison, left, is looking to make the company a “trusted technology partner” to TikTok after ByteDance turned down an acquisition bid from Walmart and Microsoft, led by Satya Nadella, right. Oracle and GeekWire File Photos). 8 report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

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Why this Oracle exec turned to academia to help climb the cloud career ladder

GeekWire

In January 2018, Alfred became senior director of compute operations at Oracle in Bellevue, Wash., Moving from engineering into management jobs with fiscal responsibility, and work in the cloud particularly, Alfred wanted to better speak the language of the new roles. Oracle Photo). Your preferred social network?

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Oracle’s ME employee experience suite targets workforce challenges

CIO Business Intelligence

In response to the pandemic and the resultant Great Resignation , Oracle has launched a new employee experience platform, dubbed Oracle ME, under its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) suite to help enterprises with workforce challenges such as attrition. The end game is more use of Oracle.

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Microsoft’s bid for TikTok rejected by ByteDance as reports name Oracle the winner of modified deal

GeekWire

Oracle is now the only other company reportedly involved in acquisition negotiations. The Wall Street Journal and NBC News reported late Sunday that Oracle won the bid, though the company has not officially commented. Oracle is reportedly working with TikTok’s existing U.S. Sure, it seems unusual to have Oracle run TikTok.

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Ascend 2022 Highlights from Flexagon

Flexagon

In addition to the exhibit hall, sessions, and dinners, the conference party at The Jewel was fantastic and included dancing and socializing that harkens back to the good old days. Oracle EBS continues to be strategic investment. With Oracle continuing to provide support for EBS for the next 10+ years, there’s no dead end in sight.

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