Oracle

When a Healthcare Information Technology leader thinks about sharing data, they may not consider Oracle solutions, but indeed, Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of only five industries designated as strategic to the future of Oracle.  The Oracle Global Business Unit is a true R & D business unit that has invested over 10 billion […]

In readying ourselves for Oracle OpenWorld 2013, we noted just how many great sessions are planned for discussing Siebel Open UI!  From panel discussions from real-world customers who have seen the benefits of Open UI adoption (How Sexy is Your Siebel), to sessions targeted to help developers take full advantage of the framework (User Experience […]

If you walk into a Chief Financial Officer’s office in the US and ask if they use “Hyperion”, the answer is likely to be “yes”. Why is this?  This solution has innovated to the level of changing the margin trajectory for ~6,000 customers across many industries by automating and innovating capacity planning and financial performance […]

There was a recent article in the NY Times with this title that captures the essence of the current costing discussion.  One-liter IV bags normally contain nine grams of salt, less than two teaspoons. Much of it comes from a major Morton Salt operation in Rittman, Ohio, which uses a subterranean salt deposit formed millions […]

The healthcare payment systems are evolving from simple pay-for-performance demonstration projects and never-event exclusions to Medicare value based purchasing, readmission restrictions, and bundled payments. Expenses also are under scrutiny and required accurate costing data. Costing systems need to be freed from the back room and become a relevant corner stone for preparing forecasts and capacity […]

60,000 people will convene to watch 3,600 partners and customers speak in sessions at Oracle OpenWorld this week. Oracle’s rockstar, chief executive Larry Ellison, kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening, highlighting a shift to “in-memory technology to speed up by as much as 100 times the databases that are the foundation of the company’s business.” Ellison presented: […]

Innovation can happen when we don’t expect it.  Big data innovation is yet to be fully realized as more data crosses the internet in a few seconds than was stored in total a few years ago. New job titles like “data scientist” are emerging around the possibilities.  This new job may be the coolest job […]

It’s that time of year again when Oracle holds its event of events…Oracle OpenWorld. Pilgrims will be descending on the Moscone center in San Francisco 1 week from today. They will network, learn, socialize and dream. Great conversations will be had, new business partnerships formed, existing ones strengthened. We’ll all be waiting with baited breath […]

Mark Polly, Sales Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog on Oracle Eloqua Topliners, an excellent tool for building communities. Marketing automation is a hot topic today, but can be very confusing.  There have been a lot of entrants to the market in the last few years, with lots of features coming online daily.  In […]

Oracle has released 6 releases of the Fusion CRM solution, and is about to launch Release 7. Each release contains additional components, features, and capabilities that support CRM processes, including Sales, Marketing, & Partner Management. In preparation for the launch of Release 7 of Fusion CRM (Sales Cloud), Oracle has hosted various webinars in the […]

Deliberate rambling is sometimes a good tool (for me at least) to flesh out and present different ideas…kind of like brainstorming. I have worked with hundreds of global organizations on the subject of customer retention, and it’s by no chance this topic continues to swirl in my brain. I consulted some long ago notes on the […]

I was recently sent a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article titled, “The Truth about Customer Experience”.  The gist of the article is that historically speaking, companies have been focused on improving touch-points, individual interactions, and in doing so, forget to focus on the cumulative experience – the end to end customer journey from purchase to […]