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To help their organizations succeed, CIOs need to keep up with—if not ahead of—technology trends, strategies, and best practices. C-Central for CIOs gives you the information you want and need: perspectives and analysis from global IT leaders, industry experts, technology visionaries, and peer CIOs.
Resources:
- New Executive Strategy: Economist C-Suite Perspectives: Cultivating Business-Led Innovation (PDF, 467 KB) »
- New Analyst Report: Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The Gartner 2013 CIO Agenda »
- White Paper: Data Warehousing Top trends for 2013 »
- E-Book: Oracle Optimized Data Center—Unleash the Power of IT »
Big Data and Analytics
Providing more timely, relevant, and accurate information is a top priority for CIOs and other executives looking to innovate. Many organizations in both the private and public sectors are embracing big data and business analytics as a strategic IT initiative to help move their enterprise forward.
Resources:
- Oracle Business Analytics. See More. Act Faster. »
- Meeting the Challenge of Big Data »
- White Paper: Strive for Simplicity. IT Infrastructures That Cut Through Complexity to Drive Business Benefits »
- Report: Mitigating Data Overload: CIOs Respond to the Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data »
- White Paper: Integrate for Insight: Combining Big Data Tools with Traditional Data Management »
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has gained worldwide attention as one of the most significant next-wave methodologies in the delivery and consumption of IT services. Many of its core characteristics—elastic scalability, self-service provisioning, public or private deployment options, and a pay-as-you-go usage model—are challenging CIOs to rethink many of their most fundamental data center practices.
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Integrated Systems
IT can no longer operate as just an internally focused cost center. Successful CIOs must continue improving the bottom line with more-efficient technologies and processes, and they must take a leadership role within the organization to invest those savings in innovative new technologies that drive top-line growth. An integrated, flexible IT infrastructure is essential to addressing the realities of a volatile, globally interdependent economy and capitalizing on emerging market opportunities.
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Social Business
Businesses are becoming more social every day. It's not a matter of when to become a social business, but how to become a social business. To accomplish this, CIOs need to help create engaging user experiences that integrate yesterday's enterprise applications with today's social technologies. Architected correctly, companies can solve business problems more quickly, resulting in increased innovation and greater sales.
Resources:
- Is Social Business an Evolution or a Revolution? Andy Mulholland, CTO of Capgemini, Discusses the Role of Social Business »
- Unveiling the Social Enterprise »
- Webcast: Managing Social Relationships for the Enterprise »
- Social Business and Innovation: Moving from Records to Engagement to Insight »
- Webcast: Mobile is the New Face of Engagement »
Virtualization
Virtualization started as a means of server consolidation, but IT needs are evolving as data centers are becoming service providers. An isolated hypervisor cannot provide the speed and time to market required to deploy a complete application stack. To realize the full benefits of virtualization, CIOs must look beyond simple consolidation and choose virtualization solutions that are integrated with the applications and infrastructure to create "application-driven" virtualization.
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Forbes.com Blog Posts
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New CEO Survival Guide: How to Win In A Software-Driven World
Is your company a software-driven business? It's not just semantics, it's a matter of survival, warns a new compelling report from Accenture. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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King Richard III: Villain or Tragic Victim of Identity Theft?
Was controversial King Richard III the villain Shakespeare made him out to be? Or was he laid low by mismanagement of his true identity—and character? Read this Forbes.com Post »
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Oracle Cloud Success Triggers Oracle-Derangement Syndrome
With 10,000 paying customers and 25 million users on Oracle Cloud, Oracle's showing an enormous commitment to cloud computing. So it's time for the anti-Oracle commentariat to step out of their reality-distortion field. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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Attack of the Intelligent Sewing Machines: World Gets Smarter, Faster, More Connected
The infusion of software and intelligence into formerly "dumb" devices hits the venerable sewing machine, as our consumer-driven economy accelerates the pace of business. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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Booming Sales of iPhone 5 Push Apple to #1 in US
Oracle's Bob Evans discusses Apple's surge past Samsung as the iPhone 5's popularity underscores the need for businesses to have an end-to-end mobile enterprise strategy. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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Cloud Industry Rockets Toward US$100 Billion; McKinsey Bullish
In Forbes.com, Oracle's Bob Evans discusses the McKinsey Quarterly report on protecting information in the cloud, and how economic value must be balanced against risk. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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Dear CIO: Is the Time Bomb in Your IT Budget About to Explode?
It's crunch time in the CIO's battle to push more spending away from low-value infrastructure and legacy baggage in order to fund customer-facing innovation and growth. Read this Forbes.com Post »
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The Strategic CIO Agenda 2013: Strategies, Priorities, and Career-Killers
Businesses operate in a highly volatile global environment in which technology has become inseparable from business process, customer engagement, and more. This environment requires intense involvement from CIOs. Read this Forbes.com Post »
CIO Information Matters
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New Fostering Innovation: Getting the Magic Out of IT
The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 226 executives to identify fundamental strategies and procedures that can help promote business-led innovation. Read More »
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The Complexity Conundrum: Changing the Game by Simplifying IT
CIOs are chartered with increasing automation and supporting new business ventures, yet each new project introduces another layer of complexity. Read More »
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CIOs Tune In to the Importance of Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management
Despite tremendous advancements at the application layer, nearly all IT initiatives succeed or fail based on the quality and consistency of the underlying data. Read More »
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Unveiling the Social Enterprise
Astute CIOs are combining social media and networking tools to boost productivity and enhance collaboration among employees, partners, and customers. Read More »
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Big Data, Big Opportunity
Capturing and analyzing unstructured, semistructured, and traditional enterprise data in an integrated way yields new insights that help CIOs and business executives gain a thorough understanding of their business. Read More »
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Cost and Performance Breakthrough for CIOs
Demanding workloads for demanding CIOs are powered by Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic—breakthrough new architectures that are game changers. Read More »
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Aligning IT Capabilities with Business Needs
Enterprise architecture aligns IT activities with an organization’s business strategy to grow, innovate, and respond to market demands—enabled by an IT function that is 100 percent in synch with the business. Read More »
CIO Insights Series
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CIO INSIGHTS with Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland: Part 1–Mobility and Social
Oracle SVP Bob Evans and Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland discuss mobile and social technologies.
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CIO INSIGHTS with Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland: Part 2–Vision and Business Model
Oracle SVP Bob Evans and Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland talk about how technology is changing the role of the CIO at Leap Wireless.
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CIO INSIGHTS with Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland: Part 3–Innovation
Oracle SVP Bob Evans and Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland talk about growth and the innovation cycle.
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CIO INSIGHTS with Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland: Part 4–Big Data and Business Leaders
Oracle SVP Bob Evans and Leap Wireless CTO Robert Strickland discuss a CIO's outlook on big data and its business impact.
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CIO of Grupo Abril Discusses His Company’s Transformation to a Digital Platform
Max Thomas, CIO of Grupo Abril, on the opportunities and challenges of a high-growth market and transformational business model.
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Korean Air CIO Discusses IT Transformation with Oracle’s Mark Sunday
CIO Sang Man Lee provides insights into the strategies and technologies implemented at the world’s largest cargo airline.
