| |  | |  | | - 8 Tough Social Strategy Questions for Your CEO
Oracle Social Spotlight blog: "If we start social channels for our brand, where will the content come from? You wouldn't start a TV station without knowing where the shows to put on it will come from. But that's what CEO's are doing with social channels." - The Top 10 Cloud Innovations In Federal Government
Agencies are deploying commercial cloud services, private clouds, shared clouds, and hybrid clouds and they're using new policies, processes, and tools to scale clouds to the vast size and unique requirements of the US government. Not everything has gone smoothly, but with dozens of clouds now deployed across the government, there's no doubting the progress. - Fast Data Technology Narrows Gap Between Reporting and Action
New technologies and intelligent devices are generating more and more data every second. And business decision-makers need to find ways to manage this huge information influx and quickly analyze and act on the information in real time. Until now, this has been a tall order. - HCM Triple Play: Oracle Debuts Three New Products
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to maximizing customer investment in human capital management applications, Oracle unveiled three new releases: Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2, Oracle Taleo Social Sourcing Cloud Service, and Oracle Taleo Business Edition Cloud Service. - Subscribe to Profit Online's RSS Feed
 | |  | |  |  |  | | - Special Report: Project Management
On June 13, Oracle executives will host the fourth annual Primavera Virtual Summit. Find out how to register for the summit. Plus, read about Oracle's latest enhancements to its Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solutions, and get advice from other executives who are using project management technology to drive their companies forward. - Energy Efficiency
To design, build, and deploy the world's most-efficient solar energy systems, managers at Amonix must maintain a streamlined global supply chain. - Dashboard View
As Fiat maneuvers beyond Italy, new analytics help steer managers in the right direction. - Miles Ahead
Southwest Airlines reaps big rewards, transforming a successful frequent flyer program into a superior customer experience. - Innovation and the CIO: 5 Great Ideas
From Oracle Senior Vice President Bob Evans: “Today's dynamic business environment calls for the CIO to step forward cheerfully and confidently to take on the additional (and unofficial) role of Chief Acceleration Officer, taking responsibility for finding ways to speed up everything from financial closings to product-development cycles to customer-feedback loops.” - Five Ideas: Growth
In April, Oracle announced the new release of the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System. Here, read about this latest release, plus hear from Oracle experts about solutions that can help executives plan for growth, report with confidence and accelerate time to value. - Special Report: Customer Experience
According to the results of a recent Oracle survey, 62 percent of B2B e-commerce professionals said that they have a customer experience program in place, and 25 percent plan to implement one in 2013. | Q+A Steve Miranda, executive vice president of application development at Oracle “The acquisitions have really bolstered our development efforts. When you bring in talented people through acquisitions, you get good ideas from a lot of places. And these ideas have affected our cloud technologies as well as our on-premises solutions.” Kaiser Fung, statistician, blogger and Numbersense author “Executives are one of the biggest consumers of big data...They need to actually understand what their people are showing them and make smarter decisions about what data analysis can be trusted.” Viewpoint Gwen Shapira, solutions architect at Cloudera and an Oracle ACE Director “While each company creates data products specific to its own requirements and goals, some of steps in the value chain are consistent across organizations.” Suneth Jayawardhane, senior director of insight and customer strategy at Oracle “Recent growth in available data and statistical analysis tools has improved the role of predictive analytics.With four steps, managers can position themselves to reap the benefits.” | |  | |  |  |  | |  |