Forward to a Friend For you this week: This week we learn about a new chatbot, dubbed Holly, now handling nearly 40% of a package delivery company’s customer support queries. Also, Oracle lays out a new vision for its own cloud analytics products, and we meet three companies betting very big on cloud apps. — Chris Murphy, Oracle  How Cloud Apps Can Future-Proof Operations In September 2017, Sportable Scoreboard went all-in on cloud applications, from financials to sales to manufacturing. Now sales reps for the scoreboard manufacturer can track new opportunities, log new quote requests, and merge the quotes with existing accounts in near real time without creating duplicate records as they did in the past. Two more companies getting ahead with the cloud.  How to Put Analytics in Business Users’ Hands Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing are among the technologies in the simplified Oracle Analytics product line that will “result in a dramatic reduction of human effort, putting analytics directly in the hands of business users,” said Oracle’s T.K. Anand, discussing a new, customer-centric vision for Oracle Analytics.  Stop Email Hackers Before Your Employees Start Clicking Email-based phishing is the most common type of cybersecurity attack, experienced by 27% of the respondents in “Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019.” FireEye has long been offering tools to detect such attacks with sophisticated email filtering that subjects messages to a battery of tests. And now the software is available as a cloud service hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Meet Holly: A Digital Assistant Handling 38% of Chat Volume Last fall the fast-growing package delivery company Hermes launched a digital assistant named Holly to “manage routine interactions quickly and effectively,” says Chris White, director of customer experience at Hermes. Seven months later, Holly is handling 38% of all chat volume—helping customers track shipments, change delivery orders, update account preferences, and more—and Hermes has reduced the number of support interactions that require a human by 30%.  Get Started Oracle Cloud Trial: Get Up To 3,500 Hours Free Oracle CloudFest: Celebrate with John Mayer Dummies Ebook: Becoming a Talent Magnet Manager Events Oracle Cloud Test Drive August 13 | New York Register Oracle Code One 2019 September 16–19 | San Francisco Register Oracle OpenWorld 2019 September 16–19 | San Francisco Register Hands-on Workshop: Oracle Experience Autonomous Cloud October 30 | Dublin, Ireland Register Get Cloud Leader newsletter every week. Subscribe Stay Connected

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