Global investment bank builds a cloud foundation

Week of August 30, 2021

Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, finds a firm foundation for growth in the cloud. Oracle helps brands fight COVID-19 and conspiracy disinformation. A startup uses AI to minimize potentially fatal heart attack misdiagnoses. Also: Moving to Java 17 may be easier than you think.

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“Everywhere we turn, automation is allowing us to manage a much larger organization at a cost point that is not changing.”

—Allen Fazio, Chief Information Officer, Houlihan Lokey

Building a growth platform

Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey invested in a cloud ERP system to provide finance automation to support rapid international growth. But first the IT and accounting teams needed close collaboration to get the software running.

Disinformation protection

COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy content costs lives. Oracle is working with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) to help major brands avoid becoming unwitting collaborators with sites peddling disinformation across many topics.

Startup saving lives

Utkars Jain’s grandfather died when paramedics misdiagnosed his chest pains as a heart attack, wrongly giving him blood thinners that proved fatal. Jain cofounded HEARTio to reduce such fatal errors in the future by diagnosing heart attacks using AI.

Make innovation matter

The world has enough social media platforms. Companies in the Oracle for Startups program are tackling real-world needs such as food security, cervical cancer diagnostics, racial justice in education, and environmental sustainability, writes Oracle’s Jason Williamson in Crunchbase.

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