In today’s hyper-competitive markets, driving innovation to stay ahead of the competition relies on the ability to seize new opportunities to develop IT solutions faster and more efficiently. This Executive Brief discusses how organizations can accomplish these things by moving development of enterprise applications to the cloud by leveraging Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and in the process ...

This eBook explores the growing popularity and success of cloud ERP applications – with modern functionality but without the overhead of IT infrastructure, maintenance and upgrades. Find out how moving ERP into the cloud allows organisations to: Simplify technological requirements Realise a faster ROI Drive project success with complete portfolio visibility Subscribe to the Data ...

With application storage requirements growing at a tremendous rate, costs are skyrocketing while IT budgets are flat or declining. Today’s IT environments require storage solutions that have superior performance with lower initial and ongoing costs, along with high levels of integration between storage and application infrastructure to minimise onsite testing and improve overall performance and ...

Want to build a high-impact learning culture in your organization? This executive brief outlines the key steps in buildling an organizational culture that nurtures learning and helps employees live up to their fullest potential. Subscribe to the Executive Briefing Newsletter Discover the secrets to IT leadership success with these tips on project management, budgets, and ...

Modern organizations are under intense pressure to provide accurate, reliable, and speedy financial information to business decision-makers. Furthermore, complying with global standards has become more of a headache than ever before. How do you know if financial management in the cloud is right for you? This data sheet takes an inside look at Oracle Fusion ...

This paper explores the role of business leaders in driving talent management functions, specifically around hiring and onboarding challenges. It discusses how talent intelligence helps business leaders find better candidates faster, make better build/buy/rent decisions, decrease new hire time-to-proficiency, and decrease the number of new hires who quickly leave. Subscribe to the Executive Briefing Newsletter ...

Businesses are realizing that the cloud is the future of enterprise software and offers many attractive business benefits. But there is much to think about when evaluating the potential move to a cloud model, especially for core systems like ERP. View IDC’s WhitePaper: ERP in the Cloud and the Modern Business, written by Mike Fauscette, ...

The CFO as Technology Evangelist is a research report commissioned by Oracle and Accenture, in collaboration with Longitude Research, that explores how modern CFOs and finance executives are adopting emerging technologies within their finance functions to enable the development of new capabilities and to transform the role of finance. Subscribe to the Project Management Insider ...

This survey report by the Economist Intelligence Unit investigates whether the HR function is forging a close relationship with the CEO. It explores the nature of these working relationships, how they have been affected by the economic downturn and how they vary across industries and regions. Subscribe to the Executive Briefing Newsletter Discover the secrets ...

This year the Super Bowl and all the surrounding activity just didn’t live up to the hype. The game was a blowout, the commercials were not as strong as previous years, and the broadcast was disappointing. Despite that brands found ways to engage on social channels and extend the reach of their hefty investment. Social ...