Oracle's integration strategy: Customer trade-offs
Oracle OpenWorld opened today in San Francisco, showcasing the company's efforts to integrate its diverse product line and make life simpler for customers.
Oracle OpenWorld opened today in San Francisco, showcasing the company's efforts to integrate its diverse product line and make life simpler for customers.
In Oracle's legal battle with Montclair State University, many of the issues revolve around working relationships, communication, and poor collaboration.
From bumble bee-shaped chocolates to signs placed through the conference hall, Oracle is showcasing its Beehive collaboration platform at OpenWorld.Oracle's collaboration vision underscores the growing importance of enterprise 2.
Oracle's innovative Social CRM product joins social networking with true enterprise features such as reliability, security management, and scalability. Given the different skill sets and perspectives required to build consumer and enterprise software, Oracle's ability to combine both into a single package is a significant achievement.
Will you jump for joy to learn that Oracle has raised prices 15%-20% across major product lines? SAP fans shouldn't feel left out, since that company has increased support costs by 5%.
I'm in San Francisco attending Oracle OpenWorld, the company's annual user conference. I'd love to meet readers of this blog to discuss your experiences with IT projects.
Over the last year, I've railed against Oracle for its arrogance in the face of major project failures. We're talking world-class, spit-in-your-face arrogance here.
Big4Guy describes costs when implementing SAP or Oracle. The cost elements he describes more or less hold true when implementing any enterprise software, not just big ERP systems.
From an interview in Computerworld with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software: Some SAP and Oracle accounts acquired Lawson for some of their divisions simply because they don’t want the incumbent vendor to dictate the future terms of business to them and for them to have all their apples in one basket. They want to keep their primary vendor honest.
Three years and $18 million later, the city of Philadelphia has temporarily stopped work on Project Ocean, “the most complex and biggest IT system in [Philadelphia’s] government.” The project was slated to be completed in one year, at a cost of $7 million.