Oracle pushes into database as a service

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	Oracle pushes into database-as-a-service Oracle has hyped its new 12c database as faster and more powerful than ones that have come before, and now it's highlighting the release's ability to easily serve up multiple databases of varying size and scope according to a particular user's needs. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Enterprise IT Innovation Forum: 2013 to 2020 Join us for a virtual event featuring noted author Geoffrey Moore and SAP CIO Michael Golz to discuss the number one challenge facing senior business leaders today – how to embrace the emerging "Systems of Engagement." View Now In this Issue Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services Microsoft sharpens Office 365 BI tool to slice and dice data Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy Internet sales tax software will be costly to implement Microsoft's SkyDrive stumbles, becomes latest glitchy cloud app Google fixes lengthy, widespread Gmail malfunction SAP HANA isn't 'even comparable' to Oracle's in-memory technology, Hurd says Oracle's 'big data' push gets even bigger Rob Walker: Using predictive analytics to make your data actionable (part 1) How EDA Used Big Data Analytics to Drive SaaS Revenue WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices Businesses pay an increasingly high price when it comes to mobile app failure. This paper offers proactive steps to: - Accurately measure an app's performance – downloads don't cut it - Design, develop and test for mobile app performance - Deploy preventive maintenance to reduce failure - Calculate the cost of mobile app failure Read more! Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services Oracle is offering a series of new services that position it as a one-stop shop for all things cloud and directly target the likes of Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com. Read More Microsoft sharpens Office 365 BI tool to slice and dice data Microsoft has added features to Power BI for Office 365, a data analysis tool to complement Excel that the company hasn't yet released in final form. Read More Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy Citrix updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform -- which is based off the Apache CloudStack project -- can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds. Read More Internet sales tax software will be costly to implement Software to help small businesses comply with an U.S. Internet sales tax would cost many businesses tens of thousands of dollars to roll out and nearly as much to maintain each year, according to a study released by opponents of the proposed tax. Read More Microsoft's SkyDrive stumbles, becomes latest glitchy cloud app Another day, another cloud app gets stung by a bug. Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service began malfunctioning on Tuesday afternoon, a day after Google's Gmail got tripped by a network breakdown. Read More WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! Google fixes lengthy, widespread Gmail malfunction A Gmail glitch that took about 10 hours to fix and hit close to 50% of the webmail service's users has been fixed, ending one of the longest, most widespread Gmail disruptions in years. Read More SAP HANA isn't 'even comparable' to Oracle's in-memory technology, Hurd says While SAP has made no secret of its desire to lure customers running Oracle databases over to its own HANA in-memory platform, any doubt that Oracle would fight back has been erased. Read More Oracle's 'big data' push gets even bigger Oracle is doubling down on "big data" with a number of new products and enhancements to existing ones, in hopes that customers looking to analyze massive amounts of information for business insights will in turn invest further in Oracle. Read More Rob Walker: Using predictive analytics to make your data actionable (part 1) If we were able to predict the future, we would be able read the minds of our customers and know exactly what they wanted.  The closest we can get to this supernatural ability is utilizing predictive analytics to tap into the hidden treasures that reside in big data that every organization is wrestling with nowadays.  Read More How EDA Used Big Data Analytics to Drive SaaS Revenue Faced with the challenge of converting subscribers to a new platform while implementing a price increase, Equipment Data Associates turned to Scout Analytics to provide the data analytics it needed to better understand and serve its customers. Read More
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