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By Betsy Burton Oracle’s CloudWorld 2024 Announcements This week at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Oracle unveiled a series of enhancements to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) distributed cloud, aiming to strengthen its
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Oracle’s Leap into Generative AI with HeatWave GenAI
By Betsy Burton Oracle's Leap into Generative AI with HeatWave GenAI Oracle recently introduced HeatWave GenAI, an integrated platform that combines generative artificial intelligence with its existing HeatWave in-memory
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure—Powering Bing Conversational Search
By: Craig Kennedy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure—Powering Bing Conversational Search Yesterday, November 7, Oracle announced it had entered into a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to utilize Oracle Cloud
August 31, 2012
IBM Shifts into HCM Software and Buys Kenexa for $1.26 Billion
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge, Social Software Issues: How will enterprises take advantage of new ways to share knowledge and expertise? What are the best p
February 25, 2012
HCM -Talent Go Cloud, Windows 8 and iPad 3
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of
February 9, 2012
HCM and Talent Merger Wars Claim More Victims
By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than 60 days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete talent/HCM suite. T
December 21, 2011
Salesforce buys Rypple, Signals Move into HCM
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On December 15th, Salesforce announced that it was buyin
December 3, 2011
Tech Titan SAP buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
Announced on a Saturday, this deal signifies that the Tech Titans may be loosening their purse strings to make acquisitions that help them with long term growth (see a related Aragon Research First Cut on SuccessFac
November 1, 2011
Talent and HCM Part II: Saba Partners with Workday
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On October 25th, Saba announced that it was entTalent and HCM Part I: Cornerstone OnDemand Partners with Workday
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On October 24th, Cornerstone announced that it was entering
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