Chris Preimesberger

As we start to wind down 2019 and look ahead to the new year and decade, three key trends will be leading the way into the future of IT: edge computing, data fabrics and composable infrastructures. All will gain more importance as IT systems get faster, more sophisticated and easier for line-of-business employees to use. […]

Adaptive Insights (a Workday company), business planning and management Company description: Founded in 2003, Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, is powering a new generation of business planning. Driving business agility in a fast-moving world, Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud helps people in companies to collaborate, gain insights and make smarter decisions, faster. It offers powerful modeling […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle is sharing its business intelligence wealth with a wide selection of enterprise apps. It announced Sept. 17 at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 the availability of its first Oracle Analytics for Applications offering. The package is designed for the Fusion Cloud enterprise resource planning applications (Oracle ERP Cloud) that companies use to run their financial […]

SAN FRANCISCO—When Microsoft changed CEOs in February 2014 and decided to go into cahoots with Linux developers and the open source community, it represented a major breakthrough in the IT business. Then in late 2018, IBM announced that it would acquire Red Hat (the deal closed for $34 billion on July 9), ending a lot […]

SAN FRANCISCO—If Oracle didn’t have use of the terms “fastest ever,” “autonomous,” “acceleration” and “flexible,” co-founder and Chief Technical Officer Larry Ellison wouldn’t be able to describe anything his company creates. As each generation of databases, connective middleware, business-critical applications and new cloud services takes its turn at bat and then either gets a hit […]

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Technology professionals are the superheroes of today’s organizations. They play a critical role in operating successful, modern businesses and providing end users with the exceptional customer experience they’ve come to expect. Next week we can celebrate National IT Pro Day by not only giving tech pros the recognition they deserve but also by supporting them […]

Selecting a networking monitoring service provider isn’t a trivial pursuit. There seem to be a million dots to connect—or ignore—when determining what an enterprises really needs when it comes to 24/7 security and control of its data networks. There are an estimated 200 companies competing in this space in a market now worth about $1.9 […]

Machine learning helps organizations handle the truth by enabling them to create an accurate data model from among huge stores of data and then build processes that are constantly improving through input from the community. This is easier said than done, however, because today’s ML tools ecosystem is incredibly complex, and organizations often don’t have […]

Oracle is well known for lots of things—among them databases, enterprise software and services, cloud applications and so on—but the company has never been connected very closely with video. Until now, that is. Oracle already has database, marketing, development and business-application clouds; as of Sept. 5 it now has its own video cloud. Oracle and […]