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The Aug. 29 edition of Government Computer News includes the following article highlighting new Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) specifications are designed to simplify cloud infrastructure management and ensure workloads can be easily relocated among differing cloud environments. The article notes that cloud infrastructure management interface (CIMI) has broad industry support, with companies such as Oracle submitting application programming interfaces as consideration for the standard in support of CIMI v1.0.

The July 26 edition of Government Computer News includes the following article highlighting the results of Oracle Utilities' "From Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges" report. The article notes that 93 percent of the public sector executives surveyed say they are collecting and managing more business information today than two years ago. The article also notes that the public sector organizations say they lost on average 11 percent of their annual budget, or $60.5 million, as a result of not being able to fully leverage the information they collected.

Discussing the challenges and benefits various agencies and departments realize from enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite installations. The article includes comments from Wayne Bobby, vice president of Oracle's Industry Business Solutions, Oracle Pu

The Nov. 28 edition of Computer Business Review includes the following article announcing Oracle's release of Tax Analytics 2.0 for public sector enterprises. The article notes that the Oracle solution offers public sector agencies enhanced visibility into tax and revenue management operations for taking informed decisions. The article includes comments from Oracle's Mark Johnson, noting that the solution will allow public sector agencies can better understand their tax and revenue operations and make decisions that lead to better taxpayer service, improved operational efficiency and increased collections and compliance.

The Nov. 28 edition of CIO Today includes the follow article announcing Oracle's Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management Self Service solution. The article notes that the Oracle solution provides governments with a cost-effective way to become more interactive with and more responsive to the citizens. The article includes comments from Oracle's Mark Johnson, noting that the solution will ultimately strengthen the tax and revenue authority or taxpayer relationship.

Article highlighting how Oracle is positioning itself as a leading cloud service provider to federal government clients tasked with major IT initiatives that include moving to the cloud with tight or declining budgets. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan's keynote address at a government IT conference, suggesting that service-oriented model Oracle is trying to bring to its database offerings could resonate with federal clients who are being asked to undertake major IT initiatives while seeing their budgets decline. Oracle's holistic cloud offering would eliminate the multiple vendors commonly involved in cloud deployments today, a streamlining that should translate into lower costs for customers, which might particularly resonate with federal CIOs. The article also notes that Oracle announced its cloud advancements at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference.

The Aug. 12 edition of GovLoop includes the follow article highlighting five ways to improve communication between information technology (IT) professionals and the business team members. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan, Group Vice President and Chief Technologist, noting that many projects fail due to an inability for IT professionals to explain and communicate their capabilities to the business side, and for the business to communicate back to the IT side, stating their needs and requirements to have a tangible impact on the outcome. The article goes on to discuss five starter questions and suggestions on how to best improve communication among a team.