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The August 27 edition of TechDecisions: Higher Ed includes the following article highlighting Central Washington University's (CWU) upgrade to Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 and PeopleSoft Financials 9.2. The article quotes Cole Clark, global vice president, education & research, Oracle, who discusses how the Oracle PeopleSoft solutions allow users to access applications on any device. The article also quotes Jill Hernandez, director of enterprise applications at CWU, who discusses how the upgrade improved the university's HR and finance operations.

The August 27 edition of TechDecisions: Higher Ed includes the following article highlighting Central Washington University's (CWU) upgrade to Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 and PeopleSoft Financials 9.2. The article quotes Cole Clark, global vice president, education & research, Oracle, who discusses how the Oracle PeopleSoft solutions allow users to access applications on any device. The article also quotes Jill Hernandez, director of enterprise applications at CWU, who discusses how the upgrade improved the university's HR and finance operations.

The March 7 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article focusing on rising education costs and how schools are coping with more responsibility amid anemic budgets. The article features three panelists from a range of higher education organizations, including Joy Hatch, vice chancellor for information technology services, Virginia Community College System (VCCS). She notes that VCCS has one of the largest PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Blackboard Learn implementations; by using a centralized approach, the college system can provide more services for the 23 colleges while realizing significant savings.

The March 6 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article focusing on why the admissions department is a good place to start for schools moving to the cloud. The article includes comment by Michael Statmore, Chief Information Officer, Post University, who notes that the school has partnered with cloud-based CRM provider Oracle for its online student admissions, a move that's made it far easier for the staff to "unify process and methods." He notes that with the ability to map out tasks and objectives on a central hub, the university has freed up hundreds of hours per year.

Elevating Hospitality to the Cloud By Dr. Peter Agel, Global Segment Leader Hotels, Oracle - Converting to dynamic, centralized, pay-as-you-go computing is helping hoteliers improve profitability, lower cost, and meet...

Disney Stores' Ron Johnson, speaking at the Oracle Retail Cross-Talk user conference last week in Chicago, said the new POS has created stronger in-store links to Disney's e-commerce offerings, reduced losses due to mispricing and lowered IT costs with a more centralized operational structure. In addition to traffic and sales increases, benefits include higher guest conversion rates and improved margins.

For retailers looking to succeed in today's challenging economy, a joined-up strategy between their online and store presence is the key to success, according to speakers at this year's World Retail Congress. Consumers not only use smartphones and the internet to shop but to carry out research too, while retailers can boost their instore offers by incorporating key elements from the online experience. Petah Marian reports.

Tesco CIO and CMO speak from main stage at Oracle OpenWorld. Central comments are captured here.

The November/December issue of Oracle Magazine included an article about how organizations use Oracle Exadata Database Machine for increased efficiency, private cloud solutions, consolidation, and database as a service (DBaaS). The article highlights the University of Minnesota's DBaaS implementation to create its database hotel, which it developed to provide faster, more flexible, and more efficient service to all university departments. The university has two Oracle Exadata Database Machines and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) for high availability. It also uses the Data Guard feature for disaster recovery capabilities. The university can now return registration results within seconds, even during peak registration periods, and through centralized IT, it enables departments to manage their own databases.

Forrester's authors say that its report, "The Future of Java," is not a Java obituary. Java is still dominant in the enterprise but no programming language has retained a central position through multiple platform changes. Oracle has made steps to ease th

BioPharm announced that ASCEND has been approved as an Oracle Accelerate Solution. ASCEND is a pre-configured and enhanced version of Oracle's Siebel Clinical Trial Management System, a CRM-based solution for the centralized management of global clinical

The Oct. 19 edition of Pipeline includes the following article highlighting that Oracle announced Telefonica Germany had completed its first phase implementation of Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0. The article notes that as more wireless operators absorb broadband assets in order to stake their claims in the mobile broadband space, more CSPs may trend toward centralized approaches, like this one.

The Oct. 13 edition of Connected Planet includes the following article highlighting that Telefónica Germany has gone live with the first phase of its implementation of Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0. The article notes that the objective is to streamline the order management process to unify disparate technologies that resulted from the merger of Telefonica 02 Germany and HanseNet.

"A central theme of the Oracle Industry Connect conference, held in Boston March 25-26, was "Commerce Anywhere," or the new customer experience paradigm that requires enabling the consumer to purchase products how they want, when they want and to do so in a connected, nearly seamless fashion. IT also entails delivering targeted assortments, making inventory transparent and accessible to customers and employees in real-time, and integrating the systems supporting retail operations."

Central to making each customer experience better, said Moure, is the company's recent migration to a new e-commerce platform from Oracle Commerce. The Oracle platform provides PureFormulas' marketing team with industry-leading tools to personalize the customer experience through a series of levels, from the awareness of getting a customer on to its site to adding returning customers to its loyalty program, and each step is based on insights gleaned from customer data.

Mid-market retailers face a unique combination of pressures from today's highly connected consumers. These customers seek the personalized attention and service that smaller retailers are known for, but they have also come to expect the wide product selection and expanded range of delivery options offered by the country's largest retailers. The 98-store Gordmans department store chain, celebrating its 100th year in business, faces this paradox, along with the challenge of balancing its upcoming online offerings with the brick-and-mortar stores that are still central to the business. Richard Heyman, Senior Vice President and CIO for the retailer, spoke about keys to success at the Oracle Retail Midmarket Merchandising Customer Luncheon held in conjunction with the NRF 2015 BIG Show in New York City.

The emergence of constant customer connectivity, as well as cloud platforms that eliminate the need for centralized physical infrastructure, have radically changed retailing. The enterprise is now a distributed, virtual environment where retailers are constantly receiving, analyzing and reacting to real-time customer experience data in order to deliver an optimal omnichannel experience. Core solutions still play a vital role, but are now also configured around serving the real-time needs of the customer. Jill (Puleri) Standish, senior VP and general manager of Oracle Retail, recently spoke with Chain Store Age about how retailers can best leverage cloud-based, leading-edge technologies to thrive in this new environment.