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Hot Applications For SaaS In Retail Dorf agrees that the agility of data access and analysis afforded by the cloud is fueling its adoption. Leveraging SaaS-based analytics tools, he says, allows retail tech shops to move away from mundane IT tasks and refocus their efforts on real retail work. "SaaS lightens the load on IT by removing the burdens associated with backups, audits, upgrades, and security management. Business insight afforded by SaaS-based analytics tools affords retailers a really good understanding of the data they already have," says Dorf. "As we add more analytics capabilities via the cloud, we can grant that access more quickly via automatic upgrades, which dramatically reduces the retailer's time to value." Because these tools are offered in a pay-only- for-what-you-use style fashioned after the utilities model, retailers can strategically and incrementally build on their data analytics initiatives at their own pace. "Retailers have been sitting on a lot of Big Data for a long time. SaaS-based analytics applies 'Big Science' to that Big Data, allowing merchants to finally extract value from it," says Dorf.

With the addition of Oracle Retail Insights and Oracle Retail Science, Oracle is now a "one-stop cloud shop"; with 17 different software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud offerings available for large and mid-size retailers, explained David Dorf, Senior Director of Solutions Management in an exclusive interview with Retail TouchPoints. ..."The SaaS offerings are much more affordable for mid-tier retailers, in part because they are paying for what they use," Dorf noted. "We are now able to avail cloud science to smaller retailers."

SaaS will be the norm. Pretty much all systems are already available in this format and most hotels are very comfortable using them - except for PMS. Sometimes this is for psychological reasons of personal comfort with having the data on premise; sometimes there's a genuine difficulty in obtaining reliable, cost-effective communications links. Nonetheless, I am certain this objection will fade over time. Oracle in particular has announced that it will only sell the new version 9 of Opera on a remotely hosted basis, setting the tone for the rest of the industry. Less customization. The age of expecting major PMS vendors to agree to significant enhancements for individual hotels is over. The smaller vendors will probably continue to do so, but it's not feasible for the larger ones. We don't expect Microsoft or Apple to customize their systems for us when we're ready to buy something new, we just adapt to what they offer. The same's true for Oracle, Infor and the other major PMS vendors; their systems are powerful and flexible enough to be useful in most situations. If you want something very specific you'll always be able to find a vendor who'll customize its system for you, just as you can run your own PC on Linux configured just the way you want it, but mainstream will be good enough for most.

...The new tool, built for the Oracle Public Cloud, is part of Oracle's Customer Experience (CX) applications portfolio. "It's rare that a retailer just wants to discuss commerce by itself," Ian Davis, senior director of product management for Oracle Commerce, told Chain Store Age. "They want to discuss social media, marketing, customer service and sales." Oracle Commerce Cloud's SaaS infrastructure allows online businesses to launch responsive storefronts across desktop and mobile devices. Pre-integrated core commerce features include search / navigation, recommendations, promotions, reporting, payments, design templates and SEO. A unified experience management console enables catalog, content, design and merchandising management. Responsive design and HTML5 user interfaces let users build additional functionality or develop integrations that connect Commerce Cloud with other systems while also allowing consumption for third-party development efforts. "We use an API-first development approach," said Davis. "Exposing APIs makes the solution easy to use." Davis also commented on Commerce Cloud's capabilities to seamlessly fit into retailers' business-to-business efforts, as well as their business-to-consumer markets....

The Sept. 2 edition of Channelnomics includes the following article highlighting that the U.S. Department of Defense granted Oracle an Authority to Operate with its selection of Oracle Service Cloud. The article quotes David Vap, group vice president of Oracle Service Cloud, who discusses how the Oracle Service Cloud will provide government agencies with improved efficiency and security.

The Sept. 2 edition of Channelnomics includes the following article highlighting that the U.S. Department of Defense granted Oracle an Authority to Operate with its selection of Oracle Service Cloud. The article quotes David Vap, group vice president of Oracle Service Cloud, who discusses how the Oracle Service Cloud will provide government agencies with improved efficiency and security.

Joe Panettieri wrote this article while he was en route to interview Oracle Channel Chief Judson Althoff and Kevin O'Brien, senior director of Oracle's ISV and SaaS strategy. The goal of his interview is to learn if we'll see Oracle get more aggressive ab

Oracle is focusing squarely on retail agility with the latest additions to its comprehensive set of retail cloud solutions. ..."Retailers can react to the market a lot faster," said David Dorf, senior director of product strategy at Oracle Retail, during a phone briefing with Chain Store Age. "Retailers do not have to focus on mundane IT tasks, but the retail business itself. They can also obtain access to more features and functions faster, with automatic upgrades in the cloud."

The dawn of cloud-based retail as a service (RaaS) platforms, such as Oracle's new suite of Oracle Retail cloud services, enables retailers to use the cloud to manage everything from inventory and e-commerce to customer engagement and order fulfillment.

The Sydney-based company wanted an automated system that would enable it to reach as many customers as possible but grow revenue at the lowest possible cost. Priava chose Oracle to develop an on-demand software delivery service using Oracle WebLogic Serve