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The March 2014 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article on how universities use constituent relationship management (CRM) tools to support more organized, timely, and personalized student recruitment and retention. The article highlights Valdosta State University's use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Endeca as the user interface for data analysis. The story includes comments from an interview with Andy Clark, vice president for enrollment management, Valdosta State University, who notes that the system helps faculty and staff identify at-risk students. The article also includes comments from an interview with Brian Haugabrook, chief information officer, Valdosta State University, who notes that the university can push important resources to at-risk students through its web portal - and that the school is seeing a resulting spike in tutoring center use earlier rather than later.

The March 2014 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article on how universities use constituent relationship management (CRM) tools to support more organized, timely, and personalized student recruitment and retention. The article highlights Valdosta State University's use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Endeca as the user interface for data analysis. The story includes comments from an interview with Andy Clark, vice president for enrollment management, Valdosta State University, who notes that the system helps faculty and staff identify at-risk students. The article also includes comments from an interview with Brian Haugabrook, chief information officer, Valdosta State University, who notes that the university can push important resources to at-risk students through its web portal - and that the school is seeing a resulting spike in tutoring center use earlier rather than later.

Highlighting an interview with Bastian Fischer, vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities discussing why smart grids are the intelligent choice. The interview touches on the business case and costs associated with smart grids, the policies that can help optimize smart grids as well as lessons learned from emerging economies leapfrogging to smart grid systems.

The Nov. 12 edition of Business Green includes the following interview with Oracle Utilities' Rodger Smith. The article discusses how Smith ended up in his current position, his personal interest in sustainable development, green technologies that will revolutionize the global economy and more.

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

In his weekly entry, The VAR Guy mentioned his tardiness was due to other several pieces of big news - including a multi-part interview with Oracle Channel Chief Judson Althoff, who revealed some surprises in a Jan. 27 interview.

The September/October issue of Electric Energy T&D includes the following interview with Oracle Utilities' Rodger Smith on the future of the smart grid and improving operational efficiency and customer service with big data and analytics.

The June 9 edition of Computerworld includes the following article based on an interview with Brian Haugabrook, interim CIO, Valdosta State University, on how the university plans to implement an effective IT operation that will provide officials more ways to reach out to students who are at risk of failing.  The article further discusses the university's decision to implement Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Application Express and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery to help support its plan to improve student retention and success. The article notes that since implementation of these tools, the university has seen an increase in retention rates and passing grades.

The June 9 edition of Computerworld includes the following article based on an interview with Brian Haugabrook, interim CIO, Valdosta State University, on how the university plans to implement an effective IT operation that will provide officials more ways to reach out to students who are at risk of failing.  The article further discusses the university's decision to implement Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle Application Express and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery to help support its plan to improve student retention and success. The article notes that since implementation of these tools, the university has seen an increase in retention rates and passing grades.

The April 28 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes the following article highlighting the open-source software market in higher education, with a focus on the Kuali Foundation.  The article includes comment based on an interview with Mark Armstrong, vice president for higher education product development, Oracle, who notes that when building an ERP-scale product via open-source, it is really difficult to sustain long term.  Additionally, the article further discusses that Oracle remains a big supporter of community-sourced projects and that Kuali has produced interesting and creative work, challenging the notion that the ERP marketplace lacks competition and that for-profit vendors mercilessly bilk colleges.

The April 28 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes the following article highlighting the open-source software market in higher education, with a focus on the Kuali Foundation.  The article includes comment based on an interview with Mark Armstrong, vice president for higher education product development, Oracle, who notes that when building an ERP-scale product via open-source, it is really difficult to sustain long term.  Additionally, the article further discusses that Oracle remains a big supporter of community-sourced projects and that Kuali has produced interesting and creative work, challenging the notion that the ERP marketplace lacks competition and that for-profit vendors mercilessly bilk colleges.

Highlighting an interview with Guerry Waters, vice president for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities, and Stephan Scholl, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities discussing the evolution of the electric utility industry specifically fo

Video interview with Guerry Waters, vice president for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities, discussing the major challenges, threats and opportunities facing power industry from game changing developments. Waters notes that Congress, the Obama Administra

In a No Jitter interview, Doug Suriano, SVP and GM, gives a preview of his morning keynote, shares strategic vision.

In a No Jitter interview, Doug Suriano, SVP and GM, gives a preview of his morning keynote, shares strategic vision.

The Times ran a Monday Manifesto interview with Stefano Pessina from Alliance Boots and referenced The Oracle Retail Week Awards.

The May 2013 edition of Business Officer includes an article highlighting the increase in institutions moving to responsibility center management (RCM). The article highlights several universities using RCM including the University of Florida who abandoned their traditional incremental budgeting in 2011 because it lacked transparency and didn't provide the incentives or resources to grow, change, or shrink programs. The article includes comment based off the interview with Matthew Fajack, vice president and chief financial officer and Sheri Austin, assistant vice president and director of university budgets. Matthew noted the university achieved its goal on the transparency side allowing people to now understand their costs and where revenues come from. Sheri further explained that RCM isn't the culprit in dwindling budgets but rather state appropriations that prompted budget cuts. The article notes that since RCM was implemented, all of the responsibility centers at the university have been able to meet the budget or, come very close.

"When large scale disasters happen, it can trigger web site volumes on a scale similar to what retailers experience on Black Friday," said Craig Oldham, VP of Digital Strategy for American Red Cross, in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. 

Retailers are increasingly due to the continuing proliferation of social media platforms with new challenges. The culture that surrounds customers, but has a strong influence on how social media channels can be used when shopping. The Oracle identified in the study "The Evolution of retailing experience." 3,577 consumers were interviewed at ages 18 to 60 years from Brazil, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Russia and the United States on the role and use of technology in the retail process.

During the interview, Belk broke down how the $600 million, allocated for the 2011-2014 period, is being spent. "We are investing in IT in a very significant way - $210 million is going into new capabilities. It's a 27-month journey," Belk said, citing the installation of a new Oracle enterprise system, including demand forecasting, merchandising financial planning and size optimization. Another $270 million is allocated for new stores; expansions; remodels, from full-store renovations to department redos, and higher ad spending, with about 10 percent for branding, while still being promotional.

Results of an Oracle Utilities survey released this morning show that electric utilities in Canada and the US are only in the early stages of putting smart meter data good use. But they could be doing a better job of using the data they are collecting. The survey was of 151 utility executives in Canada and the United States. The study, Utility Transformations - Big Data, Bigger Opportunities: Plans and Preparedness for the Data Deluge, shows that utilities on both sides of the 49th Parallel are collecting significantly more interval data from smart meters. The frequency at which they are gathering smart meter data is 180 times more than in the past - every four hours compared to once a month. And the vast majority of them are collecting information such as outage and voltage data. Linda Jackman, group VP of industry strategy for Oracle Utilities, tells Canadian Green Tech in an interview that despite the improvement on the data collection front, utilities aren't using the data as effective as they could be. She was surprised to find utilities collecting certain types of data, but then not using that data to inform business decisions. According to the results, 78% of utilities surveyed are collecting outage data with 59% of them using, meaning nearly 20% aren't correlating outage data with customer communications as an example. For voltage data, the levels are 73% and 57%, respectively. "In outage and voltage data, the fact that everybody is not collecting that data, I think is surprising. You've rolled out a smart meter and you're not collecting outage data when it has the ability to talk to you around outage data? Why am I not collecting it? But then only 60% of them are using it once they have collected it, I think is also surprising," says Jackman. "So what we're seeing is that utilities are still in this very early stage and very formative stage of collecting the data but actually don't know what [they're] going to do with

The October 2013 edition of University Business included an article highlighting the use of social media for retention. It discusses how students use social media more than email to communicate. Further, it notes that while some campus leaders are committing to their social media programs, others are still treating social media as an afterthought. The article includes comment from an interview with Drew Melendres, vice president of student affairs and enrollment management at Metropolitan State University, who notes that his institution wants to prevent cognitive dissonance with students. Drew also notes that the more students stay engaged, the more likely they will stay enrolled. The article also looks at how social media can be taken from online to in-person interactions. The article also cites Oracle as a resource