In a new research report, Agile Finance Unleashed, over 700 senior finance executives globally tracked their progress towards digital transformation. What were the headline results? And how are the market leaders creating future-ready organisations though finance? Oracle’s Nick Jackson explains…

A new era of Industry 4.0, smart cars, smart cities and smart everything is dawning, powered by new and advanced technologies such as cloud, AI, 5G and IoT. We’re standing at the brink of a colossal new B2B revenue opportunity for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) with an estimated global worth of $736 billion over the ...

If a network, identity, device or data is valuable – particularly if it is information tied to intellectual property, financials, sensitive files, critical infrastructure or political leverage – then cybercriminals will identify, target and ruthlessly attack. And no matter what size your organisation, defending against such threats is tough. Skilled staff are expensive, and complex ...

Steward, operator, strategist, catalyst: today’s finance leaders must wear many hats, concerned with everything from maximising shareholder value, creating corporate agility and adjusting to a rapidly changing regulatory environment. To be successful, they must enable their department and the larger organisation to run agile, frictionless operations, so they can adapt and scale while ensuring compliance ...

In January 2019, Oracle and the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants released a report entitled Agile Finance Unleashed: the Key Traits of Digital Finance Leaders. The study of more than 700 global finance leaders found a clear correlation between technology adoption and revenue growth – but revealed only 10% of finance leaders believe their teams ...

Whether you think innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration or more evenly balanced, there’s no doubting it is a real competitive advantage. When executed. In this short video, Bask Iyer, CIO and GM for Edge Computing/IOT for Dell Technologies & VMware, explains five reasons why hybrid cloud delivers the execution of innovation.

A multi-cloud approach is the reality for most organisations – multiple vendors, multiple environments, multiple use cases. Forrester suggests that more than 50% of global enterprises relied on at least one public cloud platform to drive digital transformation and delight customers in 2018. But multiple clouds add complexity and cost. So how are businesses approaching ...

A critical challenge for today’s marketers is that traditional approaches to content creation – and the formats used to showcase and distribute ideas, messages and expertise – haven’t kept pace with the need to deliver meaningful and verifiable performance. Demonstrating the value of your content efforts remains tough; improving on that value even tougher. What is needed ...

Time with the customer is precious; understanding quickly what they like and don’t like is key to the success of any visit, physical or virtual. So how do we provide the strongest possible omnichannel customer journey? In-store, how do we understand their movement, buying trends, and habits? How do we turn this information into opportunity ...

Consumers are changing manufacturing forever. What does this mean for the companies on the coal face of manufacturing? How can smart manufacturing help, how do you organise for the change, and what do successful smart manufacturers all know, and all do? Fujitsu’s Head of Manufacturing EMEIA, Ravi Krishnamoorthi, explains.