Oracle has announced the availability of its first cloud region in Africa to meet the rapidly growing demand for enterprise cloud services on the continent. The Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region will boost cloud adoption across [c]
Oracle and Cerner have jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire Cerner through an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. Cerner is a provider of digital [c]
Customers across Africa are ramping up use of mobile communications services including voice, messaging, data, and mobile banking. To meet this demand as it expands into the Angola market, Africell has selected Oracle Communications converged [c]
Oracle has announced that the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) has partnered with Oracle for Startups to support the technology business ecosystem in Lagos State, Nigeria. The partnership will create entrepreneurship solutions, training, and upskilling [c]
By Yaldah Hakim Rashid It’s an understatement to say the global pandemic accelerated the pace of change and altered our lives – from the way we work to the way we interact with others. Many [c]
At a time when businesses have found themselves facing rapidly evolving circumstances almost every month, one South African company has turned to the cloud to ensure business continuity, drive innovation and keep its team strength [c]
By Rik De Deyn Even more than before COVID-19, customers require personal digital experiences from their banks, and European banks see the cloud as an important driver to boost digital innovation. But banks are risk-aware [c]
HomeChoice Holdings, one of South Africa’s largest home shopping retailers and financing providers, has deployed Oracle Retail planning and optimization solutions to drive more sales and enhance the customer experience. With integrated data science, retail solutions give [c]
Oracle has announced major updates to Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to help organizations continue to deliver a positive employee experience while meeting the evolving demands of today’s workplace. The new products and features [c]
Oracle has been picked to become TikTok’s secure cloud technology provider. The technical decision by TikTok was heavily influenced by Zoom’s recent deal to move a large portion of its video conferencing capacity to the [c]
By Baljeet Nagi With the disrupted supply chains of today in the spotlight, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has transformed as a consideration, moving from a “behind the scenes” organisational role to a prime driver of company business. [c]
Building on the success of its Exadata Cloud@Customer service over the last three years, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. This new offering combines the latest Oracle Database with the [c]
By George Ferreira The recent months have likely been the biggest challenge for all organisations across the continent. With almost no warning, millions of businesses – indiscriminate of size or stature – suddenly went from [c]
Over the past few years, several global experts and organisations have reiterated that today’s students upon completing their education will be doing jobs that don’t even exist today. Technology is evolving at breakneck speed, and [c]
By Tamer Farouk There is something remarkable about the African continent, the scarcity and complexity brings light to innovation and invention. Within the challenges of infrastructure resides the potential of technology and organisational agility. As [c]
By Baljeet Nagi For many enterprises, their siloed, traditional Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems are proving to be their Achilles’ heel when trying to operate in unprecedented circumstances, preventing business continuity and resilience. Consider this in [c]
By Baljeet Nagi With the disrupted supply chains of today in the spotlight, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has transformed as a consideration, moving from a “behind the scenes” organisational role to a prime driver of company [c]
By Ibrahim Abduba) Within an enterprise, a wholesale culture shift is needed for digitalisation to take hold and be used to its full efficiency-boosting potential It has been said over and over by a multitude [c]
By Ibrahim Abduba It has been said over and over by a multitude of business systems experts. One of the greatest barriers to digital transformation is not technological. It is human resistance to change. Within [c]
By Eric Domski and Ryan Sumrak Disruptions can come in many sizes. From those smaller, everyday disruptions of machines going down, unexpected orders, suppliers missing, or shorting shipments – issues businesses deal with every day, every week, every [c]
By Ronnie Toerien The world of work has been changing for some time, particularly over the last decade as emerging technologies equipped enterprises with the tools to operate with greater efficiency, innovate and explore a [c]
Oracle announced that 8×8, an integrated cloud communications platform, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Jitsi.org and 8×8 video meeting solutions as it scales to handle explosive growth in users. 8×8 has seen a [c]
By Dominic Regan Almost every element of the way businesses operate has been drastically altered since the start of the Covid-19 crisis. In particular, many companies across the world have had to quickly alter how [c]
Oracle has announced that Zoom Video Communications, the virtual meeting platform, has selected its Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continues to innovate and provide an essential [c]
Organizations that are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies in finance and operations are growing their annual profits 80 percent faster, according to a new study from Enterprise Strategy Group and Oracle. The global study, Emerging Technologies: [c]
Several of Africa’s innovative digital-first banks are turning to Oracle Financial Services to transform their processes and deliver a centralized experience for customers. Banks across the continent are investing in the FLEXCUBE Universal Banking platform, which powers more than [c]
By Andrew Reichman Oracle is excited to take the next step in our ambitious regional expansion plan, with five new cloud regions. We’ve added local regions in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada [c]
Bank of Kigali, the largest bank in Rwanda, with over 350,000 customers, has picked Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud to help it reinvigorate its operations. Bank of Kigali is deploying Oracle ERP and HCM Cloud [c]
By Avinash Ramtohul Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings a whole new dimension to the drive for customer intimacy. The convenience customers experience weighs heavier than any reduction in privacy. Customers also increasingly express their willingness to [c]
The University of Mauritius (UoM) and Oracle Mauritius have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to equip 1,000 students from the university’s Faculty of Information Communication and Digital Technologies, with resources in the form of cloud-centred [c]
Following closely on its achievement FedRAMP authorization, Oracle has announced three new government regions: Ashburn, Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Chicago, Illinois. These regions have achieved DISA Impact Level 5 provisional authorization (IL5 PATO), providing a [c]
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