Author: enews

At the 2016 Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle unveiled a host of new cloud products, including many SaaS and PaaS tools. Oracle kicked off the 2016 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday with a very clear theme—the cloud. The company debuted more than 20 new products and services for the Oracle Cloud Platform, but what stuck out was the company’s focus on intelligent apps, containers, and analytics. The intelligent apps will be formally known as Adaptive Intelligent Applications, and will leverage data and insights found in Oracle’s Data Cloud, according…

Intelligent fridge can tell you when you’re out of milk If you thought grocery shopping could hardly get much easier, think again. Microsoft is collaborating with Liebherr’s appliances division to develop ‘SmartDeviceBox’, a communication module that connects Liebherr’s refrigerators and freezers to the internet. Thanks to internal cameras and deep learning algorithms similar to those of Cortana (Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence), Microsoft’s new fridge technology recognises food packaging, and effectively monitors what products you have at home. “This information flows automatically into an inventory list, which lets the customer see quickly…

Selecting an ERP vendor involves questions – lots of questions. It’s important to get as much information as possible in the selection process since choosing the right product from the right vendor is one of the most critical decisions in the implementation process. It can literally make or break the entire project. There are a great many questions you need to ask. Here are some of the most important ones. Does this product support your style of operations? ERP systems are specialized by type of business and often by industry.…

Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn’t in trouble; the officers wanted his help. Jain is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs, fingerprint scanners and tattoo matching; he wants to make them as difficult to hack as possible. But the police were interested in the opposite of this: they wanted his help to unlock a dead man’s phone. Jain and his PhD student Sunpreet Arora couldn’t share details…

Research has shown that 70 percent of organizational change efforts fail. Lack of support from across the organization is a major cause for this daunting statistic. Without support, big ideas don’t take hold — or have the desired impact. You need buy-in to make organizational change happen, especially when building support for a new technology initiative. This is a timely challenge as the internet, big data and other tools have made markets increasingly competitive, pushing many organizations to adopt new technology to remain relevant. These initiatives can seem like obvious solutions…

I have the privilege of occasionally meeting with folks from our sales and marketing teams along with solutions engineers to discuss the sales cycle, past deals, or deals that are in the offing. As is often the case, there are many opinions on how deals should be examined, deconstructed and the opportunity positioned. You could think of it as a calculated gamble that you will do business but it can be a little less scientific and a little less of a matter of luck and more of a carefully constructed…

Technically Incorrect: A new study suggests that holiday gatherings mean that millennials will use their phones strategically to avoid Uncle Bilbo. Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. This is the time we declare our independence. We proclaim our individualism. We rail against those who would subjugate us. And we certainly aren’t going to talk to Uncle Bilbo and that peculiarly coiffed lover of his at a 4th of July party. In order to help us, we have our phones. I know…