Analyst Report: Oracle Wins IDC SMB Excellence Award for Midsize Solution Implementation

Calling Oracle Accelerate “a very unique and complete offering,” IDC has honored the program with its prestigious Award for Excellence in Solution Implementation Program and Tools for 2009.

via Analyst Report: Oracle Wins IDC SMB Excellence Award for Midsize Solution Implementation.

How Oracle gets customers to keep paying | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com.

22% annual maintenance – will Oracle’s customers rebel?

In researching Dying for a Biscuit, Panorama asked the makers of the top selling products containing palm oil and the major supermarket chains about their palm oil use. We also requested information on how they sourced their palm oil and whether or not they participate in the GreenPalm trading scheme, aimed at encouraging growers to produce more sustainable oil.

via BBC News – Panorama – Palm oil products and the weekly shop.

Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground quite rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.

The reality is that broader social and cloud computing trends continue to evolve faster than most enterprises are able to absorb. It may be years before many organizations are comfortable with and ready to adopt either of these technologies strategically despite apparent benefits.

via Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com.

“Other than pushing the ‘cool’ factor, one of the main selling points being made by marketers of eReaders is that they are greener than print. It is little surprise that the common view held by consumers who don’t know the backstory is that going digital means going green and saving trees. Many are in for a rude awakening. When subjected to ‘cradle-to-cradle’ life cycle analysis, eReading is not nearly as green as many naively assume it is.”

via Which is Greener: Paper or Digital? The Answer May Surprise You | The DocuMentor | ZDNet.com.

Nimbus named as company to watch in 2010.

Page 1 Twenty companies to watch in 2010 – In-Depth – CIO UK Magazine.

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Frameworks and templates are affecting vendor selection in enterprise content management and business process management suite markets. Proving that solutions can optimize costs and processes is tough, but some vendors start with case management.

via Critical Capabilities for Composite Content Applications: Case Management.

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As communications service providers adopt modularized, pre-integrated suite solutions, fewer vendors cater for the end-to-end OSS value chain. This report evaluates the solutions of the 12 OSS vendors that dominate this market in terms of solution completeness, market share and geographic coverage.

via Dataquest Insight: Operations Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009.

Oracle has a complete offering for the various business processes in sales and marketing for the consumer goods industry. Here, we evaluate its approach and capabilities relative to market requirements.

via Vendor Focus for Oracle: Consumer Goods Sales and Marketing.

In 2009, megavendors held almost two-thirds of business intelligence platform market share. But impatient business users increasingly turned to pure-play BI platforms, particularly those of small innovative vendors, to fill usability and time-to-value needs unmet by the larger vendors.

via Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.

The market for corporate performance management suites continues to grow. Users should evaluate vendors carefully, according to business needs and their broader business intelligence and performance management strategies.

via Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites.

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MarketScope analyzes and rates the state of sales force automation in the consumer goods industry

via MarketScope for Sales Force Automation in the Consumer Goods Industry.

Accenture NYSE: ACN and Oracle have agreed to jointly develop integrated software packages to address the growing needs of social service agencies around the world for cost-effective technology solutions to handle rising workloads while providing enhanced oversight capabilities and supporting outcome-focused program delivery.

via Accenture and Oracle to Jointly Develop Technology Solutions for Social Service Agencies.