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SAN FRANCISCO — At Oracle's OpenWorld conference here, vendors big and small are looking for more customers atop Oracle’s cloud.
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General Motors is 107 years old, but its social program is very 2015, thanks in large part to Whitney Drake. She’s social strategy and care leader at the Detroit-based automotive giant.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle had one goal in mind yesterday when unveiling a string of new services at the kickoff to its OpenWorld conference — domination of the cloud storage market.
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Forrester Research finally allowed a software provider through its digital experience leaders door — just not all the way through.
A year ago, the Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm did not select any digital experience leaders in its Wave for Digital Experience Platforms.
Today, in its second annual report, it named
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Last year there were seven Leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Operational Database Management Systems (Operational DBMS).
This year there are 11. Percentage-wise, that's an increase of more than 57 percent.
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Most organizations want to deliver a superior digital experience (DX). But it's an easier goal in theory than practice.
“They find very quickly they’re not providing a consistent experience across channels and touchpoints,” Chris Preston, senior director of digital experience customer strategies for Oracle, said during a recent CMSWire
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MapR isn’t just another Hadoop distro provider. “We sell enterprise software,” said John Schroeder, CEO and Chairman of the Board since founding the company in 2009.
Schroeder told CMSWire that MapR isn’t even “in the same business” as Hortonworks and Cloudera, MapR’s competitors through the eyes of many.
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Web Content Management Systems (Web CMS) are the backbone of digital experience (DX) delivery — at least if you listen to Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler.
In a Forrester Wave for Web Content Management platforms in February, he wrote: "Along every step of the customer journey, from discovery to engagement, companies
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Oracle fattened its marketing cloud today by acquiring a cloud-based software company that allows marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a web page or mobile app.
The Redwood City, Calif.-based marketing cloud software giant bought New York City-based Maxymiser for an undisclosed sum.
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Oracle wants you to listen in on your customers' conversations. This morning it introduced new features to its Service Cloud and Social Cloud and enhanced integration between the two to help companies better listen to customers' conversations in both public and private social media venues.
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Web Content Management vendors are “chasing the idea of digital experience and better engagement,” said Gartner analyst Mick MacComascaigh.
Most vendors have streamlined their approach to align their trajectory with those customer-centric goals, but the pace of their progress varies, MacComascaigh told CMSWire.
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Oracle just released its latest update of Oracle Sales Cloud, which is part of Oracle Applications Cloud Release 10.
The update comes with industry-specific support for four industries -- the first time Oracle Sales Cloud has added such functionality to its roster of features.
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Google’s petition for appeal last October of a May 2014 Federal Circuit decision in favor of Oracle tried to make its case about more than it truly was: the copyrightability of the use of application programming interfaces.
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Hey Larry Ellison, Oracle isn’t the only company paving the way to a data-driven world. And while, yes, we know, you made big data news that we haven’t yet fully covered, worry not, we’ll make note of it here.
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