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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

Forrester IT

Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

All the major cloud providers from North America AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud are on par with each other, with most of their services and capabilities are primed to address the needs of any enterprise. This new paradigm of the operating model is the hallmark of successful organizational transformation.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

June 2023 Oracle’s generative AI investment surfaces in HCM tools Oracle is taking a three-pronged approach to generative AI adoption. At the hardware level it’s adding new instances to its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service tailored for AI workloads.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, at one time, Oracle DBAs would command $175,000, but as more people entered the space, salaries dropped to the point where he can get someone for $80,000. And you have to partner with your vendors.” “It’s a variable part of their salary based on a data point,” he says. Every year we come back and evaluate that.”

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

“When you look at business flow, you need to look at it end-to-end,” says Ram Palaniappan, CTO at TEKsystems, a systems integrator. “It It may start with Salesforce and end up in Oracle, but it needs to start with the user experience, and the end-to-end use case will drive how you tie those things together.”