Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

• Banking's move to the cloud: The banking industry is shifting from building and maintaining on-premise infrastructure to adopting cloud services to improve efficiency and agility. The shift is gradua…

Episode 31 | Keeping Customers Happy

• Today’s customer success: Customer success is not just about selling products but ensuring that customers achieve value and satisfaction from their purchases. In …

Innovating Insurance

The Big Themes:

• Cloud adoption challenges and benefits: Cloud adoption has been relatively slow because insurance companies and financial institutions tend to act conservatively, b…

We’re on the Road to Oracle CloudWorld. From September 18-21 in Las Vegas, Oracle will bring together its customers and partners. Acceleration Economy’s Road to Oracle CloudWorld series will feature …

Road to Oracle CloudWorld | IAC’s Oracle Journey

The Big Themes

• IAC’s use of Oracle Technology: IAC, a conglomerate of diverse companies, employs various Oracle products to streamline transactions, acc…

Episode 29 | Don't Miss the Parade

Note: this episode contains explicit language.

The Big Themes:

• Carrots and sticks: Maintaining a balance between rewards and consequences is important for society. The…

Road to Oracle CloudWorld | Shifting CX Dynamics

The Big Themes

• Attendee conference goals: A conference shouldn’t only be a product showcase. At CloudWorld, attendees can expect not only to hear about…

Road to Oracle CloudWorld | Databases with Jenny Tsai-Smith

The Big Themes

• Inclusive to all customers: After last year, when some on-premises customers mistakenly thought that the conference might be g…

Episode 21 | Thriving in Change

The Big Themes:

The power of curiosity: Follow your curiosity. It may not be readily apparent how one activity will connect to another, but you might find unexpected syn…

The Big Themes:

• The current era could be compared to 1995, when there was a lot of hype around the internet. John Doerr said then that the internet was underhyped. Today, AI might be underhyped.
• In bus…

Episode 46 | The Profile of the Modern CIO

The Big Themes:

• Co-creation and business relationships: The relationship between an IT function and a non-IT organization has to build on a foundation of co-c…

Episode 30 | Customer Learnings on Software Implementation Projects

The Big Themes:

• Oracle: As it relates to Oracle, customers have expressed on ravenintel.com that a particular challenge was around us…

• S/4HANA is a force multiplier: S/4HANA is part of the "next generation of ERP," meaning its intelligent, sustainable, and collaborative. The product is truly a "model A suite of applications," levera…

How Oracle Brings Horizontal, Vertical Solutions to Bear for Financial Services Industry

The Big Themes:

• Shifting needs for financial services companies: Generational shifts are taking place, explains …

• Innovation: Upwards of 70% of IT spend is dedicated to compliance, leaving only 30% of the budget for innovation. This is a tremendous drag on productivity, as organizations and business leaders want…

VCU Health and Workday | A Unified Platform

The Big Themes:

• Process improvements: In order to enable healthcare workers to perform to the highest degree of their license, VCU Health recognizes the impo…

Episode 45 | Infrastructure, Software, Applications

The Big Themes:

• CIO "Lego blocks": CIOs in tech are looking for vendors to provide the "building blocks" that are necessary to develop applications. …

Episode 20 | Combatting Declining Productivity

The Big Themes:

• Declining rates of productivity: For five consecutive quarters, productivity rates in the United States have been steadily declining. In t…

Episode 29 | Key Takeaways from Oracle Summits, Customers, Partners

The Big Themes:

• Bonnie's lens: When attending analyst events, Bonnie looks for the impact that products and related announcements hav…

The Big Themes:

• Delivering solutions that create agility for the business: Aviatrix handles the compiling of security enforcement into the fabric of the network. All a customer needs to do is tell Avi…