| Special Report: Your Growing Business | | | | What are the common obstacles small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) need to navigate in order to stay on the right path? One is using technology that hinders their growth. To overcome this obstacle, they need to choose the right technology.
These days of cloud-based everything can help put SMBs on an even playing field with large ones, and they should take advantage of cloud and as-a-service offerings as much as possible. "There are greater capabilities and lower cost, and that's where all the R&D is happening," says Reggie Bradford, senior vice president of Oracle's Startup Ecosystem and Accelerator Group. "You're going to get the best upgrades and the best path to the future."
Here, get more advice from Bradford and other experts about how to use technology to scale, keep connected to your customers, prosper in an on-demand economy, and more. |
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| Big News | | | Is Big Data Helping Your Small Business Grow?
“Within any SMB, many people wear multiple hats. Empower them to view the same data from multiple locations and make data-driven decisions together.”
—Michael Abramow, Oracle Consulting |
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| Highlights from Profit | | | | | | | | Holistic Remedy Cloud services help create a healthy blend of digital and bricks-and-mortar operations for Saudi Arabia's leading pharmacy. |
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| | | Intelligent Choices
“Whatever we humans want the future to be, AI can help us accomplish this,” says MIT professor Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0. |
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| Oracle Voice | | | | Highlights from Oracle’s blog on Forbes.com
The Machine Learning "Revolution" and Other Emerging-Tech Takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld Oracle executives, partners, and customers laid out cutting-edge products and services powered by machine learning, predictive analytics, blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Five Ways Oracle Keeps Its Cloud Platform Open Oracle’s application development, integration, management, and other platform services are built around open standards, including those for emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and chatbots.
The Four Most Common Questions About IoT Define the business outcome you want to achieve with IoT, which will provide a clear focus and measurable objectives for the project. |
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| Video | | | | | Video: Oracle OpenWorld on Demand Watch keynotes from Oracle executives, including Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian—and of course Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison—announcing the world's first autonomous database cloud. |
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| Event | | | | | | Oracle CloudWorld brings you together with forward-looking professionals responsible for finance, operations, supply chain, human resource, sales, marketing, customer service and IT. Learn what works, what doesn’t, and identity solutions and approaches to transform your business. |
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| About Profit | | Profit Fall: Holistic Remedy
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