Cloud Leader, Week of March 20, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Tools to Help Employees Smart employers understand that helping their people improve their work/life balance isn't just a nice gesture. It's also the best bet for creating a culture that attracts and retains high achievers. A good start is for employers to help their people figure out and align (where appropriate) their various professional and personal goals. Read more about the tools companies are offering employees to help keep them on a more even keel and ultimately improve their engagement, productivity, and loyalty. — Rob Preston, Editorial Director, Oracle Content Central Video: Tools Can Help Encourage Employee Volunteering More Cloud News Fast-Growing Fintech Implements Oracle ERP Cloud in Nine Weeks Payscout, one of the hottest startups in the fintech industry, depends on Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud, which enables it to efficiently do sales and revenue reporting so it can focus on how to "better support the entrepreneurial dream of our global client base," says Payscout Chief Financial Officer Dan Gardner. Learn how the company implemented Oracle ERP Cloud in just nine weeks. Hurd: Oracle Poised to Overtake Salesforce.com in Cloud Revenue Securing its position as the "fastest-growing cloud company at scale," Oracle reported that its combined software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) revenues rose 73 percent in its fiscal third quarter, to $1 billion. Its total cloud revenues, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), increased 62 percent, to $1.2 billion. Read more detail on Oracle's fiscal third quarter. A Fintech Innovator's Race to the Cloud Calypso Technology has long offered on-premises software for financial trading, processing, risk management, and accounting, and now it's offering those capabilities via Calypso Cloud Services. The race is on among providers to offer such capabilities in the cloud, because the winning software provider will become "the de facto solution on the cloud" for financial institutions, says Calypso Chief Customer Officer Corinne Grillet. Why Calypso turned to Oracle Cloud Platform. Getting Started with Microservices This is the first of a four-part series on how to use microservices well. Think of applications designed with microservices architecture as being composed of small autonomous services, which communicate through APIs. This enables companies to develop, deploy, and update parts of their applications faster, thus getting new ideas to market more quickly. This introductory post looks at the advantages and challenges to keep in mind. More Cloud News Get Free Cloud Credits  Request an Oracle Talent Management Cloud Demo  The Cloud for Finance: Predict Your Financial Future  Video: Oracle Internet of Things Asset Monitoring Cloud Service  Digital in Action: The Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience  Video Chatbots: A Beginner's Guide What are chatbots? Where did they come from, and what are they good for? Oracle Cloud Engineer Dave Felcey answers these questions and more in this brief introduction. 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