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Oracle on demand and SaaS

• Oracle HCM Cloud vs. Workday HCM: Which one is right for you?

  Oracle and Workday are battling each other to gain an edge in the human capital management market. Here's how their suites of cloud HCM applications stack up against one another. Continue Reading

• What you can get with Oracle MySQL Cloud Service

  Oracle's MySQL Cloud Service enables users to run MySQL databases in the cloud. Here's a rundown of the features and tools included in the cloud-based version of the open source database. Continue Reading

• Oracle BICS and Oracle DVCS offer two flavors of data visualization

  Oracle's business intelligence and data visualization cloud services include similar visual analytics features and are often confused with one another. But they're two different things. Continue Reading

• Cloud push complicates Oracle contracts, compliance efforts

  In order to predict what 2017 holds for Oracle licensing, a look to the company's past can help reveal where it's headed -- and that means more pressure on users to go to the cloud. Continue Reading

• Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems push changes in IT

  Oracle's investments in the cloud and its Oracle Engineered Systems are changing the landscape of IT. IOUG President Maria Anderson talks about turning a challenge into an opportunity. Continue Reading

• Oracle eyes Zero-touch provisioning for NaaS startups

  Oracle plans to use its demonstration project from a TM Forum conference to help NaaS companies design hybrid network products using zero-touch provisioning.Continue Reading

• IOUG president on Oracle cloud services strategy, big data usage

  In a Q&A, John Matelski, president of the IOUG, answers questions about Oracle's cloud strategy and his own organization's business intelligence and big data analytics initiatives.Continue Reading

• Thumbs up to Oracle's cloud database service, down to cloud washing

  Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison's cloud-focused opening keynote speech at the vendor's Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference was a mix of the substantial and the specious.Continue Reading

• Q4 drops Oracle stock, but cloud may be silver lining

  In recent Oracle news, the Q4 report drops Oracle stock, but Ellison more focused on cloud gains. Oracle released new Virtual Compute Appliance.Continue Reading

• Oracle Microsoft cloud deal benefits and questions

  The Oracle Microsoft deal to allow Oracle Database to run on Windows Azure may puzzle some. Which end users might take advantage of that, and why?Continue Reading

• A primer on Oracle Database as a Service

  At OpenWorld 2013, Oracle announced a cloud service that lets users quickly deploy database instances without worrying about infrastructure issues.Continue Reading

• Oracle to buy BEA Systems

  Oracle has cut a deal to purchase middleware pioneer BEA Systems Inc. for about $8.5 billion.Continue Reading