Social Media: Facebook likes Big Data Analytics 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The better the data available, the more informed the decisions which can be made will be. Nevertheless, on average, companies only use half of all internally available information to make decisions.
Java 9: Modularization adapts JSE to the device 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak After Oracle released Java 8 in spring 2014, developers are now focusing on version 9, which will probably appear in 2016. The biggest change is the modularization of the source code of the Java platform, which has been discussed for quite some time under the name Project Jigsaw. In practical terms, the point is to …
Choose Your Own Device: Safety is the most important mobility issue 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Since 2012, IDC has conducted annual surveys on the issue of enterprise mobility. In the recently published study of 2014/2015, it is noticeable that improving mobile security is currently high on the list of priorities for both IT and departmental decision makers. As a second objective for the next twelve months, companies have set out …
Connected Enterprise: Mobile business solutions make demands 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak A new international study, under the title “Evolving the Connected Enterprise”, provides extensive data on the issues arising from using mobile business solutions for IT. The survey, sponsored by Oracle, primarily addressed technological factors that are critical to the success of mobile applications. In addition, IT managers were asked in which areas they see the …
Payment services: E-payment takes over from cash transactions 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Deutsche Bank Research (DB Research) facility published a study, under the title “Fintech – The digital (R) evolution in the financial sector”, about increasing bank competition due to IT companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon and PayPal. In particular, Apple is expected to create increased demand for payment by mobile phone with its Apple …
New data centres: Germany becomes an Oracle Cloud location 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Oracle is to open two new data processing centres in Germany: in Frankfurt am Main and in Munich. The company wants to make it easier to satisfy European data security requirements and meet the need for cloud services that are closer to the customer. The new data processing centres are expected to be in operation …
Location-based Services: Mobility moves according to its own rules 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The “Our Mobile Planet“ study by Google and Ipsos MediaCT shows that, no matter what country you are in: The search for location-based information plays an important role for smartphone users. In addition, they are often actively communicating with the company.
Open Data: CERN releases LHC research data 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Since 2008, CERN, the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research), has been operating the largest particle accelerator in the world, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), in Switzerland. Among other things, in 2012, they succeeded in proving the existence of the Higgs Boson, which had been predicted in theory. The measuring …
Application Development: Developers switch to PaaS 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak PaaS technologies (Platform as a Service) are becoming increasingly important all over the world. According to a Vanson-Bourne survey sponsored by Progress which surveyed 700 decision makers, 70% already use or plan to use these types of solutions. Software companies cite the cause as being the ever-changing demands of the business world, which ultimately amount …
Primavera Portfolio Management 9.1: New workflows facilitate project management 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak With Primavera Portfolio Management 9.1, Oracle has presented a new release of its project management solution. Several new control functions and processes should noticeably increase user-friendliness. This includes advanced workflows and early alert systems which allow a higher degree of automation, as well as various search functions, e.g. using the status or the start time …
