Financial Accounting & Reporting: SoundCloud teams up with Oracle 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Berlin-based company SoundCloud claims to be the world’s leading audio platform. On its website, users can provide their own music to download, embed existing pieces in websites and comment on the songs of other musicians. As well as a free account which includes the upload of up to three hours of music, paid services …
Storage: Disk space shapes investment planning 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak With a predicted increase in data to 44 zettabytes by 2020, the forecasts for 2014 have been revised upwards again.
Monitis: MySQL monitoring detects bottlenecks 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The company Monitis has expanded its eponymous monitoring tool for MySQL databases with a new graph function. This should make monitoring more efficient and easy to understand, and provide processed information about sent and received queries. In addition, the graphical overview displays the ten slowest queries, allowing system administrators to quickly identify weaknesses and take …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
