Oracle Bets Big On Cloud With New Data Centers, SLA, And Autonomous Cloud Oracle Corporation announced this week plans to add 12 new data-center “regions” as it ramps up competition with Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Google.  Critical to the delivery of cloud infrastructure services and eventually artificial intelligence, the capital spending to quadruple Oracle’s current […]

The Future of Digital Platforms Drive New Economies Digital platforms have democratized the content creation as well as access to a range of new business models.  In fact, these platforms have enabled decentralized nodes to reflect market dynamics in the establishment of services, experiences, and delivery standards.   How will new economies arise from these emerging […]

IMSHealthWear 1.00 Gives IMS Health First Mover Advantage In Wearable Form Factors And Apps For Healthcare Customer Experience The rise and success of wearables such as the Apple Watch may not come as a surprise.  Constellation estimates that Apple sold 7.25 million units to date with the potential to deliver up to 43.50 million units […]

IBM Launches New Business Group In New York’s Silicon Alley On January 9th, 2014, on top of 4 World Trade Place, IBM CEO Ginni Rommety and long time veteran, but newly minted, IBM Watson Group Senior Vice President Michael Rhodin, announced IBM’s commitment to putting an entire business unit around Watson (see Figure 1).  The […]

Oracle Adds A Trusted CTMS/EDC Solution To Its Health Sciences Portfolio On April 16th, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Phase Forward, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based Clinical Trials Management Software (CTMS) vendor and early electronic data capture (EDC) pioneer.  Phase Forward adds 335 life science, medical device, research agency, and contract research organization (CRO) customers […]

Lawson Acquisition Brings Healthcare Focused ERP To Last-Mile Patient Management Solutions On January 11th, 2010, Lawson Software announced it had closed a $160M all cash offer for Healthvision, a healthcare software solution headquartered in Dallas, TX.  The deal continues Lawson’s deep commitment to industry verticalization and is notable because the deal: Expands Lawson’s vertical footprint […]

CORPORATE WHISPERS AND MONTHLY MARKET TRENDS* Starting this month, we’ll be splitting the trends in Corporate Whispers from the People Whispers series.  Catch the latest monthly random thoughts, trend points, and corporate trends.  Hearing from twitterati, software execs, and industry experts about: User trends Recent win by SUSEN Software over SAP enhances validity of the […]