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Oracle's second quarter numbers kept Wall Street happy despite prevailing macro-economic headwinds.

Oracle's second quarter numbers kept Wall Street happy despite prevailing macro-economic headwinds.
Business spend management vendor Coupa accepts an $8 billion buyout bid from private equity investor Thoma Bravo - will shareholders endorse the sale?
This week - AI adoption hits higher levels, but has ethics kept up? Enterprise vendors face the economic headwinds, with mixed results. ChatGPT provokes AI hyperbole, but the threat may be real. I concede an interesting blockchain use case, and go viral for the wrong reasons.
A new suite of tools from Rimini Street offers interoperability between older ERP systems and modern browsers, email protocols and operating systems.
To find out how professional services organizations are adapting to X-as-a-Service (XaaS), what they can learn from product companies, and vice-versa, I spoke to Dan Brown at FinancialForce.
CEO Tien Tzuo has had to make a tough decision in the face of the current macro-economic climate.
Automation can eliminate manual tasks and free finance teams to focus on value-added analysis - but there's more to ROI than these gains alone. Dan Miller unpacks the findings from Sage's 'Close the Books' research.
This week - Cyber Monday brings decent numbers, but not globally. Salesforce has a quarter to remember, with Bret Taylor out. AWS re:Invent is in the books, but I'm waiting on good analysis. Enterprise blockchain hits snags, and I go off - on that and the Metaverse.
Today's finance leaders have a daunting purview: serve the business with insights, not just reports. And: do more with less. But what about serving customers better as well? All of that is within the scope of Liberty Security's Zoho Finance Platform projects.
The UK & Ireland SAP User Group conference brought together a variety of stakeholders to talk about RISE with SAP. We’ve already heard from a customer, but what do SAP and the User Group have to say?
As talk of recession heightens, ERP balance sheets are being scrutinized to find ways to build up cash reserves. John Appleby of Avantra asks - can CEOs have their cake and eat it?
Is AI in finance a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Zoho's Raju Vegesna does some myth-busting and explores the the middle ground where AI has a useful place amid the hype.
With UKISUG's annual user conference in full swing, it's time to catch up with UKISUG Chair Paul Cooper. Cooper shares fresh data and customer views on everything from SAP BTP to IT spending. S/4HANA adoption sits on the front burner - but is end of maintenance the best project driver?