11 key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld 2019

Making computer systems autonomous rarely ends well in movies, but at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week, Oracle pressed ahead with its plan to eliminate humans from the management of IT systems. It’s about saving money and saving data, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison told the gathered crowd in a keynote speech…

IDG Contributor Network: Redefining omnichannel: The challenge for technology leaders

To reach consumers, brands need omnichannel strategies that deliver a consistent customer experience at every touchpoint. Yet today’s technical and business conversations about omnichannel are often too limited in scope to achieve what’s ultimately possible. Brands typically only focus on payment processing across one or two channels — missing the opportunity to tie together customer…

12 dark secrets of technical debt

In the beginning, programmers didn’t worry about the past. They opened an empty file and created something out of nothing. Everything was a green field. Those freewheeling, unencumbered days are long gone for most of us. Much of software development today is revising, extending, enhancing, and evolving what we — or more often, someone else…

7 ways to foster greater IT creativity

Few business leaders view IT as an inherently creative organization. That’s an attitude IT leaders must work to change. Creativity lies at the heart of every successful IT technology. It took imagination to build a business world powered by concepts such as cloud services, big data, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Such ideas don’t come…

OpenWorld 2019: Oracle all in on cloud automation

Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week will spotlight the company going big on conversational user interfaces and digital assistants as part of a broader push to incorporate AI technologies, after tentative steps in that direction last year. CIOs can also expect Oracle to extend its cloud apps with more automation tools and new functionalities,…