Royal Caribbean’s head innovator Joey Hasty: Turning dreams into memories

If you want a glimpse of the future, spend a minute with Joey Hasty – because he’s got it in the palm of his hand. “Come here, take a look,” he says, pulling a phone out of his pocket. “I love this.” With a few brisk finger taps, the affable associate vice president of innovation […]

How Autonomous Freed the World’s Most Important Resource – People

An increasing number of businesses are turning to Oracle Autonomous Database – the industry’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database—to gain deeper and more meaningful data insight, faster than ever before. The result has been freeing employees to do more value-added work—in large part thanks to deeper, faster insights into data than has been possible beforehand. According to Hwee-Xian […]

The ‘Unprecedented Challenge’ of Cybersecurity in an Age of Burgeoning Threats

Technological and legal complexities abound in this age of heightened cybersecurity threats—including a rise in state-sponsored hacking. This “unprecedented challenge” was the topic of conversation between Dorian Daley, Oracle executive vice president and general counsel, and Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect. Here are five key takeaways from their conversation: 1. Some good news: Businesses […]

Sony and Microsoft to explore strategic partnership

Sony Corporation (Sony) and Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft) announced on Thursday that the two companies will partner on new innovations to enhance customer experiences in their direct-to-consumer entertainment platforms and AI solutions. Under the memorandum of understanding signed by the parties, the two companies will explore joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to […]

Microsoft and General Assembly launch partnership to close the global AI skills gap

Microsoft Corp. and global education provider General Assembly (GA) on Friday announced a partnership to close skills gaps in the rapidly growing fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and data engineering, machine learning, data science, and more. This initiative will create standards and credentials for AI skills, upskill and reskill 15,000 workers by 2022, and […]

The Nine Technical Impacts of Enterprise Business Application

ERP has often been defined as one of the technical aspects of a business. While this definition is not entirely wrong, it does not cover the scope of support that enterprise business applications provide to the many facets of a company. Proper enterprise business application deployment has a profound impact on the human and business […]

2 Phoenix tech companies merge to expand business

A 25-year-old Tempe spinoff of MicroAge has acquired another local company to expand its business into new markets. Tempe-based enChoice Inc., an enterprise content management solutions company, bought Tempe-based ImageTag, bringing its KwikTags digital transformation solution and Microsoft capabilities into the merged company, said Tony White, CEO and founder of enChoice. “This acquisition brings us […]

Cultivating the next gen of coders – ninja style

Strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” suddenly fill the Denver dojo. The song drowns out the merry din of bells, whistles, dings and dance beats that usually flow from freshly built computer games. The ninjas all pause their work. The song signals that one of their own is the first to reach a coveted milestone, yellow […]

Western Global grows over 200 percent globally with NetSuite

NetSuite Helps Fueling Solution Provider Reduce Complexity, Integrate a New Acquisition and Drive Global Growth LONDON, UK—May 14, 2019—Western Global, a provider of fuel storage and dispensing solutions, selected and implemented Oracle NetSuite to help support its 220 percent growth over the last five years. With NetSuite, Western Global has been better able to reduce […]