How vaccine alliance Gavi uses the power of radio to combat isolation during the pandemic
On a recent Friday, the crew of Barry and Andy’s breakfast show on Jab FM radio in Geneva is entertaining listeners during another morning of coronavirus lockdown. The episode, themed “Made in the USA,” kicks off with the James Brown song “Living in America.” Co-hosts Andy Mends and Barry Ardiff chat about the diversity in […]
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available, he warned that something serious was coming. “The reported cases follow a very scary exponential […]
Optimizing Your Holiday Mobile Experience, From Subject Line to Checkout
It’s no secret that mobile is the present and future of ecommerce. Consumers are increasingly comfortable making purchases on mobile devices as the rise of mobile wallet services like Apple Pay and larger screen sizes have created a user-friendly experience and feature-rich retail apps “If you count tablet traffic too, mobile typically accounts for 60% […]
5 Steps Companies can Take to Capitalize on Adversity
Sometime during the first week of March, Michael Schmidtmann got a call from a client whose customers had stopped paying their bills. Schmidtmann, a peer group facilitator, business coach and sales consultant, was surprised by the news. He was aware that COVID-19 had worked its way to the U.S., but he wasn’t expecting this particular […]
LovelySkin Handles 300% Order Increase With Ease, Thanks to Smart Systems
In 1997, Amazon and eBay were just two years old, and Walmart.com had been around for just a year. And it was that year that Dr. Joel Schlessinger first had the idea to sell skin care products online. A full-time, board-certified dermatologist, Schlessinger hired a few developers to build a shopping cart for what was […]
How Two Brilliant AI Innovators are Boosting Customer Excellence
Oracle has been at the forefront of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science for decades. It’s in our DNA. Our team of innovative and groundbreaking leaders brings not only vast knowledge and experience but also constant curiosity and passion for learning. These dedicated visionaries collaborate relentlessly to deliver embedded AI […]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Behind World’s Fastest Supercomputer
RIKEN, the owner of the world’s fastest high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputer, Fugaku, has chosen Oracle Cloud as the public cloud provider for its elastic HPC storage and to enable universities and research organizations to connect securely and at low cost through Science Information Network (SINET). Oracle was chosen because of its superior performance, enterprise-grade security, […]
5 Ways NetSuite WMS can Transform Warehouse Operations
The warehouse may be the most overlooked component of the supply chain. A company can negate the most innovative customer experience in an instant if it can’t deliver the product to the customer quickly and accurately. A flawlessly run warehouse is critical to customer satisfaction. But running the warehouse using spreadsheets, or pen and paper […]
NetSuite Partners of the Year Continue to Deliver Success
One of the high points of Oracle NetSuite’s SuiteWorld for the partner community is the partner kickoff event that takes place the first day of the annual conference. And one of the high points of the kickoff event is announcing the partners of the year. Just as our partner kickoff events have moved online, so […]
PepsiCo partners with Microsoft for new era of operational agility and product innovation amid rising consumer demand
PepsiCo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a five-year partnership that establishes Microsoft as a preferred cloud provider to accelerate PepsiCo’s infrastructure, ERP, and data estate consolidation and modernization. As part of the agreement, PepsiCo will roll out Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams to all of its 270,000 employees worldwide. In addition, Microsoft Azure […]