Supplier Report: 7/18/2015

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The press was focused on big data and the transformation of the classic IT companies from legacy business to the newer cloud/SaaS model.  Between IBM’s new tiny chip set, the ever increasing abilities of Watson, and the propagation of SoftLayer, IBM’s business model seems on track.  So on track that Seeking Alpha wonders if they should spin off their legacy consulting and software model.

Oracle seems to emulating IBM with their partnership with Xamarin. Meanwhile, EMC finalized their purchase of Virtustream and released an interesting blog on their own thoughts on big data.

IBM

Oracle

  • Oracle’s second largest workforce is in India

    “Of the 120,000 workforce we have globally, 31,000 are in India, making it the second largest after our employees’ strength in the US,” Oracle president Thomas Kurian told reporters at an event here.

    http://www.infotechlead.com/hr/oracles-second-largest-workforce-is-in-india-32271

  • Oracle Abandons Its Largest Copyright Damages Theory Against Rimini Street

    In a recent Court filing, in response to challenges raised by Rimini Street, Oracle abandoned its biggest damages theory of copyright infringement for its PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel-branded software products based on fair market value, measured by hypothetical license or income approach, to “streamline” the issues for trial. Accordingly, Oracle has withdrawn the $210 million damages associated with its fair market value theory. Oracle’s primary remaining copyright damages theory in the case is for lost profits, where Rimini Street asserts Oracle’s theory is without merit due to a complete lack of proof of causation.

    http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150716006624/en/Oracle-Abandons-Largest-Copyright-Damages-Theory-Rimini

  • ERP Cloud Could Be The Next Big Thing For Oracle Corporation

    Ebbeck noted that customers that have already adopted some cloud services from Oracle and would likely come back for ERP cloud. The other area of potential growth is among the existing on-premise install base. Ebbeck stated that ERP cloud simplifies the IT environments and eliminates the usually time-consuming and expensive on-premise software upgrades.

    http://investcorrectly.com/20150715/erp-cloud-next-big-thing-oracle-corporation-nyseorcl/

  • Oracle Teams Up with Xamarin for Expanding Cloud Business

    Oracle recently announced its partnership with California based software company, Xamarin in order to build its cloud platform. Xamarin, known for its mobile development platform for enterprises, will offer a software development kit for Oracle’s cloud-based mobile applications under the new deal.

    http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/181296/oracle-teams-up-with-xamarin-for-expanding-cloud-business

EMC

  • Understanding the Dimensions of Your Big Data Strategy

    One of the key differences between big data analytics and classic business intelligence is the way by which big data demands real-time decision making in applications to force a different decision in stride based on predictive modeling.  Modern third-platform applications rely on analytics to decide what to do now with machine data, personal information, geospatial information, and other criteria that are statistically significant in making a decision.  This requires the technology capability to integrate analytics and applications, but equally importantly, it requires business support to change business decisions in real-time based on analytics recommendations called by mission critical applications.  As such, business adoption relies on business analysis to identify key business moments that can be driven by analytics.

    https://infocus.emc.com/joe_dossantos/dont-pull-the-trunk-of-your-big-data-elephant/?cmp=soc-cor-glbl-us-sprinklr-TWITTER-Data%20Lakes-Big%20Data-EMCcorp-208668228

  • EMC Finalizes $1.2 Billion Virtustream Buy

    EMC  announced it has completed the acquisition of Virtustream. Virtustream represents a transformational element of EMC’s strategy to help customers move all applications to cloud-based IT environments. The all-cash transaction is expected to have no material impact to EMC financial results in 2015 and is expected to be additive to revenues and accretive to EPS in 2016. Operational details of the new EMC Federation business formed by Virtustream will be announced later this quarter.

    http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/news/2015/07/emc-finalizes-1-2-billion-virtustream-buy.aspx