Oracle
Oracle and community celebrate 20 years of Java
May 21 marked the 20th anniversary of the Java programming language, the class-based and object-oriented general-purpose ‘write once, run anywhere’ computer programming language first developed by Sun Microsystems Inc.
Ex-P1 CEO Michael Lai joins Singapore’s upstart telco MyRepublic
Seasoned telco executive Michael Lai has joined Singapore’s fixed broadband player MyRepublic after the latter bought the Indonesian company Lai was working for in Jakarta.
Oracle gets aggressive about its cloud business
Software giant Oracle Corp has aggressive plans to grow its cloud business in Asia Pacific, including South-East Asia, reports Goh Thean Eu.
Former HP and Oracle man K. Raman takes over at Microsoft Malaysia
Microsoft Corp has announced the appointment of K. Raman as the new managing director of its Malaysian subsidiary.
Axiata’s bumpy IT transformation programme: Lessons learnt
Axiata president and group CEO Jamaludin Ibrahim comes clean on Celcom’s IT transformation programme that caused it to lose customers and dealers, and the lessons the group learned from it. Goh Thean Eu has the story.
Oracle launches community cloud for financial services firms
Oracle has unveiled its Oracle Financial Services Cloud, a community cloud offering dedicated to the financial services industry including banks, insurance and investment companies, and securities institutions, as well as other regulated industry enterprises.
Core banking solutions: Banks looking at vendors’ R&D
Banks in Asia Pacific are increasingly looking at the research and development budgets being spent by vendors on future solutions, according to IDC Financial Insights.
HP services for Oracle to help enterprises transform digital customer experience
HP has announced HP Digital Customer Experience services for Oracle which it said would help companies plan, build and manage customer experience business solutions for more personalised, consistent interaction with their customers across store, web, mobile and social channels.
Oracle rolls out new UC suite
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite 7.6 that it claimed enables communication service providers (CSPs) to increase their market opportunity, effectively target customers, and drive loyalty.
Can Amazon Web Services serve enterprises effectively?
At the Amazon Web Services re:Invent annual conference at the Sands Expo, Las Vegas, the cloud giant took the fight to traditional IT shops. Edwin Yapp looks at the challenges it faces.
