Interesting news this morning comes in the form of an acquisition by Oracle. Here is the press release from Taleo regarding being purchased by Oracle. Joining forces with Oracle gives us the opportunity to better serve our customers." The big news here is that Oracle rival SAP recently acquired SuccessFactors which is a rival of Taleo. eLearning plays a big role in the management of corporate talent and Taleo offers eLearning delivery as part of their cloud package. So the race to round out cloud services is still running. MORE >>

The combination of Oracle and Acme Packet is expected to accelerate the migration to all-IP networks by enabling secure and reliable communications from any device, across any network. Oracle announced it has acquired Acme Packet, a provider of session border control technology, for $29.25 The combination of Oracle and Acme Packet is expected to accelerate the migration to all-IP networks by enabling secure and reliable communications from any device, across any network. Source: OracleRedwood Shores, Calif. — Feb. per share, or roughly $1.7 billion. MORE >>

Bill Sawyer, who works in curriculum development within the highly-technical and fast-moving environment of Oracle. Bill is currently Senior Manager of Applications Technology Curriculum for Oracle, based in Orlando, Florida. He leads a small team responsible for designing and developing highly-technical training programmes for IT professionals among both Oracle’s employees and their customers. The work of Bill’s team results in some $12m of course sales for Oracle. Oracle University delivers instructor-led courses designed by Bill’s team. learning architect MORE >>

Several of the LMS vendors appear more than once, such as Oracle. Most of the time (as is the case with Oracle) these are different products. Oracle's ( Learning Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management but less so it's iLearning ) and SAP Enterprise Learning score better than I would have expected. Over the past few years, they've been able to fend of Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP through superior products. So large companies with Oracle or SAP implementations are going to start going more towards using those packages. Oracle Learning Manageme. MORE >>

Companies like SAP and Oracle have offered such end-to-end solutions for years now, and the largest supply chain organizations in the world have already bought-in. Potentially big platforms like SAP and Oracle can adopt the Experience API. Aggregating data across multiple enterprise systems isn’t something new. Supply chain organizations concern themselves with sourcing products from all over the world to get anywhere else in the world. Supply chain organizations adopt these massive systems is to gain all the efficiency and performance they can out of their organizations. MORE >>