Based on results from the thirteenth annual Professional Services Maturity™ benchmark survey, SPI Research has named the 2020 Best-of-the-Best Professional Services Organizations (PSOs). SPI’s extensive annual survey, the 2019 PS Maturity™ Benchmark, revealed top performers are far more likely to deliver projects on-time to satisfied clients than average firms. The Best-of-the-Best delivered 93.9% of their projects on time compared to […]

When an unprecedented 10-year economic expansion came to a grinding halt in early 2020, a lot of companies were left scrambling to adjust their business processes, workforces and supply chains. Disruptive forces like trade wars, Brexit, global labor shortages and rising tariffs were already impacting multiple industries before COVID-19. Yet, it doesn’t take a global pandemic to turn a company […]

Our Summer 2020 Finance Priorities Survey is dedicated to understanding how the role of finance teams has changed since the pandemic began and how these professionals are contributing to their organizations’ recovery efforts. Normally conservative finance leaders are now pushing to change business as usual, including advocating for a larger product set and technology investments. One problem: Priorities for finance […]

This Leadership Compass provides an overview of the market for database and big data security solutions along with guidance and recommendations for finding the sensitive data protection and governance products that best meet your requirements. We examine the broad range of technologies involved, vendor product and service functionality, relative market shares, and innovative approaches to implementing consistent and comprehensive data […]

The current global climate has brought the need for organizational agility, rapid decision-making, and resilience to the fore. It has accelerated an already rapid shift to the cloud and underscored the need for organizations to break down silos that have historically prevented them from sharing data internally and with partners and regulators. Read how machine learning and intelligent automation can […]

Read this white paper and learn the security benefits of a fully managed database including: • Elimination of the cost and risk associated with manually applying security patches• Timely, automated application of security patches, ensuring that the latest updates have been applied against all known vulnerabilities• Additional areas of functionality to ensure the security of the database, including encryption, separation […]

What is an Autonomous Data Warehouse? Ninety percent of the world’s data has been generated in the past two years. Managing and capitalizing on that data have become the hot items on everyone’s to-do list. A new technology—the autonomous database—has emerged as the clear choice for easily extracting insights from your data with minimal effort. In this ebook, we’ll cover:• […]

What if your database could install, manage, secure, and upgrade itself—with little or no manual administration required? Now it’s possible, thanks to machine learning, artificial intelligence and the power of the cloud. Discover how the Oracle Autonomous Database is:• Self-driving: Tell it the service level you want to achieve, and it does the rest.• Self-securing: It installs patches automatically and […]