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• 14 Tips for Creating Business Videos Customers Will Want to Watch

  Video marketing and communications experts share their top tips on how to create a business video that will get maximum views and shares -- with no cats involved.

• Airline hopes gamification can make its Oracle ERP users soar

  Canadian airline WestJet believes gamification, the notion of applying elements of game design to a workplace setting, can help its employees use more effectively its Oracle J.D. Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.

• Wendy's makes its Oracle ERP upgrade quick and tasty

  It's not uncommon for ERP projects to take longer and cost more money than initially planned, but neither outcome ended up being on the menu for fast-food giant Wendy's recent Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade.

• Enterprise software, devices to drive IT spending growth this year, Gartner says

  Worldwide IT spending this year will rise 3.2 percent to US$3.8 trillion, driven by rebounding device sales and strong growth in the enterprise software category, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• Oracle overtakes IBM as second-largest software vendor, Gartner says

  Oracle has overtaken rival IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor by pulling in $US29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• Many SAP customers struggling to figure out its mobility strategy, user survey finds

  It's been nearly four years since SAP got into enterprise mobility with the acquisition of Sybase, but many customers still don't quite understand its mobile product strategy, according to a new survey by the Americas' SAP Users' Group.

• Healthcare.gov experiences maintenance outage on deadline day

  The U.S. government's flagship health insurance exchange website, Healthcare.gov, was temporarily shut down Monday, the deadline for people to sign up for health coverage under the new law.

• Reforms promised, officials removed following audit of troubled Obamacare site built by Oracle

  A newly released, independent audit of Oregon's disastrous Obamacare website implementation takes both state officials and site contractor Oracle to task, saying each side contributed to problems that have generated a political firestorm in recent months.

• Oracle reverses decline in hardware revenue during Q3

  Oracle's third-quarter revenue rose 4 percent to US$9.3 billion while net income increased 2 percent to $2.6 billion, buoyed by growth in new software licenses and cloud subscriptions as well as a long-anticipated rise in hardware product revenue.

• 6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends

  Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are transforming the data center and enabling companies to lower costs, increase flexibility and improve reliability. However, these shifts require IT, and their outsourcing providers, to rethink traditional strategies.

• State withholding $25.6 million from Oracle over health exchange website woes

  Oregon is holding back US$25.6 million in payments from Oracle over work the vendor did on the state's troubled health care exchange website.

• Strategise to succeed

  Have you ever worked in an organisation that doesn’t have an IT strategy? I have and it was messy. The IT team spent huge amounts of time and effort identifying what the plans were and how they aligned with the business.

• Study: Companies that go all-in with SaaS can save big

  Companies that move the bulk of their IT operations to Cloud services can end up realising significant overall cost savings, according to a study by analyst firm, Computer Economics.

• Oracle merging its marketing software into a tighter-knit suite

  After spending billions to acquire a series of marketing-related software companies, Oracle is now undergoing the process of creating a unified suite it can take to battle against competing offerings from the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft.

• SAP user group says members will pull back on IT spending growth this year

  While members of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) say they'll spend more money on SAP software this year compared to 2013, the rate of growth has been cut nearly in half, according to a recent survey.