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How cloud computing can revolutionize manufacturing

Manufacturing in an earlier era led to management thinking and also automation of processes, courtesy the efforts of great management gurus like Alfred Sloan, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Michael Porter, Tom Peters, and Michael Hammer and C.K. Prahalad.  Manufacturing can benefit from Cloud Computing ! For the preceding decades, the financial markets sucked the best and the brightest minds to drive greed and make profits in investment banking and financial markets. This era fortunately is slowing down and the regulators and economists of the world have realized the futility of driving financial markets without underlying security provided by manufacturing. Engineers who were trained and equipped for manufacturing, migrated to a coveted MBA degree lured by the offer of huge starting salaries coupled with even bigger annual bonus. They drove an invisible economy driven by paper bonds and other instruments and created more complex instruments all based on an economy, which was...

Oracle CloudWorld 2013

Oracle CloudWorld is coming to your city soon, here is the schedule Sydney, Australia March 13 Register Now Mumbai, India April 2 Register Now New York City, United States April 2 Register Now Singapore, Singapore April 4 Register Now Tokyo, Japan April 9 詳しくはこちら Frankfurt, Germany Coming Soon Notify me when registration opens London, England Coming Soon Notify me when registration opens Mexico City, Mexico May 7 http://www.oracle.com/events/global/en/cloudworld/register/index.html I wonder if it is too late for Oracle to get into the cloud computing bandwagon ? Oracle suffers from its database centered marketing, which is under threat with Big Data solutions. Oracle has to play catch up on Big Data now though it still retains its grip on its citadels in the Banking and Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) sector Oracle has some of the best business applications in the world either their own or acquired, Oracle has  done a fair job of integrating the...