Oracle stories

Bank ABC shifts ila Bank onto Temenos core on AWS in Bahrain, kicking off a wider cloud-led core banking transformation programme.

Anthropic adds Claude plugins to Cowork, fuelling investor fears that agent-style AI could undermine traditional seat-based software.

Oxford optical AI spin-out Lumai names ex-Palo Alto Networks marketer René Bonvanie as board chair to spearhead its push into commercialisation.

Celonis hires veteran software leader Ewan Henderson as North America GM to tighten AI’s link to day-to-day operations and measurable ROI.

Rimini Street urges ERP users to resist vendor upgrade pressure, touting Smart Path and Agentic AI as cheaper, longer-life alternatives.

Sixthfin debuts Closing in the UK, an AI-enabled tool to automate period-end account reconciliation and tighten financial close controls.

Infostealer attacks are increasingly compromising enterprise SSO, with Flare warning 16% of late-2025 infections exposed identity access.

Qualtrics appoints Oracle veteran Jason Maynard as CEO to spearhead AI expansion and steer its pending USD $6.75 billion Press Ganey deal.

Qualtrics appoints former Oracle executive Jason Maynard as CEO to spearhead AI-driven growth and a USD $6.75 billion Press Ganey deal.

South Korea’s LF picks Rimini Street to support SAP and Oracle systems, cutting maintenance spend and boosting data centre move resilience.

Oracle launches an AI agent platform for retail banks, blending autonomous agents and human oversight to automate and personalise services.

Guidewire has appointed Phil Joel as VP of Solution Advisory for APAC, strengthening support for insurers’ core modernisation and data projects.

IHG adds Oracle’s OPERA Cloud to its approved PMS list, offering franchisees a new cloud option across the Americas and EMEAA estate.

Prometheus expands its APAC enterprise push, hiring three senior leaders in Sydney to drive marketing, customer success and solution engineering.

IHG adds Oracle OPERA Cloud to its approved hotel systems list, giving franchisees a new global option for core property operations.

Discover how Canstar re-engineered month-end close, turning late nights and manual workarounds into a scalable, resilient finance platform.

Big banks and AI leaders signal they will layer new AI tools on top of, not instead of, core enterprise software systems.

AMD’s EPYC chips win wider deployment at AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle as cloud providers ramp AI, HPC and database workloads.

Cloudflare reports government-ordered internet shutdowns plunged in late 2025, even as cable damage, storms and war kept outages high.

Australian CFOs face a turbulent 2026, juggling AI integration, cost pressures, talent gaps, new ESG rules and fragile supply chains.