On Friday, Shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), gained 1.74% to $37.46.
Oracle Corporation declared the results of its “Oracle Cloud Agility” study and revealed that businesses worldwide overestimate their agility. While a majority of businesses believe they are agile, Oracle’s research highlights that many organizations cannot flexibly manage workloads or rapidly develop, test, and launch new applications, leaving them poorly prepared to deal with competitive threats. The study also found a lack of awareness among businesses around how technology, like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), can be used to assist address these challenges.
The Oracle Cloud Agility study surveyed 2,263 employees working for large global enterprises to understand business agility in the age of cloud. The results show that 64 percent consider their organization to be agile (i.e., able to adjust quickly to new business opportunities or to iterate new products and services quickly). When looking at the United States, businesses are even more positive, with 66 percent believing their business to be agile.
Respondents are clear about the benefits of agility, with 81 percent stating that the ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch new business applications is either critically important or important to the success of their business, falling to 76 percent in the United States. In particular, nearly one-third of respondents (29 percent) believe the effective mobilization of applications and services is the most important factor in business success recently when it comes to IT infrastructure.
Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems, and related services worldwide.
Shares of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV), declined -0.56% to $37.10, during its last trading session.
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Visa Signature Cardmembers practiced an exclusive golf getaway at Pebble Beach Resorts® in California featuring a private golf clinic with professional golfer Peter Jacobsen. This was the sixth annual Rapid Rewards event at Pebble Beach and second featuring Peter Jacobsen who shared five tips for playing better golf.
Rapid Rewards Access Events are not the only perks of being a Rapid Rewards® Cardmember. The points earned can be redeemed towards gift cards, merchandise, booking flights, hotels, and car rentals. Additional events Cardmembers can still enjoy in 2015 comprise a Winemaker Dinner in Houston, Tex., a Nonstop Love Concert Series in Dallas, Tex., Live In The Vineyard in Napa, CA, and a Luxury Beach and Golf Getaway in Cancun, Mex.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates passenger airlines that provide planned air transportation services in the United States and near-international markets. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 665 Boeing 737 aircraft; and had 12 Boeing 717 aircraft.
Finally, CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE:CX), ended its last trade flat, and closed at $7.68.
CEMEX, declared that it has been comprised in Fortune’s Change the World list, a ranking that recognizes 50 companies worldwide that have made a sizable impact on major global social or environmental problems as part of their competitive strategy. In the 16th place, CEMEX is the only Latin-American based company comprised and the only company from the construction materials sector.
CEMEX has been selected among over 200 nominees, thanks to its Patrimonio Hoy program. The aim of this acknowledgement, according to Fortune editor Allan Murray, is “to shine a spotlight on companies that have made noteworthy progress in addressing major social problems as part of their core business strategy.” Moreover, Murray considers that “business in pursuit of profit still offers the best hope of addressing many of mankind’s most deeply rooted problems. Companies that are making genuine efforts to change the world for the better should be encouraged.”
To assemble the list, Fortune worked together with FSG, a non-profit social impact consulting firm, and business, academic and nonprofit experts around the world. The evaluation considered four criteria: the degree of business innovation involved the measurable impact at scale on an important social challenge, the contribution of the shared-value activities to the company’s profitability and competitive advantage, and the significance of the shared-value effort to the overall business.
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., a building materials company, produces, markets, distributes, and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and other construction materials in Mexico, the United States, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia.
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