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The NET Effect Newsletter: November 2022

IT Supplier News, Insight, and Market Intelligence

Taking the Spin Out of Oracle’s “Growth” and What It Really Costs You | Michael Welsh

While Oracle’s cloud offerings have come a long way, the level of growth is overstated, if not feigned altogether. Oracle’s true gift is the ability to spin growth numbers into a ‘story’ of organic growth based on ‘innovation and superior products.’

Calling all Mid-Market Organizations Challenged with Reducing IT Spend, Learn How to Save on IT Like the F500 Do | Austin Zolman

In the upcoming recession, decreasing IT spend is far more beneficial to your organization than cutting staff.

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Oracle Cerner Merger 6 Months Later

In December of 2021, NET(net) experts published a series of outcome predictions on the Oracle Cerner merger. It turns out many of our predictions came to fruition. The United States' largest healthcare system, the Veterans Administration, among others, have seen setbacks and disruptions.

PREDICTION:

“(Cerner) Clients should be prepared for some disruption as Oracle will undoubtedly look to shift away from AWS and migrate Cerner’s EHR to Oracle’s cloud.”

OUTCOME:

VA warns 41,500 patients that Oracle Cerner EHR issues may have affected care Learn More

PREDICTION:

“…..this is Oracle’s largest acquisition ever and further evidence of their desire to buy their way into markets and Cloud. With this acquisition, Oracle will likely accomplish both in the long run, but as we have seen in the past, it will be at your expense (literally and figuratively).”

OUTCOME:

VA extends delay of upcoming electronic health record deployments to June 2023 to address technical and other system performance issues Learn More

Data shows Oracle Cerner EHR hit with nearly 500 major incidents since initial rollout Learn More

VA Announces Efforts to Address Oracle Cerner EHR Outages

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