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Oracle OpenWorld is an annual convention held by Oracle Corporation, one of the biggest computer companies in the world. 

Each year, thousands of attendees visit one of the three international venues: San Francisco, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo. The San Francisco convention alone received as many as 60,000 attendees two years ago, while millions watch live-streaming footage. 

It has been established pretty well already that Time Machine has been a reformer in software application testing processes with its ease of use and transparency.

The Oracle Database Cloud Service has been rising to the top as a disrupter in cloud technology, competing well with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft, companies that have led the burgeoning market in recent years.

When you are tasked with validating an application for a new environment, there are certain inherent risks that the application won’t function in the way it is intended.  This is the reality in moving business processes from an on-premises operation to an operation in the cloud. 

We can all admit it – business is a time sensitive endeavor. Whether you are a business-to-consumer or a business-to-business enterprise, time of day, day of week, month of year and year of century can all make an impact on our business.

Timing can be everything when it comes to enterprise software applications.

Maybe you have a deadline set up where in order for people to be eligible to win a sweepstakes or contest you have to get their entries in by midnight on a certain date. Or perhaps you are offering a special online sale for a limited time and the price goes up after 11:59 p.m. Eastern on a certain date.

Everyone is under pressure nowadays to push out new software and software updates on a regular basis. In today’s competitive tech world, there is very little profit margin, so software companies often have to work on volume in order to reach certain profit levels. This also means efficiency in the time spent on software, without compromising quality.

In the heart of the debate season, candidates are in the midst of making promises that the studies show they won't keep. How they will save this and implement that. Then we all get angered when we learn of these disappointing reports of government bureaucrats conducting acts of waste, fraud and abuse of our hard-earned tax money.

The idea has become so prevalent that some of us may actually think our government has no intention of saving us money. They wouldn’t know savings from a hole in the ground.

Much has been made about the various enrollment websites affiliated with health insurance through provisions in the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”). While every state has an exchange, many of them were created by the federal government, with a few created by their states.

In 2014 there was a great deal of backlash over problems with several of the websites: Constant crashing, not providing adequate security for personal information, and just overall poor navigation which often confused many customers.

In healthcare, it is always said that time is of the essence. And even in the administration of healthcare, that seems to be the case, as some federal and state regulations have fairly specific time mandates included in their rules about prescriptions and the administration of care to patients.

But as many healthcare providers don’t operate in a single time zone – and in fact, more than a few have international reach – the concept of time is in some ways even more important.