Oracle updates HCM Cloud with help desk app, offline mobile support

The Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud falls under the company's general (and quite formidable) Oracle Cloud.

Oracle on Wednesday announced a series of updates to the company's industry-specific Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud.

Developed natively within the HCM Cloud, it features full case management and escalation capabilities for complex issue resolution, as well as the same workflows, analytics, social capabilities and user interface as the HCM Cloud.The enterprise software giant is adding a help desk application designed to give HR managers more visibility into the workforce and employees a more user friendly portal for accessing HR resources.

HCM Cloud is also gaining a portal where employees can search for volunteer opportunities.

Beyond HCM updates, the tech titan also added a few new features to the Oracle Learning Cloud. First launched last year, Learning Cloud technically falls under the umbrella of the Oracle HCM Cloud, which in turn falls under the company's general Oracle Cloud.

The platform promises contextual and social learning functions, educating users in real-time with personalized recommendations based on job types and skills.

The latest additions include new capabilities that allows learning content to be embedded into the context of business processes. Oracle Learning Cloud now also includes an offline mobile application to enable training activities without internet or broadband connectivity.

Microsoft confirms built-in Hyper-V containers are coming to Windows 10 testers soon

Another new feature in the 'Anniversary' update to Windows 10 will be built-in Hyper-V Container support, Microsoft officials are now confirming.

Microsoft is building support for Hyper-V containers into Windows 10 client, company officials publicly acknowledged late last week.

On the last day of its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft announced that -- as rumored last year -- container support is coming to Windows 10.

Microsoft officials said the feature will be opt-in in "upcoming flights" of Windows 10 for Windows Insiders. (I've seen a screen shot from one Insider, Daniel Gut, that indicates that container support is already an opt-in option in current Windows 10 Enterprise Insider builds, for what it's worth.)

To get access to containers in the test builds, Insiders will need to enable both the Containers and the Hyper-V features once they're available to Insiders testing Windows 10 Redstone 1, a k a the Windows 10 "Anniversary" update due out this summer.

From Microsoft's April 1 blog post:

Bringing Hyper-V Containers natively into Windows 10 ... "will further empower developers to build amazing cloud applications benefiting from native container capabilities right in Windows. Since Hyper-V Containers utilize their own instance of the Windows kernel, your container is truly a server container all the way down the kernel. Plus, with the flexibility of Windows container runtimes containers built on Windows 10 can be run on Windows Server 2016 as either Windows Server Containers or Hyper-V Containers."

Based on information from a Microsoft presentation at Build last week, these containers will support Nano Server only to start, though Windows Server Core support is still coming.

Nano Server offers Windows Server customers the option of running Windows Server stripped down to its smallest footprint. Nano Server is about 1/20th the size of Windows Server Core, and will consist only of the essential components (Hyper-V, Clustering, Networking, Storage, .Net, Core CLR) -- and no user interface.

Insight Into Information Technology in 3years

About a decade ago, there was lots of latest stuff that required to be created — local area network, directory servers, mail servers, company laptops — and lots of baby boomers who still required helped to switch into a processed computerized office. Those days are long gone.

Most of those technologies run themselves nowadays and don’t need lots of effort and time from IT professionals to deploy them and keep them running. IT professionals likewise pay lots less time doing repairs, maintenance, and user technical support. Replacement is the new support. In 2015, organizations can simply swap out their out-of-whack laptop computer, smartphone, or tablet to IT and straight off get a replacement device which will connect with the private cloud and/or public cloud and instantly transfer the user’s apps, settings, and data. A good insight into that is the introduction of Microsoft Office 365

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