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Business Transformation News 28 July 2025 - 18 September 2025

Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

In summary, Amazon’s bold embrace of AI in its finance function illustrates a watershed moment for corporate finance at large. Generative AI is rapidly moving from an experimental tool to a core part of how finance teams operate, enabling analysis and decision support at a speed and scale previously unimaginable. While early automation mostly took the drudgery out of accounting, today’s AI is tackling judgment-intensive tasks like interpreting complex regulations, explaining business drivers, and even drafting strategy documents. This has the potential to elevate the role of finance – shifting professionals toward more strategic, analytical work – but it also
Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

From Legacy to AI Leviathan: Inside Oracle’s Unlikely Run

Oracle’s Q1 FY2025: Cloud Growth Sets the Stage for an AI Leap Oracle’s transformation from enterprise software stalwart to cloud contender began to show tangible results in fiscal Q1 2025. In that quarter (ended August 2024), Oracle reported $13.3 billion in revenue, up 7% year-on-year, fueled by strong cloud uptake stocktitan.net. Cloud services revenue grew 21% to $5.6 billion stocktitan.net, with Oracle’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (OCI) business up 45% and its Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications each growing ~16–20% stocktitan.net. Perhaps most telling, Oracle’s remaining performance obligations – essentially its contracted backlog – reached $99 billion, up 53% from the prior year stocktitan.net. This was
The AI Revolution Has Only Just Begun – How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Everything

The AI Revolution Has Only Just Begun – How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Everything

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2011, IBM’s Watson beat Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In 2012, a deep learning system developed by Geoffrey Hinton and colleagues won an image-recognition contest by a large margin, kicking off the deep learning revolution. In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated world Go champion Lee Sedol. In 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and others. In late 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched publicly and reached 100 million users within two months. By 2023, Midjourney had over 15
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