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Oracle HCM 26C brings 275 changes across 12 modules on August 21. Opkey Release Advisor turns the full catalog into a role-based testing and communication plan so HR and IT teams go-live on schedule.

Oracle Cloud SCM 26C delivers new usability and planning enhancements that help supply chain teams respond faster to change, improve end to end visibility, and reduce risk from quarterly Oracle updates.

Oracle Cloud Financials 26C is a major release with 137 changes across 12 modules, going live in production on August 21, 2026, whether you act on them or not. For finance and IT teams, the main work is deciding which changes need attention, testing, and change management before that date, instead of reading long release notes.  Opkey Release Advisor helps you […]

Mergers and acquisitions are tough. Among the myriad of integration tasks, integrating enterprise and cloud apps stands out.  Post-merger enterprise app integration programs are massive projects and often fail for the same reasons as other large cloud and enterprise app programs: fragmented, manual processes increase timelines and risk.   The testing gap in M&A integration  No single view of real business processes  After an acquisition, you inherit two enterprise environments with overlappi...

In Q1 of this year, we surveyed over 200 IT leaders.  In light of daily news about massive tech layoffs, one of the most interesting (and optimistic) findings was that IT leaders plan to reinvest freed resources from automating the enterprise application lifecycle primarily into employee experience, innovation, higher‑value work, and backlog reduction, rather than simply cutting costs.  Report Discover key […]

In Opkey’s 2026 State of Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management survey of over 200 IT leaders, expectations for the use of agentic AI in managing enterprise applications are nothing short of transformational: most plan to adopt it, and they’re already planning how to reinvest the time and money they expect to save.  Report Discover key trends, challenges, and insights from the 2026 State of Enterprise Testing & App […]

In 2026, generic AI is no longer enough for mission‑critical enterprise apps. CIOs need domain-specific, agentic AI with high inference accuracy, strong governance, and a clear AI posture focused on control and risk.

The 2026 State of Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management survey makes one thing plain: production issues with enterprise applications are recurring costs that measure in millions. Over half of IT leaders report that configuration or process changes cause production issues at least sometimes, often, or almost always, and many place the annual cost of those incidents between $500K and $5M or more. For a CIO and […]