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News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy |
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Bold Innovation Strategy
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to their company's cloud
"transformation," but Jaime Vogel has taken
Australian Finance Group all-in as the company
expands into new markets and competes with digitally native fintech
startups.
Vogel and his team have migrated more than 80 applications, as well
as AFG's IT infrastructure, to the cloud. Why? To redeploy huge
chunks of IT spending that had gone to system support tasks to
customer-facing, revenue-generating innovation projects.
That migration enabled AFG to shut down its two data centers in May
2016, saving the company about US$385,000 a year in operational
costs and bringing a modern feature set, along with new APIs that
improve integration and automation. But the total benefit is much
greater, because the cloud transition has freed up money for Vogel
to hire developers and shift some of his people to more-productive
work. Says Vogel: "We needed to ensure that whatever we're spending
on IT was giving us the best bang for our buck." |
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—Rob Preston, editorial director, Oracle Content Central |
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Don't-Miss Cloud Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld
A recent study of three major Oracle user groups revealed that
business leaders want more education about cloud adoption. What
better way to learn than at Oracle OpenWorld, with more than 800
cloud-related sessions to help navigate migration challenges? Here,
Alyssa Johnson, president-elect of the Oracle Applications Users
Group, lists her can't-miss cloud
sessions at the conference, taking place September
18 through September 22 in San Francisco. |
How Dow Chemical Connects with Customers Worldwide
Dow Chemical brought Oracle Marketing Cloud capabilities in on the
commercial side of its business to drive marketing execution and
close the vacuum between marketing and sales. This helps the
company find new growth, says Dow director Hubertus Devroye, who
says the company is now using the system to experiment with social
listening initiatives. Learn more about how Dow reaches
customers. |
Two Key Steps in Cloud Integration Strategy
In the cloud era, the pressure is on IT to integrate systems even
faster to seize new business opportunities. IT must help "build the
computing architecture required to increase the agility of the
lines of business and keep them responsive to developments in the
market," says Vikas Anand, senior director for Oracle SOA Suite and
Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Here are the two necessary
steps in a new approach to integration. |
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Profitability Analytics: Reach for the Cloud |
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Cloud Innovator |
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Grupo
Aeromexico Uses Analytics to Expand Its Network and Double
Profits
Grupo Aeromexico has structured its business to deliver premium
services to business-class travelers. Even so, "since moving to the
cloud, we've been able to maintain the lowest cost structure among
all competing full-service airlines in the Americas," says CFO
Ricardo Sanchez-Baker. With operating profit up more than 46
percent since 2014, Grupo Aeromexico points to cloud analytics as
the linchpin in its success. Learn about the airline's soaring
business. |
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