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Better
Business Through Data
CFOs who want more-strategic, revenue-driving roles should move
their financial planning and management technology—enterprise
resource planning (ERP)—into the cloud, said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd
at Oracle CloudWorld last week. The cost-saving reasons are clear:
the cloud eliminates a lot of routine IT spending by standardizing
processes, frees more IT dollars for innovation, and gives
companies rapid access to the most up-to-date features without
costly upgrades—"on the supplier's dollar, not yours," Hurd said.
"The move to the cloud is about a new business model."
In addition to the cost savings, cloud applications give CFOs
better, faster access to corporate data. This advantage has huge
implications for everything from sensing market shifts to
calculating inventory needs on a real-time basis. "Data is key to
unlocking better business outcomes," Hurd said. Get more
insight. |
— Michael Hickins, Oracle Director of Content
Video: Oracle's Mark Hurd
Calls the Cloud Shift 'Inevitable' |
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Eight
Steps to ERP Cloud Migration Success
With something as critical as ERP, even short amounts of downtime
are detrimental. Avoiding disruption in an ERP migration to the
cloud requires the right team: the right partner and also internal
team members passionate about making the shift work. Learn about the next seven
steps to success. |
Richard Branson: Need 'Perpetual Revolution' in Companies
Serial entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, as an April Fools prank in
the 1990s, claimed that his company, record retailer Virgin
Megastore, had invented a box that could hold every song ever
recorded, making every Megastore competitor obsolete. In 2001 the
Apple iPod essentially did exactly what Branson had said, putting
Megastore out of business. "There almost needs to be a perpetual
revolution going on" within any company, Branson told attendees at
the recent National Retail Federation show. Get more lessons from
Branson. |
The Case for a Fine-Grained Approach to Profit and Loss
According to Oracle research, 78 percent of finance leaders say
that accurate cost information is one of their top targets for
improvement. Too often CFOs must make decisions based on a
troublingly incomplete view of profit and costs, due to fragmented
systems and a siloed approach to data. The cloud can help, because
modern cloud-based profit and cost management systems are built
with transparency and accessibility in mind, making vital
information available to finance teams and lines of business.
Learn about the cloud's
other advantages. |
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10 Cloud Predictions for 2017 (pdf) |
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The
Cloud and the Maker Movement
Members of the DIY culture known as the Maker Movement have always
been quick to embrace new technologies on which to build their
inventions. Their latest darling? The cloud. It gives tinkerers the
same affordable compute power and array of apps and platform
services as enterprise users. Rick Perotti used Oracle Sales Cloud
plus a series of online services to create "Homunculus," a
voice-driven virtual assistant. "When I speak to Homunculus, it
goes out to a cloud service to convert my voice to text and then
sends the text back. It then uses RESTful services to talk to
Oracle Sales Cloud and have it pull back my day's schedule,"
Perotti says. Learn about two other
cloud-fueled DIY projects. |
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