Innovation is based on the inherent need of digital transformation. Today, organizations are seeing the need to innovate more than ever. If businesses want to effectively innovate, they must rethink what it means to change and digitally transform their organization. In the “Designed for Change” five-part podcast series, hosts Michael Hickins and Barbara Darrow were joined by several IT leaders addressing how organization have changed and remained resilient to give way to freedom and digital transformation. The series covers how businesses have spent less time managing IT and more time innovating.
Adapting to change with the power of data
Emerging technology trends took priority when the markets changed drastically. The ability to adapt to change became critical as businesses needed to strategically plan how to move their company forward. Samia Tarraf, Accenture’s North America Business Group Lead emphasizes in this podcast, how exactly customers were able to adapt in a critical and unexpected environment. She states that two truths became evident. First, more organizations have embraced that every business is now a technology business. And second, that exponential transformation and human experience serve as the future of our work. Given these findings, an opportunity presented itself for businesses to take advantage of using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze data. For example, finance processes have taken advantage of how, when and where to optimize. AI and machine learning have provided companies with extra levels of efficiency that were not able to be done before to increase operational efficiency and adopt full-scale processes.
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Harnessing the power of an intelligent cloud
Transitioning to the cloud allows organizations to be more agile. However, many companies are now expected to move faster than anticipated. In this episode, Holger Mueller discusses how businesses have had to implement new digital strategies, knowledge, and skills to modernize operations and various parts of the business. According to the Longitude report, 53% of businesses have migrated most or all their essential workloads to the cloud, allowing more time for IT to focus on next steps. Oracle Cloud allows companies to quickly adapt to change with a scalable cloud, autonomous services, and data at the center of business agility. Customers can stay ahead of the competition by embedding intelligence into their cloud to adjust with the growth and speed of their organization.
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Making the right investments for an evolving security landscape
As companies shifted to work from home, security became a top priority as online meetings grew. Phishing attacks, potential risks of public Wi-Fi and security threats became amongst the top concerns for organizations as they navigated drastic change. According to Wipro’s State of Cybersecurity Report 2020, since cybersecurity attacks have gone up by 47% since remote work began, having the right tools and processes in place to manage security threats is critical to ensuring confidence in cloud applications. The zero trust approach for cloud security helps to manage threats and drive more policy-based efforts as shared by Niranjan Haridass, Director at KPMG’s Risk Advisory Practice in the third episode of the Designed for Change podcast mini-series.
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More data, more value
In the fourth episode of the Designed for Change five-part mini-series podcasts, Julian Dontecheff, managing director and global database lead at Accenture dives into future trends of data and technology and ways it may impact IT. Including the use of unstructured data and non-relational data is becoming more prominent, furthering the need for a fully converged database. With the need for scalability, Oracle Database allows for the ability to work with all types of data, including bringing data in from multiple sources or organizing duplicate data for IT to spend more time analyzing data. In the future, having databases that can accommodate more workloads and solves challenges with security, data replication, backups and monitoring helps companies focus on the future of their business.
How industries and customers differentiate with cloud
Various sectors and industries that have adopted the cloud now have maintained a greater level of efficiency while maintaining legacy systems. For example, with new integrations, extensions and configurability, customers have been able to work with SaaS applications, creating the opportunity to work with the entire cloud portfolio. Amongst other factors, one common denominator driving change in today’s industries is the cloud, allowing for more innovation and multi-faceted ways to use innovative technologies. In the final episode of the podcast series, Chris Hollies, principal architect, and CTO of Capgemini weighs in on leveraging the cloud to drive competitive differentiation.
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As organizations continue to make strides towards their digital transformation, the cloud remains the center of innovation and acceleration. Throughout the Designed for Change series, discover how automation impacts a business’s ability to innoate and adapt to change and how Oracle can support every digital transformation journey.
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