Today’s data-driven age is all about harnessing the power of emerging technologies and cloud capabilities to drive digital disruption for businesses. With the rapidly changing landscape of cloud technologies, it’s up to CIOs to guide the alliance between business and IT by executing digital strategies that deliver real business value to both teams. The fierce competition and heightened pace of innovation demand more agility from companies to prepare for disruption and champion it for success. In this e-book, Oracle explores the future of the CIO and how to navigate the digital unknown to drive value from vision.

See data in new ways

Organizations can get the most out of data by using cloud technologies to unlock limitless possibilities for insight. Today, businesses can leverage a mix of IT solutions – traditional, cloud, and edge computing – while embracing emerging technologies like automation, artificial intelligent (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning (ML). When applied, these solutions can place analytics directly in the hands of business users while dramatically reducing human effort.

With Oracle Cloud, we provide an ecosystem of analytics with built-in intelligence. Whether you’re streamlining analytics reports, integrating it with business applications, or curating function-specific insights – it simplifies  processes to enable insight to action for business leaders.

Champion innovation

In a cloud-enabled world, there is growing importance of leveraging intelligent automation to cut administration costs. Organizations can focus on higher-value tasks such as identifying new revenue streams, spotting trends, and developing new applications. Cloud technologies enable teams to run the latest technologies like containers, microservices, serverless databases, and digital assistants. In addition, they provide a unified platform and networking fabric to make development seamless. Intelligent automation enables IT to move existing applications to the cloud without rearchitecting them, while preserving existing investments. Ultimately, business leaders can deliver more timely, actionable insights to stakeholders, enhance customer experiences, and unlock new business perceptions – all while improving operational efficiency.

Reduce expenditures

A core function of the CIO is building profitability while investing in new technologies that foster growth. Artificial intelligence, special provisioning and serverless functions are key tools in driving innovation. However, the costs of those capabilities can add up. In order to ensure a cost-effective investment, businesses need an advanced cloud platform that can support data security, productivity and innovation. It also means having a simple licensing model to reduce the cost and complexity of owning and operating an on-premises infrastructure. Meanwhile, cloud technologies can automate key database functions and accelerate IT delivery for specific initiatives. Businesses can even simulate benefits of proposed optimizations before implementation to drive better decision-making.

Safeguard data

As cloud adoption continues to rise, cybersecurity will continue to be a primary challenge amongst C-suite leaders. With more data, devices, and applications being used across businesses, the level of risk compounds. In order to protect critical workloads when migrating to the cloud, organizations will need a solution that leverages intelligent automation and sophisticated analytics to protect against advancing threats. This includes 24/7 security management to safeguard customer data and controls within the application and database layers that work with hardened infrastructure security features. It’s up to business leaders to convince stakeholders that data is safe across all web application hosting environments – on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud. This will be critical for IT to avoid spending excessive time and resources battling daily security breaches.

Oracle’s Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure

Built from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, only Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure is built to run the first-ever self-repairing, self-tuning, self-driving Oracle Autonomous Database and advanced analytics capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud. Move your on-premises database to the Oracle Cloud with virtually no downtime and leverage automated tools that eliminate complexity, human error, and manual management.

We offer unique architecture and capabilities that:

  • Support all legacy workloads while delivering modern cloud development tools
  • Offer open-source options so there’s no modification, trade-offs, or lock-in
  • Deliver unmatched security, performance, and savings via embedded artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Provide industry-leading price performance with pay-as-you-go predictability
  • Feature comprehensive, open, secure, intelligent, and integrated cloud layer

As the future poses new challenges for today’s business leaders, it’s critical that companies have a reliable and comprehensive solution that can prepare them for digital disruption. Oracle is dedicated to providing customers with the right tools and capabilities that can execute initiatives and drive outcomes across the business. 

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