This post was contributed by Shanelle Thadani, Product Marketing Manager.

 

In this second installment of our “Designed for Change” series, we’ll showcase the ways businesses have changed their relationship with the cloud—using it to drive innovation, expand growth, and improve performance.

Many organizations faced new challenges in 2020 by jumping into survival mode, and instead of using this time to rethink how they motivate employees, exceed customer expectations, and even design for growth. In other words, they derive opportunity out of challenge, and drive greater value for their business.

Largely influenced by the global pandemic, cloud spending rose 37% to $29 billion during the first quarter of 2020. Remote work is increasing reliance on cloud technology’s computing, storage, and networking capabilities. With pressing demands for greater infrastructure capacity, agile business environments, and cost-effective services, the cloud provides a reliable and innovative platform for organizations to expand.

It’s possible to transform your business during this time – to move faster, go further, and get to market first. The cloud is a secret ingredient.

Move Faster 

A huge driver of cloud adoption comes from the integration and advancement of automated systems. The new generation of cloud features intelligent automation to help businesses speed up their operations and enable agile processes, so they can move faster.

The applications running on Oracle’s cloud gain the benefits of autonomous services that span across labor, systems, and decisions. For example:

  • Organizations with labor shortages can leverage automation to improve productivity and reduce the number of people needed to generate an output.
  • Oracle Cloud’s automation migration simplifies and streamlines migration projects across every part of a business, so you can more quickly stand up new services to keep customers satisfied.
  • With the help of machine learning, companies can speed up operations, while making them more efficient, more agile, and less dependent on human intervention.  
  • Although it may seem daunting, refactoring applications to run in a cloud native architecture is also an excellent way to maximize performance for your business.
  • Oracle’s cloud also provides the scalability and performance necessary to support the sophisticated analytics models and big data initiatives you need to propel your business forward during times of change. 

Go Further

The transformation of the IT role demonstrates just how significantly technology is reshaping the business landscape. Case in point: ninety-five percent of CIOs now say their role is expanding beyond traditional IT functions. IT leaders are shedding the conventional roles that were associated with maintaining data centers, and now shifting toward being innovation drivers for their organizations.

  

95% of surveyed CIOs say their role is expanding beyond traditional IT functions.

 

 

 

 

As cloud services have the opportunity to relieve the workforce from monotony, it frees up more time and resources that can also be dedicated to strategic experimentation and creative initiatives. With Oracle Cloud, it combines the compute power to scale complex AI models with the intelligence of advanced technologies for sophisticated insights and accelerated innovation. IT leaders can access new technologies that increase speed and add new ways to answer problems, all on an effective budget. It empowers businesses to disrupt and go further – delivering a capable platform that enables new forms of creativity and helps convert ideas to real value.

Be First

The true value for businesses comes from how these next-generation clouds are driving advancements across the human workforce and across industries. In order for organizations to push boundaries during this critical time, executives are being called to address organizational issues by introducing cultural changes and new ways of using technology to address problems. It’s no longer about what companies can do with the cloud—it’s about how fast and efficiently they can act on the benefits of cloud.

IT leaders have been rethinking their next steps, both short and long-term. They not only want to get their business through this current crisis, as well as set a new standard for operating their entire IT organization—all while closely tracking progress.

Transforming applications that have been traditionally left behind on-premises is an important step in becoming that change maker. Whether it’s seeking new levels of automation, extracting more value from data, or elevating security, it’s possible for a senior IT leader to make changes across an entire organization.

Oracle Cloud helps you go further, move faster, be first – even during times of crisis – with a next-generation cloud that offers:

  • Exclusive, built-in automation and migration tools for moving traditional on-premises workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Making it faster to move to cloud.
  • Higher performance, and significantly lower costs than many other clouds provide for the same workloads. So, you can go further in Oracle’s cloud.
  • Autonomous services and advanced analytics to create innovative applications and enable new business models with big data. So, you can be the first to disrupt.

The way we do business has fundamentally changed, and the cloud has been key to businesses not only surviving but thriving. By taking the focus off of manual tasks, and leveraging automation, organizations have been able to stay nimble while still meeting demand.

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