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ENTERPRISE-GRADE CLOUD APPLICATIONS, ENGINEERED The only vendor that offers: best-practice business processes across functional you want them: in a public, private, or hybrid cloud • Global capabilities, security even the most demanding Executive Summary Today's businesses face unprecedented challenges and changes. Technology advances, such as cloud computing, are accelerating the pace of change, and driving many companies to transform the way they operate. The cloud offers a way for organizations of all sizes to change the mix of IT spend so more resources are devoted to innovation and fewer...

Cloud Computing Enables the Shift of More IT Resources from Maintenance to Innovation systems and technology from the mainframe to client server to the internet. Today, the evolution continues to delivering applications and platforms as a service through the cloud. The cloud radically transforms business by promising lower IT spend, greater agility, and more innovation all of which are factors for increasing cloud adoption. For example, in a recent survey by the Economist Intelligent Unit, 35 percent of executives are planning to use the cloud to drive innovation by 2015, nearly double the percentage...

Three-quarters of finance executives (76 percent) agree that a solid cloud-computing strategy will be important for the next 12 to 18 months. CFO Research, The Business Value of Cloud Computing, A Survey of Senior Transforming Back-Office Solutions with an EnterpriseGrade Cloud At Oracle, we have been delivering cloud services to organizations around the globe for more than a decade, giving us proven expertise in delivering applications on the cloud with the highest levels of security, performance, and -grade cloud applications so organizations can enjoy the benefits of the cloud without having...

Taking Action with Information Information is critical for business and cannot be stale, siloed, or static. And probably one of the biggest challenges is not having the right technology to match the job for employees to be the most effective. Oracle ERP Cloud Service lets knowledge workers move beyond accessing information to actually taking action in three ways: • Within a transaction using embedded analytics • About a process using role-based dashboards and work areas • Across processes using a multi-dimensional reporting platform Embedded analytics deliver actionable information to users within...

Oracle ERP Cloud Service shifts the focus from process to people, and is designed for how knowledge workers like to work today. Capabilities include a consumer-driven user experience that is proven to increase user productivity, as well as applications natively built for mobile devices. Today's mobile workers can use voice capture to record expenses, photo-capture their receipts, and submit expenses for approval from their mobile device. The mobile experience is modern, secure, and robust—supporting both real-time or offline data access. Embedded tools and work spaces facilitate and encourage...

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