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| | Editor's Note |  | Be Like Apple and Alibaba
In the new digital world, business and technology leaders must think a lot more about the whole than the individual pieces. And thinking in terms of platforms rather than individual departmental functions will point them in the right direction. Consider the likes of Apple, Facebook, and Alibaba. Take away each of their platforms, and what's left won't be recognizable.
Although digital platforms might be technically sophisticated, there's a strong case for conceptual simplicity and elegance. Think in terms of an application platform, an information platform, and an infrastructure platform. Read more about how and why such platforms help companies survive and thrive in the digital economy in this analysis by Oracle senior VP Chuck Hollis. | — Rob Preston, Oracle Editorial Director
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| | More Cloud News | | | How the Cloud Can Add Value Fast to On-Premises ERP
Rather than reprogram or replace core SAP or Oracle ERP systems, many larger enterprises are adding cloud-based planning, budgeting, reporting, cost management, and other nontransactional functions around those core systems. Read how Kraft Heinz used this approach to create a single planning and budgeting system for 1,500 finance users across 40 countries, in a postmerger environment. | Seven Changes for Software Developers in 2017
Are your teams ready to double the number of applications releases they do in a year? Businesses will need that pace of tech innovation to survive, argues Oracle vice president Siddhartha Agarwal, because the cloud enables you—and rivals—to launch and scale an app so much faster than before. What are Agarwal's other six predictions for developers? | Two Technical Choices That Reveal Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Strategy
Organizations are still cautious about moving mission-critical workloads to the cloud, in part because the first-mover infrastructure-as-a-service suppliers haven't catered enough to enterprise needs. Here are just two examples of the IaaS technical decisions Oracle has made that reveal where it expects to differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services in meeting those enterprise needs. |
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