Cloud Leader, Week of February 20, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Data-Powered At a ceremony in Bermuda on February 14, I had the privilege of seeing ORACLE TEAM USA unveil the sailing machine it will take into its defense of the America's Cup. Adhering to the new specs for next summer's competition, the boat is considerably shorter and lighter than the one the team sailed to victory on San Francisco Bay four years ago. Among the technical innovations on this aerodynamically sculpted catamaran are redesigned undercraft hydrofoils and an improved hydraulic control system, which should make it possible for the boat to glide above water for 100 percent of the racing time during the Cup finals on Bermuda's Great Sound. It's also a computational machine, analyzing data collected from as many as 1,000 sensors attached to myriad boat and sailor body parts to improve performance. Read more on this data and engineering marvel. — Rob Preston, Oracle Editorial Director VIDEO: Real-Time Data, High-Speed Action More Cloud News GE Digital: Beyond a 'Cartoonish Version' of the Internet of Things The cloud is vital to GE's industrial internet ambition. The idea is to create a platform that helps companies collect and analyze reams of data coming from GE's and other companies' industrial assets, to improve uptime and efficiency. "If you aren't on the new cloud architecture, you're not going to be able to compete, either as the one who uses it or the one who sells it," says Bill Ruh, GE's chief digital officer. Learn how Oracle and GE work together. Safra Catz: Always Be Transforming The hardest part of digitally transforming a company is not the technology—it's the sociology, Oracle CEO Safra Catz says. It's hard for employees to accept change, so it's important that they quickly see a tangible benefit in their daily job. This is where the cloud helps. Because cloud applications can be implemented in months rather than the years it used to take with on-premises systems, such improvements come faster. "The truth is that technology is valuable only if it helps you run your organization better," Catz says. Get more advice about surviving digital transformation. How to Love Tax Reporting in the Cloud Companies can improve their tax processes while more easily complying with the latest global regulations, using a new module in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud (Oracle EPM Cloud) service. Based on Oracle's on-premises tax software but re-engineered for the cloud, this module delivers global tax reporting best practices out of the box. Three advantages this module delivers. 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