Cloud Leader, Week of July 18, 2016 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note A Forced March to the Cloud As with every major information technology movement, the transition to the cloud has its aggressive early movers and its reluctant followers. Oracle Senior Vice President Chuck Hollis argues that the stakes are too high to remain passive any longer. More than a few executive teams, Hollis writes, are pushing their reluctant IT departments by segmenting their budgets into "cloud" and "non-cloud," setting long-term goals for how much will be cloud by certain dates, and then requiring their IT leaders to figure out how to get there. "Some will argue that setting a cloud quota is an overly blunt, ham-fisted approach to a complex problem," Hollis maintains. "Others will argue that the business has little choice but to forcibly march IT in the required direction. Both sides are right." —Rob Preston, editorial director at Oracle Content Central More Cloud News Pfizer Taps Cloud Services to Boost Efficiency of Clinical Trials Clinical trials cost a small fortune, which is why pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, maker of drugs such as Advil and Xanax, is turning to a cloud platform to manage and monitor steps including trial creation, data collection and cleansing, and submission. "Clinical teams will be able to access study data through Oracle's single platform cloud service, eliminating the need to send data back and forth to contract research organizations, saving us time and reducing the cost of our clinical studies," says Pfizer Vice President Rob Goodwin. Learn more. IoT at Work What is Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service? This cloud-based platform as a service lets customers "securely connect to any device generating data, perform real-time and predictive analytics on device data, and extend business processes within enterprise applications," explains Oracle's Siddhartha Agarwal, who adds that it also extends value by integrating with many other Oracle Cloud services. Read more in an Oracle Magazine interview. Report: Tech-Based Cost Controls Critical for Restaurants Which costs and time-wasters must restaurants do a better job of managing? Mainly labor and inventory costs, as well as operational losses, according to a report from Oracle and food industry consultancy Technomic, which pinpoints several areas where technology can help. The cloud is one way they can reduce costs and system complexity. Learn more about the report. 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