Kraft Heinz cooks up cloud success | Hidden Java features

Week of August 2, 2021

Kraft Heinz taps the cloud in a quest to become one of the best finance organizations in the food and beverage industry. The state of Maine brings innovation to the public sector with speedy analytics. Startup Halo Therapeutics uses the cloud to create COVID-19 treatments to complement vaccines. And get more from Java 16 and the upcoming Java 17 with hidden features.

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“We now have visibility of our entire P&L down to the SKU level. We can allocate our costs globally down to the SKU level for the first time. That’s exciting.”

—Eric Mendez, Associate Director, Finance and Information Technology, Kraft Heinz

Planning for the wurst

One of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, Kraft Heinz turned to Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to create strategies for business success for beloved products, including Oscar Mayer meats, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

COVID-19 treatments

Startup Halo Therapeutics is developing COVID-19 treatments it hopes will complement vaccines and work across virus strains, starting with a nasal spray to stop the virus from spreading in the body. Oracle for Research delivered the high-performance cloud computing needed to develop the treatments.

Maine advantage

The state of Maine brings an entrepreneurial spirit to the public sector, modernizing analytics to provide crucial information to the state legislature and other government decision-makers—a process that formerly required days or weeks and now happens in real time.

Twice a winner

A CFO who led one global company’s migration to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP takes on the challenge a second time, at a new company. Tina Mashiko shares lessons for a successful migration—chiefly, upgrade your out-of-date business processes in parallel to technology.

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Manual automation

Startup Gadget Software uses data science, natural language processing, and machine learning running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to turn static PDF user manuals into more useful, dynamic mobile apps, says Gadget’s Max Riggsbee.

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