Quest International Users Group recently hosted a session “Oracle Cloud – A Platform and a Path to the Cloud” as part of Quest Experience Week. This session provided a great overview of resources available through Cloud Customer Connect and Quest International Users Group and how a complete cloud platform can help change the economics of innovation.

In a previous blog I addressed the resources and opportunities available through Cloud Customer Connect and Quest International Users Group. Today I would like to provide some information on how a complete cloud platform can help your organization achieve transformation and innovation.

Sachin Sathaye, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, IaaS & PaaS, Oracle Inc. suggests an additional way for businesses to achieve transformation and innovation – integration of Cloud resources. He begins by pointing out that most businesses use their IT budget for maintenance – not for innovation. He’s right; maintenance isn’t going to put your business ahead of the competition. Your business needs to make the most of the cloud and the innovation it offers.

Sathaye gives a short list of what won’t work: legacy data centers and on-premise re-creations. Instead, Sathaye advises to consider the six different journeys to the Oracle Cloud (he calls it the only cloud you’ll ever need) starting with your data center moving to Oracle Public Cloud and ending with a new company born in the Oracle Cloud. For each of the journeys, he outlines the basic steps, describes the benefits and gives video testimonials from businesses.

Cost savings and high performance (speed, availability, ease of access for compute and storage) are just a few of the benefits he covers that are sure to grab your attention.

The more your business integrates the resources of Oracle Cloud, the more opportunities your business will have to capitalize on innovations offered:

• Autonomous database – self-driving data warehousing that eliminates human error and is self-repairing and elastic to suit your business needs
• Real-time security
• Tools to accommodate apps
• Emerging technology services for Blockchain, AI/ML, and Chatbots to build innovative apps
• Analytics for Data Lakes at scale