Oracle’s own Arvind Rajan spoke at COLLABORATE 19 about how to lift and shift your PeopleSoft solution to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and begin leverage the OCI File Storage Service (FSS). The session gave an overview of OCI FSS and walked through a customer case study of how it can be leveraged within an organization.

Nancy Swanson, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Oracle Database Appliance Portfolio, wrote about how companies can move to a new stage of competitiveness and growth when they transform their organizations on-premises or in the Cloud.

An increasing number of businesses are discovering that infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a catalyst for digital transformation, accelerated application development, and increased customer engagement through mobile applications and social interactions. Gartner forecasts that IaaS spending will grow 27.6 percent and reach nearly $40 billion in 2019. That would be a nearly $10 billion increase from last year.

If your company is looking to transform systems that have an overwhelming quantity, diversity, and/or complexity, you fall under the umbrella of “large scale migrations.” These situations often involve multiple business units, and there are very demanding operational and security requirements in production workloads.

Kyle York, Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and General Manager of the Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit, recently explained the four core pillars on which Oracle built the Generation 2 Cloud. The four pillars of the second generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are deep enterprise expertise, outstanding price performance, security-first architecture, and a commitment to openness.

In today’s world of technology, the rate of disruption is fast and constant. To keep up with customer needs, the PeopleSoft team is constantly updating the applications strategy and roadmap that addresses changing user expectations, new business models, shifting landscapes of competitors, rapidly evolving technology, and constant cost reductions. Rebekah Jackson, Vice President of Product Strategy for PeopleSoft, walked through the main investment areas within PeopleSoft. She also shared the latest updates to PeopleSoft Recruiting, Workforce Administration, Talent Development, Credit to Cash, Financial Management and Operations, Procure to Pay, and IT.