As part of Quest’s Cloud Webinar Series, John Cafolla, Vice President of HCM Cloud Center of Excellence at Oracle, presented on how to get the most out of HCM Cloud and make good use of your solution.

When running a high-stakes project, IT leaders know that they will need a lot of sign-offs before going live. When the City of Atlanta was about to go live with its new all-Cloud ERP strategy, it had to get a blessing from a surprising source - the National Football League. Atlanta was hosting the Super Bowl in February 2019, and the city wanted to go live with its Cloud project before then in order to help the city through the demands of that event, which draws hundreds of thousands of people to the city. 

Caroline Wong, Chief Security Strategist at Cobalt.io, a cybersecurity company, wrote an article in Forbes about 10 cybersecurity blind spots that companies should keep an eye on. These are issues that security teams don’t always see or aren’t always accounting for, but they should be.

Linda Currey Post, Human Capital Management Cloud content strategist for Oracle Content Central, wrote about how colleges and universities see the possibility of Cloud in higher education helping keep college affordable for students.

Joyce Boland, Vice President of Applications Global Marketing at Oracle, wrote about Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s thoughts on the consolidation of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market.

Christiane Soto, Marketing Manager - SMB, wrote an Oracle blog about three reasons why a fully integrated ERP Cloud is smart business for midsize distributors.

Irfan Khan, HCM Cloud Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle, gave a demonstration of the HR Administrator experience in Oracle HCM Cloud. This HCM Cloud HR Administrator experience demonstration shows how HCM Cloud can help HR Administrators complete all of their tasks in their many roles. 

Jim Maholic, Business Value Services, Oracle, wrote about how to align ERP Cloud benefits with business drivers when building a business case for why your organization should implement ERP Cloud.

When building a business case for ERP Cloud, project managers should look beyond the standard ROI and TCO calculations that IT teams have historically relied on. One of the biggest challenges for project managers is thoroughly identifying all of the benefits of a proposed project and ascribing credible, tangible, financial and business value to those benefits. This is critical to a successful business case.

Lynne Sampson, Managing Editor of Oracle’s The Modern Finance Leader, wrote about how a gaming-entertainment company recently leveraged Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud to combat manual processes, customizations, and legacy systems that were preventing them from operating more efficiently and effectively.

Christiane Soto, Senior Content Manager at Oracle, spoke with Charles Chamberlain, Director of IT at Srixon/Cleveland Golf, a golfing equipment manufacturer, about how his company leveraged Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud to improve on-time shipments. Chamberlain has been with the company for over 32 years and recently led the company’s implementation of Oracle SCM Cloud.

In this interview, Chamberlain discussed the challenges that they faced during the implementation, what the old process looked like before SCM Cloud, why they chose Oracle as their Cloud provider, the benefits they have noticed since implementation, and much more. Check out his answers below.