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The world of today’s workforce is quickly changing because of technology and the Cloud. New technology like AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Internet of Things are emerging, becoming more popular, and changing business applications forever. Apps help organizations automate, process, and collaborate, and they are becoming more intelligent and adaptive.

A recent Oracle and IDC webcast with Mickey North Rizza, Program Vice President at IDC, and Juergen Lindner, Senior Vice President of Oracle SaaS, explored the challenges and benefits of SaaS integrations.

Business leaders are asking themselves, “Why automation and why now?” Automation brings on a relentless drive towards more productivity. IT releases the mind from routine thinking and encourages creativity. Recently, technology has become mature enough for real-world application, and computing power has increased exponentially. Our ability to apply science to more areas and the increase of access to data has led to a perfect environment for automation.

In today’s workforce, businesses are continually undergoing digital transformations that will drive their organizations forward in an age of technology and modernization. Organizations must adapt in order to leverage the power of data, automation, and emerging technologies (AI, IoT, blockchain, etc.). The question you must ask yourself is if you’re making adequate progress in the modernization of your business or if you’re hindered by 20th century processes—spending considerable time upgrading systems and creating more data siloes with one-off cloud solutions. Is your business digitally determined or digitally distraught? Mickey North Rizza, Program Vice President at IDC, and Juergen Lindner, Senior Vice President of Oracle SaaS, recently discussed the concept of being digitally determined or digitally distraught.

As you start to consider moving your JD Edwards system to the Oracle Cloud, it’s important to understand the different services that Oracle offers. You can choose to optimize your system with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), extend it with Platform as a Service (PaaS), or complement it with Software as a Service (SaaS). To give you a better understanding of each option, check out this breakdown of what each service looks like.

Mark Hurd, the CEO at Oracle, wrote an article about two business opportunities with blockchain that are worth considering. Blockchain is the distributed ledger for sharing information securely across different organizations. This emerging technology is becoming increasingly popular, and CEOs are starting to ask how it can help boost revenue, increase productivity, streamline cost and create a better customer experience. Mark outlined two ways that blockchain can make an impact within organizations.

In HR, it’s easy to fall into the trap of going through unnecessary processes just because they’ve been followed for a long time. We sometimes allow the systems and processes to tell us what to do. Committed to managing people instead of processes, Dr. Wade Larsen of Wagstaff set out to transform his Learning Management System (LMS) and save HR hours. What started as an LMS turned into an entire system overhaul with Oracle HCM Cloud.

Jenner Jensen, Director of Business Solutions, and Brian Hale, Manager of Technical and Cloud Operations, spoke about how Federal Signal, a large multi-national manufacturing company, moved their on-premise JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system to the Oracle Public Cloud.