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When it comes to business computer technology , Oracle is ubiquitous . And when it comes to business applications , Oracle has a similarly strong presence with enterpriseclass products and platforms it has developed in-house , integrated with best of breed solutions it has acquired over the years . In areas such as supply chain planning , PLM , logistics , transportation , warehouse , and global trade management it has established itself as a provider of best-in-class , regardless of the backend ERP . Over the last several years the company has been on a journey to redevelop all of these capabilities for the Cloud – starting with CX , then HCM and ERP , and more recently SCM .
Based in Canada , Dan Bloch is Oracle ’ s VP responsible for customers ’ financial and supply chain needs , predominantly in Eastern Canada and the North Eastern USA , and across multiple industries . For him the cloud is not just the biggest opportunity facing Oracle , but a catalyst for change for almost every aspect of business and consumer life . “ We are finding increasingly that with the accelerating speed of change , and emergence of disruptive technologies such as IoT , companies need a platform that can rapidly adopt new capabilities without having to undergo periodic , massive transformations . That platform is the cloud ”
In the case of IoT , the terabytes of data that now floods in from a myriad of IP enabled devices , RFID , GPS and other sources must be collected , consolidated and thoroughly analysed . Bloch adds : “ This data has the potential to help a supply chain assess what it can do because we get better insight into where materials are prior to manufacturing , for example , and where my post manufacturing products are relative to reaching their endpoint .”
The challenge lies in making all that data usable , he says , and many companies still have some way to go . Gaining insight from that information , and translating that into positive business outcomes is where Oracle differentiates
JULY 2018