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ngela Mazza Teufer is Oracle’s beacon for enterprise applications and cloud across Europe. After a long career at rival, SAP, she rejoined Oracle just nine months ago with a mandate to grow the cloud business across Europe. Paul Esherwood spoke exclusively to the new SVP at OpenWorld and posed a series of questions which are reported below.
Oracle has a unique position in the ERP marketplace Angela’s journey has come full circle having started her career at Oracle in 2002 before joining SAP where she spent the next 13 years, latterly holding the position of regional president. Born in Italy, raised in Switzerland and having lived in the Middle East and France, Angela’s European pedigree and cross-domain experience provides the perfect backdrop to the challenges ahead. It’s easy to see why Angela has risen up the ranks of the ERP elite and now sits at the top table in the world’s premier-branded ERP organisation. Her style is refreshingly open and engaging and we are both at ease as we discuss artificial intelligence, cloud adoption rates and the changing role of the CFO. While walking the floor at OpenWorld, her enthusiasm for technology and customer success is infectious and it’s clear that Oracle’s agenda to revolutionise enterprise applications is in safe and capable hands. A cloud evangelist, Angela cites Oracle’s position in the cloud apps space as the key driver for 28
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moving from SAP. As we stroll past the plethora of Oracle partner stands in the main exhibition hall, I asked when she knew it was time to move and she said: “I could see that cloud was going to be a gamechanger and I wanted to be part of an organisation where cloud was part of its DNA. Oracle’s position in the ERP cloud space is unrivalled and I felt that’s where I needed to be.”
You were at SAP for nearly 15 years. What made you decide to switch from blue to red and what attracted you to Oracle after your time at SAP? AMT Oracle has a unique position in the ERP market. It’s been doing SaaS in the cloud for over ten years now, so is really in the best position to help organisations realise the benefits of moving their business applications to the cloud. As the cloud market has matured and more and more customers look to move some, or all, of their businesses to the cloud, there’s a huge opportunity to help them
