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The way of business solutions

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Sohil Kothari Co-founder Prodware Solutions

TREND THOUGHTS Oracle: The Undisputed Leader in Innovation

INDUSTRY WATCH Time to Unlock New Business Opportunities with Oracle Shigeru Kamiya President & CEO

The Okuninushi of Oracle DB

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n the age of Globalization and with a wide exploitation of the Internet, it’s no wonder that all kinds of small and large organizations are finding a place to flourish in every sector that exists on our planet. It is as clear as broad daylight that cloud is touted to be the next normal of everyone’s daily life. The level of agility that cloud solution provides brings real advantage to the business houses and several organizations of different sizes, catering several verticals. It provides a fool-proof disaster recovery system that turns out to be a real boon for all capital-starved organizations around the world. However, the main reason why Cloud solutions have been so widely accepted is due to all the possibilities it comes bundled with, such as Automatic software updates, adaptive and flexible payment structures, high-level of mobility with advanced document control and guaranteed security and last but not the least, extremely environment-friendly.

The Best Aid for Global Business Environments is the Cloud Solution Providers

After stating so many benefits, it is hard to imagine that anyone would think otherwise about upgrading to Cloud Technology, and those who have already embraced this technology, stand firmly with one such cloud solution platform, and that is Oracle. With the ability to remain talent-centric and data-driven, Oracle provides an engaging customer experience while transforming the entire backoffice into an intuitive information hub. Oracle’s E-Business Suite is well renowned for simplifying the entire globalization exercise with the collaboration of various tools under one umbrella.

There are various solution providers who provide optimization and seamless integration of Oracle’s various applications. There are some who specialize in certain roles such as Customer Relationship Management, Service Management, Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Project Portfolio Management and much more.

All these roles are scalable or prunable as per the client’s needs.

The next level, however, for all those well settled with their own customized and optimized cloud solutions, is to squeeze out precise business insights from multiple systems, data warehouses and of course, cloud. The present generation of the oracle solution providers is engaged in setting certain standards so as to make them future-proof and highly agile. Even though there are a staggering amount of opportunities, there are equal amounts of pitfalls behind every decision and every organization is currently in search of the best cloud solutions for their invaluable data.

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TREND THOUGHTS Oracle: e Undisputed Leader in Innovation

INDUSTRY WATCH Time to Unlock New Business Opportunities with Oracle

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Re:Q e Okuninushi of Oracle DB

@Stream:

Helping Clients to Transform Businesses

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6e Technologies:

A Technology Millennial Integrating and Automating Processes

Avaya:

Delivering an Unforgettable Customer Experience across every Industry

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28 Elinext:

A Trusted Name for Custom So ware Development

Revolutionary inking.

Relentless Customer Focus

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Delivering Solutions through Groundbreaking Innovations

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he Oracle Solution Providers are highly in demand as they are the bridge that connects several organizations to the benefits of Cloud Technology. Looking at the current pace at which Cloud Technology is being adopted by every vertical of every organization, it is quite obvious that the Oracle-based SaaS providers would be the highest rated solution providers in the near future of the IT world.

We have introduced the issue “The 10 Fastest Growing Oracle Solution Provider Companies” to specifically highlight the contributions of the Cloud Solution Providers who are benefitting the majority of enterprises through intricate and hands-on customization and subsequent seamless adoption of various applications offered through the Oracle Platform.

For the Cover Story, we have Re:Q Technology Consulting led by the doyen of the SaaS industry, Mr. Shigeru Kamiya, the CEO of Req Technology Consulting. Re:Q stands synonymous with reliability, efficiency and utmost customer satisfaction. Re:Q has specifically designed and executed Oracle database to include migration, disaster recovery and performance improvement. Backed by Shigeru’s 25 years of IT experience, Re:Q has gained world recognition for their superior solutions, unmatched services, and strong tech support.

We have 6e Technologies, a reputed company for a complete solution in Oracle ERP, IT system integration, and IT automation. @Stream is another well-established firm that helps clients implement innovative solutions for financial management, supply chain management, and business transformation. Avaya Inc. has showcased its capabilities in delivering smart global solutions and technologies for team engagement and customer engagement. TAISTech recently made a significant contribution to the industry by building a product recommendation and personalization engine.

Elinext has made its mark with the integration of the Hybrid Cloud which promises to leverage the API capabilities, Mobile Platforms, and Internet of Things. With Plexxis, we have also included in our list a solution provider that has developed an entire suite of applications specifically designed for the cloud and catering to all the needs of a fullfledged organization.

Lastly, we have an MNC that provides integrated technology and business services in Oracle ERP Technologies with extensive experience in JD Edwards Implementations, Upgrades, Global roll-outs, and Support. We proudly introduce Prodware Solutions as the Company of the Month for this issue.

While going through these companies do remember to have a peek into some special contributions made by the leaders of the industry under Thought Leaders. In this issue, we have the article titled “Mastering Big Data with Oracle” penned with a panoramic view of the industry by the experienced leaders of Elinext.

To make the package even more interesting, we bring to you some detailed findings and opinions of our own in-house contributors under Industry Watch titled as “Time to Unlock New Business Opportunities with Oracle”. Similarly, there is another one under Trend Thoughts titled as “Oracle: The Undisputed Leader in Innovation” So Flip through the pages and spread the light.

COVER STORY Shigeru Kamiya President & CEO

The Okuninushi of Oracle DB

Revolution

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long with the rapid transition to cloud infrastructure, there are demands for products that have the capacity to bind SQL and NoSQL. Database structures that provide the Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) have rapidly gained demand in the past few years. There has also been a rising demand for an automated management system that streamlines maintenance, patching, provisioning, updates and upgrades.

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Currently, many of the organisations aspire to choose various types of cloud based service depending upon system requirements and while considering cost, availability and alignment among cloud systems. For the mission critical areas, the Oracle’s cloud services will gain more importance with Exadata Cloud services.

With the main focus to provide solutions and not just selling products to the customers, Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd. has become the vendor’s pride and the competitor’s envy by designing and constructing Oracle database that specifically includes migration, disaster recovery and performance improvement.

Designing, Implementing, Operating. You Name it. They Do It. Although the original system was built by someone else, Re:Q proudly claims that they have perfected the system as per the client’s needs.

With the Assessment service, Re:Q initially enquires with their clients about their database system design and the current issues. As per the conclusion drawn, Re:Q determines the design of the system, including hardware and middleware. Re:Q can minimize the data migration period, evaluate impacts to applications, alleviate customer’s concerns and achieve cost optimized investment with reliable and speedy system migration.

Re:Q carries out periodic diagnosis as a part of system trouble recovery service or the DB operation support service. Re:Q’s technical assistance service can identify root causes for problems in the system which cannot be resolved by the product vendor. It also includes periodic diagnosis and tuning service of database performance. Re:Q also provides the DB security service. As part of the primary security protocols, Re:Q checks the DB system configuration and operation and proposes DB security enhancement measures. After the DB security diagnosis comes the implementation part. Re:Q incorporates the most legitimate and adequate DB security design and

configuration changes for access controls, anti-diversion measures and access audit as well as for performance tuning.

Re:Q is well-known for its customized operation management services at the operation phase after the development phase which is separate from the vendor provided product support services.

Through these services, Re:Q makes sure that they are constantly engaged with the customers for all their needs and always interprets their most recent concerns regarding the database. Re:Q doesn’t just stop at delivering a product.

If need be, they actively participate in their client’s projects for various phases of designing, structuring and migrating.

The Hercules of the Database world Hercules is famous for defeating the Hydra of Lerna, the serpentine monster that grew multiple heads every time it was chopped off. Recently, Re:Q had faced a very pressing issue that turned out to be a task of the Herculean level.

Without withholding the name, Re:Q assisted a company, say A, in carrying out database migration. The catch here, however, was that the company A had to provide services even under database migration associated with EOSL and that too with complete stability in performance. To make the task even trickier, this company A operated for 24 hours through the internet and was in the midst of a tough competition. So, under no circumstances was stopping the operations an option.

With the hardware and the application vendor citing no other option than to shut down the system for a few days, the company A approached Re:Q for some respite. The engineers of Re:Q utilized the best database assessment service and the migration service with their own customized tools and upgraded software and counseled the CIO of company A to adopt the Golden Gate method for the migration purpose. Under the contract, Re:Q completed the main database migration process in just two hours.

Here comes the best part, the Hercules made sure that the monster did not raise its ugly head again by performing platform downsizing and rebuilt more optimized parameter adjustment. As per their CIO’s review, Re:Q had not just conducted a successful migration, but had also solved many of their long time outstanding issues in company A’s internal and external customers. Not to forget, there was a considerable improvement in company A’s system performance.

The Menace that lasted A Year, but solved in 4 Days Staying true to the characteristics of the great Onamuji, Re:Q doesn’t look at its competitors from the eyes of a competitor, but considers them as a source of inspiration and valuable experience. Re:Q has always been hands on while helping their peers in their times of needs. This way Re:Q has not just earned respect from its customers, but from their rivals as well.

Re:Q has no competition and there will never be. Re:Q treats every one like a brother, even if the request comes from a competitor. They have never showed any qualms in providing their technology to their rivals to help their clients.

A scenario worth mentioning here is about the time when a large manufacturing company that specializes in precision component had managed a large amount of testing data from the manufacturing process. However, this company could not complete the batch processing within the specified time frame even after replacing the infrastructure and implementing a version upgrade from Oracle DB 11g to 12c. It required more than 10 times of processing time after the version upgrade. The IT vendor that handled the project was at its wits end for over a year even after contacting Oracle’s product support. It was only when the manufacturing company was being compelled to cancel the project that the IT vendor approached Re:Q for some solace. The 3 DB engineers from Re:Q conducted interviews, obtained performance statistics and started analysis work. After some tough grind, the team identified that the problem was in the data file writing process and

synchronization process and hence, reconfigured Linux environment and fine-tuned the database parameters.

This feat is still giving goose bumps to the employees of Re:Q because not only did they complete the batch processing, but the solution was also applied to the hardware and software which were replaced a year ago. The performance was doubled and the negative impacts of the business were removed. The best part is that, it was completed in just 4 days and it led to the start of a new discussion for adding some more features into the system.

The Byakko with Susanoo’s weapons Anyone who reads about such glorious feats will surely contemplate that the Lord who runs Req Technology Consulting must surely wield some kind of a divine weapon, supervising a superficial band of warriors.

The plain principle laid out at Re:Q is to deliver the expected products and platform, build systems on them, and introduce cloud service with strong security measures and data migration services to adopt newer services to customers. Re:Q is not just about pulling up strong sales and marketing efforts, but it is mainly about delivering the expected system utilization and data efficiency to the customers.

We are the Infrastructure and Project Engineers who create new values and realize more efcient system construction and improved quality

Shigeru Kamiya, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Req Technology Consulting Co. Ltd., has dedicated over 25 years of his life in the IT industry, working for a US based hardware vendor. His progression was rapid, but subtle. Starting as a sales representative, he sold market core systems for large scale customers. He gradually assumed general manager position, director for solution and professional service products, and stepped up to senior director for the US parent company.

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Unlike other IT companies around the world that are very much focused on product development and sale, gaining market shares, making big effort to be the market leader, Kamiya believes in delivering values to the customers. He has very much achieved the numerical goals including gaining market shares, growing the business, and improving ROE for the expectation of shareholders, because their customers have faith in the quality of service that Re:Q delivers. And Kamiya has never ever compromised on that aspect. Kamiya firmly believes that nothing is more motivating than listening to the satisfied words of their clients.

Secret of Stability- Prospering Clients and Developing Employees At Re:Q, the main focus has always been to provide solutions to solve customer’s issues and not just selling products to them. Kamiya strongly believes that his employees’ growth will lead to Re:Q’s growth and hence considers human resource as the most critical part of his organisation. Currently, they are so well equipped that they proactively take up projects that others hesitate to take. This way, the employees of Re:Q have a really good learning experience, and at the same time, it glorifies Re:Q’s stature in the IT industry.

According to Kamiya, the application environment using Oracle will face more cost reduction pressure, swift provisioning and deployment and selection of cloud service in response to availability requirement. Currently the experts at Re:Q are focusing on designing Multitenant Architecture, which is one of Oracle DB’s most recent functions. Along with this, they are also establishing a technology (data synchronization, data link) to connect various cloud system such as AWS through POC. Kamiya’s army marches ahead on its successful voyage and will always continue to build a database system infrastructure that leverages knowledge of rich server/ storage middleware, mainly Oracle DB and SQL Server.

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6E Technologies www.6etech.com

Komal Goyal CEO

6e Technologies provides leadership expertise and solutions in Oracle ERP, IT System Integration & IT Automation.

At Stream www.atstream.co.jp

Satoshi Adachi Partner

At Stream is a professional consulting firm to help clients implement innovative solutions for financial management, supply chain management, and business transformation.

Avaya www.avaya.com

Kevin Kennedy Chairman & CEO

Avaya is a global provider of fully-integrated, digital communications software and services that helps to reduce costs and simplify management while providing a platform for nextgeneration engagement and collaboration.

Elinext Group www.elinext.com

Alexey Shliakhouski IT Director

Elinext is specialized in IT consulting and software development. Its software delivery providing broader and deeper solutions across the Oracle stack, gaining advanced insights into specific industries.

Plexxis Software www.plexxis.com

Chris Loranger Co-founder & CEO

Plexxis Software creates innovative solutions on a powerful single source Oracle database for estimating, project management, accounting, mobile and business intelligence.

Prodware www.prodwaresol.com

Sohil Kothari Co-Founder

Prodware Solutions provides IT Consulting Services and Oracle JD Edward Solutions with a unique blend of heavy technical expertise and deep functional knowledge.

Req Technology Consulting Co www.reqtc.com

Shigeru Kamiya President & CEO

Req Technology Consulting provides IT services and solutions, including consulting and implementation services for system infrastructure through existing standardized techniques.

Snuvik Technologies www.snuviktechnologies.com

Sudhir Panigrahy Director

Snuvik, is a global IT Consulting and services provider, which offers technology solutions that address complex business issues and drive transformational growth.

Spinnaker Support www.spinnakersupport.com

Matt Stava CEO

Spinnaker Support is a leading global provider of third-party support, managed services, and consulting for organizations that run SAP or Oracle.

TAISTech www.taistech.com

Aman Bedi CTO

TAISTech is a global digital e-commerce services firm specializing in delivering strategies and solutions that create compelling brand experiences across channels that drive ROI.

Company of the Month

PRODWARE SOLUTIONS:

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ith the zeal of giving something back to the community, two youngsters founded a company named Prodware Solutions. The company is a U.S-based MNC, which provides integrated technology and business services in Oracle ERP Technologies. With its headquarters in New-Jersey the company utilizes its Indian development centers to help customers with business advantage and maximize returns on existing investments.

The teams of Prodware consists of highly experienced and certified employees with deep knowledge in multiple versions of JD Edward products. The consultants also have extensive experience in JD Edwards Implementations, Upgrades, Global roll outs and Support.

Improving Processes and adding value to the system. Prodware is the perfect partner to chart your enterprise mobility roadmap.

Additionally, the company is also a CSDA partner with Oracle through which it helps to provide consulting services to help customers migrate to various new age solutions on Oracle platform.

the business in an utmost ethical manner with the highest level of integrity.

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About the Dynamic Duo Prodware Solutions was founded by two dynamic founders, Mr. Sohil Kothari and Mr. Abhinav Mittal, who are strategic and growth oriented leaders with massive experience in sales, corporate strategy, transformation, SaaS business, business development, consultative solutions selling, operations, etc. Additionally, they have a great track record of identifying, capturing new business opportunities, developing and maintaining marquee client relationships & aligning services with strategic markets. They decided to enter the staffing industry to give something back to the community by making a difference and bringing joy into people’s lives. The dynamic duo decided to start the business about three years ago, and as per the technology standpoint they wanted to focus on developing niche area in the market and taking the previous experience into consideration as both decided to provide services and solutions in the areas of Oracle JD Edwards ERP and IMB Sterling OMS products. As per Sohil and Abhinav, measurement of success is 100 percent employee and client satisfaction and these two major driving factors are running

Current Trend that Matters Many organizations start with SaaS application, then integrate SaaS and on-premises applications, and later extend applications with social and mobile capabilities.

Some start with PaaS for database, Java or business intelligence. While some other organizations start with IaaS for DevTest, others begin with system consolidation, or by hosting their own cloud behind their firewall.

Oracle is one of the very few organizations that offer all these three platforms completely integrated with each other.

The value proposition of such deadly combination is brilliant if leveraged in a right manner and that’s what Prodware has realized in its early days.

Mantra of Building a Long-Term Relationship Every single day, Prodware strives to improve its value to its customers , through innovations. The innovations include, advanced mobility solutions developed in house through COE labs or accelerated deployment methodologies to improve implementation ROIs or use of

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A Talent Driven Organization

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JD Edward Solutions AI based support solutions to reduce support overheads. Prodware constantly tracks its customer feedback through the company’s dedicated accounts team and feedback sessions. This culture has helped the company with a customer retention rate of over 80 percentand around 60 percent of the total revenue comes from repeated businesses.

Harnessing Early Bird Advantages The company believes that through its early investments in people, technology and domain, it can have the bigger piece of pie in business growth. Prodware’s niche solutions and tools in the areas of process manufacturing industry, and mobility applications tailored to warehouse management for process industry or IoT/Big Data solutions for the Wine Industry, offer the company a competitive edge over any other companies in the industry.

As a Gold Partner with Oracle, Prodware has the advantage of being the part of Oracle’s unique “partner program advantages.” Oracle OPN program is very well suited for those who wish to collaborate with Oracle and differentiate themselves with Oracle’s suit of products. Prodware is using these opportunities to its maximum potential in building a large portfolio of solutions and skills that can eventually help every customer who are interested in Oracle’s products.

What Future Holds for Prodware and Oracle Prodware is committed to support Oracle to help move 94 percent of enterprise data to the cloud over the next ten years. With the help of a strong Oracle Cloud Solutions and delivery team, the company is ready to undertake a wave of digital transformation exercises for its customers. The team consists of certified Oracle Cloud Experts who work daily with many existing and new customers and help them chart their way through this process and helps them to identify the perfect Oracle cloud solution.

Advice for Young Entrepreneur As per Sohil and Abhinav, the market is now evolving, so young entrepreneurs need to analyze the market constantly, which will help to understand how one can bridge an existing gap. In the age of Information and Technology, young entrepreneurs can use data and information to analyze, and after a good research, they can build a niche segment of services or products.

Another important factor is to constantly analyze and improve skills that will eventually help to provide better ROI to customer. They also added, young entrepreneurs should aim for small but early success to build confidence and create a strong customer base.

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@Stream: Helping Clients to Transform Businesses

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rganizations across the globe are adopting various cloud solutions to grow faster, serve better, and transform their business processes. One such cloud application is Oracle which helps its users to grow over the years in such a way that now more than 25,000 organizations across the planet are using the Oracle Cloud Solutions. In addition to all this, more than 1000 SaaS applications are being delivered to customers in 195 countries. However, integrating professional resources in an effective manner has always been a challenge for various organizations since ages. So, with the belief of providing right value and seamless adoption process to clients through consultation as a life mission, @Stream enters the foray under the tireless leadership of three excellent business leaders.

An Organization Focused to Reform Business Process Since 2001, @Stream has been constantly working to reform business processes, improvement of business management and corporate governance of its clients. The company's typical consulting approach is that it defines business management policy or business process reform.

Further, to realize the client’s business strategies, @Stream initially conceptualizes, and then designs and implements the information systems to acquire a competitive advantage.

Adding to all these for improvement of business management and ERP, the Japan-based company conducts consulting services under Oracle solutions.

Dynamic Founders of @Stream @Stream Corporation was founded back in 2001 by 5 founders and now 3 leaders remain to run their own service lines. Mr. Hiroshi Daikuya, the CEO & Partner of @Stream, serves as the service leader in an area of performance evaluation, costing, and sales strengths improvement training. He has also served in Arthur

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Andersen and he is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Satoshi Adachi (Partner) is the leader of managerial accounting, business intelligence, information systems design and implementation, & overall Oracle solution related services. He has a vast experience of serving in companies like IBM, Arthur Andersen and Bearing Point which is now PWC. Mr. Masahito Nakahira (Partner) is a leader in production management and SCM reengineering service. He has served in companies like Arthur Anderson, Daiwa Bank, Rohm and Bearing Point (now PWC). All three of them are brilliant leaders with vast expertise in areas like business structures remodeling, new business development strategy, organizational change and transformation, marketing and sales force reengineering, corporate strategy based information systems planning, SCM innovation and information system design for ERP reengineering, which has helped the company to scale new heights over the years.

Trends in Cloud Applications According to Satoshi, most of their Japanese clients are interested in using cloud solution at IaaS and PaaS. However, when it comes to usage at the arena of application such as SaaS, the clients are not much aggressive. The Japanese clients, however, are being cautious when it comes to using SaaS for order fulfillment, production, logistics and R&D processes.

When Members are the Strength Mr. Satoshi believes that the real strength of @Stream lies in their members, who have gained a considerable amount of knowledge and experience in large consulting firms, and specializes in Accounting and Financial Management, IT systems planning & implementation, Performance improvement and HR development. As per Satoshi, all the members of @Stream love to be challenged by the

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The outstanding professionals who let clients get strategic goals certainly, through advanced & challenging but practical consulting services

consulting service deliveries, which cannot be executed in global consulting firms.

The Automatic Choice for Clients Currently at business management, especially in the areas of managerial accounting and business intelligence, @Stream provides consulting services using Oracle cloud solutions, in a step-by-step upgrades approach. During the first step, to get stable growth of cloud business, @Stream declares this service expansion as its priority. To increase customer satisfaction and for the betterment of customer experience, the company is currently working on developing a new consulting methodology by using Oracle Cloud Solutions.

Rocky Path to Success When it comes to consulting services related cloud applications, it is a completely different ballgame altogether from the usual service as seen on on-premise system implementation. It has very short durations, lower pricing, and multiple projects that can run parallelly. In addition to that, @Stream is completely committed to accomplishing its goals. To meet its goals, if any unprecedented situations arise during the project, @Stream works alongside its client to reach to the bottom of the issue to find a solution and to fulfill its goal.

Future Goals @Stream’s services related cloud applications are still in the process of development, so the impacts of those are not so high. Currently, the company is working on the business model development, which will play a big role in future

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cloud application service markets. @Stream aims to exceed the expectations of the clients and wants to be recognized as trusted partners. During the process of achieving the aim, @Stream conducts Process Innovation Seminars, which is a great place to share all the experiences that it has gained and to build better networks among its clients and business partners. Along with that, it conducts a workshop named @Stream Academy to stimulate knowledge and abilities among participants each year. Additionally, the company’s mission and vision are to help various Japanese firms to gain the corporate competitiveness. So, to achieve the vision, Satoshi and his expert teams at @Stream are trying hard to enhance their own capabilities in tackling client’s issues raised in the global environment.

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t has taken years of hard work and patience to evolve Oracle from a basic database software provider to a giant software enterprise, that now rules the world.

Since the last three decades, Oracle is enjoying cult status as a database software company. Many other competitors came with their innovative products within the time frame.

However, every time Oracle came up with something new which helped the company to stay ahead in the competition.

Later, Oracle acquired companies like Sun Microsystems, Siebel, Peoplesoft and others which helped the company to solidify its footsteps among all those companies who provided ‘folded’ offering of hardware with software. In this article, we will have a look at the emerging trends in Oracle.

Oracle Cloud: Cloud computing is one of the most talked topics in last few years, which is quite natural after looking at its benefits. Due to its multiple advantages, cloud computing has become very popular recently. In the case of a cloud, the end user can access stored data or the utilities anytime from any location, which makes it extremely convenient to use. The SaaS model always delivers tons of benefits from both the ends. The cloud service provider makes sure of effective utilization of available resources through shared resource pools and offers a wide range of

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service to the end users. On the other hand, a cloud service user has the full right to use the utility as a service as per the user’s need. Additionally, the pay as you use licensing model of cloud helps the clients with much-required freedom, flexibility, and relief of capital expenses which used to incur in the time maintaining database application.

The Oracle Cloud computing system deserves much-needed appreciation as it provides high-quality service at a very reduced rate. Every company loves to have access to wide range of software over cloud-based systems that helps them to offer better service to their customers and Oracle with its constant stream of innovation is always working to provide a better experience for the end user at a nominal rate.

Big Data: During the timeframe of last few years IT industry has changed dramatically, and the main cause of the change is due to increase in the volume of semi or unstructured data, that are coming from various industries, various social platforms collectively under the category of “Big Data.” Large scale companies who are into real-time business can be massively affected by inaccurate and incomplete analysis of its consumers. Oracle Big Data platform is an integrated and engineered system to drive big data strategies through a complete plethora of software that includes Big Data appliances, Connectors, Exadata, | June 2017 |

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Exalytics, etc. The platform follows a unique cycle that helps to acquire, organize and analyze the juggles of big data, which eventually ensures predictable performance, tight security, and high availability quite easily.

Simplifying Data Centers: Big Data Strategies are already on the move as the next potential development in technology.

However, Oracle might face much more rivalry in that area. Big Data customers will be excited to know that right now Oracle offers a single point of support for the technology track which is expected to get better with time.

A fully integrated and optimized database machine that organizes computing, data, and storage in single hardware is Exadata.

In terms of objectives and positioning, Oracle Database Appliance is a shorter version of Exadata but Oracle focuses completely on simplicity and affordability. RAC technology is also being used in the database appliance, as simplicity is the key differentiating factor between these two, the database appliance needs a very minimal skill set for installation, management and in order to troubleshoot.

On the other hand, Exalogic is another fully integrated engineered system, that comes from the house of Oracle for running applications. As Exalogic is an engineered system, it provides brilliant performance, and scalability. Additionally it can lower down TCO and maintenance costs. Information Technology firms who are looking to deploy Java based applications on WebLogic server can easily realize a significant amount of gain in performance after using Exalogic.

Increased Functionality and Automation: The functionality of the software expands with every new release. With time, most of the simple, administrative and repeatable tasks of DBAs are becoming more and more automated as most of the database vendors are trying to create a market of self-manageable or self-healing database. Now with all these changes, Oracle's OEMs are now more robust than before and with some new features like self-managing tablespaces, physical database maintenance is now much more automatic.

Increased Security: With more and more cyber-attacks, every company that store data online is at a risk of security breach, which has made security as one of the top priorities of every company. That's why all the DBAs must work with the security team to eliminate any weak link that can make the data vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

For years Oracle has been able to set its footprints in the right direction, that has helped the company to build a massive consumer base across the planet and to be a significant leader amongst all the database management software available out there. During the last decade, Oracle has been quite successful in setting the tone of the market, which eventually defines how a small IT company has transformed into a big player.

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o you know how much data is flowing in and out your company? The world produces data in amounts that cannot be digested by companies.

Well, probably you can face the challenge of capturing the data but do you understand how to master it for company’s benefit? A lot of companies leave out tons of critical data just because they underestimate the resources that can help manage their big data, analyse it and even provide solutions based on it. Oracle Big Data solutions provide best practices to manage your data, starting from its storage and making sense of every piece of it, giving you deeper insights in information cloud around your company.

cannot be handled without implementation of big data management systems. Simply said, we produce more data than can be processed. Ÿ

New kind of big data users – Today mastering big data is not just a matter of data scientists. Business users strive to make use of big data by themselves: search, extract, analyze, and have both automatic visualization and opportunity to create their own visualization to get specific insights that they can consequently share with others.

2. Challenges of mastering Big Data 1. What is the value of big data management?

Though any IT leader is familiar with the overall concept of big data and benefits big data mastering brings home, some business users still overlook the reasons why it became so crucial. Let’s look at the trends that drive big data management in the business environment: Ÿ

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Datafication – Companies become dependent on data, having a complex data infrastructure behind any of their business processes. Each action that seemed to be invisible earlier is now expressed as a data.

Data overflow – The data gets so excessive that it

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Ÿ Complex data processing “Experience shows than 80% of data mastering time and effort are spent on data preparation, while other 20 – on analysis and execution” says Jeffrey Hershberger, senior software architect at Elinext. Oracle solutions are tailored to do it faster by automating data preparation stage and focusing more on analytical initiatives.

Data silos When data is scattered across various units, it is often organized in data silos which isolates it from other data.

For your business, this is not only the separation of data clusters but your own separation from effective decisionŸ

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Poor data governance All the notions may sound the same, however, you should distinguish data governance from data management. The latter refers to how data governance policies are being brought to life. The lack of data governance often leads to the loss of connection between big data and its value. Using Oracle Big Data Discovery, you can have the necessary data in a form of interactive catalog and have relevant data sets, user commentaries, and recommendations at your fingertips.

the Oracle architecture looks and how its components affect your data: Ÿ

Fast Data – Analyses data streams to find out the events that require action, then define the appropriate action according to the analysis made.

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Lack of clear business case One of the biggest challenges with data analysis in Oracle, regardless scale, is that it also requires a specific approach to warehousing, cleansing, and transformation, which should be based on your use case. A set of clear policies about your data can change the context and help you on the way to the meaningful results. Ÿ

3. Why Oracle? Oracle solutions are fast, simple, scalable and easy to integrate. The Oracle big data solution choice allows you to decide on the level of cost and capability according to your business case and change it over time as long as your business needs scale. Oracle capabilities allow for a perfect big data offering in a Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL Cloud Service where the platform is combined with the top Hadoop distribution. Let’s see how

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Data Lab – Determines new data sets provisioning rapid data for further processing in data warehouses. Ÿ

Business Analytics – Analyses data from the Data Management layer extracting it both from Data Warehouse and Data Reservoir.

Apps – Integrates data sources and processing with the help of APIs and prebuilt adapters. Ÿ

It becomes obvious that Oracle Big Data solutions empower your organization to help you face the challenges of Big Data mastering with its business-driven data discovery “laboratory”. Bringing this lab to your company, you can focus on what’s really important and don’t lose information scattered across departments and data storages. What is more, having discovered this data, you can visualize it in digestible portions and get the value from advanced analytics delivering newly discovered data to other big data projects in Oracle.

This article has been contributed by ELINEXT.

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6e Technologies: A Technology Millennial Integrating and Automating Processes

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oday Information Technology is being redefined by cloud technology. The IT concept of on-premise is slowly fading away to off-premise. Cloud computing has caused a paradigm shift in information technology. With Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS), whether it is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), HCM (Human Capital Management), Supply Chain Management (SCM) or EPM (Enterprise Performance Management), a trend that we observe is that customers are opting for smaller modules rather than going with the entire suite. The clients want to dip their toes in the cloud technologies by taking small steps. World's biggest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon & Google want to flourish in the cloud technology domain, as it is the next game changer in the industry.

Computing with the other cloud giants to form the oraclecloudy environment for its imperative survival, Oracle planned its strategy. Oracle tactically developed companies from different streams viz., Application, Industry Solution, Middleware, Servers, Storage, and Network covering cloud's IaaS, SaaS and PaaS. Oracle’s formula was to integrate the IoT, Mobile, Social, and Analysis and Big Data solutions on the cloud. One such company that empowers Oracle's cloud technology is 6e Technologies.

Founded in 2003, 6e Technologies provides leadership expertise and solutions in Oracle ERP, IT System Integration & IT Automation. They are an Oracle Gold Partner- Cloud Standard designated for providing services mainly in Oracle Technologies. Their areas of expertise are Oracle Applications- E-Business Suite, Fusion. In the Oracle Cloud Space, they help their customers with their Cloud Roadmap, Strategy and Implementation of SaaS (ERP, SCM, HCM), PaaS and Managed services of IaaS.

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Comprehending Oracle Inside-Out 6e Technologies is an IT service provider focused on Oracle’s E-Business Suite and their cloud technologies.

Upgrades, implementations and integrations are core competencies of 6e Technologies. They are focused on Financials, Supply Chain and Business Intelligence on premise and in the cloud; they provide their customers– a cost effective, low risk alternative to large consulting companies. After completing the implementation and upgrades they help their clients with workload automation.

6e Technologies offers managed services to the clients and helps them maintain their systems after an implementation is completed.

Being in the Oracle Technology space for over a decade, 6e Technologies brings to the market the experience and exposure they had throughout with Oracle. Their work keenly comprehends transparency, reliability and quality.

While working with their customers, they strive to go an extra mile and ensure that they truly feel the partnership.

Resource optimization is something they are very cognizant about, whether it is cost, time or the people involved in the project. This definitely sets their benchmark in the industry.

The Maverick Technopreneur behind 6e Technologies 6e Technologies is founded by experts in Oracle technologies. Komal Goyal, CEO of 6e Technologies, manages the global IT service strategy and delivery practice for the company. Komal is an accomplished entrepreneur and consultant with 20+ years of progressive experience in the technology stack and has been part of many successful transformation and modernization projects using Oracle platform. The co-founder Ravinder Goyal also has 2.5 decades of experience in Oracle implementations with a strong foot-hold on understanding the big picture and the vision of the client and making that happen for the client base. Ravinder leads 6e Technologies customer success and

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Komal is a customer-focused leader who helps in orchestrating complex processes across business applications and infrastructure layers. She is known for her passion for making the ‘things right’ until the client is completely satisfied. With a master’s degree in Computer Applications and numerous technology certifications, she has been actively involved in the tech community and has mentored aspiring young girls in this male dominated field of tech. Komal is also the National Partner of Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) motivating girls to step up and break away from restrictions.

The Technology Game-changer in the Oracle-cloudy Environment Being proficient system integrators, 6e Technologies makes sure that they are ahead of the game in understanding and getting certified in the new technologies that Oracle pushes out in the market. Riding the wave of technology at the front has its own risks and rewards. Despite those risks, they have been able to successfully implement the latest technologies including Oracle SaaS, PaaS and IaaS for their clientele early on and have learnt the lessons to thrive in those areas.

Keeping appraised of what the vendor is about to release by being an integral part of the partner networks and working closely with Oracle teams across the practice verticals has helped 6e Technologies to be a visionary and get ahead of the curve. 6e Technologies believes in growing responsibly.

They are very cautious about keeping their focus and

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Komal Goyal CEO making sure that they deliver projects that turn into case studies for their software partner, and appreciably, they have been able to do exactly the same.

The Competent Team at 6e Technologies The average experience of the implementation team at 6e Technologies is about 15 years. This unique combination of experience and expertise propels the company's growth. On top of that 6e Technologies invests heavily in training their people on new technologies, which makes them desirable for both the client and the employee. Their team members want to learn new technologies and work for a company that can help them grow in the field they specialize in.

They believe in customers that turn into a reference. A vision that the entire company strives for is to “Go an Extra Mile” to have a very satisfied customer. Working competently with this shared vision, the team thrives at providing exceptionally satisfactory services to their clients.

As their leadership says, ‘Our relationships with our clients should be such that we should be able to call a client and on the other side there should be a happy and satisfied end customer’.

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Avaya: Delivering an Unforgettable Customer Experience across every Industry

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he first step towards digital transformation is through transformation of a business’ communication platform. This transformation involves both internal collaboration among employees as well as external experience delivered to customers, partners and prospects. It is a journey that bridges communication solutions delivered on premise as well as in the cloud and the adoption of new applications, open APIs and softwarebased services that can be assembled and reassembled quickly and easily to create new communication applications and services.

Avaya Inc. is a recognised innovator and a leading business house in the field of communications for the digital age.

Avaya is in the forefront of this digital transformation by providing software and services to large enterprises, midmarket companies, small businesses and government organizations around the world. They have showcased their proficiency in delivering smart global solutions and technologies for team engagement (unified communications and collaboration) and customer engagement (contact center and customer experience management).

Experience Success with Avaya Oceana™ In this age of Digitalization, every organization, small or big, is working on delivering a lasting experience to their customers by providing them services on a personal level, over their choice of device and platform. This means that customers are expecting service everywhere and at any time. The need of the hour is a well-trained team, equipped with the right resources, analytics and insight about the customer journey that makes the entire experience both powerful and productive.

Avaya Oceana™, for example, is an omnichannel customer engagement solution with multi-touch points designed for the digital consumer.

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Avaya Oceana™ solution comes with full contextual awareness, attributes-based matching, omnichannel desktop workspaces and powerful analytics through Avaya Oceanalytics™. The Avaya Oceana™ solution personalizes every step and possibility of customer interaction with their client's company. With Oceana, their clients can address channels, conduct customer routing and resource matching and with detailed data capture, their clients get real-time, fully meshed insights into what is going on with their customers.

The Avaya Oceana™ solution is well complemented with Oceanalytics™ Insights to give clients a rich visualization of data that aids real-time, smarter decision making to drive customer satisfaction and improve customer loyalty. Avaya has consciously taken the initiative to competitively differentiate and promote Avaya’s Oceanalytics solution in the marketplace.

One way Avaya has differentiated Oceana is by closely and rigorously collaborating with Oracle’s analytics teams, creating a unique suite of tools that offer enterprises unprecedented access and insight to the large data sets that are needed for successful customer engagement. This makes Avaya the obvious choice for companies and organizations seeking to deliver digital customer experiences through integrated support for all media.

Initially, when Oracle’s real time streaming analytics tools were being adapted for the contact center environment, each company’s design organization had to do a detailed inspection of each other’s technical details while integrating different facets of design. This successful collaboration was achieved through the highest level of dedication by the members of the design organization at Avaya and the experts at Oracle.

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Delivering the Experience your Customers Expect

communications capabilities into their customer’s journey.

When Oceana is combined with third-party or Avaya Snapins and Avaya Breeze™ Client SDK to build innovative and differentiated applications, it helps the clients to build their own unique agent and supervisor desktops.

Avaya Oceana™ steers the entire customer journey to create a great experience and to deliver positive outcomes for customers, agents and businesses.

Helmed by an Experienced Technology Leader Kevin J. Kennedy, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Avaya, has four decades of experience at companies including Cisco Systems, JDSU, Openwave Systems and AT&T Bell Labs. He has a track record of transforming companies through growth and company reinvention, tapping both organic innovation and mergers and acquisitions. Since joining Avaya in 2009, he has led a multi-year transformation to reinforce the company’s industry leadership, accelerate technology innovation and enable Avaya customers to deliver superior customer experiences.

Kevin served U.S. President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and has served as a Congressional fellow to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He has authored multiple patents and has published more than 30 papers on computational methods, data networking and issues of technology management.

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Looking to the Future With its ambition to be the preferred business partner for communications solutions that deliver digitally transformed engagement experiences, Avaya enables customers to digitize team engagement and customer engagement to operate with any smart device and any channel of communication.

Today, their cloud-based platforms enable communication services to be embedded in any application, transforming the way traditional businesses create value. Through these platforms, Avaya is enabling online service providers to trigger radical changes in business interactions such as engaging with customers, competing for new customers and automating work flows. The result is superior customer experiences and better business outcomes. Their commitment towards leadership in innovation has earned them a Net-Promoter-Score of 55. This shows the immense loyalty of customers and partners worldwide towards Avaya.

Avaya is committed to deliver communications solutions that are open, flexible, scalable, cloud-enabled, mobilefocused and easily integrated with any third party or competitor solution.

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Experts say that by gaining new data-driven insights and to drive actions from the data of Internet of Things (IoT), it will allow the business to deliver innovative and unique services faster than the competitors and that too with less risk. It’s time that every company should start focusing on building and maintaining a secure connection, analyze and integrate real-time IoT data at a proper scale among the devices connected and the applications involved in the workflow of the enterprise.

As per recent reports, Oracle has added some enhancements to its Cloud platform for integrating and simplifying management of on-premises, cloud-based, mobile or IoT applications and services across a business. The Senior Vice-President of Cloud Platform and Integration Products

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at Oracle said, “To stay competitive, organizations need to rethink API management and service integration across cloud, mobile and IoT initiatives. With Oracle Cloud Platform’s comprehensive suite of integrated services, we can help our customers increase business agility by improving productivity, lowering costs, and ultimately accelerating innovation.”

This cloud service of Oracle is one such feature which offers businesses to gain perceptions by helping them to connect and collect data from their devices. With this fantastic feature, enterprises can save time, perform realtime and make a projecting analysis in the IoT data streams and that too while integrating the data of IoT with business applications. Apparently, the Oracle mentioned some of its popular cloud services as pre-built integration which includes Oracle SaaS and Oracle PaaS applications.

With Oracle, businesses get a complete package of cloud solutions which includes both on-premise and cloud services. It has an extraordinary cloud service which offers Oracle Integration Cloud services and only by using intuitive GUI, the enterprise can create SaaS-to-SaaS and also SaaS-to-on-premises integrations. Oracle is one such platform which enables its customers to use already loaded connections on all their Oracle SaaS application subscriptions. It offers enterprises to publish integrations as APIs for external use and only by using an Open Adapter

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SDK. Another interesting feature which is provided by this cloud service provider is Oracle API, and it manages API security and provides API analytics.

pace in this market and building a new empire in the industry. The prime focus of Oracle remains in the cloud computing market.

Some of the new ventures which the software companies and the tech giants are currently exploring are cloud analytics and Internet of Things. These are the two major sectors which are opening up new doors to these companies and giving them the chances to innovate. Reports indicated that SAP alone is looking to make the most of the enormous IoT market and the estimate lies between $300 billion to $7 trillion. Though there is a huge disparity between the minimum and maximum estimates and they are meeting extreme limits, there is no doubt that IoT is the next biggest thing in the world of technology and its market.

The industry has witnessed some of the leading tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon to provide Hadoop and analytics services like HD Insights for Microsoft Azure and Elastic MapReduce for Amazon AWS. But Oracle made similar approaches and the technologists at the company are taking to the base Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer. The additional beneďŹ ts that Oracle is offering are their features allowing its customers to consume Hadoop and data lake functionality as their managed services and exposition through APIs which enables them to have a more abstracted approach ultimately allowing the consumers to scale the ups and downs of the services elastically. It also offers the lower ďŹ rst price-points to startups enabling them to create their data storage platform on the cloud and that too without any approval requirements. What more the service provider is offering is a new looking UX which is showing its improvements day-by-day especially in matters of Oracle Forms and Java applets while viewing on the browser.

Researchers mentioned that both the market of IoT and analytics are currently untapped and it offers immense opportunities for businesses to achieve. It is touched by only some of the major names in the industry like SAP and Salesforce. Though these are some of the biggest competitors of Oracle Corp, still Oracle is picking up the

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Matt Wright, CTO, Rubicon Red, says “Digital transformation presents a significant opportunity for our customers in terms of driving innovation and accelerating time to business value. As organizations adopt new technologies and move to blended solutions comprising SaaS, private cloud and on-premise apps, integration plays a critical role.”

Rubicon Red, a globally recognized and awarded thought leader in Oracle middleware, recommends a phased approach to help organizations modernize their IT environments, migrating from largely on-premise systems, to hybrid cloud environments. Through a phased approach, Oracle Middleware customers can get the combined the benefits of Cloud plus DevOps to upgrade their environments, adopt cloud, streamline development processes, and concurrently minimize risk and cost.

Matt says, “We can help customers migrate from Oracle SOA 11g to SOA 12c, establish a cloud platform to seamlessly run Oracle SOA 12c on the Cloud, optimize their integrations, and drive further innovation through new integrations, SaaS extensions, new processes or mobile channels.”

The Best Recipe: Cloud + DevOps Moving Oracle Middleware development to the cloud (lift and shift) is a natural first step, and when coupled with a DevOps strategy means organizations can streamline their development processes. “Organizations that fully embrace the cloud for Dev and Test are experiencing more than 30 percent time savings upon maturing their DevOps capabilities,” says Matt.

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Matt Wright is the CTO and Co-founder of Rubicon Red. Matt is responsible for defining and implementing the technology strategy for Rubicon Red. When it comes to running Oracle Middleware in the Cloud, customers have a couple of options. Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides the breadth and depth of functionality to rapidly build and deploy rich applications and extend Oracle Cloud SaaS apps and integrate with existing business-critical IT systems. SOA Cloud Service and Integration Cloud Service are the ideal approach for Oracle middleware customers to migrate their integrations to the cloud. Alternatively, customers could select an Infrastructure as a Service provider and install the Oracle SOA Suite.

To unlock the commercial and speed to market benefits of developing in the cloud, the process of taking code developed and tested in the cloud and deploying it into production needs to be frictionless. The key pre-requisites to achieving this are having a standardized and automated process for building and deploying code across all environments.

This is where Rubicon Red MyST, the end-to-end DevOps solution for Oracle Middleware, comes into it’s own for provisioning, configuration and release automation across cloud and on-premise, irrespective of your cloud provider. “MyST allows you to easily configure an Oracle SOA Cloud Service to replicate your production environment or provision and configure a Middleware as a Service on top of an existing IaaS provider – as well as fully automate the build out of your on-premise production environments,” assures Matt. Further, “MyST allows clients to establish a single integrated process for automating the promotion of the Oracle Middleware platform configurations and application deployment through each and every phase of the software delivery lifecycle - from development and testing to production, both in the cloud and on-premise.” | June 2017 |

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CXO Standpoint “Combining cloud-based development with DevOps is the perfect combination – reducing development time, whilst concurrently minimizing risk and cost,” says Matt. He goes on to share a great example of Cloud plus DevOps at an Australian Oil and Gas company. “Using MyST, they can provision a new Dev/Test environment on the cloud in less than 60 minutes, whereas previously it would take 4-8 weeks to provision a new environment, manually. And, using the MyST release automation capabilities, they’ve slashed release time from 4-8 hours to ~15 minutes.” Leveraging the cloud provides faster project start up time and improves developer productivity, giving them the agility and efficiency to rapidly deliver on new projects.

Accelerate Speed to Value through Oracle Cloud KickStart Matt emphasizes that the potential for business innovation through cloud is unprecedented and recommends that while a phased approach is best to migrate existing systems and bed down hybrid cloud infrastructure, organizations must, in parallel, begin to evaluate and prototype solutions that will drive the next wave of innovation. “With Oracle Cloud, continually evolving cloud services open the door to new business opportunities with disruptive cloud innovations using social and mobile services, big data, content collaboration, and the Internet of Things.”

Through their Oracle Cloud KickStart program, Rubicon Red provides a rapid on-ramp to Oracle Cloud. “Using our unique blend of Oracle expertise, best practices and agile development methodologies, our Cloud KickStart gives you everything you need to qualify, quantify and prove your transformation use-case with Oracle Cloud in just two-weeks – it is the best way to quickly get the green light on your next business transformation project,” concludes Matt.

A 2013 Survey by Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, found that cloud platforms reduce overall development time by an average of 11.6 percent, 38 percent cited savings in the 11 to 20 percent range, whilst 10% had experienced more than more than 30 percent in time savings.

About the Author Juliana Button is a passionate tech marketer, Manager - Marketing & Events at Rubicon Red. Prior to this, she was Director Product Management, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Cloud Platform, working at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores and in Australia.

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Elinext is the type of a custom software development company which always strives to keep up with cloud computing trends.

Elinext understands the choice of their clients Founded in 1997, Elinext has specialized in IT consulting and software development. It delivers increasingly complex projects for businesses of different scale, from new startups to most valuable Fortune 500 companies. As far as Oracle Platform solutions, it is offering end-to-end services for implementation of a broad set of Oracle business, database, technology, and financial management solutions.

Elinext has a strong focus on delivering high-quality software solutions which are assisting their hundreds of customers to become more modest. Elinext team help their customers make their decision-making process data-driven and bring their big data into focus. Elinext also predicts the rise in usage of containers and a further increase in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS determined by enterprise solutions moving into a cloud.

Driving Force of Elinext Alexey Shliakhouski is the IT Director of Elinext. He has solid working experience of 15 years. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics. Alexey has expertise, tremendous level of experience in Document Management Systems, Enterprise Systems, and Accounting Solutions for financial organizations and Corporate Portals, and he is committed to cloud and engineered systems.

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Elinext provides a strong focus on the Oracle solution. It gives its best resources to train, develop and demonstrate the commitment to Oracle technologies, keeping track of emerging products and application advances. Elinext understands customers’ needs, and spreads over the choice of Oracle products. These products and solutions need to be harnessed, allowing people working with the adaptable, scalable, and responsive platform. Elinext works with their clients with the development of the strategic plan. Elinext team conduct deep research, acquiring a holistic view of their clients' businesses and helps them identify their business needs and plan the solutions.

They combine technological excellence and industry knowledge to deliver customized software development in such areas as: Mobile app development, Web development, Desktop development, and Embedded software development The advanced functionality roadmap As an IT consulting and Software developer, Elinext comes across the challenge of not only transforming the platform for their customers, but also rethinking a strategy to provide custom architectural solutions, services, and tools to

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Our main values are honesty, reliability, and commitment to innovation. We reckon our customers, our partners empower specific businesses. The main challenges is to rationalize operations on a largescale and bring digital transformation to the traditional business models. Oracle technologies allow facing both of them. Elinext uses the custom-elaborated workflow, allowing to reduce the cost of business operations, focusing on essential competencies, and implementing new ones: they develop a clear strategy to estimate the business and technology environment and rethink the future implementation of Oracle solutions in line with it. They consider the capabilities to make the framework work for business objectives.

Elinext starts a migration plan; this appears to be the biggest challenge for organizations who work partly in the cloud and partly on-premise. Here’s where Oracle Platformas-a-Service and Oracle Data Integrator come into play to make the migration process smoother.

Team Elinext clearly plan and predict the future changes triggered by the functionalities flowing into the Oracle Cloud. Apparently, the entire system should be at the last stage of its integration. Once the integration is done, the system will be supported by Oracle PaaS components.

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Alexey Shliakhouski IT Director

The main aim of Elinext is to achieve the heart of the clients and their requirement to create a custom software masterpiece demanded in the market. Every member of their staff can announce that they minimize time to market, however, complicated the task is, they put all their thoroughness and energy in what they do and they make each endeavor a success.

The values and factors that drive the company ahead Elinext is aspiring to understand their clients’ business needs, evaluate their risks and outline the main principles of their business. Core values of Elinext are honesty, reliability, and commitment to innovation. They reckon their customers, as partners.

Elinext is going to further enhance its position in Oracle implementation services by improving their software delivery, providing broader and deeper solutions across the Oracle stack, gaining advanced insights into specific industries and raising competence in new and updated Oracle solutions with a special focus on enterprise and financial management.

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With the sole purpose of making segregated systems obsolete and to help customers outperform and outpace their competitors, Plexxis Software designed its mosaic enterprise suite on a platform that can be hosted, for those wanting a cloud solution. They can also arrange for an in house server for those who want their data in house.

The Subcontractor specific Software Suite Plexxis software eliminates the gaps between all systems, spreadsheets and apps in such a way that the subcontractors can easily deliver their best at all instance. They have achieved this feat through their much acclaimed Plexxis Mosaic Enterprise Suite.

Through this sophisticated and well-developed suite, Mosaic offers role-specific features designed on a single source, collaborative platform. Mosaic unites the entire company and enables cross-departmental collaboration without any APIs to support or extra databases to maintain.

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combined enterprise accounting and financial controls, helping PMs to achieve impressive margins while giving CPAs the highest levels of data integrity, insight and control.

Plexxis mosaic {winbid|dto} This is the platform that allows an organisation to escape from segregated silos and all the inefficiencies related to yesteryear estimating systems. The mosaic WinBid|DTO solution enables instant bid-to-budget. It also enables tight purchasing protections and security in bidding. With this software, drawings can be easily dispatched with takeoff properties and the best part is that, the orders can be changed effortlessly.

Plexxis mosaic {mobile} Mosaic apps are pre-loaded with key information from every department and are built on company-wide collective data. It features API-free job info, Data-Ready timecards, Admin & Job Docs, Organizational Cohesion, Plan room and enables you to witness progress as it happens. With this platform, the field and the office can work together with no APIs or extra databases to support.

Plexxis mosaic {insite} With features that include single source API-free, Big Data Visualization, Trend Watch and Dynamic Workflow, the insite platform is powered by the collective data from every worker. This highlights opportunities that drive intelligent growth.

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Unifying top performing subcontractors with a field-centric solution Birth of an Entrepreneur, Growth of an Enterprise Plexxis software gave birth to the entrepreneur, Chris Loranger. He is currently the CEO of Plexxis software.

Brought up on a dairy farm, he inculcated the essence of hardwork, dedication and core values and transpired them into his career as a software engineering graduate and later on as a successful entrepreneur and co-founder of Plexxis.

He has showcased his ability to take on the most arduous challenges with an ardent passion for technology and with an extraordinary ability to connect to people at every level.

It all started in 1999, when Chris Loranger, a dairy farmer with a love for technology, was helping a drywall contractor, Gabe St. Denis, with his computer. During his brief interaction, he found out that the contractor was frustrated with his construction software because it was not able to handle the needs of a subcontractor. Chris took on the challenge to build a custom drywall solution and with the help of his cousin Jason Fraser, Plexxis was born.

Soon they realized that many subcontractors in Toronto shared the same frustration. With a detailed research, it came to light that most of the best softwares in the world were moving towards a single source model designed on Oracle. From then on, Chris and Jay took prompt but calculated actions and negotiated an agreement with Oracle to begin creating the solution. Jeni Mitchell and Chad Pearson soon joined to lead implementations and business development. Today, Plexxis software proudly stands strong with 64 employees, who serve the most elite subcontractor in the world.

Chris Loranger Co-founder & CEO an increasing number of software, spreadsheets and apps.

Plexxis software has gained much of its recognition due to its field-centric operations and accounting solutions which helped to convert fragmented and frustrated subcontractors into one single unit.

As part of its initiatives, Plexxis software integrates with every person in every department in a company so as to unite them and convince everyone to make the change.

With the power of Oracle, Plexxis has been able to aggregate all the data, including blueprints and graphical measurements, pictures, videos, documentation, financial data, communications, etc. from all departments into a single database while still maintaining lightning fast reporting and functionality.

Satisfying customers and Pushing for Innovation Clients are driven to Plexxis for their relentless drive for excellence. They have never settled for “good enough” and have always striven for the best. With the aim to unite the entire supply chain with a global distribution portal, Plexxis has idealistically lead the current trend in the industry through relentless innovation and with an unquenchable thirst to delight, surprise and exceed what is expected.

Evolving and Leading as the most Innovative Solution Provider Previously, many subcontractors were running their company on an accounting-centric system which required

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TAISTech: Delivering Solutions through Groundbreaking Innovations

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loud IP traffic is growing at a staggering rate of 30% each year. So, it is no surprise that Cloud Computing is increasingly being accepted in almost every industrial sector.

Currently, companies are learning about the cost benefits and the convenience of bundled services and licenses by shifting to Cloud services. The best part is that it can be carried out using minimal IT support. In spite of increasing concerns regarding security, Cloud computing continues to evolve and is gradually being adopted by larger enterprises.

However, there are new buzzwords that are making the rounds among all the big players such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM and those are machine learning and artificial intelligence.

TAISTech, a global digital commerce service provider, has recently built a product recommendation and personalization engine, uniquely named Bright Scoop.

Bright Scoop uses machine learning and AI algorithms, to compute and recommend the right products to an ecommerce customer based on their past purchase/browse history, their user segment, location, etc.

TAISTech provides strategic consulting, large-scale commerce implementations and support for Oracle Commerce and Oracle Commerce Cloud applications.

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in the UK and India, TAISTech has experience working with Fortune 500 companies and large multi-channel retailers. Their client list includes Walmart, Lulemon, GUESS, rue21, Vitamin Shoppe, Fox Head, CORT, and Things Remembered.

Innovation is the Passion That Drives Success TAISTech is an Oracle Gold Partner, with core expertise in the suite of Oracle CX products. They are specialized in

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Oracle Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud and CPQ cloud. The company delivers solutions that improve conversion rates, increased average order value, and lifts site traffic– all of which contribute to an increased revenue and customer loyalty. Their service offerings include digital strategy, e-Commerce implementations (B2C and B2B), mobile app development, creative (UI/UX design), application support and maintenance and QA testing services. Clients have benefited by TAISTech is many ways TAISTech helps companies drive revenue and optimize their omni-channel commerce operations with unique endto-end capabilities and industry know-how.

With custom BI solutions and Big Data Analytics, TAISTech empowers their clients to gather, access and share insights, enabling them to make better business decisions and provide a better more personalized brand experience to their customers.

Recognized for their expertise in delivering services superficially around Oracle Commerce, TAISTech also develops mobile apps, responsive website and provides a roadmap for global initiatives.

TAISTech has the reputation of providing customers with a consistent and seamless brand experience. This is achieved with TAISTech’s team of trained Visual and UX designers.

With TAISTech’s experience and talent, clients are enabled to strategically create their commerce roadmap to achieve their greatest ROI. The Dynamic Leader with a Passion for Technology Championing various aspects, such as architecture,

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software, product development, and project delivery, Aman Bedi, the CTO, has spearheaded all aspects of TAISTech’s business, including product development, project delivery, profitability, growth, and leadership in the market place.

Aman is a dynamic leader to a team of more than 300 and a champion who drives TAISTech’s global Technical Centers of Excellence, which is the heartbeat of the organization’s innovative customer solutions. His management style fosters a spirited culture of collaboration, energetic work environment, and a relentless focus on customer’s success.

Characteristics of an Oracle Gold Partner Over the years, TAISTech has made significant investments to ensure that the company can quickly and efficiently implement Oracle solutions by developing Oracle accelerators. The expert team at TAISTech approaches every client’s project with the goal to reduce implementation costs and to increase speed to market.

TAISTech had recognized the potential of Oracle Commerce Cloud at a very early stage and quickly invested in getting their employees trained. TAISTech built the integration between Oracle Commerce Cloud and CPQ, which is the current demo that Oracle leverages when prospective companies are explained about the working of the two solutions and the successful synchronization between the two.

Quality is the Secret of Sustainability All areas of TAISTech strictly adhere to the highest quality of standards that were never before seen in the industry.

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Aman Bedi CTO This has been TAISTech’s secret to success. Aman and his entire leadership team have constantly kept pace with the changing needs of their Technology and e-Commerce clients.

Having previously been a staff augmentation company, TAISTech was fortunate to have a very deep rolodex of global Oracle talent. Couple that with a comprehensively engaging company culture; TAISTech has the highest employee retention rate in the industry. The company’s culture empowers employees to act judiciously, and appreciates and recognizes employees for all their efforts and contribution to TAISTech’s success.

Keeping an Eye on the Future and Tending to the Present Looking to the future, TAISTech will continue to diversify its portfolio of service offerings, deliver groundbreaking Oracle solutions, and true to the company’s heritage, will grow in a sustainable manner focused on quality.

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CXO Standpoint

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he term HIPAA Compliant is widely used by many healthcare organizations and cloud vendors. But it begs two questions, what constitutes HIPAA Compliance, and is HIPAA Compliance enough? While compliance is important to the healthcare industry, there is enough ambiguity in the HIPAA regulation that compliance can be interpreted differently by every vendor, whether it is the need for data encryption, how log collection and review is managed, or user authorization and authentication standards. And HIPAA Compliant does not necessarily mean the environment is secure.

Compliance without the right security is a formula for potential trouble. More speciďŹ cally, how can you have conďŹ dence that your vendor is truly compliant?

The challenge is differentiating a truly HIPAA compliant vendor from those that claim full compliance and security, but may not meet the level of compliance healthcare companies expect. This need for consistency and the assurance of HIPAA compliance that truly provides a secure computing gave birth to HITRUST.

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HITRUST: The Framework HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) was born out of the belief that information security should be the core pillar of, rather than an obstacle to, the broad adoption of health information systems and exchanges.

HITRUST, in collaboration with leading healthcare, technology and security organizations, established the HITRUST CSF (Common Security Framework). CSF can be used by all organizations to guide them in selecting and implementing the appropriate controls to protect the systems that create, access, store or exchange personal health and financial information. HITRUST provides a process by which companies using the CSF framework can be verified and audited against a common standard.

The HITRUST CSF provides organizations with the needed structure, detail and clarity relating to information security controls tailored to the healthcare industry. The CSF is available through HITRUST Central https://hitrustalliance.net/hitrust-csf/ or with a subscription to MyCSF, a web based solution for performing assessments, managing remediation activities, and reporting and tracking compliance.

HITRUST: The Industry Standard HITRUST is governed by a Board of Directors made up of leaders from across the healthcare industry and supporting business associate companies. These leaders represent the governance of the organization, but also comprise the leadership to ensure the framework meets the short and long term needs of the entire industry.

So, if a health care company is considering moving all or part of its IT department to the cloud and it has been adhering to HIPAA or HITRUST standards internally, what should be considered before the move of ePHI data into the cloud? Does HITRUST even certify cloud infrastructures and services? That answer is a resounding YES Unlike compliance with HIPAA, FFIEC, and other governmental regulations that have no official certification per se, HITRUST does indeed offer a certification (CSF certified) to assure those doing business with the cloud service provider that it is HITRUST compliant. HITRUST is the way to certify and ensure that you are HIPAA | June 2017 |

Compliant. Because HITRUST is built on the ISO 27001 standard and incorporates features from PCI, COBIT, NIST, and FTC, among other standards, the HITRUST certification provides a strong base for meeting compliance with these standards as well.

6 reasons why it’s important for your cloud provider to be HITRUST certified: · HITRUST is the highest level of certification that healthcare organizations can trust · HITRUST will reduce costs and complexity through the adoption of a common set of security objectives and assessment processes · HITRUST takes a proactive approach by building a quality and ever-improving security defense which reduces the need for resources to constantly react to new security requirements or audits · HITRUST CSF (common security framework) is established and accepted within the healthcare community and their business partners · Healthcare organizations who support HITRUST guidance and oversight can realize the benefits of a single complete risk and compliance review · Multiple regulations and standards are harmonized across the HITRUST CSF, making it the pinnacle of verified trust.

All of this is important as companies are considering moving workloads to the cloud. The key is cloud providers ENABLE you to be able to be complaint, but in it of itself, they don’t have the environment set up to be compliant.

That responsibility rest with companies looking to adopt the given cloud platform. There is work to be done to make the cloud meet the security and compliance requirements of HIPAA for example.

So, keep it simple and ask the cloud provider the question, “Are you HITRUST certified?”

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