ORACLE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS ENGINEERED FOR INNOVATION

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1 ORACLE ENGINEERED SYSTEMS ENGINEERED FOR INNOVATION

2 Transforming and Simplifying IT for Business Innovation 3 Increasing the Speed and Success of Innovation 8 Cutting Complexity and Costs 10 The Call for a New Breed of IT Infrastructure 15 The Changing Role of IT 17 The Impact on Innovation 19 The Oracle Difference 24 2

3 TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION

4 TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION Recently, major trends and transformations in IT have forced organizations to change the way they operate. Cloud, mobility, and big data have changed the rules and reshaped the way that companies develop strategies, make decisions, and execute day-to-day tasks. Taking control of these trends and embracing them is essential for businesses looking to increase efficiency, boost flexibility, lower costs, and keep up with agile new competitors. Oracle engineers IT systems with innovation in mind. With easy-tomanage, highly available systems, Oracle customers have the platforms necessary to innovate with confidence, freeing up critical resources that were historically reserved for day-to-day maintenance and upkeep. 4

5 TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION Technology has become one of the biggest drivers of competitive advantage. IT departments are now facing enormous pressure to transform their operations and provide solutions and infrastructure that support innovation across the entire business. Today, choosing and investing in the right IT systems has become one of the most important strategic decisions that a business has to make. And if this wasn t enough of a challenge, IT organizations also have to find a way to achieve all of this while simplifying IT. If an organization fails to control the complexity of its IT environment, it can start impacting internal processes and efficiency. When hardware is co-engineered and preintegrated with software, everything becomes simpler freeing up essential resources to improve existing services and make the most of new opportunities. 5

6 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center faced challenges just like these. With multiple vendors and solutions contributing to an already complex database environment, it needed to find a simple way to consolidate IT and focus on improving patient care and the analysis of treatment efficacy. The medical center needed a complete solution that could streamline its operations straight out of the box, and chose Oracle Database Appliance to transform the way it manages its entire data warehouse. 6

7 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Boston Medical Center The Oracle Database Appliance engineered system made the difference at Boston Medical Center by providing a cost- and resource-effective packaged system that: + + Lowered the total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved the performance of its legacy environment + + Delivered significant annual cost reductions in storage and engineering resources + + Improved CPU and RAM usage, accelerating runtime reporting performance by up to 50 percent + + Consolidated its data management team to a single Oracle Database Appliance administrator, allowing server and storage engineers to focus on other highpriority projects 7

8 INCREASING THE SPEED AND SUCCESS OF INNOVATION Many organizations find that trying to expand, change, or innovate using existing IT infrastructures can slow them down and impact ROI. There will always be a rate of failure when trying to innovate, but being able to get to market or implement new ideas and processes faster significantly increases the chances of success. ROI Innovation today requires a data-driven approach. Stakeholders and decision-makers need immediate access to detailed information and analytics to make the fastest, most well-informed decisions possible. By empowering everybody with an IT infrastructure that supports the timely delivery of data insights and enables the detailed modeling of innovative projects, businesses can increase success rates, get to market faster, and identify more new opportunities for growth. 8

9 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Atos IT Solutions and Services Like many organizations, Atos IT Solutions and Services first considered engineered systems to help decrease IT costs and bring exciting new services to customers faster. As an IT outsourcing company, Atos didn t just need performance and agility; it also needed extreme capacity and support for multitenancy on a single machine. Atos deployed Oracle SuperCluster, a unified and highperformance engineered system that integrates virtualization, computing, storage, networking, and systems management. This enabled Atos to optimize service levels while supporting multiple customer environments. We chose Oracle SuperCluster because, unlike alternatives from other vendors, it enabled us to operate a multitenancy environment to host more than one customer on one machine, which is critical for our IT outsourcing business. In addition, everything from Oracle is tested up front, easy to use, and easy to upgrade, from firmware versions, to middleware and system management. Eduard Kowarsch, COO, Managed Services, Central Eastern Europe, Atos IT Solutions and Services 9

10 CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS As organizations grow, so does the complexity of their IT environments. With data volumes increasing exponentially, many businesses are realizing that the time has come to take two key actions: increase capacity and scalability, and simplify IT. The impact of increasing IT complexity stretches far beyond manageability. Systems are the backbone of an organization, and if they become slow, inefficient, and inconvenient to use, so do the services offered by the business. This can have a dramatic impact across the enterprise, including: A loss of business agility and a significant increase in time to market Reduced customer satisfaction and poor customer experiences as a result of inefficient and slow processes Lower employee productivity as they cannot access the IT resources and data they need, when they need it most Missing opportunities by not supporting new initiatives such as mobility and BYOD Stagnation, as you cannot innovate with the platforms and technology available Hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on continued investment and labor costs associated with managing the inefficient infrastructure 10

11 CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS According to Accenture, downtime in data centers costs 41 percent more than it did just four years ago, illustrating a growing need for reliable systems that business leaders cannot afford to ignore. Accenture Digitally Disrupted to Digital Disruptor PDF Aggressive use of highly converged infrastructure deployments can reduce application infrastructure costs by about 50 percent. David Floyer, Wikibon article, Duplicating Public Clouds for Oracle DBAs. It is important to recognize that every dollar spent maintaining an inefficient IT environment is a dollar that could have been invested in a simpler, more cost-effective system that would enable you to drive innovation. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to capitalize on this huge opportunity, sacrificing increasingly scarce resources for perceived short-term convenience. When you simplify IT, you cut costs. Investing in a smarter, more efficient infrastructure is the first step towards lower-cost, higher-value IT and the buy-in price is lower than you might expect. Once organizations recognize just how much maintenance and management tasks are currently costing their IT department, they will begin to understand exactly how integrated systems can cut TCO so significantly. 11

12 CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS With systems that have been preintegrated and engineered to deliver the highest performance at the lowest price, organizations can take a huge amount of the time, effort, and cost out of ensuring all components and software can work together seamlessly. This doesn t just ensure that new systems deliver predictable results straight out of the box; it also frees up critical resources for use on projects that drive the business forward and add value. Backed up by the speed and agility offered by integrated systems, organizations can adopt a true culture of immediacy and flexibility one that strives to tackle issues faster, accelerate growth, and do more. This kind of shift in attitudes and behavior across the enterprise is truly achievable with the right mixture of efficient and cost-effective IT. Oracle engineers its hardware and software across the entire Oracle technology stack, so you don t have to. The result is extreme performance combined with low pricing that helps customers cut IT complexity and focus more on business innovation. Common business challenges Growing IT complexity Increasing pressure to drive innovation Shrinking budgets Social, mobile, and big data putting strain on current IT infrastructures Indecision about whether to build or buy systems 12

13 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Universiteit Twente Ranked among the world s top 200 research universities, Universiteit Twente needed to replace an aging IT infrastructure in order to deliver efficient processes, provide convenient access to student services, and eliminate unplanned downtime. The university deployed five Oracle Database Appliance units to prevent service interruptions that affected critical business functions. The university hasn t experienced any downtime for more than a year, allowing the IT department to spend time on supporting innovative projects. 13

14 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Universiteit Twente Oracle made the difference at Universiteit Twente by tripling database transaction processing, improving the stability of more than 50 databases, and: + + Replacing 15 database servers to eliminate interruptions to critical administrative functions + + Running without downtime for more than a year + + Optimizing the performance of Oracle Database Appliance through continuous advice, on file-system caching, and disk administration 14

15 THE CALL FOR A NEW BREED OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE

16 THE CALL FOR A NEW BREED OF IT INFRASTRUCTURE An organization s IT systems are the foundation of its operations. They function like an essential part of the team, and when selecting them, businesses need to look for qualities similar to those that they d look for in new employees. The systems: i Must have all-purpose, core data-center knowledge, as well as workload-optimized expertise Must work together seamlessly, with as little friction as possible Should bring new capabilities with them that aid innovation Need to be hardworking and bring a high level of performance Must deliver an economically sensible way to run the data-center Because of this, organizations are turning to a new breed of IT infrastructure converged or integrated systems. 16

17 THE CHANGING ROLE OF IT For IT professionals, this new breed of infrastructure means a new way of working. Across the board, integrated systems are making IT organizations more efficient. Time-consuming routine tasks such as provisioning, patching, configuration management, monitoring, and troubleshooting are reduced significantly thanks to simple automation and integrated management tools. This means that dedicated IT teams can finally start spending time on the tasks they really want to do. They can make the most of their expertise and start driving the business forward instead of just fighting fires in the data center. From a management perspective, this opens up even more opportunities to cut costs by more efficiently allocating the staff and skills that are available. Oracle doesn t just provide integrated systems; it provides engineered systems. Components aren t just selected to work together; they are coengineered to get the most from one another right from the beginning of their development. The result is simplified IT systems that deliver extreme levels of performance, scalability, and availability and streamline management and operations. 17

18 THE CHANGING ROLE OF IT When migrating to integrated systems, companies can expect to spend less time on provisioning, planning, and configuration management, and less time on new service requests and approval management. Thanks to the simplification of basic IT management tasks, skill requirements are also changing. Integrated, infrastructure-enabled IT departments still require staff who can rapidly detect and remediate problems, but emerging skills such as the ability to auto-scale resources will quickly become high priorities. Oracle pioneered engineered systems more than six years ago and was the first vendor to integrate at every single layer of the IT stack. Today, that experience and market-leading success has resulted in the most comprehensive engineered systems solutions available. 18

19 THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION Organizations need to innovate to survive. Customers are empowered with more information and choice than ever before, and it s up to you to do something new and different to capture their attention. But it s not just product and service innovation that s driving success; having the resources to develop innovative new internal processes is also critical for gaining competitive advantage. Software and hardware systems engineered to work seamlessly together free up your IT staff to focus more on innovating for your business. By cutting the time and resources spent on custom-building and maintaining an inflexible IT and systems environment, you can make better use of your employees skills and expert knowledge by enabling them to develop and implement game-changing ideas that drive your business forward. 19

20 THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION When you re creating and rolling out innovative new products, services, and processes, you need to know that you re supported by a comprehensive and flexible platform. For your new ideas to succeed, your systems must enable you to launch them as simply as possible with minimal interruption to existing services. Integrated systems make the process so much simpler. They give organizations the performance, availability, agility, scalability, and customizability that they need to innovate with confidence safe in the knowledge that their IT environment can comfortably support their new initiatives. By using integrated systems to innovate, businesses can ultimately: Reach customers with new products and services before competitors do Test innovation scenarios and eliminate issues early on in the development process Improve the efficiency of existing processes and adopt new ones without hassle Capitalize on emerging opportunities faster 20

21 THE IMPACT ON INNOVATION The result is a more flexible business that can innovate freely, pursue emerging opportunities without worry, and use new capabilities to stay ahead of the market and competitors. As the pioneer of integrated systems, Oracle understands organizations growing hunger for speed and scalability, and utilizes in-house expertise and a wealth of experience to preintegrate its solutions for success. Oracle s prebuilt solutions are specifically engineered to deliver extreme performance at the lowest price, and help organizations focus time and resources on making IT work better. Oracle has shipped more than 10,000 engineered systems to organizations in a vast range of industries, all over the globe. 21

22 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Tier1 As a leading provider of business consulting solutions and 24/7 managed services for Oracle Applications, Tier1 delivers high-quality private cloud services for a range of Oracle and third-party applications. With technology already engineered together, the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance was the ideal choice of engineered system for Tier1, allowing it to spend more time adding value for its customers and less time managing routine day-to-day issues. 22

23 CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Tier1 Oracle made the difference at Tier1 with Virtual Compute Appliance, an easy-to-deploy engineered system that provides the flexibility needed for cloud computing and enables Tier1 to: + + Deploy ready-to-run virtual machines in minutes + + Go from power-on to production in an hour + + Significantly accelerate data processing + + Simplify management of the entire cloud lifecycle 23

24 THE ORACLE DIFFERENCE

25 THE ORACLE DIFFERENCE When you re choosing new integrated systems for your organization, there is an important question to ask at the start: which vendor can deliver everything you need at a price that suits you? Oracle engineered systems are powerful machines designed and optimized for both core data-center infrastructure needs, as well as for specific types of workloads. No other vendor offers the breadth of portfolio, trusted track record, or sheer system value that Oracle does, helping customers achieve the highest levels of performance with the lowest possible purchase, management, and upkeep costs. Gartner has positioned Oracle a leader for integrated systems in 2014, based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, Andrew Butler, George J. Weiss, Philip Dawson, June Most integrated systems involve a loose collection of vendors who can never truly collaborate and often have conflicting release schedules and priorities. This can challenge or slow down innovation for the end user and the business. 1 Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 25

26 THE ORACLE DIFFERENCE The overall reduction realized by applying all Oracle best practices to a traditional Oracle environment is 41 percent. David Floyer, Wikibon article, Duplicating Public Clouds for Oracle DBAs. Oracle is the only systems vendor that engineers, implements, and maintains the entire technology stack, delivering true end-to-end integration among all components of a sophisticated, modern data center. And, if you re already using Oracle solutions anywhere in your organization, no other vendor can even come close to the level of integration and optimization that Oracle has worked tirelessly to achieve with its engineered systems. Oracle does the integration, so you don t have to. This cross-stack integration and optimization helps Oracle deliver extreme performance across the data center at the lowest price. It enables unique efficiency-boosting functionality such as deep data compression, smart caching for more efficient storage utilization, and optimized InfiniBand connectivity to simplify scalability. For you, it all adds up to getting the job done faster, better, and more cost-effectively than you imagined. With a complete, integrated infrastructure from Oracle, service and maintenance become easier than ever before. Oracle engineered systems come with integrated support, offering 24/7 fault monitoring, fast request response times, and remote patch installation services at no additional cost. With Oracle s assistance, you can maximize system uptime, identify and resolve issues rapidly, and always have the peace of mind that our experts will be there to give you the help you need, when you need it most. 26

27 THE ORACLE DIFFERENCE Thousands of customers across the globe have already discovered the Oracle difference. Oracle has proven time after time that it can deliver the highest levels of performance, deploy at extreme speeds, and significantly drive down costs across the data center. Thanks to results like this, Oracle has built strong and lasting relationships with a huge range of globally-recognized organizations, and has worked tirelessly to ensure these companies are backed up by systems, software, and support that keep them ahead of the competition. With Oracle, you get a complete solution. It begins with total interoperability, predictability, and consistency; continues with extreme performance and economically sensible, low purchase prices; and extends all the way down to complete support for total peace of mind. Organizations that are driven by innovation need confidence in their systems, and that is what Oracle delivers every step of the way. To learn more about Oracle engineered systems, and to discover how they can help your organization cut costs, simplify IT, and drive innovation, visit now or call and talk to an Oracle engineered systems expert today. 27