How IT Can Drive Fast, Successful Business Innovation

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1 How IT Can Drive Fast, Successful Business Innovation With Hardware and Software Engineered Together TRANSFORMING AND SIMPLIFYING IT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION Recently, major IT trends and transformations have made it a lot easier for organizations to turn enterprise information into real business advantage. Cloud, mobility, and big data have rewritten the rulebook, and reshaped the way that companies develop strategies, make decisions, and execute day-to-day tasks. Taking control of these trends and, moreover, embracing them is essential for businesses looking to increase efficiency, boost flexibility, and keep up with agile new competitors. At the same time, many organizations are facing two pressing IT challenges: the need to support business innovation, and the need to cut complexity and cost. 57% In fact, a recent survey by Gatepoint Research shows respondents overwhelmingly prefer an integrated, single-sourced stack that has been engineered and certified together (57 percent) over disparate, best-of-breed hardware/software components (10 percent). 1 1 Integrated IT Solutions Support Business Priorities, Gatepoint Research, 2014

2 Technology-enabled innovation is now a major driver of competitive advantage. Yet IT staff are spending more and more of their time trying to keep up with the changing needs of every department. More than ever before, choosing the right IT systems is one of the most important strategy decisions any business has to make. As organizations work to remain competitive, they must also strive to keep IT simple. Constantly adding new services and capabilities can contribute to growing IT complexity, in turn reducing the efficiency of critical business processes. To prevent this inefficiency, and make the best use of limited time and resources, the most successful organizations are turning to integrated hardware and software systems that have been tested and engineered together to deliver optimum performance, often on a smaller footprint and at a lower cost. CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Boston Medical Center With multiple vendors and solutions contributing to an already complex environment, Boston Medical Center needed to find a simple way to consolidate IT and focus on improving patient care. The Oracle Database Appliance engineered system helped Boston Medical Center: + + Reduce TCO and improve the performance of its legacy environment + + Cut annual storage and engineering resources costs + + Accelerate runtime reporting performance by up to 50 percent

3 INCREASING THE SPEED AND SUCCESS OF INNOVATION In today s highly contested global markets, innovation has climbed to the top of many organizations agendas. But, for those still relying on poorly integrated, legacy IT infrastructures, it s proving to be a major challenge. To get ahead, a company must be able to innovate at speed and respond to changing customer demands quickly capabilities that rely on highly integrated and optimized IT. Innovation today requires a data-driven approach. Stakeholders and decision-makers need immediate access to detailed information and analytics if they are to make the fastest, most well-informed decisions possible. They also need that information to be accurate. According to Gatepoint Research study results, 67 percent of responders believe better access to real-time, business-critical data would help them meet their evolving business needs. 2 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. 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 new opportunities for growth. 2 Integrated IT Solutions Support Business Priorities, Gatepoint Research, 2014

4 CUTTING COMPLEXITY AND COSTS With data volumes increasing and new capabilities constantly being added, many businesses now have to provision extra capacity and take measures to control and reduce IT complexity. 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 day-to-day activities of everybody in the company from managers to customer-service agents. This can have a dramatic impact across the enterprise, including: A loss of business agility and a significant increase in time to market Missed opportunities, with no support for new initiatives such as mobility and BYOD Reduced customer satisfaction and poor customer experiences as a result of inefficient and slow processes Stagnation, with current platforms and technology unable to support innovation Lower employee productivity as they cannot access the IT resources and data they need, when they need them most Hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted on continued investment in, and labor costs associated with, the inefficient infrastructure The challenge that businesses are facing is to increase capacity and streamline IT infrastructures at an affordable cost and integrated systems provide the perfect, cost-effective way of doing both. Investing in smarter, integrated infrastructures is the first step toward higher value IT. Not only do they deliver amazing levels of performance that boost your business applications, but they do so while keeping acquisition, management, and operational costs low. IT executives with constrained capital budgets are looking to integrated systems to reduce data-center costs.

5 FINDING YOUR IDEAL SOLUTION Systems and software that have been not only preintegrated, but also engineered to work together can help organizations save a huge amount of time, cost, and effort. When components work together seamlessly, crucial resources can be freed up 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 simply do more. Oracle does the integration so you don t have to, implementing and maintaining the entire technology stack, and seamlessly connecting all components of a sophisticated, modern data center. This includes systems for both the datacenter infrastructure core and workload-optimized machines. And we offer all of this value at price points that the competition can t match. No other vendor offers the breadth of portfolio, trusted track record, or extreme price/performance that Oracle does, helping customers achieve cost savings, simplify deployments and ongoing management, and innovate with ease and confidence. CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Universiteit Twente 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. By deploying five Oracle Database Appliance units, the university was able to: + + Eliminate interruptions to critical administrative functions + + Run without downtime for more than a year + + Optimize database performance Learn more Visit our website or download our comprehensive engineered systems e-guide today to find out what Oracle s engineered systems could help your organization achieve. You can call on , or chat with one of our engineered systems experts live through your browser. Copyright 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.