Achieve the benefits of cloud with your critical Oracle applications

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1 Achieve the benefits of cloud with your critical Oracle applications Why now is the time to consider migrating your essential Oracle applications to the cloud complete with any customizations you ve made Organizations large and small rely on Oracle applications to ensure they can operate smoothly and efficiently. From E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, FlexCube, Primavera and beyond, these applications are essential to businesses and public sector bodies all around the world. Kyle Smith, VP Client Services Technology Officer, TOLA and Cloud Architect Cintra Corporation Smith is an accomplished public speaker and author centered on adoption of emerging technologies, particularly Oracle Cloud. As a Cloud guru Smith is at the center of Cintra s global Cloud strategy. Business-critical Oracle applications are traditionally deployed in your co-location data center or in-house data room, using dedicated infrastructure that you need to buy, maintain and upgrade. Having to do all of this yourself is expensive, while the on-premise infrastructure model limits your flexibility, scalability and agility where these applications are concerned. Many organizations are already migrating parts of their enterprise architecture to the cloud, including new capabilities and even some smaller line-of-business applications. These deployments typically use Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Given this trend, there s a growing desire to extend the benefits of cloud to their more complex, mission-critical and enterprise-grade applications, in particular their Oracle ones. However, because most organizations heavily customise their implementations of these apps to support their unique ways of working, switching to a cloud-based, one-size-fits-all software-as-aservice (SaaS) solution isn t an option (though with the Oracle cloud, it could be in the future we ll touch on this below). Cloud benefits from your existing applications The good news is that there s now a way to achieve the benefits of cloud, while keeping all the customizations you ve made to your critical Oracle applications. The solution is to use Oracle s cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which enables you to move your existing applications to the cloud in their current state. The benefits of moving your Oracle applications to the cloud Moving your business-critical Oracle applications to the cloud will enable you to unleash the usual and well-understood benefits of this type of infrastructure, including: Scalability and flexibility: Near-infinite room to grow your application as your demands increase, or decrease capacity at quiet times Business agility: Quickly try out new capabilities, thanks to the speed at which you can add capacity to your application environments Cost-effectiveness: Only pay for (and license) what you use; much on-premise hardware is under-used, particularly in test and development environments, where utilization is sometimes less than 10% 1. Cloud helps minimize this inefficiency Cost agility: Low up-front costs and the ability to start small and grow (or shrink), mean you don t risk getting tied into long-term contracts or expensive infrastructure if they (or the project they re underpinning) don t meet your needs. You can now afford to try things out, measure success and quickly adapt accordingly Data center reductions: Migrating your Oracle applications to the cloud in the right way will enable you to reduce your data center footprint and cost Oracle cloud IaaS for applications

2 Achieve the benefits of cloud with your critical Oracle applications Greater automation: All organizations are looking to use automation as a way of getting more work done with fewer resources. Cloud is a proven model to accelerate your automation capabilities Reduce the cost of infrastructure management: This could be cheaper in the cloud than onpremise Improve physical security: Cloud data centers are incredibly secure, typically more so than an on-premise data room In addition to these benefits, which are common to all cloud providers, running your Oracle applications on the Oracle cloud unlocks further advantages: Technology flexibility: Oracle offers various flavours of Infrastructure as a Service, including bare metal provisioning, dedicated compute and regular compute. Moreover, unlike some cloud providers, Oracle gives you access to the underlying infrastructure in both a dedicated or multi-tenanted environment, even for Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. This gives you a huge amount of flexibility and enables you to implement appropriate foundations for your specific needs Performance: You re able to choose an appropriate level of cloud performance for your application, from standard compute to high-end Exadata machines Ease of migration: There s no need to significantly re-architect your Oracle application or its platform when you migrate it to the Oracle cloud. This is because Oracle s cloud is specifically engineered to work with Oracle databases, middleware and applications. If you choose a different cloud provider for your Oracle application, there will likely be more major rearchitecting involved Security: You can implement your own enterprise-grade security in the same way you do onpremise, thanks to the ability to access the underlying infrastructure Security: Oracle offers a cloud-from-your-own-data-center option, the Oracle Cloud Machine (more on this in the following piece) Scalability: Oracle Cloud can scale vertically and horizontally to support large persistent data workloads Realistic test environments: Oracle cloud is a reliable platform for testing Oracle applications. Unlike most cloud providers, Oracle s setup enables you to create test environments that closely resemble your on-premise ones, meaning you can run reliable tests. This reduces risk and accelerates production deployments Many organizations are looking for alternatives to the major capital expenditure of buying new hardware. In Oracle s cloud, there s now a viable option Ease of management: Your Oracle Cloud estate can be managed using the same Oracle enterprise tooling that most organizations already use for their existing Oracle ecosystem Stepping stone to future Software as a Service (SaaS) model: Oracle enables you to extend and customize its SaaS applications using its PaaS cloud, meaning it s possible to enjoy the benefits of SaaS while still ensuring the application works the way you need it to. By migrating your existing applications to the Oracle IaaS cloud, complete with those customizations, you re taking your first step towards this type of SaaS with PaaS model 2 Oracle cloud IaaS for applications

3 Achieve the benefits of cloud with your critical Oracle applications Why now is the time to migrate your Oracle applications to the cloud Migrating to cloud helps frees technology teams from the constant need to maintain existing infrastructure. Instead, they re able to offer the organization a more agile and innovative service that delivers greater business value As the data center equipment that underpins critical Oracle applications reaches the end of its life, many organizations are looking for alternatives to the major capital expenditure of buying new hardware. In Oracle s cloud, there s now a viable option. Oracle s cloud offering has matured significantly in the past few years and it now has a cloud data center footprint covering the whole globe. And while your overall enterprise cloud strategy should make use of a range of cloud providers, when it comes to your Oracle applications and databases, the Oracle cloud is almost always the best solution. We ve seen companies recently move their Oracle applications to the Oracle cloud and achieve significant cost savings and lower total cost of ownership. As a result, they ve freed up budgets and have been able to innovate in other areas. Importantly, migrating to cloud helps free their technology teams from the constant need to maintain existing infrastructure. Instead, they re able to offer the organization a more agile and innovative service that delivers greater business value. And perhaps most crucially of all, cloud adoption in this area is still in its infancy, which means that embracing it now can give you a distinct competitive advantage. With the benefits tantalizingly close and costs so low, it can seem tempting to rush out and start moving your Oracle applications to the cloud. But as with most things, a little planning will greatly enhance the likelihood of achieving the desired benefits and achieving them quickly. In our next piece, we reveal 11 things every organization needs to know before they start migrating their critical enterprise Oracle applications to the cloud. 3 Oracle cloud IaaS for applications

4 Your pathway to success Cintra is a multi-award winning Global Oracle Platinum partner and Enterprise Architecture specialist operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Cintra focuses on enterprises undergoing digital transformation strategies in Retail, Financial Services, Gaming and other verticals; becoming a trusted partner for organizations investing in Oracle Business Technology delivering value by helping architect the digital enterprise. Further reading: Best Practice Guide: Opinion: Eleven things every organization needs to know before migrating Oracle applications to the cloud Opinion: How to deliver a cloud pilot of your Oracle application in 30 days 4

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