How TTX, a key link in North America’s railroads, hauled its back office into the cloud. A consumer and industrial packaging company meets booming demand with a Microsoft and Oracle cloud infrastructure. Get Java superpowers with these tools hidden in plain sight. Also: Four steps to make systems stronger with chaos engineering.
“The Oracle solution proved to be the most complete, modern suite of enterprise applications on a common platform. It allows us to concentrate on our business and not on the technology that supports it. That’s what we were looking for.”
TTX, which operates a fleet of 168,000 cargo railcars serving North America’s major railroads, replaced a patchwork of operations software—including on-premises SAP ERP—with Oracle Fusion Cloud. The upgrade lets the company concentrate on business rather than supporting technology.
Sonoco runs workloads on multiple clouds—with assistance from the Oracle-Microsoft interconnect—helping the $5 billion company stay on top of booming demand for its consumer and industrial packaging.
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Manhattan Associates runs its warehouse management and transportation management on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, saving 50% over previous cloud solutions with 30% performance improvement.
