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| | Editor's Note | | | Data-Driven Decisions
What questions does your boss really need your data to answer? Here's one from Oracle CEO Mark Hurd: "What kinds of people succeed at Oracle?" Hurd offered that question recently as just one example of how cloud-based applications such as human capital management and enterprise resource planning, using built-in analytics, are changing what business leaders expect from IT systems and company data.
Tech vendors historically have created apps to execute transactions, leaving data analysis for separate applications and specialized IT pros. Today's cloud apps enable decision-makers to access and parse data without having to call on IT to run a report. See Answer the Questions That Really Matter to Your Business.
Why does this speedy analysis matter so much? Because businesses are gaining confidence in the economy, trying to pick the opportunities to invest in, and "starving the heck out of the ones that don't." Read PwC and GE Show How to Turn Rising Business Confidence into Action. | | — Chris Murphy, Oracle director of cloud content |
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| | More Cloud News | | | University of Wyoming: Better Decisions Through Better Data
Why is the University of Wyoming moving to cloud-based applications for finance, human resources, and analytics during a time of tough state budget cuts? Having a suite of cloud tools will let the university make the right choices to pursue its mission despite fewer resources. "That's really the strength of the system: the ability to get real-time reports and, on the fly, do what-if analyses," says Robert Aylward, vice president of information technology. Why UW is going cloud now. | Why CIOs Who Want to 'Grow the Business' Must Adopt the Cloud
CIOs who adopt cloud technologies are able to move from traditional operational efficiency to what Oracle's Steve Cox calls "operational agility." Operational agility enables companies to more easily collect and interpret information to make better decisions. Cox asks, "Do you want to spend the majority of your IT budget to run the business, or do you want to spend it to grow the business?" More on growth-oriented technologies. | How to Move from Spreadsheet Scrum to Financial Restart
The New Zealand Ministry of Education's financial organization had too many spreadsheets, databases, outdated applications, and disconnected processes, making planning and forecasting difficult. Sound familiar? Now the ministry has replaced legacy financial systems with Oracle ERP Cloud, which has improved its risk management and governance, helped build stronger relationships with its customers, and more. So, what's phase 2? | Eight Steps for a Workout Plan to Strengthen Your Core (HR)
Here's how Baker Tilly's Jeff Haynes starts building a workout plan for an organization that wants to pump up its muscles in human capital management. Step 1: Set your workout goal. What outcome are you looking to looking to achieve? Is it better efficiency—such as shorter process time—or being more effective? Get the next seven steps (and some bonus workout tips). |
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