| Editor’s Note |  | Speed Is Key to Leveraging New Technologies
Lots of big companies are embracing cloud services, but only a relative few are going all in. Office Depot is doing just that, consolidating its HR, financial management, and supply chain applications into three Oracle Cloud services, a move that’s in step with the retailer’s IT modernization strategy and its transition to becoming more of a business and technology services provider.
The main goals of this huge software-as-a-service migration: reduce costs, get faster access to the latest application features, make it easier to share and analyze data across departments, and standardize processes. “If we did not figure out how to leverage newer technologies and vendor investments faster, we as a company would be left behind,” says Office Depot’s Damon Venger.
— Rob Preston, Editorial Director, Oracle Content Central |
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| More Cloud News | | | Do First, Ask Later: Inspiring Advice from Women Tech Leaders
“I tend to do first and ask later, and I meet a lot of Type A women like me in tech. We can all relate to hiding illnesses, stress—things we don’t talk about,” says Lisa Mae Brunson, organizer of Hacks 4 Humanity. Brunson joined a panel of other women tech leaders at Oracle Code in Los Angeles as they discussed career strategies, leadership, and shaking off the naysayers. |
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| How Lawrence Livermore Keeps Its Big Lasers Firing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory operates the unassumingly named National Ignition Facility, which focuses 192 of the world’s most powerful lasers on a single point to re-create the inner workings of stars and other nuclear reactions. Keeping all that equipment runningtakes 1,100 virtual machines running Oracle Linux and Microsoft Windows on Oracle VM, all managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager. |
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| Lights, Camera…Financial Management!
Sim International rents cameras, lighting equipment, and studio space—and provides editing services—to movie and TV studios such as Universal, Warner Bros., and Netflix. Its biggest problem: getting accurate financial reports from eight reporting systems, which could take weeks, sometimes months. A cloud-based system changed that. |
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| Toyota Concept Vehicle Embodies ‘Mobility Economy’
What has eight wheels and no driver and could transform the transportation economy? Toyota earlier this year showed off this radical new concept: a driverless, fully electric vehicle that can serve interchangeably as a taxi, delivery van, mobile store, office, restaurant, even a hotel room. It’s called e-Palette. |
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| Video | | | | Avio Digitizes Incentive Comp with the Cloud | | Attracting and retaining top talent is critical to Avio Consulting’s growing professional services business. They chose Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to slash the complex pay-for performance calculation process from days to hours. |
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