Organizations of all sizes are asking the same question: How do we make technology choices that are right for our company’s current operations and future strategy?
Tens of thousands of business and IT leaders from companies big and small will be exploring that question at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco September 18 to 22.
For established companies looking to transform their operations, a critical focus is shedding the anchor weight of highly customized systems that make updates onerous—and put them increasingly behind their competition.
For small, fast-growing companies, the impetus is choosing cloud-based applications that enable global expansion and can minimize integration headaches down the road.
Disrupt or Be Disrupted
It’s been four years since IT research and advisory firm Gartner dubbed the combination of mobile, social, cloud, and big data technologies as “the Nexus of Forces,” but nimble upstarts are hardly the only ones tapping these forces to change how businesses operate. Large enterprises—like GE and Oracle—are combining their strengths to help organizations transform with modern approaches, technologies, and processes.
At this year’s Oracle OpenWorld:
- Learn how Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud is helping finance organizations modernize and take control of their company's digital future.
- Hear about how modern, integrated technology that spans the entire finance function is helping finance leaders guide their organizations into new digital possibilities.
Evolve from Efficiency to Agility
Modernizing your company’s systems to gain greater efficiency offers a wealth of advantages, but in today’s business environment you can’t stop there. Oracle’s range of cloud technologies is helping companies of all sizes ditch customizations that are expensive to maintain and move to digital systems that support best practices.
A variety of Oracle OpenWorld sessions will delve into how organizations moved from old-school ERP and enterprise performance management (EPM) systems to modern, cloud-based applications, including:
- How Barnes & Noble replaced SAP BPC with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service in 14 weeks
- The results fast-growing retailer Wiggle achieved after moving to Oracle Financials Cloud
Do It Once, Do It Right
Whether yours is a small company looking to move from spreadsheets and QuickBooks or a larger firm exploring which technologies will support your strategic goals, the long-term pain and costs of piecing together a range of point solutions from various vendors is an important consideration.
At Oracle OpenWorld, you’ll find a variety of presentations by Oracle customers that once faced those quandaries—and gain insight into the paths they took and the lessons they learned along the way. In addition, Oracle executives will provide comprehensive overviews of:
- How Oracle Consulting can help simplify your migration to Oracle Cloud
- Advice on planning an implementation of both Oracle EPM Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud
This year, more than 200 Oracle OpenWorld sessions are focused on ERP and EPM. Browse the full list.
- Register for Oracle OpenWorld 2016
- 7 Tips for Assessing a Modern ERP Deployment
- Get the Handbook: Your Complete Guide to Modern ERP
- How to Connect Finance to the Cloud
Margaret Harrist is director of content strategy and implementation at Oracle.