Improve supply chain efficiencies
The focus is on leveraging technology for innovation to build routes to market, improve customer engagement, and supply chain efficiencies.
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Three out of four user companies say Oracle managed services are essential to their IT strategy
Key benefits from Oracle managed services:
- Operational efficiency and security: Improve security and compliance reporting for workloads, quickly deliver services and Oracle applications to line-of-business and enhance disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
- Financial and strategic: Predictably manage costs and resources for Oracle workloads, contribute to the company's digital transformation journey and reduce your hardware and software maintenance burden.
2018 Best Practice Award: IBM receives Frost & Sullivan’s North America Managed ERP Services leadership award.
How managed cloud services can facilitate your digital transformation on Oracle solutions
This interactive whitepaper explains why 76% of CIOs told analyst firm Frost & Sullivan that cloud managed services are essential to their IT strategy. And the provider's skills must go far beyond simply managing the infrastructure.
How managed cloud services can help different industries
Reduce time to market and simplify IT
Customer demands for variety and customization in products call for shorter supply chain lifecycles and flexible manufacturing operations. Manufacturers may need to refit production lines to support multiple products.
Drive down cost and free upstaff time
66% of financial services firms have adopted managed cloud services as a way to ensure optimal function of business applications within a secure environment.
Transform your customer experience
According to investment firm UBS, nearly 8,000 US retail store closures were announced in 2017—eclipsing the previous record of 6,163 closures during the 2008 recession.1 According to the National Retail Federation, while total retail sales are expected to grow around 4% in 2018, that number reflects growth of 10-12% in online sales, offset by continued declines in store-based sales.
Anticipate Change and adapt quickly
The conservative insurance industry is starting to embrace the digital era. After years of lagging behind other industries—including fellow regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare—insurance firms are adopting cloud, analytics, and next-generation technologies as a means to win customers and grow revenue.
Benefits
Free up IT resources
Let IBM skilled resources perform time-consuming management and maintenance of Oracle cloud applications so your resources can focus on higher value projects that enable innovation.
Guaranteed SLAs
Choose the service-level agreement (SLA) you need — up to 99.9% — from the virtual machine to the operating system, though the database and up through the application level.
Around-the-clock security
High-level compliance, continuous monitoring and enhanced granular control provide visibility while reducing potential threats before they affect your data.
Innovate with Oracle and Watson
Combine your Oracle cloud applications with IBM Watson® industry solutions, or create your own applications with extensive cognitive APIs.
Why Oracle Managed Services are key to driving cloud results.
Key features
Multiple deployment and management options
Get the flexibility to deploy Oracle cloud workloads on either managed OS, managed database (DB) or fully managed applications.
Multiple OS and DB support
IBM supports AIX®, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris operating systems along with most popular databases, including IBM DB2®, Oracle and Sybase.
Resources
Improve your IT security and compliance with IBM Cloud Managed Services
See how cloud managed services can help protect your data, both physically and virtually.
Enterprise applications and cloud managed services: 269 CIOs share their views
This Frost & Sullivan white paper details the findings of their CIO study on the challenges of transforming businesses with cloud and SAP and Oracle applications.
Migrating mission-critical applications using cloud managed services
This executive brief presents the biggest challenges of cloud migration and how the right managed cloud provider can help you overcome them.
Case studies
N Brown Group
Finding the perfect fashion fit with IBM and Oracle
N Brown Group has transformed into an online retailer, based on a ‘digital first’ mindset, agility and innovation. Part of the transformation was to improve consumer credit capabilities, enhance merchandise planning, and transform financial systems, all underpinned by a new digital platform enabled by IBM Cloud™ technologies.
Epic Piping
Building a multimillion-dollar business in less than a year with IBM and Oracle
Epic Piping chose Oracle JD Edwards solutions, run entirely using IBM Cloud Managed Services for JD Edwards, to create a fully integrated, enterprise-scale operation fit for a multimillion-dollar business in just a few short months.
Caribbean Financial Group
Supporting a lender’s rapid business growth
By creating a fast, straightforward and reliable process built on Managed Services on IBM Services for Managed Oracle Solutions, Caribbean Financial Group was able to unlock process efficiencies and assure consumers that loan decisions and access to funds always come on time.
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