Single Data Model:
Built in best practice business processes
Consistent User Experience
Common Reporting & Analytics:
Common/single security definition for reporting access and creation.
Unified Platform:
Simplifies integrations and extensions with Oracle’s universal Platform as a Service -- Integration with 3rd Party Systems like Payroll etc. becomes simpler as mapping between separate Financial and HR system is not required
One Provider:
Convenience of working with one service vendor and one set of cloud engagement processes, also includes greater discounts on volume purchases, more influence (investment has more impact with a single vendor than spread across multiple vendors), less conferences to attend, etc.
Introductions and Welcome.
When it comes to cloud computing, why does a unified solution matter?
We’re going to talk about how the market is moving us from best-of-breed cloud solutions to multi-pillar or “unified” cloud solutions.
Our goal is to help you build a long-term cloud roadmap, thinking about your future needs while addressing your current challenges like costly and complex integrations, managing segregation of duties across multiple systems, enterprise-wide reporting and visibility, and end user adoption of new technology.
We know that both the lines of business, as well as IT are now involved in making the decision to move to the cloud so we want to speak to the benefits both receive.
From Gartner’s Survey Analysis: Cloud Adoption Across Vertical Industries Exhibits More Similarities Than Differences, 18 February 2015: CEOs and CIOs make cloud budgeting and adoption decisions, but they are influenced by business leaders, senior IT leaders and functional IT staff. CFOs control the budget.
SLIDE TRANSITION: So, isn’t it about time to learn from the Past, Modernize, and help Move the Business Forward?
The multi-vendor management challenges you experience today with your existing solutions will continue to exist if you simply swap these solutions with multiple best of breed cloud vendors. Yes, the technology has changed and your organization will now be in the cloud but these systems still need to talk to each other and work as one for you to truly see enterprise wide productivity gains such as increased user adoption & engagement, rapid innovation, complete organizational insight, and consolidated operating costs and support savings.
As your organization grows so will your business technology needs. By leveraging a single cloud provider from the start that is capable of providing you broader enterprise applications other than just HCM you can be sure that you continue to build on your technology investment and find more savings and greater productivity in the cloud.
SLIDE TRANSITION: Of those organizations who adopted “best of breed” cloud solutions without thinking about their broader business goals failed to see the hidden challenges with managing multiple cloud solutions. The top 5 challenges cited by IT professionals who now manage these clouds today include:
Security
Compliance
Managing Costs
Managing Multiple Cloud Services
Governance & Control
SLIDE TRANSITION: Now, What are the True Pains of These Challenges?
More IT Resources Needed to Manage Multiple Clouds
Costly Custom Cloud Integrations
Poor User Adoption Across Enterprise Apps
Inconsistent Security Policies
Auditing Multiple Clouds to Meet Compliance
Managing Multiple Sources of Cloud Data
Disconnected Organizational Insight
Monitoring & Enforcing Multiple Cloud SLA’s
Multiple Cloud Support Contracts
Inconsistent Social and Mobile Capabilities across Cloud Apps
A System that Simply Doesn’t Scale
SLIDE TRANSITION: So, why a unified cloud solution? Oracle’s enterprise cloud applications are truly designed to work as one so that you get maximum productivity and savings across the entire cloud.
A unified cloud suite offers a more manageable and secure alternative to integrating separate best-of-breed applications from multiple vendors.
With a unified cloud solution you get:
ONE User Experience
One User Experience – Designed to help you reduce training costs, drastically improve user adoption, self serve capabilities, and no matter what the role, the user experiences and processes are consistent as you navigate across our cloud applications
ONE Reporting & Analytics solution for adhoc reporting
Universal Reporting & Analytics – Leverage pre-integrated analytics across our cloud applications that talk to each other right out of the box. We deliver the complete enterprise-wide picture with cross functional reporting for historical, current and forward looking business analysis.
ONE Data Model
One Data Model – Eliminate the unnecessary burden on IT resources to create, sync and maintain multiple sets of employee records with a single global employee record that can be accessible across all cloud applications. But also, streamline IT operations by avoiding duplication in managing multiple security policies, SLA’s and audits across different cloud apps.
ONE Industry-Standard Platform
One Platform – Where your organization can easily add-on any of our 600+ cloud applications when they need it and minimize IT support and costs because you are taking advantage of our shared technology used across all our cloud services.
And ONE Provider
One Provider – Reduce costs and streamline IT operations with a single set of cloud engagement processes, SLA’s, Unified Security Policies and simplify change management with synchronized and flexible updates across our cloud services, and leverage one provider to give you the dedicated 24/7 support when you need it.
SLIDE TRANSITION: No matter what the role, the experience and process is consistent as you navigate across Oracle Cloud services.
All employees, whether infrequent users or power users, have a modern/consumer-like user experience which means easier user adoption and reduced training costs. And access to modern capabilities like embedded collaboration. Here we have an employee submitting a purchase requisition.
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With Managers, we see a great example of a simplified user experience with quick access to key information, tasks and alerts. And as a manager, they can see the results their employee purchase requisitions through notifications.
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And with the Professional or Executive, we see contextual information displayed based on role, which provides the enterprise view of spending.
A unified solution also provides the
Convenience of single sign on across Oracle Cloud services
Personalization is synchronized to create common look and feel across company
SLIDE TRANSITION:
Easier user adoption and reduced training costs with “modern”/consumer-like user experience
Convenience of single sign on across Oracle Cloud services
Synchronizes personalization to create common look and feel across company
Increases communication and collaboration across key business processes/cross-department functions with embedded enterprise social network
SLIDE TRANSITION:
Easier user adoption and reduced training costs with “modern”/consumer-like user experience
Convenience of single sign on across Oracle Cloud services
Synchronizes personalization to create common look and feel across company
Increases communication and collaboration across key business processes/cross-department functions with embedded enterprise social network
SLIDE TRANSITION:
Easier user adoption and reduced training costs with “modern”/consumer-like user experience
Convenience of single sign on across Oracle Cloud services
Synchronizes personalization to create common look and feel across company
Increases communication and collaboration across key business processes/cross-department functions with embedded enterprise social network
SLIDE TRANSITION: I love this quote by Henry Ford: “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”
So, how can both HR and Finance truly align at your organization? How can we embrace the strengths of both to move the needle in our organization?
Since HR and Finance share an analytics foundation built on a common foundation we can then ask, are there performance indicators that combine people performance measures with financial results for each level within the organization? Does this “state of alignment” adapt to changes in regulations, updates to HR Policy, revised Financial Controls, reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions or entry/departure from markets and/or geographies?
In our conversations with owners of operating units or cost centers, leaders of divisions or business units we hear how users of financial and HR information expect a complete picture of their business from yesterday, today and tomorrow. Their expectation is that they are able to use analytics for their informational needs at all levels. To use analytical tools to drive decisions to the bottom line, health and prosperity of the organization regardless of its context as a “financial” or “people” measure.
To move into the best performing group or organizations and achieve competitive advantage, you need an integrated HR and Financial analytics platform to be aligned at all levels of the organization.
The preceding is from: https://blogs.oracle.com/OracleHCM/entry/hr_and_finance_agree_has
Benefits:
Drives right time insight across global enterprise with centralized real time reporting and analytics
Common skill set for users to create adhoc reports eliminates reliance on IT
Easily accessible adhoc self-service reporting allows portlets and key metrics to be shared functions and processes
Enterprise-wide visibility with cross functional reporting for historical, current and forward looking analysis
SLIDE TRANSITION: A single data model provides shared architecture and master data across processes, which delivers greater control and consistency for business operations.
For example, a “single person record” defines an employee’s role, data access privileges, reporting hierarchy, and other characteristics, eliminating the need to create and maintain multiple sets of employee records. With Oracle, this global definition is shared by ERP and HCM improving data integrity and control. Another benefit of a single data model is seen with approval processing. As employees move throughout an organization, the system knows exactly where that person resides in the organization so approvals and workflows are managed automatically. Specific example: Expenses uses HR hierarchies for routing approvals etc.
Benefits:
Drives approvals globally across self-service, purchasing, projects and expense processes with single real time organization hierarchy
Centralizes segregation of duties and policies across global organization
Improves data integrity and control with single global employee definition across ERP and HCM
Centralizes segregation of duties and policies across global organization (to control access)
SLIDE TRANSITION: To bring this concept to life, let’s take a closer look at a use case related to a new employee that leverages the single data model.
When you add a new employee there are 3 things actions that you take: Assign them to a manager, a LOB/CC/Dept and a role. This is a quick set up for each, which establishes the Security Model.
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The system then automatically uses the Security Model when processing transactions to determine approvals when expense occur for things like expense reports or purchase requisitions. It also determines what the domain (LOB, CC or department(s) this person has access to when performing transactions or reporting.
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The result is adherence to local standards, access only to data and functions that are relevant for this individual and their role.
SLIDE TRANSITION: In addition to the new employee example we just saw, many other aspects of the person definition are used throughout ERP.
Use of the HCM hierarchy for workflow approvals
Employees
Positions
Roles
Person hierarchies for approval routings
What does Accounts Payable use these HCM owned business objects for?
Expense Reports requires People, Assignment Information and Organizations
Expense Signing Limits requires Employees
Invoices, Holds, Shipments (including Network Locations), and Vendors requires Organizations and Locations
What does procurement use these HCM owned business objects for?
Shipments and Vendors requires Organizations and Locations
Purchasing Employee Hierarchies requires Employees, Jobs and Positions
Buyers, Agents, Approved Suppliers requires People
Purchase Quotations, Orders and Contracts require People and Locations
All people who create requisitions or purchase orders, who authorize purchases, and who receive purchased goods or services (i.e. Buyers, Agents, Approved Suppliers) must be set up as employees.
The creation of vendors, purchase orders, and requisitions require Deliver To, Ship To, Deliver To, Receipt To information which reference Locations.
Processing internal requisitions and customer sites references location and organization information.
The document approval process uses the supervisor hierarchy or the position hierarchy
GL Integration
Chart of accounts validation from Financials to HCM
Payroll journal entries from Payroll to General Ledger (via SLA)
HCM and Projects
Competencies, Employees, Organizations, Jobs/Positions, Hierarchies, Locations, Resumes
SLIDE TRANSITION: All of Oracle’s cloud solutions share an industry-standard platform, so as you grow your business you can be confident that your needs will be met with the market’s most complete cloud solution.
This unified platform offers a common technology framework providing standards for integration, security, social, analytics, and mobile. Custom applications and solutions developed by independent software vendors also leverage this platform, which ultimately reduces costs, minimizes IT support requirements, and simplifies integrations.
Benefits:
Reduces costs and risks with common technology framework, security and identity services
Minimizes IT support with shared technology used across cloud services
Supports additional use cases when required with a complete global cloud solution
Simplifies integrations and extensions with Oracle’s universal Platform as a Service
Oracle’s modern cloud lets you personalize applications to fit your business.
Configure functionality: configure the Oracle Cloud to match your corporate and local business practices as well as different brands
Personalize dashboards, configure screens, modify workflows, and capture every piece of data unique to your organization.
Mold the system by country, by organization or for your entire enterprise.
Everything is performed within the application itself with no technical tools or programming required.
Tailor employee experience: individual users can personalize their experience to maximize individual productivity.
You can also tailor the user experience to match your different brands
Extend Functionality: extend Oracle Cloud beyond what’s in the box by building custom apps using standards-based development tools
Oracle PaaS provides a standardized set of dev tools that you already use/know
With Oracle’s unified and connected cloud, you’re able to connect your entire business.
Unify data, processes and user experience: data, processes and the user experience are unified across Oracle’s complete suite of cloud applications.
Seamlessly integrate processes and data: Unlike 1st generation SaaS solutions, Oracle Cloud applications are easily integrated with other cloud, on premise or 3rd party applications using standards-based tools (web services, BPEL)
Import/export HR data: Whether you want to import data or export data, Oracle offers robust data integration for comprehensive reporting and analysis
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SLIDE TRANSITION: We’re seeing more and more customers choose a unified cloud solution. Here’s one great example, Solairus Aviation.
http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/3907819439001
NEXT SLIDE: In the next 3 minutes, you’ll see Oracle’s unified cloud solution in action and how a unified suite of cloud solutions provides standardization around people and processes.
If you want to show the Unified ERP & HCM Solution Commercial “Why a Unified Cloud Matters” seamlessly within the PPT, use the following guidelines:
Download the MP4 from the ERP Cloud Market Intelligence OSN conversation: https://socialnetwork.oracle.com/osn/web/#artifact:artifactId=65680421&viewMode=NORMAL and save to your hard drive.
Delete the black box on the slide (you’ll be adding your own).
On the Insert ribbon, select Movie from File and locate the file stored locally on your hard drive.
It will ask “How do you want to start the video in the slideshow”, select automatically.
Once the black box appears, size it to fit the screen and you’ll be ready to go.
Here’s the YouTube link if you’d like to use that instead: https://youtu.be/5y7-hInsboM
We are excited about the cloud because it is going to allow customers like you to rapidly benefit from the $60 billion plus in R&D we’ve spent over the past decade to build the industry’s best, most complete portfolio of cloud services. That means you no longer need to wait years to upgrade to access the latest software innovations – you’ll get them in months.
And there is evidence our transformations are working in the marketplace! We have 600+ apps, 70M+ users in the cloud, over 31 billion transactions per day on the Oracle Cloud, all supported by 19 datacenters! Lots of success and experience you can count on!
So, what are the top three reasons why oracle is positioned to be best cloud solution provider to get you where you need to go.
We have a Complete Cloud Platform with over 600+ available applications that are ready and available when you need them and don’t require any costly custom integrations.
We can help you significantly reduce IT overhead, costs, and duplication of cloud management activities with the standardization of people and processes across cloud applications.
Lastly, by leveraging shared services across our cloud applications we provide your workforce with one user experience and correlated business analytics that provide you the complete picture of what’s happening in your organization.
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And this is behind Oracle's strategy to ERP Cloud.
We have the most complete enterprise-ready ERP SaaS Cloud on the market.
Period.
LINK: What does a Modern ERP Cloud look like?
This is what we got. One unified cloud. For your entire business. Period.
Whether your digital transformation begins with Marketing, Sales, Service, HR or Finance, you want applications that are built for digital business so you can innovate quickly.
Oracle offers modular cloud applications that:
Are designed for mobile use
Make it easy to collaborate by building social into business interactions
Deliver analytics during key points of a process to improve decision making
Use big data to gain new insights into customers and business performance
Let’s look at a few digital opportunities that you can get started with right away.
Competitive Point:
SAP is taking their existing processes and re-using them where it makes sense and then simplifying for delivery options that different customer groups require.
