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Vice President, Oracle, Robert Shimp has said that Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS), offerings, such as the Oracle Cloud Platform, have the ability to
deliver unprecedented levels of business agility, ITRealms reports.
”PaaS
offerings, such as the Oracle Cloud Platform, have the ability to deliver
unprecedented levels of business agility. The key now is to demonstrate to
businesses just how easy it is to integrate this critical cloud platform into
their IT architectures. Yes, the cost savings delivered by PaaS are important,
but of greater importance is its ability to help businesses reduce application
development timeframes and more easily tailor and integrate third-party
Software as a Service apps into their business, allowing them to more effectively
address customer demand,” said Shimp.
Oracle, ITRealms gathered, recently announced
the results of its “Oracle Cloud Agility” study and revealed that businesses
worldwide overestimate their agility. While a majority of businesses believe
they are agile, Oracle’s research highlights that many organizations cannot
flexibly manage workloads or rapidly develop, test, and launch new
applications, leaving them poorly prepared to deal with competitive threats.
The study also found a lack of awareness among businesses around how
technology, like PaaS, can be used to help address these challenges.
The Oracle
Cloud Agility study surveyed 2,263 employees working for large global
enterprises to understand business agility in the age of cloud. The results, ITRealms learnt, show that 64 per cent
consider their organization to be agile (i.e., able to adjust quickly to new
business opportunities or to iterate new products and services quickly). When
looking at the United States, businesses are even more positive, with 66
percent believing
their business to be agile.
Respondents
are clear about the benefits of agility, with 81 per cent stating that the
ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch new business applications is
either critically important or important to the success of their business,
falling to 76 per cent in the United States. In particular, nearly one-third of
respondents (29 per cent) believe the effective mobilization of applications
and services is the most important factor in business success today when it
comes to IT infrastructure.
The study, ITRealms also reports, reveals that the
impact of agility on competitiveness is critically important to businesses. In
fact, the ability of competitors to launch innovative customer services more
rapidly was identified as the top threat by businesses (27 per cent). Fifty two
per cent of global respondents indicated that their business does not have an
IT infrastructure capable of meeting competitive threats.
Significantly,
the survey reveals that the agility benefits delivered by PaaS are not being
leveraged. In fact, nearly half of businesses (49 per cent) surveyed either
cannot, or do not know if they can shift workloads between public, private, and
hybrid clouds, and migrate on-premises applications to the cloud.
Cyriacus Nnaji/GEE
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