Applications Management for Oracle on IBM Cloud

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Applications Management for Oracle on IBM Cloud
Solution Brief

Industry: Cross-vertical
Solution: Applications Management for Oracle on IBM Cloud
Solution components: Managed Oracle applications

Applications Management
for Oracle on IBM Cloud
Reduce cost and increase agility of your Oracle
investments with managed cloud

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Applications Management for Oracle on IBM Cloud
As enterprise application suites grow in
scope and complexity, organizations need
to meet critical imperatives and will face
many obstacles in managing their complex
application environments.
Applications Management for Oracle on IBM
Cloud has been designed to address the
challenges you may face while running
Oracle applications. It enables your cloud
transformation by migrating, securing and
managing your Oracle enterprise
applications and workloads, and the
infrastructure they run on.

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Applications Management for Oracle on IBM Cloud
The challenge
                                                                      Key imperatives
                                                                      –   Get services to
                                                                          market faster
                                                                      –   Optimize business
In a traditional IT environment,   And when opportunities arise,          processes
extracting the full value of       it can be difficult to pivot and
enterprise applications isn’t      adapt your application             –   Improve security
always easy. Managing              infrastructure while                   and compliance
applications in-house can be       maintaining cost control. At       –   Managed broad set
time-consuming and expensive.      the same time, CIOs and IT             of applications
You may be facing challenges       teams are getting pressure
such as the high cost of servers   from all sides to increase         –   Improve customer
and storage, a shortage of         innovation and improve                 experience (availability,
required skills or long lead       services.                              customer satisfaction
times for provisioning.                                                   rating, and so on)

                                                                      Common obstacles
                                                                      –   Lack of
                                                                          skills/infrastructure
                                                                      –   Day-to-day management
                                                                      –   Competition
                                                                      –   Globalization
                                                                      –   New business models

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The IBM Cloud Solution

Applications Management for        The solution helps improve     Managed services with
Oracle on IBM Cloud is             the performance, efficiency,   enterprise service-level
designed to help meet those        security of your Oracle        agreements (SLAs): High
challenges. With one of the        applications while helping     service levels across the tech
largest global networks of data    future-proof your              stack to meet your
centers available, IBM can take    application investment         organization’s requirements
responsibility for managing your   through optimization and       for critical workloads
Oracle applications to help you    strategic insight.
                                                                  Focus on innovation:
reduce complexity and cost
                                                                  Integration with IBM Watson™
while enhancing the end-
                                                                  and IBM Cloud (AI, analytics,
user experience.
                                                                  blockchain and others)
                                                                  Reduced costs: Standardized
                                                                  service helps provide a
                                                                  predictable, low-cost model
                                                                  Improved security and
                                                                  compliance: ISO 27001-based
                                                                  security delivers enterprise-
                                                                  grade protection; compliant
                                                                  with latest cloud standards

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The solution value

                                                                       For example, Epic Piping built      By implementing Oracle
  Delivering a complete,            Our experienced, Oracle-                                               and business management
                                                                       a multimillion-dollar business
  flexible managed                  certified professionals can keep                                       solutions, managed by IBM, N
                                                                       in less than a year with IBM
  cloud solution                    your Oracle applications running                                       Brown Group has transformed
                                                                       and Oracle. The company
                                    efficiently whether you have a                                         business processes to unlock
  Applications Management for                                          chose Oracle JD Edwards
                                    fresh installation, upgraded                                           the potential growth of its
  Oracle provides single- and                                          solutions, run entirely using
                                    versions or a migration from                                           fashion brands.
  multi-tenant global cloud                                            Applications Management for
                                    another environment (see
  solutions for Oracle databases                                       Oracle, to create a fully
                                    Figure 1). We can also keep
  and applications such as                                             integrated operation at
                                    your Oracle technology up to                                           Helping your organization
  Oracle E-Business Suite,                                             enterprise scale
                                    date and manage your                                                   reduce costs
  PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and                                           in just a few short months.
                                    compliance requirements,
  other Oracle technologies.                                                                               Working with IBM as your
                                    including PCI and HIPPA.           IBM solution capabilities can
  Flexible management options                                                                              single-source provider for
                                                                       also help companies succeed
  range from core infrastructure                                                                           Oracle ERP and business
                                                                       in a changing world by opening
  and database support to fully                                                                            applications services, you
                                    Enabling growth and opening        new channels and reaching new
  managed Oracle applications.                                                                             can expect a sophisticated
                                    up opportunities                   customers. N Brown Group is a
  IBM offers world-class client                                                                            solution that helps reduce
                                                                       case in point. The retail apparel
  support for these solutions, as   IBM offers a highly available,                                         cost and complexity while
                                                                       company moved from catalog-
  well as security services,        high-performance cloud                                                 delivering an optimal
                                                                       based sales to online and
  robust connectivity options       platform designed to remove                                            user experience.
                                                                       mobile purchasing.
  and up to 99.9 percent            obstacles to growth and
  availability for increased        position clients
  uptime.                           for success.
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The solution value

Offload time-consuming tasks,     Supporting faster time              through high availability with   Why IBM?
reduce operational costs and      to value                            Oracle Real Application          IBM is one of Oracle’s most
shift from a CapEx to an OpEx                                         Clusters (RAC) and high          significant partners, with a
                                  In today’s fast-paced business
model—all while improving                                             availability for web and         31-year partnership and
                                  environment, you need to
service quality through                                               application servers. IBM         Platinum Level and Cloud
                                  shorten the time between
standardization and                                                   Services comply with Oracle      Elite status. IBM has more
                                  Oracle service requests and
automation.                                                           database licensing               than 10,000 dedicated Oracle
                                  delivery.
                                                                      requirements and are backed      consultants and has helped
By creating a fast, easy and      Applications Management for
                                                                      by the standard SLA of 99.5      clients successfully complete
reliable process built on         Oracle helps reduce delays and
                                                                      percent or the high-             more than 6,500 Oracle
managed services on               inefficiencies with automated
                                                                      availability SLA of 99.9         projects. IBM offers services
Applications Management for       provisioning and de-
                                                                      percent.                         to help you at each stage of
Oracle, Caribbean Financial       provisioning of Oracle
                                                                                                       your Oracle investment, from
Group unlocked process            databases and applications.         Freeing more resources
                                                                                                       consulting to implementation
efficiencies and reduced                                              for innovation
                                  Improving resiliency                                                 to management.
operating costs by 15 percent.
                                  and availability                    Applications Management
At the same time, CFSC
                                                                      for Oracle helps remove
experienced five times faster     To help improve the resiliency of
                                                                      maintenance and
loan application processing and   your Oracle environment, IBM
                                                                      management headaches
a 20 percent rise in system       offers disaster recovery with
                                                                      while enabling your staff
availability, driving an          industry-leading recovery point
                                                                      to focus on more strategic
outstanding customer              and recovery time objectives
                                                                      business priorities.
experience.
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The solution benefits

• Allows you to accelerate your journey to cloud
  without the challenges of acquiring skill sets that
  are not available internally
                                                        50%
                                                        faster Oracle
• Drives efficiencies with flexible standard, usage-    production-ready
                                                        installations and
  based, on demand services deployed where you
                                                        return to service
  need them                                             with higher
• Accelerates your business with automation and         quality; end to end
  tooling that delivers the resources you need faster
  and more accurately with a single partner
                                                        *Based on IBM client data, actual results may

• Optimizes the value of your Oracle applications       vary.

  with API access to emerging technologies like AI,
  blockchain and IoT

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Learn more

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services for Oracle applications.
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