Elevate, Not Mitigate Your Oracle Cloud Applications Journey

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Steffanie Ness 

Welcome everyone. I’m your host, Stephanie, Ness, and welcome to the podcast today. Today, we’ll be talking about elevating, not mitigating, your Oracle applications journey. Joining me today are Larry Laden and Jagan apathy, the Chief commercial officer for UCBOS and our Senior Vice President respectively. Please share a few words. About yourself with the audio. 

Larry Layden 

Jay, I’ll kick it off. Thank you for your time, Stephanie. I appreciate it. I’m Larry laden. I have nearly 40 years in supply chain now as an operations leader in many industries, both discrete and process. Like you know, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, biochemical, Consumer Packaged Goods for as an example, I’ve also LED some advanced software capabilities. All the way from demand sensing to digital manufacturing, I’m really delighted to be with UC Buss, now the world’s first 100%, no code supply chain visibility, execution and orchestration platform. Thank you for having. 

Steffanie Ness 

Thank you. And Jay, there introduce yourself. 

Jay Ganapathy 

Thanks for having me, Steff. I’m Jay. I’m with supply chain industry for the past 18 years and working with various supply chain technologies and collage of products. Over the years, I’ve been intimate with the digital transformation projects, which made me to appreciate the challenges that enterprises are dealing with, from integration modernization to the best of the breed. Implementations and whatnot whether an on Prem or cloud, so I’m glad to discuss and be part of this podcast today. Thanks again for inviting me. To this show. 

Steffanie Ness 

Well, we look forward to both of your inputs and let’s get started. Cloud transformation journey makes each cloud implementation distinct, varying by partner industry domain and the enterprises unique businesses, the Oracle applications Cloud journey is no exception. How is Oracle positioned in the cloud supply chain space today? 

Jay Ganapathy 

Well, Oracle is definitely a major contender in the cloud supply chain space, and it is continuously evolving across the product suite. They do offer solid features in the cloud, bringing enterprise standardizations they are definitely positioned well as they have a significant number of existing on print customers who are ready to move to the cloud sooner. And faster as usual in every implementation Oracle cloud implementation is also unique and challenging in its own way, especially when we are dealing with coexistence and customizations. 

Steffanie Ness 

And coexistence within the ecosystem and other non Oracle applications is an issue I’m assuming. 

Larry Layden 

Oh, heck yes. And it’s estimated that something like 9000 viable customers are in the on Prem, Oracle e-business suite. But currently those enterprises are assessing upgrades and coexisting options to interoperate, innovate and modernize their business processes for the. To normal. 

Jay Ganapathy 

I would not say a coexistent itself an issue, rather a solution. Enrichment in interoperability is for instance enterprises, often Oracle EBS, right in Oracle EBS, customers often move from their in-house infrastructure to hosting on the Oracle cloud infrastructure, allowing EBS to coexist with the cloud. Typically they bring in required. Modules right after that, and that modules can be either Oracle cloud application or non Oracle applications. There, interoperability is the challenge. We have seen transformation projects struggling to interoperate between even Oracle cloud modules such as ocms OTM or OMS. It’s obvious integration is not cutting it. It’s good to point out here, in addition to coexistence, enterprises also take a full blown. Transformation full blown cloud transformations approach to Oracle cloud suite. Depending on when and where they are on their business transformation journey and the nature of the investment made in the past and the applications. But trust me, whatever the path, the model they take, the key challenge lies on one enriching the applications for the new normal is that indicating? And the second part is interoperability between Oracle and non Oracle applications that continues to be a challenge. 

Steffanie Ness 

I understand. I would imagine that there’s significant additional investments the customers need in order to make the top Oracle cloud modules, license costs, things of that nature is that? 

Jay Ganapathy 

Yes, customers have invested in the customized on Prem applications for those enterprises. Steph Cloud move is not an easy as they naturally lose some of those features, right? They have the choice of picking past platform to augment those applications. The good thing is Oracle has its own native Paas. Platform to enable extensions within the cloud suite of products. While I do agree this is an additional investment, it gives enterprises a lot of leverage on return of investment and eliminating the expensive lightweight point solutions. 

Larry Layden 

I think Jay hit on that pretty well. The customization of footprint often acts as a hindrance to go ahead with a complete transformation to the cloud, be it Oracle or non Oracle products. This is where a composable supply chain platform comes in handy and really elevates your capabilities. 

Steffanie Ness 

Speaking of the new normal, nowadays customers and employees are always increasingly expecting more contextualized and personalized applications and experiences. Are there other challenges and opportunities that Oracle users are going through that need to address this, Jay? 

Jay Ganapathy 

Challenge and opportunities comes hand in hand, right. I would say customization is the number one challenge here. Historically enterprises, as I said, customize their solution for their business flows and they’re plugged in secret sources to bring our competitive advantages, whereas cloud packages can’t be customized that easily. And we can’t redevelop in a short frame time either. This is the true challenge in my viewpoint in the cloud transformation journey. All we can do is elevate those applications with customizations to meet customers expectations, as you mentioned. Ripping and replacing is definitely not a wise idea given the price tag and the time it takes so augmenting those applications with Plas platform is a natural selection. 

Larry Layden 

I’ll address the customization as one of the challenges, but let’s not forget speed organizations need to deliver innovation and adapt more quickly to respond to this accelerating pace of. The business changed today, which is why enterprise must consider really rich, full-featured, no code platform capabilities that can handle the supply chain problem statements typically solved through custom code and operational nerve centers. 

Steffanie Ness 

Can you please elaborate more on the nerve centers in Oracle and non Oracle ecosystems, Larry? 

Larry Layden 

Sure, traditional systems are subject to inflexible assumptions, which may lead to circular flow of disruptions. The result? While it’s kind of a sink. Ship a supply chain nerve center may not be able to prevent certain situations from happening, but they certainly can help a business react better and recover quicker. Some advantages include seamless integration, agile solutions and improving decision making through data insights. 

Steffanie Ness 

Is customization. Impacting cloud transformation. 

Jay Ganapathy 

Yeah, I would say yes, irrespective of the ecosystem, be it Oracle or non Oracle products, customizations and custom codes are inevitable, right for the unique business cases. While it adds the competitive edge stuff, it has its adverse effect on innovation, limiting the feature migrations and of course, shooting up the. Maintenance cost, cost of ownership and overall IT burden. But but at the same time there is no point in shifting that tech depth or functional depth to the cloud. It’s time we have to eliminate the business and technical debt through modern technologies like past customizations. 

Larry Layden 

And I’d like to jump in here too. I agree with you, Jay. If you have custom code that is blocking your migration and upgrading strategies, adopting an enterprise ready, no code pass platform overcomes these challenges. 

Steffanie Ness 

What does the role of no code pass platform have in solving transformational challenges, be it customization or business agility? 

Jay Ganapathy 

Traditional pass platform certainly add value in client client customization, but it’s not helping the business agility stuff. Unlike traditional pass platform, no code. As handles customization at the speed of business. 

Larry Layden 

Because there’s no code, the speed and the customization is 10 times faster than typical projects that are hard coded with a flexible metadata platform. You see, Boss connects all the data within a business and leverages that data to build solutions. You know, run what if scenarios and and really optimize processes. Within weeks, if not days, really. In fact, you see BOSS business. Have been able to compose and implement agile solutions within again days three to four weeks, which otherwise may have taken about 9 to 12 months with UC boss as a no code composable, configurable platform. We have provided solutions to numerous clients specific business. Needs and continue to provide solutions. That work alongside the Oracle solution. 

Steffanie Ness 

Wow, this sounds great, but how does UC boss elevate an ecosystem and how is it solving specific business needs? 

Jay Ganapathy 

So as I said earlier, each implementation an ecosystem is unique staff UC boss is positioned and capable of composing a solution at the pace of the business. Speed and the ecosystem need. For example, let’s say Oracle Ocwa’s customers wanted to enable scenario planning based on their warehouse operations. Data ubos does interoperate with ocms and builds those features, and in case of a non Oracle applications, let’s take an SAP customer they. Critically lacks business specific sourcing and procurement process. UC Boss is able to compose that simplified and business specific sourcing cycle within the procurement ecosystem, right. So it’s totally dictated by the business needs as we don’t have any precomposed solutions. 

Larry Layden 

One Oracle Fusion customers has asset management and modules, but they couldn’t automate the physical count of fixed assets. You see boss can extend the fusion features on automating the physical count of fixed assets, enabling bar code and label printing functionalities UC boss reconciles. And then sends it back to the Oracle. 

Steffanie Ness 

So what is the major benefit that customers are getting using UC bus? OK. 

Jay Ganapathy 

I would frame it in a three different questions, Jeff. So number one, what is the pressing thing for the business that’s lacking in the current cloud move that make them to abandon the cloud strategy altogether too? What is lacking in the current ecosystem that is not covered in our cloud application scope or? Cloud strategy #3 is what else can be enhanced to make the cloud adoption seamless? UC bars is best position to solve these three challenges. 

Larry Layden 

Yeah, you know, hence the single platform like UC Boss is more compatible and viable option to elevate the Oracle solution by delivering business outcomes 10 times faster. Our customers have achieved customer promise, reliability, business agility and supply chain clarity. It’s an amazing stuff. It really, really works. 

Steffanie Ness 

This has all been really interesting. Do you guys have any last words that we could share with the audience? Larry Jay? 

Larry Layden 

I’ll jump in for a second here, Jay, our team UC boss team and I will be at the Oracle Cloud World on October 17th through the 20th and Las Vegas. Listen, come by our booth number 337. Then to learn more about how you see bosses elevating cloud applications. 

Jay Ganapathy 

My only ask is if you’re in the middle of Oracle’s cloud transformation journey. For that matter, please feel free to contact us if there is any way you need to extend or enhance your cloud transformation or express your cloud transformation, we’ll be happy to assist and don’t miss to ask for a free POC. 

Steffanie Ness 

Well, this has been. A wonderful event. We appreciate your time and hope to hear you guys and visit us again. Thank you.