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An increasing number of businesses are turning to Oracle Autonomous Database - the industry’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database—to gain deeper and more meaningful data insight, faster than ever before. The result has been freeing employees to do more value-added work—in large part thanks to deeper, faster insights into data than has been possible beforehand.

According to Hwee-Xian Tan, Senior Analyst, SoHo and SME Research, “Asia-Pacific enterprises [are] opening up to and having a sharper appetite for database-as-a-service (DBaaS) propositions with AI and ML features being particularly strong drivers for enterprise migration to cloud-based database environments. This is due to the cost reductions they deliver, and their ability to derive new business insights at speed. This has the potential to shift the global cloud arms race amongst hyperscale cloud players towards those that have a strong play in controlling enterprise databases—most of which still reside in a legacy client-server infrastructure.”

Among the Asian companies using Oracle Autonomous Database are China Eastern, Fadada, Bitmain and Kingold from China, Vodafone Fiji, Hong Kong Maxim’s Group, National Pharmacies and Applied Precision Medicine from Australia, Forth Smart, and Rangsit University from Thailand.

Forth Smart, which operates more than 120,000 vending machines that customers use to do things like top-up their mobile phones and e-wallets and transfer money to friends and family, generates around 2 million transactions per day. Pawarit Ruengsuksilp, business development analyst at Forth Smart, said it can now generate real-time insight into its network of vending machines, which previously would have taken three or four days. “Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse has been a complete game-changer for us,” he said. “This has had a significant impact across our financial reporting, ability to undertake complex segmentation and predictive analytics, allowing us to focus more of our efforts on innovation.”

Hong Kong Maxim’s Group operates more than 1,300 outlets encompassing 70+ brands in the fast-paced food industry in the Hong Kong and Macau regions, as well as in Mainland China and South East Asia. All that activity today results in more than 600,000 transaction records per day in Hong Kong alone, notes Louis Mah, the company’s director of Information Technology.

Hong Kong Maxim’s Group is using a mix of Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud, along with detail from its ERP systems, to extract extremely timely and valuable information regarding consumer habits and behavior. This allows the company to “rapidly adapt to changes in how our different restaurants are performing,” said Louis Mah, Director, Information Technology.

Kingold, the diversified Chinese company, is using Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud to streamline how it collects and analyzes information, allowing it to “completely transform the way we operate,” according to its CIO, Steven Chang.

No wonder Oracle Autonomous Database has become the most successful new product introduction in Oracle’s 40-year history. According to Steve Daheb, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud, “Today we are seeing users across the globe realizing the benefit of autonomous.”

Some of the world’s most important companies are turning to agile Oracle Cloud suites to run their people, their supply chains, and their financials. These include a unicorn in the e-commerce platform industry, an award-winning airline, a family-run retail conglomerate, and a logistics and transportation company.

Founded in 2010 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Bukalapak has grown into a billion-dollar startup. It hosts four million small and medium enterprises (SMEs), 500,000 kiosk vendors and 700,000 independent micro-businesses in Indonesia on its platform.

Bukalapak is now using Oracle ERP Cloud to enable its finance and procurement teams to gain full visibility of the company’s financial position, reducing the amount of time spent managing accounts and closing their books—while allowing more time devoted to strategic decision making. The company is also leveraging Oracle HCM Cloud to help enhance employee experience processes as it continues increasing its workforce.

“We began our business with a vision to bridge the gap between Indonesian sellers and buyers, and today we are proud of the traction that our company has achieved in the market,” said M. Fajrin Rasyid, Co-Founder and President of Bukalapak.

“Our platform has empowered the micro, small and medium businesses to participate in commerce activities, and we are committed to advance the livelihoods of these entrepreneurs through our technology.”

Given the complexity of business and the need to simplify as much as possible so companies can maximize the value of their people, organizations around the world—companies that move people, companies that move goods, companies that sell goods to people, and companies that help other companies sell goods to people—are achieving that level of modernization through the Oracle Cloud.

AirAsia Group, which already has a network of over 140 destinations across Asia Pacific and a passel of “best low-cost airline” awards to its name, and which harbors even loftier ambitions.

According to AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, “we are now writing the next chapter of our story, riding on our momentum as a business and a brand to transform AirAsia into more than just an airline. We are going to be the travel technology company for the region, and as part of this journey, we’ve set our sights on becoming an intelligent, connected enterprise.”

The airline is using Oracle ERP Cloud to centralize and streamline its finance operations, and to provide much-needed agility.

“An agile finance operation is the backbone of every successful business, where financial data is readily available in real time to support critical business decisions,” said AirAsia Group CFO Pattra Boosarawongse. “Our finance team needs to reconcile cross-currency data and transact with suppliers in different countries. Oracle ERP Cloud will help us simplify, standardize and automate our financial operations across the group, and free our finance teams from mundane operational tasks to focus on growing our business,” Boosarawongse said.

One of the largest family-run retail business conglomerates in Vietnam, IMEX Pan Pacific Group (IPPG), just started using Oracle Cloud’s unified suite of cloud technologies to efficiently and securely manage huge volumes of data from the inventory and warehousing, and to improve decision-making processes across all of its subsidiaries.

It’s no surprise that the cloud implementation is helping reduce complexity, providing IPPG managers with a single view into core business operations. That has helped enhance decision making, increased financial productivity, and is driving efficiencies across its complex business structure, said Mrs. Le Hong Thuy Tien, president, IMEX Pan Pacific Group.

“As one of the leading multidisciplinary corporations, we understand that system modernization is essential for us to expand and scale our operations,” said Mrs. Le Hong Thuy Tien.

Royal Cargo, which has over 1,200 employees around the world, is digitally transforming its employee management strategy, and using Oracle HCM Cloud to accelerate and support this processes. The company’s goal is to enable Royal Cargo’s HR team to streamline processes, and give them more time to focus on strategic rather than administrative tasks.

“We knew digital transformation was the answer to managing the needs of our growing team, multiple offices and the ever-changing demands of a global economy. Partnering with Oracle on our digital transformation journey was a no-brainer, and we welcome the simplified access to all our HCM needs via the Oracle HCM Cloud,” said Philipp Schlohsnagel, Chief Transformation Officer, Royal Cargo. 

It’s no small thing that Everledger, the pioneer in so-called digital provenance tracking, has embraced Oracle’s blockchain technology as its own.

Everledger’s blockchain-based platform is trusted by many industries including diamonds, colored gemstones, fine wine, and art. The ability to transparently track the provenance and lifetime journey of assets as they move across global supply chains is especially critical for high value goods. These industries are more susceptible than most to theft, fraud and counterfeit – in the diamond industry alone, fraud events cost the insurance industry millions of dollars a year.

Leanne Kemp, Founder and CEO of Everledger says, “With an increasing consumer consciousness and a vocal demand for transparency, our work is focused on engaging entire business ecosystems to provide consumers the ability to make fully informed purchasing decisions. It is thus key for us to enable the ease of systems interaction and provide value add to our customers.”

According to Kemp, by including Oracle Blockchain Platform in its offering, Everledger can offer its customers more innovative products and solutions, in particular with improved time to market for business intelligence reporting solutions.

“Oracle’s comprehensive enterprise-grade offering will open our customers to realizing more from our blockchain-based platform and crystalize value from the data in their own systems,” she says.

Some of the new capabilities of Oracle Blockchain Platform are deemed critical by Everledger in the integration of its blockchain-based platform with customers’ existing business and IT systems. As blockchain becomes an important data store in the enterprise, the Oracle Blockchain Platform enables users to capture blockchain transaction history and current state data for analytics as well as integrate it with other data sources.

“Our longstanding goal has been to help customers to manage, protect, analyze and use the world’s data for the benefit of all. Being able to work with innovative companies like Everledger is an amazing opportunity. We look forward to helping both the company itself further its innovations in tracking and tracing the authenticity of some of the world’s most precious items, but also helping those in the ecosystem link key data sources for wider benefit,” said Frank Xiong, group vice president, Blockchain Product Development, Oracle.

The key elements of note include:

• Database access - Data is an integral part of blockchain. With much of the world’s data resident in Oracle systems, the use of Oracle Blockchain Platform to seamlessly link to those repositories will enable these same customers to leverage both their existing data stores and data on the Everledger blockchain.
• Analytics - Oracle Blockchain Platform’s ability to connect to the rich histories stored in an organisation’s existing database means that Everledger can seamlessly enable analytics integration for highly visual interactive dashboards and reports.
• Monitoring of network health, transaction rates, and other statistics, and other elements of blockchain administration/configuration, are made easier by enhanced REST APIs, which also simplify integration with existing enterprise IT tools.
• Out of the box plug and play capabilities from the Oracle Blockchain Platform makes it not only easy for Everledger to get off the ground, but will also easier for deployment.
• Developer tools - Additionally, the query tools for Oracle Blockchain Platform link into things like smart contract support standard SQL-based ledger queries, enabling organisations to leverage the skill sets their developers already have, thereby reducing the complexity of developing chaincode and boosting performance.

The University of Pittsburgh, a leading higher-education institution, has selected Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud to support its mission to advance teaching, research and public service. With Oracle ERP Cloud, the University of Pittsburgh will be able to improve operational efficiency, modernize its business and finance operations and gain deeper organization insight.

Founded in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is one of the oldest higher education institutions in the United States and attracts more than 34,000 students each year. To improve the productivity of its finance and operations team, the university needed to replace its legacy financial management system with a modern cloud solution that would improve agility and future-proof the organization. The school selected Oracle ERP Cloud for its ability to manage finance, human resource and student data on a single, highly secure and scalable cloud solution.

“Technology plays a strategic role in the university’s success and the achievement of our mission. To maximize value and impact, our technology must be a coordinated effort across business functions,” said Monte Ciotto, Associate Vice Chancellor, Financial Information Systems. “With Oracle ERP Cloud we’ll be able to manage finance, HR and student data on the same platform, creating a single source of truth that improves efficiency and organizational insights.”

Oracle ERP Cloud helps organizations of all sizes, across multiple industries, increase productivity, lower costs and improve controls. With Oracle ERP Cloud, the University of Pittsburgh will not only be able to embrace current best practices, but it will also enable the University to integrate emerging technology to support changing organizational demands. The University of Pittsburgh also has plans to implement Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud for core HR processes, including payroll, time and attendance, and talent acquisition. The University’s unified ERP and HCM solution will enhance organizational alignment and business insight.

“Technology is an incredible enabler that can help organizations like the University of Pittsburgh not just streamline processes, but also improve engagement and transform existing business processes and models,” said Rondy Ng, senior vice president of applications development at Oracle. “We look forward to partnering with the University of Pittsburgh as it embraces new innovations and works to deliver the best possible higher education experience.”

For additional information on Oracle ERP Cloud applications, visit Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud’s Facebook and Twitter or the Modern Finance Leader blog.

PVH Asia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], one of the world’s largest apparel companies, has selected Oracle Retail to modernize its customer experience and store technology. Its iconic brands include CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen and IZOD. PVH Asia will implement Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service and Oracle Retail Customer Engagement to connect with the next generation of consumers. The solution will be rolled out in stores across China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan.

“PVH continues to experience extraordinary growth. As we compete and grow across Asia, we wanted to ensure our technology partner understands and supports local business requirements of a modern customer experience,” said Eileen Mahoney, executive vice president, chief information officer, PVH Corp. “After a competitive evaluation, Oracle emerged as the best choice to support our business.”

“We are honored to partner with PVH Asia. We recognize that retailers need to deliver added value to win favor with the next generation shoppers,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president, and general manager, Oracle Retail. “With a 360 view of the consumer, we can help PVH empower associates and allow them to deliver relevant and local offers.”

To help organizations design and operate efficient and agile supply chains, Oracle today announced a series of logistics management updates to Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud. The updates include a new logistics network modeling product and enhanced transportation management and global trade management capabilities. The latest innovations can help customers drive better business outcomes by enhancing supply chain responsiveness, optimizing shipments and asset utilization, and improving productivity across global supply chains.  

“Expectations are not only increasing, they also are constantly evolving. To meet these demands, organizations need customer-driven supply chains that deliver the agility required to rapidly respond,” said Derek Gittoes, vice president, SCM Product Strategy, Oracle. “Disruptions due to customer demand volatility, new product introductions, government regulation changes, and a host of other factors, leave supply chain professionals struggling to adapt. To eliminate this guessing game of how best to respond, we are giving our customers the insights they need to improve decision making and increase efficiency of logistics operations.”

To help organizations quickly and easily analyze and respond to logistics network changes, Oracle has added a new Logistics Network Modeling product to Oracle Logistics Cloud. The new product enables customers to analyze logistics networks using real-time, operational data—all within the context of their own cloud environment. Unlike point solutions that often inaccurately model real-world conditions, Logistics Network Modeling analyzes real production data in the context of a customer’s unique rules, policies, and planning algorithms to show the true impact of change on logistics operations. This enables Oracle customers to enhance decision making and quickly improve agility and profitability.

“With global trade policies in flux, organizations of all sizes are struggling to make sense of changing regulations and unstable global duty rates,” said Gittoes. “To help our customers combat global trade instability and improve efficiency, while lowering costs and minimizing risk, we have introduced a series of updates to Oracle Transportation Management Cloud Service and Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud Service. The latest updates can help our customers reduce risk and take advantage of preferential trade contracts and agreements.”

To help customers lower supply chain costs, reduce supply chain risk, and adapt to evolving trade regulations, Oracle has updated Oracle Transportation Management Cloud and Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud. The latest updates enable customers to better support trade compliance and customs processes, such as country of origin management, or certificate management associated with trade agreements. The net result is more effective use of preferential trade agreements, which can lead to lower supply chain costs and reduced risk.

"Goods are traveling further and faster than ever before, and as supply chains flatten the globe, understanding the complexities and interferences that may arise in real-time can be a game changer for those orchestrating the operations,” said Victoria Brown, research director of Global Supply Chain at IDC. “Furthermore, being able to not only manage those interruptions, but also the cross-border considerations at hand, expedites and simplifies global operations management for shippers helping them take back control of their cargo and freight."

For additional information on Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud, visit Facebook, Twitter or the Oracle SCM blog.

Customers today simply expect more from their communications service providers (CSPs). Instead of buying expensive broad scale offerings, customers want CSPs to propose services, devices, plans and pricing that best meet their unique lifestyle or business needs.

To meet this demand, Oracle has developed the Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications, as part of the Oracle Digital Experience for Communications solution. Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications empowers CSPs to easily launch new service offers and tailor them to specific customer micro-segments to improve engagement. By providing a common and consistent definition of product information, Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications helps CSPs simplify and streamline offer introduction across sales, ecommerce, ordering, fulfillment and billing.

For example, a CSP can quickly launch a compelling new digital content offer – one that might include music, video, 5G and an IoT-based digital assistant – by easily configuring its pricing, discounts and promotions for  various channels and fulfillment paths– all from one central platform. 

“At Oracle, data is simply part of our DNA,” said Rob Tarkoff, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle CX Cloud. “We use the industry’s richest dataset available to accurately anticipate customer needs, then leverage this in our innovative CX cloud applications like Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications. This enables CSPs to rapidly design and launch compelling AI-recommended offers that target the right customers, in just the right way, and at just the right time to maximize uptake, revenue, customer satisfaction and loyalty.”

Expected to be generally available in Oracle’s fiscal year 2020, Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications enables CSPs to rapidly create offer bundles of existing products, commercial terms and conditions, as well as the creation of completely new product offerings.

As part of the Oracle Digital Experience for Communications solution, Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications gives service providers in communications and media the means to accelerate their digital business. Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications is a key component within Oracle’s intelligent, holistic offer introduction framework that enables higher commercial success with fewer offer launches. It starts with offer ideation, leveraging social, marketing and intelligent customer insights to generate relevant, personalized and timely offers for specific customer audiences. Once the offers are designed by Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications, the framework then enables the launch and presentation of offers through customers’ channels of choice, using AI to increase offer uptake and providing CSPs with real time offer analytics.

“As CSPs look to launch and expand new 5G and IoT-based digital services increasingly with ecosystem partners, it is essential they be able to accurately determine which offers are most likely to drive adoption with specific audiences,” said John Abraham, principal analyst, research, Analysys Mason. “But to drive profitable revenue growth, CSPs also need the operational agility to define and synchronize their product and offer details – what they sell, what gets ordered and delivered and what gets billed – across all participating systems.”

Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications is based on the TM Forum canonical communications model and supports full offer lifecycle management. As an enterprise catalog, Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications is pre-integrated with Oracle’s sales, commerce, fulfillment and billing capabilities and Oracle Siebel CRM for ease of importing catalog information. Oracle Enterprise Catalog for Communications also integrates with external participating systems using the standards-based TM Forum Open API as part of a broader concept to cash to care solution.

“With this announcement and as a signatory to the TM Forum Open API manifesto, Oracle is further demonstrating the industry value of adopting extensible open APIs to expose and consume a catalog of capabilities to drive innovation and monetization of new products and services,” said George Glass, vice president architecture & APIs, TM Forum. “The adoption of these APIs enables companies like Oracle to execute at digital speeds and capitalize on the opportunities presented by an increasingly connected world.”