Choices, Choices: Which Cloud and How Fast? Examples of How and Why Companies are Choosing to Move Their Oracle Applications to the Cloud
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About This Presentation
Choices, Choices: Which Cloud and How Fast?
Examples of How and Why Companies are Choosing to Move Their Oracle Applications to the Cloud
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations must remain agile and embrace modern technologies to stay competitive. One of the most significan...
Choices, Choices: Which Cloud and How Fast?
Examples of How and Why Companies are Choosing to Move Their Oracle Applications to the Cloud
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations must remain agile and embrace modern technologies to stay competitive. One of the most significant transformations underway is the migration of Oracle applications—such as EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Hyperion—to the cloud. While the benefits of cloud adoption are clear—improved scalability, cost efficiency, and agility—the journey itself can be complex and filled with strategic decisions.
This presentation, delivered at Ascend 2023 by Pramod Alluri, Principal Management Consultant at Datavail, explores the critical choices companies face when moving Oracle workloads to the cloud. It provides practical insights into migration strategies, governance frameworks, and real-world examples of successful transformations.
Key Takeaways:
- Cloud Migration Strategies: Understand the different paths available—full digital transformation to Oracle ERP/EPM Cloud, lift-and-shift to public clouds like OCI, AWS, or Azure, and hybrid approaches.
- Evaluating Cloud Providers: Learn how to assess leading providers for compatibility with Oracle applications and business objectives.
- Business Impact Analysis: Discover how cloud migration drives workflow efficiency, IT optimization, and cost savings.
- Customization Minimization: Explore strategies to reduce reliance on customizations for smoother transitions.
- Roadmap & Governance: Build a tailored migration plan aligned with organizational goals and establish governance measures for security, compliance, and cost control.
- Real-World Case Studies: Gain insights from hospitality and transportation industry examples, showcasing successful Oracle Cloud adoption journeys.
The session also addresses current cloud adoption trends, technical debt challenges, and best practices for cloud success, including do’s and don’ts for planning and execution. You’ll learn how to leverage frameworks like Land-Modernize-Retire and Leap of Faith strategies to accelerate transformation while mitigating risks.
As Gartner notes, “Organizations that strategically evaluate and determine the optimal cloud migration approach for their Oracle applications will be better positioned to enhance workflow efficacy, improve IT efficiency, and achieve long-term success.”
Whether you’re an IT leader, enterprise architect, or business strategist, this presentation equips you with actionable insights to navigate the complexities of Oracle cloud migration and unlock the full potential of modern cloud platforms.
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Examples of How and Why Companies are
Choosing to Move Their Oracle Applications to
the Cloud
Name: Pramod Alluri
Title: Principal Management Consultant
Company: Datavail
Email or Social: [email protected]
Choices, Choices: Which Cloud and How Fast?
Datavail at
a Glance
Delivering a superior
approach to leverage data
through the application of a
tech-enabled global delivery
model & deep specialization
in databases, data
management, and
application services.
1200+
Consultants focused on Cloud deployments and managed services
1000+
Implementation Experience
10+
Years Cloud Experience
12+
Focused Industries
500+
Customers with
average lifespan of 7+
years
Invested$25M in IP that improvesthe service experience and
drives efficiency
25+
We’ve done this
before…
1000+
Consultants focused on Cloud
deployments and managed services
15+
Years of
Implementation
and Managed
services expertise
10+
Years Cloud
Experience
500+
Customers with
average lifespan
of 7+ years
1000+
Oracle consultant
certifications
Why Datavail & Oracle Cloud?
Industry Vertical Focus
Consumer Package Goods
Wholesale Distribution
Manufacturing
Media, Sports & Entertainment
Hospitality
Logistics & Transportation
Public Sector & Higher Education
Oil & Gas
Retail
Professional Services and Hugh Tech
Competency
Application Development
Cloud Platform
Cloud Productivity
Data Analytics
Oracle Cloud Offerings
Oracle Fusion Implementations & Managed
Services
ERP
EPM
HCM
SCM
CX and Sales
EBS, Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Essbase
migrations to OCI
Oracle Cloud Competencies
HCM Cloud
EPM Planning and Budgeting
EPM Financial Consolidation & Close
SCM Cloud
ERP and Financial Cloud
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Agenda
Business Vision
Executive
Strategic
Current Cloud Adoption Trends
What Framework to Adapt/Adopt
Cloud Adoption Journey Choices
Sample Blueprints (Examples
Do’s / Don’ts for Cloud Adoption Success
Q&A
Executive Vision
Cloud adoption can be summarized as follows:
Share vision -Create business alignment and engage stakeholders in cloud adoption
Cloud Center of Excellence-Validate and sponsor the cloud adoption business case
Cloud strategy -Aligns with business goals and considers technical as well as
business outcomes, risk, operations, and security as vital for successful cloud adoption
Visionary leadership -Leaders with the ability to think through all cloud-related
considerations and arrive at a clear vision for the business are critical for cloud
companies today
In Short, our leadership envisions cloud adoption through a shared vision, a Cloud Center of
Excellence, strategy alignment with business aims, and progressive leadership.
Strategic Vision
Define a Vision–To Align Cloud decisions to Business Goals and Outcomes
Business Alignment-Key for cloud success. Kickoff meeting helps leaders
communicate cloud benefits to mission delivery
Cloud Adoption Plan-Developing a cloud adoption plan that considers technical
as well as business outcomes, risk, operations, and security is vital for successful
cloud adoption
Cloud Smart Strategy -Cloud Smart strategy: Founded on three key pillars of
successful cloud adoption: security, procurement, and workforce
In summary, a strategic vision for cloud adoption includes defining a vision, creating business
alignment, developing a cloud adoption plan, and following the Cloud Smart strategy.
Enterprises plan technology overhauls
post-pandemic
80%
of businesses are planning
strategic big moves, such as
acquisitions, divestitures, new
business models, and
widespread automation.
Technical Debt ChallengeIntentional Unintentional
Symptoms (Examples)
1. Hard to Evolve
2. Harder to Maintain
3. Lack of Documentation & Artifacts or Tests
1. Unexpected Behaviour
2. Changes break the system
3. Painful Maintenance
4. Developer/Team Attrition
Causes (Examples)
1. Experimentation
2. Avoiding Excess pre-mature Optimization
3. Choosing off-the-shelf product (with limited customability) that solves short-term
needs but become bottleneck for Future Cloud evolution
4. Actively deciding against creating/updating artifacts (Taking Shortcuts)
1. Organizational or Process Mismanagement impacting system
2. Artificial Urgency
3. Miss Alignment in Planning/Priorities/Requirements
4. Lack of Competence/Skills
5. Lack of Automation (Testing, Process Improvement)
6. Over Reliance on Manual Processes & Handoffs
Leverage
High, as this is strategically or tactically decided collectively and there is common
investment in understanding the nature of the debt and need to repay it
Low, as the causes are not known by all (or any) parties and
therefore is almost always a negative surprise
Technical Debt.
ERP/EPM Health Assessment made easy….
Datavail HealthBoostis a rapid
assessment service package with a
fixed cost & fixed term, designed
specifically to help customers get to
their application journey
Datavail HealthBoostBenefits
We can focus on organization’s overall existing application
environment, or, for a larger implementation, a specific business
function or process.HealthBoostfor Oracle Applications is a
catalyst to help organization:
Align application platform with current and future business needs
Identify opportunities to improve productivity of current processes
Take full advantage of underutilized application features and functions
Reduce dependency on customizations
Improve IT efficiency and lower total cost of ownership
Detect knowledge gaps within your team
Understand the benefit and value drivers for future improvement
initiatives
IaaSPaaS SaaS
Process Efficiency/Optimization
Cloud Adoption Considerations
Cloud adoption is a complex process that expands beyond technology implementation
Business Strategy
Cloud strategy
Business case
Quantifying business value
KPI’s definition
Cloud economics processes
People
Executive sponsorship
Business IT alignment
Buy in
Skilling and Readiness
Operations expertise
Security
Cloud security understanding
Security design
Protection vs threats
Security components
Overall security configuration
Process Design
Governance
Risk and compliance
Cloud spend management
Platform attributes
Workload attributes
Technology Implementation
Starting point
Migration
Innovation
Workload deployment
SaaS adoption
Management and Operations
Monitoring
Optimization
Support and incident management
High availability
Disaster recovery
According to Gartner in their: 4 lessons learned from Cloud Infrastructure Adopters report,“…companies that are unaware of
the mistakes made in their cloud adoption will overspend 20 to 50%.”
Business strategy
Goals
Clearly define the business goals that you want to achieve with cloud
adoption. Use the concept of cloud economics to understand the cost,
benefits, and value of cloud adoption.
Business case
Create a strong business case to drive senior level sponsorship, align
expectations, and provide a solid planning foundation for cloud adoption.
Business value
Demonstrate the progress toward your goals by reporting on the outcomes
of your cloud transformation.
People strategy
Cloud Center
of Excellence
Change
management
Skilling and
readiness
Create a multidisciplinary
team, called aCloud
Center of Excellence, to
sponsor and guide your
cloud transformation.
Create a change
management plan to
build organization-wide
engagement with your
cloud transformation.
Remove a leading
obstacle for cloud
adoption by developing a
comprehensive workforce
readiness plan.
Deployment
Define robust
security controls
and implement
standard
configurations that
let you securely
deploy resources in
the cloud.
Maintenance
Security is an
ongoing activity that
requires
maintenance,
monitoring, and
prevention.
Strategy
•Simple
•Prescriptive
•Integrated
•Affordable
Architecture
Protect your
organization’s
assets with a
security architecture
that prevents
misconfiguration
errors and
implements
mandatory security
best practices.
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Security
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Enterprise architecture
An enterprise architecture strategy, led by your organization’s enterprise
architect, manages your cloud adoption initiative.
Governance
Your governance process helps your organization to improve efficiency, accelerate
growth, and reduce risks, while ensuring that you meet requirements for resource
allocation, cost management, and compliance.
Risk and compliance
Design a risk management program that meets your organization’s
security and compliance requirements.
Process Design
Technology implementation
•The landing zone serves as the foundation for your
cloud deployment
•Enterprise scale baseline landing zone:This reference
architecture provides an enterprise-scale architecture
and deployment that includes designs for governance,
security segmentation, and separation of duties
•Self-service landing zone:This reference architecture
provides a Terraform-based landing zone template
that meets the security guidance prescribed inDeploy
a secure landing zone that meets the CIS Foundations
Benchmark for Cloud Providers
Landing zone Migration Scenarios
You can migrate existing on-premises data center
solutions to your landing zone.
Modernization Scenarios
Create new cloud native solutions that address your
business goals.
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Cloud Adoption Choice # 1: Oracle Application Workload Migration
Optimize and extend apps with
modern API-based services
Introduce new capabilities, and support
gradual decomposition/re-architecting of
existing apps
Migrate Modernize Innovate
EXISTING APPLICATIONS
Move to the cloud as-is /
Lift and Shift
For both Oracle Applications & DBs, (EBS,
Peoplesoft, etc.), as well as for custom
monolithic and stateful apps
Create new applications
Develop modern microservices supporting new
use cases, new technologies, artificial
intelligence, and more
CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS
Infrastructure Modernization, Technical Debt Reduction, Incremental Edge App Value, Ongoing
Updates/Maintenance, 2034?
Organizational Mindset: Risk Averse Enterprises, Longer Innovation Cycles, Traditional Business Models
Good
bye/
Carry
Debt
.
Infra Platform Tools Process?
Ongoing Upgrades/Security Patches*
Cloud Adoption Choice # 2: Land-Modernize-Retire Strategy
Infrastructure Modernization, Technical Debt Reduction, Software as a Service Journey
Optimize and extend apps with
modern API-based services
Introduce new capabilities, and support gradual
decomposition/re-architecting of existing apps
Migrate Modernize Innovate
EXISTING APPLICATIONS
Move to the cloud as-is /
Lift and Shift
For both Oracle Applications & DBs, (EBS,
Peoplesoft, etc.), as well as for custom
monolithic and stateful apps
Software as Service/Modern Apps
Journey
Transform to SaaS Journey, modern edge apps
supporting new use cases, new technologies,
artificial intelligence, and more
CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS
Organizational Mindset: Growth Sprout Enterprises, Business Value Drivers, Hybrid Business Models
Infinite
Process
Imp.
Infra Platform Tools Process
Ongoing Upgrades/Security Patches* Release Updates…Forever(Autonomous)
Cloud Adoption Choice # 3: Leap of Faith Strategy
Business Transformation Journey to Cloud, Retire Bad Practices, Data/Reporting Strategy Modernization
Data/Reporting Modernization
Build a Holistic Data Strategy, Analytics, AI/ML
for Predictive/Prescriptive
Migrate Modernize Innovate
CLOUD NATIVE APPLICATIONS
Business Transformation
Transform Business Process Leveraging SaaS
Platform, Align with Best Practices, Improve
Efficiency
Leverage New Features/Platform
Abilities
Infinite Process Improvement opp., Develop
modern microservices supporting new use
cases, new technologies, artificial intelligence,
and more
CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS
Organizational Mindset: Growth Sprout Enterprises, High Technical Debt/Divestment, Dynamically Changing Business Ecosystem
SaaS PaaS
Release Updates…Forever(Autonomous)
Hospitality Case Study (Transition + Transformation)
•High ownership costs
•Limited scalability
•Access difficulties
•Lack of agility
•Security concerns
•Hidden costs
Ecosystem on-prem solutions face several common challenges
•Hardware:
•AS400 Infrastructure, Colo DC
•Software
•Peoplesoft (HCM)
•JD Edwards (FIN)
•Hyperion (EPM)
•Several Purpose-Built Applications
•Low-Medium Customization
Migrate Modernize Innovate
Low Code/OIC/ML/AI
•HCM, FIN, Procurement
•EPM, FCCS
Transportation Industry Divestment Case Study
Transform Modernize Innovate
Home-Grown App
•FIN, Procurement, Supply Chain
•EPM
Cloud Data Warehouse
•High ownership costs
•Limited scalability
•Access difficulties
•Lack of agility
•Security concerns
•Hidden costs
Scenario was Business Unit was Divested from Parent Company, Footprint inheritance
•Hardware:
•Dell Infra, Colo DC
•Software
•Ebusiness Suite (EBS), 12.1.3
•Hyperion
•Home-grown Purpose-Built App
•Medium Customization
Hospitality Industry Divestment Case Study (Leap of Faith)
•High ownership costs
•Limited scalability
•Access difficulties
•Lack of agility
•Security concerns
•Hidden costs
Ecosystem on-prem solutions face several common challenges
•Hardware:
•HP Infrastructure, In-house
•Software
•Ebusiness Suite (EBS)
•Several Home-Grown Applications
•Purpose Built
•Medium Customization
Transform Modernize Innovate
Low Code/OIC/ML/AI
•FIN, Procurement, Supply Chain
•EPM
Cloud Data Warehouse
Street Observations –Do’s/Don’ts
•Establish a strategy to Maximize Cloud Benefits with Evolving
Standards
•Assess, plan, adapt, and optimize an adoption strategy in detail
•Test pain points and limitations
•Prioritize security
•Go with a credible cloud provider
•Use tools that can discover what services are being used and by
which departments
•Plan Business Transformation like Lego Blocks (Process
Improvements or SaaS Journey)
DO’s
•Don't move everything onto the cloud
•Don't do a lot of planning
•Don't use public cloud services out of frustration because of
inefficiencies in the IT organization
•Don’t adopt big-bang to Process Transformation (If Applicable)
Don’ts
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