This document discusses strategies for migrating Oracle workloads to Microsoft Azure. It suggests understanding current service level needs rather than historical requirements, auditing Oracle licensing and editions in use, and considering Standard Edition for cost savings of up to 5 times annual maintenance fees. Optimizing strategies include right-sizing Azure VMs, reducing CPU overprovisioning through workload analysis, and understanding support costs to potentially reduce annual spend. The goal is to navigate Oracle migrations to Azure and realize cloud benefits while meeting business needs in an equivalent or more cost-effective manner.
Mac Pro was developed with a singular purpose: to enable professionals to do their most demanding work without constraint. Itโs designed and engineered to enable a wide range of different uses, and presents virtually unlimited possibilities for customization and expansion.
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Charting a Way Forward Online Content Regulationrun_frictionless
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This paper explores possible regulatory structures for content governance outside the United States and identifies questions that require further discussion. It builds off recent developments on this topic, including legislation proposed or passed into law by governments, as well as scholarship that explains the various content governance approaches that have been adopted in the past and may be taken in the future.2 Its overall goal is to help frame a path forwardโtaking into consideration the views not only of policymakers and private companies, but also civil society and the people who use Facebookโs platform and services.
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Balance Internet launches second edition of Digital Transformation in B2B eCo...run_frictionless
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Balance Internet is a highly specialised eCommerce agency, and our unmatched B2B industry expertise guides our first-class digital delivery process. We are one of the most experienced B2B eCommerce solution providers in the Asia-Pacific region with members of our leadership team working in the space since 1996. With Magento Commerce technology at our core, we create high-performing solutions that harmonise digital ecosystems.
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Digital Transformation Drives 2021 IT Investmentsrun_frictionless
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Digital transformation efforts continue to dominate the technology landscape as more IT leaders recognize the need to update hardware and software infrastructure to accelerate strategic products and services for the business. SoftwareTrends conducted a survey of some 1,020 IT executives, directors, and managers between August and November 2020 to better understand the current state of digital transformation efforts across companies of all sizesโand forecast the technology investment plans for 2021.
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CRM software helps your business to manage contact information in an organized way, making it easy to follow up on your interactions and activities with customers.
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Marketing to Account Based Marketing Better, Effective and Rewardingrun_frictionless
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Account-based marketing is a practice that enables B2B marketers to drive more revenue by focusing their marketing and communications efforts on the accounts (companies) that have the most potential to become customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) present us with novel and efficient ways to solve challenging and persistent problems, particularly when it comes to predictions. Retail, due to its fast moving, trend powered, and fluid nature coupled to an extended logistics chain, relies heavily on making smart predictions. As improvements in AI/ML over the last several years have proliferated, not only in performance advances but deployability, there are exciting openings for experimentation in many domains of the retail value chain
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LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Affluent Millennials Research Whitepaperrun_frictionless
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It appears that Affluent Millenials might approach their own finances with a greater sense of ownership than previous generations. When it comes to managing their finances, it's clear that Affluent Millenials want more control.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Mac Pro was developed with a singular purpose: to enable professionals to do their most demanding work without constraint. Itโs designed and engineered to enable a wide range of different uses, and presents virtually unlimited possibilities for customization and expansion.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Charting a Way Forward Online Content Regulationrun_frictionless
ย
This paper explores possible regulatory structures for content governance outside the United States and identifies questions that require further discussion. It builds off recent developments on this topic, including legislation proposed or passed into law by governments, as well as scholarship that explains the various content governance approaches that have been adopted in the past and may be taken in the future.2 Its overall goal is to help frame a path forwardโtaking into consideration the views not only of policymakers and private companies, but also civil society and the people who use Facebookโs platform and services.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Balance Internet launches second edition of Digital Transformation in B2B eCo...run_frictionless
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Balance Internet is a highly specialised eCommerce agency, and our unmatched B2B industry expertise guides our first-class digital delivery process. We are one of the most experienced B2B eCommerce solution providers in the Asia-Pacific region with members of our leadership team working in the space since 1996. With Magento Commerce technology at our core, we create high-performing solutions that harmonise digital ecosystems.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Digital Transformation Drives 2021 IT Investmentsrun_frictionless
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Digital transformation efforts continue to dominate the technology landscape as more IT leaders recognize the need to update hardware and software infrastructure to accelerate strategic products and services for the business. SoftwareTrends conducted a survey of some 1,020 IT executives, directors, and managers between August and November 2020 to better understand the current state of digital transformation efforts across companies of all sizesโand forecast the technology investment plans for 2021.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
CRM software helps your business to manage contact information in an organized way, making it easy to follow up on your interactions and activities with customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Marketing to Account Based Marketing Better, Effective and Rewardingrun_frictionless
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Account-based marketing is a practice that enables B2B marketers to drive more revenue by focusing their marketing and communications efforts on the accounts (companies) that have the most potential to become customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) present us with novel and efficient ways to solve challenging and persistent problems, particularly when it comes to predictions. Retail, due to its fast moving, trend powered, and fluid nature coupled to an extended logistics chain, relies heavily on making smart predictions. As improvements in AI/ML over the last several years have proliferated, not only in performance advances but deployability, there are exciting openings for experimentation in many domains of the retail value chain
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Affluent Millennials Research Whitepaperrun_frictionless
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It appears that Affluent Millenials might approach their own finances with a greater sense of ownership than previous generations. When it comes to managing their finances, it's clear that Affluent Millenials want more control.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Into the Mainstream: Influencer Marketing in Societyrun_frictionless
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TAKUMI surveyed over 3,500 consumers, marketers, and influencers across the UK, US, and Germany to uncover the latest trends in the sector. The report โInto the mainstream: Influencer marketing in societyโ, uncovered divided opinions on what consumers want to see and what brands are willing to engage with influencers on.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Social media in the enterprise has predominantly been a haven for marketers, who use its power to engage target audiences along multiple points of the conversion funnel, while being able to track the eicacy of messages and content in a very precise way.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Klarna, the leading global payments and shopping service, and its industry-wide Influencer Council, have released their Influencer Marketing Whitepaper to serve as a guide for influencers and brands to advertise online responsibly.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Top 8 digital transformation trends shaping 2021run_frictionless
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In a world thatโs increasingly dependent on digital, ITโs role is more critical than ever. To meet rising demands, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation. This report identifies the top 8 technology trends that will face CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey in 2021.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The Google Cloud Adoption Framework builds a structure on the rubric of people, process, and technology that you can work with, providing a solid assessment of where you are in your journey to the cloud and actionable programs that get you to where you want to be. Itโs informed by Googleโs own evolution in the cloud and many years of experience helping customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The Inclusive Fintech 50 applicant pool provides new insights into inclusion-focused fintech, itself a subset of the fintech universe. Early-stage inclusive fintechs are developing innovative products, services, business models, and distribution channels to provide solutions for underserved segments. Yet these startups require capital and other resources in order to reach the worldโs 3 billion financially underserved people. By highlighting these high-potential companies, we hope to support the efforts of investors, banking partners, and other fintechs working towards a financially inclusive world.
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The marketing worldโs intense focus on analytics, of late, hasnโt always led to better performance โ because, while itโs easy to collect data, itโs difficult to turn it into deep insight. This Insight Center covered content that included a leading practitioner companyโs reinvention of market research, a framework for measuring what your customers actually value and will pay for, and a toolkit approach to defining the customerโs โjob to be done.โ
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Federal Technology Vision 2021: Full U.S. Federal Survey Findings | Accentureaccenture
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Leaders donโt wait for a new normal, they build it. The Accenture Federal Technology Vision 2021 identifies five key trends that agencies must address to lead in the post-pandemic world. Explore the full survey findings here.ย https://accntu.re/3sIBI0k
Many corporations recognize their future depends on digital transformation. Earley Information Science outlines the 4 step process for building a roadmap to transformation.
Rippling Investor Memo: $45M Series A โ with no pitch deck!Pitch Decks
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Rippling took an unusual approach when raising their $45 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins in 2019: they used "no formal Pitch Deck" as the center of their fundraising materials. In lieu of the traditional pitch deck, Rippling presented an Investor Memo: a simple document which laid out the companyโs pitch in prose form.
This approach took advantage of the storytelling strengths of the written medium, while showcasing important data such as graphs, charts, and tables in an accompanying set of 46 supplementary slides. Rather than share fragmented Excel sheets for due diligence, Rippling packaged their data room into comprehensive, organized slides with metrics, projections and detailed footnotes.
This is an excerpt from the slides that supplemented Rippling's famous investor memo.
Read more: vip.graphics/rippling-investor-memo
See the deck: bestpitchdeck.com/rippling
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the retail banking sector driven by the competition, digital transformation, and innovation led by retail banks exploring novel ways to create and retain value in evolving landscape.
COVID-19 caught banks off guard and shook legacy mindsets to the core. With 20/20 (2020) hindsight, firms are more aware, digitally resilient, and financially stable as they head into 2022. The trials of the past 18 months forced firms to shore up existing business and consider new models and revenue streams.
Customer-centricity remains at the top of most FS agendas and is a 2022 focal point. Banks will focus on achieving operational excellence as diligently as delivering superior CX. In 2022 and beyond, it will be paramount for FIs to explore and invest in new technologies to remain relevant and resilient.
Banking 4.X will arrive in full force in 2022 with platform-supported firms monetizing diverse ecosystem capabilities and aggressively harvesting data to create experiential customer journeys through intelligent and personalized engagements. The new era will compel future-focused banks to finally abandon legacy infrastructure and collaborate with third-party specialists to solidify their best-fit, long-term roles. Increasingly, open platforms will make banks invisible as banking becomes embedded into customer lifestyles. At the same time, banks will shed asset-heavy models and shift to the cloud for greater agility, speed to market, and faster innovation. The shift will act as a precursor to adopting new technologies on the horizon โ 5G and Decentralized Finance.
The recent past was filled will extraordinary lessons for financial institutions. Now is the time to act on those learnings and move forward profitably.
Fintech, Online Brokerage & Online Betting - Presentation by Valentin Stalf, Co-Founder & CEO of N26 at the NOAH Conference London 2016, Old Billingsgate on the 11th of November 2016.
Into the Mainstream: Influencer Marketing in Societyrun_frictionless
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TAKUMI surveyed over 3,500 consumers, marketers, and influencers across the UK, US, and Germany to uncover the latest trends in the sector. The report โInto the mainstream: Influencer marketing in societyโ, uncovered divided opinions on what consumers want to see and what brands are willing to engage with influencers on.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Social media in the enterprise has predominantly been a haven for marketers, who use its power to engage target audiences along multiple points of the conversion funnel, while being able to track the eicacy of messages and content in a very precise way.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Klarna, the leading global payments and shopping service, and its industry-wide Influencer Council, have released their Influencer Marketing Whitepaper to serve as a guide for influencers and brands to advertise online responsibly.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Top 8 digital transformation trends shaping 2021run_frictionless
ย
In a world thatโs increasingly dependent on digital, ITโs role is more critical than ever. To meet rising demands, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation. This report identifies the top 8 technology trends that will face CIOs, IT leaders, and organizations in their digital transformation journey in 2021.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The Google Cloud Adoption Framework builds a structure on the rubric of people, process, and technology that you can work with, providing a solid assessment of where you are in your journey to the cloud and actionable programs that get you to where you want to be. Itโs informed by Googleโs own evolution in the cloud and many years of experience helping customers.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The Inclusive Fintech 50 applicant pool provides new insights into inclusion-focused fintech, itself a subset of the fintech universe. Early-stage inclusive fintechs are developing innovative products, services, business models, and distribution channels to provide solutions for underserved segments. Yet these startups require capital and other resources in order to reach the worldโs 3 billion financially underserved people. By highlighting these high-potential companies, we hope to support the efforts of investors, banking partners, and other fintechs working towards a financially inclusive world.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
The marketing worldโs intense focus on analytics, of late, hasnโt always led to better performance โ because, while itโs easy to collect data, itโs difficult to turn it into deep insight. This Insight Center covered content that included a leading practitioner companyโs reinvention of market research, a framework for measuring what your customers actually value and will pay for, and a toolkit approach to defining the customerโs โjob to be done.โ
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
Federal Technology Vision 2021: Full U.S. Federal Survey Findings | Accentureaccenture
ย
Leaders donโt wait for a new normal, they build it. The Accenture Federal Technology Vision 2021 identifies five key trends that agencies must address to lead in the post-pandemic world. Explore the full survey findings here.ย https://accntu.re/3sIBI0k
Many corporations recognize their future depends on digital transformation. Earley Information Science outlines the 4 step process for building a roadmap to transformation.
Rippling Investor Memo: $45M Series A โ with no pitch deck!Pitch Decks
ย
Rippling took an unusual approach when raising their $45 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins in 2019: they used "no formal Pitch Deck" as the center of their fundraising materials. In lieu of the traditional pitch deck, Rippling presented an Investor Memo: a simple document which laid out the companyโs pitch in prose form.
This approach took advantage of the storytelling strengths of the written medium, while showcasing important data such as graphs, charts, and tables in an accompanying set of 46 supplementary slides. Rather than share fragmented Excel sheets for due diligence, Rippling packaged their data room into comprehensive, organized slides with metrics, projections and detailed footnotes.
This is an excerpt from the slides that supplemented Rippling's famous investor memo.
Read more: vip.graphics/rippling-investor-memo
See the deck: bestpitchdeck.com/rippling
This analysis provides an overview of the top trends in the retail banking sector driven by the competition, digital transformation, and innovation led by retail banks exploring novel ways to create and retain value in evolving landscape.
COVID-19 caught banks off guard and shook legacy mindsets to the core. With 20/20 (2020) hindsight, firms are more aware, digitally resilient, and financially stable as they head into 2022. The trials of the past 18 months forced firms to shore up existing business and consider new models and revenue streams.
Customer-centricity remains at the top of most FS agendas and is a 2022 focal point. Banks will focus on achieving operational excellence as diligently as delivering superior CX. In 2022 and beyond, it will be paramount for FIs to explore and invest in new technologies to remain relevant and resilient.
Banking 4.X will arrive in full force in 2022 with platform-supported firms monetizing diverse ecosystem capabilities and aggressively harvesting data to create experiential customer journeys through intelligent and personalized engagements. The new era will compel future-focused banks to finally abandon legacy infrastructure and collaborate with third-party specialists to solidify their best-fit, long-term roles. Increasingly, open platforms will make banks invisible as banking becomes embedded into customer lifestyles. At the same time, banks will shed asset-heavy models and shift to the cloud for greater agility, speed to market, and faster innovation. The shift will act as a precursor to adopting new technologies on the horizon โ 5G and Decentralized Finance.
The recent past was filled will extraordinary lessons for financial institutions. Now is the time to act on those learnings and move forward profitably.
Fintech, Online Brokerage & Online Betting - Presentation by Valentin Stalf, Co-Founder & CEO of N26 at the NOAH Conference London 2016, Old Billingsgate on the 11th of November 2016.
MODAClouds - Underpinning the Leap to DevOps Movement on Clouds scenarios is a white paper made with the intention to provide insights of MODAClouds project and easily identify valueble usage by cloud players
When it comes to making the decision of Oracle on-premise or Oracle Cloud, many businesses are left scratching their heads. It can be difficult to decide which option is best for your company, and there are a lot of factors to consider. Evidently, the time to embrace the advantages of Oracle is now. So, Lets Lysa Consultancy help you with your impending decisions, in this we will compare the two options and help you decide which one is right for you.
https://lysaconsultancy.com/cloud-services/
Solix EDMS and Oracle Exadata: Transitioning to the Private CloudLindaWatson19
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This white paper discusses how Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS) has been adapted for the cloud computing model and how it can assist organizations to make the transition to a private cloud such as Oracle Exadata and maintain efficient utilization of the cloud infrastructure over the long-term.
AMIS 25: Moving Integration to the CloudMatt Wright
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The growth of cloud has fueled the need to integrate Cloud applications with each other and with applications that reside on premise.
Traditional integration platforms are evolving into offerings called integration platform as a service (iPaaS) primarily targeted at cloud 2 cloud integrations. During the transition to cloud, organizations will be required to adopt a hybrid approach to their integration platform, but as more on-premise applications move to the cloud, users should plan for a re balancing of the center of gravity of their integration platform.
This session is designed to educate the audience about what it means to move integration to the cloud, and use customer case studies to provide insight into how organizations are doing this today, including:
1. Understand why you would move integrations to the cloud and which integrations are prime candidates for iPaaS
2. Understand some of the common implementation challenges and what you can do now to simplify future cloud migrations
3. Understand some of the critical deployment and operational monitoring considerations in moving integrations to the cloud
4. Provides a six step roadmap for moving integration to the cloud
Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Enterprise Assets In The CloudDr. HJ Raza, Ph.D/MBA
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Time to market and rapid response to market demands are now utmost priorities for any size organization. When compared to conventional internal infrastructure, Cloud-based solutions meet this requirement better than ever. Cloud-based solutions are easy to implement, more cost efficient, and robust enough to meet enterprise demands such as auto-scalability, disaster recovery, and fail-over.
A managed journey to the cloud requires that IT Leaders:
- Engage Lines of Business leaders as partners
- Establish a cloud migration strategy that meets the needs of the business
- Enlists their key technology providers' commitment to that strategy
Hear more at the 2016 Quest Executive Forum in Las Vegas on April 12.
Microsoft Azure is a flexible cloud computing platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy and manage applications promptly through Microsoft managed and its partner hosted data centres.
This guide contains twenty-four design patterns and ten related guidance topics that articulate the benefits of applying patterns by showing how each piece can fit into the big picture of cloud application architectures. It includes code samples and general advice on using each pattern.
Containing twenty-four design patterns and ten related guidance topics, this guide articulates the benefit of applying patterns by showing how each piece can fit into the big picture of cloud application architectures. It also discusses the benefits and considerations for each pattern. Most of the patterns have code samples or snippets that show how to implement the patterns using the features of Windows Azure. However the majority of topics described in this guide are equally relevant to all kinds of distributed systems, whether hosted on Windows Azure or on other cloud platforms.
The 25 Most Beautiful B2B White Papers On The Planetrun_frictionless
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Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Linkedin, and Docusign. Which company has the sexiest ๏ #B2B #whitepapers?
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Pharma Marketing: Get Started on Creating Great Customer Experiences with Jou...run_frictionless
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Customer journeys are highly strategic and โ in a competitive and regulated environment like life sciences โ understanding them can literally make or break the success of a new drug launch, as well as efforts to achieve long-term loyalty and adherence. For pharma, added complexities start with the definition of the โcustomer.โ While patients are the end consumers, pharma has more direct relationships with prescribing health care providers (HCPs), who significantly influence the patient experience and most certainly determine the successful marketing of medications.
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Azure Cost Managementโs Cost Analysis tool helps you break down the details of your Azure spendโwith this tool, you can take a more in-depth
look into exactly what everything costs and do all kinds of grouping and filtering across your resources.
This is the tool to use if you want to see what a service is currently costing you, or if youโre trying to figure out why your bill is higher than you
anticipated. Remember, visibility of your Azure spend is very important and should always be something to keep top of mind.
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AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, with AWS you pay only for the individual services you need, for as long as you use them, without complex licensing. AWS offers you a variety of pricing models for over 160 cloud services. You only pay for the services you consume, and once you stop using them, there are no additional costs or termination fees. This whitepaper provides an overview of how AWS pricing works across some of the most widely used services. The latest pricing information for each AWS service is available at http:// aws.amazon.com/pricing/.
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The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS. By using the Framework you will learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. It provides a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement. The process for reviewing an architecture is a constructive conversation about architectural decisions, and is not an audit mechanism. We believe that having well-architected systems greatly increases the likelihood of business success.
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Electronic contracts and electronic signatures under Australian lawrun_frictionless
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An electronic signature is a signature which is applied by electronic means to a document in electronic form. Australian law generally recognises that deeds and agreements can be executed via electronic means and by way of an electronic signature.
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Connecting with Sidecar is the same as connecting any external display. Select the AirPlay menu item in the menu bar, then select iPad. The AirPlay icon will turn into an iPad icon while Sidecar is in use. Simply pull down from the iPad icon on the menu bar to see a host of options: Mirror Display, Hide or Show Sidebar, Show or Hide Touch Bar, Open Displays Preferences, and Open Sidecar Preferences.
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Google's guide to innovation: How to unlock strategy, resources and technologyrun_frictionless
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Organizations are facing unprecedented change and challenges stemming from a confluence of natural and artificial conditions. These forces are driving many to rethink the tools and technologies they use, and the places they need to be, to grow, and to innovate.
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Google Cloud Industries: The impact of COVID-19 on manufacturersrun_frictionless
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After facing severe headwinds from COVID-19, ranging from decreased orders to negative impacts on operations, manufacturers around the world have started to revamp their operating models and supply chain strategiesโand now feel more prepared in their ability to successfully navigate future pandemics, according to new research released from Google Cloud.
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Companies are realizing incredible benefits by incorporating ChatOps into their incident management workflows. Slack channels provide hyper-effective means to alert teams of issues, take immediate action, and collaborate with clarity and urgency. It is for this reason that companies like Opsgenie, PagerDuty, and VictorOps have invested in integrating their incident management applications into Slack.
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Journey mapping in finance requires specific domain expertise. As almost every step has layers of compliance, ALM, legal, IT security, and other requirements, you need to consider all possible issues.
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Strengthening Operational Resilience in Financial Services by Migrating to Go...run_frictionless
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Operational resilience is a key area of focus for financial services firms, and could be thought of as the next goal in addressing systemic risk in the financial services sector. Regulators are also increasingly focused on this risk: it is recognised that despite many years of bolstering financial stability by enhancing financial resilience following the financial crisis, the shocks that come from the operational side can be as significant as the shocks from the financial side.
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Reconciliation is an essential control function in financial services, aimed at eliminating operational risk that can lead to fraud, fines or in the worst case, the failure of a whole firm. And yet, since an early push in the early 2000s that automated parts of the very back-end of the system (cash and custody), innovation in this area has stalled and operations reliant on people power and spreadsheets are prevalent.
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Security and compliance is an ongoing process, not a steady state. It is constantly maintained, enhanced, and verified by highly-skilled, experienced and trained personnel. We strive to keep software and hardware technologies up to date through robust processes. To help keep Office 365 security at the top of the industry, we use processes such as the Security Development Lifecycle; we also employ techniques that throttle traffic and prevent, detect, and mitigate breaches.
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Today, Information Security has to be at the heart of the modern SAAS organization. At Speakap, weโve always held the view that our customers should own their data, and thus have always fiercely protected data privacy, so we see the increased attention on these topics as being great for all companies and consumers.
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Constellationโs technology will enable the advancement of the digital revolution by creating an ecosystem facilitating decentralized applications throughout a scalable distributed network. Constellation acts as a centerpiece framework that other applications can integrate with, without giving away data security and application dependency. Furthermore, our goal is to leverage existing technologies in distributed computing, big data and machine learning that are widely used among developer communities, and apply them to a decentralized distributed network.
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Account Based Marketing (ABM) is when you implement highly customized marketing campaigns where each account is considered to be a market of one. ABM uses the latest technology to help you send the right messages to influencers who are actively researching products like yours.
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DIGITAL MARKETING FOR FIXED OPS: Tips & Techniques for Your Dealershiprun_frictionless
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Your dealership is sitting on a goldmine that is ready to be mined. You can stake your claim and get more from a $400B industry without changing how your dealership operations are run.
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Can you think of any business process digitizing so fast and creating as many new trends as Digital Marketing? Keeping up with all the changes, challenges and opportunities is now, more than ever, the key for successful companies, which grow with the trends.
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Pharma Marketing: Get Started on Creating Great Customer Experiences with Jou...run_frictionless
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A well-defined customer journey strategy is critical to customer experience management (CEM) initiatives.1 Yet most pharmaceutical companies have not followed the lead of industries like consumer packaged goods, retail, or travel and hospitality, which pioneered and mastered the art and science of personalized, cross-channel customer journeys. While recognizing that customer journeys are often more complex for pharma than for other sectors, itโs imperative for life sciences to develop and apply journey strategies similar to those of other industries when transforming customer experiences.
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2. Contents
3 Executive summary
4 Introduction
6 Oracle support on the Microsoft Azure platform
โข Which operating systems are supported in Microsoft Azure?
โข Which Oracle licences can be migrated to Microsoft Azure?
8
Migrating Oracle workloadsโstrategies
โข Understand the service levels and availability you really need
โข Understand fully your current licensing position
โข Understand whether you are using the right Oracle edition
โข Consider Standard Edition for Microsoft Azure cloud migrations and transformations
โข Optimise CPU utilisation
โข Understanding and optimising software licensing and support costs
โข Right-sizing Microsoft Azure cloud server virtual machines for Oracle workloads
โข Use of proactive future software asset management strategies
โข The role of automation when migrating Oracle workloads
โข Conclusion: Leveraging the suitability of Microsoft Azure cloud
16 Appendix
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2
3. There is often a misconception that migrating Oracle workloads
to public cloud will be expensive, difficult and unsupported.
What are the main concerns of the business decision-makers?
The key concerns of organisations seeking to migrate Oracle
workloads to the Microsoft Azure public cloud environment
are as follows:
โข Can the same service levels and scalability still be obtained?
โข Will licensing costs for my solution increase?
โข
Will my Oracle implementation still be supported, and
can we obtain relevant patches?
This white paper aims to provide organisations moving to the
Microsoft Azure cloud with the necessary knowledge and business
strategies to navigate these issues. It aims to explain the common
misunderstandings and challenges in this area, and reassure
enterprise organisations that Oracle workloads can be moved to
Microsoft Azure cloud in an equivalent and cost-effective manner.
Executive summary
3
4. Introduction
Public cloud technology provision can take a range
of forms but is largely based on the use of highly
commoditised infrastructure to achieve scale, availability
and resilience. Solutions can be easily deployed, scaled,
and reinstated to achieve scalability and service levels.
Increasingly, enterprise-scale organisations are putting in place strategies to
assess and maximise the advantages and benefits of the public cloud, and it
is becoming more commonplace for business decision-makers to progress a
cloud-first strategy.
While a cloud-first approach can offer transformative benefits for the business,
there is a common challenge that the majority of enterprise organisations share.
It is very likely that an organisation of enterprise scale will be highly dependent on
a range of established and mature, mission-critical applications that provide their
core business and operational capabilities. These solutions are usually the most
complex and highly integrated systems in the business technology landscape. This
also means they are also often the most challenging to migrate to the public cloud.
Unless these critical business solutions can be successfully migrated for the
enterprise organisation, the full financial and scalability benefits of the public
cloud cannot be realised. Alongside other enterprise technology vendors
(e.g. SAP, IBM), Oracle-based technology provides a significant element of
many corporate enterprise solutions.
4
5. In the following white paper, we will address these concerns
and explore the key areas for consideration when specifically
migrating Oracle workloads to Microsoft Azure.
Version 1 is a leader in enterprise cloud services, specialising in migrating and
running complex enterprise applications in Public Cloud. With broad and deep
expertise across the Microsoft stack, Version 1 can look beyond specific requirements
to underlying customer issues and identify integrated solutions that leverage the
entire technology stack. As a leading Azure Fast Track enabled Microsoft partner,
Version 1 possesses end-to-end Microsoft capability with demonstrated Microsoft
expertise, awards and accreditations across a wide number of competencies. With
a track record and in-depth experience in Oracle which extends back to Version 1โs
inception in 1996, Version 1 works closely with Microsoft to help customers maximise
value while migrating their Oracle estate to Microsoft Azure.
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Due to the factors outlined above, migration to such cloud native solutions can be
considered too risky or difficult to provide a suitable business case to justify the level
of business and technology change required. We believe, however, that there are
many ways to reduce expense and mitigate the relevant risks and support scenarios.
5
6. Oracle support on the
Microsoft Azure platform
Oracle solutions usually consist of a specific mix of
underlying operating systems, native Oracle technology
elements and corresponding business applications
that consume the relevant data and outputs. Many
different combinations of these operating systems
and technologies are fully available to run on the
Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure is deemed by Oracle to be an Authorized Cloud Environment
and therefore Oracle technology software solution elements can be run either
individually (e.g. standalone Oracle Linux Virtual Machine Images or Java
applications) in Microsoft Azure or in combination with other Oracle business
application technology platforms e.g. Oracle E-Business Suite. A range of hybrid
cloud deployment scenarios may also be possible. It should be recognised that
this is because Oracle certifies operating system/product combinations, not
platform/product combinations for compatibility, patching and support purposes.
To run specific Oracle workloads in Azure, it may be necessary to use specific
operating system variants in order to be supported and certified by Oracle. For
example, Oracle 12.1 is only certified by Oracle for use in a Microsoft Azure Cloud
environment when using Oracle Linux as the base underlying operating system.
A partial list of Oracle programs eligible for use in Authorized Cloud Environments
is provided at http://aka.ms/OracleAuthorizedCloudEnv.ยน
Whilst specific compatibility, suitability, licensing terms and associated costs
should always be assessed and validated before any migration, the majority of
common Oracle software workloads should be capable of being run in Microsoft
Azure. Given this baseline Microsoft Azure suitability, many Oracle solution
migration scenarios (especially those involving legacy versions or technologies),
can rapidly move towards balancing the required levels of solution functionality,
customisation, integration, licensing and specialist behaviour needed against
the future cost, effort, timescales and business impact involved in migrating,
implementing, securing and supporting them.
6
7. Despite the above, many people still believe that Oracle solution technology
will not run successfully or in a performant manner in environments such as
Microsoft Azure. With the exception of very specific Oracle technologies that
have dependencies on native features in underlying specialist infrastructure
(such as Oracle Exadata) and which do not have a direct Microsoft Azure
equivalent (and so may prove more challenging to migrate), the majority of
Oracle software workloads can be migrated and run successfully in a manner
which matches the relevant business requirements.
Such migrations can either be achieved natively or, as in the case of Oracle
RAC, can (subject to support considerations) be run on Azure with the potential
addition of third-party product solutions, such as FlashGrid. Even in these specialist
infrastructure scenarios, challenges can often be overcome when the solutions
move away from trying to replicate the existing on-premises solution approach,
and instead focus on delivering to business requirements through the use of native
and best practice cloud architecture.
The majority of Oracle software workloads can be migrated
and run successfully in a manner which matches the
relevant business requirements.
7
8. Migrating Oracle workloadsโstrategies
There are several key strategies to successfully assess,
migrate and optimise the migration of Oracle workloads
to the Microsoft Azure cloud environment in a way that
delivers the full range of enterprise business benefits
obtainable from cloud computing provision models.
These potential strategies are as follows:
Understand the service levels and availability you really need
Many organisations utilising Oracle technologies cite the scalability, availability
and performance offered by such Oracle technologies as some of the key reasons
for their retention and continued use in public cloud. These organisations believe
that deployment of Oracle workloads to public cloud cannot match on-premise
or private cloud service levels and associated non-functional characteristics.
For many Oracle workloads however, in terms of actual current business
requirements, this is not the case. Often the current technology provision level
is based on historical business and service level requirements, which may no
longer apply or be needed. In addition, the nature of the current provision may
not meet the future provision needs of the organisation, or enable suitable
enterprise transformation to support future digital strategies.
To address these challenges, it is essential to understand the current service
level agreements and non-functional requirements that apply to the targeted
Oracle solution, rather than those that were originally derived to build and
implement it. As part of this, it is imperative to focus on how to meet the current
business requirements and the actual SLA requirements of each individual
or collective workload. This understanding will then allow an appropriate
Microsoft Azure public cloud infrastructure and deployment strategy to be
defined, which in turn enables Oracle workloads to be easily migrated with
an appropriate match to service and availability needs.
Often the current
technology
provision
level is based
on historical
business and
service level
requirements,
which may no
longer apply or
be needed.
8
9. Understand fully your current licensing position
Put simply, many organisations may not fully understand their current Oracle
licensing position or existing terms and conditions. This can range from the
number, type and products licensed, through to the structure of support
agreements. To effectively manage the journey to Microsoft Azure, it is essential
to be fully aware of your relevant licensing position, support agreements and
associated terms and conditions.
Having full visibility of where you currently stand provides a solid basis for
understanding your options going forward and how to effectively manage
your Oracle licences and support. Version 1 provides a range of assessment
options around Oracle licensing and support, from rapid engagements to
in-depth analysis.
Understand whether you are using the right Oracle edition
As of Oracle 12c, the Oracle database product family consists of four different
database editions: Standard Edition 2, Enterprise Edition, Express Edition and
Personal Edition. Typically, Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 are
preferred for most business workloads.
It is not unusual for an organisation to have adopted, consciously or
unconsciously, a single edition as the default for all Oracle database deployments;
typically, Oracleโs database flagship class Enterprise Edition (EE). However, in
some cases the features of EE may not be required by the currently deployed
solution. At one time, the solution or scale of implementation may have been
appropriate, but it no longer meets the functional needs of the solution. This
scenario is often due to historical benevolent licensing procurement arrangements
that may once have been in place, or may be due to over-provisioning by third
party solution providers as part of support for bespoke solutions.
Oracle Enterprise Edition is highly suitable for mission-critical applications such
as high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, query-intensive
data warehouses, and demanding Internet applications. Typically, however,
this description fits only a fraction of most organisationsโ average database
estate needs or business use cases. There are other variants of Oracle database
technologies that are still highly capable, but which potentially provide the
required level of capability for these remaining workloads in a more
cost-effective manner.
9
10. Consider Standard Edition for Microsoft Azure cloud migrations
and transformations
Whilst many organisations or solutions will need the features and scale of Oracle
Enterprise Edition (EE) in their Microsoft Azure migration, a careful appraisal
of whether the needs of a given database workload could also be satisfied by
Standard Edition (SE) with minimal solution impact should be actively considered.
This could achieve significant licence efficiencies, potentially up to five times your
annual maintenance fee.
There are a number of key differences between EE and SE, which should be fully
explored in order to optimise any migration to the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
For example, the restrictions of SE currently include:
โข
It cannot utilise Enterprise Edition ability to utilise any of the extra optional
packs such as partitioning, or performance-tuning packs.
โข
It is limited to a maximum of eight Azure vCPUs for DBSE1/2 or
16 Azure vCPU for SE.
โข
It does not support the Oracle Data Guard feature, which is a product used
to create, manage and monitor one or more standby databases.
However, with extensive experience in conducting licence audits, Version 1 has
witnessed that typically more than 60% of databases are not fully exploiting
Enterprise Edition extra cost optional packs or features, and the average database
DBSE1/2 is using considerably less than the equivalent of 8 Azure vCPUs. In
addition, whilst Data Guard is not an option, there are ways in which many
companies can create, manage and monitor standby databases with SE whilst
providing 24/7 support and business critical SLAs.
Oracle Standard Edition 2 is the current offering and covers all SE deployments,
as well as release 12.1.0.2 and above (which the legacy Standard Edition/Standard
Edition 1 do not).ยฒ At a high level, SE licensing is based on the number of vCPUs,
and Oracle defines the maximum server instance sizes which are permitted to run
Standard Edition. However, the approach in counting usage is somewhat different
to that used to license EE. SE is capped at a maximum of 16vCPU and Standard
Editions 1 2 have a maximum of 8 vCPU. In turn a Processor (for licensing
purposes for Standard Edition) is counted as 4 vCPU.
10
11. Re-evaluating your database edition choices should be considered as a viable
option given the performance, availability and scalability of Standard Edition 2
backed by Azure cloud, combined with the significant potential financial savings.
Optimise CPU Utilisation
According to leading technology analysts, less than half of the available
on-premises CPU performance capacity is typically in active use. Through our
Oracle licensing asset management activities, Version 1 has witnessed that most
Oracle clients typically allocate (and therefore license) 60โ80% more cores
than they need, to ensure appropriate performance and support for potential
maximum workloads. When this factor is combined with the flexible nature of
the Microsoft Azure environment (which allows small increments of resource
to be allocated), we believe that given suitable levels of workload analysis and
optimised Azure virtual machine matching and provisioning, these levels of over
provisioning can be reduced. A suitable strategy should be engaged to reduce
the over-provisioning as part of the migration to Azure.
Many organisations are running Oracle systems on old hardware and processors
which can be five years old or more, and these were often procured through
significant capital expenditure outlay. As hardware in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
is typically newer and is upgraded on a more frequent refresh interval than most
on-premises systems, it is likely that substantial performance benefits can be
gained in Microsoft Azure environments by using fewer processor cores/or CPU
in comparison to the existing on-premises provision. This level of overcapacity
is often being paid for on a โjust in caseโ basis, but is not delivering tangible
business value or capacity. Using new processors with higher processing capacity
and throughput often means that the same Oracle workloads can be handled
with reduced processor allocation volumes and so Oracle licensing costs can be
reduced further.
It should be noted that when migrating customer data
from on-premises to Azure cloud, the exercise of migrating
data from one Oracle Edition to another has very little
effect on the overall effort required to migrate the data.
11
12. The ability to manage your consumption on a โpay for what you useโ basis,
via an optimised public cloud reference architecture for Oracle in the Microsoft
Azure cloud, can often help to reduce over-provisioning and therefore negate
any additional increased licence costs. Although the number of licences needed
per processor core may increase due to Oracleโs licensing policy, the reduction
in CPU count, together with targeted Oracle edition selection, will potentially
significantly reduce the overall total cost of ownership (TCO).
Understanding and optimising software licensing and support costs
Oracle licensing and support can be a complex topic. Support arrangements are
unique for each organisation based on the contractual history, and relevant terms
and conditions may vary from customer to customer or agreement to agreement.
Understanding these terms and conditions, in conjunction with various Oracle
policies, is crucial to navigating a successful Oracle migration path to Microsoft
Azure. There is therefore a common misconception that moving Oracle database
workloads to the Microsoft Azure cloud will result in considerably higher software
licensing and support costs. This does not have to be the case. By maximising
a range of cost-effective measures, there are ways in which annual spend in
support on-premises fees (based on current list price) could cost an organisation
significantly less when on Microsoft Azure.
Right-sizing Microsoft Azure cloud server virtual machines
for Oracle workloads
When considering the migration of designated Oracle workloads, it is important
to choose a suitably sized and specified target server IaaS environment that meets
service needs and does not over-provision, particularly with regard to the number
of vCPUs required which drive applicable licensing. โRight-sizingโ in Microsoft
Azure terminology is an important cloud cost optimisation principle as part of a
best practice based to designing an effective Oracle-based solution. For Oracle
workloads and environments, choosing the right level of Microsoft Azure virtual
machine can deliver benefits such as faster processors and increased memory
levels. These in turn may reduce the physical processing count needed and
potentially yield corresponding reductions in the Oracle licence requirement.
By maximising
a range of
cost-effective
measures, there
are ways in which
annual spend
in support
on-premises
fees (based on
current list price)
could cost an
organisation
significantly
less when on
Microsoft Azure.
12
13. It is possible to reduce the level of processing load of Oracle systems by pursuing
targeted assessments in the following areas:
โข
CPU Storage
If the workload is I/O bound, then consider the use of more performant server
instance types and faster premium SSD storage types in Microsoft Azure
environments as a method of increasing performance and reducing load.
โข
Memory
If the Oracle workload is memory bound, then the available memory options
in the range of applicable Microsoft Azure virtual machine types should
be considered.
โข
Caching
Caching solutions in Azure such as Azure Redis Cache or Azure CDN should be
considered for implementation to reduce applicable database query load. Use
of a cache could significantly reduce the number of reads from your database,
thereby reducing the overall processing power and high-speed storage required.
Appropriate virtual machine selection works well when considering the
performance of existing hardware provision alongside future desired performance.
Use of proactive future software asset management strategies
As part of any managed cloud migration or Azure-based cloud transformation,
it is likely that the resultant migrated Oracle workload will be running for a
sustained period. It is therefore highly valuable and important to have a carefully
coordinated plan to manage Oracle software assets and licences over time, with
a view to ensuring Microsoft Azure based service is maintained at the optimal
cost. Typically, this planning activity should also include proactive management
of the stated Oracle licence position and support agreements, to ensure that any
saving can be easily realised as the needs of your Oracle estate change. Version
1โs Software Asset Management teams, who provide independent advice to
enterprise organisations, have a wealth of Oracle licensing experience and are
well-placed to advise on relevant techniques, licensing positions and strategies.
13
14. The role of automation when migrating Oracle workloads
Technology automation is generally regarded as a significant enabler
of improvement in levels of solution implementation quality, efficiency,
accountability and predictability, whilst at the same time reducing implementation
timescales, costs, solution inconsistencies and associated levels of business risk.
Whilst the benefits are clear, large-scale automation has still been a challenge
for many companies to successfully implement in todayโs modern world. With
some of the infrastructure in many organisations being at least one decade old
and wide differences in the hardware, operating systems, storage, databases,
versions and build standards that underpin their Oracle implementations; the
variations any automation process needs to be programmed for, typically make
it prohibitively expensive and unreliable to achieve in an on-premises context.
Higher levels of automation in Oracle environments therefore only become
practical to achieve once these workloads have been migrated to a standardised
and more flexible environment.
Unlike many customersโ on-premises Oracle environments, Azure cloud offers
a unified, standardised programmable platform offering the high levels of
automation sought by the customer. It is a scalable landscape that has been
built with automation in mind, enabling large-scale delivery provisioning that
also provides continuous management of systems on this platform. This helps
to realise all the automation benefits originally discussed (quality, accountability,
and predictability, whilst reducing time, cost, risk, inconsistency and materials).
A migration of suitable Oracle workloads to Azure cloud can successfully
integrate infrastructure facilities and services with automation code that can not
only deliver marketplace differentiators, but for many is likely to be substantially
less costly to implement.
14
15. Conclusion: Leveraging the suitability of Microsoft Azure cloud
With more than 100 services across 50 regions, Azure public cloud is suitable for
the most demanding and mission-critical enterprise workloads such as Oracle
solutions. Microsoft Azure cloud is secure, agile and offers unmatched savings
compared to on-premises or private cloud environment provisions. In the same
way that Agile software development differs from Waterfall methodologies,
deployments of enterprise workloads such as Oracle can be assessed, moved,
tested, fixed and delivered rapidly, thus increasing delivery certainty and
removing large, upfront assessment costs.
Via the use of expert, predefined cloud reference architectures by Microsoft and
trusted cloud partners such as Version 1, the movement of Oracle workloads is no
longer complex. With the right migration planning partner, dramatic savings can
be achieved. In undertaking this strategy, the organisation is making a conscious
decision to become more cloud native and will be working towards wider
business transformation, which can in turn be supported by cloud native services.
Depending on your organisationโs needs, cloud transformation benefits can be
leveraged in a way that complements the Oracle licensing plans you put in place.
Version 1 can accelerate these processes in conjunction with any applicable
licence management approaches.
Oracle can be
assessed, moved,
tested, fixed and
delivered rapidly,
thus increasing
delivery
certainty and
removing
large, upfront
assessment costs.
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16. Appendix
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The full list of Oracle programs eligible for use in Authorized Cloud Environments
is provided in the Oracle Authorized Cloud Environments document on Oracle.
com available at http://aka.ms/OracleAuthorizedCloudEnv.
ยฒ Oracle solutions suitable for deployment on Microsoft Azure.
Oracle-Database-EE
Oracle-Database-SE
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Linux
Oracle-Database 11g
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle
12.1.0.2
12.1.0.2
6.4
6.7
6.8
6.9
7.0
7.2
7.3
R2
Oracle Product Vendor Version
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