Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda
Summary
Miranda told Computer Weekly in a briefing ahead of the event that the supplier’s customers have been speeding up “go-lives” during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, across the board. “The need to fulfil demand or need to get new systems out has increased [pace].” Miranda mentioned supply chain companies as accelerating in adopting more of Oracle’s software as a service applications functionality in response to the second wave of the pandemic. “Whether it’s Federal Express or Unilever – companies of that sort have also seen either an acceleration or an increased demand in certain areas, driven from the pandemic,” he said. Given that they didn’t have a lot of other things going on in the business, they were able to focus on some of the infrastructure assignments.” In terms of Oracle’s supply chain technology delivered as software as a service (SaaS), Miranda said the pandemic has accelerated adoption for certain industries. These include Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) machine learning capabilities that it said helps customers to predict transit times accurately, reduce costs associated with unplanned delays, and increase logistics efficiency.
