Oracle Cloud for CIOs:

Lead Your AI Vision to Reality

A complete cloud to build, automate, and scale
CIOs are empowered to lead change, improve business processes,
reinforce competitive advantages, and harness the growing data
from across their ecosystem to better inform decision-making.

Embracing the latest AI and cloud technologies can deliver deep

insights, accelerate innovation, enhance transparency, reduce costs,
and provide the ability to combat cyberthreats without sacrificing
quality or compliance with changing regulations.

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Five challenges CIOs can tackle now
Seize the moment. Excitement about AI means that CIOs have a rare opportunity to
deliver substantial ROI while realizing an inspiring technology vision. By spearheading
AI adoption and creating an AI center of excellence, CIOs can provide cutting-edge
capabilities that delight customers, engage partners, and energize employees.

AI-driven automation and other cloud services free up time and budget for initiatives in
areas such as data management, application modernization, security, and governance.
Embracing AI doesn’t mean starting from scratch. Extend existing investments and skills
using familiar open source and Oracle data, analytics, and AI solutions to deliver quick
wins, minimize risk, and reduce costs.

However, with opportunities come significant challenges, which CIOs must address.

1
IT innovation moves too slowly

When faced with supporting business growth, the last thing

CIOs want is for IT to be viewed as too bureaucratic to move
fast. If your teams are maintaining legacy systems, resourceful
business leaders eager to adopt AI will act alone to create
applications and data platforms that are incompatible with IT
priorities and policies.

How can CIOs partner with line-of-business peers by

providing resources and expertise to start and scale new
projects efficiently and securely?

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2
Data is fragmented and expanding exponentially

81%
As the business demands personalized customer experiences, accurate
cash forecasting, and efficient recruiting, CIOs need to manage hundreds
of internal and external data sources—with more added daily—to provide
consolidated, accurate, and timely data that delivers trusted predictive of time of managing
analytics to nontechnical business users. data is spent on
searching, preparing,
How can CIOs establish a unified data management strategy across a and protecting1
distributed architecture of applications and infrastructure in both public
clouds and on-premises data centers?

3
Skills gaps in tech and engineering

Nearly every company faces skills and headcount challenges, especially those in higher-skill
technology and engineering fields. Enable business growth and talent development by using better
tools to help automate repetitive and low-value tasks and leveraging existing skills and open source
communities to free up time so employees can focus on more-creative and fulfilling work.

How can IT create a highly engaged and productive workforce?

4
Security breaches are diverse and risk is growing

AI cybersecurity attacks from internal and external actors continue unabated. No matter where
sensitive data resides, preventing threats on a massive scale consumes resources that could be
better allocated to innovation. Plus, AI implementation that involves external partners or third-party
solutions brings additional risks, such as the inadvertent sharing of IP assets or lapses in data security.

How can CIOs use AI and automated security to help safeguard cloud infrastructure, data, and apps
and fight AI attacks?

5
Corporate and ESG compliance is complex and evolving

CIOs wield significant influence over their organization’s environmental,

social, and governance (ESG) and financial reporting compliance.
Challenges for a sustainable business include tracking third-party
providers’ performance, optimizing the use of energy-efficient cloud
92%
of large companies
resources, reducing time-consuming manual processes, and analyzing report ROI on their
data and AI
data across global supply chains.
investments2

How can CIOs address data regulations across their

organization’s jurisdictions?

1
IDC Planning Guide: Employing Data Management and Analytics Technologies
2
NewVantage Partners Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey 2022

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Drive success with advanced AI technology

Oracle’s integrated suite of AI services and applications gives CIOs the power to bring
innovations to market faster and make their organizations more responsive. Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers choice, performance and security at the same low price
in all cloud regions and complete cloud services for any workload worldwide, across
clouds, or in your data center.

97%
of organizations have
adopted multicloud
strategies3

Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications span 18 industries and every area of the business, they
include Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Customer Experience (CX),
Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), and more. Deploy one capability at a time or
several at once from a single integrated suite with a common data model to quickly meet
business needs and easily tap into new capabilities as requirements change.

3
451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence”Multicloud in the Mainstream” Global Survey, 2023

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Drive productivity and deliver on your
vision with AI-powered applications
Equipped with a complete suite of AI-powered applications, CIOs can improve
collaboration between finance, human resources, supply chain, operations, sales, and
marketing. Deploy systems that provide the right people throughout the company with
the transformative power of AI-driven automation and insights so teams can do more
with less, collaborate using a single, trusted view of business performance, identify and
assess risks, and delight customers.

Oracle focuses on practical AI, prioritizing the needs of the user and the business case.
Identifying AI’s highest-value use cases is key to reaping its rewards. AI and machine
learning (ML) are embedded into adaptive, intelligent applications and digital assistants
to solve specific business challenges. Taking advantage of these capabilities requires no
technical expertise.

With generative AI capabilities—such as summarizing documents, building tables,

synthesizing ideas, and creating text—embedded in cloud-based business applications,
including industry-specific applications, you can increase knowledge workers’
productivity and efficiency while freeing up time for value-added tasks and improving
the overall employee experience.

To derive the full benefits of AI for your business, you can further train and
refine Oracle’s prebuilt AI models to suit your specific business use cases. You’ll
also have access to data provenance and lineage for greater transparency.

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With Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, you can increase employee satisfaction and
productivity through automation and enable informed, intelligent, and predictive
decision-making across your business, all backed by the power of AI. Connect these
applications to other models, including industry-specific solutions, to further benefit
from AI advancements across the business.

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM enables you to identify skills gaps within your workforce
and offer personalized development and upskilling opportunities. It can also
accelerate recruitment and onboarding processes so you can fill open positions faster
and more efficiently.

With Oracle Cloud CX, you can leverage AI to deliver personalized customer
experiences throughout the customer journey.

Anticipate possible disruptions, streamline procurement and vendor management,

and maintain up-to-the-minute, end-to-end visibility into your supply chain with the
AI-enabled capabilities of Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM.

To improve productivity and free up valuable resources, automate manual business

processes with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, and use embedded intelligence, scenario
modeling, and built-in advanced analytics and planning to drive better decisions with
Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM.

Extend these capabilities with Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence Platform, a family of
prebuilt analytics applications that provide ready-to-use metrics and KPIs across
departments to further improve decision-making.

“Oracle Service and its use of machine learning and

AI makes for a very rich journey and uplifts the role
of service technician to a conveyor of change.”

Mike Ellis
Chief Digital Officer, Johnson Controls

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Achieve success with AI-enabled innovation

• Harness all your data to gain valuable insights to inform accurate forecasting and analysis
and support data-driven decisions that fuel growth.

• Run your business more efficiently by seamlessly integrating AI and ML into day-to-day
operations and analytics.

• Evaluate investments and innovations more accurately.

• Align your workforce to meet your business needs and

counter talent shortfalls.

• Make processes resilient and adaptable.

• Use automated reporting to easily demonstrate the

business value of your AI investments.
Learn more on
• Refine AI models based on your business needs. Oracle AI for Fusion
Applications

• Increase transparency with tools to access data provenance

and lineage.

10K+
Discover Financial Services
80%
Williams reduced
eliminated 10K+ hours of reports by 80%
manual labor per year with
process automation

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Fuel growth with data and AI
Put your data to productive use with OCI, a modern, hyperscale cloud. Build apps and
experiences by integrating prebuilt AI services, using existing skills, and leveraging
investments in Oracle data platforms for more control and faster innovation.

Speed time to value and lower risk by taking advantage of user-friendly AI models
and analytics where the data resides on OCI to uncover patterns and predictions
that were previously difficult to identify in large data sets.

Innovate, reduce risk, and develop intelligent apps with your choice of open source
tools, such as Java, the #1 programming language for cloud native development,
and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. In addition, we have
a strong commitment to the open source community and directly support Hadoop,
Kubernetes, Linux, Python, and more.

“We needed a cloud provider that will help us maximize

innovation while reducing our overall infrastructure
costs. Oracle provides an ideal combination of price,
performance, flexibility, and security.”

Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO, Uber
Read Uber’s story

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Build IT that’s ready for anything

Leverage your data on OCI to innovate and

drive business outcomes

• Integrate your data sources to improve data quality and access in a

modern data platform that’s open and modular.

• Enrich data with easy-to-use AI services with prebuilt models for

developers, data scientists, and business users.

• Eliminate complex administration for any size organization with AI

embedded in the industry’s only autonomous database. 10 AI use-cases
to help improve
• Simplify lakehouse architecture with MySQL HeatWave, which productivity and
increase sales
combines transactional and analytical data processing with built-in
ML for performance querying of object storage.

• Shorten analytics workflows with integrated data preparation and

visualization for greater IT efficiency and self-service.

• Deploy in a distributed cloud to help meet data residency,

sovereignty, and connectivity requirements and regulations.

300X
faster performance of
queries at 85% less cost

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Build innovative applications with AI faster and for less on OCI

• Create and train robust ML models, including generative AI, with supercomputing
performance and scalability.

• Build a supercluster with up to 32,768 GPUs on a high performance, low-latency

network that can run large language models.

• Develop cloud native apps with open source tools such as Java, Kubernetes, Postgres,
and Python for fast time to value.

• Rapidly build new apps on open source MySQL platforms or in low-code APEX on
Oracle platforms with minimal assistance.

• Break down silos across back-office, industry-specific, and custom applications with a
complete cloud platform.

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Exit your data center to innovate and reduce costs with OCI

• Move a workload to the cloud to lower capital and operational costs with less infrastructure
while gaining more control.

• Modernize legacy Oracle or non-Oracle workloads for more automation and capabilities
that allow you to get to market faster and meet demand fluctuations and help improve
profitability.

• Virtualize capacity with flexible and affordable compute services, including bare metal
instances, VMs, containers, and serverless.

• Safeguard data and mitigate risks via security services for privacy, encryption, and
cyberthreat protection.

• Enable and expand authorized data access and sharing along with analytics using
streamlined business processes to foster collaboration and synergies.

• Address your regulatory and sustainability goals with more than 70 global and industry
compliance programs.

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Modernize your IT estate with Oracle’s distributed cloud
for more control, faster innovation, and a familiar UX

• A single control plane provides a unified end-to-end experience across your Oracle
Cloud ecosystem.

•P
 ublic cloud consists of more than 44 regions in 23 countries and offers a consistent
set of more than 100 cloud services, with consistent, low service pricing worldwide.

• Multicloud solutions let you combine OCI services with other vendors’ clouds to
optimize cost, functionality, and performance.

• Hybrid cloud offerings, such as Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Oracle

Compute Cloud@Customer, provide a highly optimized and managed database in
your data center.

• Gain full-stack visibility and management for hybrid and multicloud environments
with continuous monitoring and anomaly detection.

•D
 edicated cloud solutions provide Oracle public cloud services in a self-contained,
independent cloud region in your data center.

€100M+
cost savings and 50% less energy
use with a hybrid cloud

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Develop and run innovative solutions on OCI
while reducing your environmental impact

• OCI is committed to building a clean cloud and providing technologies to enable a

sustainable future.

• OCI manages and maintains a very dense computing environment, attaining much
higher utilization rates than an organization can achieve with an on-premises system.

99.9%
100%
of OCI data centers in
of retired hardware we
recycled and reused

Europe are powered by

renewable energy
46%
of OCI global energy
usage was renewable
in 2021

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Realize AI’s potential in your industry
AI will revolutionize organizations. Leaders need instant insights to navigate demands
on their business and push toward sustainable, profitable growth. Industry-specific
tools that help manage data and guide strategic choices are key to success—processing
the massive amount of data generated by Industry 4.0 technologies alone requires fast
hardware and sophisticated software.

Let’s look at AI’s potential in two industries: construction and engineering and utilities,
specifically energy and water.

Build the future with agile, secure, and AI-powered analytics

Revolutionize construction and engineering with unified project and asset lifecycle
data for enhanced performance and collaboration and secure data management,
analytics, and integration

The industry is grappling with a vast amount of data generated from multiple sources,
including design documents, building information models, Internet of Things devices,
sensors, and project management software, which must be integrated effectively to
protect sensitive information and maintain project efficiency.

Whether by using AI-powered drones to survey and monitor construction sites,

implementing machine learning algorithms for predictive maintenance, or exploring
the many other applications of emerging technologies, CIOs can embrace innovation
to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and improve safety. With Oracle, CIOs can
connect project teams, turn data into intelligence, and better orchestrate resources for
smoother operations across the supply chain.

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“We were early adopters of Oracle Fusion on-premises, and that’s
where we started to build up a very close relationship with Oracle.
And it just continues on the cloud today. The jump from Fusion
on-prem to Oracle Cloud HCM and ERP was minimal. Under
COVID-19, the project team never met, but Oracle as One Oracle
has adopted a really good environment that we had to play within.”

Mikael Stohm
IT Chief Operating Officer, Skanska Sweden
Read Skanska’s story

81%
of architecture, engineering,
and construction organizations
see unifying their data in one
project and portfolio
management system as a key
initiative in their data strategy

30%
Bild gained a 30%
increase in data
collection efficiency

50%
VINCI Construction
was able to speed up
operational processes
by 50%

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Power innovation with predictive intelligence

•T
 rack performance and mitigate risks: Track and report on forecasts versus actuals,
schedule timelines, and other KPIs with Oracle Construction Intelligence Cloud. Power your
data with AI to make informed, proactive decisions and drive continuous improvement across
project planning, construction, capital programs, and asset operation. Leverage predictive
intelligence to spot and address potential problems before they materialize.

• Drive an efficient, sustainable supply chain: Respond quickly to changing demand, supply,
and market conditions, and optimize material and subcontractor management while having
confidence in your ESG tracking and reporting—for example, scope 3 emissions monitoring.
Boost efficiency with Oracle Textura Payment Management, which helps builders, owners,
and subcontractors simplify the monthly draw process. Reduce risk by securely managing
compliance, and increase visibility into downstream payments to pay the supply chain on time.

•A
 ttract and retain talent: Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM enables you to find, engage, and
develop employees via award-winning digital user experiences that help increase employee
effectiveness and streamline HR service delivery by reducing manual tasks. Oracle Cloud
supports business continuity by providing employees with access to business-critical
applications anytime, anywhere.

•A
 ccelerate cross-functional connection: Drive growth and innovate faster during disruption.
CIOs can leverage capital program management solutions to increase visibility, control, and
assurance from portfolio planning to project execution. Using OCI, companies can gain
complete control over all aspects of every project. Oracle Smart Construction Platform helps
synchronize activities and resources while connecting teams and empowering individuals to
make proactive decisions.

•A
 ccelerate billing and revenue models: Use flexible billing and revenue business models to
maximize your ROI and adjust quickly to changing client requirements. Power your applications
with OCI to run IT for a lot less with ease, saving money with flexible up-front commitments.

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Power a green future with increased organizational
collaboration and integrated insights
Meet sustainability and efficiency goals in the utility industry
through modernization.
72%
Light achieved a
72% increase in data
consistency and
To thrive and build a sustainable future, utilities must strive accuracy
to deliver exceptional customer experiences, enhance energy
efficiency, and effectively manage networks and assets to provide
reliable and affordable essential services to their communities. 23%
Louisville Water
increased work order
Embracing advanced technology, including AI, enables businesses throughput by 23%
to achieve these goals. By harnessing AI’s power, companies can
optimize energy distribution, detect leaks, and achieve lower
asset downtime with predictive maintenance. Advanced analytics 22%
Scottish Water
and machine learning drive data-driven decision-making, asset realized a 22% lower
cost of IT ownership
management, and sustainability efforts. The industry can enhance
efficiency, reduce costs, and attain a better future for energy and
water management through these measures.

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Accelerate energy efficiency

•D
 rive operational efficiency with intelligent meter insights: Oracle Utilities Meter Data
Management allows you to capture, manage, and analyze advanced meter and device data to
accelerate billing cycles and drive operational efficiency.

• I ntegrate efficient and sustainable systems into your core business: Harness AI and
behavioral science to influence customers to act on an enormous scale, drive change, and
shift peak demand with Opower energy efficiency solutions. View, analyze, and leverage
customer data and Opower insights from a single application to make the right program
decisions. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP provides the agility to reduce costs, sharpen forecasts,
and innovate—all while retaining your customers’ trust and expediting reporting for your
regulators and shareholders. At the same time, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM enables utilities
to better integrate ESG considerations into their core business strategy and align their
long-term sustainability goals with financial planning, risk management, and operational
practices, helping to ensure transparent and accurate ESG reporting. In addition, apply AI-
powered spacial analytics to help your company reduce revenue loss from service interruptions
with OCI.

•D
 rive cross-functional collaboration: Forge deeper connections between customer care,
utility billing, metering, and device management to grow revenue and resolve customer issues
faster. Replace legacy customer information systems and use Oracle Utilities Customer Cloud
Service to automate data management and common customer service workflows to stay
ahead of customer needs.

•G
 et ready for the next-generation utility workforce: Keep your people trained, motivated,
and productive; align payroll processes; manage transitions; monitor incidents and safety
issues; manage performance, talent, recruiting, and approvals; and, importantly, foster an
inclusive work environment—all with Oracle Cloud HCM.

•R
 educe network complexity while increasing maintenance efficiencies: Help your
team deliver on all aspects of real-time distribution monitoring, optimization, and control with
Oracle Utilities Network Management System providing real-time distribution monitoring,
optimization and control, while Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management can support your
full asset lifecycle, helping to reduce costs across all your assets with cloud and on-premises
deployment options.

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What success looks like for CIOs
• Achieve a cohesive architecture and a flexible distributed cloud strategy to build and
modernize any workload and run any application faster and more securely for less while
complying with regional data regulations.

• Accelerate AI adoption by creating intelligent apps that leverage familiar open source and
industry-standard tools to improve productivity.

• Improve transparency and decision-making by seamlessly incorporating prebuilt AI into

workflows and day-to-day analytics.

• Monetize data with a unified platform that collects, curates, and manages all data, analytics,
and assets.

• Enhance security and reduce risk by applying adaptive, prescriptive, and integrated tools.

• Meet environmental sustainability goals with clean tech and help fulfill local and regional
compliance regulations.

Why Oracle is the right partner for you

• Oracle offers a complete end-to-end • Easily migrate critical enterprise
platform for AI with advanced built-in workloads to the cloud.
security, best-in-class data management,
• Get everything you need to build cloud
and a comprehensive portfolio of cloud
native apps.
apps to address any business problem.

• Benefit from the most support for hybrid

• Automatically secure, tune, and scale your
cloud strategies.
apps with autonomous services.

• Get superior price-performance.

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Take the next step to move
your AI vision forward
CIOs have the opportunity to lead the charge across their
organization to drive successful business outcomes. Oracle
brings expertise, experience, and technology to help you
navigate this transformative landscape. Let’s talk.

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