accenture technology vision for oracle - 2016

People First: The Primacy of People

in the Digital Age

ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY VISION FOR ORACLE 2016

Every year, the Technology Vision team partners with

Accenture Research to pinpoint the emerging IT

developments that will have the greatest impact on

companies, government agencies, and other organizations

in the next three to five years.

As technology advancements continue to accelerate at an

unprecedented rate - dramatically disrupting the workforce -

companies that equip employees, partners and consumers

with new skills can fully capitalize on these innovations.

Those that do will have unmatched capabilities to

continuously create fresh ideas, develop cutting-edge

products and services, and disrupt the status quo.

Winners in the Digital Economy

Will Put People First

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Change is the new normal. According to our global technology

survey of more than 3,100 IT and business executives,

86 percent of the executives anticipate that the pace

of technology change will increase rapidly or at an

unprecedented rate in their industry over the next three years.

Many companies, already reeling from the impacts of

technology and the changes they need to make in response,

find themselves temporarily overwhelmed—some even

paralyzed as they absorb the magnitude of the tasks ahead.

Getting past the digital culture shock that so many businesses

find themselves in today sounds daunting. But fortunately

there are models already available for inspiration. Not only

have many large tech companies established thriving digital

cultures, but there are also early adopters in other industries

showing the way ahead.

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We are in the midst of a major technology revolution, specifically a digital revolution. Our research

model and analysis shows that digital is now dominating every sector of the economy.


In 2015, the big question was no longer about digital

transformation, but about what business leaders could do

with their digital advantage—and how they could stretch

their boundaries to get ahead of the competition.

In 2016, leveraging the power of a digital business is no

longer simply about incorporating technologies into the

organization. It’s about reinventing the organization—and

the culture within it—to drive innovation, to drive change,

to drive the business into the next generation.

With Oracle technologies residing at the heart of so many

of the world’s largest organizations, their contribution to

achieving this ‘People First’ agenda is growing more

important all the time.

In the Technology Vision for Oracle 2016, you’ll see how

Accenture and Oracle are applying their individual

strengths to enable organizations to carve out their places

in the digital ecosystems that are defining their industries

in the platform economy.

Accenture Technology Vision for Oracle


People First: The Primacy of People in the Digital Age

Intelligent

Automation

Liquid

Workforce

Platform

Economy

Predictable

Disruption

Digital

Trust

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The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 identifies five technology trends fueled

by the people first principle and that are essential to business success in the digital economy.


Trend 1

Intelligent

Automation The essential new

co-worker for the

digital age

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Intelligent automation is the launching pad for new

growth and innovation.

Powered by artificial intelligence, the next wave of

solutions will gather unprecedented amounts of data

from disparate systems and—by weaving systems,

data and people together—create solutions that

fundamentally change the organization, as well as

what it does and how it does it.

The symbiotic relationship between technology and humans is far from being a vision of

the future, however, it’s a relationship that’s already enabling some enterprises to

leapfrog the competition. They’re doing this by using intelligent automation and it’s how

this automation empowers people that’s the true source of its differentiating potential.


What we see with our Oracle lens:

From Oracle’s cloud-based technologies, to on-

premises infrastructure such as Oracle

Engineered Systems, to software that’s been

optimally tuned to work with the hardware, it’s a

perfectly choreographed tango between hardware

and software.

In this chapter we explore how Accenture uses

Oracle technologies to help clients embrace

intelligent automation, Accenture’s DevOps for

Oracle library, and purpose-built Oracle

accelerators that ultimately empowers the rapid

creation of new products and services on a scale

that was previously unfeasible.

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Trend 2

Liquid

Workforce Building the workforce

for today’s digital demands


By exploiting technology to enable workforce

transformation, leading companies will create highly

adaptable and change-ready enterprise environments

that are able to meet today’s dynamic digital demands.

This liquid workforce competitive advantage is apparent

as IT and business executives surveyed report that

“deep expertise for the specialized task at hand” was

only the fifth most important characteristic they required

for employees to perform well in a digital work

environment – other qualities such as ‘the ability to

quickly learn’ or ‘shift gears’ were ranked higher.

What matters now is how technology can be used to empower people and

transform approaches to the workforce, creating new corporate cultures that

can continuously adapt and learn, create new solutions, and drive relentless

change.

Accenture and Oracle are working together to help organizations develop

and deliver their liquid workforce with Oracle’s HCM cloud by:

• using analytics to deliver key insights into workforce capabilities and

readiness

• finding the right talent by using new sourcing channels and redefining

“talent”

• creating an agile workforce that’s built to and for change—and is

rewarded for that agility

• and enabling the ability of employees to learn and adapt in a fast-paced,

collaborative environment.

This chapter focuses on Accenture’s experience with Oracle’s HCM suite of

products that enable workforce transformation by focusing technology on

people’s skills, social networks and knowledge, transforming them an

adaptable, change-ready, and passionate liquid workforce.





Trend 3

The Platform

EconomyTechnology-driven

business model innovation

from the outside in


Industry leaders are unleashing technology’s power

by developing platform-based business models and

strategies to capture new growth opportunities, ultimately

driving the most profound change in the global

macroeconomic environment since the Industrial Revolution.

This is reinforced by 81 percent of our survey respondents

who agree that platform-based business models will become

part of their organization’s core growth strategy within three

years.

Instead of looking to new products and services to drive growth,

platform businesses understand that it’s the platforms on which

those same products and services are built that are the new

engines of success.

Operating in the platform economy requires rethinking not only

the platform that your customers, stakeholders and others

experience, but also transforming the internal technology

infrastructures, services and tools that power your operations.

In this chapter we look at how Accenture has not only embraced

this rapid platform growth, but is a leader in the charge toward

digital transformation with the formation of the Accenture Oracle

Business Group, which brings to life our vision for an agile,

connected and digital platform for our clients.



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Trend 4

Predictable

DisruptionLooking to digital

ecosystems for the next

waves of change


Fast-emerging digital ecosystems are creating the foundation

for the next big wave of enterprise disruptions

by straddling markets and blurring industry boundaries;

forward-thinking leaders can proactively predict these

ecosystem trajectories to gain a competitive advantage.

Companies are already significantly or moderately

experiencing ecosystem disruption, with 81 percent of survey

respondents indicating that they are seeing this

in their industry.

Companies can no longer make predictions simply by looking at

competitors in their industry. It pays to look at ways to meld

existing traditional infrastructures with those that match data-

driven leaders in any industry. Oracle plays a preeminent role in

this space by maintaining a sure footing between its

technological roots and a new world of larger-scale systems and

open-source tools that drive business decision-making with vast

amounts of data.

In parallel, Accenture helps companies navigate this increasingly

complex ecosystem, supporting the decision-making process

along the path to becoming truly data-driven.

This chapter explores how Accenture and Oracle can enable

clients to connect data using the data-focused technologies

Oracle offers, bringing a larger picture into focus from the more

myopic tendencies of aging data platforms.





Trend 5

Digital Trust

Strengthening customer

relationships through

ethics and security


Trust is a cornerstone of the digital economy, said 83

percent of survey respondents.

To gain the trust of individuals, ecosystems and regulators

in this new landscape, businesses must focus on digital

ethics as a core strategy; better security, on its own, won’t

be enough.

Success in tomorrow’s digital business will largely depend

on security decisions made today. Organizations should

manage data and digital ethics as core strategies for

mitigating business risks, just as they do with cybersecurity.

Their reward? Unprecedented growth in an interconnected

platform economy with minimal downside risks. Those who

master this transformation can move beyond the first level

of customer trust to a higher level where empowered

individuals trust a company to lead them into the digital

future.

This chapter explores how Accenture and Oracle address

the core segments of data integrity, device security,

application security, infrastructure security, business

alignment, governance and compliance, identity

management, and cyber defense management.






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