Oracle Study Reveals Businesses Agility Awareness

Oracle announced the results of its “Oracle Cloud Agility” study and revealed that businesses across APAC are showing strong signs of agility in some areas and clearly recognise the business benefits of agility. The Oracle Cloud Agility study surveyed 759 employees working for large enterprises in APAC to understand business agility in the age of cloud.

Findings:

• 85 percent stated that the ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch new business applications is either important or critically important to the success of their business.
• 29 percent believe that effective mobilisation of applications and services is the most important factor for business success today when it comes to IT infrastructure.
• ability of competitors to launch innovative customer services more rapidly was identified as the top threat (29 percent).
• 52 percent of businesses questioned did feel they have an IT infrastructure capable of responding to these competitive threats.
• 60 percent of businesses stated that they can develop, test, and deploy new business applications for use on mobile devices within six months – and nearly half (46 percent) felt that they could achieve this within a one month timeframe.

”PaaS offerings, such as the Oracle Cloud Platform, have the ability to deliver unprecedented levels of business agility. The key is to demonstrate to businesses just how easy it is to integrate this critical cloud platform into their IT architectures. Yes, the cost savings delivered by PaaS are important, but of greater importance is its ability to help businesses reduce application development timeframes and more easily tailor and integrate third-party Software as a Service apps into their business, allowing them to react better to customer demand” ,said Mitesh Agarwal, Vice President  & CTO, Oracle India.