From Digitally Disrupted to Digital DisrupterApplying the Accenture and Oracle lens to the six technology trends shaping the business landscape in 2014

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Accenture Technology Vision for Oracle 2014Every Business is a Digital Business

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Since 2007, Accenture has released an annual Technology Vision. This report pinpoints the emerging IT developments that will have the greatest impact on companies, government agencies, and other organizations in the years ahead.

About the Technology Vision

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In 2014 Accenture released its first ever Technology Vision for Oracle. It’s a vision that is shared deeply by Oracle, Accenture’s long-time alliance partner in helping so many of those large companies vault toward the next levels of growth and become truly digital businesses.

About the Technology Vision

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Every Business is a Digital Business: The Evolution

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In 2013, we presented the idea that Every Business is a Digital Business – whether they knew it or not.

This theme is still relevant, however there is one important evolution from last year: Large companies are moving from being digitally disrupted to becoming digital disrupters.

Accenture and Oracle see eye to eye on how to help accelerate the digital directions of the biggest companies. What really matters is that we share a vision of a digital future that is broader still than that glimpsed by the new breed of corporate digerati.

Big is the Next Big Thing

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This year’s Vision identifies six technology trends that are enabling large enterprises to move from disrupted to market disrupters, in pushing the boundaries of innovation and taking advantage of digital technologies for competitive advantage.

Backed by their deep resources, enormous scale, and process discipline, these new digerati are about to rewrite much of the digital playbook.

We apply the lens of Accenture’s and Oracle’s blended expertise to demonstrate how our combined approach maps to the six technology vectors described in the report—from its spotlight on the digital-physical blur to the push for architected resilience.

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Accenture Technology Vision 2014Six Technology Trends Shaping the future of IT

Digital-Physical Blur

Architecting Resilience

From Workforce to Crowdsource

Data Supply Chain

Harnessing Hyperscale

Business of Applications

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Digital-Physical Blur:Extending intelligence at the EdgeWearable devices, smart objects and machines are providing us with real-time intelligence that is changing how we live and how business operate.

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Digital-Physical Blur:Extending intelligence at the Edge

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Accenture and Oracle are well placed to help businesses take advantage of this digital-physical blur. At a minimum, Oracle’s integrated and engineered solutions help simplify the architecture and infrastructure of business analytics, allowing data and insights to flow to users, partners, and consumers as simply as possible.

From Workforce to Crowdsource:Rise of the borderless enterprise Using advanced digital tools and platforms, organizations can now tap into pools of people across the world, giving them access to an immense, agile workforce…one not just better suited to solving problems, but also one that may do so for free.

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From Workforce to Crowdsource:Rise of the borderless enterprise Oracle provides solutions that enable companies to perform granular segmentations and apply them across interactions with customers. Accenture and Oracle also have the resources and tools necessary to deal with the new levels of complexity and risk generated by the widening workforce.

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Data Supply Chain: Putting information into circulationData needs to be something that is transported through a supply chain, is shared, used and repurposed – just like other products.

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Data Supply Chain: Putting information into circulationAccenture works closely with Oracle and its clients to design, build, and run the underpinning information strategy, architecture, and governance that enable a “single source of the truth” for all data, wherever it resides.

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Harnessing Hyperscale: Hardware is back (and it never really went away)Eclipsed by over a decade of innovation in software, the hardware world is now a hotbed of innovation with demand soaring for unprecedented levels of performance in storage, processors and specialized servers.

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Harnessing Hyperscale: Hardware is back (and it never really went away)It is Oracle’s and Accenture’s belief that the next wave of data center computing will be characterized by purpose-built machines that optimize for particular types of workload and tackle traditional bottlenecks in system performance.

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Business of Applications: Software as a core competency in the digital world

Take data from being siloed and unmanaged to an integrated resource, managed end-to-end through a data supply chain...while taking analytics from an art to an industrialized, fully embedded capability.

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Business of Applications: Software as a core competency in the digital world Accenture and Oracle are geared to help enterprises move toward this new realm of enterprise applications. Oracle’s solutions allow IT systems to grow and evolve to fit the market’s changing requirements.

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Architecting Resilience: “Built to survive failure” - the mantra of the nonstop business

CIOs who truly understand the concept of resiliency are transitioning their organizations to an always-on state, phasing in resilience initiatives as business risk and process economics dictate.

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Architecting Resilience: “Built to survive failure” - the mantra of the nonstop businessOracle and Accenture understand that resiliency is the new high ground for CIOs who take their strategic business roles seriously. Transforming to a digital business implicitly increases a company’s exposure to risk through IT failures. Accenture implements Oracle solutions that are key enablers of architected resilience.

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Get the report:accenture.com/TechVisionforOracle