Oracle Sales Play Flashcards

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Why excited about Oracle?

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  1. As NewCo, we are one of the largest Oracle Systems Integrators globally.
  2. NewCo is striving to be Oracle’s number one Cloud partner, and our capabilities position us well to make it happen.
  3. Our advisory, implementation, and managed service solutions address client needs across the entire Oracle portfolio.
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What does DXC Oracle play mean to clients?

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  1. Optimize the investment in their Oracle estate
  2. Free up cash for driving future strategy
  3. Provide applications and platforms across the full Oracle technology stack
  4. Enable the digital transformation of business processes
  5. Provide tools for a journey to cloud-based architecture
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Can DXC provide digital transformation across full stack?

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DXC is the only Oracle partner positioned to help clients with their digital transformation across the full Oracle Stack:
Infrastructure
Platform
Software as a Service

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Solution Cat 1: Infrastructure and Platforms

Managed Platform as a Service

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Oracle Managed Platform as a Service
Oracle Public, Private, or Hybrid Cloud 
Migration Services
Platform/Middleware as a Service 
Database, Application & Testing MaaS
IOT/Mobility as a Service 
Industries: Insurance, Banking, A&D, Public Sector
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Solution Cat 2: Software and Applications

Business Enabled SaaS

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Oracle Cloud ERP
Industries: A&D, Manufacturing
Oracle Cloud Customer Experience
Industries: Retail, Hotel & Leisure, Communications
Apps Upgrade & Cloud Platform
Industries: A&D, Manufacturing, Healthcare/LS
Cloud Enabled Red Industry Solutions
Industries: Beverage, Campus, Engineering, Retail/Consumer

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DXC Qualifications

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Trusted partner
30+ year partner with Oracle
Largest engineered systems support capability of any systems integrator
Numerous awards
Engineered Systems Partner of the Year in 2016
Oracle Middleware Partner of the Year in ’13, ’14, and ‘16
Skilled experts
16,000+ global experts serving 200,000+ clients
Includes 2.6 million users on 100,000+ databases
10+ years average experience of Oracle experts
18 Oracle Centers of Excellence worldwide
3700+ Oracle certifications and 100+ Oracle specializations

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Oracle expected business outcomes

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Lower total cost of ownership
Reduce platform and services costs up to 30%
Achieve a constant innovation cycle
Reduce business and technical risk
Generate business intelligence to boost productivity gains up to 15%
Shift CapEx to OpEx
Enable clients to scale spending to business requirements
Provide consistent end-customer experiences
Increase share of wallet
Improve Net Promoter Score (NPS) score
Improve quality of service
Increase operational availability of data
Improve customer service (accurate billing, data availability, service response time)

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New capabilities from HPSE

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Global delivery centers
World-leading Digital Center of Excellence
One of the world's largest WebCenter implementations
Influence on Oracle’s trials and roadmap
Industry expertise:
Retail
Communications
Financial services
Public sector
Travel and transportation
Consumer goods
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Accenture: Global Cloud Elite partner status
Provides a digital center capability
Fast implementation across the full stack

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Access to the wider partner ecosystem network

Proven comprehensive advise, implement, and support services for strategic partners

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Deloitte: Market leader in applications (not platform)
Leading expertise in e-commerce, call center, and in-store technologies
Invested in customer experience design capability

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Access to the wider partner ecosystem
Stronger in infrastructure and platform space
More flexible and adaptable as a provider
Both Cloud and Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner status

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Indian Pure Plays: Generally lower prices

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Diverse service engagement options – on-shore, regional, and local
Strong public sector security accreditation

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Boutique audit partners
Local and regional solution providers

Generally lower prices
Specifically tailored niche expertise
Close ties to the Oracle Corporation (often paid by Oracle)

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Strategic capability to address multiple business needs
Robust diagnostic scripts that look deeper into data and therefore provide richer insights
Access to broader NewCo portfolio
Local delivery of independent view yet validated by Oracle

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Key Takeaways

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The Oracle play helps clients move their estate to the cloud, streamline business processes, and accelerate business transformation

NewCo’s qualifications include:

  1. Breadth of experience with 16,000+ global experts
  2. Largest engineered systems support capability of any systems integrator (SI)
  3. Global leader of Oracle’s Cloud Managed Service Provider Program
  4. NewCo’s combined portfolio provides full-stack and prepackaged industry solutions to address enterprise-wide Oracle needs
  5. NewCo’s competitive advantages include robust advise, implement, and support services with strategic partners
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Oracle opportunity indicators

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Some of the most common indicators of a Oracle opportunity are when clients want to:

  1. Improve customer experience
  2. Expand the business
  3. Manage a merger, acquisition, or divestiture
  4. Reduce perceived excessive IT spend, and
  5. Gain clarity on compliance and license management
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Oracle Estate Optimization

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Analyzes the Oracle estate through automated scripts and manual inspection that produces a client roadmap for reducing costs and instilling solutions such as cloud migration, hardware refresh, and security upgrades
Key phases:
Review the client’s Oracle landscape (assess infrastructure, environment, security, and licensing)
Report findings (annotate issues and provide insights into estate performance)
Discuss the action plan (optimize usage, minimize audit liability, and address security issues)

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Estate Optimization Bus Outcomes

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  1. Reduced costs
  2. Rapid identification of savings opportunities including license reduction recommendations
  3. Increased clarity on the Oracle estate
  4. Full understanding and a baseline for future management of the Oracle estate
    5.Red, Amber, Green (RAG) status reports highlighting areas for action with associated costing, impact, and timing
  5. Specific plan to improve performance
    Roadmap for Oracle aligned to IT and business strategy in order to:
    Achieve savings as recommended
    Migrate to recommended infrastructure
    Migrate workload to cloud as identified
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Oracle Managed Platform as a Service (MPaaS)

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  1. Increased Oracle platform functionality
  2. Accelerated critical workload migrations
  3. Reduced customer deployment time
  4. Improved private and public cloud integration
  5. Reduced Oracle platform TCO and shifted CapEx to OpEx
  6. Delivered positive returns in 12 months
  7. Reduced costs
  8. Reduced database estate core 50 to 75%
  9. Reduced application estate core 25 to 75%
  10. Reduced estate storage by over 50%
  11. Eliminated cost for PaaS environment
  12. Increased available capital for reinvestment
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Estate Optimization Key Takeaways

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Estate Optimization can help clients:
Align the roadmap for Oracle to IT and business strategy
Identify savings opportunities and provide license reduction recommendations
Oracle Managed Platform as a Service (MPaaS) can help clients:
Reduce TCO of Oracle platform including a shift from CapEx to OpEx
Digital Client Experience can help clients:
Unify customer journeys across channels
Reduce concept to market time scales

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Typical Questions

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  1. Help innovate? Oracle engineered systems trans solutions

2. Improve CX: Oracle SaaS, CX Cloud, Integrate BO

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Mapping needsbto Oracle solutions

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  1. Reduce risk: Diagnostic Estate optimization
  2. Cost savings while move to modern platform: Digital CX, ComPaaS
  3. Move critical bus apps to cloud: Oracle SaaS
  4. Improve info Gov / Compliance:
    Archiving services
    Content Management
    Classification
    Records management svcs