Cloud RAFT - Addressing the Challenges of Oracle Cloud Adoption

Today, cloud computing has progressed well beyond the hype stage of the hype cycle to become a mature technology and an integral part of an enterprise’s IT strategy. Oracle Cloud is making serious waves in the industry. Their latest quarterly earnings reveal an annual revenue run rate of $20 billion. Their applications cloud business is seeing a healthy 15 percent annual growth rate, and the infrastructure business is setting the stage on fire with a phenomenal 52 percent annual increase. This exceptional growth indicates that Oracle Cloud is not just keeping pace with the booming cloud market but actively leading it.

Navigating cloud adoption decisions

Deciding whether to invest further in on-premises hardware or switch to the cloud depends on factors including the type of business, use cases, and infrastructure. When it comes to moving on from legacy infrastructure, much of the concern revolves around losing control over systems and processes, as well as accessibility, compliance, and data security issues. Enterprises fear investing in new technology without adequate support and knowledge of managing customizations in the cloud or understanding the number of integrations required to the current system. The lack of well-defined cloud strategy is also an inhibiting factor.

Oracle Cloud adoption – making the switch

The benefits of Oracle Cloud adoption have become more evident over time. Numerous factors are driving enterprises toward Oracle Cloud, such as the expensive resources deployed to maintain on-premises data centers, the costs of server hardware, and space and power consumption. Oracle Cloud provides three cloud options (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) with unique advantages for your business. This includes an assessment to suggest ways and means for cloud adoption, providing a detailed roadmap, cost optimizations, technology scalability, and selections.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):

• Pay-as-you-go model reduces upfront costs for hardware and facilities
• Easily scale resources up or down to meet changing demands to avoid over-provisioning or under-provisioning of resources
• Increased agility allows businesses to respond faster to market opportunities

Platform as a Service (PaaS):

• Reduced IT complexity – Oracle Cloud manages infrastructure, frees IT staff to focus on innovation
• Faster time-to-market with pre-built tools and services to streamline development processes

Software as a Service (SaaS):

• Reduced costs by eliminating the need for upfront software licenses and IT infrastructure investment
• Automatic updates ensure businesses always have access to the latest features and security fixes
• Increased accessibility – access to applications from anywhere, on any device with an Internet connection.

Leveraging an end-to-end Oracle Cloud adoption platform

The Oracle Cloud adoption platform eases the transition process with tools and accelerators that streamline workload migration and ensure business continuity with minimal downtime. It helps organizations to manage cloud environments with ease and modernize business processes and applications seamlessly. Zensar’s intelligent Oracle Cloud adoption platform — Cloud RAFT (Rapid Action for Cloud Transformation) — is a proprietary platform that provides end-to-end Oracle Cloud services, spanning strategy and assessment, SaaS implementation and rollouts, Oracle Cloud migrations, managed services and integration services, and modern app development.

Cloud RAFT is an aggregation of tools and accelerators that aid in the assessment of existing customer-specific on-prem ERP systems such as EBS, JD Edwards, SAP, etc., and provide an automated and objective assessment for an optimal strategy for upgrade or migration to Oracle Cloud.

Assesment

Cloud RAFT is a unique, automated Oracle Cloud migration assessment offering that reduces traditional assessment timelines from four weeks to less than a week. It provides actionable insights, comprehensive TCO calculations, and an objective mapping score of clients’ EBS installations with regard to Oracle Cloud applications.

The Cloud RAFT assessment tool comprehensively and intuitively reads EBS installations, discovers the functionalities and customizations in use, and provides a numeric fitment score that helps customers make an objective decision on Oracle Cloud migration.

The assessment tool provides a proprietary fitment index based on functionality usage, customizations, and business volumes. It automates data collection and analysis while offering a reporting framework. It also reduces the cost by 90 percent while minimizing the overall time commitment.

Oracle cloud implementation

Cloud RAFT empowers customers with accelerators specially developed for Oracle Cloud implementations. This enables faster implementation with greater accuracy. With insights gained over our extensive implementation experience, our experts have selected three key areas to automate the process: data migration, configuration migration, and testing.

Oracle data migration: Zensar’s Oracle Cloud data migration tool provides automated process-driven data migration. It also provides end-to-end visibility of the process, steps, checkpoints, and data reconciliation.

The data migration tool enables organizations to migrate multi-source data with standardized templates. This ensures that reconciling source financial data at the target system and handling large volumes of data becomes possible. The tool also ensures data security and reduces rework efforts by 40 percent in manual conversion.

OneClickDeploy: A solution to rapidly deploy components in OCI based on business requirements. In the case of critical timelines, OneClickDeploy appears to be effective in streamlining redundant processes.

Automated testing: Automated testing ensures comprehensive coverage of the Oracle Cloud ERP processes and comprehensive reporting on test execution. It facilitates a 60-70 percent reduction in test script creation efforts and 80 percent savings in test execution efforts.

Migration — SOA Migrator

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) powers cloud computing. Businesses have made significant investments in on-premises SOA integrations. However, automated tools for migrating Oracle SOA services to the cloud are generally not available in the market. This makes Zensar’s SOA Migrator highly valuable to clients with migration needs.

The SOA migrator enables user-friendly UI to provision and migrate the SOA composites to Oracle Cloud.

It is an end-to-end automated solution for SOA environment creation and migration, reducing the cost of running a disposable SOA environment by 50 percent and migration costs by 40 percent. The migrator also reduces production migration time by 10x, the testing time to validate the Oracle services by 20x, and the time to clone/create new environments by 10x.

Digital innovation

Zensar’s Intelligent Digital Innovation Platform uses various Oracle PaaS technologies to build advanced solutions in and around Oracle Cloud SaaS and edge solutions.

The Intelligent Digital Innovation Platform provides clients with 360-degree SaaS extensions and pre-built AI-based chatbots that are configurable for providing any kind of L1 support. As a result, it reduces the L1 support desk efforts and costs by 40 to 50 percent and optimizes HR with automated support.

Smart Oracle Cloud application management services (AMS)

The Smart AMS platform provisions for Oracle application support and maintenance services, providing agile AMS, shared services, and subscription-based automated testing services.

It provides AMS chatbots, enables subscription-based automated testing, and supports processes based on industry best practices. It reduces the TCO by automating repeatable processes.

Leveraging intelligent solutions to streamline Oracle Cloud adoption

With its wide range of solutions, Oracle Cloud opens up a world of possibilities for businesses to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. With its IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS options, Oracle Cloud provides businesses with scalability, cost savings, and increased agility. Zensar's Cloud RAFT platform further simplifies the migration process, offering tools and expertise to streamline workload migration and ensure business continuity. For enterprises, there is now no reason to look back. From improved user experiences to increased productivity, it is time to make the most of the new enterprise IT paradigm.