Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 45 M eta7 knows firsthand how cloud computing is changing organizations and careers Persistent requests from clients prompted the firm an Oracle Platinum Partner to purchase more than US 13 million worth of Oracle platform and infrastructure services to deepen its own expertise in helping customers procure and implement Oracle Cloud solutions Since then the company has migrated some of its own business processes to the cloud and built many models and demos based on scenarios at clients of various sizes Weve worked to understand everything from how a thirdparty on premises application leverages Oracle Database Cloud to whats involved in a complete lift and shift of Oracle E Business Suite to Oracle Cloud says Paul Zajdel vice president at Meta7 a division of Forsythe Technology that is dedicated to the Oracle stack What the Meta7 team learned goes well beyond cloud service features and functions Team members have stretched their skills with new technologies and have taken on new roles to accommodate cloud services in application architectures That kind of change is nothing new for Meta7 and Forsythe which began in the early 1970s as a technology hardware leasing company Weve reinvented ourselves several times throughout our 45 year existence says Zajdel It started with leasing then reselling then adding services then adding security and now adding managed services He adds Were in an industry that shifts Each time the industry shifts we have to shift too Today many of our customers have a mandate from senior management to explore the cloud and move at least some operations there says Zajdel Some clients have been told to use the cloud to get out of the data center business altogether But the move to the cloud is not just a switch of one technology for another We see skill sets roles governance and scalability changing all of those things are different in a META7 Skokie Illinois INDUSTRY Technology consulting and implementation ORACLE PRODUCTS Oracle Cloud platform asa service infrastructureas a service and softwareas a service applications
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