Oracle Magazine, May/June 2018
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2018 13 IoT may still qualify as emerging technology but enterprise IoT is now a part of many business strategies plans proof of concept projects and more Oracle Magazine caught up with Harish Gaur senior director product management Internet of Things at Oracle to talk about the state of enterprise IoT business strategies and use cases Oracles latest IoT services and more Oracle Magazine What is the state of IoT in the enterprise Gaur Most companies I speak to have some sort of an enterprise IoT initiative in their strategic roadmap and we are starting to see a lot more IoT deployment We are starting to see patterns emerge patterns of why companies are using IoT The patterns I see bubble up in every use case focus on how to improve the existing way of doing business If I am servicing an asset for example how do I do improve those processes We call that pattern improving existing operations The second pattern is about gaining visibility into whats going on in real time Many businesses just want to understand where an asset is at the current point in time or what the health of a fleet is at the current point in time The third pattern is about businesses getting very creative and as a result enabling new models They start with the goal of Hey I want to monitor my smart factory or I want to monitor my fleet but then they realize they can do more with all the data they are getting from those enterprise assets Oracle Magazine How do businesses get started with IoT projects And what are some typical industrial or enterprise IoT use cases Gaur We are telling customers dont start with your sensors and dont start with your devices Instead we tell them to start with the KPI key performance indicator that they want to monitor and improve And from there they can identify the data they would need in order to monitor that KPI whether that data comes from an ERP enterprise resource planning system a manufacturing plant a maintenance system or a type of asset or device And once they identify the datasources then they can start capturing all the data from those sources I talked about three IoT patterns were starting to see improving operations improving visi
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