Oracle Nigeria recently held its annual Cloud Day event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, which discussed the IT challenges in businesses today. This event attracted customers ; partners, stakeholders and government officials from various industries to examine how Cloud is transforming businesses today.
Speaking at the event, which sought to bring together public and private sector players, creating a platform for networking with experts and business peers, Adebayo Sanni, Managing Director for Oracle Nigeria said; “technology isn’t new in powering business, but is evolving constantly and rapidly. How businesses use this transformative technology will set them apart from their competitors.”
“Our focus is to remove the complexity, to simplify IT and provide the most comprehensive cloud offering,” he added.
While speaking to some journalists, Sanni said that CEO’s need to understand the fact that we are in a competitive world, and so, they should focus on innovation and agility in order to remain ahead of competitors.
During the event, the participants had the opportunity to learn how to reduce risk and complexity in their businesses by using the most comprehensive, secure Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud offerings in the market. They discovered ways to shorten the innovation cycle and accelerate time to market with boosted agility and increased reliability as well as how to transform their businesses with cloud computing.
“Today, the cost of technology is no longer considered an issue for any company that wants to use IT to drive business innovation. Cyber security is at the highest level and 95 percent of networks today are being abused. The worst part is that more than 60 percent of them are undetected. This alone is enough reason to move to cloud which is most reliable, least complex, lowers cost and more secure,” said Sanni.
“CEOs need to strive for agility irrespective of the size of their organization; to remain progressive and forward-thinking, despite how they may perceive their company today in an ever-changing competitive landscape; and to have a team that is really focused on using IT as an innovation driver in every part of their business,” he added.
The Enterprise Technology Challenge organised by the Co-Creation Hub, and sponsored by Oracle as a platinum sponsor, was designed to mobilize Nigerian software developers and designers to build innovative, locally appealing and relevant web and mobile apps that enable and support small, growing businesses in Nigeria.
Teams, formed around the best ideas submitted for the Challenge, leveraged technology and expertise from Oracle to develop and deploy their applications at a 48-hour rapid prototyping hackathon at the end of October 2015. The winners were announced at Oracle Cloud Day Nigeria .
“Now in its fourth year, Oracle Cloud Day, formerly Oracle Day, has been a tremendous success in Nigeria and provided a valuable opportunity for our customers, partners and prospects to gain insight into the technologies that are transforming business. In the cloud we are seeing a generational shift in computing as significant as the shift to personal computing was forty years ago,” concluded Sanni.
Jumoke Akiyode
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