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With the expansion and transformation of companies like Oracle what will this mean to the development of the construction industry ? “ What we ’ re seeing is the acceleration of digital transformation ,” maintains Jasper . “ Many firms started this journey with their customers back in the nineties and it ’ s come about by bringing these solutions together into common platforms . It ’ s hard for our customers buying from different vendors to cobble something together ... It ’ s really important to digitise and bring tools together in one place – we ’ re connecting those dots and reducing a five-year journey into a matter of months or weeks to achieve implementation .”
Oracle ’ s range of solutions are available on a modular basis so companies can start addressing document , payment or scheduling business problems individually and gradually add more options over time as their needs change . Supported by synergies across the business at Oracle , the Construction & Engineering division draws on these in-house alliances to set its offering apart . “ The most compelling thing is being able to leverage the Oracle technology to help our construction customers solve not just discrete business problems during the planning , building or operating phase , but also addressing issues like IoT registration ,” asserts Sicilia . “ Visit any job site and you ’ ll encounter drones , sensors , wearables … All of these become end users of the software so the challenge is to be able to marshall , secure , identify and track them . By bolting on our IoT registration cloud to your applications we
NOVEMBER 2018