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“ If you think of examples like the Channel Tunnel , the 2012 Olympics , High Speed Two and Crossrail – all of these are projects that have been managed from the US typically .
“ I would say that organisations are maturing , so that the owners – the likes of Heathrow – now see that delivering this type of project is their core business . Historically , they would ’ ve handed it off to somebody else to manage , but they now see that it is their core responsibility to deliver these enhancements themselves .
“ So that ’ s , for me , probably the biggest step change . In fact , the guy at
Heathrow coined a phrase ; they want to be seen as the ‘ intelligent client ’.
“ That means they need to have control over the timescales , the budget and all of those things . They can ’ t just hand it to other people .”
And that ’ s where Oracle comes in . Fulton says that cloud technology is helping to facilitate the management of projects of this ilk , and offers a flexibility that has not been seen before .
“ People want an integrated solution ,” he says . “ They don ’ t want to have to install hardware , recruit IT specialists and various different
“ It ’ s that holistic view that nothing ever ends . We start a project , we plan a project , we deliver the project and then we look at how things can evolve ”
– Tony Fulton , Oracle ’ s Director of Industry Strategy for its Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit
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