Top 2023 Retail Issues
What retail issue has retailers focused on hyper personalization?
Improving Customer Experience
According to an IDC report in 2022, what is the #1 IT buying trend that Oracle can easily support?
Internet of Things (IoT)
According to Larry Ellison's comments on the Dec 2022 earnings call, what is the basis of sustaining OCI's cost advantage?
Super fast networking
What are the three foundational elements of OCI that any customer can leverage in moving to the cloud?
Compute, Storage and Networking
What OCI service would provided almost instant answers to needs for DR as well as spikes in demand for an Asian food and beverage chain?
OCVS
If every other cloud offers their versions of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning tools, how does OCI differentiate what we do?
Performance and Security
Which customer used artificial intelligence to improve customer experience using coupons
McDonalds
What issue involves enabling customers to buy what they want, however they want, wherever they want?
Omnichannel
According to an IDC report in 2022, what is the #2 IT buying trend that Oracle can easily support?
Cloud
What is the type of advanced networking that OCI uses to deliver superior value
RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access)
What are two examples of basic or advanced analytical solutions that can be provided through OCI?
Lifting and shifting analytical applications like Hyperion
Getting out of Excel hell using Apex and Autonomous
Oracle Analytics Cloud
Oracle A/I solutions
OCI MySQL Heatwave
Leverage OCI Analytics and A/I services to extract and understand information and sentiment from years of customer reviews to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs.
Name two benefits of running analytics faster on OCI than on other clouds?
Lower costs
Running more workloads simultaneously reduces time to answers (time to market)
Running workloads multiple times improves quality and confidence in the insights
Which customer created a low code application to improve their insights into their product inventory and reconditioning
Carvana
What issue addresses avoiding being out of stock for products that customers want to buy?
Supply Chain Resilience
According to an IDC report in 2022, what is the #3 IT buying trend that Oracle can easily support?
Mobility
What are the two of the primary benefits to customers of Oracle's "off box virtualization"
Improved performance, Improved Security and Lower Costs
What are 3 of the 6 "out of the box" A/I solutions on OCI that would be useful for Retailers
OCI Anomaly Detection
OCI Forecasting
OCI Vision
OCI Speech
OCI Language
OCI Digital Assistant
Which customer took advantage of the Azure - OCI interconnect to support split stack deployments and leveraged OCI to support it's MySQL deployment
Sephora
What are two benefits of the connection between OCI and Azure?
Enables customers to create a true multi-cloud process that connects applications on Azure to databases on OCI
Can delivers higher performance than on-prem deployment
Enables Azure users to leverage Oracle DBs from within the Azure console
Which customer's cloud journey started with a simple project to improve DR?
7-11
What issue is creating problems for retailer brick and mortar channels?
According to an IDC report in 2022, what is the #4 IT buying trend that Oracle can easily support?
Artificial Intelligence
What is another OCI competitive advantage in networking that provides greater performance and predictability?
Flat, non-blocking network
What minimum component of OCI is required before customers are able to leverage OCI's AI services?
Their data must be in Object Store
Besides the work they have done migrating EBS to OCI, how is 7-11 exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence?
To balance inventory between stores to meet localized demand more quickly
How does fast networking enable OCI to have a cost advantage over other clouds?
Which customer achieved massive savings by migrating their applications to OCI?
Carmax
Gap
7-11
What issue that is voiced by consumers has been lessened by rising prices caused by inflation?
According to an IDC report in 2022, what is the #6 IT buying trend that Oracle can easily support?
Big Data and Analytics
What are two examples of workloads that benefit dramatically from fast networking connecting computers into clusters
High performance compute simulations (car crashes)
Machine learning analysis (forecasting & clustering
Deep learning analysis (neural networks)
Artificial intelligence
What is the name of the RGBU offering that retailers can use to leverage their merchandising data outside of the RGBU application and what OCI services is required?
Data Access Schema (DAS)
GoldenGate
How is Chewy exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence to improve invoice processing?
Using anomaly detection to identify logistic suppliers invoice mistakes that could increase their costs
What were the two "pricing advantages" that were used to win the Uber deal that apply to any customer considering large data workloads, which eliminated Azure from consideration?
Networking Costs (reads and writes)
Which customer is exploring sentiment analysis of emails and chats using Artificial Intelligence
Walmart
NowOptics