Extending IT to the Cloud with Oracle On Demand

1. Stuart Patsos, CIO / VP of IT
Extending IT to the Cloud with Oracle Cloud

2. Stuart Patsos - Background
 Worked with Oracle for last 20 years
 Lived through many versions of Oracle
 9.4, 9.6,
 10.7SC, 10.7NCA,
 11.03
 11i - 11.5.1 through 11.5.10.2
 R12 – 12.06, 12.1.1 and now 12.1.2
 Consulting background - Deloitte, Coopers & Lybrand,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hitachi Consulting
 Internal IT positions - CIO / VP
 Accounting background – CPA with CFO experiences
 Industry background – HiTech, Industrial manufacturing, CPG,
Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Health and
Pharmaceuticals
 Long standing and strong relationships with Oracle at all levels
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Company Background
 A division of Kloeckner & Co – the largest mill-independent
distributor of steel in the world
 Macsteel Service Centers USA is one of the leading metals
processors and distributors in North America.
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● 30+ locations throughout North America and Puerto Rico
● processes and distributes
► carbon ► aluminum
► stainless ► specialty metals
● Products include a full range of
► flat rolled ► pipe
► plate ► bar
► tubing ► structurals
● The company also supplies a full range of
► Coated ► steel building products
► prepainted metals

4. Macsteel USA
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5. Applications Footprint
 Version of EBS currently Implemented: 12.1.2
 Oracle products implemented:
 Financials (GL, AP, AR, Advanced Collections)
 Order Management (including Configurator)
 OPM (Process Manufacturing)
 Discrete Manufacturing
 Inventory
 Procurement (including LCM – Landed Cost Management)
 OTM (Oracle Transportation Management - version 6.04)
 eBusiness Tax (with Vertex O series)
 OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytics)
 Oracle Cloud Customer since Sept 20, 2010
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6. Cloud Strategy
 Why did we Macsteel decide to Outsource our Oracle Environment
 Insufficient internal resources to manage the system – we needed 24 x 7
support and only had 1 DBA. Oracle could provide DBA and other
technical and functional resources for the project.
 Massive capital investment was required to complete the rollout. Our
Servers and Storage were undersized when purchased at project
commencement.
 Oracle Cloud Hosting Fees were cost competitive – predictable monthly
costs.
 Access to Oracle Support staff to troubleshoot and resolve problems
priority issues very quickly.
 Oracle Cloud has extensive monitoring tools and capabilities. Those tools
and resources would also have required capital investment.
 Extensive footprint including EBS, OTM, ACSP, OBIEE, Vertex, PC-Miler,
SOA/BPEL
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Macsteel Production Configuration

8. Benefits from using Oracle Cloud
Risk and Reliability
 Introduction of better rules around production
controls and best practices
 Enhanced service level, availability, and
change management
 Security, auditing, governance, standards
Scalability and Elasticity
 Greater options and flexibility in delivering
production infrastructure upgrades
 Scalable, Proven Cloud Infrastructure
 Integration Platform allowing for a large
footprint of Oracle and non Oracle products
Lower Cost of Ownership
 We pay for what we use
 Global sourcing model to optimize costs
 Reduce data center complexity
 Avoided capital expense of new servers and
storage
Accelerated ROI
 Up and running faster (90 days)
 Able to leverage our internal technical
resources with Oracle’s global staffing
 Allowed us to run most current software
R12.1.2 plus added Vertex, PC-Miler
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9. General Advice and Guidance
 Concentrate the services to be delivered
 Get everything you need up front while your
negotiating
 Allow for growth in your footprint
 Allow for growth in storage
 Define your exit strategy
 Clearly define your expectations
 What are the business SLA’s
 How will Oracle Cloud meet those SLA’s in
business terms, not technical metrics
 Implementation demands will be greater than
post production maintenance.
 Clearly define your timeline and scope
 Work with Oracle to define the number of
environments you will need.
 Make Oracle your partner
 Have regular meetings to discuss
 Issues
 SLA performance
 Business events
Time to Value
SLA’sContract
Governance
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10. Questions