The Oracle Playbook

The Oracle Playbook is a compilation of our learnings over the last 20-plus years. In it, we share the strategy that has enabled Oracle to achieve an industry-leading operating margin of 42%. The Playbook goes way beyond technology and details how we relentlessly focus on our people, processes, and systems so we can achieve more with less. And we want to share it with you.

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The Oracle Playbook for Operational Excellence

The Oracle Playbook details the secrets to our strategy. The first chapter, the Oracle Playbook for Operational Excellence, explains how we focus on people, processes, and systems so we can achieve more with less. Watch this on-demand webinar or read the ebook to learn:

Our framework for driving business success
Outcomes we’ve achieved and how your organization can do the same
Lessons learned from our journey to Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Oracle uses its cloud for all internal operations

Comprehensive and fully integrated cloud applications and infrastructure.

Oracle Cloud

Applications

ERP

SCM

HCM

EPM

Infrastructure

Database

Networking

Analytics

Compute

Integration

Storage

AppDev

Security

How to achieve more with less

Everyone is talking about achieving more with less. We’ve been focused on it for decades and have continuously reduced costs while growing revenue. Even as we’ve expanded our product portfolio and developed the most complete technology stack, opened dozens of data centers—more than any other cloud provider—and acquired many strategic companies, we’ve increased efficiency and improved our customer experience. We’re seeing the following results:

<10 workdays

to close our books and release earnings

26%

faster financial planning processes

71%

less time needed to conduct talent reviews

70%

faster supply chain planning cycles

75%

of customer purchases are fully automated

80%

reduction in the time IT spends on administrative activities

99.9%

availability achieved for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications

30%

improvement in Fusion Applications performance, saving 1.5M hours of employee time each year

“The Oracle Playbook is all about doing more while spending less. We started this ourselves over 20 years ago, resulting in the highest margins in the software business for decades.”

Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle

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Our framework for success

We relentlessly focus on people, processes, and systems to achieve operational excellence.

People

We aim to create a service-oriented culture that embraces continuous improvement. This includes establishing common goals with customer success as our North Star and using global process and solution owners to drive accountability and ongoing improvement.
Processes

We continuously review our end-to-end business operations, which underlie the experiences we deliver to customers, employees, and partners. This includes streamlining for greater simplicity and empowering and delighting those individuals with a fully automated, guided experience that requires no manual intervention to complete.
Systems

We leverage Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power our business and help us achieve our goals. Our approach includes centralizing our applications, deploying solutions out of the box—without customization, using built-in best practices—and taking advantage of cloud updates released on an ongoing basis.