Cloud Company NetSuite Helps UAE Organizations Scale and Grow

To support growing customer demand in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oracle NetSuite has expanded its partner ecosystem in the region and introduced new innovations to help organizations gain the visibility and control needed to navigate change and accelerate growth. The new partnerships and innovations are designed to help UAE organizations drive growth, reduce costs and quickly and easily achieve the benefits of cloud computing.

“The UAE is putting a huge focus on business growth and economic development and this is creating a unique opportunity for innovation,” said Nicky Tozer, VP of EMEA, Oracle NetSuite. “With our new innovations and expanded partner ecosystem, we are strongly placed to help UAE customers capitalize on this opportunity.”

Growing Customer Base

NetSuite is helping UAE organizations and international subsidiaries operating in-region gain the visibility and control needed to navigate change and accelerate growth.

Dubai-based smartphone manufacturer Condor Middle East has reduced the time spent on business processes by 75 percent since adopting NetSuite. “We wanted to increase visibility into our operations and improve the outputs we get from our system. With NetSuite, we’ve streamlined operations and now have a unified and flexible business platform that can support our objectives,” said Ayman Samy, General Manager, Condor Middle East.

UAE healthy snack company Munchbox credits NetSuite with enabling it to meet its triple digit growth goals. “We found NetSuite best suited to our needs—minimal upfront investment, positive testimonials from customers and passionate customer care from the team,” said Mahmoud Adham, CEO, Munchbox.

UAE-based retail distributor Denaster General Trading LLC, which helps international brands reach consumers across the Middle East, selected NetSuite to support its international expansion into India and the UK. “To support our international expansion, we need a flexible business platform that can give us a real-time view into our business. NetSuite meets this need and its proven track record of helping companies like ours scale internationally will be a huge advantage,” said Deep Bhogal, Managing Director, Denaster General Trading LLC.

New SuiteSuccess Industry Cloud Solution

The latest innovations within the NetSuite platform include new SuiteSuccess Financials First capabilities that help organizations operating in the UAE automate financial processes, improve reporting and gain real-time visibility into key business metrics. Built on industry-leading practices and deep domain knowledge, SuiteSuccess includes pre-defined roles, KPIs, dashboards and workflows for finance departments.

The functionality allows for VAT support, enabling organizations to comply with tax rules from the Unified Value Added Tax (VAT) agreement signed by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The highly flexible tax engine supports over 110 countries for VAT—including rules and reporting—creating a solid foundation for GCC VAT functionality.

Bolstered Partner Ecosystem

To meet growing customer demand for cloud business management solutions in the UAE, NetSuite has expanded the NetSuite Alliance Partner Program with the addition of seven new partners to help customers across industries adapt to change and achieve faster time to value.

“We’ve partnered with NetSuite on over 400 implementations. We view NetSuite as the number one cloud ERP company in the UAE as it enables organizations of all sizes to adapt to this fast-changing market,” said Amit Prabhu, General Manager of Aarialife Technologies.

“We’re delighted to join forces with NetSuite. This investment will allow us to apply our advanced ERP implementation capabilities to NetSuite’s world-leading business management software skills so we can support customers across the region to achieve greater efficiency in their organization,” Farhan Al Bastaki, CEO, Sharaf HQ Investment.

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Café Anatolia Expands to New Locations with Oracle Cloud

Oracle Food and Beverage Simphony Cloud Increases Speed of Service and Enhances Visibility Across Restaurants

Café Anatolia, a New Zealand company specializing in Turkish cuisine sourced from fresh, locally grown produce, meat and poultry, has chosen Oracle to expand to new locations. With Oracle Food and Beverage Simphony Cloud, Café Anatolia has the technology platform it needs to easily scale and adapt to evolving business needs, gain clear visibility into operations across all sites and channels, and increase speed of service to its valued diners.  

“We have ambitious growth plans, and as we expand our Turkish Café concept across New Zealand, we need to provide our customers with the same quality of product and service that they have become accustomed to at our existing locations,” said co-founder, Munn Jony. “Oracle Simphony Cloud provides us with a single view into the operations of the business across all sites. This lets us make better business decisions faster, and ensures quality and speed of service. Along with this, Oracle also gives us the flexibility we need to integrate with other technology partners to innovate quickly and easily.”

Oracle Simphony Cloud provides Café Anatolia with one centralized system to manage operations across its restaurant locations. This allows integrated reporting and auditing for the management team, together with visibility into real-time, order-specific information. Minute-by-minute detail enables the chain to maximize revenue and profitability.

And as the platform integrates all digital channels including mobile payment, mobile ordering, digital loyalty and mobile applications into one centralized view, Café Anatolia can accelerate speed of service and enhance the overall experience for its customers. Simphony Cloud also provides Café Anatolia with a platform for continued innovation with the ability to easily integrate third-party solutions and products as the need arises.

“In today’s competitive market, restaurants are challenged to operate not only faster, but smarter, in order to meet customer’s rising expectations,” said Chris Adams, vice president strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. “Oracle Simphony Cloud enables business operations to flow more cohesively, efficiently and profitably while greatly enhancing the overall customer experience.”

Café Anatolia has also implemented Oracle Food and Beverage Inventory Management, Reporting and Analytics and Gift and Loyalty to further their digital transformation.

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Bata Improves Planning and Process Efficiency to Enhance Customer Experience with Oracle

Global Footwear Retailer Bata has deployed Oracle Retail technology to improve planning and supply chain efficiency while enhancing the customer experience in stores. With this technology investment, Bata will be able to modernize its supply chain, reduce markdowns and unnecessary inventory investment, and improve margin potential.

Bata is a vertically integrated retailer that serves more than one million customers per day across 5,300 stores in 70 countries. With a business of this scale, Bata’s retail planners were challenged in creating precise inventory strategies that met corporate sales goals, profit margins and aligned with corporate and regional promotions. Using Oracle Retail Merchandise Financial Planning, Oracle Retail Assortment Planning in Latin America and Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service in both Latin America and Europe, Bata will be able to more accurately plan inventory assortments and ensure they are providing consumer with the right product, at the right place, at the right time while empowering associates to deliver a better customer experience with modern POS systems.

“To be successful, we needed to leverage our data and automate processes. Only Oracle has the solutions that met our needs for integrated retail planning, execution and control,” said Massimiliano Gerli, Global Director of Information and Technology, Bata Retail. “We started the project in Chile and Italy, and are progressively expanding across the two regions. We selected experienced and committed partners Oracle Retail, Retail Consult and Veltio to support our journey.”

With Oracle Retail technology Bata will be able to increase in store traffic, sales conversion and create a more satisfying shopping experience with greater insight into consumer preferences and demand at the store, regional and country level. By adopting Oracle Retail Point of Service, Bata can deliver a consistent experience for customers globally while decreasing training complexity for associates. Integrated with existing back-end systems, Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service will help Bata improve real-time visibility into inventory to maxmize product availability in-store and online.

“In the footwear industry, inventory assortment and accuracy fuel customer experience and brand engagement,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail. “Through this digital transformation, Bata can exploit the science within our modern platform to obtain the speed and scale to plan the assortment more effectively to satisfy consumer demand.”

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Oracle Certified Master - An Unforgettable Journey - Oracle Certifications

Sometimes A Memory Is Not in The Past

My Journey to OCM Certification

The two-day Oracle Certified Master (OCM) exam is over. I didn’t say “finally” because it’s been an unforgettable journey, and I don’t expect it to end. I don’t want to get overly emotional, but, looking back, there are some things I still can’t forget. I thought that I was going to be walking on air after the exam, but now I feel somewhat empty. It is not because of the mistakes and imperfections in the exam. Life is flawed, so why should we insist on perfection? We need to learn to fail gracefully. No, it’s just that I don’t know where to go after finishing an assignment or getting something done. Is my life just one challenge after another?

I am trying to settle my mind, to condense this experience into words, for those who are learning and preparing for the OCM exam, for those who have passed the exam and also for myself. I won’t be discussing the actual exam here.

The whole story: an exam triggered by a joke

This entire exam was triggered by nothing more than a joke. I once asked Kamus to give me an OCM credential, which I meant as a joke, but it ended up leading to a long series of events. After that joke, I somehow managed to register for the training courses along with a lot of friends, and met Master H, who was said to be shy and introverted. Then I decided to take the exam because I saw my course mates had all registered for it, making me feel that I ought to do it as well. I used to be an unreliable Database Administrator (DBA) and was now a supposedly reliable little leader, so I don’t have the incentives that other people do -- for example, the ability to job-hop, earn salary increases or gain respect. As Teacher Gao said to me, “No wonder you are in no hurry to take the exam.” In this sense, the reason that I was taking the courses and the exam was not ambition -- even I didn’t know why I did it.

I started feeling the pressure after registering for the OCM exam on June 28. Once I’d registered and paid the money, the pressure was on. As luck would have it, it was my busiest time of year. Our company had adopted a new system, and we could be expected to work overtime on any given day, so it was really not easy to make time for practice. It was true that I had two months to prepare, but time flies, especially when I was so busy every day -- I could not believe how fast time went by.

Finally, I was able to ask for some leave, so I could study in the classroom, which was my lifesaver. I worked alongside my classmates, discussing problems, answering questions, helping and motivating each other. I tried to get rid of my nervousness and bring out the best in myself to adjust to the needs of the exam. As far as I could remember, I had never felt nervous in my life until now, so I wondered if there was something wrong with me.

Team: all of you

I am lucky because all along the way I have had a very collaborative team. At my company, my office colleagues are all very supportive, reassuring me that I can ask for leave. In Oracle Workforce Development Program (WDP), we called our exam prep team “Team Fun.” During stressful times, all my teammates had their own ways of making us laugh. We were always chatting and laughing, even outside of Oracle University. Even the teachers were amazed by how much fun we’ve had. We had our “funny duo” of Uncle Yang and Aunt Niu, and our “crazy duo,” the handsome Mr. Xie and the great Mr. Yan. We are classmates, comrades in arms and friends forever.

Thank you: remember forever

I got acquainted with this Oracle-authorized WDP in 2010, when I decided to purchase Oracle’s third-party services. What I saw from them was not just technical proficiency and professional integrity, but a dedication to technology and a readiness to share. After my first conversation with the management team, I knew that it would be a good choice. Over the last few years, I have learned a lot from them and have enjoyed a harmonious atmosphere.

Finally, I want to thank our fellow friends who took the exam on September 5. Your help gave us so much comfort, and we look forward to your perfect Show Time.

“A clear goal, some hard work, a pleasing result, an unforgettable memory.” I am now especially impressed by these words.

I want to say that this memory is not in the past; it is a mark that will remain in my heart forever.

I also want to say to my course mates: it is really nice to know you all.

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Top Oracle Certification Gave Confidence and Maturity - Oracle Exam Dumps

The first time I heard about Oracle was at an informal Oracle training program at university. Back then, my conception of Oracle was rather shallow. I thought that it was nothing more than just writing and executing a few SQL commands and didn’t realize how short-sighted I was.

After that, I didn’t touch Oracle until I entered the workplace. I had to engage in Oracle work because of my job, making me realize how interesting and fascinating it was. I also got to know more about Oracle by teaching myself. However, being in the position I was in, I also needed to learn things like Linux, AIX and VMWare ESX and to know something about hardware, like servers and storage. This reduced my time to learn Oracle, so I only had an incomplete understanding of it. Though I didn’t have much time to practice and delve deep, I still managed to get the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) credential in 2015 based on what I had learned, bringing my study of Oracle into a new phase. I had a very confusing time after that. I wanted to study further, but I was afraid that I couldn’t keep up with the pace, because I had been teaching myself and didn’t have my own learning system. I was also taking my financial situation into account. Hesitating like that for about a year, I finally made up my mind to learn Oracle Certified Master (OCM) and to take the OCM exam.

I found an Oracle authorized Workforce Development Program (WDP) through the internet and using recommendations from my friends. At that point I just thought it was very cool and must have many talented people, but not much else. At the end of April, I was allowed to audit an Oracle class given by Teacher H. I remember that session was about performance tuning. To be honest, I had been a little worried that I couldn’t keep up with the teacher’s pace, because I didn’t have a good basic knowledge of Oracle. But Teacher H was good at making complicated things simple and getting the principles across. Every point was clearly delivered. I said this to many people: “I’ve attended quite a few Oracle classes, but Teacher H was the first one who could make things so clear.” I really wished that I had known about Teacher H earlier, because that way, I could have improved myself earlier. But it was not too late. Just as what is written in Still Life Days, "I can’t be part of your past, but I surely will not miss your future." I started working very hard, and I believed that I could learn so much from the marvelous Teacher H. I also became more confident in myself. As a result, without any hesitation, I registered for the training courses. 

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Digital Badges - Credentialing For a New Generation

This generation was born after 2000, into a rapidly expanding digital world. Many started programming in middle school, and have spent their lives in the digital arena. They do not know a world without the internet. For these candidates, perks like digital badging will no longer be seen as a major benefit of certification, it will be seen as an expected standard - a standard that will be expected to continually add layers of credentialing and benefits. 

Technology is changing fast. People are changing fast. It seems that we just got a handle on the dynamic millennial workforce, how they learn and what their expectations are as employees. Now a new generation is joining us in the employment landscape. These rapidly changing times can keep human resources professionals scrambling to keep up with technology in order to hire and retain this dynamic, talented pool of workers while staying connected with their experienced staff.

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Digital credentialing is the norm for young people who have spent their education careers learning on various digital platforms that constantly engage through awarding badges for each level of accomplishment. 

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