1. Asian banks are moving aggressively to offer new cloud solutions, creating proactive and personalized customer
experiences by establishing essential infrastructure and services in the Asia-Pacific region in Japan and Singapore.
Oracle’s Enhanced Customer Data Centers in Asia
2013 will bring more movement for data centers as hardware vendors work to round out their converged data
center offerings via continued M&A activity. “We are dedicated to simplifying IT, so customers can focus on
driving business innovation,” said Oracle President Mark Hurd. More than 25 million users and more than 10,000
organizations use Oracle Cloud worldwide each day.
Worldwide revenues from cloud infrastructure services reached US$12.5 billion in Q4 2012 and US$47.2 billion
for the full year. Synergy data showed regional spending on IaaS and PaaS passed the US$1 billion mark in 2012,
having grown by 55 percent from 2011. Oracle’s shares plunged nearly 10 percent on March 21 after its fiscal Q3
results released late the day earlier missed Wall Street expectations and company outlook. IBD reported that Oracle
executives mostly blamed poor sales execution for the miss. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1 percent
on April 8. By the end of trading, Oracle Corporation rose 33 cents (1 percent) to $32.36 on light volume. The stock
ranges in price between $31.90 and $32.36.
Banks direct relationships are accurate to better understand their customers through big data. Even more so that
they are typically more advanced vs other industry sectors. Good Innovation Models can come about in analyzing
customer experience, customer behavior; which for a bank can reach across millions of their direct consumers
through its channels of Mobile banking, ATMs, call centers, corporate websites and retail branches. This all has
the ability to detect triggers in internal problem areas for banks which there analytics can lead to new model
implementations, customer profitability.
Investors should also continue to watch evolving trends and big data growth returns of a company’s new products
and technologies. There are also huge opportunities in re-writing client-server applications to run on cloud stacks
and, in building and managing, a new class of smaller, cloud-compatible data centers.