from the silicon angle media office in Boston Massachusetts it's the queue now here's your host David on tape hi everybody welcome to this special edition of cube insights powered by ETR this is Dave Volante and we've been running these breaking analysis segments and it's timely because oracle last night announced earnings ahead of expectations they were expected to announce today a Friday but they announced early ostensibly because Co CEO Mark Hurd is taking a leave of absence for medical reasons so of course we we wish him the best hope everything's okay with him but but but that looks like they pre announced or announced ahead of schedule in order to get that out of the way and prepare for Oracle OpenWorld Larry Ellison and Safra Catz are going to be filling in during mark heards absence but so this is a breaking analysis on Oracle's earnings I would call this you know can expect more of the same so Alex if you kind of bring up the financial overview of Oracle we'll dig into it a little bit so Oracle is a company with around 40 billion dollars in annual revenue it's growing it you know single digit growth maybe you know 1% of the top line last quarter they've got a large market cap 187 billion dollars so they consistently trade in the four and a half to 5x revenue range and they've got an outstanding margin of operating margin of 42% is very high you know their software company and very very profitable software company that is a non-gaap margin their free cash flow is also very strong they throw off about 14 12 to 14 billion dollars annually in a trailing 12-month basis in free cash flow and the other thing about Oracle I made this point many many times in the cube is Oracle spends money on R&D they spend about fifteen percent of revenue on on R&D they've got a lot of cash they got you know over thirty five thirty six billion dollars in cash and short-term investments but they of course also have a some long term debt over 50 well over fifty billion dollars in long-term debt now that doesn't bother me some people point to that as a concern but if you look at Oracle's EBIT it's many many times greater than its interest payments I think you know 3x is kind of the benchmark they're an Oracle you know whose well well over that de miel 6 7x be bit relative to its interest payment so that's really not a concern of mine but definitely is interest on the debt is oftentimes its tax deductible and so it can be a good source of capital it's cheap cheap debt and of course Oracle's got to compete with some of the cloud suppliers building out more data centers they just had an announcement in that in that regard and so it needs capital even though it you know it can't spend nearly as much as Amazon Google and Microsoft not even close it would take Oracle years and years and years to spend what what Google does in four months but but nonetheless they need cash to compete in their business Oracle's got a shifting business mix from kind of lower margin hardware you know the remnants of the Sun business and and really shifting to a higher margin cloud services and support Oracle has really gone all-in on on cloud again even though it's really it's cloud is not competitive with the hyper scalars but it's sort of the Oracle cloud the redstack cloud but in that that business is growing it's around growing at around 4% from a constant currency standpoint this past quarter it's shifting Oracle's shifting toward an annual recurring revenue model and it's license business is declining and so you saw that last quarter declined around 6% and you're seeing a major shift from on-prem to cloud with Oracle ERP cloud ERP is where the action is for Oracle and I'll show you some data on that from from ETR it's really fusion fusion ERP and NetSuite they're growing it you know combined well over 30 percent last quarter and as I say they get the news here is Mark Hurd is going on a leave of absence we got Oracle OpenWorld coming up next week and you know they're going to be talking about what we call cloud 2.0 Larry Ellison I'm sure is gonna be talking about autonomous database there's gonna be I'm sure some Exadata announcements and I'll talk a little bit more about why that's important now I want to share with you some spending intentions from ETR we've been last couple of months we've been sharing enterprise technology research data we've partnered with them to do these breaking analysis and these cube insights ETR has a panel of about 4,500 CIOs IT practitioners and they go out quarterly and do spending intention surveys and I'm showing you data now from the july 2019 survey focused on spending intention intentions for the second half of 2019 you can see the number of survey respondents was 1068 out of that 4,500 panel what this slide shows is if you look in the left-hand side you can see the the the products or the categories of spend so there's on the reading top to bottom fusion Oracle Fusion NetSuite Oracle overall and an Oracle on Prem so these are the categories some of the categories that ETR captures and what we're showing here is is the calculation of net score and I'll share with you how net score is is calculated so if you look on the left hand side you'll see the dark red that is we're leaving the platform the light red is we're gonna spend less the gray is spending as flat the dark green is we're gonna spend more and the lime green is we're adding the platform so if you take the green minus the red you get net score so let's look down as I said fusion and NetSuite are where the action is for Oracle you see the net score here is 14% for fusion 12% for NetSuite Oracle itself is 7% and Oracle on-premise minus 4 these are not great scores we shared with you just recently snowflake and its net score snowflakes and net scores you know 81 percent we shared with you some data are around UI path that's also 80 percent plus net score these are much smaller companies but they're growing very very fast and I'll share some other scores from Oracle competitors in just a moment I also want to point out the shared accounts what the shared accounts are is the number of mentions that these platforms received in within that n of 1068 so you can see the fusion and NetSuite in a relatively small at 80 and 87 but still statistically significant Oracle itself very very large you know huge install base 1329 and then Oracle on Prem at 282 so there you have it I mean this is not barn burning this to me underscores that Oracle is losing share and now and I'll show you that in context in this next slide so again same kind of format with the the net score calculation but what I've done is compared Oracle to service now workday salesforce an SI p now look at service now service now is a net score 53% with a number of shared accounts of 358 so a very large sample inside of that 10 sec 1068 I'll show you some time series at a moment service now obviously very strong company they get a valuation now that's up actually higher than workday believe or not we've talked a lot about the the CEO transition and on and on and on and we've covered the service now shows for many years but some very strong very strong install both growing their Tam it's a into new markets and so you can see their and their workday as well extremely strong now Oracle will often you know give examples of how its beating workday I think in the earnings call yesterday Ellison talked about how they beat you know workday at McDonald's you know when you peel the onion and those things oftentimes it's one division or but who knows you know it's very possible that that you know Oracle swept the floor of workday but but regardless workday is growing much much faster than Oracle it's taking share from Oracle despite you know the examples that Oracle gives Salesforce as well same with Salesforce it's growing much much faster than Oracle if you look at ServiceNow workday and Salesforce even s ap look at sa pees net score 31% which frankly we consider neutral and it's not like sa pees you know burning the bar and I they're but much much stronger than Oracle 7% net score so again I say it's some sort of more of the same Oracle its earnings are kind of mad I mean it's throws off great cashflow it's got great earnings but there's no growth there and and as a result you know people are down in the stock a little bit today and that combined with the herd news and then the stock should be down based on the earnings announcements a little bit of a disappointment or of course Oracle focus is on on the profit and today people are rewarding growth that may change and I'll talk more about that in a moment but before I do that I want to show you a time series so this is the same competitor service network day sales force s AP and Oracle all the way back to January 2017 the January 2017 survey so you can see that ETR takes these surveys in January April July and October they're just now running the the October survey so we'll have some you know up-to-date results there but you can see the net score is what I just showed you 53% 52% 44% for those leaders those growth leaders very very strong these are the share gainers s ap holding at 31% you can see Oracle down in the single digits each of these companies is actually kind of holding serve if you will but again ServiceNow workday Salesforce growing much much faster than the market growing much much faster than that Oracle so let me summarize look so again mark hard leaving a leave of absence for medical reasons Ellison Larry Ellison and Safra Catz are filling in for heard I'm sure you're gonna hear some more talk about that at Oracle OpenWorld this week Oracle's losing share in the enterprise software space despite what they tell you that's the fact they are a company around around cash flow EPS and stock buybacks that's how they're keeping the stock up it's an effective technique everybody does it Oracle make stuck in acquisitions here and there I've been very aggressive over the years and it's going hard after cloud it's an Oracle cloud it's it's it really is around their database which the Oracle remains the leader for mission-critical Database Oracle has the best database for mission-critical but it's under attack in all those non mission-critical areas with whether it's Mongo we showed you the snowflake data the other day I mean there's this dozens and dozens of database competitors that are going after Oracle at in the periphery but they remain the core leader in mission-critical database fighting it out with with with Microsoft and IBM and and others but Oracle is by far and away the leader their exadata is the key to Oracle's lock spec in our opinion because Oracle's got a fight for you know for straight database they've got to fight all these other database competitors once a once a customer decides on Exadata Oracle's Gotham and so that's why Oracle is putting so much effort into exadata I'm sure at Oracle OpenWorld this week you're gonna hear a lot about exadata and autonomous and all kinds of stuff that they're doing at exadata and try to make it a an increasingly competitive platform Orgel also has a very strong apps business and that's really the linchpin to its it's cloud its cloud in our view is not even closely competitive with with the cloud infrastructure at Amazon Google and Microsoft and those companies spend much much more on capex they have you know a much greater infrastructure as a service Microsoft's in Microsoft's case got very strong software estate at applications business Google a massive scale so from a just a cloud infrastructure standpoint you know really Oracle is is playing catch-up just like IBM is and probably will never catch up or go over all again it's sort of a story of man more the same until the market sentiment shifts toward cash flow and earnings its stock is in my view is gonna trade inside a range I'm not a stock picker I don't make stock recommendations but I'm you know kind of a fundamental analysis and observer you know I just don't see that that stock breaking out there's really no growth story there and the markets rewarding growth now if and when the market does turn down let's say there's a recession people will reward companies like Oracle you have the cash who can you know do the buybacks or companies that pay dividends and so Oracle holding serve making a lot of right moves you know Larry Ellison is you know leading the ship obviously a very smart person don't bet against that individual fact is they're losing share but at the same time they're running a playbook that's working and it's working from the standpoint of EPs and cashflow and I think that story is going to continue so they have it that's our analysis thanks for watching everybody we'll see you next time this is Dave wante with cube insights powered by ETR

>> System partners. Lie from Barcelona, Spain. It's the cue covering Sisqo Live Europe, brought to you by Cisco and its ecosystem partners. >> Hello and welcome Back to the Cubes Live coverage Day two of three days of wall to wall coverage here in Europe in Barcelona, Spain. Francisco Live twenty nineteen I'm John Career with Dave. A long takes too many man hosting great loaded interviews this week here. Francisco live guys kicking off day to day one was all the big announcement Cisco putting in all the announcement's really is setting in and the messaging coming together, the product portfolios filling out. Clearly, Cisco is adopting and path to the cloud, taking their data center business, securing that bring that data center into the cloud kind of hybrid multi cloud, big messes around multi cloud and then under the hood data center traffic patterns, air changing. Its not a ribbon replaces extension to the environment. Cisco's intent based networking plus Cloud plus Cloud center management. A lot of stuff we discussed that yesterday, but I want your take. Is Cisco's positioning viable? And what does it mean, Visa VI? The competition, because Cisco is a blue chip tech player, certainly have zillions of customers very relevant. This is a huge impact. How their position themselves do. >> Yeah, so So John Roemer a few years ago we were saying, Hyper clouds going Teo hybrid. The hyper scale clouds, the public loud provide you going to take over the world and boy Cisco's in trouble because if a third or half of the market all of a sudden evaporate from them, those enterprise buyers of switches and routers and everything else like that, Cisco is doomed. Well, you know, we listen to the keynote yesterday and Cisco's talking about all of their solutions anywhere. And when you go through the ecosystem of Public Cloud hybrid Cloud multi Cloud, say this Cisco have a play there, and the answer is absolutely, you know, it's not just the you know, after empty acquisition, which has software in a ws. But, you know, S t win is going to be a critical component to get from my data centers to the public clouds on DH. Cisco has software and solutions and consulting TTO help customers in all of these environment. So we always know that there's partnerships and there's competition. There's a lot of players out there, but you know, it was good to see them. You know, talking. You know a lot about what they're doing with Cooper Netease with Amazon because you can't talk about cloud either public cloud or multi cloud without first talking about Amazon. Last year we were a little critical John and said, OK, Google's great, but Google's number three or four. So you've got to be there was Amazon got to be there with Microsoft and certified that we've already interviewed a couple of service writers always been a strength for Sisko to be in there on. So, you know, good positioning. Well, you know, we talked yesterday a bunch about the bridge to possible on where to go. But the more I think about that anywhere is what Cisco's branded everything. And that's when when you talk multicolored multi clouds, really a whole bunch of clouds and a whole bunch of things. And therefore I need a player that's going to help give me coverage in all of these environment and Cisco's making a strong case to be >> there. And Dave. So I mean Stew's, right? A couple years ago, we were critical of Cisco and I think rightfully so. I think the whole industry looked at them as not in the middle of the fairway and certainly the recovery shot. Francisco is really strong because a lot changed. Go back a few years. They didn't have a good ecosystem for developers. They didn't have a good open source position. They kind of work, you know. Do I go up to stack or not? But they had the court networking, so there's a lot of people are saying, Hey, if Cisco doesn't make a move, they're doomed. We were one of them, so lots changed. You seeing the adoption of micro services containers, AP eyes the growth of definite That Suzy we has initiated is clear proof in my opinion. Then you've got the data center guys saying, Hey, what could take networking and and take this and enable clouds. So Cisco, making good moves, put themselves in pole position for growth? >> Well, I think the first point is if you roll back ten years ago, we've not Francisco. We were critical. What? All of it. It was clear to us that cloud was going to be where all the growth wass and if you didn't have a public cloud, you are going to be in trouble unless you developed a cloud strategy. So certainly Cisco de Liam see now you know William c. V. M. Where none of them really owned a public cloud strategy. And five years ago, they had to figure it out. Well, they've figured out that actually, managing multi clouds is a great opportunity. And so Francisco's got a viable strategy. Networks between clouds are going to flatten their going to need management specifically as it relates to Cisco and maybe their competition. They have TTo position themselves as R multi cloud management system is higher performance and more secure than the competition. That's what they have to sell their customers on. And the second piece of that is they got a transition from selling ports to selling software on there, making that transition. So I like their strategy, By the way, I also like VM wear strategy. They capitulated to a ws and now they're tight with a w s. IBM went out, paid two million dollars for soft layer, so they've got a cloud strategy. Oracles got a cloud strategy. Microsoft got a great cloud stress. So if you go through and >> tickle at the hole and they have clouds, so let's let's just understand something. There's clouds and then clouds strategies. Right? So thirty >> four billion dollars that IBM paying for Red Hat is giving them a multi cloud strategy. More than just saying, we have a bunch of data centers in their medals. But it >> was both, maybe not so much in the public cloud, right? I would say I would argue that their public cloud has failed to meet their expectations. That's funnel cloud IBM. And that's why they had to pay thirty four billion dollars for for Red Hat, I would say just the opposite about Microsoft. Their public cloud strategy has been an enormous success, and they're very well positioned for multi cloud. >> Okay, so let's just put on the table. So Cisco looks at the public cloud as partners, not competitors. So Amazon Azure Google aren't competing with Cisco. There are there ways or they're partnering. We'll we'll come understand. Competition is all about understanding, Absolutely as a cloud. So I would say Cisco's strategy to partner just like he did, just like everyone else. And l did. That's the competitive, not cloud So. Or maybe this is the question. Are the public clouds competitive to Sisko >> that their frenemies John? Uh, >> you know, the answer's. Yes, there's no question about this. They're growing at twenty, thirty, forty percent a year. Francisco and IBM, HP. They're growing it, you know, much lower. So single digits. If that's >> so such on, we know if Amazon if there is a profitable space that they can offer competitive service, they will. You know, security. You said Cisco's got a great position Security, both what they've had for a long time, and they've done acquisitions like duo. More recently on DH, you know, we've seen lots of pieces of the public cloud ecosystem that Cisco's bought over the last few years. Clicker was one on one we spent some time talking about, but absolutely, you know, Amazon goes after some of those pieces, so they're gonna partner Cisco's Got it. Last I checked it at least three dozen products in the eight of us marketplace. But you know it is. They can live there, but there will be competition. So >> this girl's got some huge assets in this game. They've got eight hundred thousand plus customers. They, you know, sixty percent of the networking market, so they own the install base. It's really the only market that you can think of that's a major market where they're the dominant player still owns, you know, sixty percent of market never just go for >> networking, and VM wear for the hyper visor are very similar. In that case, Dave and both have now have a similar strategy as to how they're going. >> That's the most interesting competitive dynamic, in my view, is V M wearing this acquisition of Nice era and obviously, Cisco. Cisco is not going to take this lying down. They've got a C. I A and no, they claim number one. They didn't say whose data that was I was looking squinting for is that I D C. Guard divorce her. But, >> well, let's talk about growth because you know how I always complain about market. Researchers aren't on the mark in terms of the reality of where the market is, So you mentioned growth. So are we. If we're early on cloud growth and that's where the growth is, what is the cloud adoption going to look like over the next ten to twenty years? Is it going to look more like public Cloud or is going to look more like on premises evolving to cloud operations And if the growth of cloud operations is all things wide area Network mentioned the wind, then there's more growth coming. So that's the case. Is Sisko going to be able to capture that growth for the future? >> Well, I mean, in terms of growth, I think eight of us is on its way to being a one hundred billion dollars revenue company, and that's pretty impressive given where they are today. I mean, they're gonna triple in revenue, so that's that's where the growth is. So now Cisco's already participating in a huge TAM. What they've got to do is hold on to that business and identify new opportunities where they could manage multi cloud instances and compete effectively with V M. Where who's coming at it from the hyper visor? And now, they said yesterday, trying to do to networks in storage what it did for systems and then IBM Red hat coming out. It really, from the applications perspective and with the services view Microsoft with a foot in both camps, You got Oracle in its little niche. Just really interest. >> We got an install a base that's moving to the cloud. You got net new company they're going to be started might have on premise. Orgel Full Cloud. This is the question that everyone's going to ask. I think Cisco can take their existing base with moving packets from Point A to Point B and storing and making datum or intelligence moving Date around is a big networking phenomenon. >> Here's the question. Here's a question, Andy Jassy would say. We believe they're going to be far fewer data centers in the future that most data is going to live in the public lounge. The likes of Michael Dell, Yeah, Charles Robbins, et cetera. I think they see the world is a hybrid world, right? That there's going to be Mohr data that's in a hybrid on Prem Plus Cloud, then is going to be in the >> public. You know, I love Andy Jazzy, but I'll just say first of all I understand is bias in his perspective. And I think he's right at one level. Why wouldn't Amazon see people moving data centers to the flower? I get that I say that it's going to be in the networks. That's where the action will be. Where are the networks of the networks? In the cloud of the networks on premise. Are the networks on a phone? I OT So if coyote and edge coming together, it's all one network. Yeah, you're gonna have The value is going to be in the network. Not necessarily. The clouds we say or is shared values. >> Yeah. I mean, you talk about EJ computing and Io ti. Cisco's got muraki, which is growing strong. SD LAN is a critical component for this multi cloud piece. There really posed toe, you know, drive this next generation of five G not something we've dug into a lot yet, but, you know, it is finally coming, you know, really soon here. And Cisco has a lot of those pieces to be able to hit the next. >> It always went back to the data, in my opinion, and the leverage points for data are Saso. Yeah, if your own the applications business, you're doing well there, You're in a good position. All the data's running over Cisco Networks, so that puts them in A in a really good position. And and as we know the likes of a Ws and Microsoft Alibaba senator, they're trying to get as much data into their clouds as possible. >> And what I loved yesterday in the keynote is data was actually one of the central components that they talked about, which the Cisco I know of ten or twenty years ago. I was just bitch that ran over our pipes. So they understand the value of data. And they're driving to that mark. >> Well, we've been saying on the Cube now for nine years days at the center of the value proposition Data at the Centre Data Center. Value proposition. This is actually happening. It's really going way. See? A lot of growth and cloud, Dave. Good commentaries do. Well done. We have Sergeant Gupta, one of the bank. All the leaders coming on the Cube here. Francisco breakdown. I'm gonna ask him the tough questions. Stay with us for day two. Coverage here in the Cube live in Barcelona for a stupid him in David want breaking down all the action. We'll be right back with more after this short break

>>live from San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise. It's the cues covering Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Brought to you by Oracle. How your hosts, John Courier and Jeff Rick Wait, >>We are here. Live in Howard's treated oracle. OpenWorld for Silicon Angles, The Cube Exclusive coverage Star flagship program. We go out to the events extract the cinnamon noise. I'm John Kerry, the founder of Silicon, and Brian gracefully lead analyst on all the cloud and all the infrastructure stuff going on here. Next guess is Jeffrey Davis, Principal Gore, Oracle, global leader for Deloitte and Touche. Legend in the industry. I've been covering Oracle for a long time. Good to see you, John Bryan allegedly knew she had to get that in there. Love that. You know you guys are. The service's angle has been something that the service's business is. It's been changing radically. Now more than ever with clouds. I really want to get your take because you are an executive looking at this transformation of cloud. But the Lloyd across all the Oracle customer base, your party with customers. So you're the front lines. I gotta ask you straight up. What is the number one thing customers are looking at right now that you partner with four Cloud to figure it out. Is it a migration? All the above, And what do you think about that? So when customers are evaluating the cloud or our clients are looking at the club, you really focus on three things. One is agility. Thea other one is time and the other one is valued. So how quickly can we adopt to the changing environment? How quickly can we leverage technologies like clouds in order to be able to respond to our customers, to adapt to the changing needs of our employees, to embrace our business strategy in a new and innovative way? So I said legend, you know, talk about the eighties for women on camera. That's important point I want to bring up. Is that Is that the old way? Big growth of client server was around software middleware right year BC around you name it that created huge consultancies like Lloyd, you participated in that create a lot of wealth creation for the customers, create value, right, but their cycles were long in the deal. That'll be about 12 13 years now, months and almost a year or two, there were all these big deployments. Now the cloud is accelerating when you compare and contrast time of then share. And now with the cloud Just how much the deployments change the software, the organizations, How you guys operate a new way to do that job well, and we're all responding to the market, right? While responding to customers needs Cloud didn't come about because of technology in it of itself. But we're really all in this ecosystem responding to our customers must customers a really demanding from us is there demanding agility and speed. As I said before, if you take a look at the way we used to do things, basically you had a a large capital investment on the part of the customers. They went, they bought the software, they bought the hardware, they had to hire the expertise of an advantage, mail the eggs, and you're looking at a transformation for them that could take anywhere from 12 to 24 months or longer before they would get time to value. And, you know, these projects didn't go as planned. No, that's this is Yeah, I know the change orders came in paid more cash on DSO. We all got a really bad reputation because of the high costs in a long time to value and even if value was ever realized in some cases, now we take a look at the environment and what the cloud enables us to do is move in a much faster pace. Way used to have what we call a waterfall approach to design and implementation went into a big room and you talked about the world and I never ran that way. And then you put it into the system and then people never really embraced it, because when it came out, it didn't look like anything they thought they were gonna get. This is completely different with cloud. Now you can take an agile approach. Now you can sit and listen to the customer demands very quickly respond to what they think they need, where they really generate value. And then you can focus on those things and very quickly there, in a design session with you And at the end of the day, >>changed management is much easier because they've been a part of the process and also, you know, looking at 90 days sprints. You're looking at things that are done. You know, in >>six months, six months, time to value that can give you compress a competitive advantage. You know, that could help you retain Maur employees or customers. So it's really some timetable. Met Lavery s V p of the Cloud Gru. Gru Integration was saying they were doing provisioning on in 24 minutes. Multiple deployments like like nobody's business. What has them in the timetable that you're seeing for some of these times of value, horizons means hurdles. These milestones said days, weeks, months, hours, minutes. I mean, when you go to a customer base where their expectations of what you guys deliver, there's some insight there. Some of it depends on the environment. So remember they're still clients. We have local customers that are in a highly regulated industry or have a very complex prisons process. Those are gonna take a longer there is they're gonna take in. Technology is not necessarily on the critical path. But when you look at those other areas that frankly, you don't differentiate yourself very much or speed with a solution concave you a competitive advantage. You know, you're looking at a client expectations of anywhere from 90 days, you know, to six months, you know, manager here, very manager, but aggressive. Visa VI the old way. Well, certainly, And the other piece that we're not really talking about is, you know, it's not enough for us to put the technology out there. It's also got to be used and adopted. You know, when you had those large transformations. It's very hard for an organization to absorb all of that change. Now we're looking at the fine entry point that you could get with clouds with that fine entry point. Now we can sub select areas with greatest impact, but we're not changing the entire organization. >>Mark Hurd has the C I. O. G. On this morning and one of the comments that he made. I've heard this a number of times over the last 12 18 months. He essentially said, I have a ton of undifferentiated applications now. They're things that that Oracle thinks are fantastic. HCM and C. R. M and Air P. But in essence, everybody has those. Every business has those very undifferentiated, but they're complicated. What? You Seymour, you see more people saying you know what take those. Help me migrate those into SAS applications, you know, save costs. Where do you see more saying, You know what? Give me the other 20%. The ones that drive business differentiation, ones that are new cloud native applications. What do you see in your mix? What's pushing your customers >>to push you? You know, it depends on the geography, and it depends on the industry and some other things. If you want to talk about North America, which tends to be one of the largest markets in the world, if not the largest market in the world, when you're looking in North America, really people have gone through a lot of the major ear piece. Remember the earlier conversation? You know, they have suffered through tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, and their boards were not satisfied that they got the results of the expected. Now, when you take a look at what's happening, you know, people are now being much more strategic in their investments, much more prescriptive there. Look how they spent exactly, because now the boards have different expectations. They've already gone and spent all that money on technology. They can't go back to the board. Can't say we need to redo this. What they do are willing to fund is you want to get into a new business. If you want to spin something off, you need to stand it up right away. If a customer you know, provide you a new opportunity, you want to shift to that new opportunity. Really? Well, technology is the basis of a lot of this transformation. So Cloud provides that opportunity and it's modest investment with really quick, high value. It's a great point >>you look at I t In the past decades prior to this evolution, we're seeing the cloud consolidate, consolidate, consolidate, right? I don't know the well again. I just went to the well, apparently running, you know, whatever the model was there. But now they're under a lot of pressure to drive top line revenue. Absolute. Now, the top line revenue equations, a completely different mindset. You have to go out and oh, cut the market. You gotta use a shadow I t or your authorized go out. Do legitimate stand up new platforms are Can you give me an example of that? We're seeing more of that now. A clear Mandate. Cee Io's Go take a New Hill or let's consolidate these apt and reposition for this new use case, which is not. That's experiment, but it's certainly a new market opportunity, and they gotta do their due diligence, so it's almost unparalleled. Due diligence kills your waterfall. That's one doesn't talk about that dynamic. Where examples you give go. Take that new top line revenue driver. So you know that there are customers that are looking at new partnerships in the marketplace, and those new partnerships have dynamic new business models. You know, it's not like opening up another hamburger stand. You know, they're not necessarily expanding into our core business. They're really looking at ways to amplify growth. If you're gonna take that as a strategic position, then you know customer or client of ours would focus on, you know, let's take this innovation the market. We don't want to invest a lot in it, waste a lot of time and lose the competitive advantage. Let's >>get to market first. Let's provide a new product or service to the market where we can move very quickly, and then the >>net result is we can see the benefits right away. And if it isn't way, haven't sunk a lot of time and money and something that's not necessarily gonna have the same values. We just had Shawn Price on. And I'm gonna ask this because it's a lemon that you're in because you're part of the customer right here, the strategic partner of the customer. So that idea top line revenue growth could come from a partner. When I see How do you work in that? Quick, You're cool to work with my Aunt VI's. Bring that into the table. You're absolutely so this market is changing. You know, Cloud clearly changes everything and much more so than some of the things we've seen in the past. And so now we need to position ourselves differently now for the Deloitte Business Model way. We're really in a specialized business of focusing highly on value and value creation. We weren't necessarily in other areas and we have different partnerships now. Those partnerships are shifting. Oracle provides us a complete platform. You know, we don't >>have to really get involved in a lot of the aspects of the platform that, frankly, we're in our core competency and frankly, weren't our clients what >>you talked about that customer interaction? What do you have to do to change what we've seen? Different size, trying different approaches? We've seen some that are partnering with cloud Provider, but they want to be their own flat for acquiring them. What changes in terms of the skills you have to hire the way you expect that interaction toe happen between you and customer. Because to a certain extent, like for developers, developers love self service. They do. You know, they they are shadow I because they're driving What changes in your world for that? >>So this is really kind of an interesting question. Very early on, when Oracle made cloud product available >>in HCM, we saw an opportunity. Our clients had the demand because they wanted to create a more sticky environment from customers. What better >>way than providing them better products in the HCM space? We made major investments there. Now we're a leader in HCM, and if I look back over that experience, what do we do differently? First of all, we had to change our mindset. You know, it's not enough just to say the cloud, but you gotta live the cloud because it truly is more agile. It truly is faster. You can take your old methods and tools and approaches all the things that worked for you before. A lot of them don't work anymore. There's some but some really good winds here, especially in the change management side. Also, you know, we'd have clients that had to kind of do it yourself brain surgery that have to order their own hardware that have provisional themselves. You know, that became a real mess. Now we're looking at something that's a lot different. We're not in that business anymore. You know, we do support on Prem where our clients think it's important and strategic course. But now we've got a new, agile methodology. Now we've trained our workforce. We've got 14,500 professionals around the world. We've had to move that group, and Oracle really helped us do that. They've been very collaborative in sharing I p and sharing methods and tools with us so we can make that adjustment. Not only have we had to change that when you think about our other methodologies, all of our other methodology to create value to change management, they were all thoroughly integrated. We've had to rethink those, but it's been a great story because we could go to the client. We can say we can get you there faster because where technology was a barrier world, >>it was on the critical path. We're now changing that. And by the way, this technology is not your old technology. It's much better. It's much more robust. How >>do you you know, obviously we're here It at an oracle OpenWorld. It could be called Oracle Cloud >>World if we really wanted to. I mean, >>it's a lot of it is the red stack. A lot of it is one cloud. How do you manage that against customers saying, Well, look, there's other options as well. I wanna have the ability to leverage this cloud for something. Oracles cloud for certain things. How do you do? You find your customers want multiple clouds or one cloud is good enough? >>Well, we're all teaching right? We're all teaching the world about God because you know there's still people that look at it in a variety of different ways. I think it's an excellent question, so let's think about this. >>Do you want to be your own systems integrator for your smartphone. You want to go by an operating system? Do you want to go buy a separate peace of heart? Where do you >>want to decide what APS fit? What don't. And do you want to actually try to get those abs together? I don't think we want to do that anymore. And I try to use that as an example for my clients. Tell them. Look, let's not be your own systems integrator. You is a iittie executive. You could be an officer toe, help the organization get to their business goals. You know, you're not in another yourself a business objective, but you could be an agent for change. I try to educate them so they can help their colleagues explain cloud, take the fear out and then show the art of the possible. What about the security model? I mean, I wouldn't get your take on you little bit biased because your manager Oracle really? But what would be global, critical or complementary events? How you feel about it? But the intense security message is really a game changer in my mind. Follows on incredible theory. Incredible application. Certainly the product's gonna be ready soon. If it works, it's like a car that does the key turnover. It's like it's all good on paper. Certainly a game changer. Security outside number One thing you're hearing Get some color to that because, you know, if that plays out, if you believe that end N security on the chips and software Silicon plays out the way they say it would, that's gonna change the game. For sure. It is. So none of us and you can go through a week without hearing about a major security breach. When you think about this, you step back and think about the potential here. Our stuff is starting to talkto our stuff. But our stuff isn't unless it's based on. Oracle isn't all thoroughly integrated, so somebody can break into our stuff and they can get access to our lives and they can change our lives. That's hugely powerful. So we are very concerned about security, and Lloyd is one of the largest organizations. In fact, we have a cyber practice that looks at both Proactiv reactive aspects of security. Here's the big concern we have as all this stuff starts, get interconnected. The Internet of things, security becomes a major issue. We need more breakthroughs and security. And I think oracles on the vanguard certainly as we get into what we call a hyper hybrid cloud on Prem on Cloud. Some of that's gonna be a great emotion is no. Perimeter is nothing either. Protect is the Wild West total while and, you know, despite what you believe, boards and people are not reacting fast enough to security threats. And that's why you're seeing these breaches into my knowledge. I don't think anybody has been breached with Orgel security in place. But that said, you have to be really, But still, they probably would get out. There's not that they're hiding it, but the point is, you need to be united engine system. It's hard to do that in a open source world, right? So you have a horizontally scaled open source phenomenon, and it's growing our market and a vertically integrated product requirement. You believe I want Indian security, then you gonna go vertically integrated. You do purpose built. But if you want scale a 1,000,000,000 large scale a k a cloud, you want horizontally scalable. How do you reconcile that with your customers? Well, you know so again. It's difficult for them because unless you've had a security threat, it's very difficult to really get them to take the initiative. You know, the more that we can build security in, the more that it's covered in the Red Sea. More that we get a comprehensive end to end product. I think it allows us to help the client realize you know the risk and help them. The old Fowler said. In The Cube they had they had this done in 2005. Finally took a bunch of security breaches to get people's attention to your point. It's on everyone's agenda. Number one right it is. And yet you know how much is enough? Well, we find the people are too reactive and not not proactive enough. >>What's the What's the temperature of your customers right now? I mean, you know, Tesla's out, they're disrupting Uber's out. Their Airbnb are they? Are they sort of defensive and paranoid? You know that Andy Grove, always trying to be aggressive with a saying No, no, no, no. I'm not letting these little guys into my market. I'm gonna go be aggressive and try and push back what a general feeling. There's a lot of interesting startup disruption going on really changing industry. >>There is, and you know, there's so many sort of partnerships and alliances, mergers and new innovations. You know, right now, clients are very uncomfortable. Just the transition from on Prem to Cloud is a major change in our clients have been the expert for technology for decades for their organization. They are having trouble keeping up with all of it. It can be disruptive. They're looking at what's unique in their industry. You know what is regulation driving? You know what is innovation driving in their industry? But, you know, they're always on the learning curve. They're always trying to figure out if we want to get your final thought wrapping up here to get your take for the folks that are watching here on camera that couldn't make it here were beloved world. What is this show about it? We've been here six years. You've seen that transformation. About four years ago, Larry looked like a deer in the headlights, almost stuck in his tracks and smoke coming out of his ears like he felt that the scene felt like a pivotal moment couple years ago. And then since then, just been every year. Oracle just gets more and more energy, just like dominated that march of the crowd. Almost like four years ago. Like we're gonna win that. What's your vibe? You see that same thing here and shared some color on the take is over the years, and we've been doing this a lot in various forms Over the years. There's been the promise of riel innovation. There's been the promise, real change in the industry. We saw sort of incremental change. We really see increments. Exponential change now and now. The promises fulfilled. We have real product. We're taking the market. We're doing interesting product, right? Israel product. It's very riel, and we have work to be done. But yeah, really studies and customers? Well, it's an evolution. But this is really sort of an epiphany at the moment, because we've never had, >>you know, full sweets of product in the marketplace. Not right now. I don't know that there are any other large you know. Air Pia options in the clouds away there is for Oracle and look at the host of service is that have been announced over the last year. >>This this particular show for us, you know, really isn't accelerating. All these products and service is in the cloud that are now available. They give us a lot of different options that we never had. A great quote. Put that on a cube. Jim. Thanks for joining Us. Way are here live in San Francisco's Howard Street for the Cube Special. Exclusive coverage of Oracle OpenWorld Q. Be right back with more of this short break. Thanks for watching.