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its HR policies immediately .
It did away with the tiresome and mostly ineffective annual personnel reviews process , substituting the new capabilities of Oracle HCM Cloud to give employees ongoing feedback and coaching , raising productivity and morale .
Remember , the cost savings are a use-it-or-lose-it proposition . Companies should therefore use cloud computing to facilitate broader strategic goals , such as to improve employee performance and analyze data to improve decisionmaking capabilities . And they should measure those benefits .
Don ’ t outsource a mess to the cloud . Many customizations to existing applications have merely codified practices built up over decades , based on the perceived needs of small elements of the organization . It ’ s important to identify and eliminate anachronistic processes before moving to the cloud . Just as traditional IT outsourcing failed to produce significant savings if the customer ’ s internal processes were inadequate , the same holds true for moving on-
premises IT to the cloud .
The cloud should be the impetus to clean up islands of information and gobs of data in a variety of incompatible models and formats .
Change your business — not incrementally , but at the foundation — while the getting is still good :
Too often , companies make
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