It's becoming more and more common to see a tipping point where companies start to move away from buying a new software application for each unique business requirement. Helping to drive this change is the availability of a complete suite of cloud solutions for the back office-specifically, the Oracle Cloud Applications portfolio of solutions for finance, HR, and supply chain.

Oracle Cloud Applications are built on a common data model, and they're designed to work together seamlessly. You can move all of your critical business processes to Oracle Cloud, and standardize and simplify your business at the same time, with fewer systems and integrations. This not only limits the number of vendors, software companies, and staff required to support your application portfolio-it provides additional benefits like greater visibility into your operations, cost savings, and efficiency gains. Let's look at five examples.