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Fivetran CEO George Fraser and Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman sat with Data Cloud Now to discuss what they’re hearing from customers in their joint interview.

Your business needs actionable insights from your Oracle ERP data to respond to volatile market conditions and outpace your competition. But generating custom reports requires deep technical knowledge and the process is often managed by IT. The process can often take weeks, if not months, and, in many cases, the report or dashboard is limited to a single use case and applicable only to a single business unit or user – often only the requester.

Switching to a modern ERP software system affords many benefits, including increased efficiency, improved accuracy, and better control over your company’s finances. It is also an excellent opportunity to revisit many of the business processes that sit outside of your core ERP system. As you set out to improve your financial and operational procedures, you have an opportunity to rethink the way you perform tax planning, transfer pricing, budgeting, reporting, and analytics.

In government agencies around the world, large enterprise legacy systems are what stand in the way of desperately needed modernization programs. Such legacy systems can be large enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations or custom-built applications using complex codebases. Simply put, they are not supportable, upgradable, and do not provide the rich user experience customers have become accustomed to.