Global digital document and printing firmXeroxhas partnered with cloud computing and software companyOracle允许出生于Xerox内部的新企业推出和更快地获利其服务。
By choosing Oracle’s integrated set of Oracle Cloud software offerings, new Xerox businesses can sell online, create orders, process invoices, track performance and carry out financial planning within weeks, as opposed to several months. For Xerox’s 3D printing business, the team was able to stand up the IT infrastructure needed in just six weeks to “transact right out of the gate”, and can now use this as a template to future ventures.
“We’re able to operate in a very nimble way, where we can spin up a new business in just a few weeks, all without switching to a different platform,” said Naresh Shanker, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Xerox. “That’s the beauty of the Oracle Cloud solution.”
Xerox’s increasing interest in 3D
历史上以2D而不是3D打印交易，Xerox宣布了其打算开发的意图roadmap to “participate” in 3D printingback in 2018. Shortly after, the firmacquired liquid metal jet 3D printer制造商VADER系统和made its Formnext debut in 2019在展览中有很大的存在。
自那以后的两年中，施乐一直将其扩展到3D打印，并排队和eventually scrappeda投机性270亿美元出价for multinational printing firm生命值，并将Vader System的技术纳入其第一台打印机Elemx。Elemx目前正在美国进行测试Naval Postgraduate Schoolaspart of a research partnership探索3D打印的潜力，以改变军方如何提供其部署部队。
Most recently, Xerox continued its foray into the additive manufacturing space through领导最近的350万美元种子资金回合用于3D打印软件开发人员蓖麻。通过其投资，施乐可能会关注专业市场，而公司的持续关系可以瞥见施乐的扩张下一步。
The “Oracle-in-a-box” approach
据报道，在与Oracle建立合作伙伴关系之前，Xerox花了长达三个月的时间才能实施支持新业务所需的IT系统。为了加快这一过程，该公司开始审查基于云的系统，这些系统将使出生于Xerox内的新业务更快地启动和商业化其服务。
该公司定居Oracle的集成云方法，该方法旨在为企业提供他们启动和运行所需的一切。“ Oracle-In-A-Box”云基础架构产品包括Oracle商业，金融和会计在Oracle Netsuite，Oracle Fusion Cloud Cloud Enterprise Enterprise绩效管理（EPM）的在线店面，以及通过Oracle Integration的集成能力。
这些产品都包含在Oracle Cloud基础架构（OCI）中，该产品还使Xerox访问该公司的Oracle Autonomous数据库，Oracle自主数据库是一家企业数字仓库，使新业务能够在没有管理员和运行高级分析的情况下管理其数据。此外，在研究新业务时，施乐将能够利用Oracle的OCI高性能计算。
“We wanted to keep these solutions all in the family, so to speak. This avoids the headaches of too many vendors and platforms,” said Sreedhar Vaidyanathan, Vice President of Digital Transformation at Xerox. “Oracle’s solutions make it simple for our new businesses to roll up to the mother ship and vice versa. It’s easy to track performance.”
利用Oracle的软件，Xerox能够在短短六个星期内就其3D打印业务站立IT基础架构。Vaidyanathan说，通过自动化诸如采购付款和报价到现金之类的流程，3D打印团队“获得了直接交易的能力”。
他说：“没有等待发票并开始收取收入的等待，我们能够根据需要扩大规模。”“我们可以为任何新事业复制此过程。每次启动时，我们都不必实现不同的平台。我们可以在引擎盖下查看每个企业的表现。他们的财务状况如何？他们是否合规？我们有清晰的视线。
“因为我们是一家创新的公司，所以上市速度非常重要。Oracle Cloud Innovations允许我们在没有大量自定义的情况下运行地面运行。”
施乐公司最近推出的软件商业Carear已经由Oracle的Integrated Toolset提供动力，该工具集使现场技术人员能够远程工作，以帮助客户更快地解决问题并跳过昂贵的现场访问。
“[Oracle] has come up with a lot of creative ideas to keep things moving forward,” Vaidyanathan added. “They’ve been instrumental in our journey. If someone has a greenlighted idea, they can come to us today and tomorrow we’ll give them the basic toolset. With Oracle, there’s a complete package that any new business can run with.”
Oracleis also powering the HR, customer experience, financial services, and supply chain management of other 3D printing companies with its technology, with 3D printer OEMCarbon有在2017年整合了Oracle Cloud。Oraclealso has持续的伙伴关系with the likes of geometric deep learning specialistPhysna, among other players.
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特色图显示了Xerox Elemx液体金属3D打印机。通过Xerox的照片。
