ASSESSMENT:

Directions: Answer the following questions below. For the submission of this
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1. Locate a company that you know and contact the IT manager and the HR
manager.
Ø The company is Dropbox Inc.

2. Find out what ERP or enterprise architecture they have in their company.
Ø Dropbox uses Oracle Cloud ERP as part of Oracle E-Business Suite
which has a three-tier ERP architecture.

3. Find out how the architecture helped them in the ERP implementation.
Ø During the pandemic, Dropbox slashed processing costs by 80% with
Oracle Cloud, eliminating manual tasks and helping to capitalize on the
work-from-home shift.

4. Does this ERP implementation support Web integration and SOA?

Ø Oracle Cloud ERP supports both Web integration and SOA.

5. Write a one-page summary and include a diagram or figure of their

architecture.
Ø “We needed a solution with built-in machine learning that integrated
with our ERP, eliminated complexity, and simplified application
development,” said Vikram Singhvi, Head of Enterprise Applications at
Dropbox. “Running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure means we close our
accounts receivable process four times faster.”
 Oracle Cloud ERP’s three-tier architecture

Founded in 2007, Dropbox develops smart content and collaboration

products used by 600 million people across 180 countries. With
demand for its distributed work solutions growing rapidly, Dropbox
wanted a unified solution that could automate and cleanse the
financial data coming from high volumes of monthly transactions.
Next, it wanted to deliver that information quickly so that its finance
teams could analyze and guide current and future resource allocation
decisions.

To scale the business rapidly while minimizing cost and risk, Dropbox
embraced automation—using “touchless transactions” across all
finance operations wherever possible, setting a goal of eliminating
20,000 hours in manual labor by the end of 2020.

An early adopter of Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud EPM in 2017
and Oracle Cloud Risk Management in 2019, Dropbox recently
expanded its footprint to include Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle
Integration Cloud, Oracle Database Cloud, and Oracle Autonomous
Data Warehouse to turbocharge its financial processes, including
consolidating invoices and automating data delivery to Oracle Cloud
ERP.

As a result of using Oracle Cloud ERP, Dropbox has cut its financial
period close in half and its accounts receivable period close from four
days to one. Oracle Cloud Risk Management helps the company
automate user access controls to ensure segregation of duties (SOD)
compliance worldwide for all business units.