It’s difficult to find an executive in any company that does not have a strategy based on their data somewhere on their list of priorities. Data management touches several important areas including security, customer engagement, innovation, new business models and digital transformation.

At the bottom of the stack is the venerable workhorse serving up the answers the business needs: the enterprise database. How exactly will its role and function change as more companies put services in the cloud? We spoke to several South African information executives at a recent Axiz Oracle CITO Forum about some of the reasons they see their data moving to cloud platforms in the future.