Almost a century ago, in 1921, a small business emerged whose focus was the creation of sectional garage doors. The company was called Overhead Door Corporation, and in 2012 the company began a huge undertaking when it decided to transform its organization and join the digital world via a hybrid cloud solution.
The changes to Overhead Door really began to ramp up when CIO Larry Freed joined the company in 2011. Among his first endeavors was to choose a new software company to alleviate the antiquated system that was slowing operations down and placing limits on the optimization of the supply chain.
Freed chose Oracle and the hybrid cloud changed Overhead Door forever.
Making changes
After the move to Oracle, Overhead Door shifted many of their core processes to the cloud—a move that Freed believes was the biggest of all the transformations made to the company—and then on to using Oracle HCM.
In fact, Freed called it a paradigm shift because it “changed the way our employees engage with the company through an HR perspective and integrated the process from end to end and allowed it to become a more self-service interaction.”
Addressing cloud security concerns
Like most shifts to the cloud, there were security concerns – especially since there would be a lot of employee data on the cloud. However, the longer the company worked with the Oracle software, the more comfortable they became.
Since then, transitioning to the hybrid cloud has been an important part of Overhead Door’s goal to stay in business for another 100 years.
“It’s a very competitive world and a very global world today, and these things are part of what you need to do to continue to be relevant and attract the right talent and increase your market share,” Freed said.