Customers on stage at last week’s Oracle CloudWorld Tour in London shared their experiences of digital transformation with Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle. One of the common themes was the need to bring together data across the business, but an equally strong message was that organizations need to look beyond the technology at how the business operates. Here are some of the main takeaways from the discussion, starting with Anna Manz, CFO at London Stock Exchange Group, who says: This is not a systems change. This is a change in how we run our business. And so it has started with understanding our data. Get to the heart of the business London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) doubled in size when it acquired data company Refinitiv two years ago , putting it in direct competition with the likes of Bloomberg and S&P Global. Along with prior acquisitions, this brought integration challenges to a head. Manz says: That history of acquisition means that our internal processes are a muddle. In that we stitched stuff together at the top, to the customer, and we stitched stuff together at the bottom, to report — and everything in the middle flows every different way. […]