Oracle Unveils Industry's Broadest Cloud Strategy
"Almost seven years of relentless engineering and innovation plus key
strategic acquisitions. An investment of billions. We are now announcing
the most comprehensive Cloud on the planet Earth," said Oracle CEO,
Larry Ellison. "Most cloud vendors only have niche assets. They don't
have platforms to extend. Oracle is the only vendor that offers a
complete suite of modern, socially-enabled applications, all based on a
standards-based platform."
In a major strategy update today, Larry Ellison announced the
industry's broadest and most advanced Cloud strategy and introduced
Oracle Cloud Social Services, a broad Enterprise Social Platform
offering.Oracle Cloud delivers a broad set of industry-standards based,
integrated services that provide customers with subscription-based
access to Oracle Platform Services, Application Services, and Social
Services, all completely managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.
Oracle Cloud is powered by leading enterprise-grade infrastructure,
including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic, providing customers and
partners with a high-performance, reliable, and secure infrastructure
for running critical business applications.
Oracle Cloud enables easy self-service for both business users and
developers. Business users can order, configure, extend, and monitor
their applications.
Developers and administrators can easily develop, deploy, monitor and
manage their applications. As part of the event, Oracle also showcased
several early Oracle Cloud customers and partners including system
integrators and independent software vendors.
Oracle Cloud Platform Services
Built on a common, complete, standards-based and enterprise-grade set
of infrastructure components, Oracle Cloud Platform Services enable
customers to speed time to market and lower costs by quickly building,
deploying and managing bespoke applications. Oracle Cloud Platform
Services will include:
Database Services to manage data and build database applications with
the Oracle Database.Java Services to develop, deploy and manage Java
applications with Oracle WebLogic.Developer Services to allow
application developers to collaboratively build applications.Web
Services to build Web applications rapidly using PHP, Ruby, and Python.
Mobile Services to allow developers to build cross-platform native
and HTML5 mobile applications for leading smartphones and
tablets.Documents Services to allow project teams to collaborate and
share documents through online workspaces and portals.
Sites Services to allow business users to develop and maintain
visually engaging .com sitesAnalytics Services to allow business users
to quickly build and share analytic dashboards and reports through the
Cloud.
Oracle Cloud Application Services
Oracle Cloud Application Services provides customers access to the
industry's broadest range of enterprise applications available in the
cloud today, with built-in business intelligence, social and mobile
capabilities. Easy to setup, configure, extend, use and administer,
Oracle Cloud Application Services will include:
ERP Services: A complete set of Financial Accounting, Project
Management, Procurement, Sourcing, and Governance, Risk and Compliance
solutions.HCM Services: A complete Human Capital Management solution
including Global HR, Workforce Lifecycle Management, Compensation,
Benefits, Payroll and other solutions.Talent Management Services: A
complete Talent Management solution including Recruiting, Sourcing,
Performance Management, and Learning.Sales and Marketing Services: A
complete Sales and Marketing solution including Sales Planning,
Territory Management, Leads & Opportunity Management, and
Forecasting.Customer Experience Services: A complete Customer Service
solution including Web Self-Service, Contact Centers, Knowledge
Management, Chat, and e-mail Management.
Oracle Cloud Social Services
Oracle Cloud Social Services provides the most broad and complete
enterprise social platform available in the cloud today. With Oracle
Cloud Social Services, enterprises can engage with their customers on a
range of social media properties in a comprehensive and meaningful
fashion, including social marketing, commerce, service and listening.
The platform also provides enterprises with a rich social networking
solution for their employees to collaborate effectively inside the
enterprise. Oracle's integrated social platform will include:
Oracle Social Network to enable secure enterprise collaboration and
purposeful social networking for business.Oracle Social Data Services to
aggregate data from social networks and enterprise data sources to
enrich business applications.Oracle Social Marketing and Engagement
Services to enable marketers to centrally create, publish, moderate,
manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns.Oracle
Social Intelligence Services to enable marketers to analyze social media
interactions and to enable customer service and sales teams to engage
with customers and prospects effectively.
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