Oracle launches cloud programme within Oracle PartnerNetwork

“Our two biggest competitors in the last two decades have been IBM and SAP and we no longer pay any attention to either one; it’s quite a shock”. He moved on to point out that “Oracle seems to be going beyond Oracle”, possibly with the goal of becoming an enabling platform for applications across the board.

Mr. Ellison announced, “While the new “Oracle SCM Cloud” will offer the first complete supply chain and discrete manufacturing with 100 percent fusion, the “E-commerce in the CX Cloud” platform will be a complete, integrated modern suite covering the customers’ requirements across the spectrum like marketing, sales, service and social responsibility”.

“Inspirage has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation in delivering proven, Oracle-based solutions that can solve our joint customers’ most critical business challenges”, said Terri Hall, Group Vice President, NAS Alliances and Innovative Client Services, Oracle.

Krzanich claimed the new hardware will enable 6TB in-memory databases and well and truly set heads spinning as you try to figure out just where data, memory, and storage begin and end.

“This is how much our world has changed”, Ellison said during a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. With an expected big Internet of Things play, a few form of response to the Dell-EMC merger news and treatment of Amazon as a primary competitor, all three theCUBE hosts were eager to hear Oracle’s plans for the future. Of course Oracle thinks it has both beat because all they do is apps.

The aim of Oracle cloud is low pricing, reliability, performance, analytics, standards, compatibility and security.

While Salesforce is doing particularly well in software-as-a-service, Ellison reckons Oracle can do better. Those are the companies we see most frequently when we are selling applications in the marketplace, and we virtually never, ever see SAP.

Oracle also added to its SaaS portfolio.

Other additions from Oracle came in the form of SaaS products, with two vertical cloud systems being added.

Mr. Ellison also announced a new mobile, consumer-like Cloud User Interface which is a state of the art mobile user interface which is considered to be a significant move by industry followers. Oracle now has 1,300 customers for its enterprise resource planning software, about 5,000 customers for its human capital management application, including customer wins from its acquisition of Taleo in 2012, and 5,000 customers for customer relationship management.

But Ellison didn’t mince words about two other industry stalwarts. He is scheduled to discuss Oracle strategy on security in detail on Tuesday.

There has also been a major revision of Oracle’s multi-tennant software, with version 12.2 coming out this week. This capability is created to bundle a company’s entire IT environment, whether on-premises or SaaS, their applications, integration to third-party systems, as well as managed services-as a single package-for one monthly price. The company is now enhancing the database to support a higher number of tenants, without sacrificing on security and privacy, Ellison said.

Also to be explored this week is a new multitenant Java server.

New cloud partners are encouraged to join OPN at the Cloud Registered level between today and 31 May 2016 to take advantage of key Oracle Cloud focused benefits with no membership fee.