It’s ‘early days’ in the cloud market, Oracle’s Ellison says

A great differentiator for Oracle, he said, is the unification of on-premise solutions under one vendor – especially converged infrastructure – with cloud solutions at every level of the stack, from SaaS, to PaaS to IaaS.

Among them are two major new applications for manufacturing and e-commerce, which Ellison characterized as stepping stones as Oracle “fills out its footprint” in the cloud.

Fowler explained why cloud is important to his company, stating that GE has a philosophy that it will build what differentiates the company in the marketplace, but buy innovation for things that do not differentiate GE, and do that acquisition in the cloud.

New investments in Oracle Learning cloud expand beyond social learning to embed learning throughout enterprise. And, users will find updated designs provide a consistent look and feel as they move between mobile and desktop.

Also of interest is a recent report, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on behalf of Oracle, that concludes that technology exists today to secure digital access and identity issues and help companies monetize their data assets responsibly.

By 2025, 80 percent of production apps in the world will be in the cloud and by the same time, all enterprise data will also be stored in cloud, he predicted.

Oracle is investing in the cloud as the company comes under growing pressure from rivals that deliver software via connections over the Internet. – Workforce Management: Integration of timeclock and webclock, mass approvals for time management, and easier exception clearing enable quicker workforce management actions. This session on Monday, October 26 at 1:30 p.m. PT features savvy modern HR leaders from Ruby Tuesday and Overhead Door, who will share details about their journey to the cloud. Oracle OpenWorld keynotes will be streamed live from www.oracle.com/openworld.

Two competitors Ellison did acknowledge as doing well in cloud are Workday and Salesforce, set up by his protégé Marc Benioff. Oracle has been slow to really be competitive in the cloud. Those are the companies we see most frequently when we are selling applications in the marketplace, and we virtually never, ever see SAP.

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Also to be explored this week is a new multitenant Java server. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

The floor also features a Demo Theater that give delegates the opportunity to get even closer to the technology they want to see and the people who offer it.