Business software and hardware systems major Oracle has launched 10 new cloud services, as well as a cloud marketplace, in a push towards offering cloud based services and solutions.
On the third day of the ongoing Oracle Open World in San Francisco, Thomas Kurian, executive vice-president for product development at Oracle said the new cloud solutions will "change the way customers consume Oracle software".
Oracle has added 10 services to the cloud, including database as a service, Java in the cloud, and business intelligence (BI) in the cloud. With the proliferation of cloud, mobile, and social technologies, organizations want easy access to innovative and trusted business applications. It is to meet this demand from customers and create new opportunities for partners, Oracle introduced the Oracle cloud marketplace. With more than 100 business applications developed by Oracle partners. The Oracle cloud marketplace enables Oracle cloud customers to browse, evaluate, and buy business applications.
Kurian used the Oracle database as a service as an example. He said users can configure the amount of storage they need, while Oracle will manage that cloud database by backing it up at night, dealing with patches, upgrades of the software and related maintenance services if need be.
Adrian Jones, general manager & senior vice president, Oracle Asia Pacific said, "now, customers will be able to buy an umbrella of cloud solutions. Oracle will be hiring more people to drive the cloud model. Among other countries, India is seeing good adoption of cloud."
Besides, Oracle cloud market place, the company launched a platform to develop mobile applications in the cloud. The Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. The paltform enables developers to create mobile application programming interfaces (APIs) so that mobile developers can integrate their applications with enterprise data and services. Other cloud services announced included documents cloud to enable file sharing and collaboration with mobile and desktop sync. Database back-up cloud that enables businesses to back-up Oracle database to Oracle cloud. Billing and revenue management cloud. Oracle claimed its cloud has 21 million users making 19 billion transactions each day.