Oracle cloud platform offers business agility

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The Group Vice President, Oracle, Robert Shimp has said that Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), offerings, such as the Oracle Cloud Platform, have the ability to deliver unprecedented levels of business agility, ITRealms reports.

”PaaS offerings, such as the Oracle Cloud Platform, have the ability to deliver unprecedented levels of business agility. The key now is to demonstrate to businesses just how easy it is to integrate this critical cloud platform into their IT architectures. Yes, the cost savings delivered by PaaS are important, but of greater importance is its ability to help businesses reduce application development timeframes and more easily tailor and integrate third-party Software as a Service apps into their business, allowing them to more effectively address customer demand,” said Shimp.

Oracle, ITRealms gathered, recently announced the results of its “Oracle Cloud Agility” study and revealed that businesses worldwide overestimate their agility. While a majority of businesses believe they are agile, Oracle’s research highlights that many organizations cannot flexibly manage workloads or rapidly develop, test, and launch new applications, leaving them poorly prepared to deal with competitive threats. The study also found a lack of awareness among businesses around how technology, like PaaS, can be used to help address these challenges.

The Oracle Cloud Agility study surveyed 2,263 employees working for large global enterprises to understand business agility in the age of cloud. The results, ITRealms learnt, show that 64 per cent consider their organization to be agile (i.e., able to adjust quickly to new business opportunities or to iterate new products and services quickly). When looking at the United States, businesses are even more positive, with 66 percent believing their business to be agile.

Respondents are clear about the benefits of agility, with 81 per cent stating that the ability to rapidly develop, test, and launch new business applications is either critically important or important to the success of their business, falling to 76 per cent in the United States. In particular, nearly one-third of respondents (29 per cent) believe the effective mobilization of applications and services is the most important factor in business success today when it comes to IT infrastructure.

The study, ITRealms also reports, reveals that the impact of agility on competitiveness is critically important to businesses. In fact, the ability of competitors to launch innovative customer services more rapidly was identified as the top threat by businesses (27 per cent). Fifty two per cent of global respondents indicated that their business does not have an IT infrastructure capable of meeting competitive threats.

Significantly, the survey reveals that the agility benefits delivered by PaaS are not being leveraged. In fact, nearly half of businesses (49 per cent) surveyed either cannot, or do not know if they can shift workloads between public, private, and hybrid clouds, and migrate on-premises applications to the cloud.

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Oracle adds 24 new cloud services

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The Executive Chairman, Oracle’s Board and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Larry Ellison has proclaimed new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform, reports ITRealms.

The Oracle Cloud Platform, ITRealms also reports is a comprehensive, integrated suite of services that make it easier for developers, Information Technology (IT) professionals, business users and analysts to build, extend and integrate cloud applications.

“With more than 24 newcloud services, the Oracle Cloud Platform extends Oracle’s leadership with the world’s broadest and deepest portfolio of SaaS – Software As A Service; Platform as a service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),” he said.

The newly available Oracle Cloud services, he said, include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud,Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.

Ellison explained that the Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ones, and easily move existing on-premises workloads to the cloud with no application changes. 

In addition, he said, these services are designed to maximize end user experience and productivity which enable developers to manage and analyze data, rapidly develop, test and deploy applications; enable architects to quickly integrate across on-premises and cloud applications; and enable business users to drive rich business insights and enterprise collaboration.

“With the Oracle Cloud Platform, customers and partners are able to take advantage of the industry-leading Oracle middleware and database software that thousands of global organizations already use to run their own businesses, all delivered via cloud. The extensive level of automation that has been engineered into the Oracle Cloud,results in faster time-to-value, greater innovation, and lower cost for customers,” he said, even as Oracle is growing really fast. 

“We sold $426M worth of business in SaaS and PaaS last quarter, a 200 percent increase over the same quarter last year. That's an industry record, no company has ever sold that much in just one quarter,” said Ellison. “Oracle is the only company on the planet that can deliver a complete, integrated, standards-based suite of services at every layer of the cloud. Those technology advantages enable us to be much more cost-effective than our competitors. Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it’s one-tenth their price,” he said. 

+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms)
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