Oracle Cloud Gaining Momentum in India

Oracle today hosted its second global event series, CloudWorld in New Delhi, India, where senior Oracle executives, customers and partners discussed how they are driving business transformation using the Oracle Cloud. Oracle's strategy and roadmap for social, modern marketing, Customer Experience (CX) and Human Capital Management (HCM) on the cloud were shared during the keynote sessions.

· Companies in India, from e-commerce, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, IT/ITeS, real estate, foods & beverages, media and other industries, have been using Oracle Cloud for a myriad of business applications such as talent management, recruiting, modern HR, sales automation, customer service, modern marketing, product development, as well as modernizing finance and back-office functions.

· According to Forbes, two-thirds of Indian CIO's are expecting the majority of their information technologies to run on the cloud by 2015.

· Airtel Learning, Apollo Hospitals, Jabong.com, Intel, Aditya Birla Management Company, Maruti Motors, Hero MotoCorp, BigTree Entertainment, Sonata Software, Myntra.com, Kalpataru, NetApp India, Adobe Systems, Haier, Thomas Cook, Nature's Feast, Sudhir Gensets are some enterprise organizations in India that have recently embraced Oracle Cloud.

· Addressing the audience through a live webcast, Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Corporation re-inforced the company's global cloud strategy which is to offer choice and flexibility to customers with the most comprehensive, modern, and secure portfolio of cloud products and services.

· While customers have been able to experience the benefits of Oracle Cloud, Oracle PartnerNetwork members in India have also joined the Oracle Cloud sales ecosystem. Wipro, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Cognizant, L&T Infotech, HCL Technologies, CCS, Virtuos, Hexaware, MarketOne, are some partners who will work with Oracle to remarket and implement Oracle Cloud solutions. More than 80% of Oracle's business is generated through partners.

· Oracle Cloud continues to show strong adoption the world over, supporting 9 million users and 19 billion transactions each day, running on 7,000 servers and 200 petabytes of storage in 13 Oracle data centers around the world.

· Oracle CloudWorld New Delhi saw participation from over 1200 delegates and featured speakers such as:

o J Satyanarayana, IAS Secretary, DeitY (Department of Electronics and IT), MCIT (Ministry of Communication and IT), Government of India;

o Sangita Reddy, Executive Director, Operations, Apollo Hospitals Group;

o Subramaniam (Mani) Arumugam, Head - Global HR Shared Services and Head HR - Network Services Group, Bharti Airtel Ltd.;

o Praveen Sinha, Co-founder, Jabong.com;

o Vijay Sethi

Vice President IS and HR and Chief Information Officer

Hero MotoCorp Ltd.;

o Venkata Rao

CIO, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd.

· Oracle speakers included Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Corporation over Live video conference; Reggie Bradford, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Oracle and Former Founder & CEO of Vitrue; Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India, Rod Johnson, Group Vice President, Applications & Industry Solution Group, Oracle Corporation, amongst many others.

Expanded New Oracle Cloud Solutions

· Furthering customer and partner value, Oracle continues to deliver new innovations at a high pace across the cloud platform. The company introduced 10 new Oracle Cloud services for its customers and partners in India at CloudWorld New Delhi. The new services expand Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of application, social, platform and infrastructure services.

· Oracle also announced the launch of the unique Oracle Cloud Marketplace. It is a global marketplace where partners can publish applications and customers can browse through and discover new solutions to address their business needs. Featuring more than 100 business applications developed by Oracle partners, the Oracle Cloud Marketplace enables Oracle Cloud customers to easily browse, evaluate, and buy trusted business applications.

· Continuing its commitment to offer the industry's broadest and most advanced cloud solutions, Oracle also announced new additions and enhancements to its portfolio:

o New integrations between Oracle Eloqua and Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM), as a part of Oracle Marketing Cloud, to enable modern marketers to manage their digital interactions from a single platform, helping to reduce complexity and improve marketing effectiveness.

o New enhancements to Oracle CX support sales, marketing, commerce and service organizations, to enable the delivery of a more interactive, social and mobile experience.