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· Today Oracle hosted its first CloudWorld global event series in India, where senior Oracle executives, customers and partners discussed how they are driving business transformation using the Oracle Cloud.
· Keynote sessions showcased Oracle's strategy and roadmap for cloud and social. Additional sessions for line of business executives focused on Sales and Marketing, Customer Service and Support, HR and Talent Management, and Finance and Operations. It also highlighted how organizations can best leverage social media to monitor, engage, and market to their customers.
· With nearly 50 sessions, more than 30 speakers and participation of over 1000 senior decision makers and influencers from varied business functions as well as applications & IT professionals, developers, academia and partners (System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors), the event focused on helping them grow their cloud business in India with Oracle.
· The marquee one-day event featured a host of guest speakers from Oracle, customer and partner organizations including:
o David Vap, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications, Oracle Corp.
o Bulent Cinarkaya, Vice President, Oracle Public Cloud Product Development, Oracle Corp
o Alan Lepofsky, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
o N Ravishanker, CIO, TataSky
o Rajnish Kapur, Chief Innovation and Customer Experience Officer, MakeMyTrip.com
o Deepa Chadha, Vice President - HR, Bharti Airtel
o Ritu Sripada, Vice President- HR, JP Morgan
o Alpana Doshi, CIO, Reliance Communications
o Venky Vijay, CEO, Virtuos
o Bhanumurthy BM, Chief Business Operations Officer, Wipro
o John lobo, Practice Head - CRM, Wipro Infotech
· Oracle Cloud is the most comprehensive cloud in the world being used each day by more than 25 million users and more than 10,000 organizations.
· The debut of Oracle CloudWorld follows closely on the heels of the expansion of the Oracle Cloud services portfolio at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Oracle President Mark Hurd kicked off Oracle CloudWorld on January 15, 2013 in Dubai. This was followed suit with events in Los Angeles and Sydney and will take place in other cities around the world including: London, Mexico City, Munich, New York City, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Cloud Success in India
· At CloudWorld, Oracle announced that more and more customers are embracing Oracle Cloud solutions in India primarily because Oracle offers a wide range of cloud solutions and a wider range of consumption choices, all of which are fully open, modular, and integrated.
· For Indian companies, Oracle Cloud solutions serve multiple business functions including customer experience management, sales and marketing and also critical functions like human capital management, talent management, financial management, procurement, project management and governance, risk and compliance among others. It also allows customers to easily transition from cloud to on-premise or vice versa.
· Companies from ITes/ professional services, travel, transportation, automobile and auto ancillary, publishing, media, real estate, telecom, BFSI, manufacturing, retail, e-commerce, pharma & life sciences will see a lot of demand for cloud solutions.
· Flipkart.com, TataSky, MakeMyTrip.com, CRMIT, Bookmyshow.com, Centaur Pharmaceuticals, Deepak Nitrite, Helpage India, Mahindra Logistics, WNS, C Centric Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mahindra Comviva, Sudhir Gensets, ASM Technologies Ltd., Wipro, among many others have already started to reap business benefits from Oracle's Cloud Solutions.
· Oracle's cloud is different from other clouds - not only is there rich functionality that spans functional pillars like CRM, HCM and ERP, but, social, mobile, and business intelligence and analytics are built in.
Enabling Partners to Unlock the Potential of the Cloud
· Oracle helps enable its partners to meet customer demand for public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Oracle also introduced a comprehensive array of five new Cloud Partner programs to give partners choice in how they grow their business in the cloud. Applicable to all Oracle partners, the new Oracle partner offerings for the cloud include:
‒ Oracle Cloud Builder Specialization: New enablement resources provide partners who are selling and implementing Oracle's hardware and software offerings with the expertise, tools and training they need to achieve a cloud-based Specialization.
‒ Oracle Cloud Referral Program: Through the program, any of Oracle's 25,000 OPN members can receive compensation for Oracle Cloud business referred to Oracle.
‒ Oracle Cloud Specialization Featuring RapidStart: Created in conjunction with Oracle development and consulting, RapidStart Cloud Specializations enable partners to deliver their own fixed-scope implementation offerings to get customers up and running on the Oracle Cloud based on proven best practices and methodologies.
‒ Oracle Cloud Resale Program: Qualifying Specialized partners will have the opportunity to resell Oracle Cloud services, creating a sustainable new revenue stream over the lifetime of their customer's Oracle Cloud subscription.
‒ Oracle Platform Services for ISVs: ISVs can leverage a secure, flexible architecture to build and deploy new applications, or extend existing on-premise offerings to the Oracle Cloud without any additional infrastructure and platform investments to eliminate costly IT resources and accelerate time-to-market.
Supporting Quotes
· "Oracle's long history of technology innovation along with seven years of relentless engineering and key strategic acquisitions has enabled us to launch the most comprehensive cloud offerings in the world, "said Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India. "The India marketplace is absolutely ready for large scale cloud adoption and we look forward to supporting our customers in their business transformation journeys."
· "Today Oracle's cloud offerings span public and private clouds and extend to every level of our product portfolio: applications, middleware, database, servers, storage, networking, and associated operating systems and virtualization software," said Sunil Jose, Vice President, Applications, Oracle India. "Oracle solutions have been able to incorporate modern features, such as social, mobile and essential capabilities, such as analytics which are in demand across industries as CIOs gain greater control over IT budgets and decision-making."