Oracle launches broadest cloud strategy adds "social cloud"

"After nearly 7 years of non-stop effort, innovation and key strategic acquisitions, plus billions of of dollars in investment, we are now announcing the most comprehensive cloud in the world," said CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive. "The vast majority of cloud vendors have only a few subdivisions of assets and lack of an expanded platform." Oracle is the only vendor that can provide a comprehensive suite of modern, social applications, all based on a standardized platform. ”

In today's important strategy, Larry Ellison announced the industry's broadest and most advanced cloud strategy and introduced Oracle Cloud Social Services (Oracle Cloud Social Service), a comprehensive enterprise social platform product.

Oracle Cloud delivers a broad, industry-standard integration service that enables customers to access Oracle Platform Services (Oracle Platform Services), application services (creator Services), and social service based on an ordered pattern (Social Services), all of which are fully managed, managed and supported by Oracle.

Oracle Cloud Platform Services

Built on generic, comprehensive, standard, and enterprise-class infrastructure components, Oracle Cloud Platform services enable customers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce costs by rapidly creating, deploying, and managing customized applications. Oracle Cloud Platform services include:

Database services can use an Oracle database to manage data and create database applications.

Java Services can leverage WebLogic to develop, deploy, and manage Java applications.

The developer service enables application developers to create applications in concert.

Web services use PHP, Ruby, and Python to quickly create network applications.

Mobile services allow developers to create cross-platform local and HTML5 mobile applications for leading smartphones and tablets.

Document services enable project teams to collaborate and share documents through online workspaces and portals.

Site services allow business users to develop and visually communicate with the. com site.

Analytics services enable business users to quickly create and share dashboard analysis and reporting through the cloud.

Oracle Cloud Application Services

With its built-in business intelligence, social and mobile capabilities, Oracle Cloud application services enable customers to access the industry's broadest range of enterprise management software in a cloud environment. Oracle Cloud application services can be easily created, configured, extended, used, and managed, including:

ERP Services: Includes a comprehensive set of solutions for financial accounting, project management, procurement and governance, risk and compliance.

HCM Services: A comprehensive human capital management solution that includes global HR, labor lifecycle management, compensation, benefits, payroll, and other solutions.

Talent Management Services: Comprehensive talent management solutions, including recruiting, mining talent, performance management and learning.

Sales and Marketing Services: Comprehensive sales and marketing solutions, including sales planning, regional management, lead and opportunity management, and forecasting.

Customer Experience Services: Comprehensive customer service solutions, including network self-service, contact center, knowledge management, chat and mail management.

Oracle Cloud Social Services

Oracle Cloud Social Services provides the widest and most comprehensive corporate social platform in the cloud environment. Through Oracle Cloud social services, businesses and their customers can communicate in a rich and meaningful way in a wide range of social media, including social marketing, trading, service, and listening. The platform also allows businesses to provide their employees with a wealth of social networking solutions to collaborate more effectively within the enterprise. Oracle's integrated social platforms include:

Oracle social networks enable secure enterprise collaboration and business-purposeful social networking communication.

Oracle Social Data Services collect data from social networks and enterprise data sources to enrich business applications.

Oracle Social marketing and communication services enable marketers to centrally create, publish, adapt, manage, measure, and report on their social marketing projects.

Oracle Social intelligence services enable marketers to analyze social media interactions and enable customer service and sales teams to communicate more effectively with customers and potential customers.

By providing a broad range of business applications and platform services, Oracle Cloud is the only cloud platform that allows customers to avoid fragmentation of data and business processes when using multiple orphaned public clouds. Oracle Cloud is supported by a leading enterprise-class infrastructure, including Oracle Exadata database cloud servers and Oracle Exalogic middleware cloud servers that provide customers and partners with a high-performance, reliable, and secure architecture to run critical business applications.

Oracle Cloud can provide Easy-to-use self-service for business users and developers at the same time. Business users can organize, configure, extend, and monitor their management software. Developers and administrators can easily develop, deploy, monitor, and manage their management software. As part of this announcement, Oracle also showcased several of the first customers and partners to use Oracle cloud, including system integrators and independent software developers.