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News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy |
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Strategy
for All 3 Pillars of the Cloud
Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison zeroed in on two
points of focus for the company as it enters its fiscal year 2017:
Grow Oracle's cloud software and platform businesses at double the
rate of its closest competitors, and use "generation two" of the
company's high-performance data centers to become an even more
formidable player in cloud infrastructure. "We're growing fast in
SaaS. We're growing fast in PaaS. Now we need to grow fast in
infrastructure as a service," Ellison said on Oracle's Q4 FY 2016
earnings call on June 16.
In SaaS and PaaS, Oracle plans to drive growth with a broader
product line than its major cloud competitors and by reaching a new
swath of midmarket companies. In IaaS, Oracle plans to use its new
data centers to gain a performance advantage. Read more about
Ellison's view on each of
these three pillars of cloud computing—SaaS, PaaS,
and IaaS—and how they complement one another. |
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—Chris Murphy, director of cloud content at Oracle |
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More Cloud News |
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Tiny
Werkbank Wants to Help Big Banks Avoid Fintech Disruption
The strategy at Werkbank, a two-person consulting firm, is to sell
large financial institutions on a new application that
authenticates data, such as transactions, using many of the same
mechanisms as blockchain. Why did Werkbank choose Oracle Java Cloud
Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service for application
development? "If you go to larger customers and you want to show
your product, Oracle gives you a certain added value," says
cofounder Thomas Vogelbacher. Learn
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Mind Meld: The Best Way to Get into Your Customers' Heads
To reach customers quickly with the right messages, "marketers need
technology that can orchestrate engagement across both digital and
human touchpoints," says Andrea Ward, vice president of marketing
for Oracle Marketing Cloud. "So they need something that can
automate interactions but also respond to data that a system is
capturing in real time." Read more of her
advice about how cloud-based technology can help
marketers better connect with customers. |
Why Independent Software Vendors Are Making the Leap to the
Cloud
More ISVs are making the leap from being an on-premises provider to
offering a pay-as-you-go cloud model. Their new customers want fast
implementations without big up-front expense. And some prefer a
hybrid setup, in which they can keep their enterprise applications
on-premises and provide a cloud-based mobile front end. "Our
competitors are on-premises only or software-as-a-service only. We
can offer the two options, and that's really, really important,"
says Opencell CEO David Meyer. Read
more. |
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Cloud Innovator |
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Fintech
Startup on Fast Track with Peer-to-Peer Lending Service
When Alan Burns, the CTO and cofounder of financial technology
company PeerPay, was looking to buy a database to underpin the
peer-to-peer lending platform the company was developing, the last
thing he wanted was a long, complicated contract process. Burns, a
longtime Oracle Database user, chose Oracle Database Cloud Service
as the lending platform's production environment for two main
reasons: data security and ease of implementation. A bonus was the
fast contracting turnaround time: Minutes to get the contract sent
and approved and hours for the database service to be set up. Learn
more about how Oracle's Accelerated
Buying Experience makes it fast and easy to purchase
Oracle Cloud services. |
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