OracleUnveils Oracle Public Cloud

NewServices Give Customers and Partners Subscription-Based Access to Oracle’sIndustry-Leading Enterprise Applications, Middleware and Database

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – October 5, 2011

OracleCEO Larry Ellison announced the OraclePublic Cloud, a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services thatprovide customers with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and OracleDatabase, allcompletely managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.

TheOracle Public Cloud includes Oracle Fusion CustomerRelationship Management (CRM) Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion HumanCapital Management (HCM) Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network,Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service.

TheOracle Public Cloud runs on Oracle Engineered Systems, providing customers andpartners with a high-performance, reliable, elastic, and secure infrastructurefor their critical business applications.

TheOracle Public Cloud is the only public cloud that offers customers a completerange of business applications and technology solutions, avoiding the problemsof data and business process fragmentation when customers use multiple siloedpublic clouds.

“TheOracle Public Cloud is a little different,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.  “The Oracle Public Cloud is both a platform asa service and applications as a service.  The key difference is the OraclePublic Cloud is based on industry standards and supports full interoperabilitywith other clouds and your datacenter on premise.”

TheOracle Public Cloud is the only public cloud offering that provides customerswith truly flexible deployment by enabling them to run the exact same business applicationsin the cloud and on-premise.

Customerscan also take existing standard Javaand Oracle Database applications and deploy them to the Oracle Public Cloudwithout rewriting them, allowing them to take advantage of their existing ITassets, skills and ecosystems.

Pricingfor the Oracle Public Cloud will be based on a monthly subscription model, andeach service can be purchased independently of other services.

The Oracle Public Cloud provides many commonservices, including resource management and isolation, security, data exchangeand integration, virus scanning, white list management, and centralizedself-service monitoring.

Customers who are interested in Oracle’s PublicCloud, want to learn about its services, or register to use these services cando so at http://cloud.oracle.com.

Comprehensive Platform Is Open and Integrated to Work Together

The Oracle Public Cloud offers self-service,subscription-based access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle FusionMiddleware and Oracle Database as a service, including:

·        OracleFusion CRM Cloud Service: designed to be effective,efficient and easy to use, Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM)delivers integrated sales and marketing with sales performance management thatenables companies to generate more quality sales opportunities, increase theirwin rate and gain faster time to value.

·        OracleFusion HCM Cloud Service: built from the ground up tohelp customers do things their way, know their people better and work as ateam, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) rethinks the business of HRto provide value to every person in an organization – from HR professionals toemployees and managers.

·        OracleSocial Network: an enterprise collaboration andsocial networking solution with a broad range of social tools designed to captureand share information amongst teams in the context of business processes andenterprise applications (such as CRM and HCM). Oracle Social Network enablesnatural conversations and jump-starts productivity with purposeful socialnetworking without the noise of unrelated or random social conversations.

·        OracleDatabase Cloud Service: enterprise database servicebased on the industry’s #1 database, OracleDatabase, providing access to database schemas, application developmenttools, data loading services, Web Services APIs, and a set of packaged businessproductivity applications.

·        OracleJava Cloud Service: enterprise platform fordeveloping, deploying and managing business-critical JavaPlatform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications based on OracleWebLogic Server, the industry’s #1 application server.  Supports development and deployment frommultiple Java IDEs, including Oracle JDeveloper,NetBeans and Eclipse.

·        All Oracle Public Cloud serviceshave a unified self-service user interface for provisioning, monitoring andmanaging all services.

Supporting Resources

·        Oracle Public Cloud

·        Oracle Cloud Computing

About Oracle OpenWorld

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