Oracle flexes its Cloud muscles with CloudWorld held in Mumbai

Oracle got to show its prowess in the Cloud market with the CloudWorld event held in Mumbai today. There were a total of 30 speakers at the event, who along with more than 1000 senior decision makers in the industry discussed the cloud offerings provided by Oracle. These included high level executives from companies like MakeMyTrip.com, Tata Sky, Bharti Airtel, JP Morgan, Reliance Communications and Wipro among others. Oracle CloudWorld 2013 was kicked off at Dubai in January this year and will be held across the globe at cities like London, Mexico City, Munich, New York City, Singapore and Tokyo etc.

With this event, Oracle also announced a new set of Cloud partner programs which included Oracle Cloud Builder Specialization, Oracle Cloud Referral program, Oracle Cloud Specialization Featuring RapidStart, Oracle Cloud Resale Program and Oracle Platform Services for ISVs. Oracle said that its Cloud offerings provide solutions to all avenues of business development like 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. In essence, Oracle has been trying to build across almost all of the business functions while incorporating some of the most sought after features like mobile, social, Business Intelligence and Analytics. Sunil Jose, Vice President of Applications at Oracle India said, “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.”