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Consistent Performance: In FY2012-13, Oracle India clocked a healthy growth of 15%, considering the global slowdown in the ISV segment. This helped the company come within the ranks of India's top 10 IT companies. Based on the performance, Oracle achieved revenues of `10,590 crore from its India operations in 2012-13. For Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS, or what used to be i-Flex), had revenues of `3,500 crore.
About 47% of its revenues come from services business, 29% from technology business, 8% from applications, 10% from hardware business and 6% from middleware.
The company claims to have 7,000+ customers across technology and applications division in India.
Database Dominance: In India, Oracle has a 63% share in the RDBMS market and is ahead of IBM. While the competition in the database market has heated up in the last few years, Oracle's competitors are far behind in keeping pace with it. This has been one of the best performing segments for Oracle India in FY2012-13 during which it acquired a number of customers. Its engineered systems continue to contribute in overall business mainly led by database sales in India.
Sun-feast: With Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle continues to empower its portfolio in order to be able to offer end-to-end solutions. In India, Oracle has two India Development Centers as well as Indian hubs for Oracle's global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its network of channel partners, the company markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India, to more than 1,000 channel partners and 7,000 customers in diverse industries.
Clouds will rain: Globally, Oracle has about $1 bn in revenues alone from cloud offerings, despite embarking on the cloud journey pretty late.
In India, Oracle is witnessing adoption of cloud services across industries like IT/ITeS, telecom, banking and automobile and is thus trying to capitalize on the opportunity. Plus, this move will decide the future for the company. Oracle is also trying to woo customers for cloud through engineered systems-driven strategy.
Mid-market Focus: Mid-market continues to be a growth area for the company in India. The company reached out to SMB customers through 1,000 partners in India to offer affordable and integrated technology solutions. At present, the company boasts of about 4,500+ SMB customers in India.