Oracle builds on its SaaS momentum in India

Oracle Cloud Applications is now live in its Gen 2 Cloud region in Mumbai. With deployment in Oracle Cloud Regions in India,  Cloud Applications can now be leveraged by existing and new customers, including those operating in sectors that are bound by the country’s regulatory environment such as public sector or banking and telecom companies.

The offering enables customers to consume enterprise functionality as a cloud application, as well as enables customers to move existing applications and build new applications, all based on the same cloud infrastructure. Oracle Cloud's strategy and integration of cloud services means that the company's Cloud Applications can keep data within India, addressing some of the strictest data sovereignty regulations.

New customers of the company include Adani Group, Apollo Tyres, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Aurobindo Pharma, Bajaj Electricals, Bajaj Finance, Bharti Airtel, Century Textiles, Cure.fit, Dalmia Group, Edelweiss Financial Services, Gangaram Hospitals, Grasim (Aditya Birla Group), IDFC First Bank, KLAY Chain of Preschools, Ola Cabs, OYO Rooms, Reliance Capital, Tata Sons, Unilever and Yes Bank .

To support its customers around the world, the company plans to launch 20 new Oracle Cloud regions by the end of 2020, for a total of 36 Cloud Infrastructure regions. Customers will now have access to all of the company's Cloud Infrastructure services including Autonomous Database as well as Cloud Applications, in these regions.  Oracle Cloud has opened 12 regions in the past year and currently operates 16 regions globally - 11 commercial and five government - the fastest expansion by any major cloud provider.

Arun Khehar, senior vice president, Applications, Oracle ECMEA said: “Oracle has more SaaS solutions than anyone in the industry and this is a strong attraction for our customers. Oracle Cloud Applications help customers add new capabilities like machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), digital assistants, analytics, blockchain, and other technologies to align with their core missions.”