Oracle claims to be hot favorite in India for cloud

During CloudWorld, Oracle announced that more and more customers are embracing Oracle Cloud solutions in India primarily because Oracle offers a wide range of cloud solutions and a wider range of consumption choices, all of which are fully open, modular, and integrated.

For Indian companies, Oracle Cloud solutions serve multiple business functions including 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. It also allows customers to easily transition from cloud to on-premise or vice versa.

Companies from ITes/ professional services, travel, transportation, automobile and auto ancillary, publishing, media, real estate, telecom, BFSI, manufacturing, retail, e-commerce, pharma & life sciences will see a lot of demand for cloud solutions.

 Flipkart.com, TataSky, MakeMyTrip.com, CRMIT, Bookmyshow.com, Centaur Pharmaceuticals, Deepak Nitrite, Helpage India, Mahindra Logistics, WNS, C Centric Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mahindra Comviva, Sudhir Gensets, ASM Technologies Ltd., Wipro, among many others have already started to reap business benefits from Oracle's Cloud Solutions.

Enabling Partners to Unlock the Potential of the Cloud

· Oracle helps enable its partners to meet customer demand for public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Oracle also introduced a comprehensive array of five new Cloud Partner programs to give partners choice in how they grow their business in the cloud. Applicable to all Oracle partners, the new Oracle partner offerings for the cloud include:

‒ Oracle Cloud Builder Specialization: New enablement resources provide partners who are selling and implementing Oracle's hardware and software offerings with the expertise, tools and training they need to achieve a cloud-based Specialization.

‒ Oracle Cloud Referral Program: Through the program, any of Oracle's 25,000 OPN members can receive compensation for Oracle Cloud business referred to Oracle.

‒ Oracle Cloud Specialization Featuring RapidStart: Created in conjunction with Oracle development and consulting, RapidStart Cloud Specializations enable partners to deliver their own fixed-scope implementation offerings to get customers up and running on the Oracle Cloud based on proven best practices and methodologies.

‒ Oracle Cloud Resale Program: Qualifying Specialized partners will have the opportunity to resell Oracle Cloud services, creating a sustainable new revenue stream over the lifetime of their customer's Oracle Cloud subscription.

‒ Oracle Platform Services for ISVs: ISVs can leverage a secure, flexible architecture to build and deploy new applications, or extend existing on-premise offerings to the Oracle Cloud without any additional infrastructure and platform investments to eliminate costly IT resources and accelerate time-to-market.