Oracle Cloud Gaining Momentum in India

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Oracle Cloud Gaining Momentum in India

NEW DELHI, January 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

    Announces New Customers, Product Announcements and Expanded Sales Ecosystem at
CloudWorld New Delhi

    - Oracle today hosted its second global event series, CloudWorld in New Delhi, India,
where senior Oracle executives, customers and partners discussed how they are driving
business transformation using the Oracle Cloud
[http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/overview/index.html ]. Oracle's strategy and
roadmap for social, modern marketing, Customer Experience (CX) and Human Capital
Management (HCM) on the cloud were shared during the keynote sessions. - Companies in
India, from e-commerce, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, IT/ITeS, real estate, food &
beverages, media and other industries, have been using Oracle Cloud for a myriad of
business applications such as talent management, recruiting, modern HR, sales automation,
customer service, modern marketing, product development, as well as modernizing finance
and back-office functions. - According to Forbes
[http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/overview/index.html ], two-thirds of Indian CIO's
are expecting the majority of their information technologies to run on the cloud by 2015.
- Airtel Learning, Apollo Hospitals, Jabong.com, Intel, Aditya Birla Management Company,
Maruti Motors, Hero MotoCorp, BigTree Entertainment, Sonata Software, Myntra.com,
Kalpataru, NetApp India, Adobe Systems, Haier, Thomas Cook, Nature's Feast, Sudhir Gensets
are some enterprise organizations in India that have recently embraced Oracle Cloud. -
Addressing the audience through a live webcast, Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Corporation
re-inforced the company's global cloud strategy which is to offer choice and flexibility
to customers with the most comprehensive, modern, and secure portfolio of cloud products
and services. - While customers have been able to experience the benefits of Oracle Cloud,
Oracle PartnerNetwork [http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html ] members in India have
also joined the Oracle Cloud sales ecosystem. Wipro, Accenture, Cap Gemini, Cognizant, L&T
Infotech, HCL Technologies, CCS, Virtuos, Hexaware, MarketOne, are some partners who will
work with Oracle to remarket and implement Oracle Cloud solutions. More than 80% of
Oracle's business is generated through partners. - Oracle Cloud continues to show strong
adoption the world over, supporting 9 million users and 19 billion transactions each day,
running on 7,000 servers and 200 petabytes of storage in 13 Oracle data centers around the
world. - Oracle CloudWorld New Delhi saw participation from over 1200 delegates and
featured speakers such as:

    o J Satyanarayana, IAS Secretary, DeitY (Department of Electronics and IT), MCIT
(Ministry of Communication and IT), Government of India; o Sangita Reddy, Executive
Director, Operations, Apollo Hospitals Group; o Subramaniam (Mani) Arumugam, Head - Global
HR Shared Services and Head HR - Network Services Group, Bharti Airtel Ltd.; o Praveen
Sinha, Co-founder, Jabong.com; o Vijay Sethi, Vice President IS and HR and Chief
Information Officer, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.; o Venkata Rao, CIO, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd.
- Oracle speakers included Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Corporation over Live video
conference; Reggie Bradford, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Oracle and Former
Founder & CEO of Vitrue; Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India, Rod Johnson,
Group Vice President, Applications & Industry Solution Group, Oracle Corporation, amongst
many others.

    Expanded New Oracle Cloud Solutions
- Furthering customer and partner value, Oracle continues to deliver new innovations at a
high pace across the cloud platform. The company introduced 10 new Oracle Cloud services
[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2021083 ] for its customers and partners in
India at CloudWorld New Delhi. The new services expand Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of
application, social, platform and infrastructure services. - Oracle also announced the
launch of the unique Oracle Cloud Marketplace
[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2021085 ]. It is a global marketplace where
partners can publish applications and customers can browse through and discover new
solutions to address their business needs. Featuring more than 100 business applications
developed by Oracle partners, the Oracle Cloud Marketplace enables Oracle Cloud customers
to easily browse, evaluate, and buy trusted business applications. - Continuing its
commitment to offer the industry's broadest and most advanced cloud solutions, Oracle also
announced new additions and enhancements to its portfolio: o New integrations between
Oracle Eloqua and Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM), as a part of Oracle
Marketing Cloud, to enable modern marketers to manage their digital interactions from a
single platform, helping to reduce complexity and improve marketing effectiveness. o New
enhancements to Oracle CX support sales, marketing, commerce and service organizations, to
enable the delivery of a more interactive, social and mobile experience.

    Supporting Quotes
- "India is an important market for Oracle and the growth of our cloud business here has
been unprecedented," said Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India. "Cloud adoption
has gone mainstream. We are already one of the leading cloud software companies in the
world, and will be investing heavily in building this business in India."

    - "Our vast portfolio of cloud solutions, and the flexibility we offer to customers to
implement them in a private or public or hybrid environment has been a strong testimony
for our growth in this business," said Sunil Jose, Vice President, Applications, Oracle
India. "We are observing large enterprises embrace this new form of computing and we are
excited with the business opportunities here."

    Supporting Resources
- Oracle CloudWorld
- Oracle Cloud [https://cloud.oracle.com/home ]
- Connect with the Oracle Cloud online communities: Facebook
[https://www.facebook.com/OracleCloudComputing ], Twitter
[https://twitter.com/OracleCloudZone ], LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Official-Oracle-Cloud-Computing-group-3262238 ] and Oracle
Cloud Blog [https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud ] - Oracle Infographics
[http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/story/index.html ]

    Oracle Cloud Solutions
Oracle provides the industry's broadest and most complete portfolio of public, private and
hybrid cloud offerings. The Oracle Cloud delivers a broad suite of subscription-based,
enterprise-grade Application Services, Platform Services, Infrastructure Services and
Social Services. Oracle also provides a comprehensive portfolio of cloud products and
managed cloud services for IT providers to build and manage clouds.

    About Oracle:

    Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data
center. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.

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