Oracle cloud gaining momentum in India

Oracle CloudWorld, NEW DELHI, INDIA: Oracle 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.

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, foods & 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, two-thirds of Indian CIOs 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, 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 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.