Oracle Cloud continues with exceptional customer momentum

Oracle last week announced that the Oracle Cloud continues to experience unparalleled growth, adding thousands of customers in Q2 FY17. 

Leading organisations across more than 195 countries and countless industries rely on Oracle Cloud to help reduce cost and complexity, while gaining a competitive advantage in their respective markets. 

Oracle Cloud today manages more than 55 billion transactions each day for companies ranging from Fortune 500s to emerging challengers, including Brinks, Doosan, Falkonry, G&J Pepsi Bottling, GE, Pernod Ricard, RadioShack, Safe Ports, T-Mobile, Trek, University of Kansas, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

“Leading organisations are looking to Oracle for comprehensive cloud solutions that enable them to quickly integrate, customise, and extend as they continue migrating their business to the cloud,” said Thomas Kurian, President, Product Development, Oracle. “With the Oracle Cloud, customers are offered unrivaled choice and flexibility for their critical business workloads and applications.” 

Oracle continues to see explosive customer adoption with more and more organisations moving their most demanding cloud applications to the Oracle Cloud. Organisations are turning to Oracle at record-rates to build, deploy and extend game-changing applications and run business-critical workloads in a low-latency, highly available, more reliable and secure cloud environment.

Oracle is increasing its commitment to cloud customers through extensive infrastructure investments including the global expansion of its Regions to deliver Oracle Cloud services. Oracle Cloud is the industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. In the past two years alone, Oracle has delivered more than 50 PaaS and IaaS services to market and introduced new deployment options like Oracle Cloud at Customer, providing unparalleled opportunity for customers. 

Customers drive innovation and business transformation with Oracle Cloud

“As one of the largest family-owned and operated Pepsi franchise bottlers that employs more than 1,650 people at multiple locations across different production facilities, we needed a better way to drive efficiencies and engage with employees,” said Christina Walker, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. 

“Oracle HCM Cloud did just that – improving our HR management efficiency by boosting recruiting and onboarding effectiveness so we could identify top talent faster and more cost efficiently, leveraging social media to increase candidate pools from 20 to up to 300 people for a job, and delivering self-service capabilities for employees while also giving managers instant access to updated HR information needed to effectively manage their teams. All of this while being intuitive and eliminating the hassle of excess paperwork. Oracle has helped transform the role of human resources in the organisation from recordkeeping to a true strategic business partner.” 

“With a staff of less than 100 people, we rely on third-party vendors to manage many of our technology systems. When one of the vendors needed to be replaced, we standardised on Oracle as other vendors failed to meet our needs,” said Brian Vogelsmeier, Director of Information Technology, MCH Strategic Data. 

“We selected Oracle Cloud – Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service – for our in-house application development and testing environment in order to provision new database environments fast, accelerate time to market from months to weeks, scale to meet business growth and increased workloads, and securely share data with clients.”  

 “By deploying our Oracle Retail Merchandising System on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service, we are able to reduce our physical server footprint and get faster access to new releases. The end result is better performance and lower costs,” said David Rawls, Vice President of Technology, RadioShack. “We also can extend compute power at the click of a button, which is especially important during the holiday surge. The bottom line is very powerful—Oracle Cloud delivers greater stability, security, flexibility, and simplicity. 

“We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service to quickly provision Oracle workloads, as well as install custom-built applications for non-Oracle workloads,” said Sergei Petrov, CTO, Safe Ports. “The communication and integration between the two is seamless because they run on the same environment and gives us a major advantage.” 

“Our mission is to continue to be the world’s best bicycle company and for us, that goes well beyond the bike itself. Continuing to modernise our offerings to deliver the best customer experience is critical,” said Girish Washikar, Global ERP Technical Manager, Trek Bicycle Corporation. 

“Using Oracle SOA Cloud and Oracle Developer Cloud Services, as well as Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service will enable us to support continuous growth in global markets by providing increased stability, efficiency and availability of our mission critical SOA infrastructure. With Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, we are developing Mobile Apps which enable our dealers to provide better customer experiences by delivering information and services where and when they need them.”