Unleash New Innovations with Oracle Cloud Platform

Introduction
Oracle Cloud: Your Best Choice for Production Workloads

The public cloud is maturing. At every layer of the cloud (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS), the motivation for cloud adoption is shifting from technical conveniences, such as faster provisioning and pay as you go, to business outcomes, such as digital transformation, business practice modernization, deeper levels of customer engagement, and analytics everywhere.

In Oracle Cloud, the PaaS layer has allowed customers to develop, extend, connect, secure, mobilize, share data, and get insights across apps—all while achieving the same capabilities in the cloud as on premises.

This has provided our customers with an open, practical, and lower-cost platform for achieving their exceptional business outcomes. In this book, you will find a summary of their challenges and achievements. To highlight a few, our customers have:

Accelerated innovation and sales cycles by reducing IT complexity
Rapidly turned ideas into revenue through increased development speed
Seamlessly handled a 30× surge in demand for services
Improved collaboration capabilities while building trust with customers
Deployed new applications faster while lowering CapEx

Oracle Cloud Customers in this Digibook

The customers in this book can be divided into two categories:

Those who have migrated all their systems and development, Oracle and non-Oracle, into Oracle Cloud
Customers who found benefit from adopting targeted PaaS offerings, such as application development, integration, data management, management and security, or analytics

The motivations for cloud adoption are diverse and are organized into these categories:

Migrate to the Cloud with Confidence

Making the decision to move your workloads to the cloud is a critical one. In making the shift, your business is choosing to entrust a vendor with your most critical workloads, and most valuable and sensitive data. Therefore, it is essential that your business selects a cloud service provider with a proven track record of leading businesses like yours through IT transformations, and a cloud platform that can deliver the outcomes you desire for your business.

One of our most important objectives with Oracle platform as a service is delivering a standardized and secure enterprise-grade cloud platform that uses the same software, architecture, and skill sets to provide users with a familiar toolset and an intuitive user experience. This allows us to help organizations improve productivity gains for developers, IT, and lines of business.

Oracle Cloud PaaS allows developers, IT professionals, and line of business leaders to leverage the cloud to develop, test, and deploy the next generation of applications in a secure, cost-effective way for speed to market, as well as to scale competitive advantages. Oracle PaaS delivers cost savings through standardization and higher utilization of the shared platform across multiple applications. Find out what makes Oracle Cloud PaaS platform unique and how it can be adopted by your organization.

¹IDC, “Worldwide Competitive Public Cloud Platform as a Service Forecast, 2015–2019,” idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=257391.

The worldwide public market for platform as a service is expected to grow from about US$6 billion in 2014 to more than US$22 billionin 2019, with a CAGR of more than 30% for the period.¹

Learn more about the basics of enterprise cloud technology here.

¹IDC, “Worldwide Competitive Public Cloud Platform as a Service Forecast, 2015–2019,” https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=257391.

Oracle Cloud—A Uniquely Comprehensive and Integrated Platform

Oracle Cloud customers appreciate the stability offered by a standardized and secure enterprise-grade cloud platform that uses the same software, architecture, and skillsets to provide users with a familiar toolset and an intuitive user experience. This frees developers to innovate across an open-standards-based platform and help their organizations drive innovation and business transformation.

Oracle Cloud is unique in its industry-leading capabilities. Four key elements define Oracle Cloud Platform:

Complete

Oracle Cloud doesn’t just span every layer of the stack. It’s integrated across each layer of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Just as importantly, Oracle Cloud is integrated with on-premises technologies to create a seamless experience that drives organizational efficiencies and faster innovation. Oracle’s best-in-class SaaS covers every category—including HCM, ERP, SCM, EPM, and CX. Also, critical to Oracle Cloud is that it extends and enriches applications without requiring costly rewrites.

Open

Oracle’s open-standards-based cloud gives customers the optimum level of flexibility their businesses require as they change over time, meaning they can use existing skillsets and talent across all environments and technology stacks. It supports both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads. It also allows customers to adopt new cloud standards, like Docker, and simplifies the adoption of new standards.

Secure

With Oracle, security isn’t a deterrent to moving to the cloud; it’s actually an enabler. Oracle builds integrated defensive layers throughout the stack, protecting every aspect of customers’ on-premises, private, and public cloud environments. Oracle Cloud also features a comprehensive set of security controls to protect the entire environment, from physical to logical security controls.

Choice

Oracle focuses the engineering of its products and services to best connect private cloud, public cloud, public cloud on premises (Oracle Cloud at Customer), and hybrid cloud to enable flexibility, ease, agility, compatibility, extensibility, and seamlessness. Finally, Oracle features consumption models and entry points for all businesses.

It is also unique in its ability to support a unified and complete Oracle technology stack across all layers of the cloud and on premises, with the ability to operate between the two—and even with the choice of servers residing in your own data center. Oracle Cloud also allows you to migrate (lift and shift) completely virtualized Oracle (and some non-Oracle) operating environments into Oracle Cloud.

Oracle PaaS: Capabilities Overview

Delivering the industry’s number-one database (Oracle Database) and number-one application server (Oracle WebLogic Server), Oracle Cloud PaaS is the industry’s leading enterprise cloud platform. Built on proven Oracle technology, Oracle Cloud PaaS helps organizations drive innovation and business transformation.

Oracle PaaS provides a standardized and secure enterprise-grade cloud platform that uses the same software, architecture, and skillsets to provide users with a familiar toolset and an intuitive user experience. It offers built-in multitenancy, in-memory analytics, and the mobile and social capabilities to improve productivity gains for developers, IT, and lines of business.

Customers and partners can use Oracle’s
open-standards-based platform services for a variety of use cases across DevTest, data management, big data analytics, new application development, cloud and
on-premises integration, SaaS extension, content sharing, collaboration, and more.

When connected to your corporate data center in a hybrid cloud configuration, you can rely on Oracle Cloud to meet all of the needs for your enterprise workloads. No other cloud provider offers the level of choice and flexibility that Oracle delivers to meet your business’s cloud needs.

Oracle Cloud PaaS seamlessly integrates with Oracle Cloud IaaS and SaaS to reduce costs and speed business-application deployment in the cloud, delivering predictable precision performance and enterprise-grade security at the same time.

Learn more about Oracle PaaS

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No matter what you want to do in the cloud, Oracle PaaS can help turn your ideas into powerful business enablers and capabilities. Click on the use case categories below to find out how companies from all kinds of industries are using PaaS to build a brighter future for their business in the cloud.

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Introduction Oracle Cloud: Your Best Choice for Production Workloads

Oracle Cloud: Your Best Choice for Production Workloads