Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem

About Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem

Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem is a new age global accelerator program initiated by Oracle which works with startups to drive innovation, creating new partnerships & disrupting established status-quo bringing forth new technologies, thus digitally altering the tech ecosystem. Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem has 3 programs, Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator, Oracle Scaleup Ecosystem and Oracle Startup for Higher Education. Oracle’s global startup mission is to provide enriching, collaborative partnerships to enable Next-generation growth, business development, and drive cloud-based innovation for startups throughout all stages of their journey. Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator was kick-started in second half of 2016 and currently has 9 centers worldwide working with over 60 startups bring startups and big Enterprise closer.

About OSCA360

In early 2017, a need was felt by the stakeholders of Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator to create an innovative platform which could help in handling all the business operations of accelerator program. The ask was to create application which could track activities of the accelerator program and capability to provide a complete 360 degree view of Cradle (application) to Graduation (Alumni) life cycle of a startup in Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator and also seamlessly integration with other Oracle Cloud services for rapidly growing business.

OSCA360 is built as a feature rich innovative platform with great UI/UX and is deployed on Oracle Public Cloud. This platform is meant for startup accelerator ecosystem and keeps track of Startups, Applications, Cohorts, Events, Mentors, Customer connects, Mentoring sessions, Travel & Expenses, Cloud services usage, Analytic etc. It gives a holistic 360 degree view of the information for each level of user.

This product also provides a gateway for Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator alumni to stay connected and get updates about Oracle events and their customer connects. This platform also helps measure the usage and effectiveness of free cloud credits being distributed by Oracle.

Business/Programs affiliates

The OSCA360 platform has been adopted global across 8 centers of Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator, Oracle Scaleup Ecosystem and Oracle Startup for Higher Education program which has resulted in a rich database of more than 200 registered users, 4000+ startups, over 700 events, 200+ customers connects in less than a year. Great Global Collaboration with Oracle Internal team like Innovation Advisers ,Oracle Key Account Directors, Oracle Application Labs, Sales Teams etc. has resulted in this platform on its way to becoming default platform to provide startup database & customer connects for the whole ecosystem within Oracle.

Technology footprint

Key to any successful platform is choice of Technology for the backend ops, which determines the ease of use, how quickly it can be scaled up and new features added to it. A great UI/UX as always determines the initial impression of users. For such an application, looking at the complexity of the platform, Number of Cloud services involved, Integrations, Analytics and UI, Oracle JET was the most obvious choice for us.

How OSCA360 uses Oracle JET

Oracle JET helped us to develop a modern and responsive application in quick time. With standard Alta UI and out of the box responsive JET components, interface of OSCA360 is compatible with different devices used across the world. Ease of integrating the application with Oracle PaaS services and deployment on Oracle IaaS make it a first choice for development. Rich visualization components helped to make the quick and responsive dashboards for executives. There are quite a handful components available and flexibility of developing own components provides endless opportunities to develop rich applications in very less time.

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