#oow16: Oracle Open World 2016 kicks off and its all ‘Cloudy’

Oracle Open World was officially opened last evening, by Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison showcasing Oracle’s new innovations across all the three tiers of cloud computing that is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) in San Francisco’s Moscone Centre.

In his opening keynote, Larry Ellison stated that with time Oracle is taking shape in the Cloud Business doing away with its competitors . For instance, on the IaaS platform, Larry said that the only competition left was Amazon and IBM was no longer a competitor in this space. On the SaaS platform, the only competition left was WorkDay and SalesForce as compared to a few years where SAP was the main rival.

Mr. Ellison, however, had a word of caution to Amazon as he unveiled a range of Cloud innovations by Oracle last evening, “Amazon’s lead is over. Amazon is going to have serious competition going forward. And we’re very proud of our second generation of Infrastructure as a Service. We’re going to be focusing on it and aggressively featuring it not only during Oracle OpenWorld but for the remainder of this fiscal year and next fiscal year and the year after that.”

He also added that Oracle had SaaS applications by a huge margin than any other cloud services provider. Which included the likes of HCM suite, CRM Suite, Customer Experience Suite plus lots and lots of industry suites as well. And we’re constantly, constantly adding to our footprint.

Top on Ellison’s list was Oracle’s new Database 12c Release 2, as well as more than 20 new Oracle Cloud Platform and Application services that extend choice and access for customers and partners globally.

Industry-first innovations highlighted include a new Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that is orders of magnitudes faster and more scalable than other Cloud database services and new Adaptive Intelligence Applications that use machine learning to power the next generation of Cloud applications.

“There are two big databases that keep track of consumers, if you will and have a lot of information about consumers. One is very famous. It’s called Facebook. The other one is less well known. It’s Oracle’s Data Cloud. We actually have more consumers in our data cloud than they have in theirs,” he said.

The release of Oracle’s world’s number one database, Oracle Database 12c Release 2, coming first in the Cloud, marks a new era of magnitude and innovation for the enterprise. Building on its unique multi-tenant architecture and in-memory technology, Mr. Ellison said that Oracle’s flagship database will able to drive robust enterprise workloads faster than the nearest competitor.

It was also a win for developers at this year’s Oracle Open World as Oracle introduced Container Cloud service to support Cloud developers and make managing containers easy on the public Cloud, API Cloud service to help developers create, secure, manage and analyze APIs and low-code development platform that enables business users and developers quickly and easily to extend services and build new applications.

“We have toolsets for developers who want to extend and migrate their existing enterprise applications to the cloud. We have toolsets for cloud-centric developers who are developing all new applications that will only be in the cloud. And we have toolsets for business users, where they can easily, without writing code, easily create extensions to our SaaS applications and even build something, ” added Larry Ellison.

Governments also are winners at this year’s Oracle Open World as Oracle unveiled the new public sector and revenue management Cloud services as part of Oracle ERP Cloud.

Other additional innovations unveiled across the Oracle Cloud include, modern employee engagement capabilities as part of Oracle HCM Cloud modern employee engagement capabilities as part of Oracle HCM Cloud the expanded packaged industry solutions, new blended agent capabilities for sales and service professionals and expanded B2B commerce functionality within Oracle CX Cloud, new financial consolidation and close and profitability and cost management capabilities within Oracle EPM Cloud, Exadata Express Cloud Service, integration Cloud service to support integration of Cloud and on-premises applications, new analytics Cloud suite to connect data sources and instantly visualize any data on any device, big data discovery Cloud service to visualize and discover hidden value in all data and Internet of Things applications for asset management, production insights, connected worker and fleet management.

This year Oracle attracted over 60,000 people. The event is dedicated to helping businesses leverage Cloud for their innovation and growth, the conference delivers deep insight into industry trends and breakthroughs driven by technology. Designed for attendees who want to connect, learn, explore and be inspired, Oracle OpenWorld offers more than 2,200 educational sessions led by more than 2,000 customers and partners sharing their experiences