Oracle CloudWorld, Munich – With revenues of more than $1-billion coming from its public cloud services, Oracle says it is the second biggest player in this market – and that it’s aiming to maintain this position with a number of new offerings.
Asked at a post-keynote press conference just how much revenue the company had generated from its public cloud services and what new services were on offer since the company’s flagship conference OpenWorld, Oracle executive vice-president, product development, Thomas Kurian was reluctant to give out exact figures.
“We’ve made only one public statement on this subject that we had generated revenue of more than $1-billion from public cloud subscriptions only,” Kurian says. “This makes us the second largest in this market, after salesforce.com.”
And Kurian is confident that Oracle can maintain – and improve on – this position in the future with a number of new enhancements to its offerings.
“Since Oracle OpenWorld where we announced our platform services, we today have 4 800 customers on our database services and 2 900 on Java,” he says.
“That’s just two examples of the progress we’re making. On the applications side, we announced human resources, talent management, sales and customer service offerings and have since announced new releases of these.
“Also, our ERP offerings were in trials at the time of OpenWorld – we had our first site customer using this software,” he adds. “This is now a fully-fledged cloud offering.”
Added to this, acquisitions had led to additional services being made available.
“The acquisition of Eloqua, for example, which forms the basis of our marketing services,” says Kurian.
Asked at a post-keynote press conference just how much revenue the company had generated from its public cloud services and what new services were on offer since the company’s flagship conference OpenWorld, Oracle executive vice-president, product development, Thomas Kurian was reluctant to give out exact figures.
“We’ve made only one public statement on this subject that we had generated revenue of more than $1-billion from public cloud subscriptions only,” Kurian says. “This makes us the second largest in this market, after salesforce.com.”
And Kurian is confident that Oracle can maintain – and improve on – this position in the future with a number of new enhancements to its offerings.
“Since Oracle OpenWorld where we announced our platform services, we today have 4 800 customers on our database services and 2 900 on Java,” he says.
“That’s just two examples of the progress we’re making. On the applications side, we announced human resources, talent management, sales and customer service offerings and have since announced new releases of these.
“Also, our ERP offerings were in trials at the time of OpenWorld – we had our first site customer using this software,” he adds. “This is now a fully-fledged cloud offering.”
Added to this, acquisitions had led to additional services being made available.
“The acquisition of Eloqua, for example, which forms the basis of our marketing services,” says Kurian.