Oracle has continued its charm offensive, yesterday announcing a comprehensive nine-year partnership with salesforce.com. The partnership all three tiers of cloud computing: applications; platform; and infrastructure.
As part of the agreement, salesforce.com plans to standardise on the Oracle Linux operating system, Exadata engineered systems, the Oracle Database, and Java Middleware Platform.
Oracle plans to integrate salesforce.com with Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial Cloud, and provide the core technology to power salesforce.com’s applications and platform.
Salesforce.com will also implement Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial cloud applications throughout the company.
“Larry [Ellison, CEO of Oracle] and I both agree that salesforce.com and Oracle need to integrate our clouds,” says Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
“Salesforce.com’s CRM integrated with Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial Cloud is the best of both worlds: the simplicity of salesforce.com combined with the power of Oracle.”
“We are looking forward to working with salesforce.com to integrate our cloud with theirs,” says Ellison.
“When customers choose cloud applications they expect rapid low-cost implementations; they also expect application integrations to work right out of the box – even when the applications are from different vendors. That’s why Marc and I believe it’s important that our two companies work together to make it happen, and integrate the salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds.”
Parker Harris, executive VP of salesforce,com, adds: “With over 1-billion complex transactions delivered every single day, an Oracle Linux and Exadata Infrastructure will make salesforce.com a more efficient company – and our customers will benefit.
“Deploying Exadata engineered systems throughout our data centres will allow us to significantly lower overall hardware, floor space and energy costs, while simultaneously providing our customers with higher performance and better reliability.”
On Monday, Oracle announced an agreement with Microsoft.