Oracle outlined its strategy and go-to-market plan to dominate the cloud and AI market in India. Oracle Cloud is already one of the fastest growing global hyperscale public cloud providers, and in India, the company continues to witness growth across its cloud portfolio.
Demand for Oracle Cloud has grown more since the company launched its Cloud Regions in India – in Mumbai in 2019 and in Hyderabad in 2020. Since launch, capacities at these MeitY empanelled cloud regions have been increased multiple times, to accommodate the growing demand for cloud by customers in the private and public sectors.
Top business highlights
Focus industries
Oracle continues to be the preferred technology provider, including for cloud in BFSI and telco. Other industries where Oracle is driving major focus include public sector, manufacturing, professional services / IT and ITeS, healthcare, digital natives including fintechs, NBFCs, edtech, ecommerce, retail among others.
New innovations
Multicloud:
Last year, Oracle expanded its multi-cloud capabilities with Google with Oracle Database@Google Cloud. Before that, Oracle announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure and also HeatWave MySQL on AWS. The company recently announced an Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud in Mumbai and an Oracle Database@Azure region to soon be available in Central India. Oracle is committed to building standards-based products for customers, to reduce complexity and help them get the most out of their technology investments.
Partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure allow Oracle customers to use Oracle Database services on multiple clouds and simplify cloud migration and management, enabling them to run workloads across clouds. Indian enterprises are excited with these developments as it allows them to simplify cloud migration, multicloud deployment, and data management.
AI and Generative AI:
Oracle’s AI strategy spans its entire product portfolio with AI and machine learning functionalities available across its infrastructure layer, platform services, databases, and business applications. OCI’s core advantages are speed, scale, availability, flexibility – and it delivers high quality cloud infrastructure for generative AI training and inferencing.
On the applications side, Oracle has integrated 50 generative AI agents in its Fusion Cloud SaaS applications. These agents help organizations achieve new levels of productivity by successfully completing frequent, repetitive tasks and allowing employees and managers to focus their time on more strategic tasks and initiatives. The new agents enable customers to fully automate end-to-end business processes while also delivering personalized insights, content, and recommendations in the context of specific business processes and in support of specialized user roles.
Premalakshmi PR, vice president, Technology Cloud, Oracle India "OCI has experienced growth in both revenue and consumption. We doubled down on our strategy to give customers flexibility to access and deploy cloud capability wherever they need them – be it in the public cloud or in a dedicated or sovereign model, or in multicloud environments. Oracle’s AI strategy spans our entire product portfolio. As more organisations look to take advantage of AI, it’s also becoming a key driver of our cloud business. We are seeing momentum across BFSI, fintechs, NBFCs, IT/ITeS, manufacturing, SMB, digital natives and public sector.”
New Tech Customer Wins (selection)
Berger Paints, SRF Limited, AU Small Finance, The Hindu, RXIL, Tally Solutions, Magma General Insurance Limited, Sharchat, Ministry of Commerce, Lok Sabha – Digital Sansad, DP World, Goals101, Allcargo Gati, Berger Paints and more. More recent wins include Yubi, Muthoot FinCorp, Tata Motors, Phone Pe, NIC e-Office, Assam Power Distribution Company Limited’s (APDCL), Godfery Phillips, Indus Towers and more.
New Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Wins (selection)
Swiggy, Gupshup, Panasonic, SAEL, Havells India, SAIL, Bristlecone, RJ Corp, Tamil Nadu Bank, ICERTIS, Nuwama Wealth, PhonePe, Aavas Financiers, Bharti Airtel. More recent wins include Apollo, Persistent, KPMG, GSK Haleon, IDFC Bank, Star Health Insurance, Jubilant Foodworks, Lenskart and more.
New Customer Announcement
Shailesh Singla, vice president, Cloud Applications, Oracle India “Generative AI, including AI agents are reshaping industries – enhancing human creativity, and transforming work. This year, we believe there will be deeper integration of AI agents in business, especially in tasks that can take over repetitive, data-intensive functions. We see a lot of business opportunity here in India with more organisations willing to experiment and drive operational efficiencies. Our applications business has witnessed strong growth and expect new sectors like NBFCs, professional services, ecommerce driving applications growth in the near future.”
Berger Paints Colours Business Growth with Oracle Exadata Database Service In advance of Oracle CloudWorld Tour Mumbai on February 6 at Jio World Convention Centre, Oracle today announced that Berger Paints India Ltd., India’s second largest paint company, has moved all of its on-premises mission-critical databases to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In addition, Berger Paints has migrated its core business applications such as financial & accounting, process manufacturing including warehouse management, sales & services, and enterprise asset managements to OCI. With the migration, Berger Paints has improved operational efficiency by 25 percent and accelerated report generation and response time by 2X.
New Product and Solution Announcements
Announcing Limited Availability: Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure with Built-in Replication and Compute-Storage Separation As part of Oracle's ongoing commitment to introducing innovative database technologies, Oracle today announced the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, now in Limited Availability (LA). Designed to meet the demands of distributed applications, this service offers a unified database platform with built-in replication and separation of compute and storage, providing low-latency access, high availability, and scalable performance across multiple regions.
Oracle’s Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure offers a comprehensive range of data distribution, replication, and deployment methods, providing enterprises with extreme performance and flexibility. Its ability to store data in specific geographic regions helps organizations address data residency requirements while its converged architecture makes it ideal for modern applications that manage diverse data types and workloads.
By combining the efficiency of a serverless model with Exadata’s extreme performance, Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure enables applications to run with extreme speed and low costs. This service is ideal for enterprises looking for extreme availability or operating in multiple geographies, delivering a consistent and efficient database experience worldwide.
Customers can join this exclusive program to gain early access to cutting-edge features and capabilities, enabling them to optimize and enhance their applications with advanced distributed database technology.
Sumit Pachnanda, founder and CTO, SaaSWorx “The NetSuite data center launch in India gives added data residency confidence to customers, especially the ones who have plans to list on public markets SaaSWorx has been making sure that its customers and prospects are aware of NetSuite’s commitment to the Indian market and the data center launch reenforces this commitment."
NetSuite is Expanding to Oracle Cloud Regions in India
To meet the demand of a growing customer base in India and to expand its footprint of data centers around the world, NetSuite is opening data centers in the Oracle Cloud Mumbai Region and the Oracle Cloud Hyderabad Region. This will be the first time NetSuite will run on data centers in India. By hosting NetSuite in the Oracle Cloud Mumbai Region and the Oracle Cloud Hyderabad Region, India-based customers can reduce cross-border data transfers and benefit from NetSuite’s embedded AI features. In addition, with two separate data centers in India, NetSuite can provide disaster recovery services while helping them meet their geographical data storage requirements.
With the addition of these regions, NetSuite is now running in 16 OCI regions in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. This enables NetSuite customers, regardless of size, to access the same benefits that used to only be available to the largest global organisations.
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