Oracle is expanding its Oracle Cloud services portfolio, and continues to demonstrate significant customer and partner momentum.
Seven new Oracle Cloud preview services augment Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of Platform Services, Application Services, and Social Services, all available on a subscription basis.
The seven new Oracle Cloud Services include:
1. Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service: Streamlines financial planning, budgeting and forecasting processes by delivering the proven business benefits of Oracle Hyperion Planning in a subscription-based cloud service.
2. Oracle Financial Reporting Cloud Service: Enables the creation and delivery of highly formatted, boardroom quality management reporting, as well as corporate financial statements.
3. Oracle Data and Insight Cloud Service: Aggregates insightful and intelligent data from enterprise, social and external sources to enrich business applications such as CRM and helps ensure that customer, prospect and contact data is always up-to-date.
4. Oracle Social Sites Cloud Service: Enables brands to quickly expose sites to their customers to meet the needs of today's agile companies. The rich editing experience and powerful back-end mean that even non-technical users can make great sites quickly and launch them to the public.
5. Oracle Developer Cloud Service: Simplifies collaborative software development by providing a standards-based environment that supports the complete development lifecycle. Provides access to source control management, issue tracking, continuous integration and document collaboration.
6. Oracle Storage Cloud Service: Enables businesses to store and manage digital content in the cloud, integrated with other Oracle Cloud services that require online storage.
7. Oracle Messaging Cloud Service: Provides an infrastructure that enables data communications between applications within Oracle Cloud as well as outside of Oracle Cloud via asynchronous message queues.
These new services join the following Oracle Cloud Applications, Social and Platform Services:
- Oracle Cloud Application Services: Includes ERP Services, HCM Services, Talent Management Services, Sales and Marketing Services, and Customer Service and Support Services.
In addition, the Application Services are now integrated with Social Services allowing organizations to transform their corporate business processes and systems using social capabilities.
- Oracle Cloud Social Services: Includes Oracle Social Network, Oracle Social Marketing Services, Oracle Social Engagement and Monitoring Services and Oracle Social Sites.
- Oracle Cloud Platform Services: Includes Database Service and Java Service and will include Mobile Services, Collaboration Services, Analytics Services and Application Store.
With Oracle Database and Java Cloud Services, customers get access to the industry-leading database and Java EE application server in the cloud. The services are now available globally.
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