Oracle Cloud Platform is a Product as a Service Cloud (PaaS) solution that consists of two main product categories - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Applications. Through its many products, Oracle Cloud Platform offers a shared scalable platform for the consolidation of existing applications and the development and deployment of new applications.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle Cloud Platform's segment for running applications in a faster and more secure way. It offers services for migration, building, and running IT, and allows users to do these things from existing enterprise workloads to new native cloud applications and data platforms. This part of Oracle Cloud Platform supports Oracle applications, custom applications, and ISV applications. Some of the capacities of OCI include:
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
- Analytics and BI
- Big data
- Cloud regions
- Compute
- Containers and functions
- Database services
- Data lakehouse
- DevOps
- Government cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Integration
- Networking
- Observability and management
Part of Oracle Cloud Platform applications segment is Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This is a suite that provides users with advanced capabilities such as AI, analytics, and automatic updates. These functions facilitate several processes for users, including automating manual processes to save time, reacting to market shifts in real time, and gaining competitive advantage through accelerating workflow. The suite includes features for:
- Financial management
- Procurement
- Project management
- Risk management and compliance
- Enterprise performance management
Another aspect of Oracle Cloud Platform applications features is Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM). This set of products allows organizations to respond quickly to changing market conditions, demand, and supply by connecting their supply chain to a network that is especially created for them. This part of the product includes:
- Supply chain planning
- Inventory management
- Manufacturing
- Maintenance
Another set of products from this solution are the ones in Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX). This is a connected suite of applications that upgrades basic customer relationship management (CRM) and helps companies create, manage, and serve effective customer relationships. Through these products, clients of Oracle can manage:
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Sales
- Service
- Content
The final set that completes Oracle Cloud Platform is called Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM). This is a complete cloud solution that connects every human resource process across clients' enterprises. It achieves this through the management of:
- Human resources
- Talent management
The complete set of products from Oracle Cloud Platform allows users to utilize cloud features across all processes of their organization and benefit from the frequent upgrades of the solution.
Oracle Cloud Platform Features
This product has various features, across all functions that it offers. The main capabilities of Oracle Cloud Platform can be grouped in the following ways:
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Availability: Through Oracle Cloud Platform, users can benefit from features for high data availability, which is crucial for real-time applications. This ensures the high performance of applications and minimizes downtimes and failures.
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Backup and recovery: The product offers various features for the backup and recovery of data. These cover almost all kinds of failures possible. This set of Oracle Cloud Platform features allows users to access unaffected parts of data while the affected ones are being recovered.
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Scalability: There are various features across Oracle products that enhance performance and make applications more scalable.
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Security: This platform puts security as one of its top priorities and ensures it by providing several mechanisms to control data access and usage.
Oracle Cloud Platform Benefits
Oracle Cloud Platform has many benefits for its users across different industries. Some of the greatest advantages of using this solution include:
- Oracle Cloud Platform utilizes various methodologies and principles to increase performance.
- The solution supports managing multiple databases, allowing greater flexibility for its users.
- Oracle Cloud Platform has different editions, catering to the needs of different clients, which allows them to purchase only what they actually need.
- The solution ensures high data availability by utilizing clusters.
- Oracle Cloud Platform has a strong failure recovery system that ensures the files are secured even during downtimes and outages.
- The solution consists of multiple products which are organized by use cases, allowing users to access them easily and obtain the information they require for their work.
- Clients from all levels, from personal to enterprise, can use the features of this platform, making it highly accessible.
Reviews from Real Users
Daniel M., an IT Architect at Orbis Data, thinks that Oracle Cloud Platform is a great database with good stability and a very good interface.
Marcio A., a senior database administrator at BCIE, likes Oracle Cloud Platform because it eases the deployment of Oracle Linux server instances and provides good database performance.
