To support growing customer demand globally, Oracle today announced that its Generation 2 Cloud is planned to go live in Australia by the end of the August with the opening of a new region in Sydney. This region comes alongside three others launching this month in Mumbai, Zurich, and Sao Paulo, and is part of the company's plans to have 19 regions live by the end of 2019, as well as an additional one in Melbourne early next year. Now, customers and partners in Australia can locally harness the power of Oracle Cloud and leading services like Autonomous Database to unlock innovation and drive business growth.
"As more Australian businesses look for new ways to unlock value from their data and drive innovation, Oracle is making deep local investment to ensure they have the right platform for transformation," says Valery Lanovenko, Vice President Technology, Australia and New Zealand. "This is a whole new class of cloud, designed from the ground up to both host mission critical workloads and drive innovation. This new data centre helps us address significant customer demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database, and meet local regulatory requirements."
Specifically architected to meet the needs of enterprises, Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure offers customers a compelling array of advanced technology. This includes AI-based Applications, ML-integrated security, automated analytics and Oracle Autonomous Database, a self-driving database that automatically encrypts data, backs itself up, tunes itself, upgrades itself and automatically patches itself when a security threat is detected. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, customers benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently.
Agatha Poon, Research Director, 451 Research, said, "There has been a data explosion across the Asia Pacific region as business organizations look for ways to create value from both structured and unstructured data. The result is an increasing need for fast data processing and heightened requirements on enterprise-class cloud infrastructure. Organizations demand uncompromising security, predictable performance, optimal price/performance, highly scalable cloud-native offerings, and no vendor lock-in. Vendors that can meet these needs and provide openness, cloud interoperability and portability stand the best chance at being selected as the cloud of choice."
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Customers and Partners Ready for New Oracle Sydney Region
Today, 430,000 customers are using Oracle in 175 countries around the world, including more than 4,000 customers in Australia and New Zealand. Organisations across this region are using Oracle to manage their mission-critical workloads to take advantage of the economies cloud has to offer. Customers include Nufarm, Accolade Wines, Australian Finance Group, National Pharmacies and NRMA.
"Nufarm is a global crop protection company with 3,300 people in more than 100 countries around the globe. We are committed to making a difference for our customers and are constantly looking for new solutions for farmers and new ways to improve our business," said Morris Lieberman, CIO, Nufarm. "Our global supply chain makes it possible for us to provide quality products that are competitively positioned and reliably supplied and being efficient with our resources is critical to keeping that running smoothly. Moving our Oracle eBusiness Suite workloads from AWS to Oracle Cloud will help us to save up to 40 per cent in licences and infrastructure costs. It's also more efficient for our business because having a hybrid IT environment means we have improved visibility across our network to help us spot and deal with issues quickly."
"To run a global wine business successfully, covering some of the world's best known and loved brands, means we make hard demands of Cloud. It needs to be scalable, highly available, fast, resilient, reliable, performant, secure. A key part of our operation is Trade Promotion Management, demand planning and forecasting," said Dean Holt, Global IT Director, Accolade Wines. "The use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for this area of our applications footprint has both helped improve its performance, reduce management effort and provided enhanced security, all of which better enables us to manage our global operations and service our customers better, no matter where in the world they are."
"We are a membership organisation offering a wide range of motoring, transport and travel solutions to protect the things our customer base cares about. We have worked closely with Oracle for a number of years, using a broad range of their solutions to support our business across a complete range of areas from front office, to back office, for business and customer insight and as the platform on which to run a number of the key applications that we rely on," said Vivek Jaiswal, General Manager -Technology Shared Services at the NRMA. "We welcome the concept of having access to a next generation cloud infrastructure that we can trust as much, if not more than our on premises enterprise systems in terms of its performance, reliability and above all security. It would help us to continue to ensure that we use the resources allocated to running the business as efficiently and effectively as possible and can put more focus on innovation and ensuring that we deliver the best customer experience to our members."
"Over a number of years, AFG has relied on Oracle technology to drive innovation and a market leading experience for 3000+ brokers across Australia, who collectively support ~10,000 home loan applications each month," said Matthew Faries, CIO, AFG. "Recently, we have leveraged new Oracle technology to drive record growth in our own home loan business. Supporting this growth, behind the scenes is a highly engineered credit assessment and decisioning platform. It is vital that this platform is highly responsive, always available and able to adapt in an ever-changing market. To continue our rate of growth, we are looking to Oracle's Generation 2 Data Centre to enable us to scale our credit operations, further automate the decision-making process and build a strong, sustainable business."
"Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has already played a powerful role in our digital transformation. It runs the Oracle Autonomous Database, which has enabled us to achieve the holy grail of centralising patient data so that our health practitioners can join the dots in real time and make informed decisions," said Ryan Klose, Executive General Manager, National Pharmacies. "It's underpinned the modernisation of our Oracle financial, procurement and warehousing systems, helping us reduce $7 million out of the business due to inefficient inventory practices, and 90 percent saving in our training budget taking advantage of mobile applications making in-store employee user experiences as intuitive as "Çandy Crush''. It's also enable our teams to innovate and test new technologies at a lower cost and without the traditional waiting times that come with on-premise platforms, now, it is as simple to check a few boxes in our Oracle Cloud administration wizard, and we up are an running in only a few minutes. It did not take us long to seize the advantage of the additional opportunities Oracle's next generation cloud infrastructure data centre brings as we continuously elevate emerging technologies for our customer … however they might choose to engage. Data, security and delivering compelling user experiences with our technology isn't just important to us, it's critical for how our business operates."
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program that provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and support specialised knowledge of Oracle's products and solutions and has evolved to recognise Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognised and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud. Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program – an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud.
Richard Agnew, who leads Accenture's Oracle IaaS and PaaS businesses across Asia Pacific, said, "Accenture has extensive experience guiding clients as they embrace cloud technologies to achieve greater business value. With Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure services available from an Australian-based date centre, we are now even better positioned to do so. This will help us combine the breadth of Oracle's enterprise-grade offerings with our expertise and dedicated resources, such as the specialized Accenture Enkitec group, for customers in the region and throughout Asia Pacific. We look forward to continuing to work with Oracle to unlock greater agility and efficiency for our clients."
Dean Langenbach, Chief Executive Officer, ASG Group said, "As a genuine alternative in the IT services landscape, ASG can offer our customers a complete end-to-end digital transformation service. With two decades of experience in the Australian market, ASG is a proven industry leader and a trusted advisor to a range of Oracle customers. Being able to leverage the additional performance, speed and security that Oracle's next-generation infrastructure brings, will help us deliver even greater value, innovation and security to our customers; especially in regulated industries like the public sector and financial services. We look forward to continuing to build on our close, strategic and collaborative relationship."
Richard James, Practice Director, DXC Red Rock, DXC Technology, said, "As the largest independent provider of end-to-end Oracle software, consulting and managed services in the region, DXC Technology believes the Generation 2 Cloud data centre will provide new and exciting opportunities for our customers. The major priority for many of our customers is moving existing applications to the cloud and we're confident that Oracle's Gen 2 data centre in the Sydney region will help them to embark on a long-term journey and realise increased performance, security, scalability and cost savings."
Chamanthi Weerasinghe, Managing Partner, PeopleSoft, Presence of IT, said, "Increasingly, a significant part of what we do is migrate PeopleSoft users to the Oracle Cloud, enabling them to manage their business instead of managing infrastructure. Recently, we identified that our customers can achieve operational savings of up to 60 percent by using Cloud Manager on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compared to running PeopleSoft on-premise. The new local data centre is going to be even more beneficial for our customers and we are excited to bring new innovations to our PeopleSoft customers with solutions such as Oracle Digital Assistant."
