To: All Oracle Employees
As many of you know, the
move to the Cloud is a generational shift in technology that is the biggest and
most important opportunity in our company's history. Oracle embarked on this
initiative over ten years ago when we began rewriting all of our software as
integrated cloud services that are easy to own and use and also provide the
agility, reliability, scalability and security that customers expect. We now
have the leading and most complete set of cloud services in the industry, and
more than 10,000 of our customers around the world are already using them to
help run their businesses.
In order for us to reach
our goal of being the best company to do business with in the Cloud and further
propel our competitive differentiation, we have been deploying our own cloud
services internally and revamping how we sell to and care for our customers. We
are excited to share with you today the launch of the Oracle Accelerated Buying
Experience, a major component of our Cloud transformation.
The Oracle Accelerated
Buying Experience enables customers to effortlessly purchase our cloud services
with the click of a button. Through the use of our SaaS applications, including
Sales, Service and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) Clouds, we can now complete
orders significantly faster than anyone else in the Cloud. The result is less
time processing transactions and more time focusing on meeting the needs of our
customers. In addition to deploying our own cloud services, other changes that
are making the Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience possible include
Empowering the field
with more contracting flexibility; Reducing and eliminating required approvals;
Simplifying and shortening the order documents; Providing the ability for
customers to self-procure; and Delivering extensive help throughout the
process.
More detailed
information on how to take advantage of this transformational initiative can be
located on the Accelerated Buying Experience portal. In addition, we are
planning to make the Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience available for License
and other non-Cloud transactions in the near future. These important changes
will help us continue to be the most successful enterprise technology vendor in
the world.
Larry Ellison Chairman
and CTO
Safra Catz CEO
Mark Hurd CEO
