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As day 2 of Oracle's annual fest begins to unfold, let us attempt to summarize what big announcements and not so big news were reported so far by Oracle itself, the media and hundreds of determined tweeps and bloggers. Quote from Larry Ellison's Sunday keynote 1. Cloud Unsurprisingly, the dominating topic is cloud. As Larry Ellison announced in his Sunday keynote ( which you can watch here ), Oracle is not only aiming at becoming a PaaS, IaaS or SaaS vendor but providing all three layers of cloud computing at once. This included announcements to make six new cloud services available in the near future. You can educate yourself on the current status of the Oracle Cloud on the ever-changing and ever-growing landing page here . Oracle definitely sees itself as a full-stack vendor, and rightfully so. From "silicon" to applications, we have it. The only thing that Oracle does not (yet) have is our own browser ;-). So Oracle is indeed in a good position to become a major p...

In his Siebel Observer publication, Bruce Daley informs us that Oracle changes its policies to allow Siebel support fees to be applied to Cloud products. *** Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL)  has announced new licensing policies that make it easier to exchange Siebel shelf ware for other CX products. Called the Customer 2 Cloud program, the new policies hope to overcome some of the common financial and technical problems Oracle customers experience in transitioning from Oracle on-premise software to Oracle software-as-a-service Cloud products. The Customer 2 Cloud program allows Oracle HCM and CRM customers to exchange some of their on-premise support budget for new Oracle Cloud products. "The Customer 2 Cloud program helps organizations get their hands on the latest technology," says Rod Johnson, group vice president, Oracle Applications and Industries Solutions Group. "This program aims to remove the financial and integration challenges that can impact a company's ...

As Oracle expands its Cloud business through both acquisitions and new releases of its own Fusion Applications (which are the backbone of Sales, HCM and ERP cloud), a new product line is emerging, nameley Oracle Cloud Applications . This is a combined offer of: Sales (formerly Fusion CRM) Human Capital Management Financials Value Chain Execution Product Value Chain Procurement Project Portfolio Management These applications are based on Oracle Fusion Applications and are hosted in the Oracle Cloud together with other Oracle products such as Marketing Cloud or Service Cloud. Still from an Oracle video on Sales Cloud. With Release 8 of Oracle Cloud Applications (and Fusion Applications), Oracle explores new ways in informing customers about enhancements and new features in the form of a release 8  readiness page on cloud.oracle.com . In addition to checking out the content on that page, the seasoned Fusion Cloud observer may want to peruse the really awesome Oracle Product Featur...