Oracle Cloud vs SAP Cloud

August 19, 2023 | Author: Michael Stromann
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Oracle Cloud
Oracle Public Cloud provides customers and partners with a high-performance, reliable, elastic, and secure infrastructure for their critical business applications and offers customers a complete range of business applications and technology solutions, avoiding the problems of data and business process fragmentation when customers use multiple siloed public clouds.
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SAP Cloud
Get the best of both worlds – the power of real time + the simplicity of the cloud – with our cloud-based deployment option for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA, and the SAP HANA platform.
Oracle Cloud and SAP Cloud are both prominent cloud computing platforms, but they differ in their offerings, focus, and target audience. Oracle Cloud is a comprehensive cloud infrastructure platform that combines infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. It provides a wide range of cloud services, including computing power, storage, databases, analytics, and enterprise applications. Oracle Cloud leverages Oracle's expertise in databases and enterprise applications, offering specialized services for Oracle Database, analytics, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). On the other hand, SAP Cloud is a cloud-based platform that focuses on providing a suite of applications and services for business operations, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and more. SAP Cloud offers industry-specific solutions and specializes in integrating various business functions.

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Oracle Cloud vs SAP Cloud in our news:

2013. Oracle: Imagine, that your business is a yacht


Oracle OpenWorld conference could be the most boring event in the IT world, but one thing made it cool: just before the conference, Larry Ellison's yacht (Oracle Team USA) won the America Cup regatta. And Larry immediately used this fact to promote its IT business. It turned out that the Oracle's yacht won mainly thanks to the Oracle Cloud and Big Data. At the beginning of the race it was just more or less competitive yacht. But, unlike its competitors it was overloaded with sensors and cameras that collected 200 GB of data during each race. Then mixed with the information about sea currents, winds, other yachts it was analyzed in the Oracle Cloud. Based on this information every day (before each race) specialists modified/tuned yacht parameters. In result, by the end of the regatta Oracle's yacht has become virtually inaccessible for competitors. In the same way cloud technology could optimize your company. ***


2013. SAP boss is mooning Oracle boss again



SAP co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner is an old "friend" of Oracle boss Larry Ellison. They compete not only in the IT business but also in yacht races. Plattner, reportedly, once dropped his pants and mooned the crew of Ellison’s racing yacht when it was passing by. After that Ellison didn't miss a chance to throw a jab at SAP. For example, his first and only tweet is dedicated to SAP's failure on the cloud market. But the history repeats and now Larry Ellison once again is watching SAP's back. Recently we told about SAP's new product - HANA - the Big Data database that left behind Oracle's database business. And now SAP has launched a cloud platform SAP Enterprise Cloud (built on HANA), which has the potential to become the Amazon for big companies and beat Oracle on the cloud market. ***


2012. Larry Ellison likes Cloud, Amazon, standards. Not likes SAP, Salesforce, WorkDay



Yesterday, Oracle launched its public cloud service Oracle Cloud and, of course, the CEO, Larry Ellison, rocked at the presentation. The biggest surprise was the fact that Larry is now likes the word Cloud. He says, "I like the word Cloud because it’s a charismatic brand." Previously, he defined the Cloud something like "bull's shit", "water vapour" or "I don't care what you call it." The second surprise was the fact that Ellison can respect a rival and even to recognize that Oracle imitates it. It's about Amazon. Larry says "As part of our platform we have a lot of common with Amazon Web Services. Archive is elastic like Amazon’s cloud is elastic." But the rest of the rivals, of course, were less lucky this day. ***


2010. Larry Ellison vs Marc Benioff: So what is Cloud Computing?



This summer at the Cloudforce conference Salesforce boss Marc Benioff showed the slide titled "Beware of the False Cloud! " with the picture of Oracle Exadata - storage appliance, that is used to build private clouds. Benioff said: "The false Cloud isn’t efficient. It’s not economical. It’s not democratic, it’s not the same for small medium and large companies. It doesn’t have low CO2 emissions. It’s a false cloud and they are just marketing the name because we’re doing so well". And yesterday, at the presentation of the new out-of-the-box private cloud solution Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Larry Ellison also spent five minutes of humor, devoted to his former employee Marc Benioff. Here's the video: ***


2010. Oracle kills Sun Cloud



In the period just before Oracle's acquisition, SUN made an announcement regarding its public cloud platform called Sun Cloud. The platform was intended to serve as an open alternative to Amazon Web Services, exciting open-source enthusiasts who eagerly anticipated a new cloud space where Microsoft, Amazon, and Google would face competition, and customers could freely switch between platforms to enhance application reliability and scalability. However, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, expressed his dismissive stance towards Cloud Computing, bluntly labeling it as "bullshit." Consequently, last week, he officially shut down the Sun Cloud project. According to Larry, selling computing minutes for mere cents is not within Oracle's realm of interest. Instead, Oracle will focus on providing hardware and software solutions to those who engage in such endeavors, as well as catering to companies in need of "private clouds."

Author: Michael Stromann
Michael is an expert in IT Service Management, IT Security and software development. With his extensive experience as a software developer and active involvement in multiple ERP implementation projects, Michael brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his writings. Having previously worked at SAP, he has honed his expertise and gained a deep understanding of software development and implementation processes. Currently, as a freelance developer, Michael continues to contribute to the IT community by sharing his insights through guest articles published on several IT portals. You can contact Michael by email stromann@liventerprise.com