Kundan Vyas, Principal Product Manager within Oracle’s Product Management and Strategy group for Oracle PaaS, presented on how to leverage the power of Oracle Autonomous PaaS to connect and extend CX, ERP and HRMS applications.

Oracle Cloud Platform, also called Platform as a Service (PaaS), is the second tier of the Oracle Cloud. It is built on top of the Infrastructure (IaaS) layer and takes full advantage of the core capabilities of the Infrastructure. In addition to IaaS and PaaS, Oracle offers Software (SaaS) and Data (DaaS) layers.

5 Path Options for Your Cloud Journey

There are five different path options that customers can take on their journey to the Cloud. Customers can either move/improve on-premise applications, embrace SaaS (Software as a Service), innovate to compete, optimize IT operations, or act on real-time analytics.

• Move/improve on-premise applications: Reducing your data center footprint by moving legacy applications to the Cloud
• Embrace SaaS: Driving organizational efficiency/reducing on-prem apps
• Innovate to compete: Creating differentiation/meeting new business needs
• Optimize IT operations: Managing on-prem/Cloud real estate from Cloud and reducing security risks
• Act on real-time analytics: Analytics from data warehouses and big data repositories

This graphic shows more information on what each different path looks like when moving from on-premises operations to the Cloud.

Connect, Extend, Secure and Analyze with Oracle Cloud Platform

Oracle PaaS has the ability to support Oracle SaaS applications, third-party SaaS applications, and on-premise applications. Co-innovation with Oracle PaaS for SaaS provides customers with new functionality and technology, new experiences, simpler and faster connectivity, blended visual analytics, and additional security options. Oracle PaaS for SaaS provides a simple, innovative, advanced and smart solution. Oracle Cloud Platform capabilities include connecting, extending, securing and analyzing.

• Connect: Accelerate connecting with on-premises applications, third parties, data and processes
• Extend: Extend SaaS by building new applications and new experiences to support unique business models
• Secure: Detect and remediate unauthorized infiltration or malicious insider activity with continuous user behavior monitoring
• Analyze: Blend external data with SaaS or an expanded view of your business

For more details about the connect, extend, secure, and analyze capabilities within Oracle PaaS, check out the Quest article “An Introduction to Oracle Cloud Platform (PaaS) for Oracle SaaS.”

Oracle PaaS accelerates innovation with SaaS. Connecting, extending, securing and analyzing through Oracle Cloud Platform allows customers to connect data faster in real time (which is essential for moving on-prem customers to the Cloud), provide a connected experience that wows users, reduce risk exposure and connect intelligence with modern analytics.

For more information about how to leverage Oracle PaaS for SaaS and see a demo of mobile and chatbot functionality for CX, HRMS and ERP, check out the full presentation attached at the bottom of the page.