Today, during its Oracle Day event, Oracle Sri Lanka showcased the breadth and depth of the Oracle Cloud portfolio to its various customers from a wide range of industries in Sri Lanka on Oracle Day.

In addition, Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members demonstrated their ability and expertise in helping customers implement Oracle Cloud solutions.

During the event, Oracle senior executives from Sri Lanka and across the region, as well as partners and customers shared their experiences and expertise in the cloud about how to modernizebig data, data warehousing, marketing, and digital processes.Key topics discussed included digital innovation and digital disruption, the modern cloud, creating a unified data platform, the future of modern marketing, and the rise of digital in identity.

Session speakers highlightedOracle’s vast portfolio of cloud solutions and how they help organizations capitalize on key transformative technologies such as big data analytics, social, mobile, and IoT, as well as how to continue to extend foundational use cases that enable organizations to move enterprise workloads to the cloud.

Oracle also recently introduced a range of new Oracle Cloud services to help companies transition to the cloud. The Oracle Cloud Platform provides a complete suite of services that enable organizations to rapidly build and deploy rich applications— or extend Oracle Cloud SaaS applications—using an enterprise-grade cloud platform based on the industry’s number one database and application server.

Oracle also recently launched Oracle Cloud at Customer, designed to enable organizations to easily move to the cloud and remove some of the biggest obstacles to cloud adoption.

“The IT landscape is changing rapidly and businesses are more focused on getting highly personalized and secure cloud services to stay ahead of the competition,” said Ahsen Javed, managing director, Oracle Pakistan and SAGE-W.

“Organizations around the world are making a move to the cloud to improve their business agility and companies in Sri Lanka are no exception,” said Raghu Prasad, Head of Solutions Consulting – ASEAN Oracle.

On the SaaS front, the event highlighted industry-specific capabilities across professional services, public sector, education, and manufacturing verticals, which help ensure customers have the purpose-built, industry-tailored solutions for their specific needs.

“Agility is the key to survive and thrive in today’s business environment and it is imperative for local companies to constantly innovate and respond quickly to evolving business needs,” said Chandita Samaranayake, Regional Sales Director, Application Business, and Oracle South Asia Growth Economies.

The Oracle Cloud has shown strong adoption, supporting 70+ million users and more than 34 billion transactions each day. It runs in 19 data centers around the world.