In traditional Oracle OpenWorld fashion, the company has announced numerous incremental improvements to existing products.
The heavy focus on cloud continues: CEO Mark Hurd predicts that over the course of the next decade, deployment of enterprise applications will shift to become 80% cloud-based.
That shift has also greatly impacted Oracle's own development lifecycles, Hurd said. "In the cloud, we release two or three versions of each application every year, and each revision introduces around 200 new features on average. In some cases we're delivering a thousand new features to an application every year."
Fusion power
OpenWorld 2015 saw a major release of Oracle's Fusion Middleware, and WebLogic Server, as well as the surrounding portfolio of support apps.
Notably, WebLogic offers new multi-tenant and resilience capabilities, and Oracle Data Integration has been greatly extended to support a range of third-party big data platforms.
Self-service analytics
Oracle Data Visualisation Cloud service is a graphical BI interface, intended to allow business users to perform self-service analytics on large, complex data sets very quickly and easily.
The software makes educated guesses about the optimum visualisation, and integrates with the company's existing analytics portfolio.
"Adoption and usage patterns at our 400+ Business Intelligence Cloud Service customers confirm that fast, easy-to-use data visualisation is critical to their businesses," said Hari Sankar, group VP, Business Analytics, Oracle.
Expanded supply chain
The Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud has been expanded with two new products - Oracle Planning Central Cloud and Oracle Manufacturing Cloud - in addition to extended capabilities in other areas.
Planning Central Cloud integrates supply and demand planning, forecasting, inventory management and analytics.
Manufacturing Cloud offers simple, graphical interfaces to create and manage manufacturing processes, integrated within the company's other product management tools.
Embedded learning
The Oracle HCM (human capital management) portfolio has been enhanced with an embedded learning solution, Oracle Learning Cloud, which allows training and mentoring components to be embedded within other enterprise applications.
A sales agent viewing a lead, for example, may be presented with learning materials specifically relevant to that activity or the contextual metadata.
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