Item: Oracle Cloud Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Cloud Platform is used for deploying company-wide, both internal and external applications spanning multiple geographies worldwide. This includes web applications with Oracle Database and mobile applications used by customers.

Pros and Cons

Oracle Cloud Platform can provide consistent latency guarantees in multiple geographics.
It works well with Oracle Database that is being used as the primary database without the need for custom configuration.
Oracle Cloud Platform has reasonable customization options to fine-tune it for workloads that require very low latency for events/transactions.

The management console for Oracle Cloud Platform is a bit sluggish and can be made more intuitive.
There is still room for adding more KPIs and configuration parameters to Oracle Cloud Platform that can give users more ways to fine-tune compute/memory/bandwidth-intensive workloads.
Pricing (assuming no discounts from a sales rep) can be improved to compete with Google and Amazon AWS.

Return on Investment

Positive ROI for enabling customer-facing and internal applications that achieve the right KPIs
Positive impact on business for enabling near real-time business processes and analytics
Positive ROI for being able to be able to move a workload from on-prem to the public cloud as needed with minimal CapEx.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Azure, AWS Lambda, Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud, Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine

If you already have considerable Oracle licenses, then Oracle Cloud Platform is the best option. If most of your applications and needs are Windows-based, then Microsoft Azure is the best choice. Google GCP is on par with Oracle Cloud Platform in various features, including global reach. Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform is an excellent choice if you have some interesting network requirements for the application to be deployed.

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Cloud Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Cloud Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Cloud Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Splunk Enterprise, Datadog, Confluent Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Cloud Platform is well suited if you are already using Oracle applications, Database, or middleware offerings as you can move your existing licenses from on-prem to Oracle Cloud Platform easy. It is also well suited if you are planning to deploy applications that span multiple geographies, for example, the US and UK. It is not well suited if the applications are simple and scale is limited.

Cross-border cloud platform with latency guarantees.

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Platform