Oracle Sees Strong Demand For Exadata Database Machine In India

Oracle has announced that it is experiencing strong demand for its Exadata Database Machine across the world, including India. With total installations approaching 2000 machines in 67 countries across 23 industries, Exadata is the fastest growing product in Oracle’s 32 years of business. The company is seeing significant acceleration in Exadata business with triple digit growth in seven of past eight quarters. Exadata is a part of Oracle’s Engineered Systems family, which are designed to help organisations simplify IT.

“We continue to convert the strong market demand as more and more organisations are turning to Oracle Exadata to enhance performance, reliability and scalability of their online transaction processing (OLTP) and datawarehousing applications, whilst simplifying the deployment and management of their IT infrastructure” said Christopher G. Chelliah Vice President, Exadata and Strategic Solutions Oracle Asia Pacific.

In India, Oracle Exadata has been adopted by customers across industries like Telecom, BFSI, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing. Leading companies including Mahindra Satyam, Religare, Reliance Commercial Finance, MTS, Bank of Baroda and Stock Holding Corporation are adopters of Oracle Exadata, with a number of repeat purchase and multiple-machine configurations in the past 12 months. “We started selling Exadata in India around a year and a half back. In this short period, we have seen a very solid traction for this product from all industry verticals, across all regions in the country. Customers who are already running Oracle database are looking at Exadata very closely.” said Sheshagiri Anegondi, Vice -President, Technology Business, Oracle India.

The Exadata Database Machine can be implemented seamlessly for Oracle database applications without lengthy and expensive project runtimes, often returning a positive ROI for customers within a 12-18 month timeframe. Commenting on the company’s strategy to drive sales for Exadata in India, Sheshagiri disclosed that Oracle will continue to leverage its leadership position in the database market to further enhance adoption of Exadata in India.

To enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle Partner Network (OPN) build and deliver faster, more reliable applications for Exadata, Oracle recently introduced Exastack program. The program already has over 234 ISV partners with 871 Oracle Ready solutions that are “ready or optimised” on Oracle’s Engineered platforms and related components.

Some of the India-based ISV applications certified on Exadata are CMC’s Genisys Configurator ( application used to define new insurance products, make changes to existing products and establish rules that govern the products behaviour), Connectiva (billing solution for utilities & telecom cos.) and ElectraCard Services’ electraSWITCH (Payment solutions for Fortune 500 companies, one of the oldest payment systems in India). Infosys, Wipro, Accelfrontline and HCL are few of the leading SIs in India to have acquired Exadata Specialisation status. In addition, India’s leading IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services last month announced opening of its Center of Excellence (CoE) for Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

As part of the Oracle Exastack Program, Oracle’s partners have set-up Technology Centers enabling ISVs and other members of OPN to test and tune their applications on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata component products, including Oracle Database and Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM to achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud-based environments.

“Oracle’s Database Machine not only offers enormous opportunity for us but also offers huge incremental revenue opportunities for our partners. We’re offering our partners every possible support to help them move up the value chain and gain a competitive edge in the market. Along with our partners, we are making a significant investment in building a strong ecosystem of solutions and services around Exadata for our customers,” said Sheshagiri.