This document outlines the business case for Oracle Cloud by describing its Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, and Data as a Service offerings and how they compare to competitors like Digital Ocean, MySQL, Salesforce, and Actifio. It notes that Oracle Cloud integrates these cloud services and provides benefits to both organizations and developers by eliminating infrastructure maintenance, enabling application deployment and access to clean data.

1. A BUSINESS CASE FOR
ORACLE CLOUD
By: Christopher M Johnston

2. • Infrastructure as a Service
• Computing and Network Infrastructure
• Digital Ocean is an Oracle IaaS competitor
• Overprovisioning and autoscaling
• Organizational Disaster Recovery
• Platform as a Service
• Databases and Web Servers
• MySQL is and Oracle Database competitor
• Eliminate building integrated environments for developers.
• Organizations focus on application deployment.

3. • Software as a Service
• On-demand-Software
• Salesforce is an Oracle CX Cloud Competitor
• Upgrades and Proof of Concepts for developers
• Organizations rent the software
• Data as a Service (cousin of SaaS)
• On-demand data
• Actifio poses some challenges to Oracle Data Cloud
• Developers have access to clean data to use in software
• Organizations avoid vendor lock in.

4. • Benefits of Oracle Cloud
• Oracle integrates all IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS
• Benefits to organizations
• Benefits to developers
• Questions?