Oracle cloud services for Indian universities

NEW DELHI: Software firm Oracle has introduced its cloud services--Oracle Document Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Java Cloud Service, for universities in India.

Currently, more than 50 percent of India’s population is under 25 years old as opposed to developed countries, where the percentage of skilled workforce is between 60 percent and 90 percent of the total workforce, India records a low five percent of workforce (20 to 25 years) with formal vocational skills and Oracle claims that the cloud services will accelerate reform in the higher education ecosystem and equip India’s youth with skillsets to enhance their employability in a digital economy.

Oracle cloud platform services will address the need of an always plugged-in generation of millennial wanting to access these services anytime, anywhere and on any-device. The solution will help students and faculty to collaborate on projects, across disparate campuses and geographies.

Additionally, they will provide an easy, secure, and agile environment for the incubation of student start-ups at campuses by enabling easy access to compute resources for application development.

The platform will also minimize the financial burden of deploying new technologies for curriculum updates
and ensure agility to develop and deploy complex solutions for academic projects as per curriculum.

"Today’s higher education institutions across the private and public sectors face unique challenges, one of which includes devising appropriate curriculum to help develop an industry ready workforce. The millennial generation is far advanced in their IT consumption and work collaboratively with their teachers and fellow students.

Having served some of the globally renowned universities, Oracle wants to ensure that universities in India have access to the most modern technologies. We want to enable those universities and their students to be better prepared for tomorrow. We believe cloud has a major role to play here,” said Mitesh Agarwal, CTO and Vice President, Sales Consulting, Oracle India.