Oracle Corp

Description

Oracle Corp is an American multinational company that provides products and services to address enterprise information technology environment.

Engineers Bob Miner, Larry Ellison and Ed Oates founded the company as Software Development Laboratories in 1977.

However, the company rebranded itself to its present name in 1982.

The tech company shifted its headquarters from California to Texas in 1989. It is public traded company whose stocks trade on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the quote 'ORCL'.

The American company offers rational servers, database, decision support tools, application development, enterprise business application, etc. The Oracle software can be run on various devices such as set-top devices, network computers, personal computers, personal digital assistance, minicomputers, workstations and mainframes.

The company operates through various domestic and international subsidiaries such as:

• Oracle America Inc
• Oracle Systems Corporation
• Oracle International Holdings Limited
• OCAPAC Holding Company UC
• Oracle EMEA Holding Limited
• Oracle Global Partners
• Delphi Asset Management Corporation

Oracle Corp claims to be a leading player in the technology sector and software and tech service industry.

The database software is reportedly free and is used to manage data, provide high-performance computing, data processing and storage.

The Oracle product portfolio serves different purposes and caters to different sectors, including:

• Infrastructure: Database, management and governance, Storage, analytics

• Application Development: Data science, blockchain, Internet of Things, Java and Intelligent Bots

• Cloud application: Net suite, procurement, marketing, procurement commerce

• Enterprise application: JDEdwards, Ebusiness Suite, Siebel

• Industries: Communications, retail, utilities, banking and insurance

Oracle Corp operates under different business divisions, including middleware software, database software and application software.

The US-based company claims to serve around 4,00,000 customers across the globe, including audiences from retail verticals, consumer packed goods industries, etc.

Some of the companies that reportedly use Oracle's software solutions are Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, etc.

The technology firm also claims to provide various learning opportunities and certification programs related to enterprise resource planning (ERP), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), supply chain and manufacturing, database, virtualization, etc.