Oracle introduces cloud platform services for educational institutions

Oracle India today said it has introduced three cloud platform services for higher education institutes to support accelerated reform in high education ecosystem. This will equip the country's youth with skill sets that enhance their employability in a digital economy.

The offerings-Oracle Document Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Java Cloud Service are designed to meet the industry's demand for a cloud-ready work force, it said.

According to the company, 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.

These cloud platform services are expected to enable the higher education institutes to minimise the financial burden of deploying new technologies for curriculum updates, ensure agility to develop and deploy complex solutions for academic projects and realise a drastic reduction in capital expenditure among other things.