Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Reviews

The product's configuration is simple. 

The solution does not follow a retention policy while taking ad hoc backups. Since it does not follow the retention policy, we had to do the manual task to check the backups. 

I have been working with the product for two years. 

The tool is stable. 

The product is scalable and we can increase the resources which we need to pay. 

The solution's overall support is good if you chose the right platform. 

The product's setup is easy. The tool's setup is a two-step procedure. You need to create a policy and enable automatic backup. The product's maintenance is handled by the vendor. 

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. The product's backup and configuration are simple. Database maintenance is manageable by engineers. 

We are solutions implementors. My first project was an e-commerce platform and mobile application for clients where clients could check credit cards and their status. It's information about the last products purchased. We used the Oracle Cloud Platform for this.

Since implementing the solution, our service times are much better. We have noticed the better implementation of services with the Oracle Service Bus. There has been an overall reduction of complexity in regards to services.

The database is the solution's most valuable aspect.

We appreciate the solution's computing capabilities. It has good Meter Machines. There are good expansions as well.

The database by far is one of the best databases we are using. It has resolved many problems. It's more complete in comparison to all the other databases.

The interface has been renewed and it offers a very good user experience.

The pricing of the solution is pretty good.

The marketplace could be improved very much. There are some competing clouds that have marketplaces with solutions that within a few weeks have a total ecosystem running, and that is where Oracle is very limited.

I work with many clouds and I would say, in comparison, others have a better presentation of services and they have clearer steps in terms of implementation. Oracle could be more clear in the presentation of the hierarchies of services. The configuration for a canvas needs to be very clear. Right now, it's not as good as it could be.

I've been working with the solution for about three years at this point. It's been a while.

I have a very good impression of the solution's stability. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very good overall.

The scalability seems to be very good. There seem to be many ways you can automatically scale if you need to. If a company would like to expand this solution, they can do so. However, the scaling process could be a bit more clear.

We have many clients and their sizes vary. One of my clients is a retailer and it has about 2000 employees. They have many physical stores and have e-commerce where they have been using Oracle Platform.

Technical support is very good. We have an engineer assigned to our account and they are a very fluent communicator and have been very fast at resolving problems normally.

We have so far been satisfied with their level of service.

The initial setup isn't overly complex. The only complexity was in understanding the way that the user gains access to the services. In other Cloud services, like Amazon, you have a URL that directly allows the user to go to a service. In Oracle, you have to know specific URLs, and there are too many steps to get right to your services. In that sense, it's not as straightforward. They could definitely make the process easier.

In our case, deployment took about two months or so.

The model is basically if you aren't using the solution you won't have to pay. We can turn off the machines if we don't need them and we won't keep incurring bills.

The solution seems to offer pretty competitive pricing. We haven't found it overly expensive. It's very competitive in comparison to other options.

We did look at Amazon among other solutions. The decision was basically made after a series of negotiations.

It's one of the best databases in the market. We've found it to be very stable in the new versions. You can plug it into other services easily. As a database solution, it's been very good and you can implement it very quickly.

Overall, I would rate the product at a nine out of ten.

The sign on is very good. 

The availability of the solution is excellent.

The stability offered by the cloud has been great. 

There are a lot of really good product features. It offers everything from mobility, to analytics, to business processes. 

The front-end is like Jet, and it's pretty user-friendly. 

The security on the solution is very good.

They must improve the integration layer. It must have everything and be able to integrate with on-premise options a lot of features are not provided on the cloud.

In the Oracle BCS business process, when you create an XSG file and make the integration layer with the base in XSG, there is no validation code in the XSG. Therefore, when you add the field required or field string, it's not checking this validation as it does on-premise.  In the cloud, you need to clear the JavaScript file and validate this field. This is the main problem and they can't in the cloud.

The solution isn't very mature. The on-premises deployment has more features and the cloud needs to work to match those options.

I've been using the solution for about a year at this point. It hasn't been too long.

The product is extremely stable. On-premises solutions may face issues related to CPU usage, however, as a cloud product, you don't have these issues. It makes it very stable. 

As a cloud solution, it's very scalable. It's the main purpose of having a cloud. It's very flexible and scalable as it can expand on the cloud.

Curently, we have ten people who use the solution in our organization.

I don't believe there are plans to increase usage in the future.

I've dealt with technical support in the past. It could be improved upon. We need support in the area of customization. It's a pretty new product, so it needs to provide certain features to our clients, and we need technical support to troubleshoot for us.

We didn't previously use a different solution before implementing Oracle.

The initial setup is not complex. It's straightforward. Basically, you just connect it, it's like an on-premise deployment. 

I'm able to handle the implementation myself. I don't need the assistance of integrators or consultants. It's pretty easy to accomplish without the help of an outside professional.

My organization is just an Oracle customer.

I've been very impressed with the solution. It's a very good platform.

I'm unsure which version of the solution we're currently using.

I'd advise others to move to Oracle Cloud. If they have a medium-sized business, it would work for you pretty well.

However, it's not a mature solution yet and needs a few more years to grow and build out features on the cloud that currently only exist in the on-premise deployment.

Overall, I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

Oracle Cloud Platform is user-friendly. It is used for our infrastructure and other services. A form or a database can be created where codes are uploaded. Due to the recent developments, you can also easily upload all the solutions on the cloud, without any plug-ins or forms. The conditions are already defaulted and you will just require it to configure. The platform is new, with a lot of features. However, it isn't as comfortable as AWS and others. Now they are receiving a lot of patches and upgrades which are customized according to the requirements, according to the gaps, including the reconnection filter. 

The features allow you to connect the service solutions with the client's requirements. It is user-friendly, easy to navigate and provides assistance.

The customization and the requests put through were not flexible enough. The requests needed to be written and then dispatched to Oracle. The solutions were uncertain, some were resolved early, whereas some of them took time to be dispatched. Oracle needs to address the issues according to the country.

I have been working with Oracle Cloud Platform for three and a half years.

It's stable, but more stability is required because of changes in nature. Updates happen and there are bugs reported. They need to fix those bugs which hamper stability sometimes. In many cases, customization is required across all the systems and companies, which again disrupts the work. Similarly, issues are reported when they are moving to production. Otherwise, it works fine. I rate the stability a four out of five.

It is easy to scale and that is the reason we can use Oracle Cloud Platform in our enterprise.

The requested logging takes time because when an issue comes up, the database isn’t updated with the newest solutions, and takes weeks to resolve the issues. They need to work on customer support.

Neutral

I previously used SAP. SAP is more of a technical code which made it hard for me to cope with. In comparison, Oracle is more user-friendly and offers consultation.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment and the time depend on the project. It's based on the technology that is available for its upload, volume, the nature of the product, and the volume of work we are going to configure. Depending on these, it can be done in minutes or in hours.

Depending on the issue, the maintenance and the requirement of support are also uncertain. Regular maintenance is usually done by the employees. In case of a bigger update, then the requirements change and engineers are required.

It is cheaper as a solution model. It isn’t cheaper than SAP but offers more features and competition.

This solution is much more user-friendly and easy to navigate. It doesn’t require much training, from the end user, or manager's perspective. They can communicate with a lot of other platforms internally and it's beneficial. Overall, it is a nice package and I will rate it seven out of ten. 

Oracle Cloud could be improved with better third-party integrations. In addition, Oracle EBS has more reporting tools than other software, and more of these should be available in Oracle Cloud. There should also be more training, guidance, and support documentation available for users, as we need to pay additional costs for training at the moment.

I've been using Oracle Cloud for three years.

Oracle Cloud is reasonably scalable - I'd rate it seven out of ten.

The initial setup is a little complex in terms of understanding what's required, but once we know what the business is looking for, it's easy to implement in the cloud.

I would rate Oracle Cloud six out of ten.

I move databases to the public and private cloud.

My company has a big project to move all databases into the cloud and construct new sited in OCI. We have four to six huge databases amounting to 100 terabytes to move in OCI.

We specifically use the Oracle data guards because of the site disaster recovery. We have situations, one database has all the transactions all the time, while the other is positioned 6 hours ago. We have spent six hours to apply the transactions into the other database.

We have a lot of challenges with OCI because we need to build functions in the application. In my data center, if we have problems we change it in the cloud so part of the applications changes making it very complicated. 

In our system, we have some private dates and we need to use cryptography data, however, some of the cities are very old and we need to build all the social functions in the system, again making it very complicated to put all the information into the database.

In general, the systems application needs improvement.

I have been working with OCI for four years.

The complexity of the initial setup depends on the solution in the system. In our case, it was not very complicated because I used the new technology of excavators and I put all my databases into this solution. With the features, the security, and others. The initial setup is not a problem for databases.

We used some partners to help with the deployment. They are high level technicians that specialize in the service.

I would rate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry an 8 out of 10.

We use Oracle Database, and it only runs on Oracle Cloud Platform. No other cloud vendors support it.  

I've been working with Oracle Cloud Platform for six months.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is about as stable as the other CSPs, but Oracle Cloud is more common in Korea. 

Oracle Cloud installation is about the same as any other CSP—very straightforward.

I rate Oracle Cloud seven out of 10.  I say seven because I don't have much experience with Oracle Cloud.

We have an application and run this application on this Infrastructure element. That's our primary use case for this product.

The solution has improved our organization's implementation and running costs. It's saved us money already, in just a few short months.

We plan to use the solution to service our databases. 

The solution's availability is quite good.

The implementation costs are quite low. The pricing isn't too bad.

The solution needs to improve the creation process for server fonts and the usability and scripting methodology. There's a lot of room for improvement so far.

Technical support is pretty good, however, it could be improved upon.

The solution could always be less expensive. 

If the product could add HSM services to the infrastructure service, that could make it better.

We've been using the solution for about six months at this point. It hasn't been a year yet. It's still relatively new.

If we're just speaking about the database, it's a very stable solution. In terms of the cloud aspect, we are still at the very beginning. It's still quite new to us as a product. We will see when we have relevant experience with real operational statistics. Therefore, it's difficult to make a statement on stability in general. I don't have enough information.

We don't have the relevant experience yet to really discuss scalability. It's not something that we have attempted yet, with the product still being so new to us. We need more time to really figure that part out.

Technical support has been pretty good so far. I'd give them a rating of eight out of ten. We're mostly satisfied with the service they've provided. They are knowledgeable and responsive. That said, it could be slightly improved. 

While the installation was relatively easy, there is some complexity involved when you get into the scripting methodology. To create at least 10 or 40 databases with the same scripting is not really easy.

The deployment took around two or so weeks.

In terms of pricing, as far as I've heard from my colleagues and the management, it is an acceptable price. However, they would still be interested in a cheaper solution.

If they did attempt to evaluate another solution, at the time, I was not at the company. Since I have been around, they have only been interested in the Oracle solution.

We are a reseller partner.

In general, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten. We're mostly happy with the solution, however, there are aspects that can be improved upon.

I would recommend this product to companies who are really familiar with the earlier version of Oracle databases.