Oracle Corp. is positioning itself with a trifecta in the enterprise computing world, offering infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service solutions to meet the needs of its large customer base.

An example of how this plays out can be found in a simple online shipment order for one consumer.

“If I want to have a package delivered to me from a retailer, that actual process flow could touch a brand-new cloud-native site for e-commerce, it could touch a traditional application that used to be on-premises and is now in the cloud,” said Chris Fox (pictured), group vice president of enterprise cloud architects and chief technologist for North America tech cloud at Oracle. “It might even use a new SaaS application for a permit process or delivery vehicle. The real key is connecting all three of these into a business process flow that makes the customer’s life much more efficient.”

Fox spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, as part of the Oracle Consulting “Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future” initiative. They discussed how Oracle’s portfolio of cloud solutions has given it an advantage over competitors and the role of the company’s consulting arm in achieving business outcomes. (* Disclosure below.)

Last mover advantage

In an interesting play on the belief that successful tech companies generally hold “first mover advantage,” Oracle has taken a position that its late entry into the cloud space has actually given it “last mover advantage.”

This has allowed the firm to not only build its “triple threat” of solutions, but also to create Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure with secure, extensible and autonomous features.

“Let’s take the best of the clouds that are out there today, let’s look at the workloads that Oracle has been running for years, and then let’s build features right into this next version of the cloud to service the enterprise,” Fox said. “It needs predictable performance, it needs scale, and it absolutely needs security.”

Despite Oracle’s late entry into the cloud competition, there is a growing belief that this is not a “winner-take-all” game. With over 430,000 customers in 175 countries, Oracle has an enterprise constituency that will likely find a need for the cloud-based services it is offering.

And the company’s retooled consulting arm will play a key role in extending that vision.

“Where Oracle Consulting is really helping us deliver is in the outcome,” Fox explained. “They start with the end in mind, and they really help implement these systems. Our goal is to implement it, get it to go live on time, and then help the customer learn this journey to the cloud.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the “Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future” initiative. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Oracle Consulting Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise program. Neither Oracle Consulting, the sponsor for theCUBE’s coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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