Oracle has introduced a new cloud infrastructure platform that enables service providers, integrators and independent software vendors (ISVs) to become cloud providers and roll out new cloud services to their customers. Oracle Alloy helps these organizations to offer cloud services under their own brand with control over commercial terms, customer relationships, and touchpoints.

Providers can customize the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console with their own branding and tailor customer notifications, alerts, SDKs, and documentation. In addition, partners can set their own pricing, rate cards, account types, and discount schedules. They can also define support structure and service levels.

With embedded financial management capabilities from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP offering, Oracle Alloy enables partners to manage the customer lifecycle, including invoicing and billing their customers.

Taking advantage of the same developer, UX, devops, and security tools currently used to build OCI native services, partners can build their own cloud services tailored to the needs of specific markets or industries. They can also bring specific hardware appliances, such as specific types of compute or mainframes, to Alloy and offer new cloud services based on them. OCI was designed to accommodate a diverse set of underlying hardware—now partners can take advantage of this architecture to serve their customers.

Oracle Alloy partners will have the option to control cloud operations to help address customer or business needs, such as regulatory requirements not met by the public cloud for specific industries or markets.