New Oracle Commerce Cloud Helps Companies Quickly Build, Easily Optimize, and Nimbly Extend Selling Experiences

REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 29, 2015) - Adding a key new piece to the rich Oracle Customer Experience (CX) applications portfolio, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) unveils Oracle Commerce Cloud, a flexible and scalable SaaS solution built for the Oracle Public Cloud. Oracle Commerce Cloud features the latest commerce technology and is designed to ignite business innovation and rapid growth, while simplifying IT management and reducing costs.

Oracle Commerce Cloud's modern SaaS infrastructure emphasizes simplicity, allowing online businesses to quickly launch feature-rich, responsive storefronts across desktop and mobile devices without sacrificing features or brand control. No longer limited by cookie-cutter site options, marketers and merchants get a fully responsive, configurable storefront out-of-the-box with pre-integrated core commerce features including: search / navigation, recommendations, promotions, reporting, payments, design templates and SEO. Catalog, content, design and merchandising management is all at the business' fingertips in a unified experience management console.

"Commerce Cloud is a new, differentiating piece of the broader Oracle CX cloud applications portfolio and helps ensure online businesses no longer have to worry about deploying code, upgrading, and managing day-to-day infrastructure," said Ken Volpe, senior vice president, product development, Oracle. "Online businesses can focus on building customer experiences that drive innovation and growth, and an automatically responsive user interface gives brands a limitlessly configurable storefront with proven features expected from the commerce experts."

Oracle Commerce Cloud allows online businesses to consistently optimize every pixel of the customer experience and regularly apply feature upgrades to their brand esthetic with a solution that includes:

• Rich experience and commerce capabilities: Unified catalog, commerce, search and navigation, pricing, merchandising, design and content management capabilities gives customers control to modify their sites as they see fit and instantly preview site experiences with drag and drop tools before going live. Additionally, out-of-the-box themes, layouts and modular widgets make it simple to get started, while enabling developers to build custom extensions or quickly and easily integrate extensions.
• Unbounded customization and extension: Marketers and merchandisers can create compelling commerce experiences across a range of devices with responsive design and HTML5 user interfaces. Exposing APIs lets businesses build additional functionality or develop integrations that connect Commerce Cloud with their other systems while also allowing easy consumption for third-party development efforts.
• Modern Cloud: Oracle Commerce Cloud provides a developer and agency friendly architecture that allows them to leverage JavaScript frameworks to simplify implementation and adoption, API-first architecture, and modern HTML5 user interface. Integrations with other Oracle applications via PaaS, Java Cloud, and Developer Cloud helps brands quickly plug into other Oracle Cloud Applications or third party technologies.
• Part of full featured Customer Experience Suite: Oracle now has the most comprehensive portfolio of products with capabilities critical to modern customer engagements, including Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, Oracle Configure, Price and Quote Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud.

Expansion into midsize businesses