Value-added distributor Avnet Technology Solutions has extended its more-than-25-year relationship with Oracle to help Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) partners expand their cloud computing capabilities.
Avnet will now assist partners in engaging in Oracle Cloud services and obtaining the specializations needed to solve their customers’ business needs with Oracle Cloud services. Additionally, Avnet will distribute Oracle’s portfolio of Oracle Cloud services, including those related to enterprise performance management, financials, human capital management, portfolio management, procurement, social relationship management, supply chain and vertical industry applications.
“With worldwide public IT cloud services spending expected to reach nearly $108 billion by 2017, this market presents a tremendous opportunity for our partners,” said Chuck Scalia, vice president and general manager, Avnet Technology Solutions for the Americas Oracle Solutions group. “Avnet’s team has deep technical and market expertise in public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Our Oracle partners will be able to draw upon this experience to rapidly bring Oracle Cloud services to market and expand partners’ revenue opportunities.”
“The Oracle Cloud Partner program is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the channel and enable highly specialized partners to deepen their relationships with customers,” said Bruce Chumley, group vice president of worldwide alliances and channels distribution sales at Oracle. “Avnet has a proven track record of helping partners obtain Oracle PartnerNetwork Specializations, and we know that they will be equally successful in accelerating our partners’ cloud computing capabilities and developing new routes to market for Oracle Cloud, our public cloud services.”
