Oracle was founded in Silicon Valley in 1977 by Larry Ellison, co-founder and now CTO and Chairman. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has over 160,000 employees worldwide, with revenues exceeding $57 billion (as of May 2025, fiscal year end).
Initially focused on database technologies—a sector in which it continues to be the market leader—Oracle has expanded its offerings through numerous acquisitions and continuous investment in R&D. Today, Oracle delivers a fully integrated and optimized technology portfolio that empowers client organizations with all the tools they need for digital transformation, helping them gain a competitive advantage by leveraging cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the strategic use of data—the most valuable asset of any organization.
All Oracle services, including industry-leading database solutions, are also available “as a Service” via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a next-generation enterprise-grade cloud platform built with data security as a foundational principle. Through OCI, customers can access powerful computing resources for securely training large language models (LLMs) and utilize PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offerings. These native cloud applications address needs across supply chain management, finance, HR, customer experience (ERP, SCM, HCM, CX, etc.), and also include dedicated solutions for vertical industries such as Healthcare, Retail, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Utilities, and many more.
Thanks to a continuously expanding, globally distributed cloud region network—including public, hybrid, distributed, and sovereign clouds for the EU—Oracle can meet the needs of customers who must retain data within national borders for compliance or sovereignty reasons. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure currently features approximately 70 commercial Cloud Regions, along with additional government regions (such as for the US and UK), a dedicated Sovereign Cloud offering for the EU (active since 2023, with hubs in Madrid and Frankfurt), and the “Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer” solution (complete cloud regions physically located in customers’ own datacenters, managed by Oracle). All European cloud regions—including one in Milan, Italy—are already powered 100% by renewable energy.
Oracle has been present in Italy since 1993, with offices in Milan and Rome, and employs over 1,000 people in the country.
