Oracle said it is looking for recruits with a range of experience from across the EMEA region, from highly motivated sales professionals with two to three years’ experience to highly experienced senior sales professionals. As well as increasing its cloud sales workforce Oracle will be investing in two new cloud sales centres, in Amsterdam and Cairo, and new offices opening this year in Dubai, Dublin and Prague. Oracle’s cloud technologies range from secure computing infrastructure to enterprise cloud applications. Over the past six months, Oracle said it added nearly 1,500 new software as a service (SaaS) customers and more than 2,100 platform as a service (PaaS) customers.
Rene van Stiphout, Country Leader Oracle Netherlands and Vice President Technology Sales Benelux, said at a press conference in Amsterdam that the company plans "significant" growth in the Netherlands. The Oracle Cloud serves 70 million users worldwide from 19 data centres, one of which is based in Amsterdam. Van Stiphout said Oracle aims to expand more in the SME market, focusing on select markets with a high level of professional services and technology start-ups as well as companies active in sectors such as e-health.
