Oracle and Syntax are expanding their partnership to help on-premise Oracle E-Business Suite customers move or extend their deployments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The two companies will jointly provide onboarding, migration, training, and customer service. Syntax is also offering OCI as a fully-integrated, turnkey option for its existing private cloud customers. “We are in a great position, strategically aligned with Oracle to offer E-Business Suite customers a very rich environment,” Syntax Global CEO Christian Primeau said to ZDNet. Syntax serves about 700 customers in North America, Europe, and China, largely in manufacturing, distribution, and other warehouse-centric industries. Now should be a particularly good time for EBS customers to move to the cloud, Primeau said, as they look to upgrade to Release 12 of the ERP suite. “Cloud migration is more than a destination,” he said. “It’s about the unique capabilities the customer will be acquiring or gaining access to.” Last month, Oracle reported that its cloud ERP business is growing at a healthy rate, roughly on pace to hit about $20 billion in five years. Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison said he expects the business “to be a lot bigger than that.”
