As organisations strive to increase their business agility to gain competitive advantage, transformation of their core enterprise applications into the cloud is imperative. Companies large and small are faced with the challenge how to move these critical on-premise Oracle workloads out of their data centres into the cloud, given the inherent complexity, high degree of customisation and lack of internal skills to successfully migrate these applications and database systems. In particular, customers running Oracle workloads, such as EBS, Peoplesoft, Siebel, JD Edwards or Hyperion, can derive many benefits, such as downsizing data centers, modernising their infrastructure, eliminating infrastructure management, accelerating application deployments, simplifying administration with automated and autonomous services, and lowering operational cost.