Oracle to hire 1,000 sales staff in Asia-Pacific, including mainland China and Hong Kong
Recruitment of sales staff on mainland and in HK a priority as part of push to be world No 1
Enterprise technology powerhouse Oracle aims to recruit 1,000 new sales staff across the Asia-Pacific region to drum up more business for its "cloud computing" operations.
Of that total, Oracle had made it a priority to hire "260 cloud sales professionals in mainland China and 50 in Hong Kong within six months", Sujith Abraham, Oracle's group vice-president for strategy and sales development in Asia-Pacific, said yesterday.
"We're going to be the number one cloud company in the world ... and China represents a very big business for us," he said.
Cloud computing allows consumers and companies to buy, lease, sell or distribute software and other digital resources as a service over the internet, just like electricity from a power grid. These resources are hosted in data centres. "Cloud" refers to the internet.
Abraham said Oracle had drawn up an aggressive hiring target in Asia because the firm's cloud business was "increasing faster in this part of the world" on the back of the region's strong economic growth and extensive mobile and broadband networks.
Under its new recruitment campaign, Oracle also plans to add 292 cloud sales professionals in India, 129 in Australia and New Zealand, 82 in South Korea and 171 in Southeast Asia, including 49 in Singapore.