Oracle Alloy is a cloud platform that lets Oracle partners become cloud providers themselves. According to Oracle, partners receive a complete Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment in their own data centres and use it to offer a broad range of cloud services to their customers under their own brand. The partner controls the commercial and customer experience. Through an operator console it manages branding, subscriptions, pricing, billing and capacity, among other things. Oracle supplies the platform, training and support. Oracle cites NRI in Japan and Saudi Telecom Company in Saudi Arabia as examples.
Oracle Corporation is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. Alloy is designed to give partners more control over change management and operations so that they can meet local regulatory and sovereignty requirements. Where data resides depends on the partner's infrastructure. For a European organisation it matters that the technology and the support relationship remain with Oracle, even when a local party holds the contract and runs day-to-day operations. It is worth checking who the operator is, where it is based and what access Oracle has.