How Oracle’s New Revenue Reporting Structure Could Help

The launch of Oracle’s (ORCL) BYOL (bring-your-own-license) policy offers clients the opportunity to migrate their existing on-premises licenses to Oracle Cloud. As Oracle’s license revenue generated through the BYOL program did not fall under its on-premises or cloud business, the company changed its reporting segments in fiscal Q4 2018. Oracle now reports its software licenses under its new cloud license and on-premises license segment, and has combined its cloud SaaS1, PaaS2, IaaS3, software license updates, and product support into cloud services and license support. As shown in the graph above, the newly merged cloud service and license support business has grown at a compound annual rate of 2% over the last five quarters.