Request for Free OAC Demo or Development Environment

Brett Xue

Hello,

I am a Hyperion Planning/EPM Cloud and OBIEE consultant with 20 years of experience. I would like to introduce my EPM customers to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC).

However, the OCI free tier only provides access for 30 days. Is there a way to obtain a free demo or development environment for OAC?

Looking forward to your guidance.

Best regards,
Brett

Gianni Ceresa

Hi Brett, welcome to the Oracle Analytics community and forum.

The answer is yes and no …

There is a public available instance used to display what OAC does, but I believe it's fully read-only (in the "Resources > Live Gallery" menu here).

As you are a consultant, if your company is a partner, then somebody has the details on how to access the partners' instance (more access, more freedom to try things, keeping in mind it's a shared instance with limited privacy, not meant to be killed every 2 days).

Also, if your company is a partner, you maybe have free cloud credits to "burn".

OAC isn't available as an always free resource, therefore with such account you have access to it using the $300 (or 500) free credits valid for 30 days (depending which ends first). But you already know that as it's what you observed yourself.

These are you only way to have access to OAC "for free".

Depending on the needs, OAS can do a lot of what OAC does, and it's free (for development & demo) if you run it locally on your own hardware. And you also have OAD giving you an equivalent of OAC DV.

Benjamin Arnulf-Oracle

Hi Brett, please contact @Miguel Martinez-Oracle on the partner side at Oracle and he might be able to guide you and provide additional information.

Jamie Anderson-Oracle

Not a direct answer to your question, but here's a link to Oracle Cloud Free Tier for those reading along and are interested in a 30 day trial.

Brett Xue

I got message from our Head of Analytics And Tech @Version1 - Alex Jennings.

" There is no OACS Partner demo environment. 

There is an OACS environment that we pay for from our CC, but I am not really sure on how to get new access as or how charging outside this would work.  We also might be about to lose this as some plank left stuff running on it and it gave us a £10k bill. "

We have 2 OAC customers, and they have testing environment. I can do some testing in their testing enviornment.But I can not do demo on those testing environment for the ne wcustomer.The Oracle Cloud Free Tier is not the option. because we will continutly use the demo enviroment.I will go OAS, thanks Giannai.

Gianni Ceresa

There is no OACS Partner demo environment. 

Here again it is a yes and no kind of situation…

There isn't a free empty OAC instance you can start, prepare your demo, and keep just for yourself as demo environment. But there definitely is a shared OAC environment used to demo OAC features.

But I'm not going to discuss further this topic publicly because it's not for public use being a partners' thing. Ben gave you a contact on the partners side.

Philippe Lions-Oracle

Hi @Brett Xue , as Ben suggested, please connect with @Miguel Martinez-Oracle , he will point you to a free shared instance where you can access OAC as a partner. As @Gianni Ceresa highlighted, this is a shared instance with many other partners so you may not be able to reconfigure the whole model. But many demos can be ran directly from there already.

Thanks