As Oracle’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the North America Government and Education business and a 16-year Oracle veteran, Pat Mungovan is charged with deftly managing Oracle’s position and strategy as the federal market navigates an accelerating shift from on-premises software to cloud-based applications, platform, and infrastructure services. While much of the commercial world has rapidly embraced a move to the cloud, federal IT leaders acknowledge its promise while balancing a complex series of mission priorities as well as choice, cost, compliance, security, and more.

For more than 40 years, Oracle has been a critical mission partner to the federal government. Today, Oracle is the global leader in enterprise data management. That leadership position, and the missions that are entrusted to Oracle, demand continuous innovation and agile response. “Our commitment to the mission of government is unwavering. We have decades of experienced-based partnership, and presently support an enormous portfolio of almost exclusively mission-oriented workloads,” Mungovan says. “Now, Oracle also provides the same enterprise solution capabilities in a more modern, consumable fashion in the cloud.”

Today, a small fraction of the more than $80 billion of IT spend in the federal government is targeted to cloud. By some estimates, as much as 80% of the total spend simply maintains legacy systems. But across both defense and civilian agencies, this model is in the early days of phase-out as enterprise cloud solutions are increasingly compliant, secure, and affordable.

With a focus on core agency missions and mission-critical workloads, Oracle provides the federal sector with the technology it has come to expect from on-premises deployments, but in a FedRAMP-authorized cloud service model. True enterprise-grade, compliant, and integrated SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS capabilities that support or leverage DevSecOps, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, data lakes, and more, are available today.

“One of our core value propositions is deployment model choice. We are positioned to be the agile, mission-critical provider regardless of whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud, or both,” Mungovan says. “A key consideration is simply how customers want to consume the same world-class, enterprise mission-oriented capabilities. Cloud deployments present unquestioned benefits in agility, economics, and security, and can allow agencies and branches to unlock a significant component of ‘run and maintain’ type spend. At the same time, it’s not like the entire estate is moving to cloud. It’s a journey over a longer time horizon. So, we need to be responsive to the multiple modalities that exist with respect to security, data governance, analytics, and other capabilities.”