SEGMENT INFORMATION

3 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2015

Segment Information [Abstract]

SEGMENT INFORMATION

11.  SEGMENT INFORMATION

ASC 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Our chief operating decision makers are our Chief Executive Officers. We are organized geographically and by line of business. While our Chief Executive Officers evaluate results in a number of different ways, the line of business management structure is the primary basis for which the allocation of resources and financial results are assessed.

We have three businesses—cloud and on-premise software, hardware and services—which are further divided into certain operating segments. Our cloud and on-premise software business is comprised of three operating segments: (1) cloud software and on-premise software, which includes our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, (2) cloud infrastructure as a service and (3) software license updates and product support. Our hardware business is comprised of two operating segments: (1) hardware products and (2) hardware support. All other operating segments are combined under our services business.

Our cloud software and on-premise software line of business markets, sells and delivers our application and platform technologies, including our SaaS and PaaS offerings, which provide customers a choice of software applications and platforms that are delivered via a cloud-based IT environment that we host, manage and support, and the licensing of our software products including Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, among others.

The cloud infrastructure as a service line of business provides comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a fee for a stated term that is hosted at our data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premise at customer facilities; deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure including virtual machine instances that are subscription-based and designed for computing and reliable and secure object storage; and certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems and related support offerings that are deployed in our customers’ data centers for a monthly fee.

The software license updates and product support line of business provides customers with rights to software product upgrades and maintenance releases, patches released, internet access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel during the support period.

The hardware line of business provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking, industry specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems including the Oracle Solaris Operating System and management software to support diverse IT environments, including cloud computing environments.

Our hardware support line of business provides customers with software updates for the software components that are essential to the functionality of our hardware products, such as Oracle Solaris and certain other software products, and can include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.

Our services business is comprised of the remainder of our operating segments and offers consulting, advanced customer support services and education services. Our consulting line of business primarily provides services to customers in business and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades. Advanced customer support provides support services, both on-premise and remote, to our customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their products and services. Education services provide training to customers, partners and employees as a part of our mission of accelerating the adoption and use of our software and hardware products and to create opportunities to grow our product revenues.

We do not track our assets by operating segments. Consequently, it is not practical to show assets by operating segment.

The following table presents summary results for each of our three businesses and for the operating segments of our cloud and on-premise software and hardware businesses:

	Three Months Ended August 31,
(in millions)	2015		2014
Cloud software and on-premise software:
Revenues(1)	$	1,603	$	1,707
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service expenses		268		143
Sales and distribution expenses		1,286		1,279
Margin(2)	$	49	$	285
Cloud infrastructure as a service:
Revenues	$	160	$	138
Cloud infrastructure as a service expenses		85		76
Sales and distribution expenses		22		18
Margin(2)	$	53	$	44
Software license updates and product support:
Revenues(1)	$	4,697	$	4,731
Software license updates and product support expenses		271		257
Margin(2)	$	4,426	$	4,474
Total cloud and on-premise software business:
Revenues(1)	$	6,460	$	6,576
Expenses		1,932		1,773
Margin(2)	$	4,528	$	4,803
Hardware products:
Revenues	$	570	$	578
Hardware products expenses		301		297
Sales and distribution expenses		204		201
Margin(2)	$	65	$	80
Hardware support:
Revenues(1)	$	559	$	588
Hardware support expenses		172		184
Margin(2)	$	387	$	404
Total hardware business:
Revenues(1)	$	1,129	$	1,166
Expenses		677		682
Margin(2)	$	452	$	484
Total services business:
Revenues(1)	$	862	$	857
Services expenses		678		665
Margin(2)	$	184	$	192
Totals:
Revenues(1)	$	8,451	$	8,599
Expenses		3,287		3,120
Margin(2)	$	5,164	$	5,479

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(1)

Cloud software and on-premise software revenues for management reporting included revenues related to cloud SaaS and PaaS contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations in the amounts of $1 million and $2 million for the three months ended August 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Software license updates and product support revenues for management reporting included revenues related to software support contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations in the amount of $1 million for the three months ended August 31, 2015. In addition, we did not recognize hardware support revenues related to hardware support contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in the amount of $1 million for each of the three months ended August 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. See Note 7 for an explanation of these adjustments and the table below for a reconciliation of our total operating segment revenues to our total revenues. Our new software license and services revenues for management reporting also differ from amounts reported per our consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to certain insignificant reclassifications between these lines for management reporting purposes.

(2)

The margins reported reflect only the direct controllable costs of each line of business and do not include allocations of product development, marketing and partner programs, and corporate, general and administrative and information technology expenses. Additionally, the margins reported do not reflect amortization of intangible assets, acquisition related and other expenses, restructuring expenses, stock-based compensation, interest expense or certain other income (expense), net.

The following table reconciles total operating segment revenues to total revenues as well as total operating segment margin to income before provision for income taxes:

	Three Months Ended August 31,
(in millions)	2015		2014
Total revenues for operating segments	$	8,451	$	8,599
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service revenues (1)		(1)		(2)
Software license updates and product support revenues(1)		(1)		—
Hardware support revenues(1)		(1)		(1)
Total revenues	$	8,448	$	8,596

Total margin for operating segments	$	5,164	$	5,479
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service revenues (1)		(1)		(2)
Software license updates and product support revenues(1)		(1)		—
Hardware support revenues(1)		(1)		(1)
Product development		(1,188)		(1,174)
Marketing and partner program expenses		(109)		(119)
Corporate, general and administrative and information technology expenses		(394)		(367)
Amortization of intangible assets		(452)		(547)
Acquisition related and other		(31)		(25)
Restructuring		(83)		(69)
Stock-based compensation		(250)		(212)
Interest expense		(374)		(261)
Non-operating income, net		30		16
Income before provision for income taxes	$	2,310	$	2,718

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(1) Cloud software as a service and platform as a service revenues, software license updates and product support revenues and hardware support revenues for management reporting included revenues that would have otherwise been recorded by our acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. Refer to footnote one to our business and operating segments summary results table above in this Note 11 for additional information.