Requesting and activating a subscription

To request a subscription to Big Data Discovery Cloud Service, contact your Oracle sales representative and provide the name and email of an account administrator for your service.

Note:

Trial subscriptions are not available for Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service, and you cannot purchase a subscription through the web site. You must purchase a subscription from an Oracle sales representative who places an order for you.
Before requesting a subscription ensure that you have:
  1. An Oracle.com account (My Account) and the Oracle Cloud Services (MyServices) account.
  2. Access to Oracle Big Data Cloud Service (BDCS) and to Oracle Cloud Storage, both of which should already be provisioned in the same Identity Domain.
  3. Confirmation that you can connect to these services securely via a VPN connection established by your IT administrator.

For these requirements, see About users and roles and Before you begin with your subscription.

To request a subscription to Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service:

  1. Contact your Oracle sales representative and provide an email address of the account administrator for your service.

    They place an order for BDDCS in the ordering system in Oracle Public Cloud. If your email was provided, you are granted the account administrator access and receive a "Welcome" email with a link to activate the order for BDDCS.

    For simplicity, the next step assumes you serve as the designated account administrator. If you are assigned a service administrator role, then, after you receive a "Welcome" email, you log into Oracle Cloud Services as the service administrator, and start the activation process.

  2. Follow the e-mail link to activate a BDDCS instance and provide the service administrator's email.
    It can be the same user who has the account administrator role for BDDCS, or a different user in your organization.
    The Identity Domain administrator in Oracle Public Cloud assigns a BDDCS service administrator role. This sends an email from Oracle Cloud My Services to the designated service administrator (it can be you or another person in your organization).

Now you can log into Oracle Cloud Services to create a BDDCS instance.