Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison unveiled Sunday new cloud applications and services, including a training tool that integrates with the company’s human resources application, and gave a glimpse of the company’s security strategy.

As is expected with Ellison’s speeches, the keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco was peppered with digs at rivals. He took a swipe at IBM and SAP, saying that Oracle no longer pays any attention to both companies because they don’t really have a cloud play.

But this time Ellison was far more focused on the company’s business plans and products and even avoided a reference to the recent move by Dell to acquire EMC.

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