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| Xinhua PR Newswire |
| (Business News, 4/1/2008) |
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Oracle today reported strong customer momentum across Asia Pacific and Japan (JAPAC) in its second quarter of fiscal year FY08 (ended 30 November 2007). Organizations across key industries continue to choose Oracle as the strategic platform for their company-wide business systems to drive competitiveness, lower total cost of ownership and achieve a single, global view of their operations.
"Customers are selecting Oracle as they recognize the advantages of working with a single business IT partner that can meet all their needs," said Derek Williams, Chairman and Executive Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan. "Oracle delivers the industry's most complete business software portfolio and architecture—comprising database, middleware, horizontal and industry-specific applications, and enterprise performance management/business intelligence—built on open standards. This, combined with industry-specific expertise, world-class support and education capabilities, as well as our long-standing commitment to innovation, clearly extends Oracle's position as a leader for business software."
Customers are choosing Oracle's standards-based software to replace legacy, proprietary systems, in order to leverage industry-specific capabilities and latest technologies like Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
"Oracle's ability to help customers transition to SOA and a new generation of service-enabled applications is driving our growth, especially in Applications," said Brian Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific. "By offering the industry's most integrated, best-in-class enterprise software portfolio and a standards-based applications development platform, we are providing customers with increased flexibility and adaptability, whilst helping to reduce IT complexity and costs. We are also seeing growing adoption of Oracle's expanded applications and technology software portfolio, including products from companies that we have acquired, such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Demantra, G-Log, Stellent, SPL, TimesTen, Portal and Hyperion."
Oracle is seeing strong demand for its industry-specific solutions from companies across key sectors, including financial services, communications, public sector, manufacturing, retail and utilities. A growing number of customers are choosing Oracle's innovative, end-to-end industry-specific solutions to drive their competitiveness. Oracle's expanded portfolio, which includes leading Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) software, is enabling customers to gain better insight, make better decisions, and drive better results.
Oracle Business Intelligence is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry's first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System, including category-leading performance management applications, BI applications, BI foundation and tools, and data warehousing. Oracle is number one in Enterprise Performance Management—unifying Business Intelligence, Financial Management and Operational Analytics.
Accelerating Customer Demand for Oracle Applications Across Asia Pacific & Japan
Oracle continues to see accelerating adoption of its applications in Asia Pacific and Japan. Customers are responding positively to Oracle's commitment to and investments in initiatives to meet customer demand. These include Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program to deliver continued enhancements to the Oracle product lines, including Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, as well as its Lifetime Support Policy for customers. Oracle has also rolled out advanced integration capabilities with Applications Integration Architecture and continues to strengthen the breadth and depth of the Oracle Applications portfolio with strategic acquisitions.
According to IDC, Oracle is the fastest growing amongst the top five vendors of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Capital Management (HCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications in Asia Pacific, with a year-on-year growth comparison of 1H2007 over 1H2006.
Oracle Applications new wins in Q2FY08 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Acer Computer Co. Ltd (Thailand); Amrit Exports Pvt Ltd (India); Arvind Mills (India); Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific, Inc. (Philippines); Barret Hodgson Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd (Pakistan); Bayan Telecommunications Inc. (Philippines); Beijing Double Crane Pharmaceutical (China); Bendigo Bank Ltd (Australia); Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (India); Bussan Auto Finance (Indonesia); Centro Property Group Pty Ltd (Australia); ChinaTex Group (China); Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan); CISDI Co. Ltd (China); Cyber Internet Service (Pvt) (Pakistan); Dodla Engineering (India); Faysal Bank (Pakistan); G James Australia Pty Ltd (Australia); HBOS (Australia); Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (India); HuiShan Bank (China); Hyundai Card (Korea); Korean Air (Korea); Lucky (Vietnam); Parazelsus Pakistan (Pte) Ltd (Pakistan); PT. HERO Supermarket Tbk (Indonesia); PT. Hutchison CP Telecommunications (Indonesia); Quanzhou City Commercial Bank (China); Saigon Securities Incorporation (Vietnam); Shanghai Kaihong Electronics (China); Standard Construction Company (India); STX (Korea); Tashi Infocomm Limited (Bhutan); The Bank of East Asia Limited (Hong Kong); Tianjin Acepillar Co Ltd (China); Vietnam International Bank (Vietnam); Visayan Electric Company (Philippines); Weider-Tera(Sh) Fitness Management (China) and WNS Global Services (India).
Oracle Fusion Middleware Outpaces Competitors in Asia Pacific
Customers are choosing Oracle Fusion Middleware's "hot-pluggable" architecture to optimize existing software investments within their heterogeneous IT environments.
Oracle Fusion Middleware new wins in Q2FY08 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Australian Fisheries Management Authority (Australia), Bank Of China (China), China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd (China), Denso International (Thailand) Co. Ltd, Dharampal Satyapal Limited (India), G James Australia Pty Ltd (Australia), High Court Of Delhi (India), IFCI Ltd (India), Korean Air (Korea), Opes Prime Stockbroking Ltd. (Australia), PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Indonesia), STX (Korea), Thai Nippon Steel Engineering & Construction Corp. Ltd (Thailand) and The Bank of East Asia Limited (Hong Kong).
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of pre-integrated middleware products that spans portals and process management to application infrastructure, developer tools and identity management, enabling companies to run and expand their businesses using SOA.
Database Options Power Customer Demand in Asia Pacific & Japan
Organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan are choosing from a wide range of options to extend the power of Oracle Database. Oracle's database options are helping customers meet specific requirements in the areas of performance and availability, security and compliance, data warehousing, and manageability.
IDC recently reported Oracle extended its database leadership by capturing 53 percent of the APAC relational database management systems (RDBMS) market in 1H2007, more than double that of its nearest competitors. According to the same report, Oracle also grew its RDBMS software revenue by 19 percent year-on-year growth comparison, faster than the market average.
Oracle Database new wins for Q2FY08 in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Alcatel Australia Ltd (Australia); Australian Customs Service (Australia); Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Australia); Bombardier Transportation Australia Pty Ltd (Australia); Bupa Australia (Australia); Bussan Auto Finance (Indonesia); CAIRN INDIA (India); China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd (China); CRS Australia (Australia); CSC Australia (Australia); Delhi International Airport Ltd (India); Denso International (Thailand) Co. Ltd; Department of Education Sciences and Training (Australia); Family Court of Australia (Australia); Foxtel Management Pty Ltd (Australia); G James Australia Pty Ltd (Australia); GENPACT INDIA (India); High Court Of Delhi (India); IFCI Ltd (India); IP Australia (Australia); Jilin Local Tax Bureau (China); Korean Air (Korea); Loy Yang Power Management Pty Ltd (Australia); National Bureau of Statistics of China (China); Oriental Bank of Commerce (India); Onesteel Ltd (Australia); Oxigen India Prepaid Services Pvt Ltd (India); PLN Jawa Barat (Indonesia); PT. Mobile-8 Telecom (Indonesia); PT. Natrindo Telepon Seluler (Indonesia); PT. Pama Persada Nusantara (Indonesia); Shell Autoserv (Thailand) Co. Ltd; STX (Korea); Sun Hung Kai Securities Ltd (Hong Kong); Thai Nippon Steel Engineering & Construction Corp. Ltd (Thailand); The Bank of East Asia Limited (Hong Kong); Tianjin Local Tax Bureau (China) and Xin Hua News Agency (China).
Demand Grows for Oracle Premier Support and Advanced Customer Support
Leading organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan are choosing Oracle Premier Support and Oracle Advanced Customer Support to help deliver optimal performance for Oracle Technology products and Oracle Applications. Customers are using Oracle services to create a fully personalized, knowledge-driven and high value-add support environment.
Oracle has the most advanced support organization in the world. No other support organization can match Oracle's breadth and depth of technical expertise, advanced support technologies, or global reach, which includes support in 27 languages, in any time zone.
Oracle has more than 16,000 developers and over 7,500 support professionals offering comprehensive maintenance and problem resolution for Oracle software.
About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
Contacts:
Chi Hea Cho
Oracle Asia Pacific
Tel: +65-6436-1242
Email: chi.hea.cho@oracle.com
Ada Fong
Oracle Asia Pacific
Tel: +65-6436-1235
Email: ada.fong@oracle.com |
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