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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Strategic Deals Drive Growth for Oracle During Its First Quarter of 2006
Oracle’s commitment to strong, strategic customer relationships continues to contribute to the company’s growth.
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., September 22, 2005 -- Oracle today announced significant customer wins signed during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2006. Customers continue to choose Oracle® software to integrate and automate business systems, help reduce total cost of ownership and create a single, global view of their business operations.
Oracle Applications
Oracle Applications, including the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Enterprise One and JD Edwards World, enable information-driven business processes that connect and automate an organization Developed to deliver business insight, adaptive industry processes and a superior ownership experience, Oracle Applications enable efficient management of all core business functions, such as customer interactions, financial management, human resources and supply chain management.
Customers that purchased Oracle Applications during Oracle's first quarter include:
ABN-AMRO (Netherlands), Activant, Ashok Leyland Limited, CCC Information Services Inc. , Corporation Service Company (CSC), CSX Technology Inc., Emtek Products, Inc., Excelon, ESCO Corporation, Experian, Gibson Overseas, GiTi Tire, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (Saudi Arabia), Guaranty Trust Bank, Land America, Luminent, Inc., MOL Group (Hungary), NextWave Wireless LLC, Panasonic Corporation (China), Placon Corporation, PPL, Qatar Telecommunications Qtel, SemGroup, L.P., Shanghai Education Bureau, Singapore Tourism Board, Skanska (Sweeden), Staples, Inc., StarHub Ltd., State of Rhode Island, Suguna Poultry Farm Ltd., Sunkist Growers, Inc., Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, The Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CMS HIGLAS Program), Wellman, Zhejang Provincial Energy Group Company Ltd.
“As a group of companies that manufactures engineered metal parts and components for industrial applications, ESCO has a complex global supply chain,” said General Manager of Operations at ESCO Engineered Products, Jon Owens. “We chose the Oracle E-Business Suite to tightly integrate with our current system and give us a single, accurate view across our entire enterprise. With Oracle, we can enforce lean principles with customers, suppliers and throughout geographically dispersed facilities.”
“CSX selected the Oracle E-Business Suite to help with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance,” said Director, Applications Development at CSX Transportation, Inc., Tony Papa. “Using a manual process of authoring contracts exposed us to unnecessary risk. Our Oracle system will enable us to automate the process so we have built-in controls and can write contracts that adhere to our corporate standards, while ensuring SOX compliance.”
Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle's technology products include the world's leading database -- Oracle Database --- and Oracle Fusion Middleware, a family of products that includes Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g, related Fusion Middleware products and options, Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle Data Hubs. Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first enterprise-class collaboration product that leverages a relational database and Fusion Middleware to offer a secure, reliable and scalable way to simplify business communications and consolidate information.
Organizations around the world that purchased Oracle Database and/or Oracle Collaboration Suite during the first quarter include: ABN-AMRO (Netherlands) , Allied Irish Bank (Ireland), AmerisourceBergen Corp., Ashok Leyland Limited, Atos Origin GmbH (Germany), Bulgarian Telecommunications Company Plc, City of Maroondah, Discovery Communications, Emory University, e-Dialog, ERIE 1 BOCES, India Bulls, Establissement Francais du Sang (France), JP Morgan Chase Bank, KPN (Netherlands), Kroll Factual Data Inc., Ministry of Defense, MOL Group (Hungary), MTS (Russia), Orient Overseas Container Line Limited, Punjab National Bank, Shanghai Education Bureau, Punjab National Bank, Shanghai Education Bureau, Shanghai Municipal Power Company, Singapore Tourism Board, Staples, StarHub Ltd., Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group Company, Ltd.
“As one of the largest pharmaceutical services companies in the United States, AmerisourceBergen works with numerous entities from pharmacies and retailers to hospitals, nursing homes and clinics, amongst others, to meet a variety of needs,” said Thomas H. Murphy, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, AmerisourceBergen. “By relying on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters as the foundation for our business intelligence initiatives, we’ll be able to gain better insight into how we work with our customers and partners, and use that information to improve our processes, services and business. Beyond providing us with more timely and accurate information in hand, our Oracle information infrastructure will be flexible and scalable enough to handle our current needs as well as those in the future.”
“Data accuracy, availability and readiness are what we’re hoping to accomplish with our Oracle Data Warehouse,” said Carol Troskosky, Chief Information Officer, Board of Cooperative Education Services. “We’re consolidating data from multiple disparate systems to ensure that we have the most up-to-date and accurate data on hand to help us meet the needs of our administrators, educators and school districts in addition to the state agencies we interact with. We’ll be able to produce and share the necessary reports required while knowing that our data is secure and available as needed.”
Oracle Fusion Middleware, an integrated, standards-based software platform, allows organizations of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements, enables organizations to develop and manage applications in Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and grid computing environments. Oracle's middleware platform attracts customers seeking a single product for the development, deployment, management and integration of Java, Web services and service-oriented applications.
Demonstrating its continued strength in the Fusion Middleware market, Oracle now counts more than 25,000 Oracle Fusion Middleware customers, including organizations that selected Oracle during its first quarter: Allied Irish Bank , American Power Conversion Corporation , Arlington County Public Schools , Ashok Leyland Limited, Avega Health Systems Inc., Bayview Financial Trading Group LP, Boral Bricks Inc., Bradford White Corporation, Bulgarian Telecommunications Co., Cavium Networks Inc., CCC Information Services Inc., Central Purchasing LLC, City of Detroit Information Technology Services, Cobalt Group, CoreComm Communications Inc., CoServ Electric, DBS Communications Inc., e-Dialog, Experian Services Corp., Family Court of Australia, First NLC Financial Services, LLC, Flowserve Corporation, Free Flow Packaging International, Getty Images, Home Shopping Network, Invensys Systems Inc., Lifeline Australia Inc., Lowe Enterprises Inc., Managed Business Solutions, MOL Group, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Queensland, National Instruments Corp., NDCHealth Corporation, NextWave Broadband Inc., Northwestern University, Oklahoma State University, Orient Overseas Container Line Limited, PHI Service Company, Plaxo, Punjab National Bank, Pusan New Port of Korea, Quatar Telecommunications Qtel, REAL Networks, Regulus Integrated Solutions, Reinsurance Group America Inc., RH Donnelley Inc., Roto Die Company Inc., Shanghai Education Bureau, Singapore Tourism Board, Staples, The Siam Commercial Bank Public Co., Ltd., Transaction Network Services Inc., Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., University of Richmond, USEN Network, Volkswagen Credit, World Publications LLC, Wright & McGill Company, Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group Company Ltd.
“As a leading email marketing company serving a variety of global clients that each have different data schemas it necessary for us to manage disparate data applications on one platform easily and economically,” said John Rizzi, CEO, e-Dialog. “We selected Oracle Fusion Middleware to help us simplify integrating and viewing this complex data infrastructure.”
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Contact:
Karen Tillman
Oracle
(650) 607-0326
karen.tillman@oracle.com
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