Oracle E-Business Suite
The Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications that enables efficient management of all core business functions, such as customer interactions, financial management, human resources and supply chain management. Oracle's open architecture allows customers to deploy applications as individual modules, business flows or an entire integrated suite.
"Oracle Supply Chain Management will help us to achieve global supply chain visibility and coordination, while maintaining high customer service levels," said Kevin Laing, CIO, ATMI Inc. "We look to Oracle as a strategic partner to support our global cost control goals and future business growth."
Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle's technology products include the world's leading database - Oracle Database - Oracle Application Server and Oracle Collaboration Suite. Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first enterprise-class collaboration product that leverages a relational database and application server 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 third quarter include: Arbella Insurance Group, China Mobile Group, Chongqing Social Security Bureau, Commerzbank AG, eHarmony, Fujian Mobile, Geological Survey of India, Health Insurance Review Agency, Kookmin Bank, Korea Telecom Powertel, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, New Zealand Inland Revenue Department, Overstock.com, Seguros Santa Lucia, Vimpelcom and Wendy's.
"Having the proper infrastructure to manage and support our growing business is of critical concern to eHarmony. We've committed to an Oracle Grid Computing solution that will enable us to better use our IT infrastructure to meet our business objectives today and in the future," said Mark Douglas, vice president technology, eHarmony. "We look forward to working with Oracle to build a highly available and scalable platform to help ensure that our users have immediate and continuous access to our services as necessary."
"Wendy's goal to provide quality products and services isn't possible if our stores don't have the necessary tools to do so," said Matt Barnhart, senior systems engineer, Wendy's. "We're working with Oracle to ensure that we're providing our stores with access to information and applications that will allow them to run their operations more efficiently. By using Oracle Database and Oracle Data Guard, we will be able to better support the IT needs of both our corporate and franchise owned stores by increasing the reliability and availability of business critical applications."
Oracle Application Server, 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 application server market, Oracle now counts more than 20,000 Oracle Application Server customers, including organizations that selected Oracle during Q3: Airport Authority of India, Boral Limited, Cannex Pty Ltd., Chung Hwa Telecom, Commerzbank AG, Courts Administration Authority of South Australia, Czech Power Company CEZ, Direct Line Insurance S.P.A., Directorate General of Shipping, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, GE Commercial Financial Limited, Geological Survey of India, Government of Andhra Pradesh-Center for Good Governance, HDFC Bank, Liberty Group, Liberty University, Liz Claiborne, LUMSA (Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta), Macdonald Hotels Plc, Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Overstock.com, Pondicherry University, Portland Community College, Shanda Networking Limited, Siemens Automation and Drives, Tennessee Board of Regents, Thales Defence Limited and University of Victoria.
"In early 2005, Overstock.com strengthened its Oracle relationship by increasing our licenses for Oracle's JAVA Environment and Oracle Customer Data Hub, said Shawn Shwegman, vice president of technology, Overstock.com. "Overstock evaluated both Siebel and Oracle for a data hub solution and ultimately chose Oracle. Oracle is now one of Overstock's top three technology partners."