EDS en Oracle gaan gezamenlijk beheer, hosting en moderniseringsdiensten voor applicaties bieden. Hierdoor wordt het managen van complexe en steeds heterogener wordende enterprise applicatie-omgevingen goedkoper. Ter uitbreiding van hun samenwerking gaan de twee bedrijven bestaande services integreren, zodat klanten hun applicaties eenvoudig aan kunnen passen aan hun snel veranderende omstandigheden.
Hieronder volgt het volledige persbericht:
EDS and Oracle to Provide Application Management and Hosting Services to Enterprise Applications Clients
IT Industry Leaders will Join Forces to Offer Range of Services to Meet Fast Growing Client Needs of Hosting, Managing, and Transforming Complex, Heterogeneous Application Portfolios
ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO 21-SEP-2005 In a move to reduce the ongoing cost of managing complex and increasingly heterogeneous enterprise application environments, EDS and Oracle today announced plans to provide joint application management, hosting and modernization services. Expanding their long-standing partnership, the two companies will integrate existing core service offerings to help clients simplify, standardize, and modernize applications to adapt to ongoing business changes.
Over the years, both EDS, a Certified Advantage member of the Oracle(r) Partner Network, and Oracle, a member of the EDS Agility Alliance, have seen tremendous growth in these service areas and expect that their integrated offerings will further accelerate their growth as clients struggle to reduce IT costs and increase the business impact of IT.
"From a client perspective, an alliance that combines products and services helps address a critical need for integrated engagement and service delivery," said Erin Traudt, Research Analyst, Software as a Service, IDC. "Clients are looking for clear accountability and service levels and it makes sense for companies such as EDS and Oracle to combine their offerings in a unified way to better meet client requirements."
"Clients can lower their total cost of ownership, receive best-in-class applications management, and source from a single, accountable IT provider, all while taking advantage of ongoing joint innovation from two industry leaders," said Juergen Rottler, executive vice president, Oracle Support and Oracle On Demand. "With this partnership Oracle and EDS will offer clients what they have been asking for a long time: the best of what each company can provide within a clear accountability model for service delivery performance."
EDS will utilize Oracle On Demand in its following services:
Application Hosting Managed Server and Enterprise Application Management
EDS plans to enhance its core capabilities in hosting and applications management by re-engineering its Application Hosting Managed Server and Enterprise Application Management offerings to integrate Oracle On Demand services for Oracle Applications environments.
Applications Modernization Services
Applications Modernization is a unique integration of best practices, repeatable processes and methodologies designed to work efficiently and cohesively to reduce the time and cost to migrate legacy applications to Java J2EE platforms while preserving the value of legacy IT systems. Here EDS is utilizing Oracle On Demand to support some of the key modernization areas such as rehosting, reinterfacing, rearchitecting and replacing legacy applications
EDS will continue to provide hosting and applications management services for non-Oracle applications, both third party ISVs and custom applications.
"EDS has used third-party products and tools as part of its best practice processes and methodologies for delivering services," said Mike Fischer, vice president, Global Applications Delivery, EDS. "However, this is the first time EDS will be integrating services from a leading enterprise software provider within its own offerings as EDS leverages Oracle On Demand services for applications management of our clients' Oracle environments."
Client Benefits and Availability
The combined strengths of EDS and Oracle will provide:
- Integrated software/application portfolio management;
- Enterprise application product evolution to Oracle Project Fusion;
- Direct access to Oracle software, support skills, and ongoing innovation in software management;
- Joint evolution and development of offerings;
- Consistent, global delivery lifecycle;
- Confidence in the mission-critical operation and management of Oracle applications, as provided by EDS and Oracle;
- A single service provider relationship with EDS, with clear accountability for hosting and application management needs for their entire applications portfolio.
This offering is available immediately on a controlled release basis, and is scheduled for general availability in second quarter of 2006.
For additional information please see: www.eds.com/oracle
About Oracle On Demand
Oracle On Demand represents Oracle's industry leading and award winning Software as a Service and software management business. Oracle On Demand has been the fastest growing business line within Oracle for the past several years.
About EDS
EDS (NYSE: EDS) is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 40 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. With $20.7 billion in 2004 revenue, EDS is ranked 95th on the Fortune 500. Learn more at www.eds.com.
Oracle
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