Forse uitbreiding van het klantenbestand van Oracle in EMEA

Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa Extends Customer Base

Customers in the region endorse Oracle’s offerings, as they seek innovative, open-standards software and better quality information at lower costs

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) today reported notable key customer wins within the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region, during the second quarter of fiscal year 2006.  Customers are endorsing Oracle’s strategy to offer innovative, open-standards software, providing better quality information at affordable prices.

 “Our strategy for our customers has always been less complexity, less customisation and lower costs,” said Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa.  “Customers across many industry sectors in the region continue to choose Oracle to integrate and automate business processes at a reduced total cost of ownership.  Quite simply, with our product offerings we’re giving our customers what they want.”

Applications
Oracle’s portfolio of enterprise applications, which includes the OracleÒ E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World, is offered as a fully integrated suite or available on a component basis, and provides enterprise information that enables companies to manage their business cycles and provide intelligence in functional areas such as financials, human resources, maintenance management, manufacturing, marketing, order fulfilment, product lifecycle management, procurement, projects, sales, services and supply chain planning.  Customers who have selected Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise applications over the last few months include ABN AMRO (Netherlands), Aegon (Netherlands), Higher Education Combi-deal User Productivity Kit for PeopleSoft (Netherlands), Robeco (Netherlands), University of Antwerp (Belgium), La Caixa (Spain), Seur Geopost (Spain), Udad.St Pablo CEU (Spain).  Customers who have selected Oracle’s JD Edwards products over the last few months include Al Tayer Group (Gulf State), D&D (Hungary), Elektro Profi (Hungary), Tigép (Hungary), F.M AlQahtani & Sons (Saudi Arabia).

In the retail industry, Oracle is equipping retailers with solutions that help them gain deeper insight into their operations so they can plan and manage their operations better, transforming their economics and enabling them to deal with fiercely competitive environments that change in real time.  Oracle Retail solutions have enjoyed solid uptake in EMEA across all retail sectors, especially in those handling seasonal and promotional products around hard lines, soft lines and food products.  Customer wins in Q2 include Carrefour  (France), WH Smith (UK), Apteki 36’3 (CIS), John Lewis (UK) and Eram (France).

Banking is a strategic industry for Oracle with 9 of the top 10 banks globally already running Oracle applications. Oracle has delivered solutions to financial institutions across the region, from central banks in the heart of Africa to large banks in the heart of London.  In EMEA, there has been good uptake of Oracle banking solutions in the governance and corporate performance management area across all relevant industry segments - banking, insurance, financial markets.

Technology
In EMEA, sales of Oracle's comprehensive platform for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Oracle Fusion Middleware, have made significant contributions to revenues this quarter. In particular, many customers are investing in the key components of Identity and Access Management, and using them as the first step in the foundation for a SOA approach. The strength of Oracle’s technology gives customers an unprecedented ability to build identity into their software infrastructure. Oracle’s unrivalled security offering clearly positions Oracle as a leader in this space and is helping to win new customers in the region who want the leading identity management solution for their businesses

Real-time data that delivers true business intelligence enables companies to make faster, smarter decisions. Oracle's robust enterprise database software, integrated middleware solutions and worldwide support infrastructure delivers a more complete and versatile data management solution.  In the EMEA region, there has been good interest in, and adoption of, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, with sales in the telecommunications, media and financial services industry sectors.

Industry Awards and Recognition in EMEA during the first half of Fiscal Year 2006
Oracle received positive endorsement from industry analysts and awarding bodies throughout the first half of fiscal 2006.  Oracle’s technological superiority was publicly recognised in a number of honours, awards and surveys from independent sources in different countries, for example:

• Netherlands  Architecture Award (Landelijke Architectuur Award) 2005 – 1st Place  for Oracle Database 10g.  Awarded by the Landelijke  Architectuur Congress and SDU Publications   
• Database  product of the Year 2005 - Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition:  Databazovy svet  (Czech Republic)  Three Awards - Reader’s Choice and Award,  Publishing House Award, and Professional Jury Award.
• Golden Processor Award – Oracle  Database 10g.  Named as "Product of the Year, Tools and  Systems Software" (Teleinfo Golden Processor Award, Poland)
• Product of  the Year, Business Applications - JDEdwards Enterprise One. Honoured in the  category (Teleinfo Golden Processor Award, Poland)
• RFID Breakthrough “Integration” Award –  Awarded to Virgin Atlantic Airways for pilot project with Tata Consultancy  Services and Oracle OCS (Oracle Fusion Middleware) (RFID Networking Forum and  the RFID Futures Conference - UK)
•  Inspired IT Award in Retail &  Distribution – Project Merlin at Arnotts (Inspired IT Awards 2005 –  Ireland)
• Excellence  Award - Continuous support of the Financial industry by the successful  deployment of several complex projects in 2005 (IDG, Romania)
• Award for Technological Partnership -  Oracle and Romtelecom jointly for development of hosting  services. (IDG, Romania)
• African Employer of the Year Award (African  Investor)
• Human  Resources Excellence Award – Oracle Internet Project for Seniors (Czech  Association for Human Resources Development - Czech Republic)
• Outstanding Contribution  to Business Software – Husam Dajani, Vice President, Oracle Middle East &  Africa (IT Weekly 2005 Arab Technology Awards)
• Most Professional Managers of the Russian  Federation – Top place in the IT industry for Boris Scherbakov, Vice President  and Managing Director, Oracle Russia and CIS (Russian Managers Association and  Kommersant – Russian Federation)

Key Industry Sectors Selecting Oracle Offerings during the Second Quarter Fiscal 2006
Across the region, many organisations adopted or expanded implementations of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Grid technologies and Oracle Applications, including the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Enterprise One, JD Edwards World and Oracle Retail solutions in the second quarter of fiscal 2006 across a wide range of industries.
 
Customer industry examples include:

• Public Services
• Financial Services
• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Healthcare
• Energy and Utilities

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