Oracle Reports Strong Customer Momentum and Growth in Asia Pacific
Applications new license revenues in Asia Pacific & Japan up 89%; Database and Middleware new license revenues in Asia Pacific & Japan up 26%, in Q3FY07
Hong Kong, April 2, 2007 - Oracle today announced strong customer traction across its database, middleware and applications businesses in the Asia Pacific region during the third quarter of its fiscal year 2007.
Chairman and Executive Vice President for Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan, Derek Williams, said, "Customers are endorsing our strategy and solutions -- open, flexible and standards-based software that drives business agility, insights and ultimately, growth and shareholder value."
Oracle's expanded portfolio of solutions provides companies in Asia Pacific with the widest choice of fully integrated solutions with deep industry functionality built on open standards. Organizations of all sizes in key, high-growth industries – including Financial Services, Communications, Media, Utilities, Government, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution -- have chosen Oracle to integrate their business systems, increase business efficiencies and performance, and lower operational costs.
Significant Momentum from New and Existing Oracle Applications Customers
"Our applications business and customer momentum across Asia Pacific continues to grow very strongly," said Brian Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific. "Existing customers are buying more applications from Oracle as they see significant value from having an integrated portfolio of horizontal and industry-specific solutions from a single vendor. At the same time, we are also gaining marketshare with new customer wins across all industries, markets and size of companies. Customers in Asia are responding very positively to our commitment to enhance the Oracle applications product lines - Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards – as well as to provide lifetime support, under the "Applications Unlimited" program."
Oracle Applications new wins in Q3FY07 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad, Guangzhou City Construction & Development Co., Ltd. (China), Gujarat Electricity Board, Vadodra, India, ICICI Prudential life Insurance Company Ltd. (India), LEMBAGA TABUNG HAJI (Malaysia), LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd., MTU Detroit Diesel Australia, NINGBO COMMERCIAL BANK (China), Panasonic AVC Networks Singapore Pte Ltd, Shanghai General Motors Corporation Limited (China), Shanghai Guofu Long Fong Foods Co., Ltd. (China), Shree Cement Limited (India), Staging Connections Group Ltd (Australia), Tube Investments of India Limited, Zhejiang Energy Lan Xi Power Generation Co., Ltd. Country Energy (China).
Oracle Shows Strong Growth in its Middleware Business
Customers are choosing Oracle Fusion Middleware's "hot-pluggable" architecture to leverage their investments in any existing application, system, or technology. Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of standards-based software products that spans a range of tools and services from J2EE and developer tools, to integration services, business intelligence, identity management, collaboration, and content management.
"We see customers in every country in this region responding to Oracle's unique middleware strategy because it gives them optimal choice and flexibility as they move towards a more competitive information architecture," Mitchell said.
International long-term savings company Australian Skandia Limited says it purchased Oracle Fusion Middleware to quickly deploy its portal on a flexible, robust middleware platform. "Skandia required a new Portal Platform for its customers that would also enable them to have a faster go-to-market model," said Scott Anderson, Strategy Manager for Business & Technology, Australian Skandia Limited. "Oracle's Fusion Middleware Platform was chosen over other platforms in the market after a detailed business and technical comparison of each vendors offering against Skandia's needs."
Oracle Fusion Middleware new wins in Q3FY07 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: ABN AMRO Bank Limited (Pakistan), Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad, Australian Skandia Limited, BANK ALFALAH LIMITED (Pakistan), British American Tobacco (Vietnam) Ltd., China Vanke Co., Ltd., EMERSON (China), Guandong Huarun Paints Company Limited (China), Gujarat Electricity Board, Vadodra, India, Ipswich City Council (Australia), Keystart Loans Ltd., Korea Telecom, LEMBAGA TABUNG HAJI (Malaysia), LG Telecom (Korea), MTU Detroit Diesel Australia, PT. Kalbe Farma Tbk (Indonesia), Shanghai Medical Bureau (China), SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong), South Media Group Dongguan Broadcast Television Network Media Co., Ltd. (China), Taishin Bank Financial Holding Company (Taiwan).
Leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Momentum builds for Oracle Business Intelligence
Customers are choosing Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition to distill intelligence from applications and data sources and distribute it pervasively across the enterprise to help optimize business processes, decisions, and actions.
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is a comprehensive, standards-based suite of business intelligence (BI) infrastructure and tools products. Built on open standards and developed for heterogeneous IT environments, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is "hot- pluggable" and can be used with both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, data sources, and tools enabling customers to maximize their existing investments. This integrated suite includes Business Intelligence Tools, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, and Oracle Data Integrator.
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE new wins in Q3FY07 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Changsha Local Taxation Bureau (China), Nanjing Social Insurance (China), Shanghai Health Bureau (China), Shanghai Social Insurance Card Service (China), Philusa Corporation (Philippines), PT Kalbe Farma Tbk (Indonesia), Yarra Valley Water (Australia), BMW Group Australia, Indian Tobacco Company- ITC, Tisco Bank Public Company Limited (Thailand).
Continued Leadership in Database
Organizations in Asia Pacific continue to trust Oracle for their data-intensive software solutions. As the leading relational database designed to meet the needs of grid computing, Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters provides the ideal foundation for high-performing grid computing implementations.
Online gaming giant Shanda Networking hosts hundreds of games played by hundreds of millions of players worldwide. To cope with its business development needs, Shanda recently charted a strategic direction to adopt Oracle as an enterprise-wide infrastructure platform standard, which includes Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware. "Shanda has grown immensely over the last few years and as the size of our business grew, we realized we needed a more reliable, scalable and secure infrastructure platform to support current and future business," said Jianwu Liang, Shanda's VP of Information Technology. "Oracle's open, standards-based architecture was chosen over other platforms after reviewing its technical and support capabilities, which were far superior to its competitors. The Oracle infrastructure platform allows us to improve on our system's current and future scalability, reliability, and high availability -- which is of paramount importance to Shanda as we stretch ourselves to embrace the explosive customer growth we're seeing."
Oracle Database new wins for Q3FY07 in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: ABN AMRO Bank Limited. (Pakistan), Advanced Info Service PCL (Thailand), Air China Limited, Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad, Australian Skandia Limited, British American Tobacco (Vietnam) Ltd., Bank Alfalah Limited (Pakistan), Best1 Home Shopping Network (China), Changi General Hospital Pte Ltd. (Singapore), Chinatrust Financial Holding Company (Taiwan), Dialog Telekom Limited (Sri Lanka), Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd (Taiwan), Genpact India, Gujarat Electricity Board -Vadodra (India), Hangzhou Digital Television Limited Company (China), Hanyang University (Korea), InterGlobe Technologies (India), Ipswich City Council (Australia), Korea Telecom, Ministry of Environment (Korea), MTU Detroit Diesel Australia, Nam Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank – Navibank (Vietnam), National Database and Registration Authority (Pakistan), PT. Kalbe Farma Tbk (Indonesia), Shanda Networking (China), Shanghai Auto (China), Sichuan Mobile Company (China), Siltron (Korea), Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong), Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (Pakistan), Taishin Bank Financial Holding Company (Taiwan), The Bank of East Asia Limited (Hong Kong), The Civil Service Commission (Korea), Total Access Communication Public Co Ltd (Thailand), Tube Investments of India Limited (India).
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