Improve Compliance, Profitability, and Control

OFFERING DESCRIPTION

Fierce competition in the telecommunications industry is putting downward pressure on prices and further eroding profit margins, while tougher regulatory requirements have raised the stakes for the CFO. To compete in the marketplace and comply with regulations, telcos must maintain tight financial control and drive down operating costs wherever possible. Oracle's portfolio of solutions for financial management, supply chain management, and reporting combines the strengths of Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards, enabling you maintain an accurate view of your operational and financial performance in real time, rapidly consolidate and report across multiple legal entities, meet regulatory requirements, and safeguard profitability.

Ensure Accurate Financial Reporting Across Multiple Entities
Manage Network Assets Efficiently
Reduce Operating Costs with Shared Services and On Demand
Manage Merchandise Logistics

ENSURE ACCURATE FINANCIAL REPORTING ACROSS MULTIPLE ENTITIES

The need to expand service portfolios and achieve economies of scale has driven record levels of mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunication, media, and entertainment industries, leading to additional complexity for consolidated reporting. Oracle's solutions for financial management enable you to accelerate the closing process, consolidate data quickly, and deliver rapid, accurate financial reporting for any number of entities.

Gain efficiencies with highly automated financial processing
Establish and maintain superior internal controls
Provide the basis for enterprise-wide performance management

MANAGE NETWORK ASSETS EFFICIENTLY

Telecom operators are investing billions of dollars in capital programs to roll out next-generation networks. These programs require effective administration to ensure optimal performance throughout the asset lifecycle, prevent waste, and safeguard the integrity of the balance sheet. Oracle's solution portfolio for asset lifecycle management enables you to manage every aspect of the capital asset lifecycle, from planning and budgeting through procurement, project management, asset and labor capitalization to maintenance, repair, and final retirement. Tight integration between operational and financial systems helps ensure consistency between the operational view of the network and the balance sheet, reducing asset write-offs.

Gain enterprise-wide visibility of network assets
Integrate operational and financial views of network assets
Optimize network asset utilization
Reduce CAPEX & OPEX spending
Ensure compliance with regulatory and audit requirements

REDUCE OPERATING COSTS WITH SHARED SERVICES AND ON DEMAND

As margins in the traditional telecommunication markets grow ever tighter, leading communications companies recognize the potential to cut operating costs through alternative operating models such as shared services, systems outsourcing, and business process outsourcing. Oracle's business applications have a strong pedigree in shared service center deployments, where Oracle's ability to manage any number of entities from a single instance creates a compelling business case. Oracle On Demand leaves you free to focus on your core business, and gives you a predictable cost structure, while we manage your Oracle software for you.

Improve cost structure through streamlined and integrated business processes
Scale to serve the requirements of multiple lines-of-business or entities
Develop consistency in all business processes
Enhance market responsiveness with appropriate controls through flexible business rules

MANAGE MERCHANDISE LOGISTICS

In an environment of severe price-based competition, high customer-acquisition cost, and trend-savvy customers, telecom operators have to transform their business processes in order to ensure speedy market responsiveness and capture customer sales. Oracle's solution portfolio for managing merchandise logistics enables you to manage every aspect of the trading merchandise value chain, from planning through procurement, distribution, and accounting. Tight integration between supply chain and financial systems helps ensure consistency between the operational view of the trading merchandise and the balance sheet, reducing adjustments, and improving cashflow visibility.