As Published In May 2005

Opportunities, Innovations, and Awards

Oracle and BearingPoint

Leveraging BearingPoint's experience in data governance and Oracle's customer data management technology, the two companies are offering a comprehensive solution aimed at maximizing customer information. "Until now the technology required to support a single source of truth about customers either had to be customized or required running a lot of small, disparate systems," says Karin Maday, managing director of Oracle Practice at BearingPoint. "BearingPoint's offering is very synergistic with Oracle customer data management technology. Whether a client's systems portfolio includes Oracle or non-Oracle systems, we have a solution."

To educate companies, Oracle and BearingPoint experts are traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada, discussing the benefits of the alliance and educating companies on how to put rules in place so that businesses have the right information in their single source of truth; how to maintain information on a long-term basis; and how to put the governance, organizational structure, and business processes in place.

"The combination of Oracle data management technology and BearingPoint consulting provides customers with the tools and processes necessary to design a customer model that's robust and flexible enough to handle different kinds of customer relationships across all industries," says Maday. "We're providing a solution that gives clients a single source of reliable customer information for making informed sales, marketing, and revenue decisions."

For information about the upcoming schedule of presentations, contact Karin Maday at karinmaday@bearingpoint.com.

Banking at the Speed of Light with Oracle, NetDeposit, and Fiserv

NetDeposit, an innovator in franchise-building Check 21 software for the financial industry, uses Oracle Database as a key component of the technology solutions it provides to financial services companies such as Fiserv. "Fiserv has licensed Oracle and NetDeposit as part of its services," says Mary Hockridge, senior vice president of marketing at NetDeposit. "The overall solution is a platform that enables Fiserv to offer its thousands of financial institution customers access to the benefits of electronic check processing."

Effective since October 2004, the Check 21 Act allows banks to truncate original paper checks and clear items by using substitute checks or image replacement documents (IRD). Check 21 is also the catalyst that will help financial institutions take advantage of image exchange as adoption of the technology grows. "This changes the operational and competitive landscape significantly," Hockridge says. "It creates opportunities for banks to evolve their operational infrastructure to clear checks more efficiently and compete for business outside their geographic footprint."

Ted Umhoefer, Fiserv's senior vice president for product management and industry relations, explains: "The infrastructure we put in place is structured so we can move images captured at any one of our 49 check capture locations through our ImageSoft national image archive application to the NetDeposit system, where we can image exchange files or IRD files to be printed at any of our centers. As we keep up with the market and move toward the most efficient forms of check clearing possible, we'll need the flexibility we get through this system."

Putting Our Best Face Forward

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Enhanced Functionality for Oracle Files 10g

Eight industry-leading partners— Adobe Arbortext, Captiva Software, Kofax, netGuru, Network Appliance, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and TMSSequoia—are providing enhanced functionality for Oracle Files 10g, the first content management solution developed for true enterprisewide deployment. Together with these partners, Oracle will provide complementary content management capabilities including storage that can help companies with regulatory compliance, document capture, image viewing, and annotation. "The combination of Oracle Files 10g and Network Appliance SnapLock gives our customers a powerful yet simple solution to help meet regulatory, IT, and business challenges," says Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliance Marketing at Network Appliance.