Five Ideas: Single Vendor Strength

“Some vendors are one-stop shops, but don't deliver a variety of business applications. Many vendors offer a piece of the puzzle, but not the whole thing. Through Oracle's middleware, you create a single ecosystem, to connect all best of breed applications, whether they are Oracle's or not. There is no vendor who does that with the breadth and depth Oracle has."—Frank Buytendijk, VP of Enterprise Performance Management

“Customers only have to integrate an application into the platform once. Once they've tapped that dial tone, they are integrated into all other applications that have been previously connected— a one-to-many model."—Oracle President Charles Phillips

“Oracle On Demand offered the expertise and services that that we required, was competitive in terms of pricing, and allowed us to deal with a single vendor for our applications, support, software management, and hosting. This approach would help us ensure greater simplicity in managing our overall environment—a value that’s hard to beat. If we would have gone with another vendor, we would have had to work through issues by coordinating both the third party provider and Oracle Support―adding another layer of complexity.” — Gordon Atkin, Senior Manager of Financial Systems, The Generations Network, Inc.

“As they need to connect the different parts of their organization, companies realize that their systems don't provide the visibility into data and processes they need. Which is why we see much of the IT investment trying to get to that single version of the truth...When everything is integrated, you're not doing a lot of custom integration yourself, which is especially important for companies with a small IT staff.” —Simon Jacobson, senior research analyst with AMR Research

“Since the Stellent acquisition, we've made a special effort to reach out to financials customers from each of the Oracle Applications product families to better understand their needs, in addition to working with Oracle's financials product strategy to collaborate on a one-stop solution for our customers. And to see it all come together at Oracle OpenWorld was just amazing. I can't begin to tell you how many of our customers were interested in hearing more.”—Stephen Schleifer, product manager of Oracle's content management solutions