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mThink Knowledge - Posted on 14 October 2007

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Information technology is a criticalcomponent in your strategy to succeed,but many small and medium businessesworry that business applications – especiallythose proven in large enterprises –are costly, complex and out of theirreach.

SPEED. EFFICIENCY. RESPONSIVENESS. FLEXIBILITY.

These are the hallmarks of successful businesses. How can your fast-growing midsize business or government entity remain competitive in the global marketplace? How can you meet the expectations of customers and partners while still controlling costs? The answer is to choose smart and affordable IT solutions that are easy to buy, install and maintain, but that still give you the power, security and functionality of enterprise-strength systems – at a fraction of the cost.

Information technology is a critical component in your strategy to succeed, but many midsize organizations worry that business applications – especially those proven in large enterprises – are costly, complex and out of their reach. That’s simply not true. More than 24,000 fast-growing organizations have discovered that Oracle Applications give them the competitive edge larger companies have long enjoyed, all within their means. There’s no reason why smaller businesses or government entities shouldn’t have the same capabilities as larger enterprises. Oracle Accelerate gives midsize organizations easy-to-own, industry-specific solutions at an affordable price.

ORACLE ACCELERATE: SOLUTIONS FOR MIDSIZE ORGANIZATIONS

Oracle has created Oracle Accelerate especially for small and medium businesses. Oracle Accelerate delivers simply priced bundles of applications; rapid implementation tools; and implementation services delivered by Oracle Consulting Services or partners who specialize in your industry, to minimize startup time and risk. Using a fixed-scope approach, Oracle Accelerate substantially reduces the complexity of more traditional, large-scale implementations. Now you can have the right applications to manage your operations and data, at the right cost – so you can achieve real business value quickly.

INDUSTRY-FOCUSED SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS

Smaller businesses are often faced with a no-win choice: a “lite” version of an enterprise application that isn’t flexible enough to support future business growth, or an application package designed only for smaller businesses. Neither provides the flexibility you need or the ability to scale with your business as it grows. Oracle offers a third choice: customer-proven applications that work well for businesses of any size. Oracle Applications scale to fit your needs, both now and in the future, and are available for a wide range of industries: aerospace and defense, automotive, chemicals, construction, financial services, healthcare, high technology, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, media and entertainment, natural resources, oil and gas, professional services, public sector, retail, telecom, travel and transportation, and utilities. And Oracle has the right applications for all your business needs, including business analytics, financials, procurement, projects, order and inventory management, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management, manufacturing, human resources, and sales force automation.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS TO MEET YOUR NEEDS TODAY AND TOMORROW

The Oracle Accelerate advantage is not only about having the latest and greatest business software. It’s also about having applications that work well together and are easy to implement, eliminating the inefficiencies that disparate or customized systems can create when you need to access information across business processes. With thousands of customers and years of experience, Oracle understands the businessprocess flows of your industry. Now, with Oracle Accelerate, your business can take full advantage of this experience, freeing you to focus on running your business – instead of on how to make information systems work together. For example, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise are all integrated suites of core applications that streamline your key business processes; and Oracle’s Siebel CRM and Siebel CRM On Demand both offer powerful and robust solutions for managing your customer-facing business processes. Every Oracle Accelerate solution features out-of-the-box, industry-specific business analytics and intelligence. By taking advantage of industry best practices and business accelerators that enable rapid implementation, Oracle Accelerate gives you a comprehensive solution without the expense of customization and complex systems integration. Even better, as your company grows, Oracle’s applications grow right along with you, so you avoid the expensive rip-and-replace costs of other inflexible, nonscalable solutions.

Read through these next two success stories from customers who have achieved leadership positions within their industries by investing in comprehensive, industry-focused and easy-to-own IT solutions that met their business needs.

CASE STUDY: Maytas Properties Achieves More Effective Cost Reporting and Better Credit Control

Maytas Properties
Hyderabad, India
www.maytasproperties.com


Industry:
Engineering & Construction

Annual Revenue:
US$2 million to US$100 million


Employees:
Fewer than 500


Oracle Products & Services:
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Financial Management
Distribution Management
Real Estate Management
Project Costing


Oracle Partner:
Satyam Computer Services Ltd
www.satyam.com

 

Maytas Group is a leading infrastructure development, construction and project management company. Maytas Properties, a subsidiary of the group, is a leading real estate company based in Hyderabad, India. The company is currently developing residential townships and commercial buildings, retail infrastructure, hotels and setting up special economic zones (SEZ) across the Indian subcontinent.

Challenges

  • Install an integrated Web-based business management system to enable around-the-clock access to information
  • Provide real-time visibility into project costs and revenues to help the management team make effective decisions
  • Gain the ability to track and report project costs
  • Ensure support for future business needs
  • Adopt industry best-practice business processes

Solution

  • Selected a range of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications from Oracle to build an integrated financial, distribution, project-costing and real estate management system
  • Achieved a smooth installation by engaging Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Satyam Computer Services to configure, customize and roll out the solution
  • Facilitated more effective project costing and better credit control and monitoring
  • Increased efficiency by adopting best-practice guidelines
  • Enabled faster response times for issues related to payments, receipts and unit availability
  • Provided greater transparency of customer accounts and building availability
  • Achieved quick return on investment with low-cost, low-maintenance solution
  • Met changing business needs with highly scalable system

‘Satyam understood our business and partnered with us on all phases: from product selection to design, implementation, training and post go-live support. Satyam’s implementation methodology is among the best in the industry, which helped us complete the project on time and to budget.’
– Srinivas Sagi, CIO, Maytas Properties

CASE STUDY: Cross Match Technologies Positions for the Future With Safe, Scalable Technology Infrastructure

Cross Match Technologies, Inc.
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
www.crossmatch.com


Industry:
High Technology


Employees:
300


Oracle Products & Services:
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle On Demand
Oracle Financials
Oracle Purchasing
Oracle Order Management
Oracle Inventory Management
Oracle Service Contracts


Oracle Partner:
Baytree Associates, Inc.
www.baytree.com

 

Cross Match Technologies, Inc., is a leading global provider of high-quality interoperable biometric identity applications and solutions. Products are used to capture and process the unique physiological characteristics of individuals to establish and verify their identity, such as fingerprint and palm scan devices, document readers and access control systems, proprietary enterprise and application software and services. Cross Match’s customers use these products to conduct criminal bookings, perform background checks for job applicants, verify identities at borders and other checkpoints, register citizens for driver’s license and national identification programs, and to prevent identity fraud in large-scale government and civil identification programs.

Challenges

  • Build a safe, scalable technology and applications infrastructure to support plans for taking the company public
  • Establish processes and system capabilities to support business growth and enable accurate, timely public reporting and filing when required
  • Replace outdated legacy systems, which were putting the company’s business at risk during a period of rapid workforce expansion
  • Provide accurate, consolidated information on a timely basis

Solution

  • Established a broad, scalable applications and technology footprint that meets the company’s needs now and in the future
  • Replaced legacy systems that were hampering the company’s ability to take the next steps for going public
  • Implemented the solution in four months using Oracle Business Accelerators and leveraging Baytree Associates’ expertise
  • Optimized costs and improved disaster planning by deploying the solution using Oracle On Demand, Oracle’s software-as-a-service offering
  • Used best-practice business flows embedded in Oracle Business Accelerators to improve processes, ensure discipline and create more effective information flows

‘We looked at the other big names, but ultimately Oracle and Baytree offered a more flexible solution that is easier to implement, easier to use and easier to maintain.’
– Mark Slaven, Chief Financial Officer, Cross Match Technologies, Inc.

EASY-TO-OWN SOLUTIONS WITH PREDICTABLE VALUE

Installing and maintaining software can be difficult, especially in midsize organizations that may not have dedicated softwaremaintenance staff. Oracle Business Accelerators are powerful, easy-to-use, rapid-implementation solutions that walk you through industry-specific business requirements and system preferences, and then set up the Oracle Applications for you. Oracle Business Accelerators not only deliver predictable, high-quality and reliable results geared to your industry, they also make it easy for any business to get up and running – quickly and efficiently.

If you own or operate a midsize organization and are still concerned about the costs and effort of installing and maintaining enterprise software on your premises, you need not worry. Oracle offers much of its software when and where you need it via Oracle On Demand. All you need is an Internet connection and a Web browser, and Oracle deploys and maintains the applications for you on our servers. Not only does this reduce your costs, it also gives you “anywhere, anytime” access to those business-critical applications. No matter how you have your Oracle Applications delivered, you can count on our awardwinning support team whenever you need it. Oracle is the first enterprise software company to be honored with a customer service award from J.D. Power and Associates, so you can be confident that you’ll be backed by one of the highest levels of support in the industry.

Oracle and its partners recognize that fast-growing businesses, as well as government entities, demand comprehensive business solutions.

  • Oracle Accelerate delivers simply priced bundles of applications relevant to your industry segment from across the Oracle Applications product family (e.g., Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle Siebel);
  • Oracle Accelerate delivers rapid implementation tools called Oracle Business Accelerators to help implement solutions faster;
  • Oracle Accelerate provides implementation services delivered through Oracle Consulting Services or partners who specialize in your industry segment, to minimize start-up time and risk.
  • Using a fixed-scope approach, Oracle Accelerate substantially reduces the complexity of more traditional, large scale implementations.

Now you can have the right applications to manage your operations and data, at the right cost – so you can achieve real business value quickly while avoiding the expensive rip-and-replace costs of other inflexible, nonscalable solutions.

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

Oracle is the leading vendor of e-business transformation services, providing technology and professional services to the world’s leading e-businesses. Oracle Accelerate utilizes a fixed-scope approach, substantially reducing the complexity of more traditional, large-scale implementations. For customers interested in a rapid, low-risk approach, Oracle Accelerate provides the opportunity to leverage worldclass functionality at unprecedented entry-level value.

If you are interested in a rapid, low-risk approach, look no further. Oracle Accelerate solutions are packaged and delivered to be easy to own, industry-focused and comprehensive: just what you need, nothing you don’t, so you can start at just the right size – and price – for your needs.

CONTACT US

To learn more, call +1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative, or visit oracle.com/accelerate. Outside North America, visit: oracle.com/corporate/contact to find the phone number for your local Oracle office.

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