Oracle Starts Two New Centres In India

Located at Gurgaon, the two centres will be a part of the 19 R&D and solution centres network spread across Asia Pacific.

Thursday, October 25, 2007: Oracle has launched two new centres – the Oracle Asia Research and Development Center (OARDC) and Partner Solution Center (PSC) – in India. The Gurgaon-based centres will focus on delivering Oracle and partner solutions to the Indian market and also to the Asia Pacific region. The hardware infrastructure at the Oracle PSC has been sponsored by SUN Microsystems and AMD. With today’s launch of the OARDC and PSC, Oracle now has seven development and solution centres in India. Oracle’s investment in India over the past five years has crossed $3 billion.

Oracle Partner Solution Centre will enable strategic partners to build, port, enable and test their solutions on Oracle technologies. With this, independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs), value added distributors and resellers (VADs & VARs) can leverage Oracle’s product expertise and tools at PSC to build their industry-specific solutions on top of Oracle’s technology and applications platforms.

OARDC India will engage in research, requirements analysis, prototyping and architecture design with the aim of solving a specific problem through the delivery of a product. OARDCs focus on four main areas: product development, solution development, strategic projects and partner enablement. OARDC India will aim to innovate in the areas of m-governance, inclusive computing and ubiquitous computing.

"The Oracle Asia Research and Development Center and Partner Solution Center will undertake India-specific projects to enhance our capabilities in our E-Governance Center of Excellence, which was established in Gurgaon in 2003," said Krishan Dhawan, managing director, Oracle India. "We expect these three centres which are co-located in Gurgaon, to work towards increasing the scope and usage for Oracle technology and applications amongst Indian industries and governments."

Source: efytimes.com