Terrazzo Group makes Oracle pay

Terrazzo Management today announced having closed their annual accounts in record time, how the implementation of Oracle Applications had made the administration of their companies so much easier, with greater transparency, more effective controls and with smoother automation of their business processes.

Lave Malhotra, the General Manager of Terrazzo Group, said, 'Today, all our systems are now fully integrated enabling us to view information across the entire organisation. This means sharing of information is now real-time allowing our staff to reduce costs by working smarter. It also allows our management to track the progress of Terrazzo Group companies real-time and make decisions that will further improve the Group's diverse operations leading to possibly faster growth and greater success then what it has already achieved to date.'

'The Oracle implementation undertaken by Intelligent Corporate Solutions (ICS) has been a real success story, right from the go ICS has gone to great lengths to ensure the ERP implementation delivers tangible benefits that were identified at the initial stage of the project. The tangible benefits can now be seen,' he added.
Shumon Zaman, CEO of ICS, commented:

'At a time when the Global Economy is shrinking and doing business becomes harder. Companies that have access to real time information will be better informed and as a result will be able to make the necessary adjustments to their businesses and take advantage of the many opportunities that arise during a down-turn.'



He added, 'I am proud to say our association with the Terrazzo Group and its team, lead by some excellent and talented individuals has been one of mutual respect and high achievement. The speed and accuracy of the implementation has been a true inspiration for others to emulate.'

Terrazzo Group have now also awarded ICS with further implementations to ensure all their businesses are fully integrated with Oracle ERP.

Source: www.ameinfo.com

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Emerging WiMax Solutions Provider Selects Oracle

Wi-tribe Pakistan Ltd., a new entrant in the Pakistani communications industry with a major focus on providing WiMax solutions, has chosen Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and key components of the Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, including Oracle Communications Network Mediation, Oracle Communications Service Activation and Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, to better manage its business from the onset of launching new WiMax services. The selected applications will help put wi-tribe in control of its business, allowing it to succeed in an increasingly competitive market while meeting changing consumer demands head on.

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management will enable wi-tribe to track real time charges for data, voice, TV and other broadband value-added services. Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite will help to automate the order-to-activate provisioning cycle and integrate key service-fulfillment processes, including back-office order orchestration, network and service inventory management, service activation and configuration management. Oracle Communications Network Mediation will help provide comprehensive data collection, aggregation and enhancement for upstream business critical systems like billing, reporting and analytics across the enterprise. To learn more about Oracle's business solutions, visit www.oracle.com.

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Oracle prepping broad-based social-networking suite

Oracle is developing an enterprise social-networking suite that employs technologies initially developed for internal use by the Oracle Asia Research and Development Center, according to a pair of official company documents.

The technology, titled Oracle Social Suite, has apparently not been formally announced by Oracle. It combines a wide range of social-networking features, according to an internal case study produced in September.

They range from the basics -- such as a blog system that uses Movable Type as a front end; bookmarking; tagging; and aggregated information feeds -- to more conceptual ideas, like Oracle Social Graph, which provides a visual map of the connections between users and content.

The suite also includes OpenSocial Container, which enables users to plug in applets that meet Google's OpenSocial standard.

An architectural rendering of the suite depicts it as a layer that sits on top of Oracle's database, middleware and search technologies, culminating in a top layer of "social-enabled" enterprise applications.

Oracle has already moved in this direction through its Social CRM (customer relationship management) applications, but the company is apparently hoping to make social technologies more pervasive.

The Social Suite project dates back several years at OARDC, according to the documents.

OARDC is a distributed division, with hundreds of employees working in nine cities and seven countries, across multiple time zones. Growing frustrated with sprawling e-mail volumes, repetitive meetings and high travel expenses, OARDC began adopting social tools, according to the documents.

The effort eventually became a beta project code-named "Shiji." Over time, the technology was pushed out to other Oracle business units, the documents state.

It is not clear when or if the Social Suite will become a commercially available product. Neither document provides a release date, although one states that Oracle is "actively recruiting" proof-of-concept customers in Japan.

Oracle may be wise to test the commercial waters slowly, given the saturation level in the social-networking market. Scores of companies are selling platforms for enterprise and outward-facing use, and not all are making it. An Intel-backed product called SuiteTwo, announced in 2006 to great fanfare, is being phased out.

Oracle's suite may have the most appeal for Oracle-centric shops, since it is built on top of many Oracle products.

Social Suite will also have to find a comfortable role alongside technologies like Beehive, Oracle's secure messaging and collaboration platform.

An Oracle spokeswoman could not immediately provide additional comment.

Author: Chris Kanaracus @ IDG News Service

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