Companies Offering Operational Support System (OSS) and Business Support
System Solutions (BSS) for Communications Service Providers
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Oracle and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have integrated Oracle Fusion
Middleware into Accenture Communications Solutions, Accenture's suite of
business offerings and assets designed to mitigate the risk of deploying,
and reduce the time to deploy, OSS and BSS software applications. Oracle
Fusion Middleware is a preintegrated portfolio of customer-proven software
that spans from portals and process managers to application infrastructure
and business intelligence.
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The newly integrated capabilities are intended to further enable
communications service providers to rapidly launch new services and reduce
the inherent risks -- such as exceeding project budget or project time
limits -- which can be associated with new software implementations. Now
that Oracle Fusion Middleware is integrated into Accenture's Communications
Solutions, it can serve to further expand a service providers' ability to
bring services to market more quickly.
"In today's rapidly evolving and competitive carrier environment, there
is intense pressure to drive innovation and deliver value to customers
while remaining laser-focused on obtaining bottom-line growth," said Andy
Zimmerman, managing director of Accenture's Communications practice. "Our
ongoing collaboration with Oracle is intended to facilitate and drive
advanced solutions to help our clients achieve success in implementing and
operating their mission-critical business processes and objectives."
Accenture has a 16-year history of working with Oracle's comprehensive
suite of software products for the communications industry, including
Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management,
Service Fulfillment and Oracle E-Business Suite offerings.
"Accenture's adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware significantly
enhances our collective ability to deliver product-based end-to-end
business solutions to the communications market," said Bhaskar Gorti,
senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications. "And with
the planned availability of the Oracle Applications Integration
Architecture for Accenture Communications Solutions we will have the
ability to deliver even greater competitive business value to service
providers worldwide by helping them transform their businesses, launch
next-generation services and offer superior customer experiences."
Accenture is also adopting Oracle's Application Integration
Architecture for Communications to deliver additional solutions for the
communications industry. Delivered through Accenture Communications
Solutions, Accenture intends to leverage these pre-built software products
that will enable service providers to bring services to market more
quickly, identify new revenue streams through enhanced data analysis, and
capitalize on new opportunities by rapidly adapting streamlined business
processes.
Oracle's Application Integration Architecture is based upon Oracle
Fusion Middleware and delivers pre-built, extensible, mission-critical
business process integrations across Oracle Communications product
applications including Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Billing
and Revenue Management, Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite,
Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Service Delivery Platform, as well as
third-party and legacy applications.
About Oracle Communications
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20
telecommunications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle
Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the
capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business
intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies.
Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation
convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty,
and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information,
visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications.
About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software
company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at
http://www.oracle.com.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive
capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive
research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates
with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and
governments. With more than 175,000 people in 49 countries, the company
generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug.
31, 2007. Its home page is http://www.accenture.com.
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CONTACT:
Caroline Yu of Oracle, +1-650-506-8920,
caroline.yu@oracle.com; or Cam Granstra of Accenture,
+1-312-693-5992, cameria.l.granstra@accenture.com
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