| Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd ("Oracle Singapore"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle Corp - the world's largest enterprise software company, announced today that leading independent software vendors in Singapore including companies such as Commerce Exchange, Ecquaria, iGINE, iPACs, Information Fusion, Comsoft, Boon Software and Netbridge are providing a wide range of Internet services and applications for their customers by maximising the integrated technologies in Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS). Globally, more than 900 Oracle9iAS partners deliver solutions in the areas of content management, developer tools, integration, portal, security, systems management, Web services and wireless. Software development vendors are recognizing the benefits of Oracle9iAS, including its lightweight footprint, fast execution environment, and support for the latest J2EE and Web services standards. By dramatically reducing the amount of disk space, memory, and processor power required to run Java applications, Oracle9iAS is faster to install, develop, and deploy Internet applications on. Oracle9iAS provides companies with an integrated middleware platform to create, deploy and manage high-performance business applications, reliably and securely. Oracle9iAS is the most complete integration solution for connecting applications, data, and Web services which are accessible via wireless, Web or voice interfaces, thus eliminating the need for costly and complicated integration kits from multiple vendors. Frank Koo, Senior director for Channels and Alliances, Oracle Singapore, said, "Oracle9iAS is the industry's most complete and best performing J2EE application server for developers, our partners and customers in Singapore to build and deploy dynamic Web sites and business applications. Oracle9iAS enables companies to scale with software as opposed to hardware so that companies have a cost-effective software solution to what has been a costly hardware problem." Innovative Solutions by Partners in Singapore
Ecquaria, a Web Services software infrastructure and solutions provider based in Singapore, with presence in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States, has deployed its Ecquaria Service-Oriented Platform on Oracle9iAS for one of Singapore's largest educational institutions. Paul Leong, Ecquaria's vice president of Business Development, said, "As it is Equaria's vision to power the service-oriented economy with world-class software and solutions that organizations can use to quickly develop, deploy and manage scalable, cross-platform and integrated services, our infrastructure must support fast development cycles, comply fully with J2EE standards and be easy to port. It was relatively easy to port the Equaria Service-Oriented Platform onto Oracle9iAS and this is impressive because our product is a comprehensive large-scale government-wide service delivery solution." iGINE is a leader in sell-side eCommerce Solutions that enable enterprises operating in multi-tier and multi-channel sales and distribution networks to increase their channel profitability through streamlined demand chain management with integrated order life cycle management, post sales support, channel visibility and channel marketing. Headquartered in Singapore, iGINE's solutions are deployed worldwide including United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Australia. Ong Leong-Seng, iGINE's chief technology officer said, "iGINE's solutions enable companies to enhance the management of their business operations and complex multi-tiered business partner relationships. Oracle9iAS is faster than other application servers we tested, and additionally provides the scalability, high availability and easy management for us to deploy this effectively to our customers. We were impressed by the relative ease of porting our software to Oracle9iAS." Commerce Exchange (Comex), Asia's leading Commerce Value Chain solution provider, provides integrated solutions for trade, finance and logistics. Comex's customers include major banks and financial institutions, key logistics companies as well as large organizations like Singapore's National Library Board (NLB), which manages a collection of over 5 million books and 1.8 million members. Comex has been implementing projects using Oracle's system and the procurement system for the NLB was amongst its first projects implemented using Oracle9iAS. Terence Hung, Commerce Exchange's vice president for Technology, said, "Commerce Exchange is committed to leverage an integrated digital business economy to drive e-business initiatives. We selected Oracle9iAS as it is based on open standards and has demonstrated good throughput and performance in comparison with other infrastructure products. Coupled with the Oracle database, Oracle9iAS provides a complete framework to deliver scalable and powerful applications." Commitment to develop Singapore's technology partners
Five of the vendors announced today - Commerce Exchange, iGINE, iPACs, Information Fusion and Netbridge - are also in the Infocomm Local Industry Upgrading Programme (iLIUP), which promotes strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships between Singapore infocomm enterprises and multinational corporations (MNCs). Oracle Singapore, as a pioneer MNC partner of iLIUP, has helped more than 20 local companies in product development by offering world-class Oracle technology, technical support and marketing expertise to enable Singapore enterprises to enhance their capabilities and penetrate global markets. Oracle has also launched the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), a comprehensive online resource, for partners as diverse as solution integrators, hardware vendors, application service providers (ASPs), system integrators and independent software vendors (ISVs) to gain a competitive advantage by providing them online access to services, tools and resources such as real-time corporate and region-specific information and infrastructure. The Oracle PartnerNetwork features a partner-specific dedicated web services portal that enables partners to move their business online, cut costs and increase efficiency by leveraging and sharing the roles and resources which Oracle channels use internally and empowers the partners in an easy-to-access, powerful and cost effective way. Frank added, "The Oracle PartnerNetwork is designed to position our partners in Singapore for success. Having experienced the efficiencies of becoming an e-business which has resulted in increased margins and reduced internal costs, Oracle wants to enable our partners to experience the same benefits from adapting the e-business model. At the same time, our partners will have access to new services that will equip them to develop, market, sell and deliver solutions to the market faster." About Oracle9i Application Server
Oracle solves the IT challenge of integrating fragmented middleware products to run an e-business by providing one product that can replace more than 10 separate point products from other vendors. Oracle9i Application Server features full J2EE and XML support, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, Web services and more, all in one package. With Oracle's new lightweight J2EE engine and extended caching capabilities, companies can save on infrastructure costs by scaling with software instead of hardware. |
