Q1FY09 New Software License Revenues in Asia Pacific & Japan Increase by 34% Over Q1FY08; Asia Pacific & Japan Total US GAAP Revenues Up 30%
News Facts
- Organizations of all sizes across key industries in Asia Pacific & Japan continue to adopt or expand implementations of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence, and Oracle Applications for their strategic company-wide business systems.
- One of the drivers fueling Oracle’s momentum in the region is the growing demand for standards-based, end-to-end business software solutions with deep industry capabilities. This helps companies address critical business challenges, such as improving business agility, achieving cost efficiencies, and delivering superior customer service.
Selection of Q1FY09 Customer Wins
- Communications: Aircel Cellular Ltd (India); China Mobile Group Jilin subs (China); Indosat (Indonesia); MobileOne Ltd (Singapore); Uecomm Limited (Australia)
- Manufacturing, Retail: Alcatel Australia Ltd.; AnGang Steel Company Limited BaYuQuan Steel Branch (China); Ballarpur Industries Limited (India); Beijing Triumph Furniture Co., Ltd. (China); Chennai Radha Engineering Works Ltd. (India); China Aero-Poly Technology Establishment (CAPE); China North Industries Group Finance Company Ltd; China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec); CNOOC (China); Crosby Securities Private Limited (Pakistan); Dalian Marine Diesel Work (China); David Pieris Motor Company Limited (Sri Lanka); Fuyao Glass Group (China); Gui Zhou Jia You Shopping Limited Company (China); Hana Information & System Co., Ltd (Korea); Island Aviation Services Limited (Maldives); ISMT Limited (India); KOSCOM (Korea); PT. Gramedia Asri Media (Indonesia); Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea); Tong Yang Major (Korea); Tops Security Ltd (India); Viasystems Kalex Printed Circuit Board Ltd. (Hong Kong); Xiamen HUALIAN Electronic LTD.Corp (China); Xin'ao Group (China)
- Financial Services: Bank Permata (Indonesia); Buldana Credit Co-operative Society (India); Carson Cumberbatch PLC (Sri Lanka); China Export Credit Insurance Corporation; China Huanong Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd; China Securities Investor Protection Fund Co., Ltd.; China Securities Regulatory Commission; Citibank N.A (Singapore); Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Cong ty TNHH Bao Hiem Nhan Tho Prudential Viet Nam; G.K. Goh Holdings Group (Singapore); Guangdong Development Bank (China); Hana Bank Co., Ltd. (Korea); Kiwoom Securities Co Ltd. (Korea); Korea Exchange; Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (Singapore); PT Asuransi Bina Dana Arta Tbk (Indonesia); PT. Trimegah Securities Tbk. (Indonesia); Public Trust (New Zealand); Punjab National Bank (India); Shenzhen Development Bank (China); Sundaram Home Finance Limited (India); Tata Motors (India); Tenet Insurance Company LTd (Singapore); The Bank Of Rajasthan Limited (India); The Export-Import Bank of China; The Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd (India); Vijaya Bank (India); Zhuhai Zhongfu Stock Enterprise Co. Ltd (China)
- Government, Education, Healthcare: AJK Information Technology Board (Pakistan); Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan, Badan Kepegawaian Negara (Indonesia); Bureau of Labor Insurance (Taiwan); Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Malaysia); Directorate Gen. Immigration & Passports (Pakistan); Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Indonesia); Direktorat Lalu Lintas Angkutan Laut Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Laut - Departemen Perhubungan (Indonesia); Jabatan Kerajaan Tempatan (Malaysia); Mahkamah Agung RI (Indonesia); Ministry of Manpower (Singapore); Moreton Bay Regional Council (Australia); National Citizen Identity Information Center, Ministry of Public Security, (China); National Economic and Development Authority (Philippines); Queensland Police Service (Australia); Uttar Pradesh Treasury - Department of Treasuries (India)
- Travel & Transportation: Mercury Travels Ltd (India); Pt. (Persero) Pelabuhan Indonesia Iii (Indonesia); Shekou Container Terminals Ltd. (China); Shenyang Taoxian International Airport Co., Ltd (China)
Supporting Quotes
- Askari Bank Ltd. of Pakistan selects Oracle software to modernize its banking operations, provide world-class service to its customers and compete better with local and international banks operating in Pakistan. Askari Bank President M. R. Mehkari says, “With increasing competition in the Pakistani banking industry, we have to make our operations more efficient and compliant with global banking industry best practices. We believe our choice of the best banking industry software from Oracle and Techlogix, the local implementation experts, will help us roll out this complex IT project and will eventually streamline our operations and help us stay profitable.” Click here for press release
- Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel), a leading integrated telecom services provider in India, selects Oracle Communications Network Integrity to optimize the use of its 78,540-kilometre extensive national fiber-optic network. Bharti Airtel Customer Service & IT Director Jai Menon says, “We have been using Oracle’s technology, business applications and communications- industry applications for 10 years now. The new network discovery and reconciliation product will greatly enhance Airtel’s network utilization and enable us to further improve provisioning accuracy with reduced errors — all leading to improved customer satisfaction.” Click here for press release
- Chennai Radha Engineering Works Pvt. Ltd. Director V. Padmavathy says, "Oracle's acquisition strategy matched our growth plans. The completeness of solution in terms of ERP, PLM (Agile) and CRM along with lower maintenance cost; made us decide in favor of Oracle after thorough evaluation of all the Tier-1 products in the market."
- China’s Foshan Zhengda Mechanical & Electrical Group Co., Ltd (Zhengda), one of the largest mechanical and electrical agents in China, selects JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to address business challenges. Zhengda Financial Director Ni Xuefeng says, “We chose JD Edwards EnterpriseOne because high-growth enterprises like Zhengda need to regulate their business process with the market changes. Furthermore, we can improve our response to market, enhance business planning and reduce the total cost of ownership and implementation risks. We believe that JD Edwards EnterpriseOne can help us speed up the pace of building Zhengda into a leading industrial agent brand across China and also increase our return on investment.”
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- China’s Hebei Lanbei Liquor Group, one of the largest beer production enterprises in North China, selects Oracle Applications to establish a comprehensive and powerful information management platform. Ni Qing Wei, General Manager of Lanbei Group says, “The implementation of Oracle Applications brought advanced management ideas to Lanbei and further enhanced our business intelligence, business performance and management efficiency. We will leverage the information management platform to achieve lean management, enhance competitive edge and further expand business scale.” Click here for press release
- China’s largest lockset chain enterprise group, Liwen Lock City, selects JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle database options to improve business management, integrate resources, and accelerate business development. Liwen Lock City General Manager Kong Jianyong says, “We selected JD Edwards EnterpriseOne because it not only reduces our total cost of ownership and implementation risk, but also creates future scalability. We believe Oracle’s products and solutions will help us accelerate business development and achieve our goals in the near future.” Click here for press release
- China’s Midea Group, China’s largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Midea Group IT Director Gu Yun Song says, “We chose Oracle’s solutions for its world-leading technology and its rich experience in the global household appliance market. We expect that Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 can help us improve enterprise inner management, realize the supply chain’s collaboration, make intelligent decision and achieve the global unified management combined with regulation compliance.” Click here for press release.
- India’s Megamart selects Oracle Retail merchandising, planning, supply chain and stores applications to support its aggressive growth plans as it seeks to achieve leadership in fashion and value retailing in India. Arvind Brands & Retail Chief Executive Officer J. Suresh says, “Upon evaluating the retail software market, we identified that best practices embedded in Oracle Retail applications that will help us in many ways, including creating a product mix based on our customers’ buying patterns and forecasting customer behavior based on historical data. We believe Oracle Retail will give us a head start as we plan our stores network.” Click here for press release
- Indonesia’s PT. Darma Henwa, one of the largest mining service companies in Indonesia, implements JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to address the increasing complexity of the maintenance process for its plant and equipments and to maximize profitability. Darma Henwa Head of IT Department Dewa Nugraha says, “We believe this strategic implementation with Oracle gives us tremendous control and effectiveness when dealing with maintenance of our plant and equipment. Our company has invested in the best and most flexible solution to ensure that we consistently deliver the highest services to our users. This successful implementation is due to Oracle’s ability to meet our industry’s specific requirements and professional teamwork between our team and Oracle’s implementation team.” Click here for press release
- Minor Group of companies, one of Thailand’s largest retail enterprises, and Minor Corporation, Thailand's exclusive distributor of lifestyle products and contract manufacturing business, chooses Oracle E-Business Suite to standardize and improve business operations. Minor Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Ellwood Heinecke says, “As we continue to grow The Minor Group and enter new markets and types of business, we need to look at our organizational structure and processes to ensure we can deliver this growth and support the increased complexity in the most efficient manner. In addition, with increased pressure on costs, through commodity price increases, we need to ensure our supply chain is empowered to deliver the absolute best quality at the right price for our customers and consumers. Consequently we are undertaking a strategic initiative to put in place the best process, systems and organization that will support us in these areas. Oracle is the right partner to provide Minor with these systems and we will use the implementation as a catalyst to bring in leading practice processes and efficiencies into our operations.” Click here for press release
- PT. Bussan Auto Finance, one of the leading automotive financing service companies in Indonesia, chooses various components of Oracle Applications to address the company’s increasingly complex financial and compliance requirements. Andre Kurniawan, IT General Manager, PT Bussan Auto Finance, says, “We believe that this strategic implementation and partnership with Sigma & Oracle gives us tremendous control and effectiveness when dealing with our operation expenditure, and compliance with international regulations and practices. This in turn helps increase our rate of growth and enable us to respond effectively to increasing demands from our partners and customers.”
- Total Access Communication Plc (dtac), a major mobile phone operator in Thailand, implements Siebel Sales, part of Siebel CRM Release 8 to enhance its direct sales effectiveness. Andrew McBean, Head of Business Division of dtac, says, “We believe that an efficient sales force automation system, supported by an experienced software expert like Oracle, equips dtac to achieve its goals in four strategic areas: enhancing service leadership and quality; enabling sales personnel to focus on high-value strategic activities instead of unnecessary administrative tasks; encouraging the use of standard sales methodology; and increasing management insight into all aspects of the sales pipeline.” Click here for press release
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Oracle Q1 FY09 Earnings Release
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