Indian Customers Choose Oracle Fusion Middleware as Foundation for their Service-Oriented Architecture

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Business and IT decision makers in India are building their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Oracle Fusion Middleware to better manage their business processes, increase enterprise agility, enhance informed decision making and reduce the cost of doing business. Indian businesses and government organizations, which have recently adopted Oracle Fusion Middleware components such as Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, include Godfrey Phillips, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd and SREI Sahaj e-Village Ltd.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a preintegrated portfolio of customer-proven software that spans from portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, and business intelligence. It is increasingly serving as the foundation for organizations' service-oriented integrations, enabling companies to run and expand their businesses using Service-Oriented Architecture. SOA facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated. Benefits include reuse, ease of maintenance and change, and improved business visibility.

Dr. Syed Sabahat Azim, Indian Administrative Service, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at SREI said, "We chose Oracle Fusion Middleware over competitive products as it met with the extensive requirements of our e-Initiatives program. Using Oracle's SOA framework, different applications from our various departments will be seamlessly integrated and a portal created to host a multitude of services for our rural citizens."

In line with the Indian Prime Minister's vision, SREI Sahaj e-Village Ltd. will set up 10,000 Common Service Centers (CSCs) in the States of Bihar and West Bengal to provide information and services to citizens in the areas of governance, agriculture, education, vocational training, health, and hygiene. The largest projects of its kind in the world, the CSCs are part of the Indian Government's National E-Governance Plan.

"More and more organizations are recognizing the benefits of middleware for future business growth and competitive success. Middleware is not just about connecting applications and exchanging data - it enables our customers to be more agile and better-informed, as well as to secure sensitive information and to streamline compliance initiatives," said Sunil Mehra, Director of Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales for Oracle India. "Our middleware customers in India are using Oracle Fusion Middleware to put in place a standards-based SOA."

Independent analyst firm Gartner positioned components of Oracle Fusion Middleware in the Leaders Quadrant for seven Magic Quadrants tracking the middleware market. These include Application Infrastructure , Application Infrastructure for Composite Application Projects , Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects , Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Applications Projects , Business Intelligence Platforms , Horizontal Portal Products and Web Access Management .

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application (SOBA) Projects "evaluates vendors against the relevant subset of all technology attributes of application infrastructure: modeling and design of SOA-style applications and engineering and management of new user-facing software as well as back-end application components (service implementations and interfaces) and flows." Located in the Leaders Quadrant of this Magic Quadrant, Oracle delivers with Oracle Fusion Middleware a best-in-class Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine, SOA Suite, metadata repository and business process management capabilities that make it easier for organizations to create reusable and interoperable components. The Application Infrastructure and related Magic Quadrant reports can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/index.html#fus.

Oracle Fusion Middleware World Tour Comes to India

Furthering its momentum, Oracle launched a series of global events for IT executives and managers that focus on how Oracle Fusion Middleware is delivering business results today and transforming how enterprise applications are developed and implemented. Through executive keynotes and a range of expert-led technical sessions, Oracle and non-Oracle customers can gain insights into how they can extend the business value of their enterprise application investments. Additional information about the event in Mumbai (August 20) and New Delhi (August 23) can be found at http://www.oracle.com/goto/middleware/event12.


About Oracle Fusion Middleware

The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to adopt and manage service-oriented architectures in heterogeneous computing environments. More than 50,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including market leading independent software vendors, value added resellers and system integrators.

About Oracle India

Oracle entered India in 1987 and set up an India Development Centre in 1994. Today, Oracle has two India Development Centers as well as Indian hubs for Oracle's global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its offices in more than 20 cities in India, and an extensive network of more than 436 channel and alliance partners under the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle India markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India. Oracle India has more than 6,700 customers in the telecommunications, banking, insurance, manufacturing and utilities industries, across the government and private sector. Oracle India is a major partner for E-Governance initiatives of Central and State Government bodies in India. The Oracle-HP E-Governance Centre of Excellence is located at Oracle India's head office in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Oracle also has a Retail Centre of Excellence in Bangalore.

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About the Magic Quadrants

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