Oracle Service Providers Offer
Implementation Choice to Mid-Sized
Fastforward Manufacturing RPM
Customers
PR Newswire - January 06, 1999 14:38
25 Partners to Offer Implementation Services for Promotional
Manufacturing Fixed-Price, Fixed-Time Implementation Solution
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced that 25 Oracle
Service Provider (OSP) partners will participate in the Oracle(R)
FastForward Manufacturing RPM fixed-price, fixed-time
implementation solution announced on December 16, 1998. The
addition of the implementation partners gives customers the choice of
using an independent integrator to provide the implementation services
component of the Fast Forward Manufacturing RPM solution. Oracle
FastForward Manufacturing RPM includes software, consulting,
education and support specifically designed to meet customers' key
manufacturing and financial business needs.
Partners who will participate in this program include Abacus
Computer Applications, Inc., AnswerThink Consulting Group, Arthur
Andersen Business Consulting, CN Consulting, Inc., Consulting
Assistance Corporation, Exposoft, GEC North America Corporation,
Grant Thornton LLP, Information Systems Services, Intelligroup, Inc.,
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, Manning & Napier Information Services,
Micro Systems Integration LLC, Millennia Vision Corporation,
Norstan Consulting, Parker Management Consultants,
PRAGMATEK Consulting Group, Ltd., ROMAC International, Inc.,
SE Technologies, Inc., Simplify, Software Support Services, The
Spectrum Group, Inc., Technology Solutions Company (TSC), The
Summit Group, Inc., and Whittman-Hart, Inc.
"We worked with Oracle Service Provider, Simplify, and successfully
implemented Oracle Financial, Manufacturing and Distribution
applications in just 45 days," said John Brancato, director of
information technology at Fibex Systems. "We needed
enterprise-class applications to support our growing company as well
as a rapid, fixed-time implementation. Oracle and Simplify were able
to meet these needs."
"We are very excited to be able to provide this network of strategic
partners who can deliver a high degree of quality and performance in
implementing Oracle FastForward Manufacturing RPM," said Valerie
Borthwick, group vice president, general business consulting at Oracle
Corp. "The addition of these partners to the program increases the
capacity to serve a potentially large customer base. We have invested
a substantial amount of time and training into these partners and are
confident that they can provide a high level of service to our mid-sized
customers."
The Oracle implementation partners participating in this effort are a
subset of the Oracle Partner Program called Oracle Service Providers
(OSP). These certified regional and national integrators committed to
the middle-market and provide unmatched expertise in Oracle
Applications and methodologies, industry expertise and overall quality
of service. These partners are trained and supported by Oracle.
Fast Forward Manufacturing RPM
Oracle FastForward Manufacturing RPM is a fixed-price fixed-time
implementation solution that includes software, consulting, education
and support specifically designed to meet customers' key
manufacturing and financial business needs. This new offering has been
created to help companies implement these critical applications in 90
business days or less for a fixed price of $555,000. The special
promotion is available through May 15, 1999.
Mid-sized manufacturing customers who purchase Oracle
FastForward Manufacturing RPM will get the benefit of Oracle's
industry-leading manufacturing software, which can help companies
improve customer responsiveness and efficiency by reducing cycle
time and inventory investment. The fixed scope approach substantially
reduces the complexity of more traditional, large-scale
implementations, and includes 13 key Oracle Applications Release 11
modules:
* Oracle Financials(R) -- Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Payables,
Oracle Assets, Oracle Purchasing and Oracle Receivables
* Oracle Manufacturing -- Oracle Bill of Materials, Oracle Capacity,
Oracle Cost Management, Oracle Engineering, Oracle Inventory,
Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP, Oracle Work In Progress (WIP),
and Oracle Order Entry.
Oracle FastForward Manufacturing RPM also includes a tailored
education services bundle which offers 15 days of onsite user training
and an end-user training repository. Additionally, one year of
OracleSILVER(SM) support that includes 24x7 global telephone
support and regular account management reporting is included.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for
information management, and the world's second largest software
company. With annual revenues more than $8.0 billion, the company
offers its database, application server, tools and application products
along with related consulting, education and support services, in more
than 145 countries around the world.
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