Glenayre Technologies Goes Live With Full Suite of Oracle(R) Enterprise Resource Planning Modules
Oracle Consulting Services(SM) & Price Waterhouse Successfully Conduct 'Big Bang,' 5-Site Implementation
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL - news) today announced that Glenayre Technologies Inc. [Nasdaq:GEMS - news], the $450 million global provider of personal communications infrastructure and products, went live April 6 on a full suite of Oracle(R) manufacturing and financial applications across five Glenayre facilities.
The Glenayre locations involved in the Oracle launch include the corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., manufacturing plants located in Vancouver, British Columbia and Quincy, Ill., and facilities in Atlanta and Blaine, Washington.
The company deployed more than a dozen Oracle(R) Applications including manufacturing, supply chain planning, financial and project costing modules. The project, which is planned to eventually phase in users across Europe and Asia, included implementation of a 300-gigabyte Oracle(R) database and was deployed using Oracle's industry-leading Discoverer/2000 and Developer/2000 toolset, as well as Winframe technology.
Using Oracle Applications, Glenayre anticipates gaining significant efficiencies by eliminating data redundancies, substantially decreasing the amount of time needed to assimilate new business lines, generating savings by Year 2000 compliance, reducing inventory, improving customer service, and closer relationships with vendors and trading partners, and notably reducing the total cost of ownership.
''We now have an integrated business systems foundation that better prepares Glenayre for future growth,'' said Glenayre CEO and president Gary Smith. ''We are extremely pleased with the performance of Oracle Consulting and Price Waterhouse -- both companies worked with Glenayre's staff as one team, delivering excellent project management.''
Mats Gerschman, senior vice president of operations and manufacturing for Glenayre, said, ''The software rollout, which impacted more than 500 Glenayre associates, successfully concludes an eighteen-month-long, joint project management effort by Oracle Consulting, Price Waterhouse and a dedicated group of Glenayre employees.'' He added, ''The team implemented a wide range of mission-critical manufacturing applications that enables Glenayre, for the first time, to achieve a company-wide standard for manufacturing processes.''
After a two-month search, Glenayre chose Oracle Consulting and Price Waterhouse based on their resources and experience in business systems implementation for high-tech companies. Glenayre selected Oracle Applications in a competitive win over Baan and SAP to replace the ten- to fifteen-year old legacy software that was severely limiting Glenayre's capacity for future growth. Additionally, Glenayre chose Oracle for its flexible and modular business solution as well as its proven Application Implementation Method (AIM).
''Our objective was to build a world-class infrastructure using state-of-the-art database and management tools, coupled with a comprehensive application suite,'' said Greg Hoogerland, vice president of Information Services. ''We've succeeded in creating a business system foundation that unifies the company on a single database and we have gained efficiencies from having a common set of business processes supported by a single IS applications infrastructure.''
Glenayre Technologies Inc. is a leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing innovative personal telecommunication products and systems. With more than 2,000 employees and with products installed in over 100 countries, Glenayre's net sales exceeded $451 million in 1997. Glenayre specializes in complete paging systems, including both one and two-way paging infrastructure, and advanced messaging pagers. Glenayre also offers telecommunication service providers, both mobile and fixed, a suite of enhanced service products including voice mail, fax messaging, voice-activated dialing, one-number services, calling card platforms and communication network administration software.
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management and the world's second largest software company. With annual revenues of more than $6.7 billion, the company offers its database, application server, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world.
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SOURCE: Oracle Corp.
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