Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fred Levine who wrote (25595)	10/21/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Paul V.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Big Bucks, I have not seen the following article posted from WSJ Electronic edition. Very interesting. What are your thoughts regarding the deal? What was the cause of such a deal? Paul V. Applied Materials Goes Live With Oracle in Record-Breaking Five-Month Implementation Oracle Applications Clean Fit for High-Tech Industry Requires Minimal Customization for Applied's Pilot Program SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced that Applied Materials, the world's largest producer of wafer fabrication systems and services for the global semiconductor industry, has gone live with a suite of Oracle Manufacturing software applications. The fast-track, five-month-long implementation within Applied's chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) division was concluded within budget and five weeks ahead of its June, 1998 schedule. The implementation coincided with the successful close of Applied's third fiscal quarter. Managers within the CMP division had requested to be the first phase of a corporate-wide adoption of Oracle's Manufacturing suite. The full implementation for Applied's 13,000 U.S. and international employees is slated to take place August through December of 1999. "Oracle consultants were very dedicated," says Sharon Bennett, CMP project manager. "They put in the hours necessary to understand our business processes. We felt they were just as excited as we were to make this a success." Applied's CMP division urged an early adoption of Oracle to cope with a 60% forecasted growth in production within the next nine months. The three-year-old division now commands 35% of the market. "Out-of-the-box" features of Oracle's manufacturing modules enabled CMP to sustain its rate of production while maintaining its philosophy of lean manufacturing including Kanban techniques and just-in-time inventory management. Oracle's software features enable the division to process on-line requisitions, run nightly MRP reports, and have also eliminated a second step of double-entry when executing engineering change orders. In addition, Oracle's applications provide the unit with needed security and accuracy of data, as well as Year 2000 compatibility, features not addressed by the old legacy system. "The selection of Oracle by Applied Materials is indicative of our ability to build easily implementable applications for the high-tech industry and our overall commitment to sell by industry," says George Kadifa, Oracle senior vice president, worldwide industrial verticals. "We have worked closely over the years with our high-tech customers to define and develop a good fit between their business needs and our application modules." "A leading interest in our selection of both Oracle's applications and consulting for implementation is their specific concentration and interest in semiconductor equipment business sector and in their ability to add value to our business relationships with out customers and suppliers," says Ed Brown, group vice president, Applied Strategic Knowledge Solutions. 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 $7.5 billion, the company offers its database, application server, tools, and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 140 countries around the world. For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL) oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. /CONTACT: Dan Berkowitz of Oracle Corp., 650-506-3614, or dberkowi@us.oracle.com; or Christine Kerst of Applied Communications, 650-375-8881, or ckerst@appliedcom.com, for Oracle Corp./