Customers
upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
Posted: 2 March 2003
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Oracle Corp.,
the world’s largest enterprise software company, today demonstrated
the continued strong momentum of customers upgrading to the Oracle®
E-Business Suite 11i with its announcement that more than 75 percent
of Oracle’s applications customers worldwide are live or implementing
the Oracle E-Business Suite.
Customers who are live on the Oracle E-Business Suite are able
to streamline business processes, reduce costs and leverage enhanced
functionality include: Emirates Airline; Haji Husein Alireza; 1-800-FLOWERS.com;
AFFINA; American Diabetes Association; American Power Conversion
Corporation (APC), Lloyds TSB, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young UK,
Dubai Duty Free; Government of Bahrain, Sun Microsystems and more.
Emirates Airline
The Award winning airline initiative, based on the Oracle E-Business
Suite 11i, has integrated the accounting, human resources, procurement,
and order management functions across the entire group, it enables
more than 15,000 employees to access key business applications and
information through the Internet.
“The optimisation of customer focus, reliability, and efficiency
are three of the overarching objectives in the diverse businesses
of the Emirates Group. In order to achieve these goals, and at the
same time to profitably manage our rapid growth, we needed the powerful
technological backbone uniquely supplied by the Oracle E-Business
suite. The aviation and travel industries are among the most competitive
in the world, and the Emirates Group has long relied on the most
advanced technology to help us perform at peak levels of service,”
said Maurice Flanagan, Emirates Group Managing Director.
Haji Husein Alireza
Saudi Arabia's leading automotive distributor has completed a project
to deploy the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i in addition to in-house
developed Oracle-based applications.
"Our long-term partnership with Oracle has enabled HHA to plan,
develop and execute this growth strategy and will support our operations
in the future," said Ahmedullah Khan, manager information systems,
HHA.
"The superior security and reliability of Oracle's technology
and business applications, plus their ability to support tremendous
volumes of online data, made Oracle the only realistic choice for
a project of this scale and ambition" Khan added.
HHA is already reaping the benefits of its IT modernization strategy.
With more than nine years of financial data migrated to its new
system, consistency and business intelligence are already enabling
managers at HHA to make faster and more informed decisions about
the day to day operation.
1-800-FLOWERS.com
As one of the most recognized brands in gift retailing, 1-800-FLOWERS.com
is upgrading to the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i to take advantage
of new functionality and standardize operations across its growing
organization. 1-800-FLOWERS.com recently acquired The Popcorn Factory
and needed a scalable and integrated order processing and financial
platform to offer its customers same-day and next-day delivery capability.
Oracle Consulting will help 1-800 Flowers.com move from release
11.0 to the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, including Oracle Financials,
Oracle Order Management and Oracle Purchasing.
“We’ve been an Oracle applications customer since 1996,
and have been able to increase efficiencies, establish appropriate
controls and manage key financial drivers as a result, allowing
us to grow and thrive in the online and offline gift retail market,”
said Chris McCann, president for 1-800-FLOWERS.com. “Due to
our success with Oracle’s applications, we decided to extend
our Oracle footprint to standardize business processes for integration
and consistency across the company and our newly acquired business
units. We’ll benefit by being able to offer consumers a seamless
buying experience with improved order processing speed and enhanced
customer service.”
American Diabetes Association
Using Oracle Consulting, The American Diabetes Association (ADA)
went live on the Oracle E-Business Suite in just three months. The
ADA chose Oracle E-Business Suite to centralize its financial and
procurement operations in an effort to reduce costs as well as streamline
and automate processes. Oracle Consulting’s Business Flow
implementation methodology provided ADA with a fixed-price, fixed-scope
solution that ensured a quick implementation designed to help the
organization reach its goal of saving millions, annually. In addition,
with Oracle Consulting’s online delivery option, ADA was able
to take advantage of Oracle experts located around the world.
“As an organization committed to using our resources to help
prevent and cure diabetes, it was imperative that our technology
initiative deliver a quick return on investment and would not go
over budget,” said John Courtney, chief financial officer
for the American Diabetes Association. “By using Oracle Consulting
for the implementation, we were guaranteed that there would not
be any expensive cost overruns and a single organization would be
accountable for any future issues. Oracle helped us make strategic
decisions and provided us a road map to get our new system up and
running quickly.”
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