Oracle-HP to deliver complete biz solutions
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Bangalore,
Jan
17:
Oracle
and
HP
today
announced
a
team-up
to
deliver
complete
software,
hardware
and
services
solutions
tailored
for
midsize
companies
in
India.
These new offerings comprise combinations of Oracle Accelerate solutions, that offers cost, time and risk advantages to the medium businesses on Oracle E-business Suite and JD Edwards suite of products and HP reference configurations and are designed to offer easy-to-own solutions. Briefing newspersons on the tie-up, Ashok Pamidi, HP Director for Commercial Accounts said the HP reference configurations for oracle were guidelines for HP servers, storage and software that were based on joining HP and Oracle engineering expertise and best practices.
Starting from Rs 30 lakh, the end to end solutions offered by the two companies could support midsized company user counts of 25, 50, 100 or 200, can save customers valuable configuration time and provide guidance when deploying Oracle on HP hardware, he said.
"We are delivering cost-effective, low-risk solutions that enable growing businesses in India to achieve a tangible return on their IT investments. This combination gives customers and partners in India flexibility, scalability and a range of options that offer continuity, security and efficiently at a lower total cost of ownership, Mr Pamidi added.
The two companies had launched a 18-city tour of customer-focussed events.
Nitin Paranjape, Oracle Director and General Manager, Application sales said, "in order for midsize businesses in India to be competitive in today's global marketplace, they need to be enabled with affordable, easy-to-own IT solutions that are as powerful and secure as enterprise systems." He said with the hardware from a platform industry leader like HP and worldclass applications from Oracle, customers can address their entire spectrum of IT challenges in a single instance and within budget.
UNI