Asia Pacific’s leading ISVs standardise on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle announced that leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware.

With Oracle Fusion Middleware, ISVs no longer need a variety of proprietary middleware technologies to integrate with different components of Oracle’s Enterprise Applications family. Instead, ISVs use Oracle Fusion Middleware as a common integration and business process management technology to integrate with Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel products. Customers can now leverage open, complete, standards-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions spanning Oracle and its partner solutions.  Both customers and ISVs will benefit from lower costs of implementation, accelerated delivery times and a lower cost in the event of future changes.

Asia Pacific ISVs representing a variety of industries including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector have turned to Oracle Fusion Middleware to deliver more comprehensive offerings for their targeted markets. 

Path Infotech Limited’s SmartQ is a customer service centre management solution that will enable customer service centres of banks, financial services, insurance, hospitals, railways, airlines, telecom, bill payment centres and citizen facilitation centres to better manage customer queries, customer volumes and also measure the quality of services being delivered over the counter.

“A comprehensive and standards-based family of middleware software, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to adopt and manage SOAs in heterogeneous computing environments,” said Tarun Agarwal, Director-Technology, Path InfoTech Limited. “Oracle Fusion Middleware has been our platform of choice for SmartQ development and deployment.

The ease of use and instant integration with JDeveloper is a big winner. It has reduced our development and deployment time, helped us meet customer expectations and provided instant support to their queries. Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g - Application Server Control, we were also able to deploy and manage the SmartQ application in minutes.”

Other Asia Pacific ISVs that have selected Oracle Fusion Middleware include:

Infopro Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)
Infopro is a leading global banking and financial solutions provider in Malaysia with over 70 customers in 23 countries throughout Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa as well as Eastern Europe. Their core product, the ICBA System, has been developed using key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. “With the use of Oracle Fusion Middleware in the ICBA System, our customers are able to deliver their services effectively and innovatively”, said Matthew Chuah, Chief Operating Officer of Infopro. “There are no longer geographical limitations as the ICBA System, which runs on Oracle Application Server, enables our clients to deliver their services almost anywhere with an Internet or wireless connection. Implementation of the ICBA System has also been made easier with. Wed services developed on Oracle JDeveloper as implementation is now done centrally and requires no additional cost for branch delivery capabilities.”

ASPire Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd (China)
ASPire Technologies is a major service provider for China Mobile. “Our SIMS Solution is the key application in China Mobile. It needs to be robust and flexible to meet the quick development needs of the fast-moving telecoms industry,” said Wu Yong, Products Architecture Manager, ASPire Technologies. “Oracle Fusion Middleware provides an integrated, standards-based, hot-pluggable platform that enables us to reduce the complexity and lower the cost of managing the systems, ultimately enhancing our service delivery.”

Aware Corporation Ltd. (Thailand)
Aware Corporation, winner of the 2006 Thailand ICT Awards, provides consultancy and software development services. “By building our applications on industry-leading Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database 10g, Aware has successfully developed business and operational process software applications across numerous industries for both large and small companies.  We have expanded Aware's operations well beyond our base in Chiang Mai. Together with Oracle, our business continues to grow, providing our customers confidence that our products and solutions are world-class and are supported by two great companies, ” said Steven Prussky, Managing Director, Aware Corporation Ltd.

CrimsonLogic (Singapore)
CrimsonLogic is a leading eGovernment solution provider focusing on the legal, trade and logistics, and healthcare sectors based in Singapore. “Using key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, CrimsonLogic has developed a unique and powerful solution that helps governments address a variety of critical challenges, from improved inter-agency collaboration through to providing citizen-centric eGovernment services,” said Tan Sian Lip, Vice President, eGovernment Professional Services, CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd. “By integrating the solutions, we help governments to improve efficiency and productivity, achieve cost savings, and enhance customer confidence and public image. Citizens also benefit from significantly faster response times, reductions in administration, and an overall improvement in service standards.”

CSS Web Technology Co., Ltd (China)
CSS Web Technology is a leading ISV for service-oriented architecture and security solutions in China.  "Our Financial Enterprise Information Portal solution, integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides manufacturing, retail and distribution companies with a comprehensive solution and a fast and flexible way to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs,” said Wang Xuan, Sales Director, CSS Web Technology.  “We will also be using Oracle Fusion Middleware to integrate with Oracle’s solutions for the financial services industry, so that customers can benefit from comprehensive, standards-based SOA solutions available today.”

3i Infotech  (India)
3i Infotech’s Premia is an end-to-end solution that provides insurance organisations with technology to manage business operations and collaborate with customers and partners to provide self-service benefits and expanded reach through the distribution channel. “Using Oracle Fusion Middleware, we quickly and easily migrated our existing application to a SOA,” said Hari Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, 3i Infotech. “The platform’s comprehensive SOA and business process management capabilities enabled us to seamlessly integrate our industry leading Premia software with Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel CRM to create a comprehensive insurance solution for our customers.”

Nippon Data Systems Limited (India)
Nippon Data Systems, a leading provider of IT consulting and implementation services, provides complete end-to-end solutions for technology driven business transformation initiatives. Harish Saraf, Director, Nippon Data Systems, said, “Both enterprises and SMBs have seen their transaction data grow rapidly and stored in varied kinds of repositories. It is important for ISVs like us to take advantage of the fabulous Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings to better analyse, manage and secure customers’ data. We will continue to build our products on Oracle Fusion Middleware for maximum customer benefits.”

Q-Soft Systems and Solutions (P) Ltd (India)
Q-Soft offers manufacturers a specialised ERP Suite aimed at improving processes, reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction. “Growth in the manufacturing sector demands that manufacturing companies stay efficient and competitive. Yet legacy applications are limited in scale and functionality. Replacing legacy applications is not only expensive but also time consuming. With Oracle Fusion Middleware, enterprises can migrate their legacy applications simply and integrate with other applications such as Supply Chain Management and Customer Relationship Management easily. With integrated workflows, all the business components are consolidated into one manageable stack,” said Girish Chaitanya, Director, Business Development, Q-Soft Systems and Solutions (P) Ltd.

Seer Technologies, Inc. (Philippines)
Seer Technologies is a leading enterprise software and services provider based in the Philippines. “Based on our solid experience in building IT architectures for enterprises, we have selected key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware in developing standards-based and highly scaleable solutions, especially on J2EE, for our customers,” said Joseph Benjamin Ilagan, Chief Operating Officer, Seer Technologies. “Oracle Fusion Middleware eases integration among legacy applications, complex endpoints, and point solutions, and helps ensure critical revenue-generating applications will always respond to customers' growing business needs.”

Seertech Solutions (Australia)
Seertech Solutions is an Oracle Certified Partner based in Australia with a global customer base.  It specialises in Oracle iLearning, a learning management system used by a number of large organisations around the world.  “Seertech Solutions harnesses the comprehensive and standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware portfolio to align business process and corporate strategy around talent management, compliance and learning management within a SOA environment,” said Paul Hardwick, Director and Founder, Seertech Solutions. “Oracle iLearning is Web services-enabled, creating real value for our customers by delivering cost savings, ongoing supportability and the ability for systems to communicate securely and effectively across the public Internet.”

Softforum Co., Ltd (Korea)
SoftForum is the leading provider of best-of-breed public key infrastructure (PKI) security solutions in Korea.  “Building on our PKI security leadership, we are now looking to enter the Identity Management (IDM) market using Oracle Fusion Middleware to seamlessly integrate our solutions with Oracle’s suite of world-class IDM solutions to help enterprises manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall,” said Sangcheol Kim, CEO, Softforum Co., Ltd.

Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd (Singapore)
Y3 Technologies is a leading supply chain management solution provider based in Singapore. “The logistics business is characterised by huge and unpredictable spikes in activities, and we are extensively using Oracle Fusion Middleware to create scaleable and flexible supply chain management applications,” said James Loo, Chief Operating Officer, Y3 Technologies. “With the need for speed in the supply chain business, using Oracle’s standards-based, hot-pluggable Fusion Middleware has helped Y3 Technologies to support large-scale, complex real-time supply chain operations efficiently, flexibly and cost-effectively.”

“A service-oriented integration approach paired with a common technology foundation provide a key differentiator for ISVs seeking to build value around an organisation’s core business applications such as Customer Relationship Management, Financials and Human Capital Management, among others,” said Terry Weber, Senior Director, ISVs Channels, Oracle Asia Pacific.  “Using Oracle Fusion Middleware, leading ISVs across the region deliver a number of benefits to their customers, including faster development of solutions; increased flexibility; and a significant reduction in the time and costs associated with integrating their solutions with Oracle Applications. We continue to add resources and programs to help our ISV partners across Asia Pacific to augment their SOA expertise based on Oracle Fusion Middleware.”

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of standards-based software products that spans a range of tools and services from J2EE and developer tools, to integration services, business intelligence, identity management, collaboration, and content management. Oracle Fusion Middleware’s “hot-pluggable” architecture allows customers to leverage their investments in any existing application, system, or technology.

Customer wins from ISVs across Asia Pacific include Jingsui (China), Knowledge Cube (country), Lasersoft (India), Samsung Office Computer (Korea), Sinosoft (country), and Tomato Systems (country). Some of the projects include implementations of traffic tracking system, population tracking system and fund tracking system.