Leading Hardware and Software Vendors in India Embrace Oracle Embedded Software Products for Higher Availability and Performance

India, New Delhi – April 8, 2009
News Facts
· Leading hardware and software vendors in India are adopting Oracle’s embeddable databases and middleware to enable shorter development times, lower cost and risk while improving the reliability, flexibility and performance of their IT solutions.
· Select partners in India who have adopted Oracle’s embedded products include: Aricent Technologies (Holdings) Limited, CMS Computers, Efkon India Pvt. Ltd, Elitecore Technologies Limited, Essel Solutions, HCL Technologies Limited (Empresent), Imaging Solutions India Limited, iPolicy Networks Limited (Tech Mahindra), Infogen Technologies, InSolutions Global Pvt. Ltd., Megasoft Limited
· These partners chose to adopt components of Oracle’s embedded database and middleware portfolio, including Oracle Application Server, Oracle Berkeley DB, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Database, and Oracle TimesTen. With Oracle inside, partners have developed innovative solutions and services for a variety of industries, including telecom, financial services, manufacturing, retail and distribution.
· According to market research firm IDC[1]; Oracle is the overall leader in the worldwide embedded database management system (DBMS) software sector in 2007 with 26.3% market share.

Details
· In-Solutions Global offers financial services institutions a variety of specialised solutions with Oracle embedded technologies. Solutions include: Debit & credit integrated reconciliation & accounting solution, targeted at small and medium banks to enable them to acquire own, partner with third party card providers; Card issuance & management solution; Satellite solution, which handles the entire process of transaction processing of credit or debit or pre-paid cards and merchant settlements; Bank’s Business Management Information System, for statistical banking data and reports that need to be often submitted to statutory bodies like RBI, and SEBI.
· Elitecore and Megasoft offer a number of value added service offerings to telecom operators developed using Oracle embedded technologies. Some of these include Elitecore’s CRESTEL, a convergent billing solution enabling next-generation voice, video, data services over wireline/ wireless telecommunication networks; Megasoft’s RoamFree, a suite of roaming solutions tailored for mobile operators who have the need to increase their roaming revenues while keeping their capital and operational expenses low.
· Other solutions include CMS Computers’ Time Keeper (a time attendance system); Efkon’s ETMS (toll management solutions) and ETM-AVC (data acquisition application for collecting Automatic Vehicle Classification (AVC) data as vehicles pass through the gantry channel; Waves (a data capture solution) and Powerfile (an integrated document management solution that lets one capture, index, organise, archive, secure, search, access, annotate, disseminate and publish corporate documents) from Imaging Solutions; iPolicy Security Manager (a monitoring system for managed service providers, enterprises and government networks) from iPolicy Networks and DocuMight from Essel Solutions that uses Oracle Outside In Technology to render document content.

Supporting Quotes
· “We are continuously looking at ways to enhance our services in the payment domain,” said Adelia Castelino, Director, In – Solutions Global Pvt. Ltd. “Now with Oracle embedded into our solutions, we are able to offer our customers, ranging from small and medium to large sized banks operational in multiple regions and multiple countries and catering to all segments of the market, solutions that will work in a more stable, reliable and integrated IT environment.”
· “CRESTEL, our OSS BSS platform that enables next generation data, voice and video services over wireline and wireless telecommunication networks uses Oracle embedded technology,” said Nikhil Jain, COO, Elitecore Technologies Limited. “By using Oracle embedded technology along with our solution, we have been able to offer our customers with the right platform to cater to their requirements. This will provide customers with just one window of support & service for the application as well as Oracle technologies.”
· “By embedding Oracle Database within their products, our partners have been able to provide cost effective solutions much faster to consumers as these databases manage data internally and run autonomously,” said Mark Barton, Vice President, Embedded Technology, Oracle Asia Pacific. “With growing customer demands and increased competition, service providers have to continually innovate the value added services they offer and we are delighted to have had an opportunity to work closely with them and provide them with the right technology platform to meet these demands.”

Supporting Resources
· Oracle Named a Leader in Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems Vendor Share by Leading Market Research Firm
· Excerpt from IDC Competitive Analysis report: “Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2007 Vendor Shares”
· “Inside Job” article in Oracle Magazine, January/February 2009
· Embedded Technology Knowledge Zone for ISV and OEM Partners
· Oracle Embedded Technology

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