Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips
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We've been working with IBM the last couple of weeks on this and with applications in the future. Oracle views the IBM-Oracle project as one of the most important customer-focused projects under way at our company.
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We'd love to get to a mode where we're looking at the number of employees served, the number of checks processed--you name it, some business metric--and take it out of the technology realm and tie our success to their success in terms of business.
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With today's announcement, we are giving customers the best of both worlds: more value from existing applications, which we plan to enhance indefinitely, and an option to upgrade free-of-charge to future technologies, if customers have a business case to do so.
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We're starting with something I believe was a generation ahead of what was out there; all it needed was scale. And Oracle can bring scale.
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From what we've seen, what (Siebel) built was very impressive and that will give us more momentum,
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We supply technology and applications to more than 90% of communications companies worldwide today, and billing is a logical and complementary addition for those customers.
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You have to keep in mind that in the case of PeopleSoft and Siebel, a number of people there used to work for or are partners of Oracle. So it's usually just a reunion. It's not as dramatic as it's portrayed from the outside.
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We have engaged our customer base in the Fusion development process, and feel confident that 80 percent of our customers will be able to upgrade to Oracle Fusion applications and can plan to find functionality they had in earlier application versions, as well as new features coming from other applications.
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Siebel's expertise with industry-specific customer-facing applications combined with rich analytics will not only serve as the centerpiece of our CRM strategy for Oracle Fusion Applications, but can also be used to extend our current customers investments today.
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