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Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan posts 58% growth in applications new license revenues
Oracle announced significant customer traction across its database, middleware and applications businesses in the Asia Pacific region during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2007 (September 1 - November 31, 2006). For Q2FY07, Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan (JAPAC) reported total revenues of US$571 million, a 22% increase from Q2FY06. JAPAC accounted for 14% of total revenues worldwide and 19% of total Q2FY07 new license revenues worldwide. (All figures in USD and on GAAP basis.)
“In Q2FY07, we outpaced the competition in virtually all product lines and geographies,” said Derek Williams, Chairman and Executive Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific & Japan. “Customers are endorsing our strategy and solutions -- open, flexible and standards-based software that drives business agility, insights and ultimately, growth and shareholder value.”
Oracle’s expanded portfolio of solutions provides companies in Asia Pacific with the widest choice of fully integrated solutions with deep industry functionality built on open standards. Organizations of all sizes in key, high-growth industries — including Financial Services, Communications, Media, Utilities, Government, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution -- have chosen Oracle to integrate their business systems, increase business efficiencies and performance, and lower operational costs.
Unlimited support, choice and industry-rich functionality drives success for Oracle Applications Applications new license revenues in Asia Pacific & Japan grew 58%, compared to the same quarter last year.
“Our applications new license business in Asia Pacific & Japan is accelerating more than two times faster than SAP's 21% growth , as stated in their latest reported quarter for Asia Pacific & Japan,” said Brian Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific. “We continue to win against SAP in high-growth industries, which have contributed to our growing market share across the region. This is a clear vote against SAP’s proprietary ABAP, which makes SAP more costly and difficult to integrate with other software systems.
“Oracle has taken a firm stance in favor of a standards-based approach. Organizations are responding to our assurance of unlimited support and choice within Oracle’s large family of enterprise software applications that includes industry-specific applications from Portal Software, MetaSolv, Retek, Demantra, and G-Log, as well as Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards,” Mitchell added.
Oracle Applications new wins in Q2FY07 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Apollo Hospitals (India), BBK Electronics Corp. Ltd (China), Beijing MTR Co. Ltd (China), Catholic Education South Australia, Corporation Bank (India), Country Energy (Australia), Emco Elecon (India) Ltd (India), Firstsource Solutions Ltd (India), Fletcher Distribution Ltd T/A PlaceMakers (Australia), Godfrey Philips India Ltd. (India), GuoHua Electricity Power Co. (China), Guodian Nanjing Automation Co. Ltd (China), Hengyang Valin Steel Tube Co. Ltd (China), Huaxia Bank (China), Jurlique International (Australia), Pingan Insurance Cor. Ltd (China), Shanghai Hitachi Electrical Equipment Co. Ltd (China), Suzhou DIO corporation (China), Vellore Institute of Technology (India), WNS Global Services (India), Worksoft Creative Technology Ltd (China).
Oracle Fusion Middleware grows fastest among top three vendors in Asia Pacific
According to Gartner, Oracle grew the fastest among Asia’s top three AIM and Portal Software vendors with 51.8% growth, and was the only vendor of the top three to gain market share from 2004 to 2005. In Thailand, Oracle is now head-to-head with its nearest competitor in the AIM and Portal Software market, and growing four times faster to its nearest competitor with 47.5% growth in 2005.
“We continue to be the leading innovator in database technologies and the fastest growing middleware vendor in the Asia Pacific region,” said Mitchell. “Furthermore, recent reports from independent analysts show that companies are choosing Oracle Fusion Middleware at the expense of IBM and BEA.
“Oracle’s open-standards based software gives enterprises the power to choose — based on their needs and requirements today, without having to rip and replace what they already have. As the move towards an information-centric, service-oriented architecture continues, organizations will be looking for ways to improve information security and business intelligence on the lowest-cost computing platform,” Mitchell added.
Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware new wins in Q2FY07 for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, include: Acledabank (Vietnam), BAE Systems Australia Ltd* (Australia), Catholic Education South Australia*, Chartered Semiconductor (Singapore), Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt Ltd (India), Department of Health & Aging* (Australia), Esquel Enterprises Ltd (Hong Kong), First Dawood Islamic Bank* (Pakistan), Fletcher Distribution Ltd T/A Placemakers* (Australia), Fuji Xerox* (Australia), Godfrey Philips India Ltd* (India), Habu Bank* (Vietnam), Healthintelligence (New Zealand), Intelpos Pty Ltd* (Australia), Monash University* (Australia), National Switching Company Of Vietnam (Banknet) (Vietnam), Pacific Century Insurance Holdings Ltd* (Hong Kong), PT Bakrie Telecom (Indonesia), PT. Indosat Mega Media (Indonesia), PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk* (Indonesia), PT. Telekomunikasi Selular Indonesia (Telkomsel)* (Indonesia), Punjab National Bank (India), Samsung Electronics (Korea), Samsung SDS Company Ltd (Korea), Santos Ltd (Australia), SDI (Korea), Secure Meters Ltd* (India), Singapore Airlines Ltd (Singapore), Stats Chippac Ltd (Singapore), Suzhou Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd (Korea), Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank Co Ltd (Taiwan), The Bank Of East Asia, Ltd (Hong Kong), Tractors And Farm Equipment Ltd (India), University Of Education (Vietnam), Vietnam Datacommunication Company (Vietnam), Vu Anh Hospital (Vietnam), Xiamen Statistics Bureau* (China), Zhejiang Financial Bureau* (China).
*Indicates customer purchased Oracle Fusion Mildleware and may have also purchased Oracle Database.
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