Bangkok--26 Apr--PC & Associates Consulting
Small and Medium Businesses and Local Governments to Benefit from Affordable, Low Risk Industry-Specific Applications Bundles
Oracle today announced that it has joined hands with local partners in Thailand to extend its global Accelerate program to Thailand’s small and medium businesses (SMBs). To increase the competitiveness of SMBs across the Asia Pacific region, Oracle, together with more than 50 of its partners, is launching a new portfolio of some 80 industry-specific applications solutions to address the needs of companies in more than 30 industry segments across 14 countries. These Oracle-based solutions from the partners are specially designed, packaged and priced for SMBs, with the aim of enabling SMBs to adopt modern technologies easily while reducing IT complexity and costs.
This move is part of the global Oracle Accelerate program, which is Oracle’s approach to meet the diverse IT requirements of SMBs by combining partner expertise with the industry’s most comprehensive software portfolio, comprising both Oracle applications and technology solutions. Oracle today serves more than 25,000 SMB customers in the Asia Pacific region and more than 190,000 SMB customers globally.
Under the Oracle Accelerate program, Oracle applications — including the Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Siebel — are combined with rapid implementation methodologies, such as Oracle Business Accelerators, as well as Oracle partners’ industry solutions and services, to deliver efficient deployments, faster returns on investments (ROI) and reduced risk for SMBs. Oracle Accelerate will provide SMBs with highly scalable, integrated solutions delivered by Oracle partners, for managing industry-specific processes and key business operations, such as the management of finance and accounting, human resources, supply chain and customer relationships.
As Oracle applications are based on open standards and are designed to run on standards-based Oracle database and middleware solutions, they provide a superior alternative to other proprietary business systems for SMBs by reducing complexity and total cost of ownership. Businesses are able to build flexible, adaptable IT infrastructures and adopt modern technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), which are critical to enabling SMBs to respond quickly to new business opportunities, customer demands and changes in operating conditions.
“SMB customers typically operate in lean environments with limited resources and IT personnel. Our aim with Oracle Accelerate is to enable SMBs to focus on critical business needs rather than managing IT systems. The combination of Oracle’s expertise with SMB customers and the industry experience of our partners enables us to help our partners deliver affordable solutions that address the requirements of SMB customers,” said Khun Natasak Rodjanapiches, Oracle’s Regional Managing Director for ASEAN Region, and Managing Director of Oracle Thailand. “Oracle’s Certified Partners bring extensive industry and local expertise in applications implementation and business process re-engineering. Through Oracle Accelerate, we are committed to investing resources so that our partners have the tools and capabilities to easily bring low-cost, low-risk offerings based on Oracle applications to small and medium businesses and local governments in Thailand.”
Oracle Partners Seize New Opportunities By Delivering Affordable, High-Value Implementations With the Oracle Accelerate program, Oracle is creating new channel opportunities for its partners. More than 50 Oracle partners have been recruited and are building their own Oracle Accelerate solutions to address the needs of SMB organizations across 14 Asia Pacific countries. The partners are rolling out solutions for more than 30 industries, including financial services, consumer products, high-tech manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, automotive, professional services, retail, utilities, travel and transportation. In Thailand, Oracle’s partners for Accelerate include Datapro Computer Systems (DCS) and iCE Consulting.
“As one of the leading Total Enterprise Solution Providers in Thailand, DCS provides enterprise-wide solutions and services for systems, infrastructure and business process management, as well as IT managed services,” said Khun Viwat Phongsathorn, Managing Director, DCS. “With Oracle’s JD Edwards applications, DCS has been selected by more than 100 companies across various industry segments to be their long term strategic IT service provider for their enterprise requirements. With Oracle’s continued commitment to expand its solutions portfolio, we are confident that our strategic partnership will be strengthened and we will be able to provide even better support and services to our customers in Thailand.”
“By combining enhanced JD Edwards applications with our experience in the local market, we strongly believe that we can offer one of the best and most effective business solutions portfolios in the market today. Based on the Oracle Accelerate program, SMB customers can take advantage of our combined strengths and achieve their business objectives in the most rapid manner,” added Khun Viwat.
“Financial services organisatons demand high standards of compliance and good governance,” said Khun Kanjana Limpunyalert, General Manager, iCE Consulting. “As a consequence, our SMBs customers in the FS industry demands world-class solutions that have the greatest reliability, in order for them to successfully achieve IT governance. We are very committed providing our SMB customers with practical and professional consulting service, supported by our proven experience in implementing Oracle Applications.”
“The Oracle Accelerate initiative enhances our strength and optimizes the benefit to our SMB customers in the financial services industry. Oracle solutions comply with industry regulations and practices such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act — SOX or Basel II. With its low-risk and industry template advantages, Oracle applications provide maximum performance for a reasonable investment,” Khun Kanjana added.
To assist partners in developing their Oracle Accelerate applications solutions, Oracle provides additional industry and SMB/SMG-specific tools and training including: Oracle Business Accelerators, business process flows, recommended practices and supporting promotional materials and collateral and suggested pricing guidelines. New resources and services have been added to assist Oracle partners to bring lower cost, higher value solutions to customers. These include:
Oracle Applications SMB Pricing Model — New SMB pricing for partners allows special discounts, flexibility for bundling of appropriate products for each solution and a streamlined process to provide the customer clear, easy-to-understand and predictable pricing.
Oracle Accelerate Solutions Catalog — A new designation in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Solutions Catalog that showcases Oracle Accelerate solutions provided by partners in online searches. Partners can be searched by geography, industry vertical and application product family.
New Campaigns Collaboration — Oracle will help partners with Oracle Accelerate solutions locate and market to potential customers fitting the partners’ unique solution profiles.
Referral Fee Program — New Oracle SMB Applications referral program includes guidelines on how to identify software needs, a dedicated referral website, and incentives for top referrers.
Partner Loyalty Program — A new Oracle Accelerate Partner Loyalty program, launching next fiscal year, will allow partners to qualify for increasing levels of training, and sales and marketing resources, and funding for partners promoting their Oracle Accelerate solutions.
SMBs Across Asia Pacific Continue To Choose Oracle Applications
Across Asia Pacific, small and medium-sized businesses across different industries continue to invest for the future by selecting applications solutions from Oracle and its partners. These include: Autron Corporation (Singapore), Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard (Australia), DFCC Bank (Sri Lanka), Fonterra Brands (Malaysia), HUIERKANG Group (China), Hyundai Pharmaceutical (Korea), Insular Life (Philippines), Jakarta International School (Indonesia), Leroy Somer and Controls India Pvt Limited (India), Organon (Pakistan), Pacific Internet (Hong Kong), PCI Limited (Singapore), and Sony Technology (Thailand).
About Oracle Accelerate
Oracle Accelerate is Oracle’s approach for helping Certified and Certified Advantage Partners in the Oracle PartnerNetwork bring comprehensive, easy to own, industry-focused solutions to small and medium businesses. Key to Oracle Accelerate solutions is the availability of pre-packed application bundles that can be quickly implemented by partners and provide a wide range of industry-specific functionality. Oracle Business Accelerators, the rapid implementation software provided to resellers as part of Oracle Accelerate, enable customers to realize immediate benefit from Oracle Applications. With Oracle Accelerate, customers can take advantage of Oracle’s enterprise applications including integrated business flows across front office, back office, and industry-specific processes. Additionally, customers can benefit from automated upgrades, significantly reducing the complexity and risk associated with migrating to updated versions. More information at http://www.oracle.com/accelerate
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