This module provides the services in sales management, purchase management and warehouse management.
7.4 oracle corporation
Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977. It is world’s second largest software company. The company offers its database, tools and applications products, alongwith related consulting education and support services. Oracle Corporation has its own Internet computing model for developing and deploying enterprise software. It provides databases, relational servers software, application development and decision support tools and enterprise business application.
Unit 7: ERP Market
notes
technology
Oracle software supports to the network computers, personal digital assistants, minicomputers, mainframes and parallel computers, set top devices and PCs. The latest version of Oracle industry is Oracle 8i, which is the industry’s leading database and supports Internet device. With the help of its database, networking and gateway products Oracle Corporation allows to access any data on any server, any network from any client device.
Oracle’s Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI) provides customers with a complete data warehousing solution. WTI is supported with Oracle database and more than 60 complimentary third party software products and services.
The WTI provides the Oracle based database warehousing solution with greater choice, oracle optimized products, specialized tool and streamlined support.
Oracle’s Solution serves powerful decision making capabilities to the enterprise at anywhere in the enterprise, at any time. The Oracle’s Corporation gives entire range of Business Intelligence solution. The products includes Oracle’s enterprise reporting tools, Oracle Reports, Oracle’s Industry leading enterprise OLAP engine, Oracle’s Financial analyzer, Sales analyzer and ad – hoc query and analyzer’s tool.
Oracle Application is division of Oracle Corporation. It is leading provider of integrated front office and ERP solutions. This offers the business solution with advanced technologies, business expertise and partnership, required to enable customers execute strategies, minimize the risks and maximize the benefits.
Oracle Application serves over 45 modules for financial, human resource, manufacturing, supply chain and front office automation.
The Oracle Application comprise of 45 – plus software modules, which are divided into the different categories. They are,
1. Oracle Financials 2. Oracle Human Resource 3. Oracle Projects
4. Oracle Front office 5. Oracle Supply Chain 6. Oracle Manufacturing
All these applications exploit the low cost and universal access inherent in the Internet computing.
These applications provide a complete automated and integrated business process. The Oracle application support local business practices, legal requirement and can handle business critical operation across borders as well as can operate in multiple currencies and languages. Because of all above benefits, more than 6000 customers in 76 countries use Oracle application. The modules are as follows:
1. Financial Modules: With Oracle financial application companies are allowed to work globally. It provides improved cash management solution lower the administrative costs and also provide the strategic information required for making timely and accurate decisions.
2. Human Resource: The Oracle Human Resource management System (HRMS) provides facilities for organizations to improve the bottom line and contribute to competitive advantage. It has ability to hire, motivate and retain the capable workforce, manage employees and line managers in their skills and carriers. HRMS provides comprehensive and up to date information for each management level.
notes 3. Project: Oracle project management application allows user to integrate the project management environment and fully supports the lifecycle of every project in your enterprise through the facilities like central repository of validated cost, revenue, billing and performance data. Oracle projects application can increase top line revenue growth and bottom line profitability.
4. Front Office: Oracle Front office solution allows user to better understand his customer with a true customer centric application. This helps to increase the line revenues, decrease sales and service cost. The service marketing and service solution provides the full integration with entire enterprise suite of application.
5. Supply Chain: This simplifies supply chain process by providing a single, integrated environment for managing the enterprise. From Supplier’s supplier to Customer’s customer, Oracle allows effective trading partner’s collaboration and supply chain optimization. Thus helps in gaining and sustaining competitive advantage.
6. Manufacturing: Oracle manufacturing applications are mix mode manufacturing solutions. This support from small, single facilities environment to multi – plant environment. Oracle manufacturing help companies increase revenue, profitability and customer loyalty by universally capturing demand by ensuring the most efficient manufacturing process used to produce each product.
7. Vertical Solutions: Oracle provides vertical solutions for industries including automotive, aerospace and defense, aviations, energy upstream, financial service, high – tech public sectors and utilities.
The strengths and weakness of oracle are:
strengths
1. Oracle’s core product is database application which forms the basic foundation of an ERP package.
2. Good reputation of horizontal application for functionality and scalability. 3. Strong international professional services.
4. One of the top leaders in the ERP market position. 5. Sustained investment in R&D
6. Financially sound global organization.
7. Early Internet architecture adoption and entry to CRM market.
Weakness
1. Regarded as a late entrant in the ERP arena 2. Product integration issues
3. Insufficient sales execution
Unit 7: ERP Market
notes
7.5 peoplesoft
PeopleSoft was established in 1987, to provide the software solutions for the business. The mission of this company is to provide innovative software solution that meets the changing demands of enterprises. The annual revenue of the year in 1998 was 1. 3 billion. The company employs more than 7000 people worldwide.
The PeopleSoft solution includes, Human Resource management, project management, treasury management, financial services, accounting and control, supply chain management etc. PeopleSoft also provides customarily solutions including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, communication, transportation, public sector, higher education, US federal government, public sector and utilities.
PeopleSoft runs on leading hardware and platforms, they are Compaq, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Informix, Microsoft SQL server, Sybase, DB2 etc. The applications also delivers web – enabled applications, workflow, OLAP etc.
The PeopleSoft application serves the business management solutions, commercial solution and industry solution.