[Maintaining that India is going to be] critical ... great addition to that. |
Banking is a critical industry for us, |
I think there is a concern that innovation only comes from two vendors living across the street of each other. Sometimes, we spend so much time worrying about what the other vendor is doing, that we stop figuring out what customers need to be successful. |
i-flex is a perfect partner to Oracle with its competence in core banking sector. |
It is different in its approach. It is about understanding specifics, about how an accounts clerk and a plant manager do their jobs. There are things they do in the system and things they do in their jobs in total and how with next generation applications we can make them more successful in how they do their job as a whole, |
Look hard to extensions and customizations. Those features may be in the standard functionality built into the [Fusion] product. |
That is what we are tying to deliver as part of the next generation of applications. |
The Oracle Fusion Architecture provides the foundation for our vision of Information Age applications. Our singular mission is to help our customers drive business excellence through the blending of superior insight and adaptive processes. Oracle Fusion Architecture is both the architectural roadmap and the enabling technologies that allow us to do that. |
There is always a possibility. |
There's a path to Fusion applications. But you need to take that step. |
This will let people understand how to integrate Fusion applications in the same way they've integrated Oracle e-business applications. They'll know how to model their business processes to support Fusion applications. |
We've already developed the upgrade architecture and will begin working with a customer advisory board later this year to help us determine the best ways to automate and ease the upgrade process. A key priority is for us to make the upgrade as automated as possible, and to reduce cost and downtime. |