Oracle offers better outlook on simplified, secure infrastructure

Our Convergence Bureau
08 October 2002

Instead of requiring many servers to upgrade, maintain and manage, Oracle Collaboration Suite helps reduce costs because it is built on a single information repository — the highly available, secure and scalable Oracle9i infrastructure.

To increase end-user productivity, Oracle Collaboration Suite uniquely provides integrated access to information using common communication tools and popular interfaces like Microsoft Outlook. End-users, for example, can listen to email using a phone, or listen to their voice mail through email.

Early users, including Abilene Christian University, one of the largest private universities in the Southwest United States, have recently started implementation of Oracle Collaboration Suite. David Gibson, senior systems analyst at Abilene Christian University, highlighted a few of the product benefits: “Oracle Collaboration Suite will allow us to consolidate several email servers, saving time and money in our IT department. It also gives us the ability to access information through various mechanisms and from various interfaces or devices. Our main concern when evaluating messaging products was cost, efficiency, reliability and security — we anticipate that Oracle Collaboration Suite will meet those needs.“

According to IDC, the collaboration market is expected to reach $7.5 billion by 2006. With its unique advantages in productivity and cost, Oracle is well positioned with customers and partners to aggressively compete in the growing messaging and collaboration market. In just the last two months, the Oracle Collaboration Suite partner programme has grown to more than 250 members.

“We've already seen firsthand the many benefits of Oracle's Collaboration Suite. Through Oracle Collaboration Suite, we'll be able to provide our customers with the functionality they've sought for a long time,“ says Bradley D Brown, chairman of the board and chief architect of TUSC. “Integrating email, voicemail, faxing and files simply makes a lot of business sense.

“Our knowledge of and experience with the Oracle Collaboration Suite makes TUSC an even more attractive choice for customers who are looking for creative solutions to their business problems. They're going to really appreciate the unbreakable features of Oracle's database that will make a huge difference in their uptime. Best of all, they'll be able to implement this technology without disrupting their existing end-user community. Oracle Collaboration Suite will change the way they do business forever.“