Oracle Australia entices Micosoft Exchange customers to switch to Oracle Collaboration Suite
Simplified, More Secure Infrastructure Answers Call for Lower Costs, Increased Productivity, Greater Reliability
Oracle Corporation Australia (Oracle Australia) Pty. Limited, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, today introduced Australian audiences to Oracle Collaboration Suite, along with two new affordable services designed to attract customers to the most reliable, secure and cost-effective email infrastructure available.
Typically less than half the cost1 of other collaboration products like Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Collaboration Suite offers unmatched productivity benefits with complete collaboration software that integrates email, voicemail, file system support, calendar, real-time conferencing capabilities and workflow. For customers wanting to switch to Oracle for productivity and cost benefits, Oracle Consulting offers a low-cost migration service that makes it less than one-third the cost to migrate
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite than to Microsoft Exchange 20002. Oracle is also announcing the immediate availability of hosted collaboration services ? Oracle Collaboration Suite Outsourcing ? relieving customers from time and cost responsibilities of system and management support.
According to IDC Australia, the market for Collaboration software in Australia is estimated to be growing at 25 percent a year, with more than A$300 million being invested annually by Australian organisations by 2006.
With its unique advantages in productivity and cost, Oracle is well positioned to aggressively compete in the growing messaging and collaboration market. In just the last two months, the Oracle Collaboration Suite partner program has grown to more than 250 members worldwide. Oracle Australia also named Igatech as a local implementation partner for Oracle Collaboration Suite and announced the product is available as an outsourced option through Hostworks.
Speaking at the official unveiling, Oracle's senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Mark Jarvis said, "Running a successful and efficient business requires people to work together efficiently through accurate and timely information sharing. With Oracle Collaboration Suite, we are helping companies cut the cost of their collaboration tools by eighty percent while greatly improving productivity."
Early adopter Lend Lease Corporation has implemented Oracle Files, a key component of Oracle Collaboration Suite. "Lend Lease looked at a number of different options for delivering a knowledge management platform and Oracle Collaboration Suite was the obvious choice. Oracle already understands our business as the company's technology underpins most of our applications," said Greg Baster, CIO Corporate Office, Lend Lease Corporation. "Our significant growth over the past three years left us with many different databases, in different regions and local offices, making it difficult to share information globally. Oracle Collaboration Suite provides a reliable platform we can use to develop a single, consolidated global knowledge platform which is scalable, flexible and reliable."
Unprecedented Employee Productivity with Oracle Collaboration Suite IDC reports that an enterprise employing 1,000 knowledge workers wastes USD$48,000 per week, or nearly USD$2.5 million per year, due to an inability to locate and retrieve information3. Oracle Collaboration Suite helps increase end user productivity by enabling users to access voicemail, email and fax in one inbox, and also leverage time-saving features such as UltraSearch to find corporate information within all shared files, including faxes and email. With the addition of the new Oracle iMeeting technology in the next release, online collaboration activities such as co-browsing, Web conferences, voice streaming, meeting playback and even casual communications such as instant messaging, can be consolidated and centralised.
Oracle Collaboration Suite Delivers the Best Value in the Market
Oracle Collaboration Suite drives down the costs of administration, software, hardware and migration in the following ways:
Software ? By consolidating all corporate data into a single, unified repository, studies have shown that user productivity can increase as well as save IT departments time and money. According to a recent, independent study done by iGillottResearch, Oracle's own email implementation saved the company approximately USD$13 million in the first year of deployment.
Hardware ? Oracle Collaboration Suite allows users to consolidate hundreds of servers to one, single secure and reliable infrastructure, significantly reducing IT costs.
Reduced Administration ? By centralising all communications in one infrastructure, Oracle Collaboration Suite enables IT managers to reduce administration time and lower support costs. A recent case study on Oracle Collaboration Suite customer Abilene Christian University showed that they were able to lower support costs by 50 percent.
Migration ?- According to Ferris Research, the typical total cost for customers to migrate from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2000 is USD$100 per mailbox for corporations larger than 1,000 seats2. Today, Oracle Consulting is offering migration assistance from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite for as low as USD$29 per user, which is less than one-third the cost of the Microsoft 5.5 to Microsoft 2000 migration4.
Oracle Outsourcing and Consulting Services
Oracle is also making Oracle Collaboration Suite immediately available as an outsourced service, enabling customers to benefit from deploying an integrated communication environment that relieves them of the time and cost responsibilities associated with system support and management.
In addition to the Microsoft Exchange 5.5-to-Oracle Collaboration Suite migration services, Oracle Consulting is offering assessment and ROI services, which are designed to give customers a comprehensive analysis of the current and future state of their communications infrastructure. The new services include Oracle Collaboration Suite Assessment and ROI Service;
Oracle Collaboration Suite Architecture and Infrastructure Service; Oracle Collaboration Suite Implementation and Migration Services.
About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle visit our website at www.oracle.com. ###
Trademark Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 1 Oracle Collaboration Suite costs A$107 per user while Microsoft Exchange costs A$347 per user. Cost comparison based on Australian list prices at December 2002. Cost comparison includes a A$93/user cost for Windows 2000 licences versus A$0 cost for Linux. Comparison excluding operating system charges is A$107 per user for Oracle Collaboration Suite and A$254/user for Microsoft Exchange. Comparison is for large organisations with up to 10,000 users. A similar cost advantage for Oracle solution applies for smaller numbers of users. Price comparisons exclude GST and do not include hardware costs (which would increase the cost difference between the Oracle and Microsoft implementations). 2 In certain situations, Oracle Consulting can migrate customers from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite Email for as low as USD$29 per user. This estimate is based on migrating 2,000 users from a single email domain with less than 10 servers, excludes software costs and travel expenses, and is for an email implementation only. Actual costs are dependant on a number of factors and may vary significantly. See also: Ferris Research, "The Cost of Migrating From Microsoft Exchange v5.5 to v2000," April 2002. 3 IDC Research, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Targets Larger Firms Ready to Exchange Microsoft," July 2002 4 Ferris Research, "The Cost of Migrating From Microsoft Exchange v5.5 to v2000," April 2002.
Typically less than half the cost1 of other collaboration products like Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Collaboration Suite offers unmatched productivity benefits with complete collaboration software that integrates email, voicemail, file system support, calendar, real-time conferencing capabilities and workflow. For customers wanting to switch to Oracle for productivity and cost benefits, Oracle Consulting offers a low-cost migration service that makes it less than one-third the cost to migrate
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite than to Microsoft Exchange 20002. Oracle is also announcing the immediate availability of hosted collaboration services ? Oracle Collaboration Suite Outsourcing ? relieving customers from time and cost responsibilities of system and management support.
According to IDC Australia, the market for Collaboration software in Australia is estimated to be growing at 25 percent a year, with more than A$300 million being invested annually by Australian organisations by 2006.
With its unique advantages in productivity and cost, Oracle is well positioned to aggressively compete in the growing messaging and collaboration market. In just the last two months, the Oracle Collaboration Suite partner program has grown to more than 250 members worldwide. Oracle Australia also named Igatech as a local implementation partner for Oracle Collaboration Suite and announced the product is available as an outsourced option through Hostworks.
Speaking at the official unveiling, Oracle's senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Mark Jarvis said, "Running a successful and efficient business requires people to work together efficiently through accurate and timely information sharing. With Oracle Collaboration Suite, we are helping companies cut the cost of their collaboration tools by eighty percent while greatly improving productivity."
Early adopter Lend Lease Corporation has implemented Oracle Files, a key component of Oracle Collaboration Suite. "Lend Lease looked at a number of different options for delivering a knowledge management platform and Oracle Collaboration Suite was the obvious choice. Oracle already understands our business as the company's technology underpins most of our applications," said Greg Baster, CIO Corporate Office, Lend Lease Corporation. "Our significant growth over the past three years left us with many different databases, in different regions and local offices, making it difficult to share information globally. Oracle Collaboration Suite provides a reliable platform we can use to develop a single, consolidated global knowledge platform which is scalable, flexible and reliable."
Unprecedented Employee Productivity with Oracle Collaboration Suite IDC reports that an enterprise employing 1,000 knowledge workers wastes USD$48,000 per week, or nearly USD$2.5 million per year, due to an inability to locate and retrieve information3. Oracle Collaboration Suite helps increase end user productivity by enabling users to access voicemail, email and fax in one inbox, and also leverage time-saving features such as UltraSearch to find corporate information within all shared files, including faxes and email. With the addition of the new Oracle iMeeting technology in the next release, online collaboration activities such as co-browsing, Web conferences, voice streaming, meeting playback and even casual communications such as instant messaging, can be consolidated and centralised.
Oracle Collaboration Suite Delivers the Best Value in the Market
Oracle Collaboration Suite drives down the costs of administration, software, hardware and migration in the following ways:
Software ? By consolidating all corporate data into a single, unified repository, studies have shown that user productivity can increase as well as save IT departments time and money. According to a recent, independent study done by iGillottResearch, Oracle's own email implementation saved the company approximately USD$13 million in the first year of deployment.
Hardware ? Oracle Collaboration Suite allows users to consolidate hundreds of servers to one, single secure and reliable infrastructure, significantly reducing IT costs.
Reduced Administration ? By centralising all communications in one infrastructure, Oracle Collaboration Suite enables IT managers to reduce administration time and lower support costs. A recent case study on Oracle Collaboration Suite customer Abilene Christian University showed that they were able to lower support costs by 50 percent.
Migration ?- According to Ferris Research, the typical total cost for customers to migrate from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2000 is USD$100 per mailbox for corporations larger than 1,000 seats2. Today, Oracle Consulting is offering migration assistance from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite for as low as USD$29 per user, which is less than one-third the cost of the Microsoft 5.5 to Microsoft 2000 migration4.
Oracle Outsourcing and Consulting Services
Oracle is also making Oracle Collaboration Suite immediately available as an outsourced service, enabling customers to benefit from deploying an integrated communication environment that relieves them of the time and cost responsibilities associated with system support and management.
In addition to the Microsoft Exchange 5.5-to-Oracle Collaboration Suite migration services, Oracle Consulting is offering assessment and ROI services, which are designed to give customers a comprehensive analysis of the current and future state of their communications infrastructure. The new services include Oracle Collaboration Suite Assessment and ROI Service;
Oracle Collaboration Suite Architecture and Infrastructure Service; Oracle Collaboration Suite Implementation and Migration Services.
About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle visit our website at www.oracle.com. ###
Trademark Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 1 Oracle Collaboration Suite costs A$107 per user while Microsoft Exchange costs A$347 per user. Cost comparison based on Australian list prices at December 2002. Cost comparison includes a A$93/user cost for Windows 2000 licences versus A$0 cost for Linux. Comparison excluding operating system charges is A$107 per user for Oracle Collaboration Suite and A$254/user for Microsoft Exchange. Comparison is for large organisations with up to 10,000 users. A similar cost advantage for Oracle solution applies for smaller numbers of users. Price comparisons exclude GST and do not include hardware costs (which would increase the cost difference between the Oracle and Microsoft implementations). 2 In certain situations, Oracle Consulting can migrate customers from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Oracle Collaboration Suite Email for as low as USD$29 per user. This estimate is based on migrating 2,000 users from a single email domain with less than 10 servers, excludes software costs and travel expenses, and is for an email implementation only. Actual costs are dependant on a number of factors and may vary significantly. See also: Ferris Research, "The Cost of Migrating From Microsoft Exchange v5.5 to v2000," April 2002. 3 IDC Research, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Targets Larger Firms Ready to Exchange Microsoft," July 2002 4 Ferris Research, "The Cost of Migrating From Microsoft Exchange v5.5 to v2000," April 2002.
