Oracle is expanding its
Accelerateprogramme to deliver
industry-specific, fixed-price enterprise software for small and
medium-sized enterprises.
Oracle said Accelerate delivers a comprehensive set of
applications, rapid implementation tools, and an extensive partner
system, so that small- and medium-sized businesses can maximize
their budgets and achieve business value quickly.
The implementation tools, which Oracle calls Accelerators, are
frameworks that incorporate industry-specific best practices and
business process “flows” to make deployment faster and easier,
while reducing cost and risk.
Accelerators are designed to work with Oracle’s E-Business
Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD-Edwards EnterpriseOne and
Siebel.
To flesh out the strategy, analyst firm Ovum said Oracle would
be recruiting software implementation companies that offered
expertise in specific industries and markets.
Warren Wilson, research director at Ovum, said Oracle would be
working with these companies to define standard software bundles,
prices and implementation times that reflect the resource
constraints and lower risk tolerance of small and medium-sized
enterprises.
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