EDS South Africa is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a launch partner for an initiative to offer Oracle software in a fully managed environment. The initiative builds on the strategic global alliance between the two companies, and is available immediately for the Oracle E-Business Suite.
"We at EDS are tremendously excited by the opportunity represented by this partnership with Oracle Outsourcing," comments Leon Tromp, Alliances Manager at EDS South Africa.
"As the pioneer of IT services, EDS is able to bring decades of experience to bear on this initiative to deliver Oracle`s software to clients within a totally-managed environment. The Oracle@EDS approach is one that many clients have been asking for, and we believe the model will suit the needs of many CIOs across the country."
The basic concept of the partnership is for Oracle and its partners to deliver standard Oracle software as a service, and for EDS to provide the enabling infrastructure, hosting and connectivity. As part of its role as an enabler of the Oracle Outsourcing model, EDS will provide disaster recovery facilities, network management, backups and system optimisation, to support Oracle`s service level guarantees to its partners and customers.
"For clients, the central benefit of this approach is peace of mind," Tromp says. "Using standard applications as a service genuinely frees clients of many worries around the system infrastructure itself, as well as the application support. Providing the enabling infrastructure is something EDS understands very well, and we will also be able to draw on the international experience EDS is building up as an Oracle hosting partner. In addition, EDS is able to provide integration between the outsourced Oracle applications and other systems as and when individual clients require this service. On the application level, support and maintenance will be handled by Oracle and its partners."
The partners believe that this initiative will redefine the way in which business uses software. Instead of devoting time to the technical aspects of providing the software to the business, CIOs and business managers will be freed up to concentrate on how to optimise the way the business uses the software.
Joe Heunes, Director: Oracle Support Services, is enthusiastic about the move. "This partnership is about two of the great names of IT coming together to deliver a compelling value proposition to clients. EDS is also an Oracle Outsourcing hosting partner internationally, and the global intellectual capital thus created will be something it will bring to this relationship. IT is increasingly being seen by CIOs as a vital enabler of business process, and this proposition goes a long way towards delivering the security, the scalability, the reliability and above all the predictability that business requires. EDS will assist Oracle and its partners to lead this new approach in providing business software as business requires it."
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