Oracle meets local partners at Applications Day

An initiative to meet future business challenges in Sri Lanka and to take advantage of Oracle's Extensive Product Portfolio

More than 100 customers and partners from leading Sri Lankan organisations along with senior Oracle executives participated at an 'Oracle Applications Day' to discuss the critical role that IT, especially business applications, is playing in helping to build the businesses of the future recently.

Topics included Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Applications Unlimited and Oracle Business Intelligence, their importance to Sri Lankan businesses in the context of new initiatives and best practices.

Oracle Applications that could enable participants to take advantage of Oracle's expanded product portfolio for their specific needs.

Oracle's extensive business applications portfolio provides Oracle a leadership position in business applications across many industries including financial services, manufacturing, distribution, retail and telecommunications.

Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. The powerful combination of complete solutions and complete choice drive better business performance and help customers tailor their enterprise business and IT strategy, optimize their IT investments and use IT as a strategic point of differentiation.

When selecting Oracle Application software, customers can choose a single module, a product family, or the entire suite to match their unique business needs. In addition, Oracle Applications can be deployed on-premise, hosted via private or public clouds, or implemented through a hybrid model.

This is Oracle's "Two Complete" policy - offering complete solutions and complete choices for customers. Some of the benefits being offered by Oracle Applications Unlimited include - Customer driven enhancements to product lines, Ongoing upgrade innovations, Lifetime support and no forced migrations and Upgrade path to next-generation applications.

"Our customers' feedback after deploying our best-in-class offerings is a great motivation for us to strengthen our product portfolio and Oracle Applications Day provides us an excellent opportunity to know about the experience of customers with our products," said Managing Director, Oracle Pakistan and South Asia Growth Economies - West Ahsen Javed.

"Oracle is a vital part of enhancing efficiency of our business processes," said Chief Financial Officer Serendib Flour Mills Firdowsy Ismail. "We look forward to improved business performance and sustained profitability and growth with the new Oracle Applications. The plant will have an initial milling capacity of one thousand metric tonnes per day and we have plans to capture a growing share of the local wheat flour market."