Leading Analyst Firm Validates Oracle(R) Communications' Strategy and Vision

Report Highlights Oracle's Strengths in OSS/BSS Software Including its
End-to-End Offering for the Communications Industry

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

-- Oracle today announced that Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan
focused on communications industry strategy, highlighted Oracle's
strengths in operations support systems (OSS) and business support
systems (BSS) in its recent report titled, "Communications Global
Company-Level Assessment: Oracle."
-- Part of its OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies series, which
provides strategic assessments of OSS/BSS solution vendors, the report
notes that Oracle has a clear vision and understands its customers'
needs for a complete, end-to-end OSS/BSS and enterprise resource
planning (ERP) platform.
-- Stratecast's report states that Oracle understands that communications
service providers (CSPs) need accelerated time-to-market for new
services and cost-sustainability. It notes that the "secret sauce" of
the company's product suite is in integration and infrastructure that
connect applications and deliver a common view of a CSP's customers and
services.
-- Further, the report highlights Oracle's history in the communications
industry including the development of its OSS/BSS platform through
recent acquisitions -- Siebel Systems, Portal Software, MetaSolv
Software and Netsure -- noting that not only has Oracle grown with its
acquisitions, but it is also quickly integrating its new products into
an end-to-end solution offering.
-- In addition, the report notes that Oracle's strategy to integrate its
ERP solution into the Oracle Communications suite provides several
advantages, including a reduced-risk value proposition due to the pre-
integration of its applications.
-- Looking to the future, Stratecast's report notes that it expects Oracle
to continue to develop its end-to-end platform to meet customers'
growing and changing needs.

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Supporting Quotes

-- "Stratecast's global assessment is a testament to Oracle's leadership
in the communications industry and a clear validation of our commitment
to delivering value to our customers. We continue to enhance our
communications product suite and provide out-of-the-box integrations
between our industry leading applications -- helping service providers
reduce their cost of technology ownership through more rapid
implementations. This unique combination -- coupled with our database
and Service Delivery Platform capabilities -- will allow global
communications service providers to quickly develop and deploy next-
generation services, improve operational efficiently and deliver a
personalized communications experience to their customers," said David
Sharpley, Vice President, Marketing and Channels, Oracle
Communications.
-- "Oracle Communications is clear about its direction and goal -- to
deliver a competitive, OSS/BSS platform. We expect Oracle to continue
its work toward the achievement of this vision by employing carrier-
grade, standards-based technologies along with ongoing delivery of pre-
built integration 'plug-ins' and industry-specific business processes,"
said Susan McNeice, Global Program Manager, OSS/BSS Competitive
Strategies, Stratecast.

Supporting Resources

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/industries/comm/stratecast-global-assessment.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/index.html

http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/sp-home.pag

About Oracle Communications
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20
communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications
integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the capabilities of
Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence
tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle
Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent
services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs
in the business and the network. For more information, visit
http://www.oracle.com/Communications.
About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.
For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at
http://www.oracle.com.
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