United States: Oracle to unveil Fusion Apps for 2010 launch.Byline: Mamta03 Oracle Corp (ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) .O) is putting the final touches on a new line of software to be introduced next year, including slick features that analysts say make it more compelling than rival products from SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. (SAPG SAPG Software Acquisition Process Group SAPG Sam Ace Plumbing Goods SAPG Secret Army of Pro Gamers (online gaming army) .DE). The product launch will be one of the most closely watched in Oracle's 32-year history as Chief Executive Larry Ellison Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. Early life Ellison was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, a 19-year-old unwed Jewish mother. has essentially staked his reputation on the new business management software, Fusion Apps. Oracle has spent five years and billions of dollars on the project, part of its efforts to win customers away from SAP, the only company that sells more business management software than Oracle. One key differentiator between Fusion Apps and the products available from SAP and Oracle is that it is easier to customize and integrate with other software, allowing businesses to save millions of dollars in consulting costs, said Ravi Kumar, a vice president at Infosys Technologies Ltd (INFY INFY Infosys Technologies Ltd (stock symbol) .BO), which has been testing early versions of the software for six months. Another important advance is the user interface, which looks more like a screen from Google Inc's (GOOG GOOG Google, Inc. (stock symbol) .O) GMail than a traditional business software application, he said. "It is very user friendly. Very intuitive. People will be able to drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. ," Kumar said. "Fusion will be much more user friendly compared to SAP." SAP did not return phone calls and emails requesting comment. SAP and Oracle control virtually all of the market for software that large corporations use to manage accounting, payroll, human resources, sales and other operations. It is rare for companies to switch software providers because it is a tedious and expensive process. Still, analysts said that if Fusion Apps are a hit and SAP fails to catch up, then Oracle may be able to win some customers away from the German company. One research analyst who attended a two-day briefing on Fusion Apps at Oracle's Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , headquarters described the user interface as "slick." "It's leaps and bounds ahead of SAP," said the analyst, who declined to be identified because Oracle asked that the news be kept quiet until after Ellison formally unveils Fusion Apps in a speech before some 10,000 customers later on Wednesday. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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