New Offering Helps Customers Drive More Value From Their Oracle ERP Investments
San Francisco, CA — Oct 23, 2006 – Cognizant today launched Oracle Fusion Portfolio Assessment (OFPA), a service that provides companies with comprehensive analysis of their Oracle Fusion platform readiness and a customized roadmap for integrating forthcoming Oracle products while leveraging their existing IT investments. At the Oracle OpenWorld 2006 Conference in San Francisco from October 22-26, Cognizant will demonstrate the new service offering, present expertise in ERP solutions and discuss best practices for implementing the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications suite.
”With Oracle Fusion Portfolio Assessment, companies deploying Oracle software are now able to maximize their IT investments and ensure that they effectively align their Oracle applications portfolio, including PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World, and Oracle E-Business Suite, to Oracle's Fusion roadmap,” said John Beaumont, VP, Oracle ERP Practice at Cognizant. “Our comprehensive assessment OFPA is Cognizant’s answer to the significant opportunities Fusion provides customers. Cognizant can complete a portfolio assessment in as few as six weeks, enabling customers to maximize the return on their IT investments in Oracle technology and more closely align their application portfolio with overall business objectives.”
The main components and benefits of Cognizant’s OPFA tool include:
- In-depth assessment: offering customers detailed Return on Investment, Total Cost of Ownership and roadmap analysis for their deployed applications from technical and functional perspectives.
- Upgrade feasibility analysis: giving customers detailed recommendations for incorporating the Oracle Fusion platform into their IT strategy to leverage forthcoming product upgrade cycles.
- Risk assessment: enabling customers to align Oracle Fusion with business process functionality requirements and overall business objectives.
During Oracle OpenWorld, Cognizant will share its expertise in development, integration and reporting toolsets such as XML Publisher, Operational Dashboards and other Web 2.0 technologies, as well as Patch Application and Integration around PeopleTools 8.48 and PeopleSoft 9.0. In addition, Cognizant Oracle experts will lead a series of presentations at the Oracle Open World Sessions on a variety of topics centered on sharing best practices in implementing the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications suite. Cognizant will discuss how to improve strategic decision-making across lines of businesses in order to enable enterprise-wide reporting capabilities, and how to provide the sales force with instant and continuous access to critical customer and competitor information to improve response to opportunities.
For more information on these sessions and to learn more about Cognizant’s Oracle ERP Practice, please visit Booth No. 522 at Oracle Open World in San Francisco from October 22-26, or visit Cognizant’s web site at http://www.cognizant.com/go/oracle.
About Cognizant’s Oracle ERP Practice
Cognizant’s Oracle ERP Practice is dedicated to building stronger ERP systems for our clients via its expertise with the Oracle line of Products (Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards and Siebel). Our solutions portfolio encompasses end-to-end services for implementations, upgrades, Business Intelligence and Analytics, CDI, Fusion Portfolio Assessments and Maintenance and Support for deployed applications. Cognizant’s established partnerships and extensive experience in a range of enterprise-class ERP and CRM packages, coupled with highly qualified and certified professionals and our unique Global Delivery model enable us to deliver responsive solutions that help make our clients’ businesses stronger.
CONTACT:
John Beaumont
Vice-President, ERP Practice
813-389-2221
jbeaumont@cognizant.com
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