Oracle Unveils Comprehensive Service Delivery Product Portfolio for Communications Service Providers

Portfolio Helps Speed Time to Market and Enable Innovative New Communications Services

BROADBAND WORLD FORUM ASIA, HONG KONG – July 15, 2008
· Providing the industry’s most comprehensive set of software applications to enable next-generation, IP-service delivery, Oracle introduced the Oracleâ Communications Service Delivery portfolio, which includes components of the former BEA WebLogic Communications middleware platform and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
· With BEA, Oracle extends its industry-leading independent software vendor (ISV) community to foster innovative service delivery. Partners will be able to leverage Oracle’s communications industry applications to help service providers monetize new services and drive innovation in the communications industry. Service providers will benefit from advanced, proven products with successful implementations worldwide and from the combined expertise and knowledge of Oracle and BEA’s experience with SDP solutions.
· The Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio further complements and provides unique value when deployed in conjunction with Oracle’s industry-leading applications for billing and revenue management, customer relationship management and service fulfillment. This comprehensive solution set positions Oracle to meet service providers’ complex and evolving service delivery platform (SDP) needs, helping them accelerate time to market for new services.
· Oracle also announced today the availability of a key component of the Oracle Communications Service Delivery suite -- Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper 4.0, a carrier-grade, standards-based environment for services exposure, services-layer policy enforcement, partner relationship management and network-access control. (See related announcement.)
Oracle Communications Service Delivery Details
· The concept of SDP has evolved from basic content delivery to an architecture for integrating legacy and IP-based network services in order to drive new revenue by exposing the communications network to third-party application developers. Oracle addresses today’s SDP as well as the ability to integrate smoothly with BSS/OSS to easily activate services, manage subscriber data and bill for services.
· The Oracle Communications Service Delivery product portfolio includes: Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper (formerly BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper), Oracle Communications Converged Application Server (formerly BEA WebLogic SIP Server), Oracle Communications Presence, Oracle Communications Virtual PBX and Oracle Communications Residential Telephony.
· Oracle currently has more than 100 ISV partners that are integrating with or building upon the Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio, enabling them to create and monetize innovative applications for the global service provider community.

Supporting Quotes

· “The service delivery market has reached an inflection point in propelling communication industry transformation. The introduction of Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio provides a powerful foundation for driving service innovation. With an open, standards-based approach, industry-leading deployments and integration with Oracle’s end-to-end communications industry applications suite, the new Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio is uniquely positioned to empower service providers to compete more aggressively by providing compelling new services,” said David Sharpley, vice president of marketing and alliances, Oracle Communications.
· “Both Oracle and BEA have independently created strong SDP offerings. They have also both developed key IT technologies that have been widely adopted by service providers and other SDP vendors, system integrators and ISVs. Their respective strengths make for a powerful combination,” said Mac Taylor, chief executive officer, The Moriana Group

Supporting Resources

Oracle Communications: http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/index.html
Oracle Communications Service Delivery: http://tinyurl.com/oracle-ocsd
Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper: http://tinyurl.com/oracle-sdp

White Paper & Report

Oracle SDP – Enablers and Future Proofing your Investment: http://tinyurl.com/oracle-enablers
Oracle: Changing the Landscape of Telecom Service Delivery: www.morianagroup.com