Oracle sees buoyancy in Asia-Pacific region

Oracle Corporation on Friday said that its database, middleware and applications business software are witness to buoyancy in the Asia Pacific region and Japan, wherein India has become a significant business opportunity with new deployments across several sectors.

Interestingly, software as a service or on demand software is beginning to get assimilated in India with Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-related software from Siebel. And this could potentially move on to other areas.

The Senior Vice-President, Oracle Asia Pacific, Mr Brain Mitchell, said software as a service (SAS) would attract small and medium enterprises as they seek to get more competitive. Speaking to media persons from Singapore, Mr Mitchell said Oracle has a large footprint in India employing over 19,000 people and big chunk of them work on the development capabilities. With Indian economy buoyant, presence in 23 cities would be particularly useful for small and medium sized enterprises. They could take to Oracle eBusiness suite replacing their home grown applications, pick and choose product and service of their choice to suit their distinct requirements which would be addressed through partners.