Healthcare Organizations and Retail Companies in EMEA Select Oracle

By Anuradha Shukla

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

During the six months ended August 2006, Oracle (News - Alert) has bagged key customer contracts in the healthcare and related sectors across EMEA.

 

Organizations such as Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy, Rijnmondnet in Netherlands, and King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Saudi have endorsed Oracle’s strategy of choice and support.

 

By deploying Oracle solutions, healthcare organizations in EMEA can make

faster, better and safer clinical decisions, through a unified integrated view of patient information that minimizes medical errors.

 

Oracle applications also enable these organizations to support 21st century non-clinical business processes and redirect the savings from these processes to patient care.

 

Ultimately, Oracle’s applications enable healthcare organizations to adopt best practice processes, get better information and realize better results.

 

“Across EMEA, Healthcare IT has been a cottage industry for far too long and many healthcare and related organizations realize they cannot respond to the new pressures by doing things ‘the old way’,” said Charles Scatchard, vice president, Healthcare, Oracle EMEA in a press release.

 

He continued: “In fact we see many organizations using Oracle solutions to take the first steps down the road of achieving integrated healthcare solutions by making savings in the non-clinical processes first to then allow them to invest in the clinical IT applications later, safe in the knowledge they have invested in the best IT Platform.”

 

Oracle has also announced key customer wins in the retail sector across EMEA. Companies such as Arnotts in Ireland, Kamal Osman Jamjoom Est. in UAE, Kingfisher plc in UK, and ReWe Group in Germany have reportedly endorsed Oracle’s strategy of choice and support.

 

Oracle’s core retail applications enable organizations to serve their customers better by applying insight into daily business decisions for more profitable results.

 

According to Stratascope Independent Study 2005, 17 of the top 20 retailers use Oracle applications.

 

Tarik Taman, vice president EMEA, Oracle Retail, Oracle said in a press release that retailers face many challenges as they strive to understand customer needs, and evolve into innovative, consumer-driven organizations.

 

“Oracle has invested in building significant retail expertise in EMEA, and today is uniquely positioned to help retail organizations integrate their diverse IT environments, better utilise their resources, and build winning strategies that differentiate them from the competition,” he concluded.

 

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