Oracle and HP Expand Offerings

Oracle Corp. (www.oracle.com)  and HP (www.hp.com) today launched an initiative to unite their resellers to expand sales of Oracle® E-Business Suite Special Edition North America on industry-standard HP servers to more effectively meet the needs of their customers.

As part of the first phase of the initiative, integrated Oracle® E-Business Suite Special Edition North America software and HP ProLiant server hardware offerings will enable select Oracle and HP partners to collaborate on go-to-market plans region by region.

"Our partners are an essential part of the Oracle economy and they help us extend local expertise and business solutions to our customers," said Bronwyn Hastings, vice president, Global Alliances & Channels at Oracle.

Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition North America is a packaged offering of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i business applications, delivered with accelerated implementation services, education and support sold by select certified Oracle partners.

"We have built a successful business selling and servicing Oracle Applications over the past 10 years and welcome the opportunity to add new customers by partnering with Total Tec. Today's announcement allows us to broaden our local reach with joint marketing and sales efforts," said James T. Bistis, president of Core Services Corporation, a Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

"Because of our strong alliance with Oracle, select channel partners will better be able to meet their customer needs as a result of teaming their respective HP and Oracle expertise to deliver an easy to acquire, easy to own and easy to maintain solution," said Dan Vertrees, vice president, US/Americas Alliances, HP.

Oracle and HP are bringing together channel partners in the U.S. that will build upon their local expertise to drive business. As part of phase one, Oracle resellers Core Services and Whitbread Technologies now are working with HP resellers Total Tec and AdvizeX Technologies, respectively, to develop regional plans and reach new Oracle applications customers.

"As an HP business partner with strong links to Core Services Corporation, we are excited to be able to offer our customers a one-stop-shop for acquiring and implementing Oracle E-Business Suite solutions built on HP ProLiant servers with Linux," said Paul Collins, vice president of Technology, Total Tec Systems.

Oracle partners participating in the program with HP resellers will have Oracle PartnerNetwork membership, as well as demand generation experience and proven experience with Oracle applications customer implementations. HP partners participating will be members of the HP PartnerONE program and have expertise in server and storage configuration and deployment.