Thursday, January 3, 2008

India drives our telecom business: Oracle

The enterprise application major, Oracle, has recently flown in a battery of telecom business heads from various geographies to India for a global business review. Well, that's the kind of importance the country has on the telecom radar of the company.

Bhasker Gorti, global head (communication business) Oracle India, said ''India is an extremely strategic market for us. It gives us exposure to a wide spectrum of areas including wireline, wireless, mobile, broadband, cable and satellite at a time. No other geography gives us this kind of unique experience.''

Interestingly, majority of Oracle's global products and technologies for the communication and media business is being developed in the country. ''Apart from being an exciting market, India is also the engine that powers and propels our global communication initiatives.
Here we design and develop the entire communication suite including CRM, ERP, billing solutions , revenue management, operational support systems and other applications for the telecom space.

The entire IP for the global market is created out of here,'' said Gorti.

Although there are similarities between India and China, in terms of broadband penetration India is ahead. ''The country is much more a happening market also when it comes to convergence of broadband, mobile,'' he said.

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