MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have integrated Oracle Fusion Middleware into Accenture Communications Solutions, Accenture's suite of business offerings and assets designed to mitigate the risk of deploying, and reduce the time to deploy, OSS and BSS software applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware is a preintegrated portfolio of customer-proven software that spans from portals and process managers to application infrastructure and business intelligence.

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The newly integrated capabilities are intended to further enable communications service providers to rapidly launch new services and reduce the inherent risks -- such as exceeding project budget or project time limits -- which can be associated with new software implementations. Now that Oracle Fusion Middleware is integrated into Accenture's Communications Solutions, it can serve to further expand a service providers' ability to bring services to market more quickly.

"In today's rapidly evolving and competitive carrier environment, there is intense pressure to drive innovation and deliver value to customers while remaining laser-focused on obtaining bottom-line growth," said Andy Zimmerman, managing director of Accenture's Communications practice. "Our ongoing collaboration with Oracle is intended to facilitate and drive advanced solutions to help our clients achieve success in implementing and operating their mission-critical business processes and objectives."

Accenture has a 16-year history of working with Oracle's comprehensive suite of software products for the communications industry, including Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Service Fulfillment and Oracle E-Business Suite offerings.

"Accenture's adoption of Oracle Fusion Middleware significantly enhances our collective ability to deliver product-based end-to-end business solutions to the communications market," said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications. "And with the planned availability of the Oracle Applications Integration Architecture for Accenture Communications Solutions we will have the ability to deliver even greater competitive business value to service providers worldwide by helping them transform their businesses, launch next-generation services and offer superior customer experiences."

Accenture is also adopting Oracle's Application Integration Architecture for Communications to deliver additional solutions for the communications industry. Delivered through Accenture Communications Solutions, Accenture intends to leverage these pre-built software products that will enable service providers to bring services to market more quickly, identify new revenue streams through enhanced data analysis, and capitalize on new opportunities by rapidly adapting streamlined business processes.

Oracle's Application Integration Architecture is based upon Oracle Fusion Middleware and delivers pre-built, extensible, mission-critical business process integrations across Oracle Communications product applications including Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Service Delivery Platform, as well as third-party and legacy applications.

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 telecommunications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications.

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