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Global Reach
• billing, energy audit, and back office solutions for the Maharashtra State Electricity
Board; and
• the Education and Research Network (ERNET), linking 200 universities and 500
engineering colleges.
Oracle’s Retail Centre of Excellence—opened in Bangalore in 2006 following the company’s
formation of a retail business unit—has a staff of 200 experts that showcase scalable IT solutions
in merchandising, planning, optimization, analytics, store operations, and supply chain and
enterprise application integration.
In October 2007, Oracle established two new centers in Gurgaon: the Oracle Partner Solution
Centre, a secure facility—with hardware provided by AMD and Sun Microsystems—where strategic
partners can build, port, enable, and test solutions based on Oracle platforms; and the
company’s sixth Oracle Asia Research & Development Centre (OARDC), focusing on solutions
for the Indian market, as well as global product development in collaboration with the other
OARDCs in Japan, Korea, China and Singapore. Gurgaon OARDC’s focus includes specific
areas of innovation such as:
• delivery of government services through mobile communications devices;
• inclusive computing to enable rural finance, business development, and NGO services; and
• ubiquitous computing that uses embedded sensors to monitor traffic and weather
patterns and track products in a supply chain.
Oracle’s India workforce grew to 6,000 in 2004 and 8,000 in 2005, as the company acquired
PeopleSoft and brought third-party development activities in-house to the Bangalore development
center. India represents Oracle’s largest investment outside the U.S. ($3 billion since 2002)
and is its fourth largest Asian market, with some 6,700 technology and applications customers;
400 channel and alliance partners in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, including Infosys, Satyam,
Sonata, TCS and Wipro; and an online and developer community numbering about 700,000.
Today, Oracle has an Indian workforce of more than 24,000 that includes, in addition to the
centers described above, dedicated employees at outsource partner facilities; i-Flex Solutions,
Ltd., an Indian banking IT services firm in which Oracle has acquired an 81% stake and which
was rebranded in 2008 as Oracle Financial Services; the Global Consulting unit, assisting clients
with specialized applications and solutions; one of Oracle’s four global technical support centers;
an OracleDirect direct sales unit; and the Global Financial Information Center, managing
Oracle’s worldwide internal financial planning, accounting, and transaction processing functions.
School is in Session
Since 1995, Oracle has trained and certified more than 42,000 IT professionals through its
Oracle University program at six classrooms throughout India (New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore,
Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata), as well as on the Web. Among its 325 training partners are
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