Nerd News : Subaru Of America Expands use of Oracle and picks up use of Siebel

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Subaru Adds Oracle's Siebel Applications to Its Existing Suite of Oracle®

Products

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle

(Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced it has expanded its relationship with Subaru

of America, Inc. As part of its efforts to consolidate technology vendors

and standardize on Oracle, Subaru is adding Oracle's Siebel applications to

its existing suite of Oracle products.

"Subaru has been an Oracle customer for many years and we are pleased

to be adding the Siebel application to our data center," said Brian

Simmermon, Vice President, Information Technology, Subaru of America, Inc.

"We selected Oracle's Siebel applications because they offered us the

greatest flexibility to support our business objectives."

With Siebel, Subaru will benefit from consolidated information

resources that will enhance the company's overall efficiency of their sales

and marketing efforts. Subaru plans to use Siebel E-Marketing, which

segments customer information and targets prospective buyers with the most

relevant product and marketing information; and Siebel Call Center, to more

effectively manage customer requests and increase satisfaction and loyalty.

"Subaru has an incredible reputation for successful niche marketing and

an extremely loyal owner base," said Oracle Senior Vice President of CRM

Products, Ed Abbo. "Our Siebel applications are uniquely suited to enhance

their already customer-centric business philosophy and will help them meet

their business goals and further enhance their customer satisfaction."

By migrating from a mainframe environment to an Oracle applications

infrastructure in early 2005, Subaru significantly reduced its hardware

costs by $1 million. The company continues to reap benefits across its

Oracle investments that include the Oracle® E-Business Suite, Oracle's

Siebel CRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database 10g. Subaru plans

to continue to leverage its existing investment in Oracle with Oracle BPEL

Process Manager, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and

Oracle BI Publisher.

meh sql2k5 FTW

Ehmmm microsoft?

Ehmmm microsoft?

Pshh, I couldnt even get Vista to work on my Dell.

Ehmmm microsoft?

At this point, SQL 2005 is 99% as capable as Oracle and cheaper to run. I have plenty of experience with both in multi TB environments and I'd rather deal with SQL 2k5.

Purely based on licensing costs, SQL 2k5 is about 60% of the cost and then MS doesn't charge extra for multi-core cpu's.

Microsoft produces plenty of crappy products but SQL 2k5 isn't one of them.

By migrating from a mainframe environment to an Oracle applications

infrastructure in early 2005, Subaru significantly reduced its hardware

costs by $1 million.

Wait until they see how much of that savings is eaten up by consulting fees.

At this point, SQL 2005 is 99% as capable as Oracle and cheaper to run. I have plenty of experience with both in multi TB environments and I'd rather deal with SQL 2k5.

 

Purely based on licensing costs, SQL 2k5 is about 60% of the cost and then MS doesn't charge extra for multi-core cpu's.

 

Microsoft produces plenty of crappy products but SQL 2k5 isn't one of them.

Word up...

The applications I support are on sybase and *painful sigh* informix

Wait until they see how much of that savings is eaten up by consulting fees.

Some of those consultants will be mine, so I'm psyched. Siebel talent typically costs 30-40% more than SQL.

Rock on Larry.

Wonder what Toyota uses for all those who are not exhausted from the other thread?

Toyota uses everything, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Essbass, you name it.

Wait until they see how much of that savings is eaten up by consulting fees.

my aunt is a consultant for them