【正文】 le 8 database, Oracle offers tools, applications, education and consulting services. Oracle’s tools provide forms generation, sophisticated reporting and graphics, prehensive data munications, and intelligent text management. The pany’s growing line of applications for industry and government include packages for financial management, manufacturing and human resources. Moreover, Oracle supports plex decision support systems (DSS) as well as rigorous online transaction processing applications (OLTP), even applications that require simultaneous DSS and OLTP access to the same critical data. With nearly about 5,000 customers worldwide, Oracle Applications include more than 30 integrated modules for financial management , supply chain management, manufacturing, project systems, sales force automation and human resources management , and won Datamation’s Product of the Year for Packaged Applications for 1997. Best known for its database technology and ERP applications, Oracle has moved rapidly into the expanding CONFIGURATION PLATFORM market during the past few years. With the release of Oracle CONFIGURATION PLATFORM version in 1998, and a subsequent release (3i) in mid1999, Oracle brings a mature CONFIGURATION PLATFORM solution to the market. The pany currently has more than 800 customers who have implemented or are currently implementing one of these two versions. Current customers include American Electric Power, American Management Association, Ameritech, British Tele, Motorola, Nokia, Beneficial Life, Principal Financial Group, TRM, and ShopHome. O rac le i s i ....o f D AT A B A S E ve ndo rf o f T o o l s pr o vid e rf lo f Ap p lic a i to n ve n d o rf i o f OL AP p r o vid e rf 121 15 o f Con s u l t in g Com pa n yf l In summing up, Oracle is the only one to provide application, database, development tools and services in “One Stop” and is the leader in above area. Oracle System China Inc. , entering the China’s market in 1985 , is formally established in 1989. In China, Oracle employed approximately 300 people and is represented in Beijing (Head Office, phone number 62181155, fax number 62184299/78893), Shanghai ( phone number 63859931, fax number 63850210/11), GuangZhou (phone number 87780378, fax number 87754786), ChengDu (phone number 6662222, fax number 6661893). In 1994, Oracle grouped China, Hong Kong and Taiwan into Greater China Region, which empower the cooperation of Chinese. Now, Oracle worldwide is as “ One Firm” to fully utilize the global resources to provide higher quality for our customers. Figures on Oracle. Number of pany employees (total) for each of the last five (5) years. Full time employees Current ~41,000 1998 36,802 1997 29,431 1996 23,113 1995 16,882 Number of pany employees (development engineers only) for each of the last five (5) years. Development Current ~6,000 1998 4,826 1997 3,970 1996 3,125 1995 2,348 Note Oracle’s CRM development anization has grown to 800 in the past 12 months (from 100). Oracle Successful Cases ? Overseas SellingPoint Clients reference Nokia Nokia Finland Oulu are Oracle SellingPoint customer. The division is Base Stations. Nokia are using release SellingPoint. They have deployed this as Mobile users . They have over 200 users in 23 different countries servicing 5 different Factories. This application has been live for over 2 years and is a great success for Nokia. Customer contact: Jukka Kukkonen Email: Mobile +358 40 546 7258. Please refer to Appendix E: Oracle SellingPoint Customers Rave for more SellingPoint solution references. ? Oracle ERP Client reference in China. Oracle has had many successful cases in China, three of which are CAAC, Motorola and China Tele. The success demonstrates Oracle China possess solid expertise to implement huge and plex projects. China Civil Aviation CAAC Finance Information Management System is a prehensive project on the threshold of the new millennium. It drives all for and notforprofit anizations of CAAC to a new stage on business accounting, financial management, information utilization and centralized management. On June 5, 1998, Oracle (China) Co., Ltd. signed with China Civil Aviation General Bureau the contract of “CAAC Finance Information Management System ” in Beijing. Oracle would be responsible for implementing “Oracle Finance Management System” in all subanizations of CAAC (including 40 airlines, 136 airports, and all civil aviation administration bureaus), the financial department of Civil Aviation General Bureau and administrative setups on various levels. A panel of 30 experts from Civil Aviation, airports, airlines and local administrative bureaus evaluated various solutions, and finally Oracle won the favor of the experts by its plete solution scheme, robust local support and rich industry knowledge. Its petitors include SAP/Lufthansa、 IBM/JDEdward， SSA/Arthur Andersen. China Civil Aviation Bureau selected 11 modules from “Oracle Finance Management System” to be the decisionsupport tools in the financial system of the whole CAAC. These modules include general ledger, receivables, payables, fixed assets, inventory management, alert system and OLAP. CAAC is an important legal entity in the People’s Republic of China. It takes charge of the planning of the nation’s civil aviation industry as a whole and its development. Since the reform and opening policy of China, CAAC has developed on a fast route. Civil aviation is an industry with plicated business, developing fast, and requiring advanced technology, intensive investment of capital, and strict standards on safety and service. Financial management is an impo