BREG Powers Global Expansion With Oracle Stack

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — — Oracle today announced that BREG, Inc., a global manufacturer of orthopedic products, is using Oracle(R) Applications, Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware to standardize production processes, centralize key back-office capabilities and create a more flexible supply chain. — Oracle delivers the performance, scalability, reliability, and security required for BREG to help ensure 24/7 uptime for its rapidly growing international business. — Standardizing on Oracle infrastructure software and business applications also helped BREG simplify its IT administration, enabling the company to increase resources devoted to its core business and more effectively respond to changing business demands. — To create a flexible and scalable IT architecture to meet its business demands and allow the company to seamlessly incorporate new technologies and organizations as it continues to grow, BREG worked with Irvine, Calif.-based Abaris, Inc., a Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, to deploy the Oracle E-Business Suite in conjunction with Oracle Database Standard Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Dell quad-core Linux servers. — The automated management features and security of Oracle Database Standard Edition coupled with the high availability and scalability delivered by Oracle Real Application Clusters, helped BREG to cost-effectively deliver high performance data processing with virtually zero downtime. — BREG is using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g to monitor and manage its IT stack from a single Web-based console, which helps significantly reduce the resources required to keep the system running at peak performance levels. — Building on top of its Oracle infrastructure software, BREG deployed the Oracle E-Business Suite, a fully integrated, comprehensive platform of business applications. — Using the Oracle E-Business Suite in conjunction with Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle's Application Integration Architecture, BREG integrated multiple business processes and applications within its heterogeneous IT environment, which helped the company to consolidate organizational information across systems ranging from its Oracle's Siebel CRM system through to its global supply chain and warehouse management system, to achieve a clear and accurate picture of every customer, product, service and transaction. — With a single view of all organizational information and the ability to quickly and easily add new business processes, BREG can react more quickly to changing business demands to better support its expanding customer base, global manufacturing operations and network of 100 distributors in 36 countries. Supporting Quotes — "Oracle's high performance software running on low-cost servers in a Linux environment is an unbeatable combination for our business requirements. Because Oracle has automated so many of the maintenance and upgrade processes, our staff can focus on providing additional business value instead of getting bogged down with database administration. We chose Oracle for the advantages it gives us today and for the flexibility it provides to meet our goals for the next 20 years," said Steve Romeo, IT Director, BREG. — "In the medical device market, companies are not distinguished by their products alone and are equally dependent on the level of service they can offer their customers. In BREG's case, it needed a flexible architecture that would support its incredible growth while providing meaningful insight into its customers. Oracle was able to provide just that, and BREG now has an application and data management framework that will support its current and future business requirements," said Sean Chawla, CEO, Abaris. Supporting Resources Analyst Reports Independent Analyst Reports on Oracle Software http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/index.html Oracle Expert Blogs The Tom Kyte Blog http://tkyte.blogspot.com/ David Chappell Blog http://blogs.oracle.com/davidchappell/ Related Resources About Oracle Database http://www.oracle.com/database About Oracle Fusion Middleware http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html About Oracle Applications http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html About the Oracle PartnerNetwork http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com Download Oracle Software http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

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