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Whenever someone does business on the Internet, chances are good that Oracle software is involved in the transaction. Six out of nine provinces have selected Oracle applications for their financial and materiel management needs, which affect roughly 85 percent of Canadians. Not only has Oracle Corporation built a global, $10-billion (US) business, they have also accomplished the startling feat of stripping $1 billion out of their operating expenses, using their own products to manage the business.
Today, Oracle employees and their customers get up-to-date information through Internet browsers from a single source and manage their own transactions. Jim Stonehouse, Oracle Canadas national business development manager for the public sector, explains the strategy.
"It was all around self-service, self-service for our customers, selfservice on the procurement side and self-service on the inside," he said. And he would dearly love to see his government clients begin applying some of the company's lessons. Stonehouse says the procurement solutions available to government are not only cost-effective, but are available right now.
"We absolutely believe procurement is amenable to an off-the-shelf solution. When you look at a supply chain in a government setting, quite honestly, there are...