Oracle Corporation UK Limited

Corporate background

Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it and protect it.  As the world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of business – database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration.

Oracle has worldwide revenues of over $14Bn and over 50,000 employees of whom approximately 3000 work in 7 UK office locations. Our software is used by companies in every industry including, gaming, telecommunications, retail and public sector.

The world’s first relational database Oracle V2, was launched in 1978 and has been developed continuously using industry standards – the latest release being 10g (Database and Application Server).

Oracle Applications were first released in 1987 and have been developed to increase functionality.  In addition over the past few years Oracle has acquired several other software companies to add to the scope of our applications capability, of particular note are Peoplesoft, JDEdwards, Retek and Siebel which are all now part of Oracle.

Oracle has world leading technology in database and middleware which is of particular relevance to meeting the National Lottery bid requirements as stated on page 17 of the Statement of Main Principles published Nov 2005 – “ We recognise the value of systems that conform to modern design principles, including use of appropriate open and industry standards, in order to provide flexibility in interfacing to sales channel partners, suppliers, ourselves and other third parties”

Elements of Oracle technology capability that will help the bidder deliver a compelling bid are, management of large volumes of data, data security, internet access, identity management, mobile access and Service Orientated Architecture for connectivity to other organisations’ IT systems.

Oracle would welcome discussions with any prospective bidder to help them develop an appropriate IT solution to support their bid. 
 
Contact details

Nigel Woodland
Industry Director
Oracle Corporation
Mobile: +44 (0) 7767 884 630
Office: +44 161 493 4831
email: nigel.woodland@oracle.com
 
Assistant: Liz McCallum
Mobile: +44 7795 230204
email: liz.mccallum@oracle.com
 
Website
www.oracle.com