LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced a joint initiative with Oracle Corp. to offer enterprise customers integrated mobility solutions based on Oracle 10g and Vodafone Network Services. The deal covers joint development work, marketing efforts and a plan to launch further products.
Pilot customers in healthcare, government, utilities and the media are planning trials in November. Scottish Water, for one, plans to use the offering to connect its call centers directly with its field engineers across Scotland to allow real-time service-call scheduling through Oracle applications.
“Increasing productivity through mobilizing software applications is one of the key growth opportunities for Vodafone,” said Peter Bamford, group marketing officer at Vodafone Group. “We are pleased to be working with Oracle as one of our partners in addressing this opportunity.”
