How Oracle e-Business Helps Edo Achieve 90% Efficiency, Others

Oracle Nigeria recently celebrated the launch of its new office in Nigeria, having been active in the region for more than two decades.

However, from the customers approach, Oracle said its approach in Nigeria aligns with the Company’s Global strategy; particularly committed to helping organisations transition to, and embrace the cloud; enabling them to transform their business with Oracle Solutions.

Speaking at the official launch of the office, Adebayo Sanni, Oracle country director (Nigeria), said that Oracle customers are rapidly adopting mobile, social and cloud technologies to transform their businesses.

“They are delivering services that weren't possible before and they are finding very smart ways to bring their products to market. Throughout Africa we have seen remarkable innovation and transformation.

“With cloud adoption rates accelerating, this ability becomes even more prevalent. Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming ingrained in the sector’s consciousness and Platform as a Service (PaaS) is also gaining traction,” he said. “IT systems have to be fast and simple to be able to be agile.”

“We’re very excited by the opening of Oracle’s latest state-of-the-art facility here in Nigeria and look forward to continuing to provide world-class solutions to help our customers and partners innovate and grow in the region” concluded Sanni.

Nigeria CommunicationsWeek gathered from an infographics released by Oracle recently confirming Sanni’s claims, even as that Edo State has benefited from the e-business suite.

With the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12 accelerated core business processes, Edo State achieved over 60% in its social services, public administration, and law enforcement; and increased reporting efficiency by 90%, compared to reporting based on spreadsheets and handwritten listings.

Also, the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) testimonial shows "The NSITF has embarked on a multi-year project to transform the organisation into the leading social security institutions in Africa. In this pursuit, the fund ‎worked with Oracle to design and implement a national IT infrastructure to support the efficient and effective rollout of the solution.”

Oracle Corporate Citizenship
Oracle said it is responsible not only to the stakeholders, but also to those affected by and with an interest in its activities including employees, customers, partners, society, and the environment via several programs.

Oracle Giving
Oracle Giving ‎works to improve the quality of life in the communities where it does business to advance education, protect the environment, increase opportunity, and enrich community life.

Community (Riders the Health)
Oracle has become a rider for health as a social enterprise providing reliable, cost effective healthcare to rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The organisation has improved healthcare access for 14million people across Africa

Education (Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W-TEC))

Oracle Giving Fund W-TEC to enable them to expand their reach to girls and women in technology.

Through the Oracle ‎Academy, 2 members of ‎W-TEC were trained on Getting Started with Java and Creating Java programs with Greenfoot early programming tools.

These visual educational tools have been introduced to the club curriculum and reached 125 girls in 5 schools to date.

Oracle also reached out more than 90 girls through 2 career talk sessions during the International Girls Day and W-TEC Girls' Technology Club event.

Environment (Wecyclers)
Oracle fund supported the general operating and creation of recycling clubs at two schools, which ‎will educate 10,000 households on the importance of proper waste management. This organisation has registered 5,000 households for pick-ups built 29 cargo bikes and prevented the release of 1million kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere since its inception in August 2012.

Oracle Academy:
The company has also trained 51 faculty members on Database Design with SOL; 40 faculty members on Java programming and 10 high school teachers on getting started with Java using Alice.