IBM, Oracle expand partnership

IBM Business Consulting Services will implement Oracle application, E-business suite, for one of India's leading poultry companies Suguna Poultry Farm Limited based out of Coimbatore. The deal is worth Rs 8 crore and will be implemented by June next year. The Oracle applications implementation will be based on IBM power 5 servers and will support the firm's growth plans by driving business efficiencies.

IBM will implement Oracle applications at nine divisions of the company. The Oracle applications module to be implemented by IBM at Suguna include ERP, advanced pricing, enterprise asset management, incentive compensation and advanced supply chain management.

On completion, the Oracle application based technology solution will support Suguna's entire integrated poultry business from the management of the poultry breeding process to the packaging and marketing of end market products.

"Oracle has been helping some of the fastest growing Indian companies better and it is an exciting project," said Subhomoy Sengupta, director, Oracle India.