How do I become an e-business?

New internet technologies are emerging left and right. You're competitors are not far behind. How can you be sure you will stay competitive?

As long as you have reliable, flexible internet technology that's based on industry standards running your business, and a professional services organization to keep you growing, there's no holding you back.

Internet Technology
Becoming an e-business puts new demands on the information technology platform that runs your company. As long as you have an internet platform that is reliable, scalable, flexible and secure, you will have no trouble staying competitive in this growing internet economy.


With a solid infrastructure in place, your e-business can handle rapidly growing, rapidly changing demands to your systems. It will be reliable, so you can run your critical business applications 24x7x365. It will be flexible, so you can develop, deploy and manage your e-business applications quickly and easily. It will be secure, so that your business is nobody else's business. And, of course, it will be based on industry standards—such as XML and Java—to protect your investments and enable easy application integration.

If you chose Oracle's Internet Platform, based on Oracle 8i, you already have all the features necessary to remain competitive and successful in e-business. Oracle 8i, and Oracle 9i, the next generation database from Oracle, are the industry's most powerful and comprehensive e-business foundations available. They offer the scalability and security you need, the reliability you require, and the flexibility that keeps you moving and building for your future.

In order to stay competitive, you also need a truly global, 100% internet-enabled e-business suite of applications. One that is fully integrated and built on the Internet Platform. Only Oracle's E-Business Suite delivers. It gets your entire demand chain, supply chain, and internal operations streamlined and online. And its applications are fully integrated, so you get a 360 degree view of your value chain (supply chain to demand chain), allowing you to take full advantage of all the information collected across your enterprise.

Professional Services Organization
Oracle's solution is unique because our e-business suite of products and services encompass product development, consulting, customer support and education. In other words, Oracle is there for you throughout your system's entire life cycle.

We maintain close-working relationships with leading industry partners who will work with you on solution customization, product planning and implementation, and ongoing support and change management.

Together with our partners we help you formulate a long-term e-business strategy that enables you to stay ahead of your competition.