Why e-business?

Simplicity
Why spend money, time and resources integrating, customizing and maintaining complex IT systems when you can focus all your capital and talent on becoming a market leader? Only e-business allows you to wage war on traditional business complexity and build your organization into a competitive market force.

Efficiency
True e-businesses have all business processes online, streamlined and easily accessible. Information is centralized and up-to-date allowing them to improve profit margins, focus on the core business and improve productivity without waste.

Intelligence
The information generated by integrated systems to more efficiently run operations and capture and retain customers is unprecedented. As an e-business you bring together all intelligence applications, tools and technology needed to measure performance and identify exceptions, drive targeted marketing, and create accurate forecasts based on updated plans and actual results.

One Billion Reasons Why
Oracle's e-business transformation has so far resulted in $1 billion in annual savings - that translates to a 10-point improvement in our operating margin. In the fourth quarter of FY2000, Oracle's operating margin was up nearly 14 points to approximately 33%. For the full year, net income without investment gains increased 59% to over $2 billion. Net income including investment gains was over $6 billion. Cash went from $3 billion to $8 billion.

Sales topped $10 billion. Not everything went up. Revenue went up from $8.8 billion to $10.4 billion, but headcount went down from 44,000 to 41,000. Application sales went up 61% in Q4, but quarterly expenses went down. Oracle is selling more and spending less. And the company is only halfway through its e-business transformation. Now, ask yourself again: Why transform your business into an e-business?