Reference name: ORACLE

ORACLE Hungary Ltd.

Type:
company
Date of foundation:
1993.01.01
Address:
1123 Creation Street 17-19
1095 Budapest, Lechner Ödön fasor 7.
Founders:
  • Oracle Corporation
  • Main goals and areas of activity

    ORACLE Hungary offers the entire portfolio of Oracle Corporation to Hungarian companies, directly and through its 250 business partners. In addition, the company provides support to its Hungarian users with its Budapest training center and consulting and technical support services. ORACLE Hungary also plays a major role in IT professional training, cooperating with secondary schools and higher education institutions within the framework of its Oracle Academy program, and providing them with support in the form of software licenses, teaching materials and expertise. The aim of the educational programs is to meet the professional needs of domestic partners and users by preparing young professionals with up-to-date, marketable knowledge and familiarity with ORACLE technologies.

    Senior management
    • Ferenc Báti, Managing Director since 1993
    • Stewart Oldroyd, Managing Director since the late 1990s
    Key figures, key people
    • Laszlo Pastor, Marketing Director
    • Tamás Vadnai, Sales Director
    Number of IT employees
    Year
    Number of people
    1993 8
    1995 35
    1998 100
    2008 150
    Revenue
    1995: 550 million forints, 1998: 3 billion forints
    IT developments/products/Projects
    • ORACLE Database (in the database management market: 48.6% global market share in 2007), Sun ORACLE Database Machine, ORACLE VM, ORACLE Enterprise Manager
    • ORACLE Fusion Middleware
    • Business Applications
    • Services
    Interesting facts
    • In 1993, the company's flagship product was database management software, and ORACLE Hungary soon had some very significant references behind it, such as ÁB-AEGON or ORFK.
    • In 1994, it moved to a new office building and that year organized the first major domestic information technology seminar, Developer 2000.
    • The year 1995 also brought a breakthrough for the ORACLE Applications Business Unit: they introduced their first integrated enterprise management system at the then Rába Rt.
    • In 1996, the company was the first to introduce client-server applications; the first software to exploit the advantages of multiprocessor parallel systems was released by ORACLE. This year also saw the launch of the HOUG (Hungarian ORACLE User's Group) conference series, with 198 people attending the first meeting in Balatonfüred.
    • In 1997, ORACLE Hungary became a pioneer in the paradigms of the Internet and network computing with the emergence of Network Computing. At that time, they organized the first Internet web conference in Hungary for their partners, at which a quarter of the participants were foreign.
    • The first early acquisitions took place in 1998, with the acquisition of the parent company's Digital Equipment software business, APEH became a client of ORACÉE Hungary, among others. At that time, the first business intelligence decision support system was added to the portfolio with the acquisition of IRI, which already operated on OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) bases.
    • 1999 brought ORACLE Hungary the acquisition of a significant customer, MÁV, and the system introduced at that time is used by more than 500 users.
    • The year 2000 presented IT decision-makers of various companies with a special challenge, the Y2K problem. ORACLE Hungary solved the problem in many places by replacing outdated island systems. At that time, ORACLE Applications 11, the first version of ORACLE's integrated enterprise management system that could also be used via a web browser, was released on the market.
    • In 2001, the company's middleware development was strengthened, the implementation of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant's HR system was completed, and the company also held its first e-learning demonstration at that time.
    • The year 2002 was a difficult time for IT companies around the world due to the dotcom crisis, but since ORACLE was the first to start promoting the economics of information technology solutions, it survived the period practically unscathed.
    • The years 2003-2004 brought about the consolidation of the IT market worldwide, when the parent company acquired PeopleSoft and technology companies such as G-Log.
    • In 2004, ORACLE Hungary effectively supported the regional expansion of its larger clients, and the company became the leading data warehouse supplier in the domestic IT market.
    • The years 2006 and 2007 brought a strengthening of government references: ORACLE Hungary contributed to the development of IT solutions for almost all ministries, APEH, VPOP or MEH.
    • The parent company has 108,000 employees in 145 countries, of which 32,000 are developers. (2012 data)

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    Last modified: 2024.05.02. 19:14
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