Cisco Systems

About the Oracle Cisco Alliance

Value Proposition
For global enterprise and growing commercial customers who want to optimize their IT investments in infrastructure, applications and network. The Cisco-Oracle alliance provides best-of-breed, end-to-end differentiated solutions that are optimized to work together to improve performance and are highly available, scalable and secure while minimizing deployment risks, complexity and total cost of ownership. Cisco and Oracle leverage their global scope and industry leadership and share many common customers.

“Experience what the Cisco Network can do for your Oracle Deployments”

Cisco Systems, a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork and a Global Platform Partner, has been working with Oracle for over 20 years. With a shared vision and many common customers, the alliance is optimizing application deployments, from multinational enterprises to small offices.

"As market leaders, both Cisco and Oracle have been working closely together to meet the latest application and network performance challenges to help customers successfully realize business productivity improvements. Cisco’s end-to-end application delivery network gives customers an excellent foundation of high availability, performance, and security to successfully deploy Oracle Applications. With validated architectures for Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Oracle Portal, companies can rapidly extend these solutions across the globe.”
— Vijay Tella, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Fusion Middleware Development, Oracle Corporation

"Oracle Applications combined with Cisco Application Networking Solutions enables enterprises to deliver business-critical information securely, efficiently, and reliably across the enterprise"
— George Kurian, Vice President, Application Delivery Business Unit, Cisco Systems

"For more than 20 years, Oracle and Cisco have been helping global enterprise customers automate business processes and deploy Internet-based networks. As one of our Global Platform Partners, Cisco brings valuable networking expertise to our collaborative efforts in several strategic technology areas and joint solutions to support our customers' current needs and future requirements."
— Judson Althoff, Vice President, Worldwide Platform and Distribution Alliances, Oracle Corporation

“Together, Oracle and Cisco WebEx have the integrated solution that companies need to manage their customer relationships and make it easy to do business cost effectively online,” said Erica Ruliffson, Group Vice President, Siebel CRM On Demand North America Sales.

“This alliance brings together three fast-moving trends: enterprise 2.0 mashups, the explosive CRM area and on-demand application platforms.” — Subrah Iyar, Vice President and General Manager, Cisco WebEx

The Cisco and Oracle joint initiatives include:

Server load balancing and firewall security for high availability, high performing, protected application infrastructure
Application optimization for LAN-like performance over the WAN
Data integrity through highly available network storage architectures
SOA-related enhancements and web service acceleration
Development and validation of acceleration protocols for scalability enhancements
On-Demand collaboration technologies and solutions