Oracle has continued its worldwide shopping spree in the past week with an acquisition of the Universal Service Platform from eServGlobal. eServeGlobal is a transaction management software provider for mobile communication firms. Could Oracle be responding to SAP’s acquisition of Sybase earlier in May? We think so! Though most analysts would not see SAP as a threat to Oracle, having only a small influence in the mobile communications world, it would be unlike Oracle to ignore an opportunity to dominate a market.
The Universal Service Platform is neat package of a pre-paid charging application, a network-services platform, and a messaging gateway. Oracle is looking to combine these aspects with its existing communications applications like Communications Billing and Revenue Management, creating what Oracle spokespeople are calling a flexible and easy to deploy system that is cheaper to own than others. Liam Maxwell, vice president at Oracle Communications said that the acquisition was inspired by the growing use of pre-paid plans by the world’s mobile phone users.
“Oracle communications applications combined with the pre-paid software assets from eServGlobal will provide highly available and scalable carrier-grade, pre-paid software on an open, convergent platform,” he said.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of this year.
In other Oracle news, the company has taken a step in support of R, the open-source language for statistical analysis. Oracle has created a new user interface for Oracle’s Data Mining software, aimed at data analysts who work with R but do not know SQL or Oracle’s database technology particularly well.
This is the third R offering from Oracle, joining an existing database driver and user interface created by the R community. The new interface is downloadable for free too, keeping with the open source ethos.
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