in collaboration with

The Capgemini Oracle

Fusion Experience
(COFE) Lab
The COFE Lab offers advanced advisory and
technology assistance to help organizations enhance
current and future investments in Oracle Technology

The Oracle ecosystem of technology technology investments. The COFE

products is rapidly evolving. As Oracle
evaluates, acquires and incorporates
new technologies and upgrades their
existing technology platforms the
complexity for businesses that want to
leverage these technologies increases
exponentially. It is challenging for an
organization to identify areas where
they can exploit new Oracle technology,
or upgrade their existing Oracle assets
to meet their business needs. The
Capgemini Oracle Fusion Experience
(COFE) Labs serve the explicit purpose
of providing fact-based answers to
many of the questions and issues
related to evolving your Oracle
Labs provide the following benefits:
1.Prototype environments to evaluate
functionality in new product releases
2.Custom built Proof-of-concept
scenarios
3.Advisory assistance for creating
comprehensive business cases or
technology roadmaps
4.Product comparisons based
on features and
capabilities
 5.Leading practices and industry
standards within the specific
technology domain
6.Deep product experience available to
address challenging product
questions
The COFE Labs continuously evolve to
adapt to the changing Oracle ecosystem
of products. Technologies that have
become commodity are replaced with
emerging technologies that may be of
greater value to clients. Some of the key
areas of focus for the COFE Labs are:
■ Oracle Fusion Middleware
■ Oracle SOA Suite
■ Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition and Oracle
Business Intelligence applications
■ Oracle Business Process Management
Manager
■ Oracle Application Integration
Architecture
■ Oracle GoldenGate
■ Oracle Fusion Applications (Beta
Participation)
■ Master Data Management
■ Cloud Computing
■ Mobile Technologies
■ Smart Grid Initiatives
Organizations can access the full
knowledge, experience and capabilities
of the COFE Lab to leverage existing
application investments, adapt more
quickly to market changes and
competition, and plan effectively for
growth and transformation. The global
presence of COFE Labs presents an
extensive body of knowledge that can
be leveraged in a localized setting.
RAPID RESULTS
Capgemini’s solution architects with
both business and technology
backgrounds collaborate on solutions
and can provide well researched and
fact based answers to the most
challenging technology questions our
clients have. The COFE Labs can be
utilized to address the following
activities:
■ Validate scenarios and situations that
require assistance
■ Create a responsive and timely action
plan
■ Initiate knowledge sharing sessions
■ Identify existing artifacts and elements
that can be reused
■ Create prototype / POC (if needed)
■ Document findings and
recommendations
■ Present solutions and/or
recommendations

REAL VALUE
The COFE Lab is a collaborative
venture between Oracle Corporation
and Capgemini supported by HP. It
unites the leading capabilities of all
three companies and promotes a
comprehensive approach that
addresses hardware, software, services
and support.
There are COFE Labs in several
geographies including the U.S., France
and India. The COFE Labs are
networked to operate as one entity
while providing a localized presence.
Each location has a dedicated team of
skilled individuals specializing in
Oracle applications and technologies.
A remarkable resource, COFE Lab
brings together industry experience,
thought leadership and delivery
capabilities around Oracle Fusion
Middleware technologies, business
process improvement using Service-
Oriented Architecture (SOA), master
data management (custom data hub,
product data hub, financial
consolidation hub), and social
computing using Web 2.0 technologies,
and beyond. Capgemini’s unique
methodology can enhance an
organization’s current or future IT
investments with an incremental,
iterative approach that can simplify and
streamline business processes and
technology adoption.
Forrester Research recently recognized
Capgemini for its leadership in research
and development that promote SOA
utilizing Oracle technologies. The
creation of the Capgemini Oracle
Fusion Experience Lab extends
Capgemini’s investment into supporting
Oracle technologies and reinforces our
commitment to help clients achieve
better, faster, more sustainable results.
The Capgemini Oracle Fusion Experience (COFE) Lab
the way we do it
CAPGEMINI AND ORACLE,
TOGETHER
Capgemini and Oracle understand the
dynamics of change. Capgemini
empowers clients to design and build
innovative business models that can
dramatically increase market potential.
Working with Oracle we can help
businesses realign their disconnected
resources and direct their strategic
investments towards growing the
business rather than just managing
technology adoption and transition. The Capgemini Oracle Fusion
Experience (COFE) Lab is a
After more than a decade of experience collaborative venture between
in the Oracle practice, Capgemini is a Oracle Corporation and
recognized leader in Oracle Capgemini supported by HP.
implementations, having executed
thousands of joint implementation
projects with Oracle worldwide.
Capgemini’s 9,000+ Oracle specialists
have deep experience with Oracle
Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database
and Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as
many of Oracle’s acquired applications
such as PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel
CRM, Demantra and JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne. Capgemini also has
strong industry capabilities and
relationships with the Oracle
Communications, Financial Services,
Retail, and Tax and Utilities
global business units.
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About Capgemini

Capgemini, one of the right balance of the best talent from

world’s foremost providers of
consulting, technology and outsourcing
services, enables its clients to transform
and perform through technologies.
Capgemini provides its clients with
insights and capabilities that boost their
freedom to achieve superior results
through a unique way of working, the
Collaborative Business ExperienceTM. The
Group relies on its global delivery model
called Rightshore®, which aims to get the
multiple locations, working as one team to
create and deliver the optimum solution
for clients. Present in more than 30
countries, Capgemini reported 2009
global revenues of EUR 8.4 billion
(approximately USD $11.6 billion) and
employs 95,000 people worldwide.
More information is available at
www.us.capgemini.com.

About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's
most complete, open, and integrated
business software and hardware
systems company. For more
information about Oracle, visit
oracle.com.

To experience Capgemini’s COFE Lab or for

more information about our Oracle Fusion
Middleware capabilities, contact:

Connie Cservenyak
Oracle Partner Global Executive
connie.cservenyak@capgemini.com

Faisal Ghadially
Principal – Oracle Technology
Faisal.ghadially@capgemini.com
ORAC100824DL_FLYR COFE NA

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