in collaboration with

Introducing the Capgemini-

Oracle-Fusion-Experience
(COFE) Lab
The Chicago COFE Lab offers advanced advisory
and technology assistance to help organizations
optimize current and future investments in
Oracle Fusion Middleware

The new Capgemini-Oracle-Fusion- existing application investments,

Experience (COFE) Lab combines the
industry experience and Service-
Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivery
capabilities of Capgemini, Oracle
Corporation, and selected hardware
network providers in one place. COFE
Lab provides assistance to companies
investing in Oracle Fusion Middleware
technology. Organizations can access
the full knowledge, experience and
capabilities of COFE Lab to leverage
improve business process efficiency,
work smarter in everyday business
transactions, adapt more quickly to
market changes and competition, and
plan effectively for innovative, flexible
growth. For enterprises looking to
expand their footprint across the globe
with maximized Return On
Investment (ROI), COFE Lab is
the resource to tap.
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Oracle Fusion Middleware is the
industry’s leading family of middleware
supporting cross- business and cross-
technology integration for business
process improvement. It helps
Capgemini-Oracle-Fusion- organizations increase their capacity for
Experience (COFE) Lab growth and change, mitigate risk,
improve insight into their business
operations, and drive compliance by
connecting applications and people.
In today’s market, the business process
is highly diversified and often crosses
divisional, organizational and
geographic paradigms. Organizations
often ask themselves:
■ How can we benefit from using
Oracle Fusion Middleware?
■ How can we leverage our existing IT
Infrastructure investments with Oracle
Fusion Middleware?
■ What would be the total cost of
ownership (TCO) to implement such
a solution?
■ How can we achieve flexibility,
scalability, reliability and security?
■ How can we retrieve data from
disparate sources and gain better
business insight?
■ How can we accelerate time to
market?
■ How can we mitigate risk and
maximize ROI?
RAPID RESULTS
The Capgemini-Oracle-Fusion-
Experience (COFE) Lab can help
answer these questions specific to each
organization’s current and future needs.
Through COFE Lab, organizations can
access Capgemini’s solution architects
from both business and technology
backgrounds working collaboratively to
enable business process improvement
by identifying a business process
roadmap, SOA structure roadmap, and
architecture roadmap using Oracle
Fusion Middleware.
Working on-site or online, these
specialists can:
■ Share ideas and action plans
■ Showcase real-time SOA proof-of-
concept
■ Help to analyze audit compliance and
risk-related concerns
■ Access databases for industry
knowledge, leading practices,
successful planning scenarios, white
papers, and other reference materials
■ Tap into Oracle development teams to
clarify product capabilities,
implementation processes and future
product direction
■ Enable knowledge transfer through
“train the trainers” programs
■ Facilitate customer participation in a
joint Oracle-Capgemini community of
interest
REAL VALUE
The Capgemini-Oracle-Fusion-
Experience (COFE) Lab is a
collaborative venture between Oracle
Corporation and Capgemini supported
by HP. The Lab is based in the
Capgemini Chicago office and supports
North America and beyond on an as-
needed basis.
The initiatives of the COFE Lab are
supported by Capgemini’s Rightshore®

Fusion Center Of Excellence Group in
Mumbai, India, a dedicated team of
skilled individuals specializing in
Oracle Fusion Middleware projects
across industry verticals and technology
horizontals.
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. Visitors to the COFE Lab
will experience Capgemini’s unique
CORE (Complete Optimization
Roadmap to Excellence) methodology.
This methodology helps enhance an
organization’s current or future
investments in IT landscape through an
incremental, iterative approach that can
simplify and streamline its business
processes.
Forrester Research recently recognized
Capgemini for its investments in
research and development that promote
SOA while using Oracle technologies.1
The creation of the Capgemini-Oracle-
Fusion-Experience Lab extends
Capgemini’s investment into supporting
SOA-based technologies and reinforces
its commitment to help clients achieve
better, faster, more sustainable results.
Introducing 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
new business models that reach
markets they couldn’t reach before, at
rates they couldn’t consider before and
realign the various parts of their
organization and its resources in an
innovative way that creates new
markets, new margins, new profits, new
products, and new business. 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 Hewlett-
implementations, having executed Packard (HP). The Lab is based
thousands of joint implementation in the Capgemini Chicago office
projects with Oracle worldwide. and supports North America and
Capgemini’s 6,000+ Oracle specialists beyond on an as needed basis.
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 & Utilities business
units.
1.The Forrester Wave™: Oracle Implementation Providers,
Q1 2008. March 10, 2008 by Liz Herbert for Sourcing &
Vendor Management Professionals.

About Capgemini and the
Collaborative Business Experience®
Capgemini, one of the
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 Experience®—and
through a global delivery model called
About Oracle
Oracle’s business is information-how to
manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For
nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ:
ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise
software company, has provided software
To experience the COFE Lab or for more
information about how your company can
benefit from our Oracle Fusion Middleware
Capabilities, please contact one of
the following:
Shamik Chakraborty
NA Oracle Technology Leader
shamik.chakraborty@capgemini.com
Karen Redinger
NA Oracle Alliance Leader
karen.redinger@capgemini.com
Copyright © 2008 Capgemini. All rights reserved.
Capgemini, Rightshhore and the Collaborative Business Experience are registered trademarks
of Capgemini S.A.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
www.capgemini.com
Rightshore®, which aims to offer the right
resources in the right location at
competitive cost. Present in 36 countries,
Capgemini reported 2007 global revenues
of €8.7 billion (approximately US$12
billion) and employs over 83,000 people
worldwide.
More information about our services,
offices and research is available at
www.us.capgemini.com.
and services that enable organizations to get
the most accurate and up-to-date
information from their business systems.
Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers-
including 98 of the Fortune 100-in more
than 145 countries.
Gigi Touslee
Oracle Enablement-Global Alliances
gigi.touslee@capgemini.com
Lynn Anderson
NA Oracle Service Line Leader
lynn.anderson@capgemini.com
Jack Seigler
Central Area Oracle Service Line Leader
jack.seigler@capgemini.com
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