Infosys unit links up with Oracle

Infosys Technologies on Wednesday announced that its banking business unit is partnering with Oracle Asia Pacific, a division of Oracle Corporation to provide banks in Asia Pacific with an integrated banking solution.

Infosys will be working towards integrating Finacle, its core banking software, with the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications such as Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Financial Services Applications, running Oracle9i Real Application Clusters.

The joint initiative will enable the two companies to integrate and tune their applications to the need of customers.

Merwin Fernandes, vice-president and head, sales and marketing, BBU, Infosys, said, "The association with Oracle allows us to address the needs of banks in Asia Pacific more effectively."