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McDATA Corporation Achieves First-Year Savings of $1 Million and Cost Avoidance of $5 Million With Oracle E-Business Suite 11i

Overview Founded in 1982 and purchased by EMC in 1995, storage networking leader McDATA spun-off in 2000 following its IPO. McDATA faced the challenge of expanding its product lines (from two to five), distribution channels, and customer base. In addition, the SAP ERP solution that McDATA had installed three years earlier was incapable of meeting future business needs and was scheduled for de-support in 2000. McDATA found that Oracle offered more than just an IT solution; it could also fix or optimize existing business processes. Oracle E-Business Suite's integrated approach dramatically improved McDATA's reporting capabilities.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	ROI - TCO, Business Management, ERP

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