UXC snares Victorian utility deal

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:44

IT Industry - Deals

Australian-listed business solutions vendor, UXC, has been awarded a major contract with Victorian water business, City West Water, for the first phase of work for the implementation and ongoing applications support for a large Oracle based solution.

UXC managing director, Cris Nicolli, said the solution proposed for City West Water is based on an Oracle technology stack which includes applications, database, integration middleware, hardware and operating system.

'The core Oracle applications will be scalable and part of the applications and technology roadmap for the long term.'

According to Nicolli, The project, if fully implemented, would be one of the largest contracts won by UXC.

'The project is designed to support the City West Water vision of being a truly sustainable water business and is a company-wide transformation program that will see the transition of business processes and systems to a new, common Oracle based systems platform.'

Nicolli said City West Water will be supported by the UXC Oracle business, Red Rock Consulting, one of Australia's largest independent Oracle consulting and support organisation, and the project, intended to span a number of years, will commence with a detailed enterprise design and implementation planning process.

'This is another very exciting win for UXC. It is especially pleasing to see Australian business having the confidence to work with and entrust large and complex projects to Australian IT companies such as UXC. This validates our view that more and more Australian clients are seeking the delivery of business critical transformations by local companies with strong local resources who demonstrate a solid understanding of both their industry and the Australian marketplace.'

City West Water managing director, Anne Barker, said the project was designed to provide the company with a technology platform that will support the business for the next decade and beyond. 'UXC has demonstrated to us that it has the depth of Oracle capability that is required to make it a success.'