The National Broadband Network Company today confirmed it was in “detailed negotiations” with Oracle after it picked the software giant to supply its enterprise resource planning software.

“NBN Co has selected Oracle as it preferred provider of enterprise resource planning software solutions,” a spokesperson for the company said this afternoon, confirming a story by ZDNet.com.au earlier today.

“It is yet to finalise the detailed negotiations. In preparation we are advertising for suitably qualified candidates including those experienced with financial and billing systems.” The company added it has yet to determine its complete software suite for billing, with that area being subject to a separate request for capability statement for operational support systems and business support systems (OSS/BSS).

That request for capability statement was issued late last Friday, and states that vendors have until 26 February (tomorrow) to indicate their intention to respond. NBN Co then expects to issue a formal request for proposal document by June this year.

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1. Ric
   Posted 25/02/2010 at 11:07 pm | Permalink | Reply

   Ho hum … this will be another bunch of our money wasted … :) No other large ERP vendor is much better, but Oracle seems to be a featured target of customer complaints about gouging on maintenance fees at the moment … I’m tipping the licence purchase costs were heavily discounted, but it’s the maintenance fees that keep Oracle profitable

2. Renai LeMay
   Posted 26/02/2010 at 9:12 am | Permalink | Reply

   You’d think that Oracle’s stuff wouldn’t need that much maintenance after all those years of development … it will be interesting to see how it goes in a large greenfields environment like the NBN Co.