Vodafone Global Enterprise has been appointed by Oracle to manage its mobile service needs in its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in a four-year deal
Under the agreement, Vodafone Global Enterprise, the dedicated division of Vodafone that manages the communication needs of its largest enterprise customers, will supply mobile services management, mobile voice and data services to over 16,000 Oracle employees in the EMEA region, billed on a fixed-fee, per-user basis.
For Oracle, the deal will offer the potential for significant savings as well as enhanced efficiencies, through Vodafone Global Enterprises managed services platform.
Under the agreement, Oracle is set to achieve greater cost efficiencies, benefiting from the enhanced transparency offered from predictable flat rate fee structures for mobility and managed services. The flat rate fee structures have been designed to encourage worry-free mobile voice and data usage among employees to boost productivity, while ensuring that managers are able to accurately predict expenditure. 
Vodafone Global Enterprise will also combine and simplify the management of mobile services within the company to drive standardisation and provide enhanced levels of control.
Oracle has been impressed by Vodafone Global Enterprises straightforward and transparent approach to pricing communications, and we anticipate this will deliver greater cost efficiencies, says Carol Kelly, Vice President, Global Revenue and Procurement Operations at Oracle. As well as greater convenience, we expect that this partnership will deliver enhanced services to our employees through Vodafones market leading solutions.
The benefits will be delivered through Vodafone Telecoms Management, a fully hosted service designed to remove the operational complexity of managing the mobile phone environment for multinational businesses.