AST Corporation Wins Prestigious Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year

SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 23, 2013 - PRLog -- Oracle today awarded AST Corporation with its 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in the Services-Travel and Transportation category.

The award reflects AST’s success in adopting OPN’s Specialized approach, which is aimed at enabling partners to establish industry recognition by following a formal process to become Specialized in key Oracle solution areas.  AST was presented the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in the Services category for demonstrating an outstanding and innovative solution for Travel and Transportation industry.

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year - North America encourage innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members, who use Oracle’s products and technology to create value for customers and generate new business potential.

“This recognition truly belongs to our employees who uphold the highest level of professional standards and work hard to achieve 100% success on the challenging projects we undertake,” said Pravin Kumar, President and CEO of AST.  “The success of this implementation is due to the hard work in building our expertise and solutions for the transportation domain."

“AST Corporation has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation in delivering proven Oracle Middleware and Business Intelligence solutions that solve our joint customers’ most critical business challenges,” said Lydia Smyers, group vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels Programs and Communications, Oracle.  “We congratulate AST in achieving the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year.  This achievement is a testament to their dedication to excellence and to providing services and solutions to transportation industry customers that drive real business value and results.”

AST Corporation is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About AST Corporation

Established in 1995, AST Corporation is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Specialized Oracle E-Business Suite systems integrator, an Oracle University training and delivery partner, and a certified Oracle On-Demand implementation provider. AST offers professional consulting services to Oracle Applications users and serves industry-leading organizations in: municipal, state and federal government; public transportation; airport and seaport; K-12 and secondary education; utilities/energy; manufacturing; insurance; retailing; telecommunications. Clients look to AST Corporation for leadership and assistance in business process redesign, project management, systems integration, systems administration and training.

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