Logica and Oracle extend HR 'pay as you go' services across Europe

Logica, a leading IT and business services provider, today announced the extension of its relationship with Oracle. Logica will now be able to leverage the BPO Powered by Oracle program to offer Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions as a BPO 'pay as you go' service for businesses across Europe. Logica and Oracle have successfully served joint customers in the UK and Netherlands (NL), providing outsourced HR & payroll services to companies like Channel 4, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Martinair and KPN.

The extension of the HCM BPO relationship to encompass all of Europe allows both organisations to provide innovative models that respond to the current economic environment by removing the need for capital investments in traditional IT infrastructure and software licence fees. Logica's European offering combines the best of BPO and Software as a Service (SaaS) to deliver a broad range of HR and payroll services based on OracleR and Peoplesoft applications, spanning traditional bureau payroll with integrated outsourced HR applications, through to fully-managed and outsourced payroll and HR transactional processes. The software and services are wrapped up in a single, per-employee fee which can be scaled up or down depending on the needs of the business. It is the desire to increase flexibility to meet customers' changing requirements in these challenging times that is behind Logica's European pay-as-you-go service.

This new arrangement allows for Oracle's world-class HR and payroll software suite to be more accessible to mid-sized clients in Europe, whilst the service is ideal for larger organisations looking for greater integration.

We have had a successful BPO relationship with Logica in the UK and the Netherlands and the extension of this to Europe is the next natural step. Overall, BPO is a fast growing area because it provides a flexible and cost effective way for businesses to improve their operations and innovate, said Tibor Beles, Vice President, Oracle Business Process Outsourcing. Oracle's state-of-the-art Human Capital Management software in combination with process expertise from Logica, offers a world-class HRO solution that helps Logica clients to achieve better HR process performance and reduced costs.

According to Gartner Inc., the market for software as a Service (SaaS) in enterprise resource planning (ERP) is forecast to grow by 9% in 2009 to $1.3 billion, with HCM accounting for more than 18% of total ERP
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Commenting on the partnership, Jean Marc Lazzari, CEO, Outsourcing Services, Logica, said, We see more and more organisations moving towards a multi-country HR outsourcing strategy that is getting more complex everyday. Our innovative approach and pan European strength coupled with Oracle's technological expertise helps us offer customers flexible 'on demand' applications along with a creative HR outsourcing commercial proposition. Our 'pay as you go' model is structured to deliver a high Return on Investment (ROI) for customers and this is further strengthened by our relationship with Oracle.

With more than 800 HR & Payroll consultants around the globe, Logica provides HR services that support more than 5 million employees across over 3,000 customers spanning private and public sectors.