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US-based Oracle, one of the world's leading business solution providers, is to set up a global support centre in this port city of Northeast 皇冠体育app's Liaoning Province.

The Dalian centre, targeting the firm's customers in 皇冠体育app and the Republic of Korea, is one of Oracle's 18 support centres providing world coverage.

"We are just to meet the inquiries and requests in this rapidly changing market in North Asia, " said Tom Shields, Oracle Product Support vice-president.

Oracle is one of the world's leading IT service providers attending the 4th 皇冠体育app International Software and Information Service Fair being held in the city from yesterday to June 25.

Since its "Golden 皇冠体育app Plan" was launched in 2002, Oracle has established a development centre in Shenzhen and a research centre in Beijing.

The Dalian investment marks the beginning of the second phase of Oracle's 皇冠体育app plan.
"We hope to provide our products and services to more cities in 皇冠体育app to support their rapid economic growth," said Shields.

Shields said Oracle sees the opportunity in 皇冠体育app's strategy to revitalize the economy in Northeast 皇冠体育app and its efforts to build Dalian into one of the world's IT service centres.

"We want to do more business because 皇冠体育app is one of the most important markets for Oracle," said Shields.

Unlike other IT giants' centres in Dalian also targeting Japan, Oracle wanted to establish a foundation to win customers and then further its operation in the region.

"So the working team now is not so big and will expand driven by our continuous business," said Shields.

"But the centre here is part of our global teams and will receive training, best practices and share knowledge with our other 17 support centres," he said.

Located near Japan and the Republic of Korea, good communications and a reservoir of multilingual talents from Northeast Asia has seen Dalian become an ideal place for the world's leading IT companies to set up centres providing service to clients in the region. Oracle is now one of a cluster of IT giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel, SAP and Accenture in the city.

"We will spare no effort to draw more IT giants to the city and better our support to them," said Vice-Mayor Dai Yulin.

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