The Belgium-based company has built its reputation on its ACUNIA Open Telematics Framework™, an end-to-end, Java-based open software design for the entire telematics pipeline. The single-platform, protocol-neutral, lightweight architecture system can be upgraded easily to add services and future technologies, the company said.

Oracle will promote ACUNIA Open Telematics Framework technology with its Automotive Mobile Lifestyle (AML) solution, described as a telematics based m-commerce service. Content and transaction providers will play a vital role in the implementation of the AML concept, according to the company.

Components of the AML service are as follows:

• Content providers, for information, news, and route plans,
• HTML and WAP Portals, for complex transactions and the collection of CRM information
• Transaction Providers, for the buying of music and infotainment
• Communications, for sophisticated billing
• Call Center, a concierge service for the handling of diagnostics and the accessing of CRM information
• Safety, for notifying call emergency services

"The alliance between ACUNIA and Oracle brings a complete, scalable, and robust solution into being," said Frank Boutboul, vice president Industrials & Consumers, Oracle EMEA. "Based on the latest products from Oracle, and adding the power of ACUNIA’s OTF Server and components, the Automotive Mobile Lifestyle offering is the unique solution that enables a full solution from CRM to m-commerce."

"By integrating the ACUNIA Open Telematics Framework technology within Oracle’s current product offering for in-car software, wired and wireless Portals with CRM, we believe we are able to offer the automotive industry a working and future proof solution for the deployment of their future telematics and e-business management infrastructure," said Marc Maes, co-founder and co-CEO of ACUNIA.