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February 2008
Eight out of 10 Top SaaS ISVs Run Mission-Critical Applications on Oracle Visa USA Grants Oracle On Demand Key E-Commerce Certification OpenWorld Attendees Get Inside Look into the World of Oracle's CIO What's Coming: Expanding Availability of Hyperion On Demand

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Eight out of 10 Top SaaS ISVs Run Mission-Critical Applications on Oracle According to independent analysis by Nucleus Research, software as a service (SaaS) independent software vendors (ISVs) are turning to the Oracle SaaS Platform in increasing numbers, with eight out of 10 top SaaS ISVs now developing and delivering mission-critical SaaS applications on Oracle. More... Visa USA Grants Oracle On Demand Key E-Commerce Certification As part of its ongoing commitment to both e-commerce and cardholder data security, Oracle has won Cardholder Information Security Program certification from Visa USA for Oracle On Demand. More... OpenWorld Attendees Get Inside Look into the World of Oracle's CIO In a packed session at the November 2007 OpenWorld conference, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday offered a peek inside Oracle's global IT organization—and how he leverages his real-world experience to create and optimize Oracle's own products and services, working side-by-side with Oracle On Demand. More... What's Coming: Expanding Availability of Hyperion On Demand Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution—the choice of 91 of the Fortune 100 companies—is now available via Oracle On Demand even as Oracle finalizes plans for general availability for this latest service offering. More... Conquering Huge Project Management Complexities at Iron Mountain Much has been made of the benefits of standardizing on one type of financial software throughout a company—more-consistent data, quicker response and resolutions, faster closings. But for a global company such as Iron Mountain, standardizing on Oracle Financials brought home the project management challenges involved in a hugely complex project that spans time zones and cultures. More... Agilent's Competitive Edge Stays Razor Sharp with Oracle On Demand Oracle On Demand gave Santa Clara, California-based Agilent the flexibility it needed to move from a traditional fixed-cost center to a flexible sourced model, achieving a return on equity of 17.9 percent in 2006. Read how the company has benefited from a multisource approach to IT outsourcing with Oracle On Demand. More... Oracle Embraces Service-Oriented Architecture, Easy Integration "A lot of customers have had a desire and need to integrate systems for a very long time, but up until the last year or so, it's been very hard to do in a scalable and cost-effective way because of the lack of standards," says Jesper Andersen, senior vice president of applications strategy, Oracle. "But now with service-oriented architecture and the way that Oracle is embracing it, it's become a much easier goal to achieve." More... On Demand Customers Reduce Complexity and Downtime with Oracle VM Scalability. Reliability. Availability. Increased costs. As the volume of information in data centers continues to grow, IT professionals are faced with countless challenges. To address these challenges, Oracle is introducing server virtualization within the Oracle On Demand Managed Services Grid with Oracle VM. More...

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