I am pleased to announce that Oracle Fusion Intelligence for E-Business Suite Release 12 is generally available. This is a very exciting release that enables us to offer customers a turn-key approach to business intelligence that no competitor can match.

Oracle Fusion Intelligence offers customers:

• Pre-packed analytical applications: Fusion Intelligence delivers comprehensive analytic applications for users across virtually every business function, including Human Resources, Financials, Supply Chain Management, Order Management, Marketing, Sales, Service and Governance Risk and Compliance
• Packaged integrations with Oracle Applications: Fusion Intelligence is the only offering in the market tested and certified by Oracle Applications development to work with E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications
• Best-in-class Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform – to enable access to 3rd party data sources and configurability of KPIs, dashboards and reports
• A step toward Fusion Applications: all the work that has gone into building this industry leading offering will be preserved and supported for future versions of the current product lines, as well as Fusion.

Customer response to our new release has been tremendous. In the third quarter, we attained a nearly 200% growth rate for analytics with new customers ranging from large corporations like the Linksys division of Cisco, to mid-sized enterprises such as Brookes Automation and higher education customers including the University of North Carolina.

Roadmap

The Fusion Applications development team is extending Fusion Intelligence to support multiple industries, as well as enhancing support of heterogeneous data sources, including multi-instance E-Business Suite customers. In addition to continuing our investment in Fusion Intelligence, we will continue to support our existing analytic applications.

Conclusion

Fusion Intelligence provides a compelling solution for Oracle Applications customers. These products provide instant benefit to customers wanting the richness of pre-packaged analytics with the configurability and ad-hoc capabilities of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform. Fusion Intelligence enables companies pursuing a "Buy and Extend" strategy for reporting to enjoy quick and easy deployment combined with out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Applications.

The Fusion Intelligence products continue to drive success in competitive deals across all our application product lines: E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards.