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Delivering Value in Uncertain Times with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1
Today's organizations face a host of challenges, but forward-looking organizations realize that having a strategic IT roadmap can help positively impact their immediate and long-term competitive positions. With the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle helps you address both short term initiatives as well as longer term strategies to thrive in dynamic times.

Achieve rapid value today with standalone solutions that are complementary to an 11i10 environment.

• Maximize value by connecting and optimizing supply, demand and design chains with the new Value Chain Planning solutions in Oracle Supply Chain Management.
• Improve strategic sourcing through online negotiation and collaboration with Oracle Sourcing On Demand.
• Expect quick ROI by effectively managing pay for performance on a global scale with Oracle Incentive Compensation.
• Increase operational efficiency and inventory management excellence to combat tight margins in today's fast-paced and challenging business environment with Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS)
• Achieve fast time to value by reducing deployment time and lowering overall total cost of ownership with analytics seamlessly integrated to transaction systems, including Procurement and Spend Analytics, HR and Talent Management Analytics, Project Analytics, and Federal Financial Analytics.

Invest in ways to standardize and simplify with integrated business processes that reduce cost and minimize complexity.

• Maximize the value of your workforce by managing talent enterprise-wide through a truly integrated Talent Management solution that connects strategic and transactional HR data and processes.
• Improve visibility to estimated costs and make better sourcing decisions with Oracle Landed Cost Management (LCM).
• Increase agility by leveraging pre-built, sustainable integrations that reduce implementation risk and cost with AIA integrations.

Strengthen competitive position with purpose-built industry solutions that drive greater value across the enterprise.

• Increase the visibility of ROI for promotional funds and the effect of supplier price changes with Oracle Supplier Ship and Debit and Oracle Price Protection for Wholesale Distribution.
• Eliminate incomplete and inconsistent site and product data by centralizing all site and product information from heterogeneous systems with Oracle Site Hub and Product Information Management for Retail.
• Reduce the overhead of managing reimbursable agreements with Project Accounting for Federal.
• Manage cash flow and ensure subcontractors satisfy contract deliverables with Subcontractor Payments for Engineering and Construction.

What's the bottom line? Oracle E-Business Suite customers have choices with Release 12.1. Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 helps companies achieve rapid value by offering stand-alone solutions that complement an existing 11i10 or Release 12 environment. Customers can choose to take advantage of these rapid value solutions without having to upgrade to this latest release. And, customers can also take advantage of a global business platform that will help drive standardization and simplification throughout their enterprises for long-term benefits.

Supporting Resources

• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1

Why Upgrade to Oracle's JD Edwards Release 9.0?
With the latest release of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0, we have addressed many of your most challenging business issues. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 delivers enhancements that address global market dynamics, regulatory reporting requirements, intricate transactional and contractual arrangements, and the technical changes you face everyday.

• New Project and Government Accounting module. Projects and services industries are a key focus of this release. A new module directly improves your ability to participate in complex projects: Project and Government Contract Accounting (PGCA). With it, organizations gain extensive, integrated project and contract control to streamline and manage billing processes and improve project profitability. PGCA provides advanced project accounting completely integrated to your general ledger to deliver better quality data for improved compliance and financial management.

  PGCA offers innovations for more than the projects and services industries. New functionality helps companies in all industries better manage projects, people, payroll and purchases with better visibility into contracts and their associated costs.

• New Business Benefits for Targeted Customer Segments. Additional features help manufacturers wrestling with configured-to-order products, real estate firms combating margin erosion, and food and beverage producers looking for an operational edge in their globally competitive markets. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 also includes industry-specific capabilities for engineering and construction, homebuilders, and professional services.
• Added Business Value Across Industries. You can gain additional value with added features and functions for managing your general ledger, supply chain, manufacturing, and human capital.
• Increased Compliance. Enhance your financial compliance capabilities through new data relationship functionality for assigning correct values to entered information. Now, data can be entered correctly using customer-defined rules to help eliminate the possibility that inconsistencies, abbreviations or incorrect spellings are captured.
• Improved System Operations Simplify Deployments. Software delivery is improved with better tools and more options for Oracle Business Accelerators for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. These tools improve delivery of new installations and a wide variety of subsequent system management activities.

Whatever your industry, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Release 9.0 addresses your global business challenges and provides increased compliance and simplified deployments. Update your software with these and many other functional enhancements increasing the value of your Oracle software investment.

Supporting Resources

• About Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Project and Government Contract Accounting
• Data sheet: Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Project and Government Contract Accounting (PDF)
• About Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0

Why Upgrade to Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0?
Oracle continues to support and invest in the applications you're already running, by way of our Lifetime Support Policy and Applications Unlimited program that protect the value of your software. With the delivery of PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0, Oracle further demonstrates its commitment to protect, extend, and evolve our customers' applications investments. PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 delivers on this promise by:

• Delivering Best-in-Class Business Processes. Customer and industry-driven enhancements in PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 deliver best-in-class functionality that improves upon critical business processes. Talent management enhancements drive end-to-end workforce development with tools that offer a single, consistent, enterprise-wide, integrated process. Regulatory, security, and performance needs are addressed through sustainable compliance. This release also includes features for complying with legislation (such as the Patriot Act and Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and the federal regulations from Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Dashboards providing key performance indicators enable insight-driven Supplier Relationship Management. PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 also includes enhancements for higher education, staffing, financial services, and communications industries.
• Leveraging Next Generation Technology. Greater use of web services allows customers to share more PeopleSoft Enterprise functionality with other applications. Business flow orchestration provides for the definition and coordination of cross-application business processes. The integration of this release with Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to capitalize on key next generation technologies, such as Oracle XML Publisher, which empowers business users to format and deliver reporting documents.
• Driving a Superior Ownership Experience. Productivity and performance enhancements throughout PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 help reduce operating costs and increase usability for your organization. From the inclusion of a 360 degree customer view in PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management to the integration with Enterprise Manager in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, the offering delivers significant business benefits that maximize the value of your software investment.

What's the bottom line? Using next-generation technologies and numerous functional enhancements, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 helps you get more value from your existing applications, streamline and improve key business processes, and increase workforce efficiency while lowering costs.

Supporting Resources

• PeopleSoft Release 9.0

Why Upgrade to Oracle Siebel CRM Release 8.1.1?
The world's most complete CRM solution, Siebel CRM 8.1.1 helps organizations differentiate their businesses to achieve maximum top- and bottom-line growth.

• Deep Industry Footprint. New industry enhancements enable highly tailored business processes. Critical processes underlie industry-specific functionality. Siebel Communications 8.1.1 features powerful customer self-service capabilities and customer-centric loyalty solutions that enable service providers to expand opportunities for additional sales while lowering service costs through advanced ordering and billing management. Siebel Public Sector 8.1.1 allows government agencies to provide citizens and other constituents with streamlined self-service solutions and integration to Adobe LiveCycle® Forms enables government agencies to transform error-prone manual application processes. Siebel Life Sciences 8.1.1 better enables companies to manage samples more effectively and support personalized detailing as part of the closed-loop marketing process.
• Loyalty. Repeat customers spend 33% more than new customers. It also costs six times more to sell something to a prospect than to sell that same thing to an existing customer. With Siebel Loyalty, organizations can leverage a unique end-to-end customer-centric, multichannel and multi-partner loyalty solution that supports the entire loyalty marketing lifecycle driving loyal behavior including repeat purchases and referrals. Furthermore Siebel Loyalty integrates seamlessly with Siebel CRM, ensuring that vital loyalty information can be captured and analyzed in the context of an organization's overall sales, marketing and service interactions.
• Self-Service and E-Commerce. Siebel E-Commerce and Siebel E-Support empower customers to help themselves by creating an engaging, personalized channel for customer interaction with relevant, meaningful content for a richer and more fulfilling selling and service experience. Siebel E-Support extends the footprint of an organization's CRM deployment to the Web with a single transparent multi-channel solution for delivering superior customer service. Siebel E-Commerce enables companies to manage multi-channel interactions consistently and efficiently.

Siebel 8.1.1 expands Oracle's footprint by delivering "Complete CRM." Complete CRM is a combination of transactional, analytical, and engagement functionality that organizations of all types and sizes require to manage their customer facing operations most effectively so they can maximize top and bottom line growth. Oracle is the only CRM provider that offers the full breadth of "Complete CRM" functionality across its on premise, on demand, and new Social CRM applications.

Supporting Resources

• Siebel CRM Applications
• CRM Blog