Enterprise Applications

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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS STRATEGY

  • IDC, Oracle OpenWorld 2012: Oracle Applications Update (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire May 2013 (Publication: November 2012)
    "Oracle continues its strategy of maintaining and growing a broad portfolio of application brands that include the older Oracle Applications Unlimited products, the new Oracle Fusion Applications, the newly acquired cloud products like RightNow and Taleo, and the newly named Oracle Social Relationship Management Suite. At Oracle OpenWorld this year, it was clear that Oracle plans to aggressively grow its cloud and social presence through the combined build-and-buy strategy that has served it well over the past six to seven years."
  • Nucleus Research, The Evolving Business Case for Tier-1 In Midsize Companies (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: June 2012)
    "Nucleus examined those companies' deployments of packaged applications such as Oracle Accelerate Solutions and found firms could deploy once with limited risk and then have enterprise-class functionality in place to support future business needs. Companies with similar growth plans should seriously consider packaged applications when evaluating their ERP strategy."
  • Gartner, Deciding If or When to Adopt Oracle Fusion Applications
    Distribution rights expire July 2013 (Publication: June 2012)
  • Nucleus Research, The Evolving Business Case for Tier-1 In Midsize Companies (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: June 2012)
    "Nucleus examined those companies' deployments of packaged applications such as Oracle Accelerate Solutions and found firms could deploy once with limited risk and then have enterprise-class functionality in place to support future business needs. Companies with similar growth plans should seriously consider packaged applications when evaluating their ERP strategy."
  • IDC, Maximizing Your Investment in Oracle Applications Software: The Case for Migrating to Oracle Database 11g (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
    "The reasons for upgrading to Oracle Database 11g are urgent and compelling. Its newer features and internal improvements effectively enable customers to address the mounting pressures on data management along three key dimensions": (i) Sheer database performance, reliability, and recoverability; (ii) Security, traceability, and retained data efficiencies; and (iii) Manageability."
  • Nucleus Research, Oracle OpenWorld Applications Update (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
    "Based on the demos and testimonials from [Oracle Fusions Applications] early adopters Nucleus has reviewed, Oracle has clearly focused on usability with in-application analytics and other smart application features."

E-BUSINESS SUITE

JD EDWARDS

PEOPLESOFT

FUSION APPLICATIONS

  • Bersin & Associates, Oracle Fusion HCM: An Introduction to the Product Set (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire November 2013 (Publication: August 2012)
    "Oracle Fusion Applications provides an upgrade path for Oracle E-Business Suite and applications from PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel, all of which were acquired in 2004 and 2005."
  • IDC, Oracle OpenWorld 2012: Oracle Applications Update (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire May 2013 (Publication: November 2012)
    "Oracle continues its strategy of maintaining and growing a broad portfolio of application brands that include the older Oracle Applications Unlimited products, the new Oracle Fusion Applications, the newly acquired cloud products like RightNow and Taleo, and the newly named Oracle Social Relationship Management Suite. At Oracle OpenWorld this year, it was clear that Oracle plans to aggressively grow its cloud and social presence through the combined build-and-buy strategy that has served it well over the past six to seven years."
  • Technology Evaluation Centers, JD Edwards ERP Products Thriving under Oracle (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire July 2013 (Publication: June 2012)
    "Given Oracle's good care of Oracle JD Edwards thus far, most likely many users will use either prepackaged or application integration technologies to deliver their existing applications alongside new differentiating Oracle Fusion Applications components."
  • Gartner, Deciding If or When to Adopt Oracle Fusion Applications
    Distribution rights expire July 2013 (Publication: June 2012)
  • Ovum, Oracle Fusion Applications Hit the Broader Market (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire March 2013 (Publication: December 2011)
    "Oracle's services partners have been working with the vendor for years on bullet proofing the Oracle Fusion architecture and associated next-generation applications. Service providers' Oracle-related businesses have remained steady even through tough economic times, thanks to ongoing demand for traditional upgrades and application modernization. However, providers are hoping that Oracle Fusion Applications will lead to an even bigger boost in near- and long-term revenues."
  • Forrester, The Forrester Wave (tm): Human Resource Management Systems, Q1 2012 (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire September 2013 (Publication: January 2012)
    "Forrester evaluated nine HRMS solutions across 69 criteria. Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft are Leaders, Oracle Fusion Applications is a Strong Performer."
  • Nucleus Research, Oracle OpenWorld Applications Update (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
    "Based on the demos and testimonials from [Oracle Fusions Applications] early adopters Nucleus has reviewed, Oracle has clearly focused on usability with in-application analytics and other smart application features."
  • Gartner, Momentum Continues in SCM at Oracle OpenWorld
    Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)

ACCELERATE (MIDMARKET)

  • Technology Evaluation Centers, JD Edwards ERP Products Thriving under Oracle (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire July 2013 (Publication: June 2012)
    "Given Oracle's good care of Oracle JD Edwards thus far, most likely many users will use either prepackaged or application integration technologies to deliver their existing applications alongside new differentiating Oracle Fusion Applications components."
  • Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies
    Distribution rights expire July 2013 (Publication: June 2012)
  • Nucleus Research, The Evolving Business Case for Tier-1 In Midsize Companies (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: June 2012)
    "Nucleus examined those companies' deployments of packaged applications such as Oracle Accelerate Solutions and found firms could deploy once with limited risk and then have enterprise-class functionality in place to support future business needs. Companies with similar growth plans should seriously consider packaged applications when evaluating their ERP strategy."
  • IDC, IDC Manufacturing Insights, Technology Adoption in Midsize Wholesale Distributors (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication February 2012)
    "More so than any other industry segment, wholesale distribution is caught in a profitability squeeze between suppliers (typically manufacturers) and customers, and although wholesale has tended to be a laggard in terms of investments in technology, this is changing rapidly. As a result of industry complexity and competitive pressures, leading wholesale distributors are using technology to gain insight into profitability across multiple dimensions, including product, services, customer, channel, and time period. Along with sophisticated analytics, these wholesale distributors are able to do comprehensive supplier and customer profitability analyses, model cost and revenue forecasts, and evaluate future cost and revenue with comprehensive what-if modeling capabilities."
  • AMI-Partners,Oracle Business Accelerators: Helping Midsized Business Grow Faster (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: March 2011)
    "Built upon proven source codes used by large enterprises for a long time, Oracle Accelerate solutions can deliver the required functionality within a very short period of time and at a much lower cost than most midsized businesses believe possible."
  • Nucleus Research, Oracle Business Accelerators (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: February 2011)
    When Nucleus analyzed the actual experiences of customers using Accelerators, analysts found all customers reduced the time to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite, many by more than 50 percent of the time an implementation without Accelerators would have taken.
  • Nucleus Research, ROI Case Study: Oracle E-Business Suite - OpenTV (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: November 2009)
    "OpenTV deployed Oracle E-Business Suite to meet its evolving and complex business requirements while streamlining data entry and auditing, reducing costs while increasing visibility into the business."

WEB COMMERCE

  • Gartner, Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce
    Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  • Forrester, The Forrester Wave: B2C eCommerce Platforms (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2010)
    "Forrester evaluated 12 global enterprise-class e-Commerce platform vendors against 111 criteria. ATG is a Leader. ATG combines a strong and well-rounded eCommerce feature set with an array of targeting, personalization, and customer interaction tools."
  • Forrester, The Total Economic Impact Of Click to Call And Click to Chat (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: August 2010)
    "After speaking with six ATG Live Help customers, Forrester Consulting found that those who use Click to Call and Click to Chat on their e-commerce site saw incremental revenue and recovered online sales that would have otherwise been abandoned."

ANALYTICS AND ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (EPM)

APPLICATION INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE (AIA)

 

DATA HUBS / MDM

GOVERNANCE, RISK, AND COMPLIANCE (GRC)

ERP (FINANCIALS AND HCM)

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

SCM

PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (PLM)

ASSET LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT / ITAM / EAM

PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (PPM)

SRM / PROCUREMENT