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Organizations Worldwide Select Oracle for Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence Initiatives

Recent Customer Wins Highlight Continuing Adoption of Oracle EPM and BI Software

April 15, 2008

News Facts

Organizations of all sizes across every industry and region are choosing Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) software to help optimize business processes, decisions, and actions.
Some of the customers that have recently purchased components of Oracle's EPM and BI software include: Agilent Technologies; Algeco Scotsman; BAE Systems; Beckman Coulter; Brookdale Senior Living, Inc.; Bulgarian National Bank; Cox Communications; Cox Enterprises; Deutsche Bahn AG; Equality and Human Rights Commission; Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso SpA; Hudson Advisors; Imperial College London; Moscow City Competition Policy Department; Marrazzi Group SpA; MTC-Vodafone; National Express Corporation; On Telecoms S.A.; Outback Steakhouse; RR Bowker; TEKSTILPROMET D.D.; The Swedish Ministry of Agriculture; UK Health Protection Agency; UT Starcom; and Wegman's.
A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle's EPM system brings together category-leading performance management applications, packaged BI applications, and BI foundation and tools into a comprehensive and integrated system for managing and optimizing performance across business functions.
The system's hot-pluggable capability helps customers to extend the value of performance management, analytic applications and BI tools across heterogeneous IT environments and incorporate critical Oracle and non-Oracle data sources as needed.

Supporting Quotes

"When fully deployed, Oracle reporting and predictive analysis tools will enable us to make faster business decisions based on better intelligence within our sales organization," said Dan Krantz, IT Business Intelligence Director, Agilent Technologies. "The interactive dashboards, reports and alerts from Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus will be used by executives, sales reps and business analysts to improve business insight and effectiveness in their individual roles and collectively as a group."
"To meet our internal business objective and external reporting deadlines, we needed a comprehensive performance management system such as Oracle's that spans planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and scorecarding,? said Pat Shannon, director of Information Technology for an electronics unit of defense and aerospace company BAE Systems. ?The system offers a foundation to integrate and support financial management cycles of goal-setting, modeling, planning, monitoring, analysis, and reporting - helping to deliver predictable results, enhance compliance, and more quickly and accurately close the books."
"Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus and Oracle's Hyperion Performance Management System 9 will be used across finance, accounting, sales and IT to enable better decisions, insights, actions, and business processes," said Spencer Taft, Business Intelligence Group Manager, Cox Enterprises. "The software will help us in the areas of consolidated financial reporting, budget management reporting, bookings forecast, risk management, and more."
"We did an extensive analysis of the competitive landscape and Oracle's integration capabilities and speed to market won the day," said Dan Roy, Senior Vice President of Information Technology at National Express Corporation. "The integration of the pre-built Oracle Business Intelligence Applications with the Oracle E-Business Suite will enable us to rapidly deploy and deliver intelligence across the organization. Additionally, the BI applications will help us align our business goals with actual performance to drive better insight and business results."
"As organizations make decisions about their EPM and BI needs, a critical area of consideration is the completeness of the solution and support for heterogeneous environments," said John Kopcke, senior vice president, Enterprise Performance Management Global Business Unit, Oracle. "Oracle's EPM and BI software offers customers a comprehensive performance management system to address the full-range of financial and operational information needs. The 'hot-pluggable' capabilities of Oracle's EPM and BI software assist to further leverage existing applications and data sources to help ensure that customers have all key information available to gain better insight, make better decisions and drive enhanced results."

Supporting Resources

Oracle Expert Blogs
Frank Buytendijk: http://blogs.oracle.com/frankbuytendijk/
Podcasts
Hyperion Joins Oracle: A convergence of BI and EPM: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OracleOfmRadio/~3/133408234/5671670.mp3
Related Resources
About Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence: http://www.oracle.com/epm
Independent Analyst Reports Regarding Oracle Software: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/index.html

About Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry's first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System, including category-leading performance management applications, BI applications, BI foundation and tools, and data warehousing. For more information visit:http://www.oracle.com/epm

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Contact Info

Eloy Ontiveros
Oracle
+1.650.607.6458
eloy.ontiveros@oracle.com

Letty Ledbetter
Oracle
+1.650.506.8071
letty.ledbetter@oracle.com

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