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Oracle Announces OracleÒ Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Oracle® Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4

New Features and Pre-Built Integrations Help Service Providers Deliver Differentiated Customer Experiences

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 20, 2009

News Facts

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4 .

This latest release helps communications service providers, media companies and other service providers enhance customer service, respond faster to market demands and reduce operational costs.

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Release 7.4 helps improve customer management capabilities; offer expanded pricing, billing and invoicing functionality; and enhance data accessibility to help the customer service representative (CSR) deliver better service.

The new release supports Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications, delivering to service providers using Oracle’s Siebel CRM new capabilities for managing high-value offers and streamlining collections processes.

New out-of-the-box integrations with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper and Oracle Enterprise Manager for increased flexibility and lower total cost of ownership are also available in this release.

The software also enhances overall performance and expands support for current technology standards, including Transferred Account Procedure (TAP), Returned Account Procedure (RAP), Diameter, Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

Consistent with its goal to continuously simplify the upgrade process, Oracle provides new upgrade scripts for customers to help reduce the time, effort and cost associated with upgrading to the new release.

Supporting Quotes

“We’re pleased to team with Oracle as the new release of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides the new value-added features our clients seek, including enhancements to Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications. This new release demonstrates that Oracle and Capgemini can succeed together in meeting the demands of today’s competitive industry,” said Alain Gerset, vice president of offerings and alliances for Capgemini Telecom, Media and Entertainment Sector.

“Many of the world’s largest and most innovative communications and media companies rely on Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management to accelerate time to market for new products and services, build stronger brands and reduce operational costs. This new version provides pre-built integrations and further simplifies industry-specific business processes to help companies deliver unique customer experiences while lowering total cost of ownership,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products, Oracle Communications.

Supporting Resources

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Data Sheet

Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Management Pack for Billing and Revenue Management

Oracle Communications

Oracle Communications on YouTube

Oracle Communications on Delicious

Oracle Communications on Facebook

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world’s top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next-generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/Communications.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Caroline Yu
Oracle
+1.650.506.8920
caroline.yu@oracle.com

Janice Hazen
O'Keeffe and Company
+1.770.938.4753
jhazen@okco.com

Oracle Named a Leader in Business Performance Solutions by Leading Analyst Firm

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Press Release

Oracle Named a Leader in Business Performance Solutions by Leading Analyst Firm

Redwood Shores, CA – November 20, 2009

News Facts

A component of Oracle® Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s EPM System helps organizations achieve management excellence by uniting category-leading Hyperion performance management applications, pre-built BI applications, and a BI foundation, into a complete and integrated system for managing and optimizing performance across business functions.

The Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2009 Summary

According to a November 2009 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Oracle is a leader in business performance solutions (BPS).

Forrester Research, Inc. defines business performance solutions as a category of purpose-built software applications that support planning, measuring, communicating, and monitoring business results.

Forrester reports that BPS has “strong long-term growth prospects, and this software category has held up reasonably well in the current recession.”

“The Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2009,” written by vice president, principal analyst Paul Hamerman, states that “Oracle’s broad product set includes the market-leading financial consolidations solution, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), as well as other strong product offerings within the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) family – Planning, Strategic Finance, Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM), and the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA).”

Supporting Quote

“As noted in the report, Oracle’s placement in Forrester’s Wave reflects the best combination of both current offering score and strategy score,” said Tobin Gilman, Oracle. “We believe Oracle’s EPM System truly supports a wide range of financial, operational and strategic management processes that help businesses leverage their investments in operational systems and become smarter, more agile, and aligned.”

Supporting Resources

About Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

The Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2009

About Oracle Hyperion Performance Management Applications

Oracle Hyperion Brochures and Datasheets

Follow Oracle EPM&BI on Twitter

Download free, evaluation versions of Oracle Hyperion software. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

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

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus for Oracle
1.415.856.5145
kreeves@bando.com

Oracle Launches PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:27:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Launches PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

Enhancements in Financials and Supply Chain Management Help Reduce Operational Costs, Increase Productivity and Improve Compliance

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 19, 2009

News Facts

To help organizations accelerate business performance, increase user productivity and lower the cost of ownership, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1.

This latest release was developed with feedback from more than 150 customers, and offers a broad range of new features and solutions.

This release contains significant enhancements across all of the major product areas including Financials, Supplier Relationship Management (Procurement), Enterprise Service Automation (Projects), Supply Chain and Asset Lifecycle Management solutions.

Complete, Robust Solution for Financials and Supply Chain Management

PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 helps organizations achieve world-class finance processes by dramatically improving the period close, maximizing cash and reducing liabilities, and further automating compliance and financial control.

PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management 9.1 expands procurement control by enforcing procurement policies, engaging internal stakeholders, and extending supplier management programs.

PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management 9.1 optimizes processing across the entire supply chain by enabling increased efficiency of order capture and returns, accelerated fulfillment and logistics execution, and improved operational coordination.

PeopleSoft Enterprise Service Automation 9.1 supports full project lifecycle management with tools to enforce fiscal discipline, advanced support for complex Public Sector, Research, Staffing, and Government Contracting industry functions, and new data management facilities to simplify enterprise integration and growth.

PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management 9.1 optimizes capital infrastructure decisions and helps reduce equipment downtime with new analytics, streamlined asset and lease accounting and configurable alerts to detect and resolve asset-related issues proactively.

Benefits of PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

Improved Productivity – This latest release of PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management drives increased user effectiveness with Web 2.0 functionality that helps companies connect and service their workforce using new engagement and collaboration tools, and offers workbenches, dashboards, and embedded analytics.

Accelerated Business Performance – PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 helps users execute end-to-end business processes through integrated solutions and assists them in meeting industry specific requirements with industry tailored offerings, addressing today’s business needs with functionally deep and complete applications.

Lower Cost of Ownership – PeopleSoft 9.1 is built on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, the PeopleSoft Enterprise technology platform, which offers a highly-flexible development environment for customers to manage, customize, integrate and support their PeopleSoft applications. Compatible with previous application releases, PeopleTools 8.50 can reduce the total cost of ownership by providing customers valuable enhancements without requiring an upgrade to core Financials and Supply Chain Management applications. In addition PeopleSoft 9.1 helps achieve cost effective interoperability using the Oracle® Application Integration Architecture and expanded Web services.

Supporting Quotes

“PeopleSoft 9.1 has done a tremendous job at improving employee productivity. With the many new features related to the user experience, it builds on the already strong user interface and offers a more intuitive and enhanced experience that will greatly benefit our users,” said Patrick Wells, ERP Technical Lead, Kentucky Community & Technical College System.

“This release of PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management helps companies operate more efficiently, saving time and money,” said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft. “We developed PeopleSoft 9.1 based on feedback from customers and have responded to their needs by adding functionality that helps them improve financial processes and better manage their supply chains.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications

Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Danielle Cormier
Oracle
+1.610.766.3463
danielle.cormier@oracle.com

Simon Jones
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5155
sjones@blancandotus.com

Oracle Delivers Exceptional Value and Performance with Latest Benchmark

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Delivers Exceptional Value and Performance with Latest Benchmark

Oracle® Database 11g on Windows-based Dell PowerEdge Server Achieves World Record for Price/Performance with TPC-C Benchmark

Redwood Shores, CA – November 19, 2009

News Facts

Oracle® Database 11g Standard Edition One delivered a new world record price/performance result with the TPC-C benchmark(1).

Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Windows-based Dell PowerEdge T710 server with a single Intel® Xeon® E5520 2.26 GHz processor set a world record TPC-C price/performance result of $0.50/tpmC with a performance result of 239,392 tpmC.

Oracle holds the world record for performance(2) and price/performance and delivered the top six results(3) in the TPC-C Top Ten by Price Performance.

Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One is an affordable, full-featured database for servers with up to two sockets. It provides enterprise-class performance and security, is simple to manage, can easily scale as demand increases, and is upwardly compatible with other Oracle Database editions.

Supporting Quotes

"Continually delivering world record TPC-C price/performance results demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to providing superior value to customers,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. "Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One provides the mission-critical reliability Oracle is renowned for and enables customers to easily upgrade, protecting their investment, as their requirements grow."

“Once again Dell is beating out the competition delivering the top price/performance results for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads using industry standard database benchmarks,” said Sally Stevens, vice president of Platform Marketing, Dell. “These results illustrate how Dell PowerEdge servers provide an uncompromising platform offering customers robust functionality, great performance and superior value.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One

About TPC-C

Top Ten TPC-C by Price/Performance

Dell PowerEdge Servers

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

As of November 18, 2009. Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), www.tpc.org:

(1) Dell PowerEdge T710 server, 239,392 tpmC, $0.50/tpmC, available 11/18/09.

(2) Sun SPARC Enteprise T5440 server cluster 7,646.486.7 tpmC, $2.36/tpmC, available 12/14/09.

(3)(a) Dell PowerEdge T710 server, 239,392 tpmC, $0.50/tpmC, available 11/18/09.

(b) HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server, 232,002 tpmC, $0.54USD/tpmC, available 5/ 21/09.

(d) Dell PowerEdge 2900 97,083 tpmC, .68/tpmC, available 6/16/08.

(e) HP ProLiant ML350G5, 102,454 tpmC, .73/tpmC, available 12/31/07.

(f) HP ProLiant ML350G5, 100,926 tpmC, .74/tpmC, available 6/8/07.

Contact Info

Teri Whitaker
Oracle
+1.650.506.9914
teri.whitaker@oracle.com

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5145
kreeves@blancandotus.com

Oracle Research Reveals Challenges Communications Service Providers Face in Serving and Retaining Customers

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Research Reveals Challenges Communications Service Providers Face in Serving and Retaining Customers

Lack of Integration Between Departments and Systems Hinders Delivery of Seamless, Consistent Customer Experience

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 19, 2009

News Facts

Today Oracle released research that demonstrates that a lack of integration between departments and business systems is challenging the ability of communications companies to serve and retain customers effectively. A detailed press fact sheet is available here.

The study, entitled “Fostering Customer Intimacy for Communications Service Providers in Europe and the Middle East” and conducted by Vanson Bourne, involved a survey of 46 senior customer management executives for various communications service providers (CSPs) and 3,750 consumers across Europe and the Middle East (EMEA).

Key Findings

The study found:

A surprising lack of integration between customer-facing teams and their business systems:

Two-thirds of CSPs (65 percent) admitted that customers are unable to resolve queries by calling just one number.

The vast majority of CSPs’ systems leave them unable to effectively retain customers:

More than three-quarters of CSPs (80 percent) currently do not have the systems and processes in place to identify and retain customers reaching the end of their contracts.

More than half (53 percent) of consumers stated that their mobile providers had never contacted them at the end of their contract to entice them into a new one.

The public indicated a clear preference for Web-based customer service, but CSPs are falling short in this area:

83 percent of consumers chose the Internet as their first or second choice for communicating with their providers.

Less than half of CSPs (46 percent) offer the ability to view account trends and money-saving tips online, while a mere 13 percent provide online support agents via instant messaging – two of consumers’ most desired features in an online channel.

View the full findings here.

Supporting Quotes

“With technology and communications at the heart of their businesses, communications service providers want to be adept at capitalizing on new modes of delivering personalized service. The research shows, however, that the industry faces a number of challenges in delivering a seamless and consistent experience across its customer service channels,” said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.

“CSPs spend millions of dollars on marketing in a bid to attract new customers, but this does not matter if their existing ones continue to leave. There are various options available to help CSPs reduce customer churn. One is the ability to empower customers through social CRM tools; another is through technology that flags customers reaching the end of their contracts. These options give CSPs the opportunity to contact customers with new offers,” said Tim Vaughan, business development lead for self-service applications, Oracle EMEA.

Supporting Resources

Survey Results: Fostering Customer Intimacy for Communications Service Providers in Europe and the Middle East

Press Fact Sheet: Fostering Customer Intimacy for Communications Service Providers in Europe and the Middle East

Oracle Communications

Oracle Communications on YouTube

Oracle Communications on Delicious

Oracle Communications on Facebook

YouTube - Oracle CRM Self-Service

Oracle's Siebel CRM

Oracle Self-Service CRM

Oracle Real Time Decisions

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world’s top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Caroline Yu
Oracle
+1.650.506.8920
caroline.yu@oracle.com

Janice Hazen
O'Keeffe and Company
+1.770.938.4753
jhazen@okco.com

Oracle Kicks-Off New Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Program with Live Virtual Events Worldwide

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Kicks-Off New Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Program with Live Virtual Events Worldwide

Partners to Learn about New Opportunities and Resources for Growth and Specialization in Interactive Online Event Series

Redwood Shores, CA – November 17, 2009

News Facts

Enabling partners to take full advantage of new opportunities for learning, growth and differentiation through the new Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized program, Oracle is kicking-off a series of live virtual OPN Specialized launch events on December 2-3, 2009.

Hosted by Judson Althoff, SVP Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Oracle partner executives from around the globe, the live virtual sessions will provide partners a guided tour of the new OPN Specialized program and how it can help them grow and profit with Oracle.

In addition, participants will hear about new benefits, training and resources that will help them achieve specialization, better meet customer needs and gain a competitive advantage in today’s dynamic marketplace.

Partners will also have the opportunity to participate in the OPN Specialized discussion before and after the event by asking questions at OPN on Twitter (hashtag: #opn), OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn or emailing questions to opncomms_ww@oracle.com. Questions asked prior to the sessions will be answered during the live event. To register for the event, please visit: http://pelligrini.com/registration/.

Launched at Oracle OpenWorld 2009, the OPN Specialized program allows partners to formally certify specializations to differentiate themselves and their offerings, be recognized for their expertise, and become preferred solution providers to Oracle customers.

Global Partners Differentiate and Excel through Specialization

Partners who would like to learn more about the new resources, tools and opportunities provided through OPN Specialized program can join the following live virtual events:

EMEA Kick-Off with special guest Stein Surlien –

Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00 am PST / 3:00 pm London local time

LAD Kick-Off with special guest Manny Marrero –

Wednesday, December 2 at 9:00 am PST / 3:00 pm DST

North America Kick-Off with special guest Ted Bereswill –

Wednesday, December 2 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm Buenos Aires local time

APAC Kick-Offs with special guest George Wong –

Wednesday, December 2 at 4:00 pm PST / Thursday, December 3 at 11:00 am Sydney local Time and Wednesday, December 2 at 11:00 pm PST/Thursday, December 3 at 12:30 pm Bangalore local time.

Supporting Quote

“The industry and Oracle have experienced dramatic change over the past decade. OPN Specialized is the most comprehensive upgrade to our partner program to date, and is designed to help our partners scale and differentiate themselves in today’s fiercely competitive marketplace,” said Judson Althoff, Oracle Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances and Channels. “The feedback from our partners and customers has been extremely positive since we announced the new program last month. This online event series marks the official launch of the program and provides further details on how partners can get up-to-speed quickly, get certified in specializations and begin differentiating themselves and their skills to broaden and deepen opportunities with Oracle customers and the Oracle field sales teams.

Supporting Resources

Oracle PartnerNetwork

OPN Specialized Main Page

OPN Specialized OPN Data Sheet

Oracle Remarketer, Silver, Gold and Platinum Data Sheets

OPN Specialized Training

List of Specializations

Judson Althoff Blog

Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Oracle Mix , OPN on Twitter , OPN on Facebook , OPN on LinkedIn and OPN on YouTube .

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized

Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 22,000 companies that deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle’s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today’s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world's largest business software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle can apply to qualify for Specializations.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Carol Sato
Oracle
+1.650.633.5551
carol.sato@oracle.com

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5145
kreeves@blancandotus.com

Cabot Microelectronics Reduces Forecasting Cycle Time by Nearly 50 Percent with Oracle’s Real Time Sales and Operations Planning Solution

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Cabot Microelectronics Reduces Forecasting Cycle Time by Nearly 50 Percent with Oracle’s Real Time Sales and Operations Planning Solution

Hitachi Consulting Helps Leading High Tech Manufacturer Become More Flexible and Responsive to Market Demands

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 16, 2009

News Facts

To increase its forecast accuracy and decrease planning cycle times, Cabot Microelectronics implemented Oracle’s Real Time Sales and Operations Planning solution, powered by Oracle’s Demantra.

·A leading global supplier of consumables to the semiconductor industry, Cabot Microelectronics selected Hitachi Consulting for the deployment based on the company’s expertise and track-record implementing Oracle’s Demantra. Hitachi Consulting is a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle® PartnerNetwork.

By replacing its existing demand planning system, Cabot Microelectronics has reduced its demand forecasting and planning cycle time by almost 50 percent.

Additionally, Oracle’s Real Time Sales and Operations Planning solution has allowed Cabot Microelectronics to quickly respond to changing business conditions and swings in demand while gaining better control of its global planning and forecasting processes.

Integrated Solution Delivers Business Value

Cabot Microelectronics had a successful history of utilizing Oracle On Demand Hosted and Managed Applications, including the Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand, Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning On Demand and Oracle Hyperion Planning On Demand for analysis, strategy, forecasting and financial insight.

Previously, the forecasting process was highly manual and time intensive, which had the potential to cause errors at the item number level.

Working with Hitachi Consulting, Cabot Microelectronics implemented Oracle Demand Management over three months with a primary focus on improving its sales and operations planning (S&OP) efficiency.

During the second, eight-week phase, Hitachi Consulting developed new and enhanced S&OP processes and integrated Oracle Real Time Sales and Operations Planning with Oracle Hyperion Planning, with a primary focus on improving S&OP effectiveness.

The new, tightly integrated system allows Cabot Microelectronics to design long-range plans in Hyperion which are then translated into annual plans and synchronized with Oracle Real Time Sales and Operations Planning for execution across sales, inventory and forecasting.

As a result, the company has seen a 50 percent reduction in forecast error rates at the item number level.

Oracle Hyperion Planning, which replaced a spreadsheet-based process, offers Cabot Microelectronics a powerful and accurate analysis for business planning and strategy that helps to speed its financial planning and forecasting processes.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle’s Real Time Sales and Operations Planning solution and the integration to Oracle Hyperion Planning has had a valuable impact on our entire organization,” said Cabot Microelectronics Director Global Customer Service and Sales Operations, James Dillon. “We’ve streamlined and automated demand forecasting and improved our ability to deliver timely plans. Our finance team can now focus on analysis and planning instead of data gathering. Also, our sales force benefits from a much more intuitive, user-friendly interface and is now able to forecast price changes in Demantra. Overall, the transparency we’ve gained promotes better collaboration across our global operations.”

“We are excited to see Cabot Microelectronics realizing the benefits they hoped for from an improved demand management and S&OP process,” said Hitachi Consulting Vice President, David Williams. “From the beginning, Cabot set a clear vision for its improvements and we are pleased to have helped make those a reality.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle’s Demantra Real Time Sales and Operations Planning

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Hyperion Planning

Oracle On Demand

Oracle PartnerNetwork

Hitachi Consulting

About Oracle Supply Chain Management

Oracle Supply Chain Management applications are complete, open and integrated solutions that power the Information-Driven Value Chain. The industry's most comprehensive portfolio of industry-specific supply chain applications, Oracle SCM spans all aspects of the value chain including planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and service, all with end-to-end supply chain intelligence. With Oracle SCM, companies can achieve operational excellence, accelerate innovation and manage risk and compliance.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About Hitachi Consulting Corporation

As Hitachi, Ltd.'s (NYSE: HIT) global consulting company, with operations in the United States, Europe and Asia, Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT strategies and solutions to Global 2000 companies across many industries. With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, we work with companies to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement practical business strategies and technology solutions. From business strategy development through application deployment, our consultants are committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI.

Hitachi Consulting's client base includes 25 percent of the Global 100 as well as many leading mid-market companies. We offer a client-focused, collaborative approach and transfer knowledge throughout each engagement.

For more information, call 1.877.664.0010 or visit www.hitachiconsulting.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Jessica Moore
Oracle
+1.650.506.8741
jessica.moore@oracle.com

Simon Jones
Blanc and Otus
+1.415.856.5155
sjones@blancandotus.com

Oracle Announces Oracle® Rapid Planning

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Oracle® Rapid Planning

New Value Chain Planning Product Promotes Real-Time Decision-Making

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 16, 2009

News Facts

To improve companies’ ability to quickly adapt to unplanned supply chain events, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Rapid Planning.

With Oracle Rapid Planning, customers will benefit from real-time, event driven planning and simulation that delivers quick, predictive and actionable intelligence, enabling planners to react quickly to changes.

Complementary to the existing suite of Oracle Value Chain Planning applications, Oracle Rapid Planning features out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. It also supports integration with ERP systems such as SAP or other legacy systems. This enables customers to leverage their existing IT investments, lower installation costs and maximize value.

Oracle Rapid Planning Drives Real-Time, Profitable Supply Chain Decisions

Companies must react quickly to events such as a sudden increase in demand, an urgent engineering change, an unexpected production shortfall or a supplier quality issue. Oracle Rapid Planning enables customers to benefit from:

Improved Planning Speed and Flexibility

Fast, event-driven, simultaneous material and capacity planning enables quick decision-making.

Rapid incremental simulation and embedded analytics enables user-driven “what-if” scenario analysis and plan performance evaluation and comparison.

Mass edit and manipulation of items, bills, routings, resources, capacity, supply and demand data promotes quick, user-driven “what if” capabilities, without requiring changing data in the ERP system.

Increased Planner Productivity

Next generation productivity enhancing spreadsheet style user interface supports configurable workspaces, filters and saved queries, and simultaneous analysis of exceptions, supply chain pegging, performance indicators and material and resource requirements.

Comprehensive Modeling Capabilities

Comprehensive configurable exception management increases planners’ productivity and response by focusing on the most important problem first.

Comprehensive supply chain constraint modeling and decision automation with support for alternates (resources, process, facilities, ship methods, components), substitution, lead times, order modifiers, and priority-based ranking enables improved plan quality.

Standards-based Solution

Standards-based technology enables scalability and lower cost deployment.

Supporting Quotes

“Because supply chains today are so dynamic, timely and comprehensive, visibility has become a necessity for proper decision-making and to support efficient operations,” said Tim Payne, Research Director, Gartner. “Supply chain planning applications help promote real-time, event driven planning and simulation to not only reduce decision-making time but to mitigate risk.”

“Companies today face increasingly frequent and severe supply chain disruptions that must be addressed immediately to minimize any negative business impact,” said Oracle’s Group Vice President, Value Chain Planning Applications Development, Nadeem Syed. “Oracle Rapid Planning helps organizations make smart, informed decisions in the shortest possible time, promoting business success and agility.”

General Availability

Oracle Rapid Planning is now available and can deployed with current and prior versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle’s Value Chain Planning applications such as Oracle’s Demantra. Additionally, Oracle Rapid Planning can be implemented as a standalone product for use in heterogeneous environments including SAP.

Supporting Resources

Oracle Rapid Planning

Oracle Rapid Planning Datasheet

Oracle Previews Oracle Rapid Planning

Oracle Value Chain Planning Applications

Industry Leaders Adopt Oracle Value Chain Planning Applications

About Oracle Supply Chain Management

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Jessica Moore
Oracle
+1.650.506.8741
jessica.moore@oracle.com

Joan Levy
Blanc and Otus
+1.415.856.5110
jlevy@blancandotus.com

InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life Accelerate Policy Application and Issuance Cycle Time with Oracleâ Insurance Data Exchange

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:01:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life Accelerate Policy Application and Issuance Cycle Time with Oracle® Insurance Data Exchange

Centralized Data Exchange Enables Agencies to Enhance Customer Service and Improve Ease of Doing Business with Carriers

NAILBA 28, Hollywood, Fla. – November 13, 2009

News Facts

InsuranceExperts.com , a broker general agency for life, health and annuity products, and Quick Life , a direct marketing agency for life insurance, are using Oracle® Insurance Data Exchange to improve their ease of doing business with multiple carriers and elevate overall customer service.

Oracle Insurance Data Exchange is a centralized data exchange hub for life and health insurance and annuities. It enables the secure exchange of real-time data — such as policy applications and commission statements — among carriers, agencies and service providers to support straight-through processing.

The Oracle Insurance solution enables InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life to streamline communication among various stakeholders, helping to accelerate the quote-to-issue process and improve closure rates. Expanded visibility into the status of policy applications helps the companies deliver more informed and responsive customer service.

Oracle Insurance Data Exchange also eases the review process for new policies. InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life both receive data feeds for pending case status updates and commission statements directly into their own agency management systems — eliminating the need to log in to multiple carrier sites for information. This seamless integration has enabled both companies to automate back-office processes and avoid costly and time-consuming data re-entry.

Both InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life expect to increase sales activity without increasing operational costs.

Supporting Quote

“Oracle Insurance Data Exchange has provided us with significant time savings. Checking case status and commission information from multiple carriers can be overwhelming for a company of our size, and Oracle Insurance Data Exchange delivers the timely and accurate data we need in a consolidated fashion directly to our lead relationship management system, which has improved our overall efficiency,” said Pat Wedeking, President, Quick Life.

“Oracle Insurance Data Exchange provides us with a robust solution that enables us to receive and organize information exactly how we need it to align with our specific business models — which allows us to work with more than one company efficiently. With Oracle Insurance, we have gained the ability to further raise the bar on the level of service we provide to our clients,” said Michael G. Collins, President, InsuranceExperts.com.

“Oracle Insurance Data Exchange helps life insurance producers, like InsuranceExperts.com and Quick Life, to remain competitive in today’s dynamic market by accelerating the quote-to-issue process and improving service through streamlined data consolidation and sharing. With Oracle Insurance Data Exchange, carriers also have a ready-made, cost-effective way to expand their reach into independent producer channels and improve their ease of doing business with their distribution networks,” said Srini Venkatasanthanam, Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle Insurance.

Supporting Resources

• Oracle Insurance

• Oracle Insurance Data Exchange Data Sheet

• Oracle Insurance on Twitter

• Join the Oracle Insurance Community on Facebook

Oracle Insurance on LinkedIn

About Oracle Insurance

Oracle Insurance provides modern, end-to-end software solutions to manage the entire insurance enterprise — sales, service, administration, financials and infrastructure. Oracle Insurance best-in-breed applications include Oracle Insurance Policy Administration, Oracle Documaker, Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting, Oracle Insurance Claims and Oracle Insurance Business Intelligence. For more information about Oracle Insurance, please visit http://www.oracle.com/insurance.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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Katie Barron
Oracle
+1.703.364.2488

katie.barron@oracle.com

Mary Tobin
O'Keeffe and Company
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mtobin@okco.com

Oracle Further Automates Database Auditing and Monitoring with Latest Release of Oracle® Audit Vault

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Further Automates Database Auditing and Monitoring with Latest Release of Oracle® Audit Vault

Oracle Introduces New Reporting and Alerting Capabilities to Help Reduce Costs of Addressing Regulatory Mandates and Insider Threats

Redwood Shores, CA – November 11, 2009

News Facts

To help organizations secure all their enterprise databases and address regulatory requirements, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2.

This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault introduces key new reporting and alerting capabilities that streamline and help reduce the cost of the database audit process.

Complete Solution for Database Auditing and Activity Monitoring Delivers New Reporting, Alerting, Compliance Features

Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2 automates the database audit process with new features including:

Report scheduling, notification, attestation and archiving capabilities that can help organizations lower the cost of complying with internal and external data privacy and protection mandates;

Entitlement reports with up-to-date snapshots of Oracle Database users, privileges and profiles, which allow auditors to track changes to database access;

Compliance reports to specifically address the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) regulatory requirements for database activity monitoring and audit; and,

Automated cleanup of audit trail data from supported Oracle and non-Oracle databases once that audit data has been securely consolidated in the Oracle Audit Vault repository which helps reduce the operational costs of database auditing.

To further help organizations streamline the database activity monitoring and audit process, and respond to security and regulatory exceptions rapidly, the latest release of Oracle Audit Vault also introduces support for email alerts as well as an automated interface to BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, a leading solution for ITIL-aligned service management processes.

According to a recent Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) 2009 Data Security Report , over 70 percent of respondents use native database auditing to monitor database activity. Oracle leads the DBMS industry in native database auditing capabilities including support for auditing privileged and database users.

With Oracle Audit Vault, audit data is automatically consolidated into a highly secure, centralized repository based on Oracle's proven data warehousing technology. As the audit data is consolidated in the Oracle Audit Vault repository it is analyzed in real-time against enterprise-defined policies. Unauthorized activities are immediately detected, and IT staff notified to help ensure database security.

Oracle Audit Vault features numerous built-in and easily customizable reports to help organizations save time and costs related to compliance reporting. Powerful report customization capabilities include filtering audit data, highlighting rows with condition values as well as generating charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared within the enterprise or with external auditors.

Oracle Audit Vault is part of a comprehensive and proven portfolio of database security solutions, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Data Masking and Oracle Total Recall, that help organizations transparently safeguard against data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance without requiring changes to existing applications.

Supporting Quotes

"This new release of Oracle Audit Vault will allow organizations to further automate their database activity monitoring and auditing processes, reducing the overall cost of meeting regulatory requirements and securing critical data," said Vipin Samar, vice president of Database Security, Oracle. "Oracle consulted with IT auditors to help ensure that the new Oracle Audit Vault entitlements and compliance specific reports contain the information needed to pass real-world database audits."

"Oracle Audit Vault reports contain the necessary information auditors are looking for when they conduct database compliance and security audits," said Joseph DeVita, Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. "With support for Oracle and non-Oracle databases, Oracle Audit Vault provides a robust solution for enterprise database activity monitoring and audit."

Supporting Resources

Oracle Audit Vault Resource Kit

Chase Paymentech Relies on Oracle Audit Vault for Security and Compliance

About Oracle Database Security

IOUG 2009 Data Security Report

Security Inside Out Blog

Download a free, evaluation version of Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Oracle
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eloy.ontiveros@oracle.com

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus
+1. 415.856.5145
kreeves@bando.com

Oracle Announces Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Training

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Training

Online Modules to Help Partners Succeed in New Global Partner Program

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 11, 2009

News Facts

To help partners succeed in the recently announced Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program, Oracle now offers a variety of online training modules.

The training sessions help partners fully leverage the new global partner program, which allows them to formally certify specializations to differentiate themselves and their offerings, be recognized by Oracle for their expertise, and become preferred solution providers to Oracle customers.

The trainings include an overall positioning podcast, program overview, details on the various partner levels (Oracle Remarketer, Silver, Gold and Platinum), specialization benefits, portal navigation details and a migration summary.

Supporting Quotes

“We’re committed to helping our partners transition smoothly and succeed with OPN Specialized. The availability of the OPN Specialized training modules underscores our commitment to helping partners fully leverage the new program benefits and capitalize on the diversity of their offerings,” said Penny Philpot, Group Vice President, Global OPN Program, Oracle.

“OPN Specialized addresses the current realities and needs of Oracle partners and the markets in which they operate. There are now clear paths to differentiation through specialization and incentives to guide partners to succeed. The new trainings affirm Oracle’s commitment to supporting its partner ecosystem,” said Aydin Ersoz, co-CEO, iNNOVA Bilisim Cozumleri A.S.

"Oracle provides its partners with sales, marketing and training support that is unparalleled in the industry. OPN Specialized recognizes and maximizes partners’ individual sets of expertise to best meet the specific needs of our customers," said Frank J. Vukmanic, Senior Vice President and General Manager, V-Soft.

Supporting Resources

Oracle PartnerNetwork

OPN Specialized Main Page

OPN Specialized OPN Data Sheet

Oracle Remarketer, Silver, Gold and Platinum Data Sheets

OPN Specialized Training

List of Specializations

Judson Althoff Blog

Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Oracle Mix, OPN on Twitter, OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn and OPN on YouTube.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Carol Sato
Oracle
+1.650.663.5551
carol.sato@oracle.com

Kristin Reeves

Blanc & Otis

+1.415.856.5145

kreeves@blancandotis.com

Oracle Unveils Oracle GoldenGate

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:30:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Unveils Oracle GoldenGate

Fast Real-time Data Integration for Improved Business Insight and Continuous Availability

Redwood Shores, CA – November 10, 2009

News Facts

Further delivering on its strategy to provide a comprehensive data integration solution, Oracle today announced Oracle® GoldenGate.

Oracle GoldenGate delivers fast real-time data integration and bulk data transformation, and also provides reliable data quality, instant Business Intelligence (BI), higher Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) performance, and 24x7, continuous data availability for mission-critical systems.

Fully integrating technology from GoldenGate Software into the Oracle Data Integration suite of solutions, Oracle GoldenGate delivers low-impact real-time data integration and replication technology to Oracle Fusion Middleware and provides a comprehensive, heterogeneous data integration platform.

Today, more than 5,000 customers are utilizing Oracle Data Integration technologies, including Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition and Oracle GoldenGate, as a foundation for real-time data warehousing and BI solutions.

Real-Time Data Integration and Continuous-Availability of Business-Critical Applications

Oracle GoldenGate allows real-time data movement between heterogeneous source and target systems with minimal overhead on the IT infrastructure, enabling real-time BI solutions, multi-directional data synchronization for distributed systems, zero downtime system upgrades, disaster recovery and migrations between heterogeneous databases, OS platforms and servers.

Key benefits of Oracle GoldenGate include:

High Performance: Moves data in sub-seconds, and avoids performance impact on source systems and the network by capturing only committed changed data from transaction logs. As a result, reduces infrastructure costs and improves business insight using timely data.

Reliability: Maintains transaction integrity while moving and delivering the data; and uses check-pointing mechanism, in the event of interruptions and outages, to continue with data movement from where it left off. These features minimize the risk of data loss that can severely impact business operations.

Heterogeneity: Supports a variety of open systems/open source and legacy databases on all major platforms and can be deployed unidirectional or bidirectional in multiple topologies. With its flexibility, allows for a single real-time data integration and replication technology to be used across the enterprise, reducing complexity and TCO while meeting the needs of ever changing IT environments.

In addition, Oracle GoldenGate also offers Oracle GoldenGate Veridata, high-speed data comparison software that identifies and reports on data discrepancies between heterogeneous databases without impacting their availability; and Oracle Management Pack for Oracle GoldenGate, a solution that enables easy management of Oracle GoldenGate deployments across the enterprise.

Supporting Quote

Demand for improved business performance is on the rise and enterprises recognize that real-time data integration to support high availability capabilities and real-time information has become mission critical,” said Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president for Oracle Fusion Middleware. “Oracle GoldenGate helps organizations harness the value of their IT investments and improve business operations by providing continuous access to business-critical information in real-time - resulting in improved business intelligence across the enterprise, with more accurate and timely analysis of business performance.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Oracle Data Integration

Oracle GoldenGate Webinar

Oracle GoldenGate Data Sheet

Oracle Data Integration Blog

What Analysts and Customers Say About Oracle GoldenGate

Oracle GoldenGate Webcast replay

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Oracle
+1.650.506.8071
letty.ledbetter@oracle.com

Wendy Allen
Blanc & Otus for Oracle
+1.805.870.4931
wallen@blancandotus.com

Oracle Announces Research Results on Impact of the Digital Age on Future Media and Telecommunications Business Models

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Research Results on Impact of the Digital Age on Future Media and Telecommunications Business Models

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 10, 2009

News Facts

Today Oracle, in partnership with United Kingdom-based trends consulting group The Future Laboratory, launched the results of the “Capitalizing on the Digital Age” study, which explores how the digital world changes consumer behavior and the challenges that it will present for communications and media companies in the future.

Drawing from a panel of global experts – including Martin Lindstrom, author of “Buyology;” Hugh Garry from BBC Radio 1 Interactive and Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford – the study explored how current and emerging social, cultural, economic and technological forces would impact the future business models of communications and media companies.

The panel assessed influences such as the rise of “freemium” services, the increasing professionalism of the creative consumer, and technological advances such as semantic search to build a picture of consumers’ media consumption in the next five to 10 years.

Among the phenomena predicted in the study are:

Contextual branding – Predictive and geospatial software will enable brands to target consumers through contextual branding. Current advertising formats and models will become increasingly redundant.

“Supertising” – As multi-screens allow different members of a household to watch diverse content at the same time, ad profiling will be tailored to the individual.

Emotional profiling – Emotional engagement and depth of connection will replace eyeballs as the dominant media trading currency.

Privacy for sale – Consumers will realize how important their personal data is to companies wishing to provide them with tailored, immersive entertainment.

Recommendation culture – In the digital future, tuning into a particular TV channel will be replaced by a service that allows viewers to navigate choices and recommends options based on preferences.

Digitally augmented reality – Video visors and ultimately contact lenses will digitally enhance everyday life into a three-dimensional, wrap-around immersive experience.

In addition, “Capitalizing on the Digital Age” offers suggestions for communications and media companies to take advantage of these future opportunities. A few examples include:

Build and maintain customer trust – Trust will be the most important aspect of a brand, the key to gaining access to more profitable relationships with customers and competitive differentiation.

Become the recommender – The company that consumers turn to when navigating a bewildering sea of choice will be well-positioned to profit.

Establish smarter billing systems – Communications and media companies will need to adapt to changing revenue models and cater to micropayments and revenue-sharing models for third-party partnerships.

Leverage valuable customer data – With the ability to know more about the consumer – including where they are, what they spend money on, and what content or applications they download – communications and media companies have an inherent advantage for tailoring future immersive experiences to the individual.

The full report is available here.

Supporting Quotes

“The media industry is grappling with numerous challenges presented by the public’s digital lifestyles. Falling advertising revenues are increasing the urgency of dealing with questions such as how to capitalize on new technologies, engage new audiences and encourage consumers to pay for digital content. ‘Capitalizing on the Digital Age’ sheds some light on the steps that communications and media companies need to take to prosper in this environment – for instance, building more intimate ties with their audiences and getting their systems ready to capitalize on new delivery and revenue models,” said Gordon Rawling, EMEA senior marketing director for Oracle Communications.

“A new digital economy is being forged – value will lie in having access to customers’ habits and desires. In exchange for this, companies will offer help to navigate the vast sea of digital choices. The only way to pull any of this off, though, is by gaining trust,” said Tom Savigar, strategy and insight director at The Future Laboratory.

Supporting Resources

Oracle Communications

Oracle Communications on YouTube

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world’s top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Caroline Yu
Oracle
+1.650.506.8920
caroline.yu@oracle.com

Janice Hazen
O'Keeffe and Company
+1.770.938.4753
jhazen@okco.com

Oracle Unveils PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Unveils PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1

Web 2.0 and Customer-Driven Innovations Help Increase User Productivity, Accelerate Business Performance and Lower the Cost of Ownership

Redwood Shores, CA – November 10, 2009

News Facts

To help organizations increase user productivity, accelerate business performance and lower the cost of ownership across CRM business processes, Oracle today announced Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1.

Developed closely with feedback from more than 40 customers, PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1 introduces over 100 new features, 20 new Web services and two new products across Sales, Service and Marketing.

More than 4,000 PeopleSoft CRM pages are enhanced in CRM 9.1 to deliver a next-generation Web 2.0 user interface and experience enhancements.

Increasing User Productivity

PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1 users can leverage new collaboration tools such as chat, wikis, discussion forums, blogs and tagging to help them engage and connect with others in their knowledge network and increase productivity.

The latest release of PeopleSoft CRM includes drag and drop interactivity, partial page refresh, modal search windows, simpler navigation, as well as contextual, embedded insight for increased user effectiveness.

Redesigned user interfaces and streamlined business process flows help dramatically reduce clicks and page transfers, resulting in less time on an inquiry and more time for involvement with customers.

Enabling Lower Cost of Ownership

PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 is built on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, the PeopleSoft Enterprise technology platform, which offers a highly-flexible development environment for customers to manage, customize, integrate and support their PeopleSoft applications. Compatible with previous application releases, PeopleTools 8.50 helps reduce the total cost of ownership by providing customers valuable enhancements without requiring an upgrade to core CRM applications.

PeopleSoft CRM delivers even greater application configuration specifically for Sales and Marketing user interfaces and workflow, which can dramatically reduce customizations.

More Complete End-to-End Business Processes

Marketers can more effectively leverage lower cost marketing channels and expand marketing reach through new channels like SMS messaging and Events with Event Management.

Sales organizations can spend more time selling as sales management can respond more quickly to sales reorganizations with mass sales activity reassignment capabilities.

PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 vastly expands its product and service price rules capabilities, taking advantage of the robust price rule framework available in PeopleSoft Enterprise Pricer.

PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 can help increase adoption of lower cost service channels with streamlined email response management processes and enhanced self-service knowledgebase search effectiveness.

Global and duplicate case alerting functionality can enable contact centers to more effectively handle global and duplicate service issues resulting in reduced answer shopping and improved agent productivity.

Expanded CRM functionalities for Human Resources includes integration between PeopleSoft HelpDesk for Human Resources and Workforce Communications with the Oracle® E-Business Suite 12.1 Human Capital Management, enabling HR organizations to deploy lower cost, more effective multi-channel service delivery and workforce communications strategies.

Industry-Tailored Applications to Help Improve Business Performance

PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1 delivers new industry-specific requirements for Higher Education, Human Resources, and Communications markets.

Higher Education institutions can improve their recruiting, retention and student service delivery processes with expanded integration to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.

As Communication providers look to provide innovative products, packages and pricing to gain competitive advantage and retain customers in a highly competitive and saturated marketplace, PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 for Communications helps providers offer their customers more tailored and flexible packaging and billing for services.

Supporting Quotes

"Academic support can be challenging to provide in a large, decentralized campus with a burgeoning student population,” said Ken Scullion, Associate University Registrar, Ryerson University. “We expect that using PeopleSoft CRM for Higher Education 9.1 will assist Ryerson University to provide a virtual one stop academic support solution that will reduce the anxiety, frustration and stress levels of students. CRM also has the potential to provide efficiency benefits to academic support staff in the management of their responsibilities."

“Oracle is investing in the right things that customers care about: a ‘Web 2.0’ user experience, collaboration tools, marketing and service functionality improvements, and making upgrades easier,” said William Band, vice president and principal analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. “I am sure the PeopleSoft fan club will be glad they now have a fully up-to-date CRM solution available to them.”1

“We worked very closely with our customers on the release of PeopleSoft CRM 9.1, and we are excited to deliver key capabilities based on what customers have asked for and what they need to be more productive,” said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft. “In this release we enable our stakeholders to increase user productivity through Web 2.0 functionality, increase business performance and significantly lower cost of ownership. This latest release of PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 has created a great deal of customer excitement, especially when they see new functionality and new user experience for the first time.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications

Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Danielle Cormier
Oracle
+1.610.766.3463
danielle.cormier@oracle.com

Aaron Wessels
Blanc & Otus
+1. 415.378.8090
awessels@blancandotus.com

¹ "PeopleSoft Seeks a New Place in the CRM Sun with Release 9.1," Forrester Research Blog for Business Process and Application Professionals, William Band, October 30, 2009.

STATEMENT OF ORACLE CORPORATION

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:03:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

STATEMENT OF ORACLE CORPORATION

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 9, 2009

Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalizing Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform. The transaction does not threaten to reduce competition in the slightest, including in the database market. The Commission's Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics. It is well understood by those knowledgeable about open source software that because MySQL is open source, it cannot be controlled by anyone. That is the whole point of open source.

The database market is intensely competitive with at least eight strong players, including IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and three distinct open source vendors. Oracle and MySQL are very different database products. There is no basis in European law for objecting to a merger of two among eight firms selling differentiated products. Mergers like this occur regularly and have not been prohibited by United States or European regulators in decades.

The U.S. Department of Justice carefully reviewed the proposed acquisition during the normal Hart-Scott-Rodino review and considered it again when the European Commission initiated a second phase review. On both occasions the Justice Department came to the conclusion that there is nothing anticompetitive about the deal, including specifically Oracle’s acquisition of the MySQL database product. The U.S. Department of Justice approved the acquisition without conditions and terminated the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act on August 20, 2009.

Sun’s customers universally support this merger and do not benefit from the continued uncertainty and delay. Oracle plans to vigorously oppose the Commission’s Statement of Objections as the evidence against the Commission’s position is overwhelming. Given the lack of any credible theory or evidence of competitive harm, we are confident we will ultimately obtain unconditional clearance of the transaction.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements about Oracle and Sun, including statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning the European Commission’s Statement of Objections, clearance of the transaction by the European Commission and satisfaction of other conditions to closing the transaction. When used in this press release, the words "plans" and “will” and other similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements. Any such statement may be influenced by a variety of factors, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle or Sun, that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected, described, expressed or implied in this document due to a number of risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that the transaction will not close or that the closing may be further delayed and the possibility that Oracle or Sun may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of Oracle or Sun.

In addition, please refer to the documents that Oracle and Sun, respectively, file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for additional risks. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Neither Oracle nor Sun is under any duty to update any of the information in this press release.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Karen Tillman
Oracle
Karen.tillman@oracle.com

Oracle® Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 Now Available

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle® Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 Now Available

Major New Release Provides High Availability, Enhanced Scalability and High Performance

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 9, 2009

News Facts

Oracle today announced the new release of Oracle® Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 including significant new features for high availability, scalability and performance, and demonstrating Oracle’s continuing commitment to open source, Java and the developer community.

A member of the Oracle Berkeley DB product family, Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition is an open source, transactional storage engine for key-value pairs written entirely in Java that can be deployed as an embedded or “edge” database, enabling developers to build applications that require no manual administration.

Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 includes new replication features for high availability and scalability and significant performance improvements for highly concurrent applications. Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 with high availability is available under the existing Oracle dual license for Berkeley DB Java Edition.

In addition, improved monitoring capabilities, including a plug-in for the Java jconsole utility, make it easier to deploy and monitor applications that utilize Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition.

Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 joins recently released Oracle Berkeley DB 4.8 and Oracle Berkeley DB XML 2.5. All three products are designed for developers, ISVs, OEMs and enterprises to integrate directly into their software applications, devices and equipment to deliver high performance, reliability and availability with virtually no human administration.

Enabling Decreased Downtime, More Scalability and Easy Integration with Third-Party Monitoring Tools

Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition provides an unparalleled pure Java data persistence library that helps dramatically reduce the overhead of object persistence while keeping the flexibility, speed and scalability of object to relational mapping (ORM) solutions. Highlights of release 4.0 include:

High Availability/Replication: Supports automatic system fail over and load balancing of read operations, allowing developers to eliminate single points of failure and decrease downtime. The new capabilities also deliver improved write performance and scalability across multiple systems.

High Availability/Replication provides a single master, multiple replica replication implementation including features such as dynamic group membership, configurable transaction durability and consistency guarantees, automatic fail-over and both synchronous and asynchronous replication.

The High Availability/Replication feature also includes in-depth documentation, examples and Java helper classes to make it easy to use and configure.

Performance Improvements: Enables performance improvements to the existing concurrent execution and group commit functionality, especially important for multi-threaded applications that are committing many transactions concurrently or have high write-intensive operations within specific data sets or “hot spots” in the database.

Ease of Use: New monitoring features make it easier to deploy and monitor the Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition data store in production applications, while API and exception handling improvements make it easier to develop applications.

Improved monitoring capabilities allow users to better understand the internal state and statistics of the Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition database for performance tuning and trouble-shooting.

This release supports the industry-standard Java jconsole utility out-of-the-box, which can be used to view and graph database statistics and easily integrate Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition monitoring with third party monitoring tools.

Additionally, several new features provide enhancements to the existing APIs, and the exception handling system has been restructured to make errors easier to catch, handle and recover from, without requiring changes to existing applications.

Supporting Quotes

"Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 is a major new release with high availability for the first time," said Rex Wang, vice president, Product Marketing, Oracle. "The combination of high availability, high scalability and high performance in a pure Java, embeddable package makes Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition highly differentiated from other alternatives."

“Oracle continues to innovate and enhance the open source Berkeley DB product line. Adding a replication capability in Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0 greatly enhances the product's value proposition, since this kind of feature is used for applications requiring fault tolerance and scalability beyond a single node," said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President at IDC.

What customers are saying about Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition 4.0

Supporting Resources

Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition

Oracle Berkeley DB Product Family

Oracle Berkeley DB Blog

Charles Lamb’s Blog

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Teri Whitaker
Oracle
+1.650.506.9914
teri.whitaker@oracle.com

Meredith Obendorfer|
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5167
mobendorfer@blancandotus.com

Leading Analyst Firm Recognizes Oracle as a Leader in Enterprise Content Management

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Leading Analyst Firm Recognizes Oracle as a Leader in Enterprise Content Management

Redwood Shores, CA – Nov. 4, 2009

News Facts

Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management” positions Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant.

According to Gartner, “Organizations need ECM to manage the increasing growth, volume and diversity of the unstructured content that now represents up to 80% of enterprise information.”

As discussed in the report, “Leaders have the highest combined scores for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They are doing well and are prepared for the future with a clearly articulated vision. In the context of ECM, they have strong channel partners, presence in multiple regions, consistent financial performance, broad platform support and good customer support. In addition, they dominate in one or more technology or vertical market. Leaders deliver a suite that addresses all six core components [document management, document imaging, records management, workflow, Web content management, and document-centric collaboration], though these are not necessarily owned by them, tightly integrated, unique or best-of-breed in each area. We place more emphasis this year on demonstrated enterprise deployments; integration with other business applications and content repositories; incorporation of Web 2.0 and XML capabilities; and vertical process/horizontal solutions focus. Leaders should drive market transformation.”

About Oracle® Enterprise Content Management Suite

A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite is a manageable, usable and hot-pluggable enterprise content management solution on a single platform that includes:

Oracle Universal Content Management - a unified enterprise content management platform that enables organizations to leverage market-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records retention functionality to build and complement their business applications;

Oracle Imaging and Process Management – an integrated imaging system that automates document routing and approvals and enables business applications, such as enterprise resource planning, human capital management and claims processing to automatically access and display imaged content;

Oracle Universal Records Management – a scalable, 5015.2 Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 certified electronic and physical records management solution that enables application of records management policies and practices on content in remote repositories such as file systems, content management systems, and email archives.

Supporting Quote

“Linking unstructured documents and images to business processes is a critical step in the evolution of enterprise content management. Strengthening the ties between content and enterprise applications significantly increases an organization’s ability to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve relationships with customers,” said Andy MacMillan, vice president, Product Management, Oracle. “We believe Gartner’s recognition of Oracle as a Leader in Enterprise Content Management is a reflection of our continued commitment to simplify content management for all users and to integrate content management with business processes that drive organizational success.”

Supporting Resources

The full report, compliments of Oracle, is available here: “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management.”

Oracle Universal Content Management

Oracle Content Management for Enterprise Applications

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Greg Lunsford
Oracle
+1.650.506.6523
greg.lunsford@oracle.com

Simon Jones
Blanc & Otus
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sjones@blancandotus.com

Oracle and E2open Simplify Logistics Connectivity

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:47:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle and E2open Simplify Logistics Connectivity

E2open Logistics Network Now Available as the Connectivity Solution for Oracle® Transportation Management

Redwood Shores and Foster City, Calif., Nov. 2, 2009

News Facts

Oracle and E2open announced today that E2open Logistics Network (ELN) is now available as an integrated connectivity solution for Oracle® Transportation Management, which simplifies the effort of establishing electronic integration between shippers, transportation carriers, and logistics service providers.

Electronic connectivity enables the advantages of timely and accurate information, lower transaction costs, and unlimited scalability. However, traditional approaches to implementing and maintaining integrations can be expensive and time consuming due to the myriad of technologies and formats, and the global nature of today’s transportation and logistics.

As a business process network specifically designed for global transportation and logistics processes, ELN offers several unique capabilities, including pre-built integrations with Oracle Transportation Management, a network of existing (reusable) connections to logistics-related trading partners, support for nearly all trading partner integration methods, and advanced self-service Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) tools.

ELN offers a fast and cost-effective integration approach because it does not require any additional customer investment beyond Oracle Transportation Management and ELN and it allows trading partners to use their preexisting integration technologies. Alternatively, if a trading partner does not have a preexisting integration capability, ELN provides one at no extra cost. In addition, the reuse of ELN’s existing connections and standard maps, as well as its self-service IaaS tools, significantly reduce on-boarding work, enabling trading partners to be integrated in as little as one to three weeks.

ELN’s IaaS model provides a simple and predictable cost model with annual fixed-price fees ranging between $2,000 and $3,500 per connection—depending on the total number of connections—and a one-time fixed-price on-boarding fee of $1,000 per connection. Prices are not dependent on transaction volume. For many companies, ELN offers a significantly lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional integration approaches.

ELN is available now to Oracle Transportation Management customers.

E2open is a Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

Supporting Quotes

“Transportation processes are inherently network-centric, involving the exchange of information between many external parties, including carriers, suppliers, customers, and logistics service providers,” said Adrian Gonzalez, Director of Logistics Viewpoints at ARC Advisory Group. “Establishing and maintaining connectivity with a dynamic set of trading partners is an integral component of a transportation management system, but when evaluating solutions, many companies fail to consider the time, cost, and resources required to enable and manage a connectivity network. By delivering a transportation trading partner network via ELN, Oracle and E2open are enabling customers to eliminate a major obstacle to gaining the benefits quickly from a transportation management system.”

“Customers have been asking us for a simplified way to establish electronic connectivity between Oracle Transportation Management and their transportation trading partners,” said Derek Gittoes, Vice President, Logistics Product Strategy for Oracle. “By combining leading connectivity and transportation management capabilities, ELN gives Oracle Transportation Management customers a compelling alternative to help reduce their integration timeframes and costs.”

“We are excited to team with Oracle to dramatically simplify connectivity for Oracle Transportation Management customers compared to traditional approaches,” said Mark Woodward, CEO of E2open. “Our business process-centric approach, combined with our SaaS-based delivery of integration capabilities, reduces the time and cost necessary to achieve the benefits of automating logistics-related processes.”

Supporting Resources

E2open Logistics Network (ELN)

Oracle Transportation Management

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About E2open, Inc.

E2open is the leading provider of integrated demand-supply network solutions designed to improve visibility, collaboration, and control across multiple tiers of trading partners. E2open delivers a complete, SaaS-based solution including software, deployment, operations, and partner community management that easily connects to systems of record such as ERPs, TMSs, and supply chain planning applications. E2open drives major improvements across all key demand and supply network performance metrics, resulting in significant cost savings and customer service improvements. Customers span a range of industries and include The Boeing Company, Celestica, Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, LSI Corporation, Panasonic, Philips, Motorola, Seagate Technology, Spansion, Vodafone, and Wistron.

Further information can be found at www.e2open.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Jessica Moore
Oracle
+1.650.506.8741
jessica.moore@oracle.com

Margaret Hoerster
Ruder Finn for E2open, Inc.
+1.312.329.3909
hoersterm@ruderfinn.com

Oracle Announces Oracle iReceipts® App Now Available from App Store

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Oracle iReceipts® App Now Available from App Store

Oracle iReceipts App for iPhone and iPod touch Integrates with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses to Conveniently Manage Expenses Anytime, Anywhere

Redwood Shores, CA - November 2, 2009

News Facts

To help users automate expense reporting for cash transactions, Oracle has introduced the Oracle iReceipts® App and integrated it with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses.

Oracle iReceipts allows employees to capture cash transactions on the iPhone and iPod touch as they occur, then easily submit these transactions to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses.

Oracle iReceipts allows users to capture receipt images with the iPhone Camera rather than having to deal with several paper receipts. The images are then processed as normal within the PeopleSoft Expenses solution. The app can also automatically tag transactions with a user’s location using location based features.

This solution will be available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/ for Oracle customers currently running Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses Release 9.0 and the soon to be released version 9.1.

Key Benefits

With the Oracle iReceipts App users can leverage the innovative Multi Touch user interface of the iPhone and iPod touch to:

Conveniently manage cash transactions anytime, anywhere.

Increase user productivity by pre-populating expense line items with user defined preferences.

Promptly submit cash receipt line items through seamless integration to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses.

Receive real-time status updates of submitted cash transaction line items to iPhone or iPod touch.

Supporting Quotes

“The concept of using mobile technology would increase efficiency around expense automation. In theory you could see fewer lost receipts and more timely filing of expense reports,” said John E. Van Decker, Research Vice President, Gartner. “A solution that helps keep employees organized on the road could lead to greater productivity.”

"Oracle iReceipts is an exciting app. Leveraging the revolutionary iPhone to simplify the whole process of reporting expenses will increase employee's productivity and data accuracy,” said Susan Davies, chief operating officer, Ataway. “We are delighted to see that Oracle is leading the charge on automation of expense reporting. We strongly believe that our customers will see huge benefits to implementing this app."

“I was impressed with how easy it was to create an expense item and photograph the receipt without having ever seen the application or used an iPhone,” said Dorann Mullins, lead, applications systems analyst, University of Central Florida. “It is a very quick and simple way to take care of expense items as they occur!“

“Oracle iReceipts takes mobile expenses to the next level, no more pen and paper on the road to keep track of cash spending. The app has great usability, look and feel and has very nice features to simplify the user data entry,” said Suresh Ghanta, PSCIT - Global Applications Delivery, Perot Systems. “I love the fact that this can be used along with the wallet functionality without any major reimplementation. “

“For organizations that have employees who travel frequently or work remotely, it can be extremely time-consuming to scan receipts for cash transactions and email or copy and mail them to a central accounts payable office as a part of expense reporting. And, it can be even more time consuming for the accounts payable staff to manually enter those receipts into an ERP system,” said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft. “The Oracle iReceipts App allows Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses users to scan receipts and populate cash transactions from their iPhone or iPod touch while they’re on-the-go, increasing productivity and improving accuracy.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle iReceipts

Datasheet: Oracle iReceipts

Podcast: Oracle iReceipts

Oracle Financials Product Marketing Blog

Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Expenses

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND MAY NOT BE INCORPORATED INTO A CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT.

Contact Info

Danielle Cormier
Oracle
+1.610.766.3463
danielle.cormier@oracle.com

Simon Jones
Blanc & Otus
+1.415.856.5155
sjones@blancandotus.com

SPS Commerce Delivers Supply Chain Intelligence to Retailers and Suppliers with Oracle® Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UTC

Oracle Press Release

SPS Commerce Delivers Supply Chain Intelligence to Retailers and Suppliers with Oracle® Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition

Software-as-a-Service Provider Enables Greater Collaboration Amongst Buyers and Suppliers by Delivering Visibility across the Supply Chain

Redwood Shores, CA - November 2, 2009

News Facts

SPS Commerce, the leader in multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) supply chain integration, providing connectivity, visibility and intelligence to thousands of trading partners around the globe, uses Oracle® Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI Suite EE) to deliver the SPS Trading Partner Intelligence service, Oracle announced today.

The SPS Trading Partner Intelligence service is a 100 percent web-based, multi-tenant business intelligence application which offers fact-based information to its 37,000 customers to help them optimize their retail supply chains.

Intelligent SaaS Service for Retail Trading Partners

Minneapolis, Minn.-based SPS Commerce offers supply chain services to trading partners in the retail ecosystem, including retailers, distributors, suppliers, 3PLs, transportation companies and others, replacing manual fulfillment processes with automated and integrated operations, including full integration support for Oracle ERP applications.

SPS Commerce’s SaaS platform supports a complete set of transactions exchanged between tens of thousands of trading partners daily. In late 2008, SPS Commerce formally released Trading Partner Intelligence powered by Oracle BI Suite EE to offer customers unmatched insight and visibility into key supply chain performance metrics that were previously very difficult to attain.

SPS Commerce developed a number of Trading Partner Intelligence modules designed specifically for retailers, suppliers, logistics providers and carriers to improve their decision making processes, including:

Helping suppliers gain a better understanding of product sell-through with interactive analysis of point-of-sale data from retail customers.

Proactively identifying in-store issues, such as out-of-stock and surplus inventory situations while improving forecast accuracy and optimizing inventory levels.

Understanding supply chain bottlenecks for suppliers and logistics firms with interactive analysis of fulfillment issues such as late or incomplete shipments.

Providing retailers with visibility into detailed vendor performance and compliance analyses, as well as enabling vendor collaboration to identify continuous performance improvements.

SPS completed the implementation on time and within budget, providing the scalability needed to deploy the platform to customers quickly. To date, more than a dozen customers are taking advantage of SPS Commerce’s BI offerings. SPS Commerce anticipates that a quarter of its customer base will adopt its intelligence service by 2012.

In addition to serving as the BI platform for its customers, Oracle BI Suite EE is used internally by SPS Commerce to monitor its transaction performance, segment market data, and analyze billing data—helping it run its business more efficiently.

SPS Commerce runs its SaaS B2B integration service on the Oracle Platform for SaaS, based on a grid computing foundation including Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Supporting Quote

“As the market leader, our customers expect world-class supply chain integration service from SPS Commerce. With Trading Partner Intelligence, we have elevated the value of our services to a new level, providing insight and visibility that changes the way they interact with their trading partners, driving new sales, and improving customer service, while minimizing costly stock-out and overstock situations,” said David Novak, Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development for SPS Commerce. “The scalability of Oracle Business Intelligence has allowed us to deliver world-class SaaS BI applications in line with our integration services. We expect that within three years, over 25 percent of our 37,000 customers will subscribe to our Trading Partner Intelligence service powered by Oracle BI Suite EE.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Oracle BI Brochures and Data Sheets

Oracle Platform for SaaS

Download free, evaluation versions of Oracle BI software. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

About SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is the leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) B2B integration, connecting every partner in the supply chain. Retailers, manufacturers and 3PLs have selected SPS Commerce as their outsourced provider to automate and integrate their trading relationships. Using the SaaS model, SPS Commerce dramatically lowers setup and on-going costs, along with the time and risks of traditional EDI software by outsourcing the entire B2B communication process. The company’s offerings leverage its multi-tenant architecture, multi-party sharing, and comprehensive knowledge of thousands of retailer’s business processes and specifications and integration expertise with a variety of systems for accounting, ERP, packing and shipping, and WMS. SPS Commerce is the recognized SaaS leader in B2B integration with 37,000 customers, pre-built integrations spanning 2,700 unique fulfillment workflows across 1,300 retailers, grocers and distributors, a customer satisfaction rate of 93% and the most comprehensive SaaS product suite available. SPS Commerce is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

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

Kristin Reeves
Blanc & Otus for Oracle
+1.415.856.5145
kreeves@bando.com