Oracle’s New Ethernet Switches and Virtual Network Services Target Software-Defined Data Centers and Cloud

High performance, low cost networking fabric engineered for the Oracle stack enables customers to deploy network services on-demand

Barcelona, Spain – Mobile World Congress (Hall 3, Stand 3B20) – March 2, 2015 – Oracle addressed two major networking requirements for cloud-enabled data centers today with new high performance, low cost 10Gb/40Gb Ethernet switches and the addition of virtual network services to Oracle SDN. Engineered and integrated to enhance the Oracle stack, the new networking technologies provide the flexibility and scalability for both enterprise data centers and network function virtualization infrastructure.

“Cloud-enabled data centers are only as fast or as agile as their networking allows, which makes the convergence of software-defined networking and network services a next logical step in the evolution of the software-defined data center,” said Raju Penumatcha, senior vice president, Netra Systems and Networking, Oracle. “Oracle’s new Ethernet switches and virtual network services in Oracle SDN help clear the way for enterprises to deploy key network services faster and gain high performance at the lowest cost.”

Oracle Ethernet Switch ES2-72 and Oracle Ethernet Switch ES2-64 are designed to harness the full capabilities of Oracle engineered systems, servers and storage with extremely low-latency and massive scalability for all Oracle applications including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), as well as financial and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

These high density, low cost Ethernet switches help collapse existing multi-tiered network topologies, simplifying IT infrastructure and reducing costs with fewer cables and simplified management. When deployed with Oracle systems, the new switches can further reduce cost through reuse of existing cabling infrastructure and unified management. The switches are used in Oracle’s Netra Modular System and are also available independently.

“The transition to software-defined data centers has created new networking requirements where high speed and low latency are must-haves for most applications,” said David Krozier, principal analyst at Ovum. “Oracle’s new ES2-64 and ES2-72 Ethernet switches ably address these requirements with impressive performance at what Oracle claims is a very competitive price. Combine these switches with the new virtual network services in Oracle SDN, and unified management across the entire Oracle systems portfolio, and customers now have a compelling new fabric option for building flexible, scalable and agile infrastructure for cloud deployments.”

Oracle SDN Unifies InfiniBand and Ethernet Fabrics with New Virtual Network Services

Oracle also added new virtual network services to Oracle SDN, virtually eliminating the need for purpose-built network appliances which lack the scalability and flexibility needed in today’s data centers. The new services allow customers to deploy security, load balancing and routing on-demand in a single virtual instance with the ability to configure and manage them in a single pane using Oracle Fabric Manager.

Oracle SDN dynamically connects any virtual machine to any resource and allows for quick deployment of multi-tenant environments via a private virtual interconnect, which delivers up to 80 Gb/sec server-to-server bandwidth to radically accelerate application performance. A single fabric connects up to 1,000 servers and 16,000 private virtual interconnects. With its new virtual network services capabilities, Oracle SDN now extends across the data center and is uniquely able to unify InfiniBand and Ethernet fabrics, allowing end-to-end provisioning of network infrastructure from a single management interface.

Oracle SDN supports both SPARC and x86 servers as well as the new Netra Modular System. Oracle SDN also powers engineered systems like Oracle’s Virtual Compute Appliance.

“Oracle SDN has simplified and accelerated our data center infrastructure and allowed us the flexibility to support our customers and our growing business needs,” said Shlome Seidenfeld, CIO and senior vice president, E-Commerce, B&H Photo Video. “Oracle’s high speed, low-latency fabric has given us the performance and agility we needed to accommodate a multi-fold jump in customer traffic to our e-commerce business. We are very excited to see the unveiling of virtual network services as part of the Oracle SDN portfolio.”

Oracle Executive Vice President John Fowler will host a webcast at 9 a.m. Pacific today to discuss Oracle networking and today’s news in more detail. The networking technologies announced today are also on display at Mobile World Congress in Hall 3, Stand 3B20.

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Oracle’s Netra Modular System Brings Converged Infrastructure to the Communications Industry

New integrated platform helps customers bring services to market faster, lower operational risks, and improve business agility

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 27, 2015 – Oracle brought its converged infrastructure strategy to the communications industry today with the Netra Modular System, the first integrated platform to merge traditional blade and rackmount architectures, networking and storage to support network function virtualization (NFV).

NFV uses traditional IT and server virtualization techniques to implement network functions as software that can run on industry-standard servers. With the Netra Modular System, NFV can help reduce capital and operational expenditures and accelerate product and service introduction.

“Reducing costs, maximizing constrained resources, getting services to market faster— the business and IT challenges facing service providers, network equipment providers, and others in the communications industry remain ever-present,” said Raju Penumatcha, senior vice president, Netra Systems and Networking, Oracle. “Netra Modular System capitalizes on Oracle’s ability to engineer hardware and software together to deliver NFV infrastructure with Oracle’s latest servers, software and networking all managed, supported, and upgradable as an integrated platform.”

Netra Modular System is a quick-to-deploy, pre-integrated platform that can help customers accelerate application and service development, reduce risk and lower maintenance costs. It supports Oracle Server X5-2 and Oracle’s new Netra Server X5-2, allowing customers to choose either industry-standard or carrier-grade rackmount servers designed for high-performance communication workloads and cloud infrastructure deployments. Netra Server X5-2 offers 2x the number of cores, 1.5x more memory and 2x the storage capacity compared to the previous generation. SPARC platform support is also planned for 2016, which is slated to make the Netra Modular System a multi-instruction set architecture and multi-operating system platform.

“Dialogic has used Oracle’s Netra systems for many years in successfully delivering Dialogic’s ControlSwitch™ System – an unmatched Class 4 softswitch and IMS MGCF - to top service providers worldwide,” said Jim Machi, senior vice president of product management and marketing at Dialogic. “Whether they are deploying NGN or VoLTE networks, today’s service providers demand an ever-increasing level of performance, expandability, reliability and serviceability in telecoms infrastructure platforms. We look forward to delivering even higher performing solutions to our customers with Oracle’s new Netra systems. Dialogic and its customers value Oracle’s high quality and highly reliable Netra products.”

“As communications service providers seek infrastructure to support NFV, Oracle’s Netra Modular System offers a new architecture that incorporates the best of bladed systems and independent rackmount servers in a single platform,” said David Krozier, principal analyst at Ovum. “This new infrastructure platform should be particularly attractive to communications customers who want to virtualize their compute, network and storage infrastructure based on high volume general market products, but still need to support five 9's or greater availability. The Netra Modular System’s ability to interface with OpenStack and utilize Oracle SDN and virtual network services makes it a compelling solution for NFV.”

While ideal for NFV infrastructure, Netra Modular System can also be used in virtually any industry where customers want an integrated, virtualized platform with the benefits of a blade architecture. Netra Modular System supports Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and Oracle VM, as well as OpenStack and the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI), giving customers a choice of operating systems as well as the ability to create cloud-based services and provide nearly continuous service availability. For added flexibility, other Linux distributions and hypervisors can be used.

Oracle’s Netra systems will be on display next week at Mobile World Congress in Hall 3, Stand 3B20.

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MySQL Cluster 7.4 Now Generally Available

New release demonstrates up to 200 million reads per second and enhanced high availability for online transaction processing

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 26, 2015 – Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.4. The new release delivers greater performance, high availability, and advanced management capabilities to power highly demanding telecommunications, web, mobile, and cloud services.

“With digital proliferation generating more data than ever before, businesses need online transaction processing to be as efficient and performant as possible,” said Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL engineering, Oracle. “With no single point of failure, MySQL Cluster 7.4 provides high performance to a wide range of application requirements for a user base that spans administrators of major telecommunications subscriber databases to providers of next-generation web, cloud, social, and mobile applications. The new release is a significant update that not only improves overall performance but eases the management efforts for database administrators and DevOps teams.”

MySQL Cluster is an open source, ACID-compliant transactional database designed to deliver real-time in-memory performance and 99.999 percent availability. It powers the subscriber databases of major communications service providers and is used in global fraud detection for financial transactions. The latest 7.4 release builds upon a series of development milestone releases that have enabled users to preview, test, and provide feedback during the development process. Enhancements include:

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PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Deploys Innovative New Services Using Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform

Modernized platform will enable the communications service provider to more quickly and cost-effectively develop and deploy new mobile and network services for its customers

News Summary

To help increase telecommunications service innovation while growing revenue and reducing costs, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has upgraded its service delivery platform (SDP) by implementing new releases of the Oracle Communications Service Delivery Platform product family. The improved platform will help the communications service provider (CSP) dramatically reduce the cost and time it takes to develop new mobile, broadband, and network applications and take its innovations to market.

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Oracle Validated Integration Partners Offer Healthcare Organizations Fast Time to Value

Innovative, prebuilt offerings available for Oracle enterprise healthcare analytics solutions

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 25, 2015 - Healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum. Oracle today announced it has expanded its Oracle Validated Integration program to include the Oracle Healthcare platform, starting with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics. This expansion of the Oracle Validated Integration program will help healthcare organizations identify innovative healthcare analytic applications more quickly and subsequently deploy these partner solutions with less risk so they can focus on their core objective—improving patient care.

Oracle Validated Integration, available through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), provides partners with a path for building and promoting repeatable integrations with solutions that complement and extend Oracle Applications. Healthcare organizations will be able to use preintegrated partner solutions with Oracle Health Sciences Enterprise Healthcare Analytics to help reduce deployment risk, accelerate time to value for critical decision making, and drive operational and financial improvements with exceptional patient outcomes and experience. Using Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics, a leading healthcare enterprise-class data management platform, healthcare providers can enhance data transparency and obtain insights that allow them to improve patient safety, care quality, cost efficiency, and overall enterprise performance.

“Partners achieving Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Healthcare can help healthcare organizations deploy critical healthcare analytics solutions more quickly and with less risk—ultimately accelerating programs that improve organizational efficiency and enhance patient care,” said Steve Rosenberg, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences.

Oracle PartnerNetwork members Edgewater Ranzal, Grant Thornton, MedeAnalytics, and Perficient are among the initial partners participating in Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics. Perficient, Grant Thornton, and Edgewater Ranzal are delivering advanced healthcare cost accounting solutions preintegrated with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics. MedeAnalytics is delivering its Revenue Cycle solution with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics.

“Perficient is excited to be a plank owner in the Oracle Hyperion and Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics integration effort. Our High-Performance Costing Expressway is the intersection of cost and quality of patient care,” said Emil Fernandez, vice president, Oracle National Business Unit, Perficient.

“Faced with new payment models and increased competition in the marketplace, large and small healthcare providers benefit from detailed insight into the costs associated with the care they deliver,” said Carl Yost, principal, Grant Thornton. “Grant Thornton’s Healthcare Costing Informatics (RxCI) solution, preintegrated with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics, allows healthcare providers to achieve actionable analytics quickly and in alignment with industry best practices. That insight allows them to make informed decisions that can increase their quality of care and positively impact operating results.”

“Edgewater Ranzal has chosen to preintegrate our Ranzal Healthcare Analytics (RHA) Costing solution with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics to provide healthcare providers advanced patient analytics,” said Mark Hite, healthcare practice director, Edgewater Ranzal. “The solution delivers the information necessary to support advanced costing down to the encounter level, including detailed attribution.”

“The combined solution of with Mede/Revenue Cycle provides customers with a single, integrated view of their organization’s financial data—enabling increased cash collections, reduction in bad debt, enhanced productivity, and actionable insight on enterprise business strategy,” said Melissa Ross, vice president of business development, MedeAnalytics.

With these preintegrated offerings, healthcare organizations can quickly deploy and derive value from a broad set of analytics applications that can help extend the Oracle Healthcare platform.

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Oracle Validated Integration, available through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), gives customers confidence that the integration of complementary partner software products with Oracle Applications and specific Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions have been validated, and the products work together as designed. This can help customers reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles, and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance. Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review partner integrations. Partners who have successfully completed the program are authorized to use the Oracle Validated Integration logo. For more information, please visit Oracle.com at oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html.

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Oracle Big Data Discovery offers tremendous speed at massive scale, streamlining Big Data analytics to unlock new value for everyone.

Oracle today unveiled new big data solutions that simplify information access and discovery, enabling customers to quickly turn data into business value. New offerings include Oracle Big Data Discovery, Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, Oracle Big Data SQL 1.1 and Oracle NoSQL Database 3.2.5. These additions further Oracle's vision to enable Hadoop, NoSQL, and SQL technologies to work together and be deployed securely in any model—whether public cloud, private cloud or an on-premises infrastructure.

Generating value from big data requires the right tools to move and store data to effectively discover new insights. In order to operationalize those insights, new data must integrate securely with existing data, infrastructure, applications and processes. These Oracle solutions work seamlessly together to help companies exploit enterprise big data faster, at lower cost, and with less risk. They allow customers to securely reach across Hadoop, NoSQL and relational databases to easily and cost-effectively analyze massive and diverse data sets.

"One type of technology will no longer suffice in supporting all the analytics use cases. At the same time, data management and analysis as a series of unrelated projects results in an unmanageable IT quagmire and unnecessary risks," said Dan Vesset, vice president of Business Analytics Research, IDC. "IDC predicts that by 2017 unified data platform architecture will become the foundation of enterprise-wide big data and analytics strategy. The unification will occur across information management, analysis and search technology."

Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data offers an extensible solution to support all major big data systems.

"Data is a new kind of capital and enterprises must invest their data capital strategically to create the best return," said Neil Mendelson, vice president of big data at Oracle. "Oracle gives customers an integrated platform that helps simplify access to all their data, discover new insights, predict outcomes in real time, and keep all their data governed and secure."

Oracle's new big data offerings are also designed to run seamlessly on the recently announced Oracle Big Data Appliance X5 and Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5. Together, these solutions deliver a complete, cost-effective platform to accessing, discovering, governing and securing big data.

Today's new big data innovations include:

• Oracle Big Data Discovery, the "visual face of Hadoop" and an end-to-end product for finding, exploring, transforming, discovering and sharing big data insights. Big data assets become more accessible to a greater number of business analysts across the organization and help reduce risks and improve time to value for big data projects.
• Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, a Hadoop-based technology that allows customers to stream real-time data from heterogeneous transactional systems into big data systems, including targets such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache HBase and Apache Flume. It allows customers to enhance big data analytics initiatives by incorporating existing real-time architectures into big data solutions, while ensuring their big data reservoirs are up to date with production systems.
• Oracle Big Data SQL 1.1, a technology that extends Oracle SQL to Hadoop and NoSQL, with all the security of the Oracle Database. It enables a single fast query, written in Oracle SQL, to transparently access data in Hadoop, NoSQL and Oracle Database. Oracle Big Data SQL 1.1 provides tighter integration between Hadoop and Oracle Database, while increasing query performance by up to 40 percent from previous versions.
• Oracle NoSQL Database 3.2.5, an adaptable solution that allows developers to build high performance, next generation applications. The latest release provides predictable low latency, a RESTful API, and a Thrift-based C API, and is integrated with the Oracle Big Data platform. Building on Oracle Big Data SQL, Oracle NoSQL Database 3.2.5 also supports data definition language (DDL), making it even easier to use SQL to query NoSQL data.

Oracle Big Data Discovery Now Generally Available

Oracle Big Data Discovery leverages the power of Hadoop so that users can quickly and easily turn raw data into actionable business insight with a single product.

• Find and explore big data as easily as shopping online: Oracle Big Data Discovery provides a compelling visual interface for finding and exploring raw data in Hadoop. It acts as a scratch pad for uncovering statistical correlations between data attributes and combinations to evaluate whether a data set has potential and is worthy of further investigation and resources. Users browse an interactive visual data catalog through familiar guided navigation and powerful search capabilities.
• Transform and enrich data at scale: Raw data in Hadoop needs preparation before it's ready for analytics. Oracle Big Data Discovery reduces lengthy prep cycles and streamlines data wrangling through an intuitive and spreadsheet-like experience. Users can enhance data visually, without switching tools or writing code so that more time can be spent on analytics.
• Discover and share to find new value: Discovery and analysis require different tools than those used for data preparation. Oracle Big Data Discovery enables users to seamlessly move from preparation to analysis, and share insights with a click. Users can collaborate on results, publish original data sets back to Hadoop, and leverage results in other tools such as Pig, Hive, and Python.
• Unlock big data access for a wider group: Big data is usually in the hands of a few data scientists who are highly skilled, expensive and hard to find. Oracle Big Data Discovery makes big data simpler to manage and more accessible to a larger group, including analytics teams and business users. It also integrates with existing big data tools, making it easy for organizations to expand their big data teams to get the most from their human capital and data assets.

Oracle Launches Oracle Hospitality

Dedicated global business unit offers customers unparalleled expertise, scale, and innovation focused exclusively on the hospitality industry

News Summary

Oracle, building on the strong foundation MICROS established serving the hotel and food and beverage industries, has launched Oracle Hospitality Global Business Unit to accelerate development of innovative cloud, mobile, and guest experience technology. With hundreds of thousands of systems already deployed in hotels, restaurants, cruise operations, and other venues on all seven continents, Oracle Hospitality extends MICROS’ commitment to providing fast, reliable service and solutions to customers both large and small.

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New Oracle and Forbes Insights Study Shows Companies Moving Toward Modern Customer Service

Investments grow despite organizational barriers to adopting modern customer service strategy and best practices

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 18, 2015 – Oracle today announced the results of a Forbes Insights study that examined the adoption of modern customer service best practices. Commissioned by Oracle, the study “Modern Customer Service: Are You Outpacing Your Executive Peers?” surveyed 415 customer service executives, from organizations representing 10 different industries. The study shows that while companies are investing in new technologies to realize the business benefits of modern customer service best practices, the majority of organizations (62 percent) still fail to grasp the full importance and impact customer service can have when it is an organization-wide strategic goal.

And although 88 percent of respondents believe they are making significant progress delivering modern customer service, the study identified a number of barriers that are preventing companies from leveraging customer service as a true organizational strategy, including limited definitions of customer service, poor knowledge management and customer visibility, and a reliance on traditional channels and metrics.

Despite the barriers to adopting customer service as an organizational strategy, companies are realizing the importance of investing in modern customer service technologies to deliver the best customer experiences when, where, and how customers want it. Popular areas slated for investment in 2015 include additional online customer service capabilities (55 percent), self-service technology (47 percent), mobile apps (52 percent), social media (43 percent) and knowledge management systems (51 percent).

“Consumers today are engaged and empowered like never before and want to get answers to their questions anytime, anywhere, and on any device,” said David Vap, group vice president, Oracle Applications. “The jump from good to excellent customer service is a fairly big one and involves consistent, personalized customer service in every interaction, across every channel. But it can have a huge business impact by helping organizations increase sales, strengthen relationships, and reduce costs.”

“Brands realize that customer service is a great opportunity, especially in this omni-channel environment, to begin a dialogue with consumers and to engage and interact with them in creative ways” said Frank Pettinato, senior vice president and general manager of Consumer Connexions, Telerx. “In the world of social media, we see two-way communication and, candidly, millennials are expecting that.”

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“Customer service is paramount to our organization because we are a monthly recurring revenue business,” said Denise Connors, vice president customer service, at Trupanion. “We know that to be successful we have to retain our customers. Our whole approach is around having a highly engaged customer base and keeping them happy.”

Oracle and Forbes Insights defined “modern customer service” as going beyond standardizing services across channels to achieve personalized customer engagement at every touchpoint.

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Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution Helps Communications Service Providers Accelerate and Optimize Service Deployments in Virtualized Network Environments

New solution supports service providers in their evolution toward network function virtualization with flexible hybrid network management and elastic scalability

Oracle today introduced the new Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution, which is designed to enable communications service providers (CSPs) to more quickly create new network services to respond to market demand. The solution can also help CSPs reduce service development and management costs as they introduce virtualized network capabilities—the beginning of a transformation to network function virtualization (NFV) that will simplify their networks and minimize dependence on expensive, inflexible proprietary hardware.

The solution is part of the Oracle Communications intelligent orchestration framework, a holistic approach that guides CSPs as they adopt NFV technology and helps them to maximize its benefits. Specifically, the framework gathers and analyzes network performance information, evaluates the network’s operation against predefined policies and business rules, and can trigger the appropriate action to automatically modify the behavior of services, network functions, and virtualized infrastructure.

“While network virtualization promises to streamline operations in the long run, the short-term effect actually may be an increase in complexity when configuring and managing hybrid networks. This will require sophisticated orchestration of network services, network functions, and underlying infrastructure enriched by analytics and triggered by policy rules. Such a holistic approach to orchestration, like the one outlined by Oracle, is critical for CSPs to deliver the anticipated business benefits from their NFV investments,” said Dimitris Mavrakis, principal analyst, Ovum.

Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution gives CSPs the ability to rapidly deploy and scale network services on demand across multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) in complex virtualized and hybrid network environments. CSPs can use this solution to:

“CSPs are taking the first steps toward network virtualization—something they know they must do to compete for the long-term. This is a journey, not just a moment in time, which is why we have outlined an end-to-end intelligent orchestration framework. Our approach will provide CSPs with the business and service agility required to make progress toward full NFV. With our new Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution, we are continuing to deliver on our vision for NFV,” said Barry Hill, global head of NFV, Oracle Communications.

“NFV is complex, and CSPs have made it clear that to be successful, they need comprehensive orchestration. The new Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration solution is a direct response to this need. It allows for dynamic network operation, enabling the transformation of the business—not just the network. With these developments and an expanding portfolio of virtualized network functions, endorsement of Open Stack, leading OSS solutions, and strong IT heritage, Oracle Communications is enabling service providers to fully embrace the NFV opportunity,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products, Oracle Communications.

Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution fulfills and extends the role of the NFV Orchestrator as defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV Industry Standards Group, the primary standards body guiding NFV development. Because it has a semantic understanding of each network service, the Oracle Communications solution can calculate and apply configuration changes, including updates to the network topology or service context data—critical for orchestrating network services through their full lifecycle.

Oracle will showcase this solution as part of the “Intelligent NFV Management and Orchestration Solution” demonstration in Hall 3, Stand 3B20 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, March 2 – 5, 2015.

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Latest Release of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Delivers Enhanced Functionality and Greater Agility in Decision-Making

Key updates extend Oracle’s industry-leading EPM applications suite to help organizations improve and streamline business processes

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 6, 2015 – Continuing to provide industry-leading solutions that help customers unlock business potential and streamline performance management processes, Oracle today announced Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Release 11.1.2.4. This new release incorporates key updates to the entire portfolio of EPM applications that enable organizations to engineer predictable performance, connect the enterprise, and further improve decision-making.

Timely, accurate financial consolidation and reporting is at the heart of ensuring external stakeholder confidence and empowering internal stakeholders to run the business profitably. Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.4 includes a major update to Oracle Hyperion Financial Management that delivers significant performance improvements as well as simplicity of deployment and administration. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management is now also available on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. With this addition, the entire Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Suite is available on Oracle Exalytics, offering simplified deployment, reduced total cost of ownership, and improved performance through a responsive close process with reduced errors. The release also includes new modules for supplemental data management and tax governance to give finance departments the ability to automate and streamline the end-to-end financial close process.

“With Oracle Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.2.4 we saw dramatic improvements in financial consolidation times. Executing a consolidation on our main organizational structure went from three hours to 15 minutes,” said Diane Ferry, administrator at Emerson for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management. “As we have many alternate organizational structures, the savings in consolidation times will allow us to have the application ready for our users more quickly. It will also allow our users to more quickly analyze their results.”

The new Oracle EPM System enables the extension of best-in-class planning processes beyond finance to operational lines of business, resulting in broader involvement and alignment across the enterprise. Greater participation leads to improved collaboration and higher predictability in performance.

“As organizations become increasingly connected, the need for responsive planning and accurate reporting has expanded to a growing number of users beyond finance,” said Hari Sankar, group vice president of product management, Oracle. “The new release of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management applications is a significant step forward in our vision of helping our customers use best-in-class capabilities to plan and report with more certainty and flexibility across a wider base of users, improving their agility and business performance.”

Oracle EPM System release 11.1.2.4 is available now for existing and new customers. Businesses can choose among flexible deployment options including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid models for the solution that best fits their needs.

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Oracle Linux Now Hosted on the Docker Hub Registry

Enterprise-grade operating system joins the most popular open source database for easy access by the Docker community

News Summary

Oracle Linux images are now available on the Docker Hub Registry, a repository for Docker-based components, including applications and operating systems (OSs). Oracle Linux joins MySQL, which is already extremely popular on Docker Hub and has been downloaded millions of times. Additionally, Oracle plans to provide a new Oracle-maintained MySQL image for the official repos on Docker Hub in late February further enabling developers to rapidly benefit from the latest MySQL innovations.

Applications using the Docker open platform for distributed applications can be rapidly developed and deployed. They are portable across clouds and on-premises to help businesses innovate faster. With Oracle Linux and MySQL available on the Docker Hub Registry, Docker users will be able to easily build their applications with the certainty that comes from deploying on enterprise-grade products as they leverage a more streamlined and container-based approach to distributed application deployment. Additionally, developers can use the Docker tools directly without having to separately download OS images and manually import them into their own repository, saving time and reducing complexity.

“Docker users can take full advantage of the open source nature of Oracle Linux and MySQL to build their products,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. “With Oracle Linux and MySQL images available on the Docker Hub Registry, users will be able to quickly create and publish custom Docker containers that layer applications on top of Oracle Linux and MySQL, which is a great time-saver for both independent software vendors and IT departments.”

“Providing Oracle Linux and MySQL via the Docker Hub Registry gives the Docker community direct access to an enterprise Linux distribution and to a widely popular open source database directly from Oracle,” said Nick Stinemates, Head of Business Development and Technical Alliances, Docker, Inc. “We look forward to continuing our strong collaboration with Oracle and enhancing the offerings for the Docker community.”

As an enterprise-grade, commercially supported Linux distribution available on the Docker Hub Registry, Oracle Linux features:

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Oracle Announces Oracle Marketing Cloud’s New Life Sciences Consumer and Patient Solution

Oracle Marketing Cloud solution helps marketers in life sciences field improve consumer and patient marketing effectiveness while addressing compliance concerns

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 5, 2015 – To help life sciences organizations overcome marketing challenges and implement modern marketing technology that enhances customer and patient engagement, Oracle has unveiled Oracle Marketing Cloud's new life sciences consumer and patient solution.

The cost and complexity of HIPAA legislation compliance has had a significant impact on the adoption of modern marketing practices within life sciences organizations. Not only can this have a negative impact on the customer experience that life sciences organizations can provide, but as a recent Oracle and Forrester study found, it also can impact overall business performance.

The latest addition to Oracle Marketing Cloud helps marketers in life sciences organizations increase marketing efficiency and drive revenue by supporting the design and delivery of personalized communications across all channels. This new offering is a secure and scalable solution designed to give marketers in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries the ability to develop highly targeted and personalized marketing campaigns while adhering to strict HIPAA requirements.

“In today’s complex and hyper-connected world, marketers must go beyond traditional single-channel marketing approaches to address each industry’s set of unique marketing challenges,” said John Stetic, group vice president, Products, Oracle Marketing Cloud. “We’ve leveraged our deep knowledge of the life sciences industry to develop a multichannel marketing solution that helps life sciences marketers reduce compliance complexity while creating meaningful and effective customer and patient engagements.”

To help life sciences marketers address compliance concerns, the new solution seamlessly integrates workflow and approvals processes with advanced encryption to protect sensitive information. It also captures audit trails of all customer communication in line with HIPAA guidelines.

To reduce complexity and help organizations achieve rapid time to value, Oracle Marketing Cloud’s new life sciences solution includes prebuilt data models and customized campaign templates based on industry best practices, as well as specialist workflow features.

This modern marketing solution leverages the advanced targeting and segmentation capabilities of Oracle Marketing Cloud to help marketers reach actively engaged audiences and establish a digital dialogue with customers and patients.

"At Jackson Healthcare, we seek a participative dialogue with hospital executives, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and policymakers,” said Keith Jennings, director of Marketing and Content Strategy, Jackson Healthcare. “Oracle Marketing Cloud gives us a systemic infrastructure for distributing and measuring content in ways that propel our strategy and storytelling."

Oracle Marketing Cloud's new life sciences consumer and patient solution builds on Oracle’s existing expertise in life sciences and healthcare marketing technology, which includes Oracle Marketing Cloud's life Sciences professionals solution, and adds further depth to Oracle’s portfolio of industry-specific marketing solutions. Oracle Marketing Cloud now has industry-specific marketing solutions for manufacturing, wealth management, insurance, asset management, entertainment, nonprofits, and life sciences. Each industry product is developed with the industry user in mind, incorporating marketing, content, and data analysis best practices.

Key benefits include:

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Kansas City Power & Light Deploys Oracle Utilities Solutions for Greater Insight into Meter Data and Accelerated Network Restoration

Integrated Oracle Utilities solutions provide foundation for KCP&L’s advanced metering infrastructure initiative

News Summary

Utilities want solutions that turn their meter data into useful and actionable information. Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a regulated electric utility serving more than 840,000 customers in Missouri and Kansas, recently implemented Oracle Utilities Network Management System, Oracle Utilities Outage Analytics, Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway, and Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management to support its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative. The Oracle solutions help KCP&L bring smart grid operations and business processes together to enable storm-proven outage management and key distribution management functions, which in turn help to improve operational excellence and pave a streamlined pathway for critical customer communications.

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Oracle Utilities Analytics Solution Helps Utilities Manage Storm Data in Near Real Time

News Summary

Electric utilities need to respond quickly to power outages and provide timely, accurate updates to stakeholders and customers during major storm events. At the same time, these companies face the daunting task of gathering and managing data from an increasing number of sources. To help utilities streamline these processes, Oracle made significant updates to its Oracle Utilities Outage Analytics dashboards and ETL technology. Part of the Oracle Utilities Analytics 2.5.1 release, these enhancements enable utilities to organize and analyze incoming storm data in near real time so they can quickly identify issues, speed time to response and restoration, and improve communication with first responders, customers, and media during a storm outage.

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Central Washington University Uses PeopleSoft Solution to Launch New Digital Information Portal for Streamlined Access to Financial, Human Resources, and Student Information

Upgrade to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 and PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 Automates Business Processes for Improved Service Delivery to Students, Faculty, and Staff

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 2, 2015 – Central Washington University (CWU), which enrolls more than 10,000 students across eight campuses, upgraded to Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 and PeopleSoft Financials 9.2, integrating the applications with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions via PeopleSoft Interaction Hub to provide a single, centralized source for students, faculty, and staff to access financial, human resources (HR), and student information.

With the Oracle solution, CWU automated and accelerated many previously paper-based financial and HR processes—including new-hire requisition requests, position description changes, and employee salary increase approvals—by adding workflow and automated signature capabilities.

The integrated PeopleSoft solution also provides the foundation for the MyCWU digital information portal, which enables students, faculty, and staff to customize their personal portal screens and easily access dashboards with up-to-date data and metrics that help support administrative efficiency.

“Our Oracle upgrade and implementation of MyCWU using PeopleSoft Interaction Hub has been a life-changing experience for our university,” says Jill Hernandez, director of applications at Central Washington University. “Our faculty, staff, and students now enjoy a user-friendly interface that provides seamless integration with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft Human Resources, and PeopleSoft Financials, which provide them with easy access to the information they need to do their jobs.”

The Oracle solution enables managers to access dashboards that provide headcount analytics and position-level detail to support hiring decisions and point-in-time budgeting. Managers can also view dashboards with data on their direct reports, enabling them to make more effective personnel decisions and automatically initiate position changes, salary increases, or reporting changes. This self-service capability helps to alleviate the burden on the HR department.

CWU also takes advantage of PeopleSoft Selective Adoption, which enables the university to add new application functionality as it becomes available without any major upgrade—helping CWU deliver capabilities to end users more quickly and at a lower cost.

CWU worked with Oracle partner and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Sierra-Cedar, on the upgrade. The university plans to continue rolling out new modules, such as PeopleSoft Time and Labor and PeopleSoft Absence Management, and eventually leverage PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions and PeopleSoft ePerformance to further improve recruiting and staff compensation processes.

“With the PeopleSoft 9.2 upgrade, CWU automated many previously time-consuming business processes—freeing staff time to focus on more strategic programs that support operational excellence and student success,” said Cole Clark, global vice president of education and research, Oracle. “Additionally, with PeopleSoft Selective Adoption, CWU can continue to take advantage of the latest PeopleSoft application functionality with minimal disruption to its campuses.”

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Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Are Platforms of Choice for CFOs Worldwide

More than 600 customers have selected Oracle’s rich, integrated suite of cloud services to drive growth and innovation

Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 30, 2015 – In Q2 FY2015, quarterly sales for Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud (Oracle ERP Cloud) and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud (Oracle EPM Cloud) increased by 80 percent. This growth reiterates customers’ confidence that Oracle is best positioned to offer CFOs a complete, integrated suite of financial management, procurement, projects, and performance management cloud services, all designed to work seamlessly and securely together.

More than 600 enterprise and midsize companies worldwide have selected Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud to drive finance innovation and growth, including Transit Wireless, SoundCloud, Ringo Mobile, Communications Test Design, Inc., and lynda.com. Real estate leader RE/MAX was among those companies that recently selected Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud as part of a full suite of Oracle cloud services. With a global network of franchisee-owned and -operated offices and more than 90,000 sales associates, RE/MAX will rely on Oracle to help grow its business and meet regulatory reporting requirements as a newly listed public company.

“Our financial information has become transparent subsequent to our 2013 initial public offering,” notes Karri Callahan, acting chief financial officer and corporate controller, RE/MAX. “To support our ambitious growth strategy, we needed a more efficient finance system with embedded controls and extensive reporting capabilities. Oracle offered us pre-integrated, state-of-the-art cloud services. This was a compelling value, since we prefer to invest in technology innovations for our brokers and agents rather than maintaining separate systems.”

Oracle also added more than 250 new Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud customers in Q2 FY2015—150 of which were net new and replaced their legacy solutions with Oracle ERP Cloud. lynda.com, a leading online learning company, is another innovative, fast-growing organization that selected Oracle ERP Cloud to scale its online learning business globally.

“We looked at major players and other vendors during our rather exhaustive evaluation process for the right cloud ERP solution, and ultimately selected Oracle for its superior analytics and reporting, and completeness of its offerings for our finance organization,” said lynda.com CFO Elaine Kitagawa. “We are growing quickly and expanding internationally. Oracle’s global functionality and scalable platform were major factors in our decision. Oracle is clearly committed to becoming the ERP vendor of choice for fast-growing companies like lynda.com, and we are excited to have Oracle as our partner in this growth journey.”

“The growth of Oracle’s ERP and EPM cloud offerings reflects the investment we’ve made to build solutions that work together seamlessly in the cloud and that anticipate the needs of CFOs,” said Rondy Ng, senior vice president, Applications Development, Oracle. “CFOs are turning to Oracle for our advanced reporting and analytics, global functionality and scalability, and seamless integration. It’s a decision that helps CFOs reduce costs while providing their organizations with a clear path to the cloud.”

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What Customers Are Saying About Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 30, 2015

Transit Wireless

Transit Wireless is an advanced wireless solutions company responsible for the design/build and operation of the neutral-host distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi network for the New York City (NYC) subway system in New York. With more than 2.6 billion riders annually, the NYC subway is one of the largest public transportation systems in the world. Through a partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Transit Wireless has deployed wireless and Wi-Fi services in 76 out of 279 underground NYC subway stations. The company is now implementing a full suite of Oracle cloud services, including solutions for enterprise resource planning, procurement, projects, inventory, and human capital management.

“Our business model is rapidly evolving beyond subways to offer new types of wireless technology,” said Transit Wireless CEO William Bayne. “Oracle is able to provide a complete, integrated suite of true cloud services to support operational efficiencies and drive growth.”

Ringo Mobile

Ringo Mobile, a telecommunications company based in Italy, offers a mobile calling app that allows users to make low-cost international calls to any mobile or landline phone without using the internet.

“The cloud for us is a natural choice because our business is distributed and we already have a strong company culture that understands the value added of software as a service,” said Luca Brignone, managing director, Ringo Mobile. “Oracle’s cloud solution matches perfectly with our local needs and at the same time supports our multi-country approach. It is our intention that Oracle Cloud will unify all the ERP systems within our holding company. Starting with Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud allows us to adopt an important tool for our business: we have done a balanced investment and we are ready to extend our cloud solutions in a modular way without issues.”

Communications Test Design, Inc.

Founded in 1975, Communications Test Design, Inc. (CTDI) is a full-service, global engineering, repair, and logistics company that provides cost-effective solutions to the communications industry. CTDI selected Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service, part of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, to support its rapidly growing business and to automate a traditionally manual process for budgeting, planning, and forecasting that was time-consuming and prone to errors.

“Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service will enable us to significantly reduce the time and effort needed to perform our daily P&L forecasting process, which is our most critical business management practice. In addition, the real-time analytical data and comprehensive reporting that we can generate from Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service will enable us to make timely and well-informed decisions in order to run our business better,” said Paul Cardell, vice president, Corporate Operations, CTDI..

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Forever 21 Matches Styles to Consumer Demand with Oracle Retail

Supporting rapid growth worldwide, Forever 21 uses Oracle to streamline planning and to help ensure selections delight customers

News Summary

Ever-changing styles and an array of colors, sizes and accessories challenge fashion retailers to anticipate consumer response and ensure the right mix is available online and in stores as each season unfolds. Taking advantage of advanced optimization technology from Oracle, popular fashion retailer Forever 21 is using Oracle Retail Merchandise Planning and Optimization solutions to help predict demand and align assortments to meet customer expectations.

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Oracle Delivers Intuitive and Mobile User Experience for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management Solutions

Simplicity and mobility of new user interface can improve decision-making, increases employee productivity, and offers supplier collaboration opportunities

Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 29, 2015 – To help companies and organizations take advantage of modern mobile technologies, Oracle has delivered a new, simplified user experience for its PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management solutions within PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 10. The PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface (PeopleSoft Fluid UI) included in PeopleSoft 9.2 Update Image 10 provides an intuitive and responsive user experience that is optimized across multiple platforms including smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Many new features and functions take advantage of the PeopleSoft Fluid UI to provide employees, managers, and executives with a familiar native user experience that helps maximize productivity and effectiveness while reducing the need for training.

“Regardless of role, all enterprise application users expect simple-to-use and intuitive solutions,” said Paco Aubrejuan, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Applications. “The PeopleSoft team’s latest effort delivers new features in PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management that take advantage of PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. These should positivity impact user efficiency and satisfaction.”

In addition to the new PeopleSoft Fluid UI, the latest update to PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management also provides a range of enhancements including transaction simplification, embedded analytics, and compliance support. The PeopleSoft Selective Adoption model, enabled by the PeopleSoft Update Manager, makes these latest enhancements available to PeopleSoft 9.2 customers at the time of their choosing, without the need to upgrade, lowering the total cost of ownership and accelerating the delivery of valuable features to users.

Ease of Use with Robust Functionality

PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management deliver best-in-class financial and supply chain functionality that helps organizations increase productivity, accelerate business performance, and lower cost of ownership. With the new PeopleSoft Fluid UI, customers can benefit from:

Additional capabilities available in the latest update for PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management solutions include:

“Here at Kansas City Power & Light, we are looking to expand our mobile capabilities in the future,” said Eddy Halter, director of procurement, Kansas City Power & Light. “Being able to create, review, and approve transactions sourced from PeopleSoft via a smartphone or tablet would definitely be a benefit for our organization.”

“Cardinal Point is excited about the new features in PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 Update Image 10 that enable the mobile workforce and improve the user experience, particularly enhancements that harness the power of the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface technology, like the project manager home page,” said Bill Gibbard, managing director, Cardinal Point Solutions. “We also appreciate Oracle’s continued dedication to its superiority in features, including functionality to help customers who are preparing for their adoption of recent changes in revenue accounting standards.”

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Oracle Service Cloud Enables Organizations to Better Understand the Customer Journey and Drive Service Collaboration

Latest release delivers new features for more-connected customer engagements and improved service experiences

As expectations for enhanced customer experiences grow, service teams need to focus on engaging and retaining consumers, empowering employees, and adapting quickly. The latest release of Oracle Service Cloud helps organizations meet these challenges, and offers tools that enable agents to better understand their customer’s needs and rapidly resolve cases to deliver an outstanding experience.

The latest Oracle Service Cloud release features:

Better Understand the Customer Experience

Oracle Service Cloud helps organizations better understand the customer experience with:

Drive Service Collaboration and Rapid Response with Oracle Service Cloud

“We are committed to helping modern customer service organizations drive service efficiency and effectiveness as well as improve customer acquisition and retention,” said Stephen Fioretti, vice president, Product Management, Oracle Service Cloud. “With the latest release of Oracle Service Cloud, we continue to deliver rapid innovation for our customers. The new features and capabilities will help companies better understand and serve their customers with service collaboration, optimized case routing, and improved agent productivity.”

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