Farmatodo, a leading Venezuelan self-service chain of pharmacies, has specialized in providing medicine, personal care, beauty and baby products to help consumers care for themselves and their families for more than 100 years. Through a seamless shopping experience, the company offers approximately 8000 products in more than 200 stores and online in Venezuela and Colombia. With Oracle Retail, Farmatodo has established a framework to expand into new countries, deploy new stores faster, and gained the agility to serve in-store shoppers better with a modern point of service (POS) system.

In addition, this new technology will support Farmatodo’s aggressive delivery model in Colombia. While the area is known to have challenging traffic congestion, the pharmacy offers home delivery in up to 30 minutes. To help fulfill this promise, having the real-time inventory visibility and store consistency Oracle provides is critical.

“The continuity and expansion of our retail operation depended on reducing technological risks and improving information integrity and business processes. We replaced outdated legacy systems with Oracle to create a foundation for growth in Latin America,” said Angelo Cirillo, chief information officer, Farmatodo. “Usually these projects take three years for only one country. Leveraging Oracle’s best practices and integrated solutions, we fast-tracked the implementation of two countries in two years.”

The company relies on Oracle Retail Merchandising System, Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management and Oracle Retail Warehouse Management System to manage the business at a corporate level and Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service to enhance the consumer experience on the store floors.

Farmatodo selected Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Platinum level member, Retail Consult to implement the latest versions of the solutions. A longtime collaborator, Retail Consult has a deep understanding of Oracle technology, retail process, and customers. The company employed a multifunctional team with a strong customer-centric approach, along with the Oracle Retail Reference Model, to chart a path to success for Farmatodo.

“To support international expansion, we faced a technological and corporate challenge. The previous experience with Oracle Retail system allowed us to fully evaluate and emulate features and functionalities before extending them throughout new and existing operations,” said Francisco Gerardo Díaz Parra, project director, Farmatodo. “The stability and data security provided by Oracle, combined with the highly skilled implementation partner and defined project governance brought us the optimal mix to integrate processes and modernize systems.”

“For thirty-plus years, we have been working hand-in-hand with global retailers to help ensure successful implementations and outcomes. The power of this combined knowledge continues to be central in delivering unmatched industry best practices and guiding innovations that are enabled by our modern platform. Our goal is to help our customers keep pace with the changes in consumer behavior and to enable them with operational agility and a clear view into their operations so they can move at the same speed,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president, and general manager, Oracle Retail. 

Westchester Community College  is implementing Oracle Student Cloud solutions to support its goal of providing accessible, high-quality and affordable education to its diverse community. The two-year public college is affiliated with the State University of New York, the nation’s largest comprehensive public university system.

To keep pace with fast-changing workforce requirements and student expectations, institutions  such as Westchester Community College are evolving to improve student outcomes and operational efficiency. This change demands both a new model for teaching, learning and research, as well as better ways to recruit, engage and manage students throughout their lifelong learning experience.    

“We are committed to student success, academic excellence, and workforce and economic development. To deliver on those promises we needed to leverage the best technology to modernize our operations and how we engage with our students,” said Dr. Belinda Miles, president of Westchester Community College, Valhalla, N.Y. “By expanding our Oracle footprint  with Oracle Student Cloud we will be able to support a diverse array of academic programs and learning opportunitites including continuing education, while delivering better experiences to our students.”

Oracle Student Cloud solutions, including Student Management and Recruiting, will integrate seamlessly with Westchester’s existing Oracle Campus student information system. With Oracle Student Management, the school will be able to better inform existing and prospective students about classes and services, and Oracle Student Recruiting will improve and simplify the student recruitment process. The college will also be using Oracle Student Engagement to better communicate with and engage current and prospective students.

“Oracle Student Cloud enables organizations such as Westchester to promote an increasingly diverse array of academic programs for successful life-long learning.” said Vivian Wong, GVP higher education development, Oracle. “We are delighted to partner with Westchester on their cloud transformation journey.”

Supporting the entire student life cycle, Oracle Student Cloud is a complete suite of higher education cloud solutions, including Student Management, Student Recruiting, Student Engagement, and Student Financial Planning. As a set of modules, designed to work as a suite, institutions are able to choose their own incremental path to the cloud.     

Food and drinks are a central part of any cruise experience with travelers expecting a wide variety of unique menus around the clock. For cruise ships, the stakes are high to deliver seamless experiences with unmatched service. With Oracle Hospitality solutions, cruise ships have the agility and tools to offer passengers their favorite foods and beverages from anywhere on the ship, at any time during their shipboard holiday.

“One of the reasons consumers love cruises is for the food and beverage options. From ‘all-you-can-eat’ buffets to the specialty restaurants, the onboard dining experience is becoming more diverse and sophisticated. Making sure guests have the ultimate food experience is critical, making it imperative that cruise lines use technology that is purpose built for their needs – and this is exactly what Oracle delivers,” said Ingo Soerensen, AVP, global cruise sales, Oracle Hospitality.

Oracle Hospitality Simphony shipboard point-of-sale is fully integrated with Oracle Hospitality Shipboard Property Management System for a cash-free environment, real-time tracking of meal orders, table reservations, and special packages. Delivered on fixed and mobile devices, Simphony enables guests to order everywhere on the ship from room service and specialty restaurants to bars and coffee stations that can be charged directly to a guest’s cruise account.

Simphony runs on Oracle MICROS Compact Workstations and Oracle MICROS Tablet hardware, enabling cruise staff to move freely about the ship taking orders and better serving customers. The devices are portable, compact, spill and water resistant, and offer a daylight viewable screen - perfect for poolside order taking. A mobile belt printer also produces immediate receipts and offers fingerprint biometrics to ensure fast, easy and secure login. Oracle MICROS Workstation 310 can also run on batteries for ultimate flexibility.

Oracle Hospitality, with 9 of the 10 top cruise brands as customers, is exhibiting at the Seatrade Conference in Miami, Florida April 9-11, 2019 in booth #1901. Come visit us to see our flagship cruise solutions including Shipboard Property Management System, Fleet Management System and a live demo of Simphony on Oracle MICROS hardware allowing attendees to see how an order for an espresso, latte or iced coffee is taken, sent to the kitchen and delivered right to the booth.

CoreDial, LLC, a leading provider of cloud communications and UCaaS services, has selected Oracle Communications to help the company deliver high-quality, reliable services. Today, more than 800 channel partners rely on CoreDial to deliver services to 26,000 businesses in the United States.

“At CoreDial our number one priority is serving our partners and providing them unparalleled services that, combined with our channel optimized platform, business model, and exceptional people, enable them to deliver the best communications networks to their customers,” said Alan Rihm, chief executive officer, CoreDial. “Oracle plays a key role in helping us meet this objective and these new solutions have already greatly improved the quality, flexibility, reliability and uptime of services on our network, resulting in more consistent uptime for our partners and their customers.”

Leveraging Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (SBC), Subscriber-Aware Load Balancer and Operations Monitor, CoreDial will be able to improve real-time communications services across Internet Protocol (IP) network borders and provide interoperability between multiple private branch exchanges as they migrate across platforms.

“In an increasingly competitive market, networks that will power future generation IP services must deliver superior performance, flexibility and security,” said Doug Suriano, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications. “Our technology empowers CoreDial for future growth, easily scaling to meet their business needs.”

Enhancing Services with a Modern, Responsive Communications Network

CoreDial selected Oracle SBC to leverage the offering’s inherent abilities to protect and defend CoreDial’s network and services against a wide breadth of security threats. For example, the ability to deny access to requests that reach abusive levels allows CoreDial to prevent its customers’ services from being interrupted by bad actors.  Oracle SBC has also already improved critical service provider requirements for CoreDial, including interoperability, reliability and quality, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization.

Augmenting Oracle SBC with Oracle’s Subscriber-Aware Load Balancer, CoreDial gains linear, non-disruptive scaling of up to 10 million subscribers from a single address. The solution creates a truly geo-redundant VoIP network as well. For example, in the case of a catastrophic event, CoreDial’s Philadelphia or Phoenix data centers can assume responsibilities for the network.

In addition, Oracle Communications Operations Monitor has helped CoreDial to increase visibility into their network traffic (including non-Oracle SIP devices) and to accelerate troubleshooting. Oracle’s unique, end-to-end session correlation and real-time analysis capabilities enable the CoreDial IT team to rapidly detect, isolate, and resolve problems anywhere in multivendor VoIP and UC networks.

Student debt continues to be a massive issue for American students who collectively owe an estimated $1.5T in loans. Navigating cost and financial aid is a crucial step in a complex process toward student attainment of higher education. Butler University wants to increase student success through a more efficient process and sound fiscal decisions. Deploying Oracle Student Financial Planning, part of Oracle  Student Cloud, the university will be able to guide students towards more responsible borrowing and course-planning that will keep them on track towards their graduation goals.

Butler, a private university in Indianapolis, integrates the liberal arts with a professional education to provide the highest quality education. It fosters a stimulating intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue and inquiry among students, faculty and staff.

With cloud technology providing real-time synchronization with government systems and automated, student-centric processes, Oracle Student Financial Planning will let Butler financial aid officers and administrators spend more time advising students on financial aid choices and less time packaging their aid. Direct integration with Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions will also enable the university to cut the costs of ongoing financial aid compliance. To date, Oracle Student Financial Planning has processed $2.9 billion in financial aid, representing 15 million automated packages.

“Cost should not be the gating factor in individuals getting the education they desire,” said Pete Williams, CIO at Butler University. “With Oracle Student Cloud, we will have the tools we need to improve student success by delivering a more transparent and effective financial aid experience.”

Oracle Student Financial Planning supports traditional and non-traditional academic models and drives institutional transparency, regulatory compliance, superior student visibility, and control of education financing options. With it, institutions can leverage advanced automated technologies to manage comprehensive fund management, calculate and repackage student financial aid based on pre-set triggers, optimize both private and public funding sources based on student financing requirements, reduce time and resources spent on supporting manual processes, and reduce the complexity of annual audits and compliance risk.

“Financial aid has been a frustrating and confusing process for many students, making it difficult to find options that best meets their qualifications and needs,” said Vivian Wong, GVP higher education development, Oracle. “With Oracle Financial Planning, we are enabling progressive universities such as Butler to match students with their best financial options, giving them the resources they need to focus on reaching their academic goals.”

The utility industry is undergoing a massive evolution as utility customers are becoming more active consumers and producers. The explosion of data from a multitude of devices, including meters, IoT sensors, and smart home appliances, require utilities to rethink old business and billing models to meet the demands of this new utility economy.

As such, Oracle continues to enhance its leading customer solutions platform to deliver the tools water, gas, and energy utilities need to address this changing market dynamic. With a modern user interface, deep analytics, and built-in integrations with operational device data management and customer self-service capabilities, utilities can better engage customers at scale. For example, they will be able to tap user interface innovations to target customers for new programs based on personalized information on their utility usage. The new features are now available across Oracle’s customer solutions, including Customer to Meter and Customer Cloud Service (CCS).

“In this new utility economy, the customer is transitioning from a billable account to a participant in the utility business model. With changes in rates, regulations, and production, customers are looking for more information regarding their usage and bill and how they can lessen the impact of both,” said Hillary Martin, senior director, Oracle Utilities. “Antiquated customer systems simply don’t allow utilities the flexibility and intelligence they need in this changing market paradigm. With our continued updates, Oracle is bringing utilities to the leading edge of innovation.”

Driving Customer Innovation at Scale

Customer Cloud Service brings together Oracle Utilities’ market-leading customer information system (CIS) and advanced meter data management capabilities into a single meter-to-cash-to-customer solution on a shared database and technology stack. By bringing metering, customer account and revenue data into a common view, enriched by deep analytics and data visualization tools, utilities can drive greater business value from the increasing amounts of data and convert it into actionable business insights.

Built on the Oracle Cloud and delivered as the industry’s first fully supported Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, CCS features automated patching, upgrades, security, and standard SaaS services—freeing up valuable utility resources. With CCS, utilities gain a complete view of their customers and significant cost reductions compared to managing two separate systems. 

With these new innovations, CCS and Customer to Meter utility customers can benefit from:

• User Experience Enhancements: Guided by dozens of years working closely with customers on their CIS initiatives, a decade of Opower behavioral science research and design best practices, Oracle customer solutions feature a new, clean and modern interface and improvements to the ways end users interact with data, insights, content and context. With guided workflows and intuitive design, even brand new customer service representatives can deliver the same level of service as long-term call center experts.
• Advanced Analytics: With the exponential growth in volumes and sources of data, utilities have an ever-expanding opportunity to derive value from that information to support better decisions across the business. With pre-built analytics embedded in both Oracle Utilities customer solutions, users can drive insight throughout the customer lifecycle. This allows utilities to visualize data clearly across systems and slice and dice to discover fresh insights that support customer engagement, revenue management, and more. With Oracle, utilities have the power of data science and machine learning at their fingertips, in pre-packaged solutions designed specifically for utility needs.
• Operational Device Management: enables utilities to track meter and device inventory and monitor performance from within the same system capturing meter reads and customer accounts. This customer-device-data integration in a single solution not only reduces technology costs for utilities but also provides a more complete, “single source of truth” picture across an increasingly distributed network. This helps utilities move beyond the meter to leverage data across all relevant devices so they can explore and scale to new connected home services and more.
• Digital Self Service: delivers a crucial component in providing modern customer experiences. By integrating Oracle Utilities Digital Self Service (DSS) and Oracle customer solutions, utilities can deliver superior service across channels and devices while driving down operating costs. In addition, based on a decade of user insights and design experience from Opower, Oracle DSS provides a strong web foundation to launch additional customer engagement programs. 

 

“Utility distribution is no longer a linear equation where a customer uses a resource and then is billed for it. With the industry’s most connected, end-to-end customer platforms, Oracle is enabling utilities to become trusted advisors in this new journey while modernizing operations for an evolving customer-centric utility future,” added Martin.

MANA Nutrition, a nonprofit producer of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), is using Oracle NetSuite to support its mission to end severe acute malnutrition (SAM) across the globe. With NetSuite, MANA has been able to focus time and resources on the fight to end malnutrition by reducing manufacturing costs, increasing supply chain efficiency and gaining a single view into financial data across its growing organization. 

Founded in 2009, MANA produces 425,000 lifesaving meals of RUTF per day to treat SAM (enough to feed and save 3,500 children in a six-week treatment program). According to UNICEF, SAM continues to result in the loss of 3 million young lives a year across the world and MANA has provided food to almost 3 million children to date. To extend its impact in reducing the cost of RUTF treatment across the market, and support its growth, MANA needed a unified business platform that could automate manufacturing processes, improve supply chain efficiency and increase visibility into financial data. To support these goals and enhance measurement and reporting to its benefactors, MANA selected NetSuite early in its development. 

“Our mission is simple, we’re here to help end malnutrition for children around the world. We are on a never-ending quest to find a better way and are guided by the mindset of ‘if it’s good, let’s make it great,’” said Chris Whitfield, CFO, MANA Nutrition. “NetSuite has been great. It continues to give us ever increasing levels of visibility into our operations and enabled us to dramatically and consistently reduce costs by driving efficiencies across our organization. This has helped us demonstrate our impact to benefactors and allowed us to reallocate funds to create more food and save more lives.”

With NetSuite, MANA has been able to take advantage of accounting, inventory management, manufacturing and sales capabilities on a single platform to improve the efficiency of its manufacturing process and increase the quality of its products. In addition, the powerful analytics and financial management capabilities with NetSuite have helped MANA automate financial reporting, gauge how its performing against budgeted standards and milestones, improve investor relations by increasing transparency into financials and pass stringent audits by international aid organizations.

“Child malnutrition can stunt a child for a lifetime, and MANA is making a huge impact through its own work and its broader impact on the industry,” said David Geilhufe, senior director and social impact leader, Oracle NetSuite. “We’re incredibly proud to work with organizations like MANA which are creating social impact every day. By giving them the technology and support to help expand their mission, we are enabling them to grow and play a small part in making the world a better place.”

NetSuite supports more than 1,300 nonprofits and social enterprises globally. MANA is currently benefitting from Suite Pro Bono as part of the NetSuite Social Impact program, which provides nonprofit and social enterprises with coaching and support from NetSuite employees. MANA was also able to utilize the discounted licensing the NetSuite Social Impact program provides to nonprofits, which has helped MANA lower the prices of RUTF for its international aid customers.

MANA is also participating in the Hackathon 4Good event happening at SuiteWorld where NetSuite developers, partners and customers give their day to help NetSuite nonprofit customers address a complex challenge they are facing.

elope, Inc., a fun-filled costume company, is using Oracle NetSuite to share its love of laughter and style with the world. With NetSuite, elope has been able to support rapidly growing demand, stay ahead of increasing competition and make more people laugh with its costumes by taking advantage of an integrated business platform to expand into new markets and further personalize the customer experience.

Founded in 1993 by two brothers selling hats at a mall kiosk in Colorado Springs, elope has rapidly grown and now designs, manufactures and distributes nearly 1,500 costumes and accessories across the U.S. and Canada. To meet growing demand for its uniquely designed costumes and accessories, while monitoring every step of the production process to ensure the highest possible quality and most sustainable business practices, elope needed to replace its existing Sage system. After careful evaluation, elope selected NetSuite to meet these demands and deliver fantastical service, with clear, cheerful communication and accurate shipments, to its growing customer base.

“Making the world laugh has always been our mission,” said Kevin Johnson, founder and CEO, elope. “With real-time visibility into the operations of our business, we have access to invaluable insights shaping our organization and more room to make the decisions that will allow us to expand and explore new opportunities. Retail continues to change and running our business on NetSuite has allowed us to bet bigger on our customers.”

With NetSuite, elope has increased visibility and control across every aspect of its operations as its B2C business has grown by 40 percent year-over-year in the last two years. By consolidating existing systems, automating manual processes and enhancing reporting, elope has been able to stay ahead of increasing competition and changing market demands through real-time visibility into design, manufacturing and distribution processes. In addition, with increased visibility into its inventory, elope has been able to deliver better recommendations to more customers by identifying buying trends during peak times, like Halloween, to ensure a truly personalized service and costume availability.

“A core part of every growth story is gaining the visibility and control that help you focus on the things that drive your business forward,” said Jason Maynard, SVP of Global Field Operations, Oracle NetSuite. “As it has grown from a mall kiosk to one of the industry’s most prominent costume designers, elope has showed that you don’t have to compromise on your vision as your business expands. With NetSuite, the elope team can continue to focus on what they do best - making everyone laugh with their amazing costumes—without having to worry about how their business is running.” 

Oracle NetSuite is launching a new business research and benchmarking service that changes the way the technology industry shares insights and knowledge. Unlike expensive services provided by research firms or traditional vendor models that are built on proprietary data, NetSuite Brainyard is a free resource that gives everyone across the technology ecosystem equal access to the research, data and practical advice needed to grow and run a business. Brainyard is available today at NetSuite.com/Brainyard.

“We’re giving away the source code for business growth by providing unparalleled insights into every single critical business process,” said Jason Maynard, SVP of Global Field Operations, Oracle NetSuite. “Companies tell us they want to benchmark their businesses, and we’re going to help them do that with Brainyard. Research firms and other vendors charge for this kind of resource, but we consider it part of our commitment to customer and partner success. We’re not just delivering bits with NetSuite: It’s not just about software; it’s about helping businesses grow.”

With the launch of Brainyard, NetSuite is taking the insights from its SuiteSuccess configurations, its value management team, its product management team and its solution consultants and making them quickly and easily accessible to everyone. Brainyard combines data, knowledge and expertise on growth and performance, including:

• Business Research: Includes state-of-the-industry reports and other qualitative and quantitative survey-based research conducted across seven industries by 20 industry principles and nearly 500 subject matter experts from across the global NetSuite team.
• Benchmark Data: Includes insights from 16,000 NetSuite customers and third-party business performance data from industry data provider FinListics, including detailed, industry-specific KPIs.
• Performance Analysis and Advice: Practical advice/guidance on organizational improvement through how-to resources, best-practice briefings and KPI analysis. Customers can also receive a business review with their NetSuite account manager.

 

Over the past 20 years, NetSuite has worked with some of the fastest growing companies in the world to help them successfully grow, scale and adapt to change. 

PetShop.co.uk, the subscription-based pet supply store, has grown from a family-run business to one of the largest online pet shops in the UK with NetSuite. With NetSuite, PetShop.co.uk has been able to scale its critical business systems as it has rapidly grown in the UK, diversifying its services to include new subscription-based models and expanding internationally into France, Germany, Spain, Portugal and the Nordic region.

Started by Adam Taylor and his now-wife Lexi Taylor in their London home in 2009, PetShop.co.uk comprises an online store as well as the first ever subscription pet food service, Bottomless Bowl. As it has grown by 50 percent each year to become a company that now stocks over half a million pounds’ worth of merchandise and a range of over 10,000 products, PetShop.co.uk has used NetSuite to manage its business and minimize complexity. To build on its success and backed by the recent award of a £400,000 Productivity Grant from the UK Government, PetShop.co.uk has plans for further expansion, including an increased focus on its subscription business and international customer base. 

“In 2010, as we started to scale, we set out to find business software that would support our entrepreneurial spirit and allow us to focus on our growth,” said Adam Taylor, CEO, PetShop.co.uk. “As we have grown, NetSuite has always helped us punch above our weight and stay true to our promise of saving customers’ time when buying pet food and supplies. What I really like though is that NetSuite frees up enough of my time so that I can still personally write all of our customer communications. Being able to focus on delivering such a personal service is so important to us.”

NetSuite has enabled PetShop.co.uk to increase efficiencies and control across financial, supply chain and marketing operations by eliminating manual and time-consuming processes and providing a real-time, consolidated view into key business data. By streamlining order management, invoicing and supply chain operations, NetSuite is helping PetShop.co.uk tap into the rising demand for subscription-based services, a market expected to be worth £1 billion by 2022. In addition, NetSuite’s marketing platform, Bronto, has helped PetShop.co.uk personalize the customer experience and achieve retention rates of up to 80 percent, while NetSuite’s OneWorld functionality enables seamless currency calculations and foreign language translations direct from the platform.

“Like many of our high-growth customers, PetShop.co.uk has achieved remarkable success by offering a new customer experience in a traditional market,” said Nicky Tozer, VP of EMEA, Oracle NetSuite. “We have provided a business platform that can scale with it, giving the company real-time visibility and control even as it expands across international markets. By implementing NetSuite, PetShop.co.uk has been able to react quickly to new business opportunities, while maintaining the personal aspect of customer service for which it has become known.”

PetShop.co.uk was founded with the help of a £5,000 Prince&#rsquo;s Trust loan in 2010 by Adam Taylor and his partner Lexi. PetShop.co.uk and the first-ever subscription pet food service, Bottomless Bowl, was born from a gap that the couple perceived in the market for a faster and more convenient way to buy pet supplies.

The company now stocks over 10,000 products and all major brands of pet food and supplies.

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The American Cancer Society, a global leader in the fight against cancer, recently launched NetSuite to run its core financial processes so it can focus valuable time and resources on its mission to free the world of cancer. With NetSuite, the American Cancer Society is looking to take advantage of an integrated business platform to support its growth and streamline the management of multiple programs and fundraising efforts across its 900 U.S. offices.

Founded in 1913 by 10 doctors and five laypeople in New York City, the American Cancer Society has grown into a nationwide, community-based health organization with 1.5 million volunteers and now attacks cancer from every angle 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To support its network of volunteers, multiple fundraising efforts, and expanding range of programs, which include everything from critical research and education/awareness campaigns to emotional support and the fight for lifesaving policy changes, the American Cancer Society selected NetSuite to replace its aging and fragmented infrastructure with a single, scalable business platform.

“This year alone there will be an estimated 1,762,450 new cancer cases diagnosed and 606,880 cancer deaths in the U.S.,” said Rob King, CFO, the American Cancer Society. “As we look to grow our impact, NetSuite will support the management of our core financial operations so we are able to focus on helping people get well and stay well, finding cures and fighting back against the disease.”

The American Cancer Society will use NetSuite across its growing network of programs, volunteers and fundraising efforts. NetSuite will also help with the management and tracking of donations and goals. To help support the mission of the organization, NetSuite will host a pledge wall at SuiteWorld19 where attendees can write down their lifestyle promise in the fight against cancer. Attendees are encouraged to share their pledge on social media using the hashtags #AttackingCancer and #SuiteWorld19. For 2,000 pledges, NetSuite will donate $10,000 to the American Cancer Society.

“The American Cancer Society has led the fight against cancer for more than 100 years and the results it has achieved are nothing short of amazing,” said Evan Goldberg, EVP, Oracle NetSuite. “We are always excited when we can help nonprofits focus their time and resources on making the world a better place and are proud to be helping the American Cancer Society manage its growing network of programs, volunteers and fundraising efforts.”

To help organizations across industries gain the visibility, control and agility required to accelerate growth, Oracle NetSuite today announced a series of new innovations within the NetSuite solution, including new industry cloud solutions.

“Our mission has always been to deliver a unified cloud suite that supports organizations in any industry, at any stage of growth,” said Evan Goldberg, EVP of Oracle NetSuite. “With new innovations spanning commerce and finance to HR and supply chain as well as new industry cloud solutions, we are delivering exponential value for our customers by helping them unlock new possibilities and achieve unprecedented growth.”

The latest updates to NetSuite include new analytics, commerce, financial, HR, marketing, project management and supply chain capabilities. The new capabilities help organizations reduce IT complexity, streamline business processes, simplify global trade, improve decision making, and enhance the customer and employee experience.

• Analytics: Powerful new consumer-grade data exploration and visualization capabilities within the SuiteAnalytics Workbook give non-technical users rapid and meaningful insights into critical financial and operational metrics to enhance decision making across the entire organization.
• Commerce: Thirty new extensions to SuiteCommerce enhance the customer experience by enabling business users to easily add new functionality. In addition, users can now integrate important third-party tools and product feeds to create compelling, fresh content without developer help.
• Financials: New accounting features, including lease accounting, self-balancing segments and rules-based, auto-matching bank transactions, help customers streamline financial management and dramatically improve efficiencies.
• Global Trade: New global financial management capabilities simplify tax changes, foreign currency expense reports and intercompany trade processes, while new localizations support customers headquartered or operating subsidiaries in some of the largest economies in the world.
• HR: New capabilities within SuitePeople help customers streamline and secure HR processes and deliver a better employee experience by introducing new self-service features for employees, advanced security capabilities for employee data, industry-specific functionality for customers with large volumes of hourly workers and providing real-time insights from across the entire employee lifecycle.
• Marketing: Updates to the Oracle Bronto Marketing platform help marketers deliver more relevant and consistent brand experiences by providing increased visibility into commerce data, improving campaign ROI measurement, optimizing email delivery, accelerating ecommerce platform integrations and enabling faster product enablement.
• Project Management: Updates to the rules-based approval engine, project budgeting and charged-based billing capabilities provide customers with increased visibility into project reporting, stronger control over time and expense approvals, and the agility to open up potential new revenue sources and business models.
• Supply Chain: A new allocation and commitment engine allows customers to automatically determine the best way to allocate product, quickly identify potential issues and generate recommendations for resolution.

To help customers achieve the benefits of the cloud in as little as 45 days, NetSuite is accelerating its investment in SuiteSuccess. SuiteSuccess is a pre-configured industry cloud solution, built on industry-leading practices, that combines deep domain knowledge with pre-built workflows, KPIs and dashboards. The latest additions to SuiteSuccess include expanded vertical capabilities, new localizations and the launch of a new and fully integrated planning and budgeting cloud service that can be activated in as little as 30 days.

• SuiteSuccess for Wholesale Distributors: New warehouse management capabilities help customers optimize inventory management including inbound, outbound and inventory operations, while new inventory management capabilities help customers optimize inventory availability and tighten control over the full inventory lifecycle.
• SuiteSuccess for Manufacturing Companies: New work order and assembly management enhancements support manufacturers of all sizes by enabling customers to quickly and easily create work orders, assemble items and ‘make to order’.
• SuiteSucccess for Software Companies: New revenue management capabilities simplify the complexities of evolving revenue recognition mandates by providing real-time revenue intelligence and actionable data.
• International SuiteSuccess Starter Editions: New Starter Editions, which include pre-configured KPIs, workflows, reminders, reports and value-driven dashboards, help customers quickly get up and running on NetSuite. Starter Editions are now available for customers in Australia, China, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore and the UK.
• International SuiteSuccess Financials First Edition: SuiteSuccess Financials First is now available for customers in China, France, Germany, India, Japan and Singapore. With Financials First, customers can automate financial and operational processes, improve reporting and gain real-time visibility into key business metrics that support all local tax calculation, reporting and filing requirements.
• SuiteSuccess for Planning and Budgeting: New Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS) facilitate company-wide and departmental planning with modeling capabilities, approval workflows and reporting within one collaborative and scalable solution. Unlike competitive solutions, PBCS is a fully integrated part of NetSuite and includes leading practices and models that are purpose built for industries. This gives customers instant visibility into performance and facilitates real-time decision making.

Groundbreaking comedy theater and improvisation club The Second City is using Oracle NetSuite to bring the power of comedy to the world. With NetSuite, The Second City has been able to take advantage of an integrated business platform to support its rapid growth and the addition of new comedy and improvisation services, which include new theaters, program offerings and an expanded training center.

Since opening its doors in 1959, The Second City has grown from a small cabaret theater in Chicago to become one of the most influential and prolific comedy empires in the world, fostering superstars including Jason Sudeikis, Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert. To continue its comedy revolution, The Second City has launched a number of new initiatives including Second City Works, the B2B arm which uses the same methods to create professional development, content, and events that drive personal growth and organizational improvement. NetSuite has helped The Second City manage its expanding list of services as it brings comedy and improvisation to nearly 1 million people a year worldwide.

“People are drawn to The Second City because of our open-mindedness and passion for keeping the art of comedy alive,” said David Quinn, CFO, The Second City. “The core of what we do is improvisation and to ensure we can always focus on our art, we wanted a business platform that would allow us to grow without adding complexity to our business and NetSuite has been a perfect fit. The insights we get from NetSuite have helped us make better business decisions as we diversify our business and open our doors to more customers.”

With NetSuite, The Second City has been able to achieve a more real-time, consolidated view into its core business processes by consolidating previously disparate systems that were managing its multiple revenue streams and three offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto. NetSuite has also helped The Second City increase efficiencies and rapidly expand its range of services by eliminating previously manual and time-consuming tasks. This has enabled The Second City to focus on making the world a funnier place as it opens several new facilities to accommodate growing interest, including The Second City Training Center expansion, the Harold Ramis Film School, the first ever film school dedicated to comedy, and a full-service bar and restaurant.

“The Second City has fostered generations of superstars and continues to find new ways to innovate in the comedy and improv community,” said Evan Goldberg, EVP, Oracle NetSuite. “Its business is a great example of how you can carve out an entirely new approach and then grow that idea into a global empire by adding new services. With NetSuite, The Second City can focus on what will continue to get more artists and audience members in the door while we help ensure its business runs smoothly.”

Oracle NetSuite today announced a series of new innovations to help organizations across the world achieve the visibility and control needed to navigate change and accelerate growth. The latest innovations within the NetSuite solution include new global financial management capabilities that streamline currency and trade management and localizations to support customers in some of the world’s largest economies, including China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and the UK. 

“The pace of change around the world is increasing and organizations need to be agile in order to stay ahead of the competition and meet changing customer expectations,” said Evan Goldberg, EVP, Oracle NetSuite. “To help our customers manage increasing demands and reach new heights in every market they operate in, we are committed to making the most complex business processes simple through continued global enhancements to NetSuite.”

New Global Trade Management Capabilities

Help customers streamline the management of multi-subsidiary operations, support global compliance and gain real-time global insight.

• Global trade enablement: Customers can simplify and streamline intercompany trade business processes within NetSuite including transactions, reconciliations and netting.
• SuiteTax API: Customers can now streamline compliance with different tax requirements across the globe by eliminating the need to manually monitor tax rate changes across more than 100 countries. The new tax API also supports compliance with U.S. sales tax.
• Foreign currency expense report: Customers can now automatically reimburse employees in their local currency instead of the currency of the company’s headquarters.
• Installments: Customers can now set and manage scheduled payment due date arrangements with both their customers and suppliers with new capabilities that allow them to adhere to the local expectations of customers in Latin American countries and beyond.

 

New Localizations

New localized product capabilities empower NetSuite customers headquartered, or operating subsidiaries in some of the largest economies in the world, to quickly and easily leverage an integrated suite of modern business applications to drive growth, reduce costs and achieve the benefits of cloud computing.

• India: New tax management capabilities help customers comply with local GST and TDS tax requirements for India. Customers can also leverage localized reports by generating the data required for E-Way Bill documents and filing tax returns in the format specified by the Indian government.
• Japan: NetSuite now supports the Zengin XML file format, the new requirement from the Japanese Bankers Association (Zengin-Kyo). Customers are now able to increase efficiencies by generating an invoice summary using saved search capabilities and adding transaction fields to the invoice summary.
• Mexico: Customers are now enabled to comply digitally with governmental requirements by allowing all information required by the Mexico Tax Authority, including electronic invoicing and electronic accounting, to be within NetSuite.
• UK: NetSuite is now compatible with Making Tax Digital (MTD), a government initiative that became mandatory on April 1^st, 2019, which requires UK businesses to submit tax returns and payments online while also keeping digital records of taxes. NetSuite can help customers instantly comply with the new regulations by enabling the International Tax Reports SuiteApp.
• China, France, Germany, India, Japan and Singapore: SuiteSuccess Financials First is now available for customers in these countries. With Financials First, customers can automate financial and operational processes, improve reporting and gain real-time visibility into key business metrics that support all local tax calculation, reporting and filing requirements.

To give customers instant visibility into performance and facilitate real-time decision making, Oracle NetSuite today announced a new planning and budgeting cloud service that is integrated within NetSuite. The new SuiteSuccess for Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services are industry cloud solutions that enable organizations of any size to implement a world-class planning and budgeting solution that tracks performance against real-time planning and is tailored to their distinct industry requirements in as little as 30 days.  

“The pace of business today means that planning can no longer be solely based on historical data or generic, one-size-fits-all templates and instead it needs to be living and breathing process that is integrated into daily operations, designed for distinct industry use cases and constantly updated with real-time performance data and insights,” said Gary Wiessinger, SVP of Product Management, Oracle NetSuite. “To meet this demand and help organizations of all sizes improve decision making, our new Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services are integrated within NetSuite and include leading practices and models that are purpose built for individual industries. This combination clearly sets it apart from competitive solutions and enables our customers to achieve faster time to value.”

The new Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services (PBCS) integrate planning and budgeting capabilities within NetSuite and support all market segments with starter editions and extended capabilities for larger organizations. This enables organizations of all sizes to facilitate company-wide and departmental planning with modeling capabilities, approval workflows and reporting within one collaborative and scalable solution. With PBCS, customers can gain immediate insights into the state of business plans by using intuitive and easy-to-create dashboards and reports that are instantaneously refreshed using in-memory calculations and fast aggregations. This enables customers to improve:

• Forecasting: PBCS enables customers to forecast for complex business what-if scenarios by using ad-hoc scenario modeling, sandbox and predictive features.
• Collaboration: PBCS enables customers to collaborate across the enterprise or with specific groups of users using data-driven, dynamic approvals powered by a state-of-the-art workflow process.
• Planning Models: PBCS enables customers to define planning models for a specific line of business or create unified models for the company as a whole.
• Navigation: PBCS enables customers to create navigation flows that are tailored for groups of users based on their usage needs. For example, sales planners, expense planners, financial analysts, executives, etc. can all have their own navigation flows.

 

PBCS is available in seven industry editions, including warehouse distribution, manufacturing, marketing and advertising agency, software, retail, services and nonprofit. It is part of SuiteSuccess, a unified and pre-configured industry cloud solution that is built on industry leading practices. By combining deep domain knowledge with pre-built KPIs and dashboards, SuiteSuccess helps customers achieve the benefits of the cloud in as little as 45 days.

Oracle Bronto, part of the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit, today announced a series of innovations to the Bronto Marketing Platform to help marketers save time and deliver better brand experiences. The latest updates help marketers deliver more relevant and consistent brand experiences by providing increased visibility into commerce data, improving campaign ROI measurement, optimizing email delivery, accelerating ecommerce platform integrations and enabling faster product enablement. The first 1,000 NetSuite customers to purchase the Bronto platform by May 31, 2019 get a 30-day implementation included. To learn more about the offer, contact your NetSuite account executive or sign up here.

“Marketing is about finding that next percent of growth. It’s about growing revenues, relationships, recommendations and reputations. Nothing beats email marketing as it

is the most powerful and profitable marketing channel available today,” said Justin Cowan, VP of Operations, Oracle Bronto. “To help organizations take advantage of email to fuel their growth, NetSuite continues to invest in the Bronto Marketing Platform to ensure it’s the most sophisticated commerce marketing platform on the market. The latest release helps marketers increase productivity without losing the personal touch that consumers have come to expect.”

Bronto delivers powerful and flexible email marketing solutions that help organizations of all sizes grow revenue, save time and optimize marketing resources. By working seamlessly with multiple ecommerce platforms, Bronto enables brands to maximize the value of customer data and deliver irresistible customer experiences. The latest updates to the Bronto Marketing Platform build on more than 16 years of email marketing success to help marketers:

Deliver Better Brand Experiences

• Increase visibility into commerce activity: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud have been embedded into the Bronto Marketing Platform to provide powerful new capabilities to visualize and query customer data for relevant insights into the customers' experience.
• Increase customer engagement: Enhanced SMS features, including order-based messaging, consent by keyword and revenue tracking, help marketers increase engagement by delivering a more consistent customer experience across email and SMS.
• Improve marketing ROI measurement: New advanced order source tracking and attribution features enable marketers to gain a better understanding of their customers and the impact of marketing activities. The new features support cross-device/domain attributions and conversions made in other channels, such as SMS and mobile apps.
• Optimize email engagement: Gmail Annotations have been integrated into the platform, making it easy to highlight key information like deals, expiration dates and promo codes to help get emails noticed.

Increase Productivity

• Achieve faster time to revenue: Access to self-paced training with the Oracle Learning Management System help customers become marketing experts through a hands-on, self-guided learning experience that features personalized learning paths. The new training capabilities decrease on-boarding time and training costs while creating opportunities for customers to achieve greater ROI with the Bronto platform.
• Accelerate campaign execution: Pre-built self-service integrations with major ecommerce platforms like NetSuite, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Magento, will enable faster execution of campaigns without the need of technical integrators.

The Prada Group today announced a collaboration with Oracle to adopt a suite of Oracle advanced technological solutions that will support efficiency throughout all of Prada Group’s core retail processes. They will also help the company analyze historical data and current market demands across its global retail network of 634 stores, better-informing business decisions and providing a unique customer experience.

With Oracle Retail Cloud Services Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment, and Item Planning, the Prada Group will optimize its merchandising process including sales and forecasts, performance analysis, margin, open to buy, inventory management, supply chain, and inventory allocation. Implementing this solution will lead to a more informed analysis of the Group’s KPIs and a greater ability to set new targets and allocate more precise budgets.

The Group will also be able to strengthen its customer relations at the point of purchase with Oracle Retail Customer Engagement Cloud Service and Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service. The two solutions will provide real-time visibility into all customer-related details across every touchpoint, offering a personalized shopping experience.

“By integrating Oracle’s advanced digital technologies with our operations, we will be able to unlock increasing value within our business and offer further opportunities to our global customer base. Our collaboration with Oracle is part of our wider strategy focused on enhancing our Group with a strong investment in technology to boost operational efficiency and effectiveness,” said Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group Head of Marketing and Communication.

“For luxury brands, delivering a unique and positive brand experience is paramount,” said Mike Webster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail. “Whether they are shopping in Milan, San Francisco or online, Prada Group’s customers expect that inventory will be fresh, current and available. With Oracle, the company will be able to better understand and anticipate customer demand and optimize inventory assortments accordingly to ensure every brand connection results in a satisfied customer.”

To meet growing customer demand for cloud ERP systems that has seen strong growth for Oracle NetSuite in the last year, NetSuite today announced SuiteLife, a new partner engagement initiative. SuiteLife represents the largest investment NetSuite has ever made in its partner ecosystem and encompasses a number of the NetSuite Partner Programs, which include more than 550 partners in 85 countries. With SuiteLife, new partners will be able to start selling and delivering NetSuite to customers in only 90 days, while existing partners will benefit from innovative new offerings to expand their NetSuite practice and amplify their growth.

“The rate at which customers are moving ERP to the cloud is at an all-time high and our partner ecosystem plays a critical role in helping us meet this demand,” said Craig West, vice president, Alliances and Channels, Oracle NetSuite. “By making it easier than ever for partners to join, succeed and grow in the NetSuite ecosystem, we are putting the power of the NetSuite platform into the hands of more organizations across the world. With NetSuite, organizations gain the visibility and control needed to navigate complexities and accelerate growth while NetSuite partners capitalize on the generational transition to the cloud.”

SuiteLife delivers a comprehensive set of resources, certified training and tools that enable NetSuite partners to develop expertise around specific business functions, product areas and industries. With SuiteLife, NetSuite partners can quickly and easily gain the knowledge and expertise required to help customers succeed, differentiate their practices and expand their business. SuiteLife includes:

• SuiteSuccess Alignment: Enables partners to leverage SuiteSuccess, a pre-configured industry cloud solution that is built on industry leading practices, within their practice and existing methodologies to deliver even more value to customers.
• Accelerated New Product Introduction: A structured program that helps partners expedite the roll out and delivery of new products.
• Partner Support Programs: New services that help partners save time and lower risk on customer engagements by providing anytime access to NetSuite’s library of training and network of industry experts. 
• Simplified and Holistic Program Structure: One subscription for all the enablement, tools, assets and support a partner will need to grow without having to compromise.

“We have worked closely with the NetSuite team for many years to help organizations across industries drive growth,” said Mark Wenig, Principal, Eide Bailly LLP. “With this new initiative, NetSuite is making it easier than ever for us to get the resources we need to ensure our customers are unlocking the true value of the suite.”

“The NetSuite team has always been a true partner and the work we have done together has helped ensure our customers are always getting the very best value,” said Steve Ems, Principal National Business Applications Leader, RSM US LLP. “With the launch of SuiteLife, NetSuite has raised the bar again by giving us even more help and support so we can always deliver an exceptional experience to our customers.”

The NetSuite Partner Program grew exponentially as a result of significant expansion in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. The program includes global and regional systems integrators, finance and business advisory firms, and technology consulting providers including Deloitte Digital, Capgemini, RSM and Eide Bailly. Partners provide a combination of services to NetSuite customers, ranging from program management, integration and implementation support to regulatory compliance, tax and audit advice, and system selection guidance in areas such as ERP, HCM, CRM and omnichannel commerce. These services are delivered on the core NetSuite platform to meet increasing demand for integrated cloud applications that drive business agility and deliver exceptional time to value.

TWINSET curates a unique assortment of women’s ready-to-wear fashion, shoes and accessories sold online and across renowned Italian, European and Russian cities. As the company continued to grow, they knew maintaining harmony between delivering high-quality clothing and excellent customer service was essential. With Oracle Retail’s modern point of service (POS) technology, TWINSET can open more boutiques and corner stores that meet international requirements, while delighting sophisticated shoppers with associates that are informed and ready to help.

“We want our consumers, the brand and our associates to be in harmony when they enter the store. By putting intuitive and modern technology at our associates’ fingertips, they can focus on the customer and delivering a seamless omnichannel experience,” said Federico Tamburini, IT and logistic director, TWINSET. “Oracle also enables us to quickly roll out new boutiques by leveraging the international and localization capabilities inherent in the solution.”  

In the recent Topography of Retail Report, nearly 6,400 European consumers surveyed prioritized knowledgeable in-store staff (73 percent) as one of the most compelling attributes of a shopping experience. Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service will empower TWINSET associates to deliver on the brand commitment in store with inventory visibility, customer intelligence, and seamless transactions.

For example, from a tablet, an associate will be able to easily pull up a customer’s recent transactions to get a sense of their style and make suggestions on new merchandise or easily order an out-of-stock item from the website and have it shipped directly to the customer with no hassle.

“The in-store experience must go beyond transactions alone. Retailers, particularly fashion retailers, must dazzle their customers at the point of interest. By modernizing in-store POS technology, brands such as TWINSET are putting consumer intelligence in the associates’ hands, allowing them to personalize the interaction and build trust between the brand and the individual,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail.

Oracle’s enterprise-grade blockchain platform is now available as part of Everledger’s blockchain-based solution following a rigorous development and scale evaluation process. As part of this, Everledger, a global emerging technology enterprise leading the way in real-world applications of blockchain, assessed Oracle’s blockchain offering for its ability to provide extended product capabilities to support enhanced customer solutions.

In particular, the alignment will give Everledger users the ability to shadow blockchain transactions into a relational database, making it easier to run analytics on them. This will enable improved decision making, for example, being better able to determine how long it takes to transport gemstones from mine to the wholesaler and the retailer.

A pioneer in digital provenance tracking, Everledger’s blockchain-based platform is trusted by many industries including diamonds, coloured gemstones, fine wine and art. The ability to transparently track the provenance and lifetime journey of assets as they move across global supply chains, is especially critical for high value goods. These industries are susceptible to increased potential for theft, fraud and counterfeit—in the diamond industry alone, fraud events cost the insurance industry millions of dollars a year.

Leanne Kemp, Founder & CEO Everledger says, “With an increasing consumer consciousness and a vocal demand for transparency, our work is focused on engaging entire business ecosystems to provide consumers the ability to make fully informed purchasing decisions. It is thus key for us to enable the ease of systems interaction and provide value add to our customers.

“The inclusion of Oracle Blockchain Platform in our offering enables us to deploy more innovative products and solutions for our customers globally, in particular with improved time to market for business intelligence reporting solutions. Oracle’s comprehensive enterprise-grade offering will open our customers to realising more from our blockchain-based platform and crystalise value from the data in their own systems.”

Key Elements

Some of the new capabilities of Oracle Blockchain Platform are deemed critical by Everledger in the integration of its blockchain-based platform with customers’ existing business and IT systems. As blockchain becomes an important data store in the enterprise, the Oracle Blockchain Platform enables users to capture blockchain transaction history and current state data for analytics as well as integrate it with other data sources.

“Our longstanding goal has been to help customers to manage, protect, analyze and use the world’s data for the benefit of all. Being able to work with innovative companies like Everledger is an amazing opportunity. We look forward to helping both the company itself further its innovations in tracking and tracing the authenticity of some of the world’s most precious items, but also helping those in the ecosystem link key data sources for wider benefit,” said Frank Xiong, group vice president, Blockchain Product Development, Oracle.

The key elements of note include:

• Database access – Data is an integral part of blockchain. With much of the world’s data resident in Oracle systems, the use of Oracle Blockchain Platform to seamlessly link to those repositories will enable these same customers to leverage both their existing data stores and data on the Everledger blockchain.
• Analytics – Oracle Blockchain Platform’s ability to connect to the rich histories stored in an organisation’s existing database means that Everledger can seamlessly enable analytics integration for highly visual interactive dashboards and reports.
• Monitoring of network health, transaction rates, and other statistics, and other elements of blockchain administration/configuration, are made easier by enhanced REST APIs, which also simplify integration with existing enterprise IT tools.
• Out of the box plug and play capabilities from the Oracle Blockchain Platform makes it not only easy for Everledger to get off the ground, but will also easier for deployment.
• Developer tools – Additionally, the query tools for Oracle Blockchain Platform link into things like smart contract support standard SQL-based ledger queries, enabling organisations to leverage the skill sets their developers already have, thereby reducing the complexity of developing chaincode and boosting performance.