Strengthens Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite and Oracle Enterprise Manager with Best-in-class SOA Management Capabilities
Redwood Shores, Calif. – Feb. 8, 2010
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Oracle has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, a leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management.
AmberPoint’s solutions help organizations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.
AmberPoint’s SOA management products further extend Oracle Fusion Middleware’s industry-leading SOA capabilities including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Governance and Oracle Enterprise Manager accelerating the resolution of application performance and business transactions issues before the business is impacted.
The addition of AmberPoint demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to provide customers with a comprehensive Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA offering that helps improve performance and reduce IT costs through end-to-end SOA management and Business Transaction Management solutions.
The transaction is expected to close the first half of this year. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Supporting Quotes
“AmberPoint and Oracle share a vision of providing customers with comprehensive SOA management capabilities that support modern IT environments and are also complete, open, and integrated,” said Thomas Kurian, Oracle Executive Vice President, Product Development. “We expect the addition of AmberPoint’s products to Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that allows customers to manage the entire lifecycle of SOA-based solutions, providing visibility and management across heterogeneous environments.”
“AmberPoint has been providing our customers with tremendous value through governing and managing composite applications, and we expect that this combination with Oracle will provide enterprise customers with a comprehensive offering that enables even more real-time visibility into their business processes,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO.
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In February 2010, BMW ORACLE Racing is facing Defender Alinghi in the 33rd America's Cup Match. The 33rd America's Cup is the sequel to the dramatic 32nd America's Cup in 2007, won by Alinghi in the seventh race. The best-of-three races will take place live from Valencia, Spain starting Monday, February 8th at 3:45 a.m. ET. Race 2 is scheduled for Wednesday, February 10th at 3:45 a.m. ET. If necessary, Race 3 will take place on Friday, February 12th, also at 3:45 a.m. ET.
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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is a free set of certified plug-ins that enable developers to build Java EE and Web Services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform where Eclipse is the preferred Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
This release delivers a significant vendor provided extension to Eclipse with unique Oracle WebLogic Server features, WYSIWYG Web page editing, SCA support, JAX-WS Web Service validation, an integrated tag and data palette, and smart editors.
Also new with this release is Oracle’s AppXRay feature, a design time dependency analysis and visualization tool that makes it easy for Java developers to work in a team setting, greatly reduce runtime debugging, and improve code quality.
The new features in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g allow Oracle WebLogic Server developers to significantly reduce the number of code cycles and increase code quality by catching errors at design time.
Higher Quality Development in Less Time
This version of the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g (11.1.1.4) delivers on the promise of shorter, faster release cycles that better keep pace with the underlying open source Eclipse platform.
The release debuts major enhancements in Java Web application development, including:
AppXRay: provides a visual understanding of dependencies, helping developers examine and understand an application quickly - resulting in fewer design flaws and more streamlined development. AppXRay also reports dependencies “as-you-type”, not only providing code completion for attributes and values, but validating in real time against dependencies throughout the entire application including Java code, JSP, JSF and JSTL. This holistic view helps to catch dependency issues early in the development cycle rather than relying on runtime debugging to detect issues, a common occurrence when working in large teams.
WYSIWYG Web page development: enables developers, in the design view, to see the effects of user interface changes without the need to re-deploy.
Oracle WebLogic Server SCA support: provides Oracle WebLogic Server and SCA developers with Eclipse tooling that will help them define a server and easily configure WebLogic SCA libraries and metadata.
JAX-WS Web Service validation: helps find errors and conflicts in Java Web Service annotations that could easily be missed by the developer.
Oracle WebLogic Server JMS deployment descriptor editor: helps simplify and streamline authoring of JMS configuration files.
FastSwap support: enables WebLogic developers to leverage FastSwap support in combination with AppXRay to allow changes to Java classes without requiring re-deployment, also reducing the amount of time spent deploying/re-deploying an application..
Supporting Quotes
"With the new AppXRay feature, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse provides a means to easily visualize the complex dependencies of your application, resulting in higher quality code and faster development time. Innovations, such as AppXRay, underline Oracle’s continued commitment to provide tools and frameworks to enable developers to build, test and optimize Java and open source applications,” said Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice president Tools and Middleware, Oracle.
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Oracle Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Most Recent Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant
Redwood Shores, CA - February 3, 2010
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Gartner’s 2010 “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms” positions Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant, Oracle announced today. (1)
Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.
According to Gartner, “leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprise wide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis.”
The Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation offers comprehensive analytic and BI capabilities for ad hoc analysis, OLAP, interactive dashboards, advanced reporting and publishing, proactive detection and alerts, mobile analytics, and more. Its hot-pluggable design enables organizations to extend BI capabilities to existing Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and applications including SAP.
The Oracle BI Foundation serves as the technical foundation for Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) system as well as Oracle BI Applications. Oracle BI Applications are complete, prebuilt solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle applications that enable customers to achieve fast time to value by reducing deployment time and help lower overall total cost of ownership.
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“We believe Gartner’s placement of Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant recognizes our work to deliver a complete, open and integrated BI platform that helps organizations proactively make informed, actionable decisions and drive toward optimized performance across the enterprise,” said Paul Rodwick, vice president of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence. “Organizations around the world are making Oracle’s BI platform their enterprise standard.”
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(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,” by Rita L. Sallam, Bill Hostmann, James Richardson, Andreas Bitterer, January 29, 2010
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Oracle’s Hyperion Positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites
Redwood Shores, CA - February 3, 2010
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According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites, Oracle is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based on analysis of Oracle’s Hyperion Performance Management applications, Oracle announced today. (1)
Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.
Oracle’s Hyperion Performance Management applications are a modular suite of integrated applications that support a broad range of strategic and financial performance management processes that help organizations deliver predictable results, improve transparency, and increase business alignment.
The Oracle EPM System helps organizations achieve management excellence by uniting Hyperion performance management applications, prebuilt Oracle BI Applications, and the Oracle BI Foundation, into a complete and integrated system for managing and optimizing performance across business functions.
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“We are pleased to be acknowledged by Gartner, which we believe is for our breadth and depth of functionality, strong customer base, global partner network, and integrations between our performance management applications and Oracle and non-Oracle transactional systems,” said John O’Rourke, vice president of Marketing, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management. “Our category-leading performance management applications are enabling organizations to take advantage of their existing IT investments and achieve world-class reporting, planning and decision-making processes.”
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(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites,” by Neil Chandler, Nigel Rayner, John E. Van Decker, January 25, 2010
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
SAN FRANCISCO AND Redwood Shores, CA, – February 2, 2010
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Further extending the value that Oracle Applications deliver to customers, SYSTIME and Oracle announced availability of an Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution that connects Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
The PLM Process Integration Pack enables rapid implementations of Oracle’s best-in-class Agile PLM processes integrated to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP. This integration helps JD Edwards customers reduce the cost and risk associated with typical third-party and custom PLM integrations.
Developed in collaboration between Oracle and SYSTIME, the new integration is part of Oracle AIA, a comprehensive solution that delivers integrated business processes across Oracle, third party and custom applications.
Since the launch of Oracle’s AIA program, Oracle continues to see strong momentum across its partner ecosystem, with Systems Integrator (SI) partners, such as SYSTIME, making significant investments in strategic co-development efforts.
These co-development efforts enable Oracle partners to obtain technical strength and insight for Oracle AIA through training, development participation and validation programs; and increased revenue opportunities with differentiated, low cost, fast pace and sustainable service offerings. Additionally Oracle is able to rapidly expand the number of AIA integrations available.
SYSTIME is currently a Platinum Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
Pre-Integrated Offering Delivers Value
Oracle AIA provides a pre-built integration between Agile PLM and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to improve organizational transparency and streamline product innovation through better design making, accelerated manufacturing and an expedited time to market. Through this integration, customers benefit from:
Pre-defined PLM transfer templates: Predefined templates for design release of new product definition and product launch, as well as change management of previously launched products.
Bi-directional data exchange: Synchronization of engineering change status and material attribute information between manufacturing and PLM enables higher innovation efficiency.
Robust error-handling and notification framework. The integration pack provides multiple layers of validation to ensure data exchanges are complete and properly formatted. All business rules within JD Edwards EnterpriseOne are also validated for every transaction. Exception handling ensures that unsuccessful transactions are rolled-back and email notifications are sent.
End-to-end Process monitoring. Tracking and monitoring of the change process queue minimizes data exchange latency and ensures effective process completion.
Supporting Quote
“Working in close collaboration with dedicated partners like SYSTIME, we continue to leverage Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) to extend the value of our customers’ investments,” said Oracle Group Vice President, JD Edwards, Lyle Ekdahl. “We appreciate SYSTIME for stepping up and embracing the early adoption of the AIA from a JD Edwards perspective. We chose SYSTIME due to their industry strength and specialization in Oracle’s enterprise suite of applications. The co-development of this integration will give JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers new tools to drive product innovation and can also make the full design-to-release process more effective and efficient.”
“We, here at SYSTIME are pleased that we had the opportunity to work with Oracle to develop this integration; the value of this integration product to customers is enormous, with great opportunities to streamline functional and technical work in product management, engineering and manufacturing. We also remove the ad hoc, point-to-point interfaces that existed in the past with a broader, more systematic, well supported mechanism that should support customer requirements very well for many years to come,” Ramesh Subramanian, Vice President of Global Services of SYSTIME.
“It has been an honor for SYSTIME to work with Oracle to develop an integration between JD Edwards and Agile. SYSTIME’s acclaimed specialization in JD Edwards and Oracle’s Agile PLM tied in with many years of experience in Oracle solutions is the quintessential package for customers to accelerate time to market and optimize profitability,” says Vishal Grover, President and CEO of SYSTIME.
SYSTIME, 100% subsidiary of CMS group is a leading global business and technology service provider, serving customers in 50 countries over the last 30 years. SYSTIME provides end-to-end services to its customers and has best in class people, tools, methodologies and global delivery centers. SYSTIME (an Oracle Platinum Partner) is a leader in the JD Edwards space and has been distinctly recognized, year after year, for keeping its customers competitive and agile. Please visit our website at www.SYSTIME.net.
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The report covered 89 criteria among 14 providers, and evaluated IT and business related scenarios. Oracle is a Leader in both scenarios.
Oracle tied for the highest score in Strategy, based on Forrester's assessment of Oracle’s PPM product strategy, corporate strategy and solution cost in the PPM market. Oracle also earned a top score in scheduling, collaboration, usability focus, implementation and integration.
“The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009” states that “Oracle's full menu of solutions appeals to mature organizations that want one-stop shopping.” The report further states that the Oracle PPM offering “has made real efforts in making the tool easier and more accessible.”
“Oracle’s PPM products today offer a complete, integrated and accurate set of master information on people, projects, and assets across the enterprise that help organizations manage the full lifecycle of their IT- and business-driven projects and portfolios,” said Cliff Godwin, Senior Vice President, Oracle Applications. “We believe that the findings of ‘The Forrester Wave™: Project Portfolio Management’ report recognize our strategy to provide our customers with transformational enterprise PPM delivering true transparency, visibility and control for all business decisions.”
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Oracle Health Sciences Delivers New Release of the Oracle® Argus Safety Suite
Builds on Oracle’s Endeavor to Provide an Integrated Pharmacovigilance Suite That Supports End-to-End Drug Safety Processes Across Clinical Development and Post-Market Surveillance
Redwood Shores, CA – February 2, 2010
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As part of its ongoing effort to provide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research organizations and medical device companies with best-in-class solutions for adverse event management, risk management, and data analysis, Oracle today announced Oracle® Argus Safety Suite 5.1.
The Oracle Argus Safety Suite provides health sciences organizations with a comprehensive and fully integrated platform that helps them meet regulatory compliance, enables product stewardship from clinical development through post-marketing, and integrates safety and risk management.
The new release features enhancements to Oracle Argus Safety, Oracle Argus Insight and Oracle Argus Perceptive.
Used today in organizations of all sizes, including some of the largest pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) in the world, Oracle Argus Safety helps address the most pressing pharmacovigilance challenges companies face today.
The new release of Oracle Argus Safety provides advanced reporting features, including a full set of dashboards and metrics, as well as new automation functionality for more efficient case processing that enable regulatory compliance and help reduce reporting costs.
Enhancements to Oracle Argus Insight and Oracle Argus Perceptive help support customers’ risk management imperatives and offer a more complete view of drug safety across key areas including risk identification, risk analysis, risk mitigation and portfolio management.
Supporting Quote
“Health sciences organizations recognize that they can significantly reduce the costs and risks associated with bringing drugs and devices to market by identifying and effectively managing safety issues early,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “The Oracle Argus Safety Suite has proven effective in helping organizations of all sizes ensure regulatory compliance and improve the overall safety of therapies.”
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In the research, Gartner identifies five categories for enabling the key field sales processes in consumer goods including: category management, trade promotion management, volume planning, retail execution and settlement.
According to Gartner, “Sales force automation (SFA) solutions are critical because of the amount of time and resources associated with executing with retailers.”
“Consumer goods firms are seeking a better return from their investments in trade spending,” said Matthew Johnson, Oracle Senior Director, Consumer Goods Industry Strategy. “Oracle has integrated the market-leading Siebel CRM suite for managing accounts, promotions and funds with the world-class predictive analytics and optimization technology of Demantra Predictive Trade Planning to plan and execute more effective promotions. In support of this work, Oracle is pleased to be recognized by Gartner with a strong positive rating in its MarketScope for Sales Force Automation in the Consumer Goods Industry.”
The MarketScope is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
* Gartner, Inc. “MarketScope for Sales Force Automation in the Consumer Goods Industry” by Dale Hagemeyer, December 28, 2009
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On January 27, 2010, Oracle announced it finalized it's acquisition of Sun.
This combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle's portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box. Each layer of the stack will be architected to improve performance, leverage innovation and centralize management so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance, reliability and security goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Combination of the local entities worldwide will proceed in accordance with local laws.
Oracle will host an all-day live event, which also will be webcast, for customers, partners, press and analysts today at 9:00 AM Pacific time, at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. Details are available here.
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Nuklearna Elektrarna Krsko (NEK) Invests in Oracle Enterprise Asset Management To Unify Asset Information Across the Enterprise
Nuclear Power Plant Extends 23 Year Engagement with Oracle by Collaborating to Define Industry Requirements and by Relying on the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1
Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 26, 2010
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Nuklearna Elektrarna Krsko (NEK), Slovenia’s and Croatia’s only nuclear power plant, has extended its strategic relationship with Oracle. As part of this, Oracle will be providing NEK with a long term IT solution and the parties will cooperate to develop industry requirements for the next generation technology applications in the nuclear utilities market.
Specifically, NEK will become a member of the Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) Customer Advisory Board. In addition NEK will lead the newly formed Nuclear Power Generation Special Interest Group within Oracle Application User Group.
Oracle eAM will replace NEK’s legacy maintenance management system and was chosen because of it being a single, integrated system with unrivalled functionalities for asset management and supply chain planning.
Oracle eAM will help unify NEK’s information environment and deliver asset lifecycle management, as well as leaner operations and improved return on capital investments.
The Oracle E-Business Suite will deliver integrated work and supply chain management for NEK, incorporating visual navigation planning, work order processing and nuclear systems maintenance.
The project will be rolled out in three phases, with the first ‘pilot’ phase beginning in December 2009, followed by the second ‘build phase’ in April 2010 and the final ‘transition’ phase in November 2010.
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“Being responsible for supplying a significant part of Slovenia’s and Croatia’s electricity means it is critical that we have a state of the art maintenance management system able to automate our business processes and deliver information in one place. We chose to work with Oracle because we could develop a strategic partnership which not only supports our requirements, but will be a benefit for the global nuclear power industry and will bring us next-generation industry solutions,” said Zeljko Reljic, CIO of Nuklearna Elektrarna Krsko.
“NEK is one of Europe’s leading nuclear utilities and we’re pleased to be continuing our 23 year relationship with the company. We see the nuclear utilities sector as one of the most strategic and complex industries, and being able to deliver enterprise applications that support business processes is what Oracle does best,” said Jon Chorley, Oracle Vice President, Product Strategy. “We look forward to working closely with NEK to implement the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 which includes an effective maintenance management system and to support a next generation vision of technology applications in nuclear utilities.”
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Amway Corp. Deploys Oracle® Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack to Support Growth Strategy
Global Corporation with More Than 3 Million Independent Business Owners Reduces Risk, Cost with Reusable Foundation for Future Integration Needs
Redwood Shores, CA – January 26, 2010
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Amway Corp., a part of the Alticor group of companies, has selected and deployed OracleÒ Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack for a global technology initiative to promote and support 100 percent growth of its business by 2012.
By initially implementing Oracle Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack in three flagship countries – Australia, South Africa and New Zealand – Amway is building the foundation for its Project ATLAS initiative in order to standardize the company’s top ten business processes globally, grow business and reduce costs.
Planned as a phased roll-out globally across 60 countries, Amway’s Project ATLAS is also streamlining and standardizing back-office transaction processes worldwide, while improving reporting and analytics to support better decision-making with Oracle.
Using Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack and Oracle SOA Suite, Amway is standardizing integrations across a front-end “Global Web” e-commerce system with the support and flexibility for seamless integration into third-party legacy systems and ERP applications for better insight into business data.
Loosely coupled and Standards based integrations and processes built using Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack and Oracle SOA Suite empower Amway to roll out technology changes quickly and efficiently around the world.
By replacing multiple legacy and custom-built systems with Oracle, Amway can take full advantage of packaged, integrated applications, while reducing costs and creating a re-usable foundation for future integration needs and changes.
Supporting Quotes
“As a global leader in direct selling with 3 million independent business owners, Amway, Corp. reached a critical point where our technology infrastructure could not keep pace with our ambitious goal to increase total business by 100 percent within the next two years,” said Tina Abdoo, Manager - Enterprise Development, Amway, Corp. “Our choice of standardizing on Oracle has been a huge win for all of our constituents, and we are already reaping the benefits. Working with Oracle has been an amazing kick-start for our SOA journey to save time and cost and accelerate our growth with a strong, flexible technology foundation to meet future needs.”
“The combination of Oracle Applications, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack provides Amway, Corp. with unrivalled power and a technology infrastructure and foundation that provides value out-of-the-box on day one,” said Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President of Product Development at Oracle. “We are excited to continue our work with Amway, Corp. and deliver the innovations that will help them achieve their business goals.”
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• The Oracle software enables the Office of State Finance to effectively and efficiently manage and collect data related to awards, sub-awards and vendor payments from more than 25 state agencies and higher education institutions that have received Federal funding under ARRA and then automatically submit the data in reports mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the FederalReporting.gov Web site. The Oracle solution enables the department to better cleanse, combine and report the data, improving data accuracy.
• Prior to the Oracle implementation, the Office of State Finance was limited in its ability to drill down into the data to the individual award level. The Oracle solution enables the department to easily and quickly generate accurate, up-to-date ARRA reports, called Transparency reports, based on the data received from the state agencies. These reports, for example, outline the number of jobs created by different functions of government and within specific geographic locations, as well as highlight sub-award amounts categorized by award and payments made to vendors.
• In an effort to ensure full transparency and accountability for the state’s citizens, Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has also ordered the creation of a Web site to track how each individual agency is using ARRA funds. In the near future, Oklahoma Office of State Finance plans to leverage its existing Oracle solution to support this Web site, which will enable citizens to access clear and concise information about the Federal stimulus initiative including graphs illustrating how much money the state has spent in a certain quarter, a breakdown of the spending by category, and the ability to drill down into spending figures, job creation statistics, and other data.
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• “The ARRA project was most difficult, as underlying assumptions changed almost hourly and we had to face major challenges at every turn. The Oracle team responded beautifully, providing the proper levels of leadership and teamwork to make the project a success,” said Michael Clingman, director, Oklahoma Office of State Finance.
• "ARRA has made it clear that every taxpayer dollar spent on economic recovery must be subject to unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability. The State of Oklahoma is focused on providing this transparency to its citizens. With Oracle Consulting, the state is able to meet these new challenges with regard to collecting, monitoring and communicating key information about its use of public funds using dashboards developed with Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, and leveraging data currently existing in its financial, planning and tracking systems,” said Steve Holdridge, group vice president, Government and Education Consulting, Oracle.
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More Than 60 Communications Companies Worldwide Select or Extend Use of Oracle® Communications Software in First Half of Fiscal Year
Redwood Shores, Calif. – January 26, 2010
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More than 60 communications service providers worldwide selected or extended their use of Oracle® Communications applications in the first half of Oracle’s fiscal year – June 2009 through November 2009. These companies rely on Oracle to help drive new service creation and streamline business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), while reducing operational costs.
Telstra, Australia’s leading fixed and mobile operator, selected Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper to support its Service Delivery Framework (SDF). The SDF will help Telstra to securely open its network to third-party developer partners to create innovative communications-enabled applications. The platform also will help Telstra implement new business models that generate revenue from partner relationships. With Oracle, Telstra is managing, integrating and charging its premium partners as efficiently as possible to maximize profitability. Telstra will work with Oracle Communications Consulting to complete the implementation.
Cosmoline, a Greek communications provider, selected Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management to launch its Wi-Fi services, replacing an existing SAP billing system. Cosmoline will leverage Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management’s flexible rating engine to accommodate all customer tariffs and quickly launch competitive plans into the market.
The following communications companies also selected or extended their use of Oracle Communications applications and platform software: Aircel Limited (India) American Móvil Peru (Peru), Bell Canada (Canada), Boingo (United States), Belize Telemedia Limited (Belize), China Telecom Shanghai (China), Chunghwa Telecom (China), Colombia Móvil S.A. (Columbia), Cox Communications (United States), Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea), EMOBILE Ltd. (Japan), ENABIL Solutions Inc. (Canada), Expresso Telecom Group Ltd. (United Arab Emirates), Fujian Mobile (China), Globalive Communications (Canada), Hawaiian Telcom (United States), Hellenic Telecommunications Organization OTE (Greece), Hughes Network Systems (United States), Iowa Telecom (United States), mobilkom (Austria), Ningxia Telecom (China), NTT PC Communications (Japan), Orange Slovensko, a.s. (Slovakia), PAETEC (United States), PCCW (Hong Kong), SaskTel (Canada), Saudi Telecom Company Bahrain (Bahrain), Shaw Communications (Canada), TDC (Denmark), Telcel Mexico (Mexico), Telecom Argentina S.A. (Argentina), Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago), Telenor Connexion (Sweden), TeliaSonera (Finland), Victoria Department of Education and Training (Australia), VimpelCom (Russia), Virgin Media (United Kingdom) and Wi-Tribe Limited (United Arab Emirates).
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“Telstra’s Service Delivery Framework is an open, standards-based environment designed to deliver innovative services to end users. Our selection of Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper extends this platform so we can deploy value-added services to drive revenue and customer satisfaction quickly and cost effectively,” said Michael Rocca, managing director, networks and services, Telstra Group.
“Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides the flexibility and scalability we need to quickly roll out new services and offer flexible billing options to our customers,” said Tzortzis Chalaris, chief information officer, Cosmoline.
“Communications companies worldwide continue to invest in Oracle to improve operational efficiency and profitability in today’s dynamic industry. Customers tell us they select Oracle for our proven commitment to developing and improving a comprehensive suite of standards-based communications applications that provide quantifiable business results,” said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 100 of the world’s top 100 communications companies running Oracle applications and technology. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications.
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eSilicon Improves Business Visibility and Efficiency with Oracle® Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence
Semiconductor Services Company Cuts Financial Reporting from Weeks to Hours with Oracle
Redwood Shores, CA – January 25, 2010
News Facts
eSilicon, a semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP) that provides a comprehensive suite of design, productization and manufacturing services, has chosen Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) software to improve planning and productivity and deliver a single version of the truth for business critical information.
With Oracle, eSilicon has achieved greater visibility into company performance and cut its reporting processes from a few weeks down to hours, and in some cases, minutes.
Key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle EPM and BI software supports a broad range of strategic, financial and operational management processes that enable organizations to become smart, agile and aligned.
Better Financial Forecasting, Planning and Analysis with a Single Version of the Truth
Prior to Oracle, eSilicon managed financial forecasting and planning with spreadsheets. The manual process was time consuming, error-prone and lacked security, version control and data integrity.
eSilicon selected Oracle EPM and BI software based on ease of use, cost-efficiency, robust functionality, and ability to integrate seamlessly with its existing systems and applications including the Oracle E-Business Suite.
eSilicon rolled out the software in just three months to select global stakeholders, enabling the company to consolidate cross-office data between applications to obtain a single source of information regarding budgets, bookings, billings and backlog, statistical information, head count, and other key business variables.
eSilicon has also eliminated the complexity of managing multiple forecasts – allowing it to now easily run comparisons and variable analysis in real-time.
In addition, the consolidated Oracle-based planning system allows users to easily create, populate and distribute custom reports, run “what-if” scenarios, forecast for both financial and non-financial metrics, such as headcount, and more.
While currently a dozen finance and business people are accessing the new Oracle solutions, eSilicon plans to extend Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Essbase to all business users, including sales, marketing, operations and the executive staff in the future.
Supporting Quote
“Prior to Oracle we were laboring under time pressure and error-prone spreadsheets to manage our financial forecasting process – making it impossible to quickly do comparisons and get a real-time view into the performance of our business,” said Larry Peyton, director of financial planning and analysis, eSilicon. “In the current economic environment, we have to be agile and move with the changing dynamics of our business. We could no longer afford to wait for reports to see how we were progressing towards our corporate goals. With Oracle we were able to quickly consolidate our mission critical data into one database and provide a single version of the truth for key metrics like revenue and spending. Reports that used to take weeks can be pulled in minutes. Oracle has allowed us to become more nimble, proactive and to manage our business more effectively.”
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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In Business Support Systems (BSS), Oracle received a rating of “Very Strong” in all seven categories: Product or Service, Market Understanding, Offering (Product) Strategy, Geographic Strategy, Sales Strategy, Market Responsiveness and Track Record and Overall Viability in 2009.
In Operations Support Systems (OSS), Gartner rated Oracle “Very Strong” in the following categories: Market Understanding, Offering (Product) Strategy and Overall Viability in 2009.
According to Gartner, “Demand for genuine off-the-shelf solutions built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is getting ‘louder,’ as CSPs [communications service providers] are re-evaluating opportunities to reduce costs.” (1)
Gartner also states, “A leadership position in the OSS market requires vendors not just to have best-in-class, standardized products, but also to offer strong professional services consulting and system integration by taking a holistic approach to CSPs' processes, organization and IT operations. All this needs to be complemented by long-term migration guidance.” (2)
Supporting Quote
“Communications service providers require great flexibility and control in today’s increasingly competitive market. Oracle provides the most comprehensive suite of integrated solutions that enables service providers to rapidly offer differentiated services at a lower total cost of ownership. We believe our ‘Very Strong’ ratings in both BSS and OSS portfolios reflect Oracle’s commitment to delivering measurable business results to the communications industry,” said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.
(1) Gartner, Inc., “Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009,” by Norbert J. Scholz, December 22, 2009.
(2) Gartner, Inc., “Dataquest Insight: Operations Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2009,” by Martina Kurth, January 13, 2010.
Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 100 of the world’s top 100 communications companies running Oracle applications and technology. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with a standards-based service delivery portfolio, as well as the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next-generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/Communications.
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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In February 2009, Georgian College went into production with a four-node Oracle Database cluster running industry-standard servers and Linux powering enterprise applications used by students, faculty and administration.
The upgrade to a clustered database environment was part of a larger project to modernize its IT systems that serve Georgian College’s seven campuses, approximately 10,000 full-time students, 28,000 part-time students, and 1,700 full-time and part-time staff.
Enhanced Application Availability, Performance and Scalability
Drivers behind Georgian College’s upgrade to Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters were:
To enhance the performance and uptime of its PeopleSoft Enterprise applications (version 9.0) spanning Campus Solutions, Financial Management, Human Capital Management, among others; and,
Deliver a scalable system to handle spikes in traffic such as during student registration periods as well as accommodate a growing enrollment over the coming years.
The college migrated off of a legacy system that was expensive to maintain from a cost and resources perspective, and that also struggled under the burden of high volume of transactions during previous student registration periods resulting in downtime for student registration and administrative systems.
Since the upgrade, Georgian College’s registrar office has experienced increased application performance and availability levels enabling the office to cut the registration window in half from what it was previously.
Overall, the college’s testing – which concentrated on how various ancillary and legacy systems would behave in a cluster – revealed few issues and a dramatic boost in performance.
Georgian College’s production and test clusters are comprised of four Dell M600s with Dual X5450 4-core Xeon Processors and 64 GB RAM.
Supporting Quote
“Reliability, performance and scalability were deciding factors behind our decision to move to Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters,” said Terry Speare, Senior DBA, Georgian College. “Now our PeopleSoft Enterprise applications are performing like a top. Our constituents are ecstatic with the application uptime and performance we’re experiencing.”
Georgian College has evolved into one of the leading colleges in Canada and the largest co-operative education institute in the country. Home to the unique University Partnership Centre and the Canadian Automotive Institute, Georgian offers more than 100 diploma, degree, graduate certificate, apprenticeship and upgrading programs. Georgian welcomes nearly 10,000 full-time and 28,000 part-time students to its three main and four regional campuses annually. Georgian’s largest campus is located in Barrie, just 45 minutes north of Toronto. Georgian College is strongly committed to its tradition of providing knowledge, skills and work-related experience integral to successful careers and lifelong learning. For more information, visit us online at www.Georgianc.on.ca
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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Accenture and Oracle to Jointly Develop Technology Solutions for Social Service Agencies
First Scheduled Release to be Case Management Solution for Child Welfare
Reston, VA – January 25, 2010
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Oracle have agreed to jointly develop integrated software packages to address the growing needs of social service agencies around the world for cost-effective technology solutions to handle rising workloads while providing enhanced oversight capabilities and supporting outcome-focused program delivery.
“Public agencies are looking for technology solutions that can lower costs while increasing their ability to handle rising workloads to deliver better and more effective services for the citizens they serve,” said David McCurley, Accenture’s global managing director for human services. “We are working with Oracle to address the rapidly rising public agency interest in commercial-off-the-shelf solutions as an alternative to more expensive custom-built software. This collaboration has resulted in our development agreement and the introduction of a new solution for child welfare case management.”
The Accenture Case Management Solution for Child Welfare on Oracle is a new, integrated case management solution designed to meet the specific requirements of child welfare agencies. The solution is based in part on Oracle’s Siebel CRM Public Sector Case Management commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product, Oracle’s Policy Automation rules engine and Accenture’s extensive experience developing child welfare solutions globally. It is expected to provide a foundation and structure for next-generation child welfare services in a manner consistent with the Accenture Public Service Platform.
Oracle plans to develop a Social Services Foundation Pack and Accenture plans to develop Oracle Application Integration Architecture Process Integration Packs to address disbursement and collections requirements. The project is expected to integrate Oracle’s Siebel Case Management with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials systems for disbursements and embed Oracle Policy Automation for policy-based determination of eligibility.
The companies will work together using Oracle® Application Integration Architecture (AIA) to pre-build Process Integration Packs that use COTS software to provide public agencies with more effective and efficient technology solutions for social services. The benefits enabled by the social services collaboration include, but are not limited to:
Support for Workload Management and Caseworker Effectiveness
Improved Client Services and Collaboration
Enhanced Oversight and Outcome-Focused Program Delivery
“Accenture is a global leader in the Social Services industry and we are extremely pleased to present a collaboration that is expected to bring next generation solutions that enable innovation, best practices, and proven software capabilities to the social services market,” said Kevin Curry, Application Sales Group vice president, Oracle Public Sector. “What we can deliver with our collective social services experience can raise the bar for transformed service delivery across child welfare organizations and other social services agencies that no longer appreciate the costly maintenance and difficult upgrade paths of custom built solutions.”
Accenture and Oracle have teamed together for nearly 20 years. Accenture is an Oracle Platinum Partner and has one of the largest Oracle enterprise solutions practices among full-service integrators, with more than 44,495 Oracle-skilled professionals and more than 4,900 Oracle projects completed or underway. Accenture is frequently recognized as an Oracle leading partner as evidenced by 2009 Titan Awards and partner of the year awards across the globe.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 176,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
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European Commission Unconditionally Approves Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun
Redwood Shores, CA – January 21, 2010
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today that it had received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly.
Oracle will host an all-day live event for customers, partners, press and analysts on January 27th, 2010 at 9:00 AM Pacific time, at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, California. Details are available at www.oracle.com/sun.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements about Oracle and Sun, including statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. When used in this press release, the words “will”, “expects”, “intends” and other similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements. Any such statement may be influenced by a variety of factors, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle or Sun, that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected, described, expressed or implied in this press release due to a number of risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others: the possibility that the transaction will not be cleared by relevant regulatory authorities or will not close, the possibility that the closing may be further delayed, the anticipated synergies of the combined companies may not be achieved after closing, the combined operations may not be successfully integrated in a timely manner, if at all, general economic conditions in regions in which either company does business, and the possibility that Oracle or Sun may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of Oracle or Sun.
In addition, please refer to the documents that Oracle and Sun, respectively, file with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for additional risks. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Neither Oracle nor Sun is under any duty to update any of the information in this press release.
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Shanghai Clinical Research Center Chooses Oracle® Clinical to Help Drive its Mission to Enable World-Class Drug Development in China
Oracle Clinical Selected as Strategic Foundation of Center’s Clinical Data Management Platform
Shanghai, China – January 21, 2010
News Facts
Shanghai Clinical Research Center (SCRC) has selected Oracle® Clinical to achieve its vision of helping to enhance and optimize drug development capabilities in China.
Founded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipality in early 2008, SCRC operates as a third-party platform offering a wide range of clinical management solutions to customers in the industry.
Oracle was selected because of its comprehensive integrated suite of applications to support clinical development.
The products can be deployed individually or together, providing flexibility with centralized clinical data integration to accommodate SCRC’s needs as the company grows.
These capabilities are critical to SCRC developing a core resources platform covering most of the clinical research sites nation-wide. SCRC plans to roll out a “one site, six centers” framework, which includes the Phase I Clinical Research Unit, Clinical Research Management Center, Data Management and Statistics Center, Training Center, Central Lab, Bio-Bank and Translational Medical Research Center.
Oracle Clinical’s reputation as the ‘gold standard’ for clinical drug development platforms will enable SCRC to offer a wider range of data management solutions to its customers, thus laying a foundation for its eventual expansion to serve global pharmaceutical companies.
Supporting Quotes
“SCRC aims to develop a full-service platform for clinical development that will power our growth and China’s drug development capabilities. Oracle Clinical is our strategic technology platform in this journey,” said Rongxing Gan, President of SCRC.
“Oracle Clinical was built based on the extensive experience of hundreds of companies. This gives us a unique industry perspective about every aspect of clinical data management in a dynamic market,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “We are confident Oracle Clinical can help organizations like SCRC create solutions for their specific data management and business goals, with broad coverage and deep functionality in clinical data management that is unmatched.”
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Pharmacons Goes Live with Oracle® Health Sciences Applications to Improve Clinical Trial Data Collection and Management System
Clinical Research Organization Experiences Significant Cost and Time Reduction for Critical Clinical Trial Management Activities
Shanghai, China – January 21, 2010
News Facts
Pharmacons, a clinical research organization servicing companies supplying pharmaceutical, biotech, medical and surgical devices, and healthcare and skin care R&D services, has deployed a range of Oracle® Health Sciences applications, including Oracle Clinical and Oracle Remote Data Capture, to enhance its operational efficiencies and outcomes in clinical trial management.
Pharmacons is the first clinical research organization in China to deploy Oracle Clinical.
Pharmacons required a solution to better serve its international and local clients by reducing the time and cost of research and development (R&D) programs while maintaining high quality standards.
Oracle Clinical and Oracle Remote Data Capture provide the health sciences sector with the most integrated clinical data management and electronic data capture applications available today, while also providing best-of-breed functionality.
The reputation and proven track record of these solutions in the industry were decisive factors in Pharmacons selecting Oracle.
With the implementation of Oracle Clinical and Oracle Remote Data Capture, Pharmacons is experiencing smoother and more efficient data handling throughout the clinical studies and trials it conducts.
With Oracle Thesaurus Management System, Pharmacons is able to utilize the system’s centralized, globally available repository of dictionary and associated verbatim terms. This has helped the company to greatly streamline the critical and costly task of classifying and deriving standard medical and drug terms from verbatim data.
Supporting Quotes
“Pharmacons decided on Oracle Health Sciences applications because of its reputation as the ‘gold standard’ in our industry. This move to Oracle Health Sciences solutions is part of our long-term development plan. We are already experiencing great benefit from deploying the same robust and powerful health sciences solutions platform as our international and local clients,” said Dr. Christopher Huang, Managing Director, Pharmacons.
“Oracle is helping progressive health sciences organizations like Pharmacons to accelerate insights for better health by offering the industry’s most complete suite of software applications for clinical development and drug safety,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “We appreciate the opportunity to work with Pharmacons to help them deliver strategic value to their clients and stakeholders through their use of Oracle Health Sciences applications.”
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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In 2009, Oracle recognized customers and partners that are meeting these
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Attend the Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Live Virtual Summit
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20 of the Top 20 Global Retailers Rely on Oracle to Transform the Economics of Retail
The world's leading retail companies—including Carrefour SA, Costco, Lowe's Companies, Metro AG, Tesco, Walmart, and others—know that insight-driven retailing is the key to enhancing profitability and serving their customers better. Oracle's unique portfolio of retail solutions allows retailers to create a unified view of the information that delivers economic value to the entire business, from in-store operations to corporate strategy to supply chain and logistical management. The advanced analytic capabilities of Oracle solutions transform retailers' ability to make decisions—so they will carry the right items and train their employees to execute flawlessly on the right merchandising programs. Oracle's innovative solutions enable retailers to do this by providing accurate, actionable information, fully integrated among store, merchandising, and financial systems. Only Oracle provides all the components—applications, middleware, database, and infrastructure software—that support insight-driven retailing, allowing companies to become more competitive.
Oracle at the National Retail Federation Convention
Oracle is a proud sponsor of the National Retail Federation 99th Annual Convention, held January 10-13, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Please join Oracle just inside the entrance of the show floor, where our bi-level booth will feature several kiosks covering the entire Oracle Retail footprint, including several demonstrations. Find out how Oracle is helping retailers around the world transform the economics of retail.
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Oracle Magazine January/February features articles on the evolution of enterprise architecture, customer acquisition and retention with Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle awards for 2009, task flow routers, privacy and security, Oracle Essbase, compressing with Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression, Tom Kyte on Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and much more.
Oracle's Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Earnings
Results will be announced after the close of the market on December 17, 2009. A webcasted conference call with the financial analyst community will follow at 2:00 p.m. Pacific.
Delivering Vital Policy Oversight and Control Execution Integration Oracle has introduced Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager (Oracle Enterprise GRC Manager) and the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Controls Suite (Oracle Enterprise GRC Controls Suite) to deliver a unique, closed-loop approach to regulatory compliance, risk management, and controls automation.
With the latest release of Oracle Enterprise GRC Manager customers can:
Improve detection through advanced simulation capabilities that graphically detect segregation of duties conflicts while advising on issues, remediation plans and potential impact
Utilize statistical logic to uncover suspect and out-of-policy transactions, therefore reducing false positives
Applications Unlimited is Oracle's long-term plan to provide continuing enhancements and ongoing support to your existing investments in Oracle applications.
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Creating an auto increment field has to have a trigger and to have a trigger, you need a sequence.
CREATE SEQUENCE XXIMG_USERS_USERID_SEQUENCE MINVALUE 5484 MAXVALUE 9999999999 START WITH 5484 INCREMENT BY 1 CACHE 10;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER USER_TRIGGER BEFORE INSERT ON XXIMG_USERS
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT xximg_users_userid_sequence.nextval INTO :NEW.USERID FROM DUAL;
END;
/
Here's how to list triggers in a database:
select trigger_name from user_triggers;
Here's how to get details on a trigger:
select trigger_type, triggering_event, table_name, referencing_names, trigger_body
from user_triggers
where trigger_name = '';
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