BNP PARIBAS OPEN “HIT FOR HAITI” EXHIBITION TO BE PRESENTED BY ORACLE
Oracle Sets Fundraising Goal at $1 Million; Stefanie Graf, Martina Navratilova, Justine Henin and Lindsay Davenport Join Event
Indian Wells, Calif.. – March 4, 2010
The BNP Paribas Open “Hit For Haiti” exhibition, on the evening of Friday, March 12, will be presented by Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), and has added a second match to the evening’s event that will feature four legendary female players, it was announced today by Steve Simon, tournament director.
Oracle will lead a comprehensive fundraising effort which will include on-site, text messaging and private donations targeted to reach $1 Million. Funds will benefit the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development fund, which was established to help those impacted by the recent earthquakes in Haiti.
A women’s match featuring an astounding 50 Grand Slam titles on the same court will include Stefanie Graf and Lindsay Davenport taking on Martina Navratilova and Justine Henin. They will be the first match that evening, which will be followed by the match comprised of 44 Grand Slam title holders, Roger Federer and Pete Sampras playing Rafael Nadal and Andre Agassi.
“Oracle is proud to participate in fundraising efforts to benefit the relief efforts in Haiti,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “It is impressive to see this remarkable line up of athletes work together to raise much-needed funds for Haiti. Our hope is to hold an event that supports relief efforts and continues to raise the visibility for how Haiti needs the world’s help.”
The event will be broadcast live in numerous countries around the world, and domestically on the Tennis Channel, beginning at 7:30 PM PST. In addition, live web streaming will be available on bnpparibasopen.org, TennisTV.com, atpworldtour.com, sonyericssonwtatour.com, usta.com, tennis.com, espn360.com, and others. As a show of support, the broadcasters, satellite uplink providers and production teams of the event are picking up all of the production costs to ensure that the maximum amount of money can be generated for the fundraising effort.
The evening will begin at 7:00 p.m. with the annual Salute to Heroes ceremony, where the tournament will recognize veterans, military personnel, police, firemen and women, and Red Cross volunteers on Stadium Court for their efforts in the community and around the world. The ceremony and tennis exhibition will be followed by one main draw match.
For more information about the BNP Paribas Open, or to purchase tickets and travel packages, visit www.bnpparibasopen.org, call 800-999-1585 or 760-200-8000, or visit the box office, 78-200 Miles Avenue, Indian Wells, CA, 92210.
About the BNP Paribas Open
The BNP Paribas Open is held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and is the largest combined ATP World Tour and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in the world. The event will be celebrating its 35th anniversary March 8 – 21, 2010, with defending champions Rafael Nadal and Vera Zvonareva and more than 300 of the best men’s and women’s tennis players in the world. To purchase tickets visit www.bnpparibasopen.org, call 800-999-1585 or 760-200-8000, or visit the Indian Wells Tennis Garden box office, 78-200 Miles Avenue, Indian Wells, and CA 92210.
About BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is a European leader in global banking and financial services and is one of the 3 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s. The group is present in 85 countries, with more than 171,000 employees, including 131.000 in Europe. The group holds key positions in three major segments: Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management & Services and Retail Banking. Present throughout Europe in all of its business lines, the bank’s two domestic markets in retail banking are France and Italy. BNP Paribas also has a significant presence in the United States and strong positions in Asia and the emerging markets.
About BNP Paribas and tennis
In 2008, BNP Paribas celebrated the 35th anniversary of its association with the tennis world. Since 1973, BNP Paribas has been actively involved in this sport, regularly increasing its support – both locally and internationally, for families, schools and the community.
Historically, BNP Paribas has had a special relationship with every facet of the tennis world: official global sponsor of Roland Garros for 35 years, sponsor of the Davis Cup since 2001, of the Fed Cup since 2005 and since the acquisition of BNL in 2006, the "Internazionali BNL d'Italia", as well as actively supporting numerous other international competitions (WTA Bank of the West Classic in California, the Monte Carlo Masters Series, BNP Paribas Strasbourg Women's Open, Grand Prix de Lyon, etc.). BNP Paribas also supports tennis locally in France, and is involved in more than 550 tournaments, including the BNP Paribas family trophy, various training programmes set up by the French Tennis Federation and Yannick Noah’s “Fête le Mur” association.
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New Oracle Award Recognizes Top Performing Specialized Partners in EMEA
OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Awards Encourage Partners to Differentiate Themselves
Reading, UK – Tuesday, 2 March 2010
News Facts
today called for partners to submit entries for the inaugural OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Awards, a new annual award program which will recognize partners’ achievements in Specialization and self-sufficiency.
new awards align with Oracle’s recently launched OPN Specialized
which aims to help partners establish industry recognition by following a formal process to become specialized in key Oracle solution areas.
OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Awards are available to partners with one or more product or industry Specialization and who have demonstrated outstanding solution innovation. The categories are:
Partner of the Year
Partner of the Year
Partner of the Year
of the Year
Partner of the Year
Added Distributor of the Year
Partner of the Year
PartnerNetwork members can nominate themselves for the awards and the OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Award winners will also be submitted into the Oracle PartnerNetwork Global Awards program and have the chance to gain global recognition for their outstanding achievements in Specialization.
solutions will include Oracle Applications and/or Technology and can be unique to a specific industry or designed for midsize customers.
being eligible for these awards, OPN Specialized partners also receive a wealth of additional benefits, including tailored logos around each attained specialization, placement on Oracle.com through the Solutions Catalog, additional free assessment and exam vouchers, free support requests, demonstration solution services and access to implementation methodologies.
panel of judges will include participation from Martin Canning, Vice President, European Software & Services Research and Darren Bibby, Program Director, Software Channels Research at analyst house, IDC. Martin Canning and Darren Bibby will be assisting Oracle panel members in selecting the shortlisted candidates and finalists.
inaugural winners of the OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Awards will be announced on 19 September 2010 and partners can submit entries online here. For more information about how to enter the OPN EMEA Partner Specialization Awards please visit the OPN partner site.
Supporting Quote
Surlien, Senior Vice President, Oracle Alliances and Channels EMEA, said: “These awards will recognize the high-level of innovation, excellence and commitment our partners bring to the table when they become Specialized with Oracle. We’re looking for partners with a proven track record in delivering winning, proven solutions that solve customers’ most critical business challenges. Our Award winners will be partners that have demonstrated tangible success, growth in their Oracle business and outstanding Oracle solutions."
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.
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Oracle Magazine March/April features articles on enterprise software applications, application grid architecture, partitions, Tom Kyte on Edition-Based Redefinition, Oracle Application Express and much more.
Oracle Announces Enterprise Healthcare Analytics to Improve the Quality of Patient Care and Enhance Provider Operational Efficiency
Data Integration and Warehousing Solution and Pre-Built Analytic Applications Specifically Designed for Healthcare Providers Unveiled at HIMSS10
2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga., – March 1, 2010
News Facts
Today at the pre-eminent healthcare information technology conference, Oracle introduced an enterprise healthcare analytics solution that helps providers create a detailed, holistic and integrated view of their enterprise.
The solution integrates data from electronic medical records, clinical departmental systems, patient accounting, ERP, research, and other source systems to help providers rapidly and cost effectively unlock value from their clinical and operational data.
Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics solution provides a foundation upon which providers can use pre-built business intelligence, analytic, data mining, and performance management applications from Oracle and its partners.
Oracle® Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation is a comprehensive, detailed data model specifically engineered for provider enterprise data warehousing that includes an expanding list of more than 1,000 entities and 12,000 attributes spanning the clinical, financial, operational, and research domains.
The Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation is designed for ease of use for analytic application developers and can be easily extended to accommodate a provider’s unique environment.
Oracle® Operating Room Analytics is an analytic and performance management application that gives surgical services directors and surgical, anesthesia, and nursing leaders an enterprise view of operating room efficiency.
This includes analysis of the case volumes, utilization rates, turnover times, as well as more than 200 pre-built operational efficiency measures, all of which can be easily customized and extended as new metrics are created.
An ecosystem of healthcare partners is already emerging that is expected to provide analytic applications built on Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics foundation. This includes:
Quantros for quality reporting, accreditation & compliance, and safety and risk management
VigiLanz for infection control, pharmacovigilance and practice guidance
Oracle’s Rapidly Expanding Suite of Business Intelligence Solutions Offers Healthcare Providers Key Benefits
A product approach – maturing healthcare sector moving away from customized, one-off solutions to more cost effective packaged options
Provider-specific data model – stable foundation for enterprise data warehouse allows providers to benefit from third-party data integration tools and analytic applications that help reduce time-to-value and overall cost
Optimized for ease of use – intuitive, well documented model lowers the cost, time and risk associated with custom development
Greater flexibility – model is able to accommodate customization if needed to meet providers’ individual needs
Supporting Quotes
“Healthcare providers have long struggled with effectively measuring clinical quality, operational efficiency and financial performance in a timely and actionable manner,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics is designed specifically for healthcare providers to help them unlock the value of electronic health information to enable quality performance and clinical excellence, to drive departmental and operational efficiencies, and accelerate innovation to the point of care.”
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH provisions for meaningful use are illustrating the critical need for a thoughtful, detailed approach to integrating the healthcare enterprise,” said Ivo Nelson, Founder and Chairman, Encore Health Resources. “Health systems in the future will differentiate themselves based on their ability to integrate and use complex information from across the enterprise to drive change into their care and operational processes.”
“It is critical for healthcare providers to have key business information such as daily volumes, financial indicators, productivity variances, service line metrics, and revenue cycle performance at their fingertips,” said Roy Mathews, CEO, Anthem Healthcare Intelligence. “However, enterprise performance dashboards become meaningful only when founded on a credible, comprehensive data warehouse. Because it is designed specifically for healthcare providers, we see tremendous value in Oracle’s new enterprise healthcare analytics and its ability to help providers vastly improve their overall productivity and improve quality of care.”
“Having an integrated view across the provider enterprise is extremely important for organizations looking to meet emerging requirements for quality reporting and meaningful use as well as to effectively participate in a growing number of registries and post-approval research activities,” said Richard Gliklich, M.D., President & CEO, Outcome Sciences. “We believe that Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics will enable providers to create linkages between financial, operational and clinical processes that will ultimately make them more effective in measuring quality, efficiency and performance in a meaningful way.”
“Data aggregation infrastructure capabilities as outlined by Oracle are pivotal to advancing access to actionable knowledge for improving patient safety, quality of care, compliance and for furthering ARRA goals for meaningful use of data in these domains,” said Sanjaya Kumar, M.D., President and CEO, Quantros. “We see the relationship with Oracle and its new enterprise healthcare analytics infrastructure as key for rapidly integrating and empowering healthcare providers with the decision support tools and clinical business intelligence analytics required to identify, enact and continuously monitor the impact of interventions.”
“Once considered a luxury that few hospitals could afford, real-time patient safety monitoring is making it possible to detect adverse events, optimize outcomes and automatically send warning alerts to clinicians as they occur,” said David Goldsteen, M.D., Chairman & CEO, VigiLanz. “We expect Oracle’s new enterprise healthcare analytics to play a significant role in helping us further our mission to empower clinicians with timely information that helps optimize patient care.”
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Oracle Delivers New Release of Oracle® Healthcare Transaction Base
Key Component of Oracle’s Healthcare Interoperability Solution Features Expanded Web Services to Support Meaningful Use Requirements and IHE Technical Framework Certification
2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga., – March 1, 2010
News Facts
As part of its ongoing commitment to provide healthcare organizations with infrastructure for integrating data from disparate healthcare systems, Oracle today announced Oracle® Healthcare Transaction Base 6.1.
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base offers a multiple-use data repository that enables healthcare organizations to normalize the structure and vocabulary of administrative, clinical and financial healthcare data to help reduce costs and improve patient care.
The new release includes expanded web services support for addressing meaningful use requirements for continuity of care documents.
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base has now achieved Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) certification as an IHE XDS document repository, a key for meeting meaningful use solution architectures that store and query documents from third-party components.
The solution also supports IHE XDS.b web services, saving customers that comply with IHE architecture from having to create custom web services and helping to significantly reduce their total cost of ownership.
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base leverages a standards-based, healthcare-focused reference information model that addresses global healthcare requirements and preserves a healthcare organization’s investment in technology.
The backbone for many of today’s healthcare interoperability projects, Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base currently supports more than 10 million patient records worldwide.
Supporting Quote
“The ability to aggregate patient information into a comprehensive data repository, and access that information in near real time to improve decision making, is a critical differentiator for healthcare organizations,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base helps organizations address their interoperability challenges head on and is designed to help reduce costs, improve time to market and enhance operational efficiency.”
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Land O’Lakes, Inc. Implements Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Fortune 250 Food and Agricultural Company Standardizes and Streamlines Business Processes
Redwood Shores, Calif. – March 1, 2010
News Facts
Land O’Lakes, Inc., a $12 billion national, farmer-owned food and agricultural company, partnered with Deloitte to successfully implement Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in support of its Dairy Foods businesses and corporate financial function.
The scope of the effort included financial management, procurement, production and deployment planning, order management, manufacturing, warehouse management, quality management and plant maintenance. The project also provided for near real-time integration with Oracle® Transportation Management and Oracle's Hyperion performance management applications.
With Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Land O’Lakes standardized and streamlined business practices, replaced core legacy systems and simplified its IT portfolio.
Phased Rollout Delivers Results
Accounting for about $4 billion of total revenue, Land O’Lakes Dairy Foods businesses provide butter, cheese and powder products to customers in the retail, foodservice and industrial food manufacturing sectors.
To minimize business disruption and manage implementation risk, the company used a phased deployment over three and a half years that initially focused on cheese manufacturing. The initial phase also included corporate financial management. Phase two addressed butter manufacturing and phase three, the industrial business.
The project was completed on time and on budget. It supports 2,770 users across the corporate campus, 12 plants, 40 third-party warehouses and 23 co-pack locations.
The project achieved the benefit target return on investment of between 25 percent and 30 percent.
Land O’Lakes first invested in Oracle in 1993.
Supporting Quotes
“After multiple acquisitions, the Land O’Lakes Dairy Foods business found itself with disparate legacy systems and groups within the division were operating independently,” said Mark Thome, Vice President of Business Transformation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). “Because of the complexity inherent in a single business unit that contains separate consumer retail, foodservice and industrial businesses, we knew migrating to a single unified ERP solution would be a major undertaking.
“Working with Oracle and Deloitte, we have been able to create one standardized instance that has helped this business run as a whole,” continued Thome. “Oracle in particular has made a significant commitment to our success and we have been able to create a more effective and complete business solution with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. This project has enabled us to simplify our portfolio, strengthen our core set of organizational competencies, and lower support costs.”
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Social services organizations have a complex job. They provide essential services to citizens in need, but are encumbered with rising caseloads, ever-changing program requirements, and a growing need for services.
Join us for a LIVE webcast on March 3, 2010 at 9 am PT to learn about Oracle’s new solution for social services – the most complete solution for simplifying eligibility, increasing efficiency, and improving effectiveness.
Hear Oracle president, Charles Phillips, discuss Oracle’s commitment to social services and watch as senior vice president of CRM, Anthony Lye, provides the first look at Oracle’s new solution. You’ll also learn best practices from Secretary Jim Garner, Kansas Department of Labor, on leveraging technology to be more effective in serving clients.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how your organization can:
Modernize its infrastructure with a configurable, commercial off the shelf solution
Improve client outcomes with integrated eligibility determination
Transform program effectiveness with closed-loop case management
Register now to discover how your organization can transform human services delivery with Oracle’s innovative new social services solution!
This achievement adds to Oracle WebLogic Server’s current SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark records including world record results in multi-node(2); dual-node(3); and single-node(4) categories; and the highest performance per core(5) of any result ever published.
Benchmark Details
The Java application servers were running on three HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades, each with two quad-core 2.93GHz Intel® Xeon® X5570 processors. The database tier was comprised of a two-node HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server cluster, each with two quad-core 2.93GHz Intel® Xeon® X5570 processors. Both application server and database machines were running Oracle Enterprise Linux.
For more than eight years, Oracle has submitted record-setting application server benchmarks on a broad range of hardware and software platforms. Oracle is the performance and price/performance leader in multiple SPECjAppServer 2001(6) and SPECjAppServer2002(7) benchmark categories and also holds the world records for best performance and price/performance in the Ecperf(8) benchmark of J2EE application servers reported in July 2002.
SPECjAppServer2004 is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers and the system network. For more information, visit http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/.
Supporting Quote
“Oracle WebLogic Server is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “The combination of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Enterprise Linux provides an unparalleled software stack and this benchmark result is further proof of Oracle’s industry-leading performance capabilities.”
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SPEC, SPECjAppServer are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. All results from www.spec.org as of February 24, 2010:
(1) Oracle Web Logic Server on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server blades, 11,067.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@ Standard (best clustered database result).
(2) Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R 3 on 17 HP Integrity BL870c server blades, each with four dual-core Intel® Itanium® 1.6 GHz processors, (136 cores), 28,463 SPECjAppServer2004JOPS@Standard (World Record Multi Node).
(3) Oracle WebLogic Server Standard Edition Release 10.3 on Dell PowerEdge R610, 7,311.50 SPECjAppServer2004JOPS@Standard (World Record Dual Node).
(4) Oracle Web Logic Server on HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server with eight Six-Core AMD Opteron 8439 SE 2.8 GHz processors , 9,455.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@ Standard (World Record Single Node).
(5) Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 on Dell PowerEdge 610 with two-socket Intel® Xeon® x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processor, 3,975 SPECjAppServer2004JOPS@Standard (best JOPS per core @ 497 JOPS per core).
(6) Sun Microsystems SunFire V1280 with Oracle9i Application Server, 521.86Bops/min@Std, $1,133.64/BBops (Best performance SPECjAppServer 2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9i AS Release 2 Standard Edition on HP ProLiant DL360, 183.33 BBops/min@Std, $325.13/BBops (Best price performance SPECjAppServer2001 Dual Node category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP rp8400 Cluster, 2,529.10 BBops, $1342.74/Bbops (Best performance SPECjAppServer2001 MultipleNode category). Oracle9iAS Release 2 on HP ProLiant ML530G2 Cluster, 558.85 BBops/min@Std, $389.66/BBops (Best price performance SPECjAppServer2001MultipleNode category). Source: http://www.spec.org. For more information regarding SPECjAppServer2001 results, please visit: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2001/results/jAppServer2001.html.
(8) Sun Fire 3800 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 61,862.77 BBops/min@Std, $28/BBops (Best Overall Performance, ECperf benchmark). HP DL360G2 cluster with Oracle9i AS Release 2, 24,639.37 BBops/min@Std, $5/BBops (Best Overall price/performance, ECperf benchmark). For more information regarding ECperf benchmark results, please visit: http://web.archive.org/web/20050306014256/ecperf.theserverside.com/ecperf/index.jsp?page=results/performance.
Oracle Financial Services Announces the Latest Release of Oracle® FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing
Software will Help Transfer Agents and Fund Managers Expand Their Businesses While Managing Popular Variants of Hedge Fund Structures and Their Lifecycles
Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0 is a process enabled transfer agency and investor servicing solution that helps financial institutions manage the complete fund lifecycle and reduce operational costs through process automation across fund structures, intermediary hierarchies, and investors.
The new release provides a single, robust technology platform that will allow transfer agents and fund managers to sustain market lead and adapt to business challenges by :
Expanding business with support for managing popular variants of hedge funds like Simple, Master/Feeder, Fund of Funds and Side pockets;
Defining variety of equalization fee methods and supporting accrual and payment of equalization fees based on funds performance;
Enhancing STP by enabling comprehensive coverage of ISO 20022 SWIFTNet 4.0 messages and 15022 messages.
Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing today manages transfer agency and fund distribution function for its customers in more than 25 countries across the world.
Simplify Operations While Fostering Growth
Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing offers a wide range of benefits for transfer agents and fund managers looking to leverage their wide channel and distribution networks by supporting complex retrocession and distribution commission models for upfront and trailer commission rules for intermediaries, including:
Support across multiple geographies with multi-entity, multi product, multi-currency, multi-lingual and multi-time zone capabilities;
Enablement of true cross-border transfer agency capabilities across markets supporting varied business models.
This new release also simplifies management of shared services across a service-oriented architecture (SOA) through accelerated service configuration, integration, and deployment.
Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing has been integrated on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus for providing comprehensive reporting on transfer agency operations. With this integration, the solution enhances multi lingual & user-friendly reporting capabilities by supporting report labels in different languages.
Additionally, the new release includes integrations with Oracle Enterprise Service Bus that will help financial institutions seamlessly integrate with external systems.
Supporting Quotes
Barrington Partners, an influential analyst organization for Financial Services states:
“The distribution of mutual funds is changing dramatically in many markets. Whereas in the past, the industry was largely influenced by manufacturers, today intermediaries, supermarkets and aggregators have secured increasingly strong positions in the distribution of funds to a variety of investors through multiple channels. Transfer agency technology is concurrently changing the operation of the business with key goals being efficient investor servicing, automation and integration." - Bob Hollinger, Partner at Barrington Partners.
"Transfer agency systems are now expected to support multi-product, multi-company, multi-domicile and multi-currency offerings and provide bespoke reporting.”. Organizations want to be able to integrate transfer agency solutions into their corporate infrastructure including image and workflow, auto faxing, private client and web portals. The ability to integrate with multiple straight-through-processing players is essential to maximize operational efficiencies. Moreover, the appetite for a single solution for both traditional products and hedge funds is increasing. Comprehensive transfer agency solutions will enable investment management firms to offer innovative products that will help them stay ahead of their competition.” - Bill Hookings, London-based Barrington Partners
“Transfer Agents and Fund management companies today are constantly seeking innovative ways to sustain their market lead and respond rapidly to business challenges,” said Joseph John, Executive Vice President, Oracle Financial Services Software. “Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0 is a comprehensive transfer agency and fund distribution system that can help transfer agents and fund management companies address their business challenges and manage complex workflow procedures effectively. With enhanced distribution, support for hedge funds and compliance to SWIFT Net messaging standards for the industry, this release should help transfer agents deliver success in their business.”
Oracle Financial Services Software Limited (referred to as "Oracle Financial Services Software") (Reuters: ORCL.BO & ORCL.NS) is a majority owned subsidiary of Oracle. Oracle Corporation is the world's largest business software company. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/financialservices.
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According to a February 2010 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Oracle is a leader in predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM).
“The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Analytics And Data Mining Solutions, Q1 2010,” written by Senior Analyst James G. Kobielus, states that “Oracle provides a PA/DM solution portfolio that is built into its own widely adopted DBMS, DW, data integration, and BI platforms, with a wide range of prepackaged predictive applications, and it provides a powerful assortment of algorithms for mining complex structured and unstructured information types.”
An option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, Oracle Data Mining enables customers to integrate actionable predictive information and build into business intelligence and other applications. Using the data mining functionality in Oracle Database 11g, customers can easily find patterns and insights otherwise hidden in their data warehouses.
“We’re pleased that Forrester’s Wave recognizes Oracle’s position as a leader in predictive analytics and data mining, and in particular, the strength of Oracle Database 11g,” said Ray Roccaforte, vice president of Data Warehousing and Analytics, Oracle. “By moving predictive analytics to their Oracle Database, customers save time and money by eliminating data movement and duplication into multiple repositories and servers. And now with the Sun Oracle Database Machine, customers can offload data mining scoring to intelligent Oracle Exadata Storage Servers for even faster predictive analysis.”
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New Release Delivers Industry’s Most Complete, Unified Approach for Governing Service Oriented Architecture and Applications Integration Projects
Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 22, 2010
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To help organizations more efficiently and effectively manage the SOA lifecycle, Oracle today announced Oracle SOA Governance 11g consisting of Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Service Registry, SOA Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Web Services Manager. Oracle SOA Governance 11g, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, enables organizations to manage their heterogeneous software project artifacts under a unified governance umbrella.
Fully integrated with Oracle SOA Suite 11g, the new release helps organizations simplify governance of software development projects.
Oracle SOA Goverance 11g is fully integrated with Oracle AmberPoint, a leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management. The new solution provides organizations more continuity of closed-loop governance processes across both Oracle and third party applications.
Oracle SOA Governance 11g supports Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel along with Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA). These integrations provide organizations with unprecedented level of automation in the delivery and management of service-based applications.
Efficiently Delivering Next-Generation Business Applications
Key new features within Oracle SOA Governance 11g include:
Unified Governance for SOA and Packaged Applications: A single set of lifecycle management processes and tools to simplify and automate management of services originating from packaged applications or other SOA based infrastructure. Packaged application content can be managed and re-used along with other services and composite applications.
Closed Loop Metrics from Oracle Enterprise Manager: Enables Oracle Enterprise Repository customers to access performance summary data at design time. Performance data can come from Oracle SOA Management or AmberPoint
Automatic, Closed Loop Artifact Harvesting throughout the SOA Lifecycle: Automated artifact harvesting at each stage of the lifecycle reduces risks associated with making decisions based on stale data by providing enhanced visibility into SOA dependencies.
Registry Repository support for Oracle SOA Suite11g, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Business Process Analysis (BPA) Suite: Reduces tooling complexity and makes software delivery more efficient by enabling organizations to rely on a single vendor for all SOA governance and lifecycle management needs.
Business Transaction Management: Helps 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.
Supporting Quote
“As organizations expand SOA deployments, managing the numerous software artifacts in both SOA and application integration projects can be a complex and expensive process,” said Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Oracle Product Development. “With the launch of Oracle SOA Governance 11g, Oracle becomes the only vendor to offer a unified management approach for both best-of-breed SOA and packaged applications within a single platform. This unified governance umbrella not only helps organizations to deliver new business capabilities more efficiency, but also helps ensure that they are closely aligned with key business objectives.”
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BMW ORACLE Racing America’s Cup USA Victory Tour, presented by ORACLE and BMW EfficientDynamics
Valencia, Spain - February 18, 2010
Who: BMW ORACLE Racing invites you to enjoy unprecedented access to the America’s Cup as it lands on American soil for the first time in fifteen years.
What: The team is hosting the following public events to welcome home the America’s Cup:
1. BMW ORACLE Racing Team and America’s Cup arrival at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
2. San Francisco City Hall Celebration hosted by Mayor Gavin Newsom, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
3. San Diego Celebration, hosted by Mayor Jerry Sanders
When: Friday, February 19, 2010
4:30 PM PT: SFO International Terminal: America’s Cup is scheduled to pass customs; there will be a photo opportunity with the team and the Cup.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
11:30 AM PT: City Hall Celebration hosted by Mayor Gavin Newsom, joined by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and BMW ORACLE Racing CEO Russell Coutts.
Media are advised to arrive at 10:30 AM with credentials for early admittance.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
4:00 PM PT: The America’s Cup will be on public display at the USS Midway museum on the San Diego waterfront.
5:00 PM PT: Ceremony on USS Midway hosted by Mayor Jerry Sanders, followed by a Flotilla of San Diego boats to the San Diego Yacht Club.
Following Sunday’s race victory, which resulted in a 2-0 sweep of the 33rd America’s Cup Match, the BMW ORACLE Racing team is preparing to bring the Cup home to the United States.
The America’s Cup Victory Tour presented by ORACLE and BMW EfficientDynamics will begin tomorrow afternoon February 19, when the trophy touches down in San Francisco following a flight in a first-class seat to SFO from Valencia via Frankfurt. After being welcomed at the airport, the trophy and team will proceed to the Golden Gate Yacht Club – the team’s patron and the Cup’s new home – for a reception with club members and special guests.
Saturday morning, a public viewing is planned at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda. At 11:30 am Mayor Gavin Newsom will formally welcome the Cup and team, including team owner Larry Ellison, back to the United States in a City Hall ceremony open to the public. A press conference will follow.
On Sunday afternoon, the America’s Cup will head south to San Diego, where the team operated a training base for 16 months in 2008 and 2009. At 4:00 pm the America’s Cup will be on public display at the USS Midway museum on the city’s waterfront.
Following a 5:00 pm ceremony with Mayor Jerry Sanders, the trophy and team will head to the San Diego Yacht Club on the replica of the yacht America, for which the trophy is named. A flotilla of San Diego boats will parade along with America for a sunset sail across San Diego Bay to former Cup holder San Diego Yacht Club.
The homecoming tour may be extended to the East Coast of the United States the following week – details to come.
Oracle Focuses on Enabling Healthcare to Drive Results at HIMSS10
Strategies for Maximizing Operational Performance, Improving Care Delivery and Enabling Security to Be Unveiled at Pre-Eminent Healthcare Information Technology Conference
Redwood Shores, CA – February 17, 2010
News Facts
Building on its commitment to help healthcare providers improve the quality of patient care and operational efficiency, Oracle will have a significant presence at the 2010 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Atlanta, Ga., March 1-4, 2010.
At HIMSS10, Oracle will be leading three product pavilion sessions geared towards today’s most critical healthcare priorities, including:
Further information regarding Oracle’s complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems for healthcare providers will be available throughout HIMSS10 at the Oracle Booth (#6323, Hall B3).
Oracle also encourages HIMSS10 attendees and individuals following the conference remotely to stay updated on Oracle news announcements and insights from the show by following Oracle Healthcare on Twitter and YouTube.
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.
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Oracle’s PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations Provide Enhanced Talent Management Options
Easily Configurable Integrations Eliminate Upgrade Costs By Leveraging Prior Versions of PeopleSoft HCM Applications
Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 17, 2010
News Facts
To help provide its customers with the most current talent management options possible, Oracle has released Oracle’s PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations to connect Oracle’s PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 and existing PeopleSoft Human Resources applications.
These easily configurable integrations enable PeopleSoft HCM customers to take advantage of the Talent Management 9.1 business process enhancements while retaining their existing HCM implementations, maximizing their current investment in PeopleSoft HCM.
PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 offers solutions to assist in performance management, succession planning, career development and compensation, as well as recruiting and learning tools to help organizations attract, hire, train and motivate the best candidates.
PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.1 is a core platform that addresses end-to-end human resources responsibilities for global organizations. In addition to best-in-class integrated talent management, workforce management and workforce service delivery, the latest version includes embedded Web 2.0 capabilities and new industry-specific enhancements.
Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 was developed with feedback from more than 150 customers, and offers a broad range of new features designed to accelerate business performance, increase user productivity and lower the cost of ownership.
PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations Features and Details
With PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations customers can:
Use PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 applications today without upgrading an existing PeopleSoft HCM system
Gain a tremendous amount of valuable talent functionality across the entire enterprise, quickly and easily
Ensure optimal integration of talent processes and data
Secure the future of their HCM enterprise applications with a consistent system that will work well together now and as they grow
PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations allow users to maintain valuable data in a consistent PeopleSoft-to-PeopleSoft approach, thereby reducing and simplifying the time and resources required to maintain system data.
PeopleSoft applications are architected with a common and consistent underlying technology that supports interoperability with deep data and business process integration.
Supporting Quotes
"After having used Oracle’s PeopleSoft HR for the last ten years, Danone decided to implement the PeopleSoft 9.1 Talent Management Suite as a building block of our currently implemented PeopleSoft HR solution,” said Jean Marc Lagoutte, Chief Information Officer, Danone Group. “This compounded approach will help provide to the business the capabilities they need, much quicker and cheaper than going for a 100 percent PeopleSoft HR upgrade."
“Customers have told us they want to adopt the 9.1 Talent Management solution very quickly, prior to upgrading core HR,” said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft. “We are delivering PeopleSoft Talent Management 9.1 to PeopleSoft HCM Integrations to allow these customers to take advantage of the newest PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 integrated talent management functionality now without requiring them to upgrade.”
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Due to strong customer interest in the benefits realized through provisioning, Forrester reviewed the user provisioning market independently. Oracle was also was recognized as a leader in this market for its Current Offering, Oracle Identity Manger.
Forrester notes in the report that “Identity and access management (IAM) tools help organizations automate many mundane identity tasks and improve compliance reporting, processes that companies need to focus attention on as the economy recovers.”
Oracle Identity Management provides a unified, integrated security platform designed to manage user identities and entitlements, provision resources to users, secure access to corporate resources, and support extensive audits across enterprise applications.
According to Forrester, “Oracle is the only vendor that has: 1) an adopted entitlement enforcement product (Oracle Entitlements Server [OES]), built on the BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security solution; 2) an in-house adaptive access management product (Oracle Adaptive Access Manager), integrated with enterprise role management and mining; and 3) an application-centric identity management strategy. Oracle demonstrated the highest adherence to the scenarios evaluated.”
Supporting Quote
“In today’s dynamic economic environment, organizations are continuing to focus on streamlining identity and access management to save time and money and ensure the highest levels of security,” said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. “We believe Forrester’s positioning of Oracle as a market leader for both identity and access management and user provisioning is a reflection of the success of Oracle’s complete, integrated and hot-pluggable identity management strategy and our ongoing success helping organizations implement world-class security.”
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(1) The Forrester Wave™: Identity and Access Management, Q4 2009, Forrester Research, Inc., November 3, 2009
The new solutions, based on the merged capabilities of Oracle Financial Services Applications (OFSA), Oracle’s Hyperion, Oracle’s Reveleus and PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, are designed to help institutions:
Focus on planning future performance and lowering anticipated risk;
Plan net interest margin, anticipate liquidity contingencies and reconcile asset/liability management forecasts with annual budgets and rolling forecasts; and
Provide the capability to go beyond measuring bottoms up historical performance to actively managing future risks and results.
Today more than ever, financial institutions and regulators are focused on the need to measure and meet performance objectives adjusted for risk, plan for unforeseen exposures, and better understand how performance is impacted by threats to liquidity and capital adequacy..
New Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications for EPM
Oracle Financial Services Balance Sheet Planning –The only budgeting solution made specifically for bank planning, budgeting and forecasting, this application leverages Oracle’s Hyperion Planning as a foundation to allow banks to plan future profitability and risk adjusted returns. The solution captures instrument characteristics and the nuances of each customer relationship to accurately model balance sheet behavior and provide the most accurate net interest margin and earnings forecasts possible.
Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management Analytics – An updated version of the Oracle Asset Liability Management business intelligence application emphasizes the critical need to measure and manage interest rate and liquidity risk. Building on the existing functionally rich Interest Rate Risk content, new metrics, reports and dashboards provide additional management insight into “stressed” results including Liquidity Gaps, Funding Concentrations, Deposit Distribution Profiles, Marketable Assets and Liquidity Ratios.
Supporting Quotes
“With the release of Oracle Financial Services Balance Sheet Planning and Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management Analytics, banks are able to obtain greater insight into an integrated view of balance sheet risks and returns that represents a key strategic differentiator for financial services institutions as they implement strategies to manage risk while maximizing shareholder value,” said S Ramakrishnan, Group Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications.
“We have used Oracle for many years to support our business segment profitability reporting processes. We are excited about the new Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications release and being one of the first customers to implement the new Profitability Management and Funds Transfer Pricing applications. We believe the release helps bring together the industry best practices embodied across Oracle’s various product lines,” said Kathy A. Rogers, executive vice president of business line reporting and planning for U.S. Bancorp.
About Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications are a complete and fully integrated portfolio of analytical solutions covering enterprise risk, performance management, regulatory compliance and customer insight. They are built upon a shared analytical infrastructure consisting of a unified financial services data model, shared analytical computations and the industry-leading Oracle Business Intelligence platform. For more information visit Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications.
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Qualcomm and Oracle Pre-integrate Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client on Brew Mobile Platform Operating System
Manufacturers Can Reduce Time-to-market and Java Programmers Can Now Leverage Mass-market Mobile Devices Running a Consistent Java VM on Brew MP
San Diego and Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 15, 2010
News Facts
Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, and Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java™ Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform™ (Brew MP). With this release, Sun Java™ Wireless Client, Oracle's Java implementation for mobile handsets, is now pre-integrated with Brew MP. Handset manufacturers and developers alike are provided with a turnkey solution to incorporate Java technology into mobile devices based on Brew MP in a consistent manner across devices, ensuring seamless integration and coexistence of Java applications with Brew MP native applications.
The pre-integration and pre-optimization of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client on Brew MP extends the Brew MP value proposition of providing open platform solutions across a wide variety of device types and tiers. In addition, the availability of customization and configuration tools from Oracle-Sun enables device manufacturers to fine-tune the solution to their target devices without modifying the Java implementation.
Brew MP is a mass-market mobile operating system platform that delivers smartphone functionality across virtually all tiers of devices. The operating system enables advanced capabilities such as touchscreen, rich multimedia, window management, open platform extensibility and expanded support for native application development. To learn more about Brew MP, visit www.brewmp.com.
Supporting Quotes
"Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client's pre-integration onto Brew MP gives Java developers access to an even larger universe of mass-market mobile devices. We're pleased to partner with Qualcomm to bring a high-performance and multi-tasking Java implementation to the operators, handset manufacturers and developers using Brew MP," said Jeet Kaul, vice president, Java Engineering, Oracle.
"Qualcomm continues to demonstrate its commitment to open the Brew platform and support technologies that add value to Brew, such as Java. We are pleased to be working with Oracle on the pre-integrated Sun Java Wireless Client for Brew MP, which will provide a variety of portability, consistency and time-to-market benefits to the wireless ecosystem. Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client is the preferred Java technology solution for Brew MP," said Jason Kenagy, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems in the world. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 100 Index, the S&P 500 Index and is a 2009 FORTUNE 500® company. For more information, please visit Qualcomm around the Web: www.qualcomm.com
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Latest Release of Oracle® Database Lite Now Available
New Support for Synchronizing Open Source SQLite Database and Oracle Database
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 15, 2010
News Facts
Today, Oracle announced availability of the latest release of Oracle® Database Lite, a comprehensive solution for developing, deploying and managing applications for mobile and embedded environments.
With Oracle Database Lite, mobile users gain continuous access to data unconstrained by mobile network bandwidth and coverage, allowing them to access enterprise data even in the absence of a network connection.
New in this release of Oracle Database Lite is the ability to bi-directionally synchronize data between the open source SQLite database and Oracle Database.
This release also provides centralized user and device provisioning and management of SQLite-based mobile applications, allowing disconnected users to have an experience virtually identical to users who are connected.
Easier and More Secure Mobile Synchronization
Oracle Database Lite consists of:
Oracle Database Lite Client, a small footprint SQL database that runs on many devices and platforms and can be bi-directionally synchronized with an Oracle Database server; and,
Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server, which enables mobile users and devices to operate in occasionally connected environments, periodically synchronizing with a back-end database server.
Enhancements to Oracle Database Lite include:
Synchronization and device management for the open source SQLite database: Through a new open architecture, Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server can now synchronize between Oracle Database Lite Client databases and an Oracle Database as well as between SQLite client databases and an Oracle Database. The Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server can also be used to provision SQLite-based applications, devices on which these applications run, and users of these applications.
User authentication on client devices using a Common Access Card: For applications that demand a high level of security, this enables the authentication of users by requiring them to establish their credentials via smart cards.
Easy sharing of devices among multiple users by means of device re-registration: This allows a device to be used by different users at different times, a capability particularly useful when a device is used by different employees during different shifts or on different days. An employee does not need to always retrieve the same device. As long as employees are registered with the Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server, they can retrieve any device and re-register the device for their own use.
Supporting Quotes
"As companies look to more cost effectively run global operations, workers need to be able to efficiently access data without interruption or hassle despite their physical location, which is why demand for mobile applications continues to grow across many industries,” said Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president Software Development, Oracle. “Oracle Database Lite’s support for mobile applications built on the open source SQLite database addresses this need and helps improve productivity for a large community of mobile workers who can now access their enterprise Oracle Database, no matter where their jobs take them.”
“Oracle Database Lite’s Mobile Server is a great tool for data synchronization in large scale enterprises,” said Zdravko Mandic, manager Research and Development, Infoart d.o.o. “Our implementation, which consists of more than 1500 client devices, would have hardly been possible without it. Oracle Database Lite works silently, in the background, synchronizing huge amounts of data to our central Oracle Database and vice versa. This automatic synchronization, combined with great device management, is essential to keeping such large deployments healthy and helps enable enterprises to stay up and running all the time.”
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Aircel Goes Live on Oracle® Communications Services Gatekeeper
Oracle Communications Teams with Aircel to Support Mobile Operator’s Business Growth and Helps Deliver Personalized Customer Content and Services
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 15, 2010
News Facts
Aircel Limited (Aircel), a leading communications company in India, has teamed with Oracle to deploy Oracle® Communications Services Gatekeeper and Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide a highly scalable and personalized content delivery platform for new revenue generation.
Aircel’s newest Oracle deployment is enabling the operator to:
Offer a new personalized multi-channel content portal where customers can access a large catalog of messaging, images, music, videos, games, news and regional services; and
Support flexible billing and delivery models that allow customers to manage real-time content, searches and subscription offerings via short message service (SMS) requests, interactive voice response (IVR) and the multi-channel portal.
Additionally, Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper enables Aircel to:
Offer a secure partner self-service Web portal that makes it easier for third-party content providers to rapidly onboard and scale their content and applications, and manage offerings within their own micro-portals;
Support new and flexible pricing strategies and accelerate the development of new communication applications; and
Monetize and generate incremental revenue from its network by managing and delivering message-based campaigns to its subscribers, and by offering users personalized content based on their home’s location or circle, their demographic profile, their handset type, or by an analysis of their usage history.
Oracle PartnerNetwork member and Certified Advantage Partner, Wipro Infotech led the successful implementation of the solution, along with Oracle Communications Consulting.
Supporting Quotes
“Aircel plans to leverage open standards-based service delivery platform solutions as the basis for delivering interactive and personalized data services for our customers,” said Gurdeep Singh, chief operating officer, Aircel.
“We partnered with Oracle to help maintain our leading edge in the communications industry. Oracle solutions such as Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper and Oracle Fusion Middleware offer us the competitive advantage of reaching the market faster with integrated solutions,” said Ravinder Jain, chief information officer, Aircel.
“Communications operators are working on creating competitive edge by providing innovative services while lowering operating costs and minimizing risks. Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper coupled with Wipro’s proven leadership in the communications domain and expertise in SDP implementation has helped Aircel speed time to market, gain delivery flexibility and lower overall ownership costs -- all at lower risk which is critical in this challenging business climate,” said Anil Jain, senior vice president, Wipro Infotech.
Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visithttp://www.oracle.com/communications
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Aircel selected Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper in FY09.
Oracle® Retail Applications Help Communications Service Providers Manage Customer-Centric and Profitable Retail Stores
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 15, 2010
News Facts
Oracle® Retail applications are helping communications service providers (CSPs) improve in-store experiences for customers, grow revenue and reduce the cost of their operations.
Oracle’s integrated solution enables CSPs to improve customer management and product availability, reduce stockholding and better understand demand. Improvements in operational control and in-store experience can help to improve revenue growth and operating margins.
Leading retailers worldwide, including Tesco, Metro, Teknosa and El Corte Ingles, use Oracle Retail software to help maximize flexibility and profitability. Twenty of the 20 top global retailers run Oracle.
Communications industry customers, such as Digico and Phones4U, are implementing the Oracle Retail applications to manage phone point-of-service and in-store operations.
Delivering integrated systems and streamlined workflows to reduce in-store wait and transaction times, Oracle helps CSPs deliver superior customer experiences. CSPs can also unify data across service silos (Web, call center, in-store) to deliver consistent experiences including support for transactions started in one channel and completed in another. Further, the system supports mobile point-of-service devices to increase customer service capacity when needed.
CSPs can also increase transaction values because the Oracle system intelligently suggests add-on purchases, such as headsets and chargers, and encourages up-selling and cross-selling. In addition, company-wide inventory visibility enables sales consultants to complete a sale even when items are out of stock in a store.
The solution enables CSPs to optimize inventory management, reduce shrinkage and use real-time sales and stock information to improve supply-chain decision making. This can help decrease out of stocks, overstocks and product obsolescence.
Further, the integrated, scalable solution helps CSPs reduce total cost of ownership and employee training costs, while enabling them to accelerate the addition of new stores in different countries.
Supporting Quotes
“Oracle’s cross-industry, expertise spanning point-of-service, inventory management and CRM, is based on retail best practices while addressing the specific needs of communications service providers. With Oracle, communications service providers can optimize inventory and improve customer service to maximize profitability,” said Dan Ford, vice president of product marketing, Oracle Communications.
“As wireless services and devices increase in popularity and sophistication, more communications service providers are opening their own phone stores, which pose new operational challenges. Communications providers require a complete solution that tailors retail best practices to the communications industry in order to improve overall efficiency, customer service and competitive advantage,” said Mark H. Mortensen, senior analyst, Analysys Mason.
Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visithttp://www.oracle.com/communications
About Oracle Retail
Oracle is the number one provider of innovative and comprehensive industry software solutions for retailers – enabling organisations to serve their customers better by applying insight into daily business decisions for more profitable results. With software that provides supply chain, operations, merchandising, store systems, optimisation as well as enterprise applications and infrastructure software, Oracle partners with the world’s leading retail companies, including 20 of the 20 top retailers worldwide, to transform the economics of their businesses.
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems in the world. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.
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Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle® Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 for Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery
Solution Enables Communications Service Providers to Improve Customer Satisfaction by Accelerating Offer Creation While Decreasing Order Fallout
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain – February 15, 2010
News Facts
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0, a key component of Oracle Communications’ solution for rapid offer design and order delivery that helps communications service providers (CSPs) unify historically disparate processes. CSPs using the solution can more quickly and efficiently introduce new offers, capture and fulfill orders, and provide visibility across the entire order lifecycle.
Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 provides CSPs with a new way of orchestrating customer and technical information across front- and back-office systems for improved offer design, order cycle time and accuracy.
Other core components of the solution for rapid offer design and order delivery include Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle Product Hub for Communications and Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications.
With the integrated Oracle solution, CSPs can:
Get to market faster by unifying the front- and back-office operations required for creating new offers. For example, CSPs can leverage the central product catalog to define an offer and then automatically update the corresponding information in the CRM, billing, order management and fulfillment systems. They can then map and test the offer across all the IT systems it will affect, a process that many CSPs currently require weeks to complete.
Gain visibility to detailed order status throughout the entire order lifecycle, and make this information instantly available to customer service representatives (CSRs) and customers. The solution also helps reduce order fallout by proactively identifying and managing at-risk orders, and those requiring special handling.
Make low-cost, in-flight order changes, by enabling CSRs to adjust existing orders to reflect new customer requests. Updated orders automatically revise order-fulfillment plans already completed or in progress. This can help accelerate order completion, reduce manual workarounds, and prevent costly errors and repeated truck-rolls to customer locations.
Supporting Quotes
“As a wireless leader in the rapidly growing Indian market, we needed a solution that could manage the large volume of products and offers we wanted to introduce. We are required to handle more than 100,000 orders and services per hour and, with Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, we can manage a greater volume of very complex services with increased consistency, accuracy and efficiency. Oracle’s integrated offer design and order delivery solution helps solve a long-standing industry challenge,” said Ravinder Jain, chief information officer, Aircel.
“Communications service providers have long struggled to manage the intersection between customer-facing and back-office operations. Inefficient processes result in offer creation cycles as long as eighteen months and millions of dollars lost to order fallout each year. Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 and the Oracle Communications’ solution for rapid offer design and order delivery can help CSPs to cost-effectively accelerate offer introduction, reducing it to a few weeks or even days, and decrease order delivery time from days to minutes, while improving accuracy,” said Dan Ford, vice president of product marketing, Oracle Communications.
“To meet customers’ increasing expectations for prompt, reliable service, communications service providers must fill the critical gap that has long existed between offer creation and order delivery. By recognizing the central role that order management plays in this process, providers can achieve their required speed, flexibility and visibility. Oracle Communications’ solution for rapid offer design and order delivery provides an attractive alternative to the customizations and workarounds service providers have previously relied on to solve these challenges,” said Elisabeth Rainge, director, NGN Operations, IDC
Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visithttp://www.oracle.com/communications
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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.
In 2009, Oracle recognized customers and partners that are meeting these
challenges through innovation in technology, applications, and
sustainability. Learn about the awards and meet the winners.
Attend the Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Live Virtual Summit
The Oracle Primavera Enterprise PPM Virtual Summit promises to be an action-packed day featuring a keynote from Joel Koppelman, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit, live sessions, and live chats with Primavera experts.
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.
Join Oracle executives for Smart Strategies: Your Roadmap to the Future, an exclusive briefing on the latest business trends and technology shifts—and their pervasive impact on organizational strategies. You'll gain insight into "the new normal" of today's economic and competitive climate and learn how leading organizations are adapting the way they plan, operate, execute, and work. You'll also hear how the latest innovations in Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's PeopleSoft, Oracle's JD Edwards, Oracle's Siebel, and more can help accelerate the execution of your organization's roadmap.
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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
While managing exponentially increasing data volumes and meeting demands
for high availability, DBAs are also tasked with delivering ever greater
service with ever greater efficiency. Find out how Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 can help DBAs address these challenges and help companies
control and manage their information—while lowering costs.
Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies
at Oracle, talks about how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 answers
customer challenges and reduces costs.
Each year the editors of Oracle Magazine recognize men and women who
exemplify leadership, vision, and dedication in working with and
managing Oracle technology. This year, we are pleased to present the
winners of our eighth annual Editors' Choice Awards, and we are honored
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Oracle Magazine November/December features articles on our Editors' Choice Awards 2009, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, ODP.NET and Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing, SQL tuning with Oracle Database 11g, Tom Kyte takes a first look at Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and much more.
Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of development at Oracle, talks about
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Oracle Magazine September/October features articles on benefits of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle's database security and identity management solutions, Oracle OpenWorld preview, easily move application data with Oracle Data Integrator, scripting Oracle RMAN commands, Tom Kyte answers your questions, debugging with Oracle Application Development Framework, array binding, best PL/SQL practices, Oracle Application Express and Amazon EC2, Oracle WebCenter for integrating applications and much more.
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Business efficiency depends on business decisions, and business decisions depend on current, accurate information and powerful analysis.
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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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