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 Continuing its commitment to work closely with partners to deliver complete, open, and integrated solutions to customers, Oracle today announced the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program and a preview of the planned Oracle® VM Storage Connect framework. The Oracle VM Storage Connect fram...Oct. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,239 |
 Oracle today announced Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5, the most extensive Oracle AIA release to date with 10 new cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIPs) and six new industry-specific PIPs, together with a growing library of more than 1,000 enterpr...Oct. 12, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 985 |
 Extending the enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities of Oracle's Primavera product suite, Oracle today announced new releases of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's Primavera Contract Management. The new Primavera P6 Enter...Oct. 12, 2009 11:06 AM EDT Reads: 1,182 |
 Trimble announced today that Oracle has developed an extension which allows Oracle Field Service Applications (part of Oracle E-Business Suite) users to add Trimble's GeoManager solution to create an enterprise-level intelligent scheduling and dispatching platform for field service org...Oct. 12, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 681 |
 Attunity Ltd., introduces today a set of solutions based on a new concept coined 'Operational Data Replication' (ODR), which is designed to enable the large market of Oracle customers to replicate data in real-time to and from Oracle databases, at an affordable price point.Oct. 12, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 696 |
 Swedish fashion and home furnishings retailer Indiska has selected a broad suite of Oracle Retail applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware components to create a core retail platform that will support its international expansion plans and long-term growth strategy. With over 80 stores...Oct. 5, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 669 |
 Demonstrating its commitment to help financial services institutions grow profitably and optimize risk-adjusted performance, Oracle today announced a comprehensive and integrated suite of financial services analytical applications for enterprise performance management (EPM). Now more t...Sep. 11, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,084 |
 According to the Wall Street Journal this morning, Oracle - rather than IBM - acquired Sun because of "transaction uncertainty" among Sun's board of directors - mainly caused by Big Blue lowering its bid price from $10 to $9.40 per share, and specifying that the deal was contingent on ...May. 13, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,700 |
 Continuing to build on its comprehensive Information-Driven Value Chain strategy, Oracle previewed Oracle Rapid Planning. A new product within the Oracle Value Chain Planning solution, Oracle Rapid Planning will enable customers to gain rapid, predictive and actionable insight into dyn...May. 4, 2009 11:34 AM EDT Reads: 731 |
 interRel Consulting is releasing two new books as part of their #1 selling Hyperion book series, Look Smarter Than You Are With Hyperion Essbase. The first books ever released on the newest Oracle Fusion Edition 11 version, Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase 11: An Administrator’s ...May. 4, 2009 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,472 |
 “We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year,” said Oracle's President Safra Catz, after the board of both Oracle and Sun unanimously approved the acqu...Apr. 20, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,370 |
 Oracle announced new management capabilities for Oracle VM through the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 (10gR5). With the new Oracle VM Management Pack, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 provides a comprehensive management solution that spans the lifecycle of applicatio...Mar. 4, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,615 |
 The new Oracle User Productivity Kit v3.5 and Oracle User Productivity Kit Professional v6.1 are now available to help organizations retain corporate knowledge and increase end user productivity of all enterprise applications, including non-Oracle applications. Companies rely on the pr...Feb. 20, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 809 |
 The dcLINK 5.0 automated data collection solution from Data Systems International has achieved validated integration with Oracle E-Business Suite 12 through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative (AIAP). DSI completed the required application and testin...Feb. 17, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 1,470 |
 Oracle announced the release of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.9.5.1 (Oracle BI Applications), introducing new capabilities that allow public sector agencies with fact-based and timely insight into their operational budgets and funds management. These new capabilities have...Feb. 16, 2009 06:00 PM EST Reads: 951 |
 Jitterbit announced advanced features to enhance the compatibility of its open source integration software with Oracle CRM On Demand Release 16. To natively support Oracle's On Demand security model, Jitterbit 2.0 Enterprise now includes support for the Oracle-specific JSessionID authe...Jan. 30, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 2,034 |
 Oracle Financial Services Software has announced the availability of a new version of Oracle Reveleus Market Risk. Oracle Reveleus Market Risk provides new and expanded modeling, analysis and reporting capabilities that help financial institutions effectively view and manage the balanc...Jan. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 951 |
 Relational Database Consultants has released version 8.1 of the Standby Wizard for Oracle, now compatible with Oracle 11g databases. The Standby Wizard is a GUI-based intelligent disaster-recovery tool that automates the creation, maintenance and fail-over functions of Oracle's standby...Jan. 30, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,125 |
 Quest Software has announced the launch of their backup and recovery technology for the Oracle platform, LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle. Oracle database administrators (DBAs) charged with handling secure backup and recovery strategies on a lean budget can reportedly realize 70 to 90 perce...Jan. 21, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,468 |
Finding the right technology solution for human capital management (HCM) is a daunting – and frustrating – task for most companies, according to a recent i4cp study conducted as part of i4cp’s Technology Commons research. The study found that over a third of responding companies are ei... Dec. 31, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,582 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Oracle named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jo...Oct. 21, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,361 |
Oracle this week upgraded the WebLogic application server that the company gained in its BEA Systems acquisition, adding integration with Oracle's Fusion middleware platform. Oracle WebLogic Server was named as Oracle's strategic Java container on July 1. The upgrade, WebLogic Server 1... Aug. 15, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,208 |
Eaton Steel is relying on the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to gain insight into its supply chain network and financial results, simplify transactions with its network of partners and help reduce costs by automat... Jul. 15, 2008 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,671 |
Oracle announced the first in a series of free Oracle business applications for the Apple iPhone. Oracle Business Indicators will be available on the Apple App Store beginning July 10th. These new Oracle business applications address how busy executives and managers work today -- requ... Jul. 10, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,914 |
To help organizations more readily institute hardware and software changes to their Oracle Database systems, including upgrades to Oracle Database 11g, Oracle announced that Oracle Real Application Testing now features support for all releases of Oracle Database 10g, and Oracle9i Datab... Jul. 10, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,616 |
Bluenog announced that it has become a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Under the program, Bluenog will resell Oracle software, including Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion middleware, and will provide associated services and integrated solutions. Bluenog's core... Jul. 3, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,410 |
Oracle announced new releases of Oracle Berkeley DB, Oracle Berkeley DB XML and Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. The new releases and enhancements signify Oracle's commitment to continued innovation across the Oracle Berkeley DB product family, while maintaining the open source dual li... Jul. 3, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,161 |
Faster adoption of technologies has resulted into heterogeneous information systems. Gleaning and processing of complex information is of increasing importance in today's diverse environments. A built-in, infrastructure-level capability to process and correlate high volumes of events, ... May. 23, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,406 |
Luciad announced that it has released LuciadMap Version 8.0 with substantial new functionality and increased performance, enabling developers to build and deploy high-end mission-critical systems. Luciad's partnership with Oracle is reinforced in the seamless integration with the lates... May. 19, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,417 |
Building on its November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Based on feedback resulting from close cooperation with customers testing in real-world environments, the latest preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g incl... May. 8, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,958 |
Since the launch of the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) last April, Oracle's partner ecosystem has embraced Oracle's pre-built integration products and stepped forward to deploy and extend them for specific customers. The combination of pre-built integration products ... Apr. 14, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,393 |
Global enterprise software company Oracle said it has bagged an order from Idea Cellular to implement Siebel CRM applications, which will address problems arising of the telco's extensive channel and dealer network and meet its fast-expanding customer base. Idea's strategic outsourcin... Feb. 7, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,948 |
Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Utilities Network Management System Release 1.8.0, an integrated suite of real-time operations technology applications designed to improve network reliability, maximize asset utilization, reduce outage durations and increase customer satisfac... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,596 |
Oracle announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing on an Oracle enterprise grid to power the largest smart meter initiative in the United States to date, helping businesses and households become more energy-efficient and re... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,021 |
BEA, described by the Wall Street Journal this morning as 'one of the few independent, midsize software companies left in Silicon Valley as the technology industry consolidates' is independent no longer: it has been acquired today by Larry Ellison's Oracle, in a deal worth $8.5BN. The ... Jan. 17, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 10,239 |
CMS Watch has found that some of the largest enterprise portal vendors are experiencing the most change right now, and therefore, choices that appear conservative to customers might actually carry significant near-term risks. BEA and Oracle customers in particular should expect to see... Jan. 17, 2008 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,776 |
Sun, Oracle?s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that?s part of the famous LAMP stack. It?s paying a billion dollars. Jan. 16, 2008 02:30 PM EST Reads: 3,670 |
Oracle Wednesday told a skittish market behaving lately like a bunch of old ladies that its fiscal Q2 earnings were up 35% to $1.3 billion, or 25 cents a share, on revenues up 28% to $5.3 billion. Having done better than expected, the company's stock rose in after-hours trading after b... Dec. 25, 2007 02:15 PM EST Reads: 5,972 Replies: 1 |
 Oracle announced Oracle VM, a server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products includi...Dec. 20, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,606 |
