Oracle Releases Oracle Solaris 11, the First Cloud OS

Oracle has launched Oracle Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS.which is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based deployments allowing customers to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds.

Oracle Solaris 11 is the ideal platform to run business-critical enterprise applications in virtualized massive horizontal scale as well as vertically integrated environments on a wide range of SPARC and x86 servers.

The latest release of Oracle Solaris is engineered to provide cloud-scale life cycle management with secure, fail-safe boot environments, safe roll-backs, 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots, and is leveraging the power of Oracle Solaris ZFS.

Oracle Solaris 11 offers comprehensive management across the entire infrastructure – operating system, physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer.

“Oracle Solaris 11 is the most significant operating system release of the past decade. With built-in server, storage and now, network virtualization, Oracle Solaris 11 delivers the industry’s first cloud OS. Customers can simplify their enterprise deployments, drive up utilization of their data center assets, and run Oracle and other enterprise applications faster all within a secure, scalable cloud or traditional enterprise environment,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle.

Oracle Solaris and Oracle software applications are designed together, tested together, can be deployed together and supported together to provide faster fail-over, improved reliability and up to 10x better application performance.

Oracle Solaris development teams have worked on co-engineering efforts to increase Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Java-based application performance, availability, security and manageability on Oracle Solaris.

 “With Oracle Solaris, we have a unique opportunity to support the industry’s largest and leading business software portfolio on the industry’s best UNIX for both SPARC and x86 servers,” said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of Oracle Product Development. “Working together, our development teams engineer, test and support advanced solutions to our customers’ toughest problems. We are pleased to announce that our key software products—Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Applications—are available and optimized for Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC and x86 systems.”

Oracle Solaris 11 delivers “secure by default” features, including start up, role-based root access and low impact auditing for both cloud and traditional datacenter deployments.

New Oracle Solaris 11 enhancements include optimized shared memory management, I/O improvements, integrated resource management and crypto off-load.

As the first fully virtualized operating system (OS), Oracle Solaris 11 provides comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network and storage resources.

New connected cloud management ensures that customers always have the latest Solaris updates from Oracle and proactive services help customers achieve maximum uptime.

Customers can run any of the more than 11,000 applications supported today on Oracle Solaris 11, with guaranteed binary compatibility through the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program.

Oracle Solaris 11 is already in production at over 700 top companies around the world and deployed on thousands of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, as well as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8 and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems.

New Oracle Solaris 11 Training is available to help customers and partners take advantage of the best-in-class features of Oracle Solaris 11 and upgrade from Oracle Solaris 10 or earlier versions.

Supporting Resources

· Oracle Solaris

· Oracle Solaris on OTN

· Oracle Solaris 11 Training

· Oracle’s Sun Server and Storage Systems

· Oracle Solaris Blog

· Connect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

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PTCL trains senior managers in new management concepts

Islamabad: Successful participants of recently concluded Management Development Program for senior managers of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) with PTCL Chief Technical Officer (center), Mr. Muhammad Nasrullah, at the PTCL Academy Islamabad after completion of their training.

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Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has successfully trained 30 senior managers through its ongoing dynamic Management Development Program.

“I congratulate our senior managers on this achievement,” said PTCL Chief Technical Officer, Muhammad Nasrullah while addressing participants at the certificate awards ceremony held at the program’s conclusion. “PTCL’s Management Development Program is a major initiative taken for the Company’s organizational and human resource development. It has prepared our senior managers to take corporate leadership roles in the future.”

The program featured leading in-house trainers and training industry gurus -- such as Naeem Bukhari, Zafar Taji, Nadeem Chauhan and Faiez Seyal -- who benefitted the participants their valuable insights on management skills, HR, technology, finance, marketing etc.

Designed in two successive phases consisting of two batches each being conducted through 2011, PTCL’s Management Development Program is targeting to train 50 senior managers of the Company from all over the country. The first phase was completed in March this year, while the second and final phase’s completion is due in December.

“PTCL recognizes its human resource as a real asset and invests heavily in their development through various training activities,” said PTCL Senior Executive Vice President, Syed Mazhar Hussain. “We have a large training infrastructure spread throughout the country. Through successful initiatives like the Management Development Program, we are committed to make PTCL a ‘customer-focused corporate organization’ by undertaking spectacular human resource development.”

Mr. Hussain also applauded the efforts carried out by PTCL’s Training & Development Team for making the program an exceptionally beneficial experience for its participants.

MOBILE COMMERCE TO INCREASE, USE OF CELLPHONE FOR DATA TRANSFER INCREASED: ORACLE REPORT

Redwood Shores, Calif. – October 31, 2011

  

“Sixty-nine percent of global mobile phone users report using a smartphone and 47 percent of mobile users have increased their data usage in the past year – a larger percentage than text or voice,” stated a press release issued by Oracle announcing the results of its “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two” report, which surveyed more than 3,000 mobile phone consumers worldwide to examine their mobile phone use habits, interest in new mobile technologies and expectations for service providers.

Pakistan has seen phenomenal growth in mobile phone users touching 110 million while increase in data transfer has also been witnessed.

The survey is a complement to Oracle’s first study, “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications,” which was released in September 2010.

In 2010, more than 50 percent of respondents thought their mobile phone would replace their camera, MP3 player or GPS device within five years.  By 2011, 43 percent of respondents already replaced their camera, 34 percent their MP3 player and 24 percent their GPS device with their mobile phone.

Consumer demand for apps is growing significantly.  Fifty-five percent of respondents have downloaded a free app and 25 percent have paid for an app on their mobile device.  In addition, demand for apps is spreading from phones to other mobile devices, particularly tablets.  Fifty-seven percent of respondents already own a tablet device or plan to purchase one in the next 12 months, even though the technology is in its infancy.

“Customer demands continue to evolve rapidly.  To maintain a competitive advantage, communications service providers must invest in information technology solutions that provide them the most flexibility and agility, enabling them to rapidly deliver innovative services or to adopt new business models as new opportunities arise, said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications. 

“Providers also have an enormous opportunity to enhance their customer relationships by engaging with them at every touch point, leveraging their dynamic role in consumers’ shopping experience, and providing valuable information about usage, new services and mobile security,” he added.

More consumers are continuing to leverage their mobile devices for retail activities. Thirty percent of mobile phone users use comparison shop on their mobile device, while 24 percent read customer reviews and 14 percent have scanned a QR code in an advertisement or article.  But, when it comes to shopping for phones, 84 percent of respondents prefer to purchase in store.

While consumers are becoming more comfortable with location-based services and online banking, they have security concerns.  Sixty-eight percent of respondents do not believe, or are unsure, whether information stored or transmitted from their mobile device is secure.  

To access the full report – which delves extensively into mobile phone use preferences, security concerns, consumer purchasing habits, motivations for change and family data plan demand, as well as key differentiators between various global regions – visit

http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/oracle-communications-future-mobile-521589.pdf.

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle Communications

·         Full Report:  Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two

·         2010 Press Release:  New Report Shows Mobile Consumers Eager for New Technologies, Still Covet Service and Price

·         2010 Full Report:  Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications

·         Oracle Communications on YouTube

·         Oracle Communications on Diigo

·         Oracle Communications on Facebook

·         Oracle Communications on Twitter

·        Oracle Communications on LinkedIn

About Oracle Communications

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, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/index.html

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PTCL wins the prestigious Global HR Excellence Award 2011

PTCL Senior Executive Vice President HR, Syed Mazhar Hussain, 

receives the Global HR Excellence Award  by Federal Minister for

Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Faheem.

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has won the prestigious “2nd Global HR Excellence Award 2011” in recognition of its outstanding organizational performance in the telecom sector.

“This award is an acknowledgement of PTCL’s pioneering efforts undertaken to transform our HR policies and practices,” said PTCL Senior Executive Vice President Human Resource, Syed Mazhar Hussain on the occasion. “We have won this award because of the tireless efforts of our HR team, which has demonstrated exceptional commitment towards elevating PTCL to new heights of success by overcoming atypical challenges.”

Proffered by Global Media Links and Business Milestones, the Global HR Excellence Awards recognize leading organizations that have achieved excellence in the sphere of Human Resource and Organizational Development.

In the post-privatization period, PTCL’s organizational transformation has been spearheaded by the company’s HR Department, which has played an instrumental role in creating a new momentum and infusing vigor within the organization to bring about a paradigm shift in its organizational culture.

“The Global Excellence Award has increased PTCL’s visibility on Pakistan’s corporate horizon and enhanced its image vis-à-vis our employer branding,” said PTCL SEVP, Syed Mazhar Hussain.

The Award’s judges unanimously selected PTCL for this year’s honor in view of the fast-paced progression of its HR Department, and its exceptional achievements in successfully leading the company’s massive post-privatization transition by introducing HR best practices in a very short period of time.

“Starting with a major rationalization of headcount to introducing a merit culture whereby performance determines the annual salary increments to the employees, our HR department has been at the forefront of our organizational change,” said PTCL Executive Vice President Organizational Development, Shahzad Safdar Khan. “We now place a strong emphasis on the development of our human capital by providing them with numerous learning opportunities that are in sync with our corporate objectives.”

In recent years, PTCL has firmly established its reputation for redefining and realigning the industrial relations paradigm. In line with contemporary business requirements, it has led organizational development and employee welfare by successfully creating a win-win situation, both for the employees and the organization, to emerge as an employer of choice.

Oracle Announces the Immediate Availability of the Oracle Database Appliance

Simple, Highly Reliable, Affordable Database System for Small/Midsize Enterprises and Departments 

Redwood Shores, Calif

News Facts 

· Available today, Oracle announced the Oracle Database Appliance, an easy-to-use, affordable, and highly available database appliance that is built using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on a 2-nodeSun Fire server cluster running Oracle Linux. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system of software, servers, storage and networking that offers high availability for a wide range of custom and packaged OLTP and data warehousing application databases. 

· Built using the latest release of the world’s #1 database, the Oracle Database Appliance protects databases from server and storage failures with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management, respectively. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance offers unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing for Oracle Database and related software from 2 to 24 processor cores. This allows customers to align their software spend with their business growth without the need for any hardware upgrades. 

· With proactive system monitoring, one-button software provisioning, full-stack integrated patching, and automatic phone home on hardware failures, the Oracle Database Appliance also reduces the cost and resources required to build and maintain a highly-available database system.

· Oracle’s extensive ecosystem of partners offers customers a wide range of horizontal and industry-specific applications that can benefit from the higher availability of the Oracle Database Appliance.

· Additional information on the Oracle Database Appliance will be available during Oracle OpenWorld 2011. 

· Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. 


Supporting Quotes

· “Companies are spending tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours to buy, build and customize database solutions,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle. “With the Oracle Database Appliance, customers get the power of the world’s leading database in a highly-available system from a single vendor. We’ve taken the risk out of designing and deploying database infrastructures, which makes it ideal for small and midsize companies or enterprise departments that want higher availability for their application databases.” 

· “Oracle resellers want differentiated solutions that can be sold at volume. By combining a dramatically simpler user experience with pay-as-you-grow pricing, the Oracle Database Appliance plays well in this Oracle reseller sweet spot,” said Judson Althoff, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels and Embedded Sales, Oracle. 

Supporting Resources

· About Oracle Database Appliance

· About Oracle Database 11g

· Oracle Database Appliance Customer and Partner Quotes

· About Oracle Database Appliance for Partners

· Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter

· Judson Althoff Blog

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Oracle Outlines Plans to Move Java Forward

Highlights Java Technology Innovation and Details Roadmap of Future Java Platform Advancements

JAVAONE, SAN FRANCISCO – October 11, 2011

News Facts

Oracle has outlined plans for the future of the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations during the recently held JavaOne 2011.

Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Cameron Purdy, vice president, Development, Oracle, revealed Oracle’s strategy to evolove Java platform.

“Our strategic objectives for the future of Java are to accelerate technical innovation in the Java platform and increase Java technology adoption,” said Rizvi.

“We expect to keep Java vibrant and moving forward through ongoing support for open standards and by working closely with the Java developer community,” he added.

Java is #1 programming language with 9 million developers worldwide and 80% of mobile developers using the Java platform. 97% of enterprise desktops run Java while more than 3 billion devices have been powered by Java technology including more than 125 million Java-based TV devices.

Oracle announced plans to improve the interoperability between HTML5 and Java technology in order to simplify the development of rich client/server interaction for cloud based applications.

Oracle also announced availability of JavaFX 2.0, an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle intends to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community.

Java EE continues to be hugely popular with increasing developer adoption and over 40 million downloads of Java EE components, including Oracle GlassFish Server.

Java EE 7, the next generation of Java EE, is well underway which will further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments with support for features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling).

Rob Benson, Director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform.

IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also demonstrated their ongoing support for Java technology.

        

Supporting Resources

•        Java 7 Celebration Webcast Replay

•        Java at Oracle

•        Planet JDK (JDK developer blogs)

•        Java User Groups

•        Java Source Blog

•        Follow the conversation on Twitter: follow @Java

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About JavaOne

JavaOne San Francisco returns to the Zone October 2-6, a developer-friendly neighborhood. At the heart of the Zone is the Mason Street Cafe, a block-long playground and lounge bordered by JavaOne hotels (the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Hotel Nikko, and Parc 55 Wyndham).  JavaOne brings experts and enthusiasts together for an extraordinary week of learning and networking focused entirely on all things Java and moving the #1 development platform forward.  With more than 400 sessions covering topics that span the breadth of the Java universe, keynotes from foremost Java visionaries, and engaging activities geared toward developers, JavaOne is the world's most important event for the Java community. For more information, please visit:

www.oracle.com/javaone

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Ufone Gain Profits 57%, Revenues 14% in FY11

Ufone seems to have reported exceptional increase of 57% profits and 14% revenues in Financial Year 2010-2011 due to the fact associated with significant financial savings while in the FY11 , As outlined by Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) Report.

Based on a quotation that profits of Ufone has enhanced to Rs 2.66 billion however revenues increased to Rs 56 billion while in the FY11 ended on June 30. The entire year within evaluation noticeable 10th year of effective functions through Ufone. When compared to the prior yr, the earnings per share (EPS) enhanced to Rs. 6.36 from Rs. 5.20 of a year ago.

Regardless of unfavorable financial circumstances restricting development in Pakistan, still Ufone carried on to update its network with some other improvements as well as enhance performance in smoth sequence which results in top quality of customer satisfaction.

These types of actions, , placed endeavours such as ambitious network co-location keeping significant levels of CAPEX and also inclusion of 1-SIM concept within the areas decreasing stock administration difficulties. Additionally, the users are also helped through increasing IVR, USSD and also online Self Care based platforms with re-engineered techniques lowering turn-around period.

In the past year, Ufone launched a variety of revolutionary services to eye-catching call rates serving the requirements of various users. The youth portion had been additionally increased by way of starting brand new packages and offers e.g. Uth Nonstop Offer, Uth Full Time Mufta Offer and Uth Alaa Offer. These kinds of presents received incredible reputation within the youngsters section adding significant profits. In their initiatives to locate new revenue channels, Ufone utilized new areas concentrating on farm owners (Kissan Package) and also women packages the very first time in Pakistan.

In order to encourage the retailer resulting in higher distance with consumer as well as continuous existence near all households, “Ustar” channel was already released along with “Ushops”.

At present more than 25,000 “Ushops” and “Ustars” tend to be helping the users, which undoubtedly will be the biggest and quite a few efficient network of sales and service factors in Pakistan.

In the ongoing undertakings to accomplish more significant effectiveness, an program between banks and also Ufone Customer Relationship Module (Crm) was created. In acknowledgement on the much better in business advantages, Ufone had been not too long ago graced with Professional Excellence Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) on ‘Best Corporate Sector Project’ for Telecom Passive Infrastructure Sharing.

Wateen Represented Pakistan at Global Arab Meeting

Wateen Telecom recently participated in the prestigious Horasis Global Arab Meeting, held in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, from 9th-12th October 2011. 

The Horasis Global Arab Meeting takes place annually and aims at creating an opportunity for global leaders to meet, engage in business and discuss visions for a sustainable future. 

In addition to keynote speeches by industry luminaries, the meeting offers panel-style boardroom dialogue sessions led by the event co-chairs, reflecting on specific opportunities and challenges in the global economic sphere. This year’s event was attended by over 300 participants from 35 countries. 

Wateen Telecom holds the honor of being the only Pakistani company invited to participate in this globally recognized platform for international dialogue. Wateen CEO Naeem Zamindar was selected as a co-chair for the event; the only participant from Pakistan was Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Senior Minister of Commerce. 

As an event co-chair, Mr. Zamindar participated in two panel sessions. The first discussed the prospects of newly evolving political and economic alliances between the Arab world and other nations in the background of a waning Arab spring. The second panel session examined the role of technology as an incubator of social change. 

Commenting on the event, Mr Zamindar said, 

It was a great honor for me to represent Wateen – and Pakistan – at this incredible event. Not only was it a chance to interact with global leaders, it presented an opportunity to demonstrate Pakistan’s crucial role in the global technology and telecommunications stage. 

I hope that our participation this year will help define Pakistan’s socio-economic relationship – one of partnership and cooperation – with the Arab world. 

In addition to Makhdoom Amin Fahim from Pakistan, the event was also attended by leading international public figures such as H.H. Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE; H.E. Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, UAE; H.E. Mohammad Abu-Hammour, Minister of Finance of Jordan, Jordan; H.E. Nicolas Nahas, Minister of Economy & Trade, Lebanon; and H.E. Kamal Nath, Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development, India. 

Oracle Unveils Oracle Fusion CRM in the Cloud

Enterprise-grade Cloud CRM Helps Companies Sell Smarter

ORACLE OPENWORLD, San Francisco, CA – Oct. 5, 2011

Oracle has recently launched the world’s most advanced CRM in the cloud, unveiling the public cloud offering of Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Part of the recently announced Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle’s enterprise-grade CRM cloud applications offer the advantages customers expect from SaaS (software as a service), without the limitations of older SaaS CRM solutions. They deliver all the power of Oracle’s most advanced applications in a simple subscription pricing model – with no hardware to buy or software to support.

“We believe Oracle Fusion CRM is the smartest Customer Relationship Management solution available in the cloud or anywhere else,” said Anthony Lye, Group Vice President of Oracle CRM.

“Oracle Fusion CRM is also a part of the most complete set of enterprise-grade public cloud services available today. That provides a clear path to the cloud for companies that require enterprise-strength power, security, and vendor accountability,” he added.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service helps sales professionals outsmart their competition by planning, prospecting, collaborating and closing smarter. The system’s embedded business intelligence delivers unprecedented insight into sales planning and sales performance management, so that sales representatives and sales leaders can sell smarter. 

Oracle’s Cloud Services are built on Oracle technology and support customers’ choice of deployment models by offering portability between the public cloud, private cloud and on-premise deployments.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service delivers best-in-class CRM capabilities that drive smarter selling.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service enables organizations to:

o       Integrate sales territory management with quota management to help sales organizations optimize resource allocation.

o       Combine customer and product master data information with all CRM processes – a first for cloud based CRM solutions.

o       Deliver a consolidated customer center for all CRM business processes that is supported by a common 360 degree view of customer information.

o       Help sales people focus efforts on solutions that the customer needs with white space analysis of targeted customer products.

o       Improve lead generation processes by managing customer dialogs with multi-stage campaigns and standardized lead qualification processes.

Organizations can start with one module and grow to a full suite over time.

        

Supporting Resources

·        Oracle Public Cloud

·        Oracle Applications Strategy

·        Oracle Fusion Applications

·        Oracle Fusion Applications Design Principles

·        Oracle Images and Screenshots on Flickr

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About the Oracle Public Cloud

The Oracle Public Cloud is an enterprise-grade cloud that offers the advantages customers expect from SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service), without the limitations of niche solutions. The Oracle Public Cloud has all the power of Oracle’s most advanced technology and applications in a simple subscription pricing model – with no hardware to buy or software to support.

About Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications are 100% open standards-based business applications that provide a new standard for the way we innovate, work and adopt technology. Delivered as a complete suite of modular applications, Oracle Fusion Applications work together with existing applications portfolio to evolve business to a new level of performance.

About Oracle Applications

Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to: www.oracle.com/applications.

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Oracle Unveils Oracle Social Network

Enterprise Social Network to Enable Business Users to Work Together Using a Broad Suite of Collaboration Tools 

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 5, 2011

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced Oracle Social Network, an enterprise collaboration and social networking tool for business users to find and collaborate with the right people within their enterprise and across enterprises - for example, with suppliers, partners and customers - using information from the human resources system and their own private social network. 

Oracle Social Network enables business users to collaborate with each other using a broad range of collaboration tools, including personal profiles, groups, activity feeds, status updates, discussion forums, document sharing, co-browsing and editing, instant messaging, email, and web conferencing. 

“The biggest change over the past few years is social networking,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Today, organizations want to connect their people, their applications, their processes and their customers. Oracle Social Network provides that; all the tools are integrated and employees can work from anywhere in the world with the devices best suited to their job.” 

Oracle Social Network is designed to meet corporate demands for security, privacy, and information protection by providing each enterprise and its users with a virtualized and private instance for collaboration with configurable retention and audit policies for traceability. 

It is designed to allow mobile users to always stay connected and to participate in business conversations by providing native applications on a variety of devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Android devices, as well as a modern, easy-to-use browser interface. 

Oracle Social Network helps salespeople to identify potential prospects, build effective teams, prepare convincing sales presentations, resolve issues with customer service and contracts, collaborate with partners on joint opportunities, and build lasting relationships with customers. 

It is seamlessly integrated with Oracle Fusion Applications, business intelligence, and business processes allowing users to receive real-time information feeds from these systems and to collaborate and resolve business issues quickly and effectively, including updating applications and business processes from the Oracle Social Network. 

Oracle Social Network helps marketing teams to design more creative marketing campaigns, target the right customers and partners, and collaborate with sales teams to generate the highest quality leads. 

It helps human resources professionals and managers to collaborate on workforce planning and staffing, build effective compensation and benefits programs, set goals and objectives, and drive more effective talent management processes. 

Oracle Social Network can be used by project managers and project teams to build effective project plans, collaborate on project tasks, resolve issues and change requests, and track and update project milestones. 

Oracle Social Network provides personalized and configurable alerts that enable users to stay informed of actions but filter out superfluous chatter enabling them to pay attention to important information. 

Supporting Resources

• Oracle Unveils Oracle Public Cloud

• Oracle Public Cloud

• Oracle Cloud Computing

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries. Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2,000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle. 

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OracleUnveils Oracle Public Cloud

NewServices Give Customers and Partners Subscription-Based Access to Oracle’sIndustry-Leading Enterprise Applications, Middleware and Database

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – October 5, 2011

OracleCEO Larry Ellison announced the OraclePublic Cloud, a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services thatprovide customers with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and OracleDatabase, allcompletely managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.

TheOracle Public Cloud includes Oracle Fusion CustomerRelationship Management (CRM) Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion HumanCapital Management (HCM) Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network,Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service.

TheOracle Public Cloud runs on Oracle Engineered Systems, providing customers andpartners with a high-performance, reliable, elastic, and secure infrastructurefor their critical business applications.

TheOracle Public Cloud is the only public cloud that offers customers a completerange of business applications and technology solutions, avoiding the problemsof data and business process fragmentation when customers use multiple siloedpublic clouds.

“TheOracle Public Cloud is a little different,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.  “The Oracle Public Cloud is both a platform asa service and applications as a service.  The key difference is the OraclePublic Cloud is based on industry standards and supports full interoperabilitywith other clouds and your datacenter on premise.”

TheOracle Public Cloud is the only public cloud offering that provides customerswith truly flexible deployment by enabling them to run the exact same business applicationsin the cloud and on-premise.

Customerscan also take existing standard Javaand Oracle Database applications and deploy them to the Oracle Public Cloudwithout rewriting them, allowing them to take advantage of their existing ITassets, skills and ecosystems.

Pricingfor the Oracle Public Cloud will be based on a monthly subscription model, andeach service can be purchased independently of other services.

The Oracle Public Cloud provides many commonservices, including resource management and isolation, security, data exchangeand integration, virus scanning, white list management, and centralizedself-service monitoring.

Customers who are interested in Oracle’s PublicCloud, want to learn about its services, or register to use these services cando so at http://cloud.oracle.com.

Comprehensive Platform Is Open and Integrated to Work Together

The Oracle Public Cloud offers self-service,subscription-based access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle FusionMiddleware and Oracle Database as a service, including:

·        OracleFusion CRM Cloud Service: designed to be effective,efficient and easy to use, Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM)delivers integrated sales and marketing with sales performance management thatenables companies to generate more quality sales opportunities, increase theirwin rate and gain faster time to value.

·        OracleFusion HCM Cloud Service: built from the ground up tohelp customers do things their way, know their people better and work as ateam, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) rethinks the business of HRto provide value to every person in an organization – from HR professionals toemployees and managers.

·        OracleSocial Network: an enterprise collaboration andsocial networking solution with a broad range of social tools designed to captureand share information amongst teams in the context of business processes andenterprise applications (such as CRM and HCM). Oracle Social Network enablesnatural conversations and jump-starts productivity with purposeful socialnetworking without the noise of unrelated or random social conversations.

·        OracleDatabase Cloud Service: enterprise database servicebased on the industry’s #1 database, OracleDatabase, providing access to database schemas, application developmenttools, data loading services, Web Services APIs, and a set of packaged businessproductivity applications.

·        OracleJava Cloud Service: enterprise platform fordeveloping, deploying and managing business-critical JavaPlatform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications based on OracleWebLogic Server, the industry’s #1 application server.  Supports development and deployment frommultiple Java IDEs, including Oracle JDeveloper,NetBeans and Eclipse.

·        All Oracle Public Cloud serviceshave a unified self-service user interface for provisioning, monitoring andmanaging all services.

Supporting Resources

·        Oracle Public Cloud

·        Oracle Cloud Computing

About Oracle OpenWorld

OracleOpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helpingbusinesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technologybreakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  OracleOpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2,000 educational sessions, 400 product demos,exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database,server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – allengineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information, pleasevisit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live onYouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About Oracle

Oracle(NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s most complete, open, and integrated businesssoftware and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle,please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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Oracle Optimizes Integration Between Oracle Applications and Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Integration Delivers Extreme Performance, Simplicity and New Capabilities Across Oracle Applications

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 3, 2011

News Facts

·         Further demonstrating its commitment to delivering integrated business software and hardware engineered systems, Oracle today announced that Oracle Applications are fully optimized for Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

·         The enhanced integration delivers tangible business benefits for customers by enabling Oracle Applications to take advantage of the extreme performance, reliability and scalability delivered by Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

·         With the integration, the performance of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle’s ATG Commerce Suite and Oracle Supply Chain Management applications is enhanced.

·         The combination of Oracle Applications with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud gives customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including superior system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, extreme performance, and low total cost of ownership.

Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together

The integration of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud with Oracle Applications delivers performance benefits across Oracle's complete application solutions. These include:

·         Oracle E-Business Suite: With the integration, HR and procurement transactions are now eight times faster, Order to Cash transactions are now three times faster, and Accounting transactions are seven times faster.

·         Oracle’s PeopleSoft: The integration improves the speed and scalability of PeopleSoft financials and HCM applications. PeopleSoft financial applications benefit from five times faster journal posts and 40 percent faster payroll runs, while PeopleSoft HCM applications benefit from ten times the scalability and three times the response time for HR Self Service capabilities. 

·         Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne: The integration enables a 33 percent improvement in batch completion rates and the fastest response times ever tested across the comprehensive enterprise resource planning suite.

·         Oracle's ATG Commerce Suite: The integration enhances the industry's top-ranked cross-channel commerce solution by enabling three times improvement in response time for online shopping.

·         Oracle Supply Chain Management applications: The integration delivers a significant reduction in supply chain planning time and decreases POS demand analysis from six hours to 45 minutes.  

Extreme Performance Drives Better Business Performance

Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud support new capabilities across Oracle Applications. These include:

·         PeopleSoft applications built on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud deliver real-time visibility into the financial impact of “what-if” scenarios that helps customers optimize decision making with continuous management of the bottom line and real time reporting to the finance and executive offices. New capabilities include:

o        Financial Position Analyzer provides the ability to model multiple scenarios of material activity impact on the financial position with real time reporting views.

o        Allocations Analyzer provides the collaborative ability to quickly model changes to complex and multi-step cost and revenue allocations to assess results to the financial position. Once scenarios are approved, changes can then be fully realized into the financial flows.

o        Average Balance Analyzer allows Financial Services organizations to model the effects of material activity on the balance sheet with focus on average balance positions needed for internal profitability analysis and external regulatory reporting.

o        Close Analyzer enables finance to speedily run through multiple close scenarios to assess bottom line results.  This would include allocations, multi-currency revaluation, consolidations with virtual close.

·         Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne supports the move from batch to real-time transactions by providing progressive order processing. New capabilities include:

o        Real Time Up-sell and Cross-sell provides capabilities that dynamically analyze the customer’s recent purchasing behavior for items not on the current order, promotions or discounts in effect for those products and related products other customers purchased when buying the same products as on the order.

o        Profitability Analyzer provides capabilities that analyze the profitability of an order and the order’s individual lines.  Graphically displays profit/margin vs. target during order entry. One chart which displays the profit margin for each item on the sales order and the overall profitability for the total sales order.

o        Dynamic Fulfillment Scheduling enables the ability to continuously rank sales orders to help ensure fulfillment of the highest priority orders to core orders in real time, evaluate service level rules for orders and run auto-fulfillment processing for inventory commitments.

·         Oracle’s Siebel CRM:

o        Order Management: Enhancements help Communication Service Provider improve operational efficiency by enabling real-time changes to large-scale existing assets. Customers also benefit from reduced time-to-market through faster batch processing and improved order accuracy.

o        Loyalty Management: An integrated loyalty and commerce experience is designed to maximize conversion rates, delivers actionable customer insights and supports a superior cross-channel customer experience.  

o        Master Data Management: Advanced data cleansing capabilities can dramatically reduce the time required for data consolidation projects in high-volume data environments, deliver sub-second response times and enable real-time de-duplication, onboarding and account creation.      

Supporting Quote

·         “Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud deliver tangible business benefits across all Oracle Application suites,” said Steve Miranda, SVP of Application Development, Oracle. “By optimizing the integration with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle is not only enabling extreme performance, reliability and availability across its complete application solutions, but also delivering new capabilities that directly support line of business managers.”

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle Applications

·         Oracle Exadata Database Machine

·         Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

·         Oracle E-Business Suite

·         Oracle’s PeopleSoft

·         Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

·         Oracle’s Siebel CRM

·         Oracle’s ATG Commerce Suite

·         Oracle Supply Chain Management

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.  For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.