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.

About Oracle

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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. 

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, visit oracle.com

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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.

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Oracle Raises the Curtain on Oracle OpenWorld 2011

Conference Showcases the Latest Advancements in Oracle Technology and Offerings Engineered for Innovation

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 3, 2011

·         ‘Oracle OpenWorld 2011 San Francisco’, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, kicked off in San Francisco today.

·         The industry’s largest event for Oracle developers, customers and partners draws over 45,000 attendees from more than 117 countries.

·         The event features five days of education and insight into Oracle's strategy and roadmap on the software, hardware and engineered systems built to optimize business from end-to-end.

·         The conference will have more than 2,000 educational sessions, nearly 400 Oracle product demonstrations and over 475 partner exhibits showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. 

·         “Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers five days of wall-to-wall sessions and demos geared toward helping companies maximize their current Oracle investment and stay ahead of the competition,” said Tania Weidick, vice president, marketing, Oracle.  “At the year’s premier event for business executives and developers, attendees will have the opportunity to learn the latest techniques for optimizing enterprise infrastructure, get insight from strategists and developers, and hear about emerging technology trends and breakthroughs from industry leaders.”

·         Industry leaders from Oracle, Cisco, Dell, EMC, and Infosys will deliver keynote addresses on how new technology paradigms will transform IT and create opportunities for innovation

·         In addition, the JavaOne 2011 conference, running concurrently is dedicated to unparalleled Java education, practical hands-on sessions and engaging activities geared toward the developer community.

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle OpenWorld 2011

·         Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Keynote Agenda

·         Oracle OpenWorld blog

·         Oracle PartnerNetworkForum at Oracle OpenWorld

·         Oracle OpenWorld on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

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 or to register 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.

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

Oracle Unveils the World’s Fastest General Purpose Engineered System – the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4

Oracle Unveils the World’s Fastest General Purpose Engineered System -  the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4

New SPARC T4-Based Engineered System Delivers 2x the Performance at Half the Cost of HP and IBM

Redwood Shores, Calif. – September 29, 2011

News Facts

• The world’s fastest general-purpose engineered system was unveiled today by Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison and Executive Vice President John Fowler.
• Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is based on Oracle’s new SPARC T4 servers, which deliver the biggest generational performance increase in the history of Oracle’s SPARC processors, resulting in nine world record benchmarks.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 outclasses HP and IBM, delivering 2x the performance of IBM POWER7-based systems and HP Superdome 2 systems at half the cost running database and enterprise applications.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is a complete application-to-disk solution ideal for consolidating a broad spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, offering outstanding efficiency with a 10:1 server consolidation ratio for heterogeneous database, middleware and Web applications.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 combines Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle Solaris with the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage cells, the accelerated middleware and application processing of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud software, and offers internal shared disk storage via Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage 7320 Appliance.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 will support all current Oracle Solaris applications and supports the latest release of Oracle Solaris, as well as the upcoming release of Oracle Solaris 11, thereby providing both forward and backward compatibility.
• Unlike conventional solutions from the competition, Oracle’s new engineered system offers superior performance and economics for Oracle Database 11g, with built-in storage compression and security via storage encryption.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 delivers extreme performance and scalability, supporting up to four compute nodes and four terabytes of memory in a single rack, and has been provisioned to scale to an eight-rack system.
• The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 also offers flexible, built-in virtualization with Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC with powerful management tools including Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
• As part of today’s announcement, Oracle also announced two new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 based Oracle Optimized Solutions which demonstrate the superior performance and value of Oracle’s fully integrated, pre-tested solutions:

• Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management on SPARC SuperCluster – 3x faster payroll processing than IBM and HP
• Oracle Optimized Solution for WebCenter Content on SPARC SuperCluster – 3x lower cost and less complexity than IBM’s Content Management
• Oracle Optimized Solutions leverage Oracle’s unique ability to engineer and integrate key infrastructure components to help reduce integration costs, accelerate enterprise deployments, and simplify maintenance.
• Additional information on Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 will be available during Oracle OpenWorld 2011, being held October 2-6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information or to register please visit http://www.oracle.com/openworld.

Supporting Quote                                       

• “The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is a really fast computer,” said Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison. “It combines the latest in Extreme Parallelism and the latest in Extreme Compression to provide a 100 percent upwardly compatible migration path for existing SPARC customers. This one box moves data two times faster than IBM’s fastest computer at eight times better price/performance. This is a really fast computer.”
• “Oracle is changing the dynamics of the datacenter by combining the industry’s best technology – the SPARC T4 processor, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Exadata storage, and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud software – into a versatile, secure, general purpose engineered system,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is an ideal platform for application and server consolidation that demonstrates how engineered systems can deliver huge performance at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.”
• “We chose to test Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster for performance improvement of our current data warehouse system and consolidation of sparse Oracle databases through implementation of RAC features,” said Aldo Chiaradia, CIO, Benetton Group S.p.A. “Our heaviest operation is data warehouse loading and with the SPARC SuperCluster we are expecting a huge improvement of at least 30 percent.”

Supporting Resources

• Datasheet: Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4
• Podcast: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster
• Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers
• Oracle Solaris on OTN
• Connect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter

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.