Endeavors Technologies Ramps Up with Application Jukebox Support for Oracle Beehive

Endeavors Technologies, a provider of application streaming and virtualization technology, announced that Application Jukebox, the company's next-generation application streaming and virtualization platform, now supports Oracle Beehive - a unified collaboration platform built for the enterprise.

Application Jukebox, the company noted, delivers a unique form of configurable virtualization. Without the need for any redevelopment, existing desktop applications are delivered on-demand in a SaaS environment. For Oracle's 30-day trial, Application Jukebox has been provisioned to deliver the Oracle Beehive client applications with an "Express Launch" capability. With one click, Thunderbird, Pidgin, and the Oracle Beehive integration for Outlook clients are delivered on-demand to a user's desktop. The applications are automatically configured for a 30-day trial account and ready to use, enabling users to save time and simplify the Oracle Beehive trial experience.

"We see enormous potential in the application on-demand market," said Paul Hacker, CEO at Endeavors Technologies. "Application Jukebox is the ideal solution to provide software vendors the ability to deliver existing desktop applications on-demand via the Internet. We are delighted to provide the Express Launch option for the 30-day trial for Oracle Beehive." "With Oracle Beehive, users have the flexibility to communicate and coordinate through familiar client software, standards-based clients or a variety of mobile clients," said Marten den Haring, Senior Director, Collaboration Technologies, Oracle. "With Application Jukebox, organizations taking advantage of Oracle's 30-day trial can benefit from an Express Launch option for their preferred desktop client software." Endeavors Technologies is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

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Oracle, SITA to build GenNext reservation system

Oracle and aviation IT specialist SITA have signed a unique 15-year agreement to develop the most 'open and agile airline reservations system' using service oriented architecture (SOA) and advanced computing techniques.

Francesco Violante, Sita CEO, said the company' s strategic technology partnership with Oracle was a major milestone in the development of its Horizon passenger management portfolio and will have a profound impact on the airline industry.

"It is putting the most advanced technology stack available at the service of our industry for the first time. Advanced technology is essential to the modernization of the airline reservations systems of our 138 airline customers and we expect many others will be attracted to Horizon by the success of the project."

The partnership is already set to bear fruit with the launch next month by Sita of Customer Journey, a Horizon feature providing real-time access to airline bookings for business intelligence applications and rapid retrieval of customer journey records across multiple search criteria.

Loic Le Guisquet, Oracle executive vice president for EMEA, said: "This is a tremendous opportunity for Oracle and Sita to work together on one of the biggest IT modernization projects ever, implementing top quality design on a state-of-the-art architecture."

"This project will demonstrate Oracle’s capacity to provide a full technology stack to modernise legacy applications in order to produce true SOA-enabled applications with very high transaction-processing capabilities, he noted.

“Sita is a strong strategic partner for Oracle and will be represented on the Oracle CIO advisory board and customer advisory board with access to Oracle Labs and the Oracle Excellence Centre for co-innovation programmes.”

Sita is making its largest-ever single project investment in the further development of its Horizon platform which involves a team of 400 software engineers and designers - including off-shore resources - spread across the globe.

The implementation approach favours gradual migration of standard industry processes and selected innovative enhancements.

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THERESE POLETTI'S TECH TALES: Has Oracle run out of companies to buy?

Last week, Oracle Corp.'s first dividend payment in the company's nearly 30-year history was a signal to many on Wall Street that the software giant is slowing down its acquisition frenzy.

Either that, or Chief Executive Larry Ellison is trying to get some cash for a new sailboat. He could also be making improvements on his Japanese-style compound in tony Woodside, Calif. As one of the company's biggest shareholders, Ellison stands to earn $230 million if Oracle pays its 5-cent-per-share dividend every quarter for the next 12 months.

But let's set talk of that aside, and take a look at Oracle's track record for a minute. After completing its $8.9 billion acquisition of business software developer PeopleSoft in 2004, Oracle then embarked on a major spending spree, seeking to build a solid base to grow into new software arenas.

The company laid the groundwork by first buying large-scale, infrastructure-like software firms, like PeopleSoft for human resource systems. A year later, it bought Siebel Systems, a developer of customer-relationship software used by sales teams to keep track of customers.

Oracle's spree kicked into high gear in 2006, when the company bought 18 firms. However, it appears to be slowing down, with 13 deals in 2007 and 10 last year. The company's last major deal was BEA Systems in late 2007 for $6.8 billion. Since then, Oracle's last 12 purchases were considered too small or immaterial to require disclosure of the price.

Enough building blocks

Like a spoiled teenager who has gone on a major clothes-shopping spree, Oracle realizes it now has enough building blocks for a new wardrobe, and needs to enhance its purchases with some targeted shoes and accessories.
"The theme was to buy broad groups of technology applicable to numerous industries and now they are narrowing the focus," said Brenon Daly, analyst with tech-merger consultant The 451 Group in San Francisco. Oracle has focused on several areas where it can provide specific industries with software packages, tailored to their unique needs.

And it is a diverse group of industries. For instance, it bought Retek, 360Commerce, ProfitLogic and Advanced Visual Technology for retailing. In health-care systems, it announced a deal to buy Relsys. And for telecommunications, it bought Portal Software, Net4Call and HotSip.

"The large pieces are in place for Oracle," Daly said. "Now they are looking at the really nitty gritty things."

Daly says the company's strategy of getting into the applications business, and then selling other products on top of that is working.

"You take that incredibly efficient machine, and you slap a bunch more applications in there," he said. "You are selling to a pharmaceutical company. Do you need some content management stuff? What about HR stuff? We have this stuff from PeopleSoft. Maybe you might even sell a database license too."

Steadily integrated

So far, Oracle has steadily integrated all these companies, with the smaller ones obviously easier to meld into its growing operations.

And even though the climate for deals has withered on the vine, Oracle is a name that keeps coming up on the rumor mill. The company had nearly $11.3 billion in cash and marketable securities as of Feb. 28, and may still have the desire to keep buying, albeit at a slower, more targeted pace.

Take Red Hat Inc. Rumors surfaced again this week that Oracle was interested in the Linux distributor and services company. The reports sent Red Hat shares higher, but some on Wall Street quickly discounted the idea, at least for now.

"While we think an Oracle purchase of Red Hat is eventually highly likely, we think it's premature, in part because of IBM's highly publicized interest in Sun Microsystems Inc. and the pursuant uncertainty around whether IBM would continue to be an advocate for Red Hat," Jeffries & Co. Inc. analyst Katherine Egbert said in a note to clients.

In addition to its cash, Oracle also has about $11.2 billion in debt. So the company likely will proceed cautiously when it comes to doing any more big deals, as opposed to recent media reports suggesting the opposite. Right now in this economy, the longer one waits watching its prey, the better the deal that can be struck.

Author: Therese Poletti @ www.MarketWatch.com

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Oracle-Red Hat Acquisition Rumors Swirl After Reports Surface

Oracle might be eyeing additional acquisition, and some analysts suspect that the IT giant might have its sights set on Red Hat. This week, a report surfaced that claimed an Oracle-Red Hat merger might “[make] sense.” Even as the note cautioned that the acquisition wouldn’t happen “now,” other reports have Oracle and Hewlett-Packard recently in unsuccessful talks to snatch up Sun Microsystems.

Oraclemight be gearing up for another of highly public acquisitions and this time the IT giant might have its eyes set on open-source innovator Red Hat. This week, an analyst suggested that an Oracle acquisition of Red Hat is "eventually highly likely."

Although Oracle and Red Hat are not speaking about these reports, it generated enough buzz to warrant stories and additional speculation. Stories about a possible IBM-Sun Microsystems merger also helped push the Oracle-buys-Red Hat story line.

"It would make sense for Oracle to own Red Hat ultimately," Katherine Egbert, an analyst with Jefferies & Co., wrote in a March 23 research report, "but given IBM's potentially pending acquisition of OpenSolaris and Oracle's history as a value buyer, the time does not seem right."

"While we think an Oracle purchase of Red Hat is eventually highly likely, we think it's premature," Egbert added, "in part because of [IBM's] highly publicized interest in [Sun Microsystems] and the pursuant uncertainty around whether IBM would continue to be an advocate for RHEL once they owned both AIX and Open Solaris development, and in part because Oracle does not have a history of purchasing still-fast-growing competitors."

Shares of Red Hat rocketed upwards on March 23, at least partially thanks to the rumors, only to fall off slightly on March 24.

Oracle seems to have been a buying mood lately. According to eWeek’s Storage Station blog, which quoted two "excellent sources," Oracle was recently ready to make a joint move with Hewlett-Packard to purchase Sun Microsystems for a combined deal worth somewhere between $6 and $7 billion.

For $2 billion of that, Oracle supposedly wanted Sun’s software library, including Java, ZFS, Glassfish, Solaris, OpenSolaris, and OpenOffice.org (HP would have paid $4 to $5 billion for Sun’s hardware). Sun, however, declined the offer.

Oracle has circled Red Hat before. Way back in 2006, the acquisition rumor mill geared up to a furious pitch after Oracle CEO Larry Ellison started making comments about stepping in to provide Red Hat’s support. At the time, analysts suggested that such a move would be unlikely, given Red Hat’s relative expense.

Speculation has continued since then, along with the assumption that a robust Red Hat would be a bit too large for Oracle to comfortably acquire, monetarily speaking.

Oracle has been displaying some robust health itself, despite the global recession, with its third-quarter fiscal 2009 earnings per share up 3 percent over the same quarter last year.

On March 23, Oracle announced the acquisition of Relsys International, which provides drug safety and risk management solutions with advanced analytics. The purchase allows Oracle to bolster its suite of software applications targeted at the health care IT field.

Even before that, analyst Katherine Egbert suggested that Oracle could acquire SMB (small midsized business) server virtualization specialist Virtual Iron Software, as part of a play that would allow it to effectively compete with VMware and Citrix Systems in the virtualization products arena.

Oracle purchased mValent in its first acquisition of 2009, gaining that company’s configuration management solutions for potential use within Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Author: Nicholas Kolakowski @ www.eweek.com

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Oracle Announces Relsys Acquisition

Oracle has signed an acquisition agreement with Relsys, a provider of drug safety and risk management solutions for the health sciences industry. The combination will support end-to-end drug safety processes across clinical development, post-market surveillance and patient care.

The acquisition will bring significant domain knowledge and experience to Oracle's health sciences global business unit, and is expected to extend Oracle's leadership in providing drug safety applications to the health sciences industry.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the first half of calendar year 2009, said a company statement.

"With the addition of Relsys, Oracle is uniquely positioned to help our customers improve drug safety by delivering a comprehensive software solution that enables our vision of integrated safety and risk management supported by advanced analytics," said Neil de Crescenzo, SVP and GM, Oracle Health Sciences.

Relsys provides solutions support for adverse event reporting, risk management, and data analysis for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research organizations and medical device companies worldwide.

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Oracle Offering Scaled Down Version of Database Machine

Citing customer demand, Oracle has unveiled a half-size version of the HP Oracle Database Machine, its competitor to high-end data warehousing products such as that sold by Teradata. Oracle claims strong demand for its Exadata product line but declines to offer numbers. The HP Oracle Database Machine was co-developed by Oracle and Hewlett-Packard and is part of Oracle's Exadata product line, launched to great fanfare at the OpenWorld conference last year. It initially was available as a rack filled with eight HP DL360 database servers, four Infiniband switches, a storage server grid with 14 servers, and various software products, according to a post made on Thursday to Oracle's Data Warehouse Insider blog.

But now, "due to popular demand, addressing smaller entry points with the same extreme performance on the same technology basis, Oracle is now introducing a smaller system," the blog states. The scaled-down version has four HP DL360 database servers, two switches and seven storage servers and "will provide similar scalability and performance characteristics as the full rack."

"We at Oracle, and our customers, are very excited about this new offering, as it provides a slightly lower entry point for an HP Oracle Database Machine, while still delivering extreme performance," the blog adds.

CEO Larry Ellison dubbed the Exadata line the company's most exciting product family "in many, many years," during an earnings conference call this week, and claimed that the system's performance has been trouncing competitors' products.

But while Oracle President Charles Phillips described the Exadata sales pipeline as "the largest [he's] ever seen in terms of a new product," neither he nor Ellison provided any definitive numbers.

While Exadata promises high-end performance, it has a considerable price tag as well. Oracle's official price list states that the half-sized machine's hardware costs $350,000 (about Rs.1,750 lakh) compared to $650,000 (about Rs. 3,250 crore) for the full version.

But analyst Curt Monash has calculated that once software licenses and likely database options are added to the equation, the list price of a fully loaded, full-sized Database Machine is more than $5.5 million (about Rs. 27.5 crore).

Despite that price tag, it's hard to draw conclusions about the product's success so far, Monash suggested.

While Exadata "is not winning many competitive deals yet," he said, "whether they are making sales into the Oracle loyalist base is a different matter."

Oracle's decision to release a half-sized version is an acknowledgment that in the data warehousing market today, "there's much more unit demand at lower database sizes," Monash said.

The full database machine has either 20TB or 45TB of storage, depending on the type of drives used, according to Oracle's blog post.

Meanwhile, "most specialized analytic DBMS installations run databases under 10TB in size," Monash said.

"Big enterprise data-warehouse integration projects are in some cases being deferred for economic reasons," he added. "Smaller, more tactical projects with rapid payback are less affected."

Oracle is hardly abandoning the type of enterprise that would need the full Database Machine, according to Monash.

"Their most important customers are the biggest and highest-end ones," he said. "For years, Teradata was the only vendor who routinely clobbered Oracle at the high end of the database market. Now Netezza and others are also threats. Exadata is Oracle's reaction. The last thing Oracle wants to do is sacrifice share at the top of the DBMS market. All other objectives are secondary."

Author: Chris Kanaracus @ www.cio.in

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Oracle license sales fell in Q3

Oracle on Wednesday said its third-quarter revenues were $5.45 billion, a 2 percent hike, but net income fell 1 percent to $1.3 billion.

New software license revenues -- a key indicator of business strength -- fell 6 percent to $1.5 billion compared to the same quarter a year earlier.

Cut straight to the key news for technology development and IT management with our once-a-day summary of the top tech news. Subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Also, while software license updates and product support revenues jumped 11 percent to $2.9 billion, services revenues dropped 8 percent to $1.0 billion.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters predicted on average that excluding special items, Oracle would report earnings of $0.32 per share on $5.45 billion in revenue for the quarter.

Oracle slightly beat those expectations, reporting that excluding special items, earnings per share were $0.35 and revenue was $5.5 billion.

Oracle blamed foreign currency valuations for the drop in new license revenues.

"But for currency, we actually sold more new licenses in Q3 of this year than we did in Q3 of last year," CEO Larry Ellison said during a conference call.

Given the global recession, "that is a remarkable achievement," he added.

The quarter's pace of business was typical for Oracle, with many deals closing toward the end, said Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz. "Nothing about that was different," she said.

In typical fashion, Ellison talked up Oracle's position against competitors, characterizing Oracle as an unstoppable powerhouse amid an onslaught of harsh economic headwinds.

"We're better in applications than SAP. In database, we're taking share from Microsoft and IBM," he said. "We're competing more effectively across the board in all our product areas and that's the explanation for Q3, and reason for optimism moving forward." To that end, Oracle is prepping a pair of major new software releases for the coming months, including Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, said Oracle President Charles Phillips.

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Earnings: Oracle profit beats forecast; company to pay 1st dividend

Oracle Corp.'s profit and revenue from new software licenses dipped in the latest quarter, but the business software maker's results came in ahead of Wall Street's tepid forecasts. And in a rare sign of confidence these days, the company declared its first dividend.

Oracle's fiscal third-quarter results, reported Wednesday after the market closed, demonstrated that the company was able to sustain a better-than-expected pace of contract signings even as companies pull back on technology spending.

In the latest period, which covered December through February, Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said it earned $1.33 billion, or 26 cents per share, versus $1.34 billion, also 26 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

Total revenue was $5.45 billion, a 2 percent increase over last year, though Oracle said sales would have jumped 11 percent without currency fluctuations. Analysts predicted $5.42 billion in sales.

Nike Inc. said its profit slipped in its third quarter on charges related to its acquisition of Umbro PLC and on weaker sales.

The Beaverton, Ore.-based athletic apparel company said Wednesday its net income slipped to $243.8 million, or 50 cents per share, for the quarter ended Feb. 28, compared with $463.8 million, or 92 cents per share, in the same period last year.

Nike's revenue fell 2 percent to $4.4 billion.

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New Oracle Enterprise Manager Cuts Down On Apps Management Cost

Delivering on its commitment to help customers realize greater value from their application and infrastructure software investments and drive down I.T. costs, Oracle today announced availability of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 (10gR5).

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive set of solutions to simplify the management of the full Oracle software stack. In addition to management enhancements across the stack, this release adds support for virtual environments.

Oracle's unique top-down approach to application management enables customers to reduce IT complexity and to increase efficiencies resulting in better performance and lower management costs for their enterprise applications.

"Customers are battling economic conditions that require a rigorous focus on delivering business operations and IT efficiencies at a lower cost,” said Richard Sarwal, Oracle senior vice president Product Development. “Oracle Enterprise Manager supports both endeavors through automated management of business workflows, processes and services, as well as supporting the full Oracle software stack through its unique top-down application management approach.”

Enhanced Applications Management With Support For The Latest Siebel CRM Release And More

The new application management enhancements in Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 further support Oracle's Applications Unlimited strategy and help to provide a superior ownership experience to customers.

New certification with Siebel CRM 8.1.1 provides unique monitoring and diagnostics capabilities for Siebel business workflows, enabling higher availability and better throughput for business processes.

New Management Pack for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management helps significantly reduce administration costs.

Additionally, the recently introduced Oracle Real User Experience Insight Accelerators for Oracle's Siebel CRM and Oracle E-Business Suite, simplify the process of deploying real user monitoring for these applications.

Increased Efficiency In Database Management Through Automation And Essential Tools

With this release, Oracle Enterprise Manager rounds out Oracle Database 11g management capabilities with tools that can enhance database administrator (DBA) productivity and reduce costs through increased automation, higher availability and improved compliance. Key new capabilities include:

o Real-time SQL monitoring and support for new Oracle Database 11g advisors;

o Deployment automation for highly available grid computing infrastructure;

o Enhanced support for Oracle Database Vault; and

o Automated database testing workflow that integrates database software provisioning, data masking, database workload capture and workload replay tasks.

Expanded Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware And Oracle VM

Featuring tighter integration with Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Beehive, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Coherence, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 delivers the most comprehensive and complete management solution for applications built on Oracle Fusion Middleware. See related release dated today.

Further extending its top-down reach to virtualized environments, Oracle Enterprise Manager's new Oracle VM Management Pack provides customers a complete management solution for Oracle VM. See related release dated today.

For more information, visit www.oracle.com.

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MSI-ECS Hosts Oracle Database Audit And Database Vault Seminar

To assist businesses seeking to further mitigate security risks, satisfy compliance regulations, and protect their enterprise databases, MSI-ECS organized a seminar to select banks and insurance companies featuring Oracle Database Audit and Database Vault.

Oracle Audit Vault offered organizations a centralized auditing and activity monitoring solution for their Oracle and third party databases. Audit data is consolidated automatically into a secure, centralized repository built using Oracle's proven data warehousing software, and analyzed in real-time against enterprise-defined policies. Any unauthorized activities can be detected immediately using Oracle Audit Vault's alerts dashboard. Also, Oracle Audit Vault can be used to monitor privileged user activities as well as privileged user controls enforced by Oracle Database Vault, the industry's only native solution for real-time enforcement of preventive database controls. By using Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Database Vault customers are further assured of the integrity of their preventive controls.

On the other hand, Oracle Database Vault is the industry's leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. Oracle Database Vault helps address access control requirements associated with regulations such as PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley. Oracle Database Vault is available for Oracle Database 9i Release 2, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Database 11g Release 1. Oracle Database Vault has been validated with Oracle PeopleSoft Applications. Validation with additional applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel, is currently underway. Using Oracle Database Vault, highly privileged database users can be prevented from accessing application data. In addition, access to applications, databases and data can be tightly controlled based on such variables as time of day, IP address or subnet. In summary, Oracle Database Vault provides the flexible, transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today's global economy. For more information, about Oracle's business solutions, visit www.oracle.com.

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Oracle expected to post gains despite slump

Oracle Corp. is expected to post small gains in profit and sales when it reports fiscal third-quarter results next week, despite concern about the company's ability to drum up business amid a generally bleak winter for the high-tech industry.

Analysts on average estimate Oracle will post earnings excluding special items of 32 cents a share for the three-month period ended in February, on $5.47 billion in revenue, according to FactSet Research. That compares to earnings excluding special items of 30 cents a share and $5.35 billion in revenue in the same period year earlier.

In December, Oracle itself forecast earnings for the quarter between 31 and 33 cents a share and revenue growth between 1% and 4%, while attributing the results to a strengthening U.S. dollar likely to impact foreign sales.

Wall Street is bracing for the worst. Shares of Oracle have slumped more than 13% in the last month. The stock closed trading Thursday up nearly 2% at $15.63.

In recent weeks, a number of analysts have expressed concern that Oracle's sales of new software licenses - a key metric that reflects the company's ability to draw in new customers - have been undercut by the downturn.

Earlier this month, one analyst went so far as to predict the worst quarter for Oracle since the early 1990s. "The tone of the commentary from our industry sources regarding new license revenue is the worst we have ever heard," wrote Patrick Walravens of JMP Securities in a report, in which he scaled back his earnings estimates for the company.

Still, a number of analysts also point to the company's dependable stream of maintenance revenue from existing customers, while noting that it may well emerge from the downturn in a stronger position.

"The recent sell-off" in Oracle shares is "overdone," Barclays Capital analyst Israel Hernandez wrote in a note to clients earlier this week. While Hernandez said his research points to a "weak" third quarter for the company, particularly for its sales of applications software, it wasn't bad enough "to break [the] stock."

"Oracle remains well-positioned to consolidate share through [the] downturn," Hernandez wrote, though he lowered his third-quarter estimate for earnings excluding special items to 32 cents a share from 33, and revenue to $5.3 billion from $5.5 billion.
Oracle, which originated as a purveyor of database software, has expanded in recent years through a series of acquisitions to also become a powerhouse in business applications software.
That's drawn it into more direct competition with German rival SAP AG.

In January, SAP reported a 13% gain in fourth-quarter profit for the period ended in December, though it also announced it would be cutting over 3,000 jobs this year in an effort to lower costs. See related story on SAP's quarterly earnings.
Oracle has continued to buy other companies during the economic downturn. Last month, it snapped up closely-held mValent Inc. in an effort to bolster its applications business.

Author: John Letzing @ www.marketwatch.com

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Terrazzo Group makes Oracle pay

Terrazzo Management today announced having closed their annual accounts in record time, how the implementation of Oracle Applications had made the administration of their companies so much easier, with greater transparency, more effective controls and with smoother automation of their business processes.

Lave Malhotra, the General Manager of Terrazzo Group, said, 'Today, all our systems are now fully integrated enabling us to view information across the entire organisation. This means sharing of information is now real-time allowing our staff to reduce costs by working smarter. It also allows our management to track the progress of Terrazzo Group companies real-time and make decisions that will further improve the Group's diverse operations leading to possibly faster growth and greater success then what it has already achieved to date.'

'The Oracle implementation undertaken by Intelligent Corporate Solutions (ICS) has been a real success story, right from the go ICS has gone to great lengths to ensure the ERP implementation delivers tangible benefits that were identified at the initial stage of the project. The tangible benefits can now be seen,' he added.
Shumon Zaman, CEO of ICS, commented:

'At a time when the Global Economy is shrinking and doing business becomes harder. Companies that have access to real time information will be better informed and as a result will be able to make the necessary adjustments to their businesses and take advantage of the many opportunities that arise during a down-turn.'



He added, 'I am proud to say our association with the Terrazzo Group and its team, lead by some excellent and talented individuals has been one of mutual respect and high achievement. The speed and accuracy of the implementation has been a true inspiration for others to emulate.'

Terrazzo Group have now also awarded ICS with further implementations to ensure all their businesses are fully integrated with Oracle ERP.

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Emerging WiMax Solutions Provider Selects Oracle

Wi-tribe Pakistan Ltd., a new entrant in the Pakistani communications industry with a major focus on providing WiMax solutions, has chosen Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and key components of the Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, including Oracle Communications Network Mediation, Oracle Communications Service Activation and Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, to better manage its business from the onset of launching new WiMax services. The selected applications will help put wi-tribe in control of its business, allowing it to succeed in an increasingly competitive market while meeting changing consumer demands head on.

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management will enable wi-tribe to track real time charges for data, voice, TV and other broadband value-added services. Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite will help to automate the order-to-activate provisioning cycle and integrate key service-fulfillment processes, including back-office order orchestration, network and service inventory management, service activation and configuration management. Oracle Communications Network Mediation will help provide comprehensive data collection, aggregation and enhancement for upstream business critical systems like billing, reporting and analytics across the enterprise. To learn more about Oracle's business solutions, visit www.oracle.com.

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