Oracle holds “Oracle Day” in Amman to inspire customer innovation

As part of its ongoing EMEA Oracle Day roadshow, Oracle today held “Oracle Day” in Amman, Jordan to share with local customers and the local IT community the latest innovations unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco, California, earlier this month.

Held under the headline “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, the Oracle Day event was a powerhouse combination of C-level, functional, and technology tracks, all dedicated to one goal: showing Oracle customers and prospects how the power of simplicity can change IT to a force that drives business innovation.

Among the key unveilings of Oracle Open World which were highlighted during the event in Amman was Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, the industry’s first in-memory hardware and software system engineered to run analytics faster than ever, provide real-time speed-of-thought visual analysis, and enable new types of analytic applications.


With Oracle Exalytics, organizations will be able to extend their business intelligence initiatives beyond reporting and dashboards to modeling, planning, forecasting, and predictive analytics. Planning applications can be scaled across the enterprise with faster, more accurate planning cycles.

The event in Amman also focused on Oracle Public Cloud, the only public cloud offering that provides customers with truly flexible deployment by enabling them to run the exact same business applications in the cloud and on-premise.

Oracle Public Cloud is a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that provide customers with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database, all completely managed, hosted and supported by Oracle.

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Atos and Oracle join hands for TAM for Oracle

To deliver test & acceptance management services for Oracle Fusion Technology IT services provider Atos announced that it was working with Oracle to deliver test & acceptance management (TAM) services for Oracle Fusion Technology.

This new solution would offer customers in all industries a flexible and cost efficient way to manage their testing requirements. The complete solution reportedly reflects the combination of Atos' innovative approach, which facilitates end-to-end traceability based on business process, functional tests case management, and Oracle's technology.

TAM for Oracle, it is said, covers full lifecycle management including deployment of Oracle Fusion Applications in heterogeneous Information Systems. Atos senior vice president business development & innovation François Gruau said that they were delighted to offer IT acceptance testing services for Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle vice president product strategy and business development Sushil Kumar said Oracle Application Testing Suite provides the most comprehensive testing technologies for Oracle Fusion Applications.

Source: http://enterpriseapplications.cbronline.com

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Bessemer Picks EIR from Oracle

Bessemer Venture Partners, a global investment firm, has appointed Jeff Epstein as an executive in residence (EIR). He will be working along with the investment team to evaluate a broad range of opportunities in areas including cloud computing, Internet advertising technology and consumer Internet. In addition, he will help the firm’s portfolio companies with strategic initiatives, planning and operational excellence.

Epstein joins Bessemer from technology company Oracle, where he was executive vice president and CFO. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Priceline.com, the audit and compliance committee of the Stanford University Hospital and the management board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Zensar Bags Deals For Oracle, SAP Solutions

Zensar Technologies, the offshore outsourcing company has announced a surge in its Enterprise Application business encompassing Oracle and SAP Solutions. The overall values of these deals are close to 25 million USD with significant new wins in key geographies.

These deals have firmly embedded Zensar as a leading system integrator for Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW), E Business Suite and Business Intelligence solutions delivering business value and enabling enterprises to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximising IT efficiency through full utilisation of modern hardware and software architecture.

In the US, Zensar has just bagged a multi-million dollar contract with the world’s leading provider of Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Services, to develop and integrate its Case Management System and related business process to various end systems using FMW technology. The Company has also bagged the FMW implementation and support contract from the leading global interactive entertainment software company in the US that develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems. In the UK, the Company has implemented a FMW and Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition at a leading High Street and On-Line Fashion Retailer. The solution deployed is one of the first few implementations globally involving Retail Data Model.

Zensar has also reported on a number of new wins in the Oracle Retail Practice in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Zensar continues to do well in Process and Discrete Manufacturing winning new deals Oracle Implementations in the US and Middle East. Zensar's manufacturing vertical offers repository of business solutions which allows for readily available frameworks to be adapted to a dynamic environment. In the domestic market, Zensar recently bagged the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company to implement SAP's enterprise resource and planning software as part of over Rs 50-crore deal. The deployment will cut across all activities of the corporation such as finance, metering, human resources. “We have seen steady, high value wins in the ERP business given our own evolution toward being the next-generation Enterprise Application Services provider. This creates exciting new opportunities for revenue and services, while integrating legacy technologies to offer consumers a rich, reliable service experience. Our capabilities in integrating disparate technologies and helping customers’ reduce operating costs and bring new services to market quickly and cost effectively has helped us in bagging these multi-million dollar contracts in key markets,” said Nitin Parab, Chief Executive and Global Head - MRM (Manufacturing, Retail and Media). 

These wins reinforce Zensar’s capability in its focus verticals of Manufacturing, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare and Media and the company expects Enterprise Applications as well as Infrastructure Management, to be the drivers of growth in each of these verticals. Source: http://biztech2.in.com

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Oracle Continues to Develop PeopleSoft HCM

With a new feature pack for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.1, Oracle brings a more consumer-like feel to its core software for human resources processes.
Six years after one of Oracle’s biggest acquisitions, users of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management software continue to receive updates to their core HR package, as they did again late last week with the release of a new feature pack for Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.1.

    Under its “Applications Unlimited” program, enterprise software purveyor Oracle has vowed to support a raft of applications it has acquired during a multi-billion-dollar spending spree that dates back to the middle of the last decade. Early in 2005, Oracle closed its vigorously contested, $10 billion takeover of leading human capital management software vendor PeopleSoft, a move that cemented the HCM component of Oracle’s E-Business Suite. Later that year, Oracle went on to swallow Siebel Systems, which substantiated the ERP vendor’s CRM credentials.

    Late last week, Oracle released Feature Pack 2 for the 9.1 version of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, an update that Oracle said delivers a “consumer-like self-service” experience to HR personnel and business users. Embracing the “consumerization of IT”—the trend of imbuing enterprise software with the fluid user experience found on smartphones and tablets—Oracle has added a search-based navigation function that allows users to perform quick lookups from any page to receive contextual results. A department manager might type a worker’s name into the search function, Oracle said in a statement, to pull up documents on that employee’s performance, salary, career planning, and related activities.

    In an effort to improve the user experience in the HCM software, Oracle also added pagelets into the latest version of PeopleSoft, a feature said to deliver a more personalized experience through fewer clicks. Meanwhile, managers can customize the new PeopleSoft Manager Dashboard to display key data on their reports, unit, and projects, and can use drag-and-drop technology to customize the page to their needs.

    Also new in the second 9.1 feature pack is PeopleSoft Talent Summary. “Administrators can select the content of pagelets that will appear on the Talent Summary based on the organization’s priorities,” Oracle said, “and managers personalize the page based on their preferences for presentation layout and areas of emphasis.”

    As Oracle continues to develop its core HCM software, PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, who left the company when Oracle took over in 2005, continues to grow SaaS HCM vendor Workday. The vendor has recently added adjacent cogs of functionality to create a more robust suite of enterprise software, bringing it into competition with Oracle and other ERP vendors.

Source: Chris Chiappinelli at http://www.managingautomation.com

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