Reva Systems Integration Of RFID Data For The Oracle E-Business

Reva Systems, the leading RFID Network Infrastructure provider, recently announced that it is working with Oracle to enable Oracle E-Business Suite customers to capture and utilize high-quality RFID data.

"The powerful combination of Oracle at the enterprise level and Reva at the edge enables world-class companies to harness the value of RFID for process improvement and sustainable competitive advantage across industries, geographies and multiple Oracle Applications," said Jon Chorley, Oracle's vice president of SCM product strategy. "Reva makes implementing RFID simple by supporting a structured interface to Oracle Applications. Reva's technology transforms RFID data into superior asset visibility and supply chain information allowing Oracle users to rely on RFID for every-day operations."

"The real-time visibility and process improvements that RFID can deliver will generate value for a wide spectrum of enterprises," said Buck Devashish, Reva vice-president of business development. "Reva complements Oracle's vision for deploying RFID. By implementing Reva at the edge, Oracle users can quickly and easily incorporate accurate, useful RFID data into the Oracle E-Business Suite at the enterprise level."

Reva TAPs are purpose-built RFID Network Infrastructure appliances that provide RFID device control and data processing. TAPs install at a facility level to optimally manage the operations of RFID readers and other equipment from many leading providers, collect the raw tag data, process the data for accuracy and then pass only relevant RFID information to the Oracle E-Business Suite. Reva also provides a set of enterprise RFID management tools which Oracle users can rely on to remotely operate RFID infrastructure and devices across global sites.

Reva Systems is a Certified Advantage Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About Reva Systems

Reva Systems develops RFID network infrastructure products that enable customers to rapidly deploy scalable solutions in any environment. Reva's TAP appliances facilitate improved system performance, manageability and accuracy while significantly lessening implementation time and complexity.

Reva products are delivered by a global network of partners and deployed worldwide by enterprises leveraging innovative RFID applications to generate value in diverse industries. For more information, please visit www.revasystems.com.

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Featured free training: Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course

Many players in the tech industry publish topical whitepapers that include analysis and commentary on a wide range of issues that are relevant to technologists and IT overlords alike. Last month we shared some papers about privileged access auditing, wireless security, and RFID technology. This week, we have something a bit different. Rather than a conventional whitepaper, we are offering Oracle 11g training material.

The Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course is a step-by-step tutorial with lots of screenshots and extremely clear and explicit instructions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with Oracle's standard 2-Day DBA guide, which is a good starting point for learning how to install and manage Oracle database systems. Unfortunately Oracle's guide leaves a lot of things unexplained and contains some ambiguities that might prove frustrating for beginners. The Course, which we are offering to you this week, provides context clues and some useful clarifications that make the guide much easier to follow.

The Course covers a wide range of topics, including initial installation and configuration, user and security administration, manipulating schema, performance tuning, and backup processes.

If you are a developer and you want to prototype an application for nonproduction use on top of an Oracle 11g database, you can also grab a bunch of other Oracle downloads and white papers here.

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Source: http://arstechnica.com

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Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Wins Billing & OSS World Excellence Award

Yesterday at the Billing & OSS World Conference and Expo in Chicago, Oracle was honored as the winner of two Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards, recognizing Oracle(R) Communications Billing and Revenue Management as the Best Revenue Management Solution and Oracle Communication and Mobility Server as the Best New Product. The annual awards recognize the leaders - vendors, service providers and integrators -- in the development and deployment of billing and operations support systems (OSS) technologies and solutions.

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides a single platform to manage revenue in real time across any customer type, network service, payment method, business model or geography - helping to rapidly convert transactions into revenue. The multi-service, real-time nature of the platform enables communications service providers (CSPs) to quickly roll out cutting-edge next-generation services to the market, and to reduce revenue leakage by helping ensure all usage and charges are rated and recorded properly.

A key component of the Oracle Service Delivery Platform, Oracle Communication and Mobility Server (OCMS) provides the underlying software infrastructure and services that make a host of carrier-grade telephony and multimedia services possible. OCMS enables CSPs and developers to easily build, deploy and manage complex, converged services, while integrating with existing business support system (BSS) and OSS applications to generate revenue efficiently and deliver a high quality customer experience.

Billing & OSS World received more than 90 submissions for the awards, and a select judging panel of experts from the billing and OSS community narrowed the field to three finalists for each of eight categories. Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott presented the awards at a ceremony on April 30.

Supporting Quotes

"Oracle is honored to receive the Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and Oracle Communication and Mobility Server. These prestigious awards are a testament to Oracle's commitment to developing the industry's most compelling and fully featured communications application suite, enabling global service providers to rapidly deliver and profit from next-generation IP services," said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.

"Our panel of experts judged Oracle's achievements as exemplary among its peers. Billing & OSS World congratulates Oracle and is pleased to acknowledge its products as examples of excellence in billing and OSS for the communications industry," said Mike Saxby, group publisher, Biling & OSS World.

Supporting Resources http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/communications-billing- revenue-management.html

http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/service-delivery- platform/communication-mobility-server.html

http://www.billingworld.com/

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/Communications.

Source: www.oracle.com

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