UC4 Software Joins the Oracle Modernisation Alliance

UC4 Software has joined the Oracle Modernisation Alliance (OMA). OMA is an alliance of technology providers who have teamed with Oracle to help legacy IT organisations investigate architectures for IT modernisation to open systems. The workload automation provider brings more than two decades of application integration and enterprise job scheduling expertise to the OMA.

UC4 Software is part of the modernisation framework and provides operations excellence and workload management solutions to customers demanding mainframe reliability and control from distributed IT systems.

UC4 Software has the familiar functionality of a mainframe job scheduler and quickly integrates with business applications and open systems to manage business processing across applications and operating platforms. Customers can gain central control of existing mainframe schedulers or use UC4's proven conversion routines to migrate workload onto its workload automation tools.

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Arvind Selects Oracle Retail To Support Growth Plans

Arvind Ltd, the company which operates its retail chain under the name 'Megamart', has selected Oracle Retail merchandising, planning, supply chain and stores applications to support its aggressive growth plans as it seeks to achieve leadership in fashion and value retailing in India.

The company recently opened the second of its large format value store, Megamart Outlet Centre, in Pune (the first being in Chennai), and is planning to establish more than 250 large and small format stores across the country over the next three to four years at an investment of over $100 million.

According to the company, Oracle Retail will help support these plans by providing Arvind with an integrated platform to manage its retail processes from supply chain to stores. Oracle Retail and other business applications will be deployed through Arvind's network of a centralised distribution centre and other regional distribution centres across India.

"Upon evaluating the retail software market, we identified that the best practices embedded in Oracle Retail applications will help us in many ways, including creating a product mix based on our customers' buying patterns and forecasting customer behaviour based on historical data. Oracle Retail will give us a head start as we plan our stores network," said J Suresh, chief executive officer, Arvind Brands & Retail.

With this deployment, Arvind expects to increase its inventory turns, improve its forecast accuracy, enable shorter replenishment lead times and overall improve its service levels to the current 93 Megamart stores and Outlet Centres.

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Oracle tops records in incremental revenue

Local Oracle partners have recorded over 100 per cent incremental revenue through Oracle technology and application implementations in the Sri Lankan market over the past two years.

Country Manager, Sri Lanka and Maldives Oracle Dr. Vickum Senanayake said the Sri Lankan market has achieved the set targets of the Oracle Corporation with the current economic condition in the country driving companies to invest in information technology.

Partners such as Millenium IT, MTI, DMS, Interblocks have reported being able to increase their Oracle practices by up to 100 per cent by recruiting skilled Orcale Certified professionals to service customers in Sri Lanka.

"For the first time in Sri Lanka, Oracle is organising Oracle PartnerNetwork day (OPN) to recognise our local partners. Through this OPN, we expect to consolidate our local partners and recruit new partners," Senanayake said.

"At the moment Oracle has 25 local partners in the country. Partners like MTI develop their own solutions using Oracle technologies targeting local and global companies. Sri Lanka has high growth potential in this segment. Our partners play a vital part in our local operations," he said.

Regional Director SAGE West Oracle Corporation Samina Rizwan said Oracle will be looking into industries where real technology is needed in Sri Lanka with their partners.

"We will be focusing on the public and the export sector in Sri Lanka.

"There is a lot of growth potential in middle market companies in the manufacturing and retail sector. Regional Managing Director - ASEAN Managing Director - Oracle Thailand Oracle Asia Pacific Natasak Rodjanapiches said Oracle will collaborate with local universities for using Oracle technologies for their assignments as their CSR initiative.

"The main objective of this is to make local future IT workers more competitive in the global arena," he said.

Author: Anjana Samarasinghe @ www.dailynews.lk

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