Al Safeer Group to roll out Oracle Retail

UAE retail conglomerate the Al Safeer Group has selected Oracle business applications to help it improve management of its operations.

The group will deploy Oracle Retail applications, E-Business Suite and database, across all of its operations in retail, real estate and entertainment, which will replace a diverse base of legacy systems. The new systems are intended to allow the group to have better control and insight into financial operations, and to improve supply chain efficiency.

“Oracle will help enable Al Safeer to improve our business performance by streamlining and integrating processes into a single cohesive enterprise and taking a best-practice approach to managing our information. This can only help us serve our customers better,” said Mahesh Kalwani, COO, Al Safeer Group.

The Oracle retail applications will be used to give better management of inventory and better insight into performance of retail stores, Al Safeer Group’s core activity. Services company Satyam will provide implementation, consultancy and training services to the group to enable it to get the most from the deployment.

Patrick Bohannon, vice president, EMEA, Oracle Retail commented: “Al Safeer’s selection of Oracle Applications will help its decision-makers to turn reliable and timely information into make insightful and profitable business decisions and deliver an enhanced customer experience.”

Author: Mark Sutton @ www.arabianbusiness.com

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Wipro implements Oracle's Peoplesoft in J&K Bank

Wipro Infotech, the IT business arm of Wipro Ltd, today announced that it has implemented Oracle's Peoplesoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0 for Jammu and Kashmir Bank.

It will help streamline the HR management of the bank, which has an employee strength of more than 8,000. It will also enable the cutting down of paper work to a major extent and reduction of manual work thereby lending alacrity to HR processes, Wipro said in a statement said.

"As a result of this implementation all the zones and branches are connected to the centralised HR system and a fully customised claims management system has been deployed to facilitate the claims process, which also includes an interface to Oracle's Peoplesoft Enterprise Payroll," it added.

Some of the modules implemented by Wipro include Talent Acquisition Manager and Candidate Gateway (Recruitment), Administer Training, eDevelopment, ePerformance, eProfile Manager Desktop, eProfile, Profile Management, Global Payroll for India, Absence Management and Approval Workflow Engine.

Source: www.tmcnet.com

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Oracle buys Aussie Ruleburst

Enterprise software giant Oracle has purchased Australian-owned independent software vendor Ruleburst, owners of the Haley suite of compliance software products, for an undisclosed sum.

The Haley suite of products automates the enforcing of business rules within applications. The company says its software is used by large organisations to "prevent, detect and cure breaches in compliance with legislation, policy and business rules".

RuleBurst, based in Sydney, also has operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore.

According to a statement released by Oracle, the company intends to create a new software solution based on the combination of the Haley platform with Oracle's ERP and Siebel CRM applications.

The ISV's staff will form a new business division within Oracle aimed at "enterprise policy automation".

Haley's CEO Dominic O'Hanlon will lead this team as senior vice president and general manager.

Author: Brett Winterford, ZDNet.com.au

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