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Leading Communications and Media Companies Choose Oracle to Optimize Incentive-Based Compensation Programs
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Leading Communications and Media Companies Choose Oracle to Optimize Incentive-Based Compensation Programs</h1> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, CA – July 29, 2010</div><h3><br> News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> In order to maintain a competitive edge in the communications and media industries, several prominent service providers and media companies are leveraging <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/sales/intcomp.html" target="_top">Oracle Incentive Compensation</a>, a key component of the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.html" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite,</a> to hire and retain the best salespeople, ensure accuracy in incentive payouts and quickly adjust business plans based on changing market dynamics.</div><h3>Oracle Incentive Compensation Customer Details</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://ww2.cox.com/" target="_top">Cox Communications</a>, the nation’s third-largest cable television company, implemented Oracle Incentive Compensation to provide a standardized and fully-automated compensation management solution for 18 cable systems and headquarters operations. The company gained the flexibility to handle current compensation plan complexities, as well as retention and promotional programs, to remain competitive. By integrating with <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/peoplesoft/hcm/ent/module/payroll_na.html" target="_top">Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll</a>, Cox now has the ability to improve commission process efficiency for 12,000 communications services sales and field service professionals. Cox created a single source of compensation data, allowing for an effective evaluation of the company’s compensation plans and reducing the time required to manage the biweekly compensation process from a full week to just a few days.</div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.paetec.com/" target="_top">PAETEC Holding Corp</a>., which delivers personalized communications solutions and service to more than 40,000 business-class customers nationwide, turned to Oracle Incentive Compensation to support complex compensation plans for the company’s unique sales process, which requires representatives to design a custom communications service plan and price for each customer. By automating 90% of the company’s 70 compensation plans, Oracle Incentive Compensation enables PAETEC to make adjustments to its compensation plans throughout the year based on progress toward sales targets and changes in market conditions, ensuring the company reaches its revenue goals. PAETEC increased its recruitment competitiveness because it can offer the best compensation plans to its sales representatives.</div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “By automating our compensation process with Oracle Incentive Compensation, we have significantly reduced administrative costs, ensured the accuracy of commissions and facilitated auditing procedures. Additionally, the ability to make modifications to support new promotions and other programs enables us to maintain our competitive advantage in the increasingly competitive broadband communications market,” said Jackson Davis, senior manager, enterprise solutions, Cox Communications. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle Incentive Compensation has not only made our incentive compensation process more mature, but also improved our bottom line. We have the ability to react to market conditions and sales projections by quickly changing compensation plans throughout the year to maximize sales productivity and revenue,” said Daniel Miller, vice president of sales operations, PAETEC Holding Corp.</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Communications and media companies constantly strive for a competitive edge, and many have found it with Oracle Incentive Compensation. By streamlining their incentive-based compensation processes, companies can curtail administrative errors, provide the agility required to react to dynamic markets and improve the bottom line by growing sales,” said Dan Ford, vice president of product marketing, Oracle Communications. </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/0RHM8CBU/Press%20Release%20FINAL.doc#_Hlk267304922" target="_top">Oracle Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/sales/oracle-incentive-compensation-data-sheet.pdf" target="_top">Oracle Incentive Compensation Data Sheet</a><a name="P17_3655"></a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on YouTube</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://delicious.com/OracleCommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Delicious</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/OracleCommunications?ref=ts" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Facebook</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/oraclecomms" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Twitter</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2710476&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_top">Oracle Communications on LinkedIn</a></div> <ul><p><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><u> </u></font></p></ul><h3> About Oracle Communications </h3><p class="pressBody">Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.  Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.oracle.com/communications" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com/communications</a></p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com</a>.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Caroline Yu<br> Oracle</p><p class="pressBody">+1.650.506.8920<a href="mailto:caroline.yu@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> caroline.yu@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Janice Hazen<br> O’Keefe & Company<br> +1.404.254.5881<a href="mailto:jhazen@okco.com" target="_top"><u><br> jhazen@okco.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Monaco Telecom Extends Relationship with Oracle Communications
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Monaco Telecom Extends Relationship with Oracle Communications </h1><h2>Leading Communications Service Provider Launches Business Transformation Program Built on Oracle</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, CA – July 29, 2010</div><h3><br> News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.monaco.mc/Pages/Accueil/monaco_actualites/a_la_une/" target="_top">Monaco Telecom</a> has selected Oracle Communications to assist in its business transformation program, Synergie, focused on convergence, customer-centricity and quality of service delivery.</div><div class="pressBullet"> In order to offer fixed, mobile, internet and television services in the Principality, Monaco Telecom needed to simplify its complex architecture and provide it with the agility necessary to stay competitive. </div><div class="pressBullet"> The company, already using <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/046791.html" target="_top">Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management</a>, will work with Oracle Communications Consulting to implement the latest upgrade. Monaco Telecom will also implement <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/050914" target="_top">Oracle Communications Order and Service Management</a> to deliver an integrated billing and provisioning system that spans the consumer and business mobile telephone, fixed telephone and internet protocol system markets. </div><div class="pressBullet"> This will help Monaco Telecom to streamline its business practices, enabling the company to quickly introduce new offers, improve billing flexibility and provide visibility across the entire order lifecycle. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Currently, Monaco Telecom captures customer information in more than 40 different interfaces connected to four billing systems, four databases and four different business reporting processes. </div><div class="pressBullet"> However, with Synergie, Monaco Telecom is going to drive the reconstruction of its service delivery system through defining and formalising its customer operating modes. This will be achieved using best-practice industry standards and through integrating the functionalities of existing and new applications into one common multi-channel portal.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “This implementation will help Monaco Telecom adjust to rapidly changing market dynamics by enabling us to offer convergent services and ensuring predictable order fulfillment for an enhanced customer experience. Building a strong relationship with Oracle and Oracle Communications Consulting ensures we will receive the most effective solutions in the market to help maximise service delivery and operational efficiency,” said Martin Péronnet.” Chief Executive of Monaco Telecom.</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Our extended relationship with Monaco Telecom is testimony to the power Oracle delivers to the communications industry. We are pleased our products and services contribute strategically as Monaco Telecom transforms it business to best meet the changing demands of its customers,” said Gordon Rawling, director of EMEA marketing, Oracle Communications.</div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/0RHM8CBU/Press%20Release%20FINAL.doc#_Hlk267304922" target="_top">Oracle Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on YouTube</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://delicious.com/OracleCommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Delicious</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/OracleCommunications?ref=ts" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Facebook</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/oraclecomms" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Twitter</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2710476&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_top">Oracle Communications on LinkedIn</a></div> <ul><p><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><u> </u></font></p></ul><h3> About Oracle Communications </h3><p class="pressBody">Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.  Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.oracle.com/communications" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com/communications</a></p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com</a>.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Caroline Yu Yespi<br> Oracle</p><p class="pressBody">+1.650.506.8920<a href="mailto:caroline.yu@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> caroline.yu@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Denis Davies<br> CMG<br> +44 (0)20 7067 0462<br> ddavies@cmgrp.com</p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Dell and HP to Certify and Resell all Three Oracle Operating Systems – Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM – on their x86 Server Computers
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Dell and HP to Certify and Resell all Three Oracle Operating Systems – Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM – on their x86 Server Computers</h1> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 29, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">Oracle</a> today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms.  </div><div class="pressBullet"> Customers will have full access to Oracle’s Premier Support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM running on Dell and HP servers.  This will enable fast and accurate issue resolution and reduced risk in a company’s operating environment.   </div><div class="pressBullet"> Customers who subscribe to Oracle Premier Support will benefit from Oracle’s continuing investment in Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM and the resulting innovation in future updates.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle Solaris is the industry's #1 UNIX operating system, and is in demand across multiple x86 platforms,” said Oracle President Charles Phillips.  “Additionally, more and more customers are building virtual environments using Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on x86 platforms.  Today's announcement demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to openness and will provide Dell and HP customers with new levels of support, and immediate access to deep product expertise, limiting risk in their IT environment.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Dell provides customers with choice and flexibility by offering Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM as well as other operating systems on its x86 servers,” said Joyce Mullen, Vice President of Global Alliances for Dell Inc. “Our joint customers will be able to leverage our award-winning servers and the software assets from Oracle to build out robust, dependable and optimized IT platforms, helping them be more competitive while maximizing ROI on technology investments.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> "Customers need to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands, but many have hardwired stacks of applications and infrastructure that can’t rapidly change,” said Paul Miller, vice president, Solutions and Strategic Alliances, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP. “The combination of Oracle infrastructure software and HP ProLiant servers delivers outstanding performance, scalability and virtualization capabilities on x86 servers. Our joint customers can have complete confidence to grow their businesses while also controlling their costs.”</div><h3>Supporting Resources </h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">About Oracle</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/oraclefs" target="_top">Follow Oracle on Twitter</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Oracle" target="_top">Join the Oracle Community on Facebook</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/partners" target="_top">Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/judsonalthoff/" target="_top">Judson Althoff's blog</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> Connect with the Oracle Partner community at <a href="http://twitter.com/oraclepartners" target="_top">OPN on Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oraclepartners" target="_top">OPN on Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1935017" target="_top">OPN on LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2CF00D9A9A734772" target="_top">OPN on YouTube</a>.</div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> </div><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.  For more information about Oracle, visit <a href="http://oracle.com" target="_top">oracle.com</a>.</p><h3>Trademark</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"># # #</font></p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Karen Tillman<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.633.0326<a href="mailto:karen.tillman@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> karen.tillman@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"> </td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Leupold & Stevens Benefits from a Clearer View of Business Operations with the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Leupold & Stevens Benefits from a Clearer View of Business Operations with the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 </h1><h2>Jibe Consulting Assists Sports Optics Manufacturer with Complete IT Infrastructure Overhaul Leveraging Oracle Business Accelerators</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 29, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> To help position its growing sports optics manufacturing business for another 100 years of success, <a href="http://www.leupold.com/" target="_top">Leupold & Stevens, Inc.</a> transformed its IT infrastructure by standardizing on the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite</a>. </div><div class="pressBullet"> By replacing its inflexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12</a>, Leupold & Stevens has achieved major improvements in efficiency, information visibility and demand planning, leading to happier customers and additional revenue. </div><div class="pressBullet"> With help from <a href="http://www.jibeconsulting.com/" target="_top">Jibe Consulting</a>, a Platinum-level partner in the <a href="http://www.oracle.com/partners" target="_top">Oracle PartnerNetwork</a> (OPN), Leupold & Stevens deployed a range of modules from the Oracle E-Business Suite, including <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/manufacturing/Discrete.html" target="_top">Oracle Discrete Manufacturing</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/order_mgmt/intro.html" target="_top">Oracle Order Management</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/order_mgmt/Warehouse.html" target="_top">Oracle Warehouse Management</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/order_mgmt/MSCA.html" target="_top">Oracle Mobile Supply Chain</a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/crm/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Customer Relationship Management</a> (CRM), as well as <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/enterprise-edition-066546.html" target="_top">Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition</a> (OBIEE).</div><h3>New IT System Promotes Growth, Increases Revenues</h3><div class="pressBullet"> A midsize, family-owned company in business for more than a century, Leupold & Stevens felt increasing pressure to strengthen its business processes to bolster competition against global conglomerates. </div><div class="pressBullet"> The company had been using a legacy ERP system from Epicor/Avante, but problems upgrading the system led Leupold & Stevens to do a competitive review of IT solutions for manufacturers. After a comprehensive search for enterprise-class applications, Leupold & Stevens chose the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 over SAP.</div><div class="pressBullet"> To facilitate a fast and on-budget implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Jibe Consulting leveraged <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fsolutions%2Fmid%2Faccelerator-business.html&ei=bvr-S-3XLIesNpWIzTs&usg=AFQjCNEr5IYH3ACbdDmtkarLo3LyosqZNA" target="_top">Oracle Business Accelerators</a><a name="P11_1935"></a>, a series of rapid implementation tools, best-practice templates and wizards designed to speed the adoption of Oracle Applications for midsize customers.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 enables Leupold & Stevens to execute demand-based manufacturing, planning and inventory management, driving efficiencies and business results, including:</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> More effective and accurate tracking of production and repair costs, revenues, discounts and product development costs;</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Reduction in the turnaround time of technical requests from six days to one day;</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Improved distribution center management for more agile response to sales order demand;</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Improved customer service due to accentuated repair planning and cost tracking;</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Real-time access to financial information and drill-down variance analysis that previously required manual compilation from Microsoft Excel downloads; and</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Approximately 10 times improvement in efficiency of the repair depot’s e-mail correspondence.</div><div class="pressBullet"> These improvements helped Leupold & Stevens expand its lucrative custom products business with further growth anticipated.</div><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “To keep our business thriving for more than 100 years, our company has focused on not only creating and delivering the best products, but also offering our customers absolute satisfaction,” said Howard Werth, chief financial officer, Leupold & Stevens. “The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 provides a flexible, streamlined platform to manage demand, orders and customer needs – helping our growing business continue to execute on these goals as we expand.” </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fsolutions%2Fmid%2Faccelerator-business.html&ei=bvr-S-3XLIesNpWIzTs&usg=AFQjCNEr5IYH3ACbdDmtkarLo3LyosqZNA" target="_top">Oracle Business Accelerators</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/midsize" target="_top">Oracle Software and Services for Midsize Companies</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3zn5fx" target="_top">Oracle Midsize Customer Success Stories</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/partners" target="_top">Oracle PartnerNetwork</a></div><h3>About Oracle PartnerNetwork</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit <a href="http://www.oracle.com/partners" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com/partners</a>. </p><h3>About Oracle Applications</h3><p class="pressBody">Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to: <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">www.oracle.com/applications</a>. </p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com. </p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Danielle Cormier<br> Oracle<br> +1.610.766.3463<a href="mailto:danielle.cormier@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> danielle.cormier@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Joan Levy<br> Blanc & Otus<br> +1.415.856.5110<a href="mailto:jlevy@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> jlevy@blancandotus.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Oracle Launches Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Event Series
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h2>Oracle Launches Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Event Series</h2><h2>Worldwide Tour Highlights Best Practices for Optimizing Data Center Efficiency </h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, CA – July 29, 2010 </div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> To outline its Oracle + Sun product strategy and to demonstrate how the Company can enable highly efficient data centers, Oracle announced the kick off of its Global Next-Generation Data Center Efficiency road show and Storage Summit event series.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/events/datacenter-efficiency-076186.html" target="_top">Next-Generation Data Center road show</a> began in Singapore on July 27 and will consist of nearly 100 events in more than 35 countries from July through November. </div><div class="pressBullet"> The <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/events/storage-summit-157817.html" target="_top">Storage Summit event series</a> features nearly 100 global events and began on July 13 and also runs through November.</div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle executives and technology experts will outline the Oracle + Sun product strategy and share Oracle’s vision for a fully integrated and optimized data center.</div><div class="pressBullet"> A keynote session will discuss the Oracle integrated Server and Storage Systems strategy, and follow-on sessions will focus on helping customers maximize data center resources and efficiency, and improve application performance and scale. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Experts will discuss how customers can reduce costs and simplify management, while boosting performance, by using consolidation and virtualization, next- generation cloud deployment and integrated systems management. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Experts will outline how customers can achieve cost savings using Oracle’s Sun Unified Storage high-speed products. They will also discuss how Oracle Database 11g can leverage tiered storage (tape and disk) functionality to achieve significant cost and performance benefits.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The events will include customized content for each region, multiple tracks and a Q&A session. </div><div class="pressBullet"> The Oracle + Sun product strategy delivers innovation through integration at every level of the data center—from application to disk.</div><div class="pressBullet"> With its full stack of business software and hardware, Oracle continues to set new standards for efficiency, simplicity, performance and scalability.</div><div class="pressBullet"> Register for the worldwide Next-Generation Data Center events <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/events/datacenter-efficiency-076186.html" target="_top">here</a>. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Register for the worldwide Storage Summit events <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/events/storage-summit-157817.html" target="_top">here</a>. </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com.</a></p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Nicole Maloney<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.0806<a href="mailto:nicole.maloney@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> nicole.maloney@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Letty Ledbetter</p><p class="pressBody">Oracle<br> +1.650.506.8071<a href="mailto:letty.ledbetter@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> letty.ledbetter@oracle.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Cox Communications Reduces Environmental Impact with Oracle
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Cox Communications Reduces Environmental Impact with Oracle </h1><h2>Provider Saves More Than Three and One-Third Tons of Paper with Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Content Management</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 29, 2010</div><h3><br> News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Cox Communications, Inc., a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company serving more than 6 million U.S. residences and businesses, has significantly reduced its carbon footprint with the help of <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.html" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite</a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/imaging-process-mgmt/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Imaging and Process Management</a>, a component of <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Content Management</a>. </div><div class="pressBullet"> As a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Cox Communications wanted to support Cox Conserves, an enterprise-wide initiative designed to strengthen the company’s sustainability leadership in the communications industry by reducing its carbon footprint by 20 percent.</div><div class="pressBullet"> To support Cox Conserves, Cox Communications automated the entire procure-to-pay process by leveraging <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/iProcurement.html" target="_top">Oracle iProcurement</a> to migrate corporate and cable-system level processes to “one-touch” electronic processes that minimize paper use and increase efficiency across its high volume business. </div><div class="pressBullet"> By capitalizing on Oracle’s <a href="http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/content-management/content-management-for-applications.html" target="_top">Enterprise Application Documents</a> strategy and the pre-integration between financial applications within the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Imaging and Process Management, Cox Communications was able to migrate to electronic invoices whenever possible, including the establishment of a more robust electronic routing process, reducing company-wide paper-use by three and one-third tons, the equivalent of 19,740 pounds of CO2 emissions, within the first eight months. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Additionally, by migrating to electronic processes, Cox Communications has been able to significantly increase efficiencies, reducing the cost of processing vendor invoices by up to 80 percent when using new processes and the number of account payable transactions by 26 percent.</div><div class="pressBullet"> To further reduce its environmental impact, Cox Communications is leveraging the Oracle E-Business Suite to pilot a completely online business-to-business procurement process for high volume vendors, yielding access to a customized website to order pre-configured products, secure approvals and submit payment via an electronic invoice.</div><div class="pressBullet"> In the future, Cox Communications intends to extend its new online procurement process to its top 650 suppliers, which represent half of the company’s invoice volume. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Cox Communications is also currently using include <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/financials/internet_exp.html" target="_top">Oracle Internet Expenses</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/hyperion-financial-performance-management/hyperion-financial-management.html" target="_top">Oracle Hyperion Financial Management</a>, Oracle XML Gateway and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle Business Intelligence 11g</a>. </div><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “We are making a huge company-wide push to reduce our environmental impact and set the benchmark for sustainability within the communications industry,” said Bill Fitzsimmons, vice president corporate finance and chief accounting officer, Cox Communications. “In doing so, we have used the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Imaging and Process Management as one of the solutions to replace many manual processes and eliminate the need for literally millions of sheets of paper. Within the first eight months alone, this has enabled us to increase efficiencies, reduces costs and save almost 20,000 pounds of CO2 emissions.” </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/index.html" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/imaging-process-mgmt/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Imaging and Process Management</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/green/greenapplications-065993.html" target="_top">Oracle Applications to Enable an Eco-Enterprise</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on YouTube</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://delicious.com/OracleCommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Delicious</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/OracleCommunications?ref=ts" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Facebook</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/oraclecomms" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Twitter</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2710476&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_top">Oracle Communications on LinkedIn</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.coxenterprises.com/" target="_top">Cox Enterprises</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://ww2.cox.com/" target="_top">Cox Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.coxconserves.com/" target="_top">Cox Conserves</a></div><h3>About Oracle Applications </h3> <p><font face="Arial">Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/035482.htm" target="_top"><u>Oracle Applications Unlimited</u></a></font><font face="Arial"> is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs.  For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to: </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top"><u>www.oracle.com/applications</u></a></font></p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com.</a></p><h3>Trademarks</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. <br> </p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Jessica Moore<br> Oracle<br> +1.415.244.6565<a href="mailto:jessica.moore@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> jessica.moore@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Joan Levy <br> Blanc & Otus<br> +1.415.856.5110<a href="mailto:jlevy@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> jlevy@blancandotus.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Shoppers Stop Strengthens Sales Performance Capabilities with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Shoppers Stop Strengthens Sales Performance Capabilities with Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition </h1><h2>- Reduces time taken to refresh data from data warehouse from half a day to an hour <br> - Speeds up collation and cleansing of data for better sales decisions <br> - Sales reports are generated in as little as minutes as compared to hours previously </h2> <div class="pressDate">Mumbai, India - July 26, 2010 </div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Shoppers Stop, a leader in the Indian retail sector and one of the pioneers of large format department stores chain, has deployed <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/data-integration/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition</a> as a part of its enterprise data warehouse to enhance its performance capabilities.</div><div class="pressBullet"> With Oracle Data Integrator, Shoppers Stop is able to reduce the time taken to refresh data to its data warehouse from half a day to one hour, which ensures managers receive timely sales, inventory and loyalty data.</div><div class="pressBullet"> It helps the team load data in increments from multiple disparate systems into the data warehouse overnight, cleanse the data, and make it available to associates the next morning.</div><div class="pressBullet"> In addition, they are able to better analyze which products are selling through its 30 stores in 13 cities, and also analyze customer-buying behaviour so they can maintain optimum inventory levels.</div><div class="pressBullet"> With Oracle Data Integrator, the company’s sales teams are able to complete standard reports in minutes as compared to an hour with the previous technology platform. It has also helped improve Shopper’s Stop’s customer loyalty program, ‘First Citizen’, that reaches out to nearly 1.7 million members.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “In a competitive landscape and growing segment such as retail, it is prudent to drive business enablement with technology to improve customer satisfaction‘, said Arun Gupta, Customer Care Associate & Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Shoppers Stop Limited. “IT helps optimise business and reduce operational IT budgets and Oracle has been a key component in helping us in our quest towards delivering value to business”. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle Data Integrator provided our managers with access to timely and accurate data. This helped them to better analyze the sales performance of their stores and develop marketing programs that target different customer segments,” said Avanoor Krishnakumar, Customer Care Associate & Deputy General Manager, Solutions and Technology Team, Shoppers Stop. “The deployment has ensured superior capabilities in real time data movement, data transformations and higher data quality along with improved business intelligence by ensuring scalability, maximum performance and reduced total cost of ownership”.</div><div class="pressBullet"> “We are proud to partner with Shoppers Stop on their growth journey. The deployment of Oracle Data Integrator has enabled Shoppers Stop to quickly integrate vast amounts of data from disparate systems while reducing costs and improving efficiencies”, said Shailender Kumar, Vice President, Fusion Middleware, Oracle India. “We realize managing information is the key in a highly competitive sector such as retail and Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition offers an extensible architecture that meets present and future business integration and expansion needs.”</div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/data-integration/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/customers/shoppers-stop-data-integrator-ss-080659.pdf" target="_top">Oracle customer snapshot: Shoppers Stop</a></div><h3>About Oracle India</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle entered India in 1987 and set up an India Development Centre in 1994. Today, Oracle has two India Development Centers as well as Indian hubs for Oracle's global support, consulting and financial services operations. Through its extensive network of partners under the Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialised, Oracle India markets the complete range of Oracle products and services across India. Oracle India has more than 7000 customers across the government and private sector. Oracle India is a major partner for E-Governance initiatives of Central and State Government bodies in India. The Oracle-HP E-Governance Centre of Excellence, Oracle Asia R & D Centre and Partner Solution Center are located at Oracle India’s head office in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Oracle’s Retail Centre of Excellence is located in Bangalore.</p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit <a href="http://www.oracle.com/" target="_top">oracle.com</a>.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Jeanette Tan</p><p class="pressBody">Oracle Asia Pacific and Japan</p><p class="pressBody">+65.6436.1257</p><p class="pressBody"><u><a href="mailto:jeanette.tan@oracle.com" target="_top">jeanette.tan@oracle.com</a></u></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Vandana Shenoy </p><p class="pressBody">Oracle India </p><p class="pressBody">9811551760 </p><p class="pressBody"><u><a href="mailto:vandana.shenoy@oracle.com" target="_top">vandana.shenoy@oracle.com</a></u></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Texas A&M University System Uses Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g to Facilitate Management of More Than $700 Million in Research Activity
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Texas A&M University System Uses Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g to Facilitate Management of More Than $700 Million in Research Activity</h1><h2>Oracle-Powered Enterprise 2.0 Solution Delivers Simplified Information Access, Improved Collaboration and Personalized Work Environments</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 28, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> To improve cross-organization information management and consolidate multiple legacy systems, the Texas A&M University System deployed <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Database 11g</a> and several components of <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Fusion Middleware</a>, including <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/user-interaction/webcenter-suite/index.html" target="_top">Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g</a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/content-management/ucm-overview/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Universal Content Management</a>.</div><div class="pressBullet"> Comprised of 11 universities, seven state agencies and a comprehensive health science center, the Texas A&M University System found it difficult and time consuming to track resources for its $700 million research activities annually, as well as coordinate work across organizations and manage projects involving more than one institution.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The Oracle-powered solution, with tight integration between Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Database 11g and several proprietary financial systems, makes it significantly easier to manage available resources and expertise, while facilitating teamwork through a complete, open and integrated Enterprise 2.0 user interface that delivers a personalized view of system-wide research and grant information. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Researchers are also using the solution’s Enterprise 2.0 capabilities, including wikis and blogs to share information with internal and external stakeholders, which increases engagement and collaboration, and makes the research process more transparent for all constituents. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Using Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g's Oracle Composer and Oracle Business Dictionary, researchers can customize their portals without any additional coding or help from IT. This enables them to have role-based access to content and keep the most relevant information for their research projects at their fingertips.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The university system deployed the Oracle solution on a shared services model with one of the university research agencies, Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a long-time Oracle user, developing and hosting the solution for the other agencies and institutions to reduce development and maintenance costs.</div><div class="pressBullet"> As adoption continues, the Texas A&M University System plans to roll out additional social computing tools included in Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, such as workspaces, presence awareness, tagging and a business networking tool.</div><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Managing information and research projects across a number of different institutions was becoming a very costly, complex and time consuming process,” said Leonarda Horvat, Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Systems, Texas A&M University System - TEES. “To streamline this process and empower our researchers with a more dynamic and flexible user interface, we decided to deploy Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g in conjunction with Oracle Universal Content Management and Oracle Database. As a result, we have not only simplified information access, but also improved collaboration with a range of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities.” </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle Fusion Middleware</a><a name="P20_3263"></a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/user-interaction/webcenter-suite/index.html" target="_top">Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/database" target="_top">Oracle Database 11g</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/index.html#ocs" target="_top">Independent Analyst Reports on Oracle Enterprise 2.0 Software</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html" target="_top">Download Oracle Software</a> - Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.</div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/industries/education/highered.html" target="_top">Oracle in Higher Education</a><a name="P25_3484"></a></div><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.  For more information about Oracle, visit <a href="http://oracle.com" target="_top">oracle.com</a></p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Greg Lunsford<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.6523<a href="mailto:greg.lunsford@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> greg.lunsford@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Simon Jones<br> Blanc and Otus<br> +1.415.856.5155<a href="mailto:sjones@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> sjones@blancandotus.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Communications Service Providers Worldwide Continue to Select Oracle to Improve Customer Service, Minimize Costs and Optimize Operations

Oracle Communications Order and Service Management Gaining Global Customer Acceptance
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Oracle Communications Order and Service Management Gaining Global Customer Acceptance</h1><h2>Service Providers Achieve Competitive Edge by Accelerating Time to Market, Decreasing Order Fallout and Lowering Operational Costs</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 28, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> In order to maintain a competitive edge, leading communications service providers are turning to Oracle solutions to help them introduce and deliver complex, convergent services and flexible offers with improved time to market, decreased order cycle time and greater operational efficiency. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle’s <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/rapid-offer-design-order-wp-077276.pdf" target="_top">rapid offer design and order delivery solution</a> includes Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle Product Hub for Communications and Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications.</div><h3>Oracle Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery Customer Details</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.romtelecom.ro/" target="_top"> Romtelecom</a>, one of Romania’s largest communications service providers, has deployed Oracle’s rapid offer design and order delivery solution as a key component in its comprehensive transformation project designed to support a growing portfolio of consumer and business services and bundles. The Oracle solution has also helped Romtelecom to decrease offer time to market and simplify its IT architecture. The company has automated fulfillment of 97 percent of its orders, significantly reducing operational costs. Further, by converging solutions from multiple network platforms, Romtelecom can more rapidly introduce new services and business models, making IT a driver of business effectiveness. </div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.tm.com.my/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_top"> Telekom Malaysia</a>, the leading integrated telecommunications company in Malaysia, has turned to Oracle’s rapid offer design and order delivery solution to help implement a nationwide high-speed broadband network and upgrade the company’s IT infrastructure to address the demands of the 21st century customer. With the advent of broadband services in Malaysia – an initiative led by Telekom Malaysia – the company adopted a new next-generation network (NGN) on a wide scale. Today, Oracle’s integrated application suite enables Telekom Malaysia to support multiple business models, including wholesale, enterprise and retail; and bundle more services and launch them faster. The provider has established a stable platform for high-speed broadband deployment and service delivery.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle’s solutions have been instrumental in helping us adjust to rapidly changing market dynamics. By integrating our silos and automating virtually all of our orders, we have seen significant reductions in costs. Our IT department has become a catalyst for change, increasing the company’s agility, innovation, customer responsiveness and operational efficiency,” said Radu Cretu, general manager, IT executive directorate, Romtelecom. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “At Telekom Malaysia we are focused on strengthening our position as the ‘new-generation service provider.’ Hence, our role is to deliver cutting-edge services and flexible bundles to meet customer demand quickly and accurately. Oracle’s applications have already helped us meet these demands. We have the agility to expand our business models quickly and pursue a flexible go-to-market strategy, which will lead to significant service improvement and revenue growth,” said Nizam Arshad, vice president of group IT, Telekom Malaysia. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “Communications service providers are under constant pressure to deliver increasingly complex, convergent services, flexible offers and bundles in a timely manner, while reducing operational costs. Companies like Romtelecom and Telekom Malaysia have demonstrated that by automating their order processes and integrating their network silos with Oracle rapid offer design and order delivery solutions, they can increase operational efficiency and maximize revenue,” said Dan Ford, vice president of product marketing, Oracle Communications. </div><div class="pressBullet"> </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle in Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/046843.html" target="_top">Oracle Communications Order and Service Management</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/siebel/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s Siebel CRM</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/046746.html" target="_top">Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/050914" target="_top">Press Release – Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 for Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on YouTube</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://delicious.com/OracleCommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Delicious</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/oraclecommunications" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Facebook</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://twitter.com/oraclecomms" target="_top">Oracle Communications on Twitter</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2710476&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_top">Oracle Communications on LinkedIn</a></div><h3>About Oracle Communications</h3><p class="pressBody">Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.  Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.oracle.com/communications" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com/communications</a></p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems in the world. For more information about Oracle, visit <a href="http://oracle.com" target="_top">oracle.com</a>.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Caroline Yu Vespi<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.8920<a href="mailto:caroline.yu@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> caroline.yu@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Janice Hazen</p><p class="pressBody">O’Keeffe and Company</p><p class="pressBody">+1.404.254.5881</p><p class="pressBody"><u><a href="mailto:jhazen@okco.com" target="_top">jhazen@okco.com</a></u> <br> </p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Utilities Worldwide Succeed with Oracle Utilities Applications
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Utilities Worldwide Succeed with Oracle Utilities Applications</h1><h2>More than 100 Utilities Selected or Implemented Oracle Software in Fiscal Year 2010 </h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 28, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> More than 100 utilities worldwide selected or implemented Oracle Utilities applications in fiscal year 2010 to respond to environmental imperatives, adapt to changing business conditions, meet and exceed customer expectations, implement smart grid components and address operational issues.</div><div class="pressBullet"> For example, <a href="http://www.hbws.org/cssweb/" target="_top">Honolulu Board of Water Supply</a> (HBWS), which serves the Hawaiian island of Oahu and manages water billing for Oahu’s Department of Environmental Services and the counties of Maui and Kauai, selected Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to replace its legacy customer information system (CIS). HBWS chose Oracle to replace a homegrown system that had reached the end of its supportable service life, to enhance integration with other core systems and increase functionality.</div><div class="pressBullet"> Additional customers who have recently selected or implemented Oracle Utilities applications include: Acea Distribuzione, California Water Service Company, Denver Water, EDF, Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc., Modesto Irrigation District, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Total Infrastructure Gas France, Visayan Electric Company and Western Power.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “We selected Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to provide better flexibility in managing customer billing and to migrate from a platform that is no longer supportable,” said Brian McKee, chief information officer, Honolulu Board of Water Supply.</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Utilities today are focused on managing operations agilely and providing customers with actionable information about their energy use. Oracle’s broad offering enables both immediate benefits and an easier transition to a full smart grid architecture in the future. Our recent traction in the industry illustrates the solid value we bring to our customers,” said Stephan Scholl, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities. </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Utilities</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleutilities/" target="_top">Oracle Utilities Blog</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/dlgpage.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=8610558&src=6778341&Act=70" target="_top">“Smart Grid Challenges & Choices” Full Report</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oracle-Utilities/113690131739?v=wall" target="_top">Oracle Utilities on Facebook</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=159460&trk=hb_side_g" target="_top">Oracle Utilities on LinkedIn</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/OracleUtilities" target="_top">Oracle Utilities on Twitter</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/oracleutilities" target="_top">Oracle Utilities YouTube Channel</a></div><h3>About Oracle Utilities</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle’s industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware and database technologies. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities. </p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems in the world. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com</p><h3>Trademarks</h3> <p><font face="Arial">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</font></p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Caroline Yu Vespi<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.8920<a href="mailto:caroline.yu@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> caroline.yu@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Janice Hazen<br> O'Keeffe and Company<br> +1.770.938.4753<a href="mailto:jhazen@okco.com" target="_top"><u><br> jhazen@okco.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Independent Research Firm Recognizes Oracle as a Leader in CRM Suites
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Independent Research Firm Recognizes Oracle as a Leader in CRM Suites</h1> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, CA – July 28, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle has been named a Leader in two new Forrester Research, Inc reports focusing on CRM. “The Forrester Wave™; CRM Suite for Large Organizations, Q2 2010” and “The Forrester Wave™; CRM Suite for Midsized Organizations, Q2 2010,” published in June 2010 and written by Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst William Band, positioned Oracle CRM On Demand as a Leader. </div><div class="pressBullet"> In the reports, Forrester noted that Oracle CRM On Demand “has achieved success in the market by offering the same benefits as other CRM SaaS solutions: quick time-to-value, strong usability, and low upfront costs. This value proposition attracts midsized organizations, and it is finding increasing acceptance in units of large companies.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> Additionally, the reports found: “Oracle CRM On Demand also features innovative new capabilities such as social CRM, which promotes increased collaboration, innovation, and adoption of CRM within organizations as well as delivering differentiated sales and service to their end customers. The product offers strong sales force automation (SFA) capabilities and partner channel management, and it provides sound support for customer service, customer data management, and analytics.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> Forrester also named Oracle’s Siebel CRM a leader for large organizations: “Siebel CRM is designed to provide robust capabilities that empower users to better address customer needs … The Siebel CRM product for large organizations has achieved best-of-breed status for most CRM functionalities, including: sales, marketing, customer service, field service, partner relationship management, and customer data management.” </div><div class="pressBullet"> In addition, Forrester recognized Oracle E-Business Suite CRM and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM: “Oracle E-Business Suite CRM and PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM are good options for ERP customers. Oracle continues to support two other important CRM customer franchises. Oracle E-Business Suite CRM attracts customers by providing ease of integration into the rest of the Oracle E-Business Suite and offering strengths in field service and sales compensation management. Similarly, PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM attracts companies already using PeopleSoft Enterprise by providing strong integration benefits.”</div><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle CRM enables organizations of all sizes to transform their customer experience by promoting customer acquisition, increasing loyalty and lowering the cost of marketing, selling and servicing,” said Anthony Lye, SVP of Oracle CRM. “We are pleased that Forrester recognized Oracle for its diverse range of solutions, targeted industry expertise, and flexible deployment options.”</div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/analystreports/corporate/forrester-crm-midsized-150427.pdf" target="_top">The Forrester Wave™: CRM Suites For Midsized Organizations, Q2 2010</a><a name="P14_2908"></a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/analystreports/corporate/forrester-crm-large-150428.pdf" target="_top">The Forrester Wave™: CRM Suites For Large Organizations, Q2 2010</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/crm/index.html" target="_top">Oracle CRM</a><a name="P16_2994"></a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://crmondemand.oracle.com/en/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle CRM On Demand</a></div><h3>About Oracle Applications </h3><p class="pressBody">Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/035482.htm" target="_top">Oracle Applications Unlimited</a> is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs.  For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to: <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">www.oracle.com/applications</a></p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div> <p><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#333333" size="+1"><b>  </b></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"># # #</font></p><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Susie Penner<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.1973<a href="mailto:susanne.penner@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> susanne.penner@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Aaron Wessels<br> Blanc and Otus<br> +1.415.378.8090<a href="mailto:awessels@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> awessels@blancandotus.com</u></a></p><p class="pressBody"> </p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Higher Education Institutions Improve Decision Making with Oracle
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Higher Education Institutions Improve Decision Making with Oracle </h1><h2>Colleges and Universities Gather and Use Actionable Data to Operate More Strategically with Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence Solutions</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 27, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> In order to drive informed decision making and operate more strategically, higher education institutions turn to Oracle’s Hyperion performance management applications and business intelligence solutions. With Oracle, institutions create and manage analytics systems that put actionable intelligence directly in the hands of users who can apply it to their daily work. </div><h3>Oracle Higher Education Customer Details</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.calstate.edu/" target="_top">The California State University</a> (CSU), the nation’s largest and most diverse university system serving almost 433,000 students, has begun deploying Oracle solutions to efficiently produce system-wide reporting statistics and analysis. Challenged with decreasing budgets, the university was seeking to standardize its reporting practices as well as look for savings through consolidation and common business practices. By combining <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/enterprise-edition-066546.html" target="_top">Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition</a> with the university’s previously deployed <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/peoplesoft/financial_mgmt/ent/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.0</a>, CSU will be able to consolidate data onto a single repository, delivering greater visibility into business-critical information. The university successfully deployed the solution on three campuses and will transition the remaining 20 campuses over the next year. Once implementation is complete, university officials will have the resources to improve decision making and build more efficient business processes, helping the university continue to thrive. </div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.massachusetts.edu/index.html" target="_top">The University of Massachusetts</a>, a multi-campus institution dedicated to quality education and research, has deployed Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition as part of its Summit Program, using a business driven model which brings together IT and business users across campuses. The Oracle solution provides users with access to actionable data via a series of dashboards – helping them to perform their jobs more efficiently and improve decision making. The dashboards will pull data from the university’s <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/peoplesoft-enterprise/index.html" target="_top">Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise</a> human resources, financials and student information systems to support areas ranging from grants management to enrollment management. For example, the university’s first deployed dashboards provide role-based access for research grant data, enabling users such as administrators and principal investigators to track grant spending across the duration of the grant, alerting them if they are tracking significantly over or under budget and enabling them to plan more effectively. The university ultimately plans to add several additional dashboards with role-based user access across a broad range of business areas. </div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.yu.edu/" target="_top">Yeshiva University</a>, a prominent research university focused on Jewish and secular education, has selected several Oracle financial management and business intelligence tools to improve financial reporting. In as little as six months, the university deployed <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/hyperion-financial-management-066534.html" target="_top">Oracle Hyperion Financial Management</a> to centralize the finance and accounting divisions and enhance reporting to both the university’s senior external and management teams, moving away from a 43-year-old legacy system that allowed for little useful financial analysis. With the goal of establishing an “all funds budgeting” process which will utilize all the university’s planning components, the university is now working to implement <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/public-sector-planning-budgetting-065895.html" target="_top">Oracle’s Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting</a> solution, which will provide configurable budgeting models and a detailed salary planning structure, as well as integrate with Hyperion Financial Management to produce high-quality budget reports. </div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php" target="_top">The University of Minnesota</a>, a prominent research institution with more than 67,000 students, has selected Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to standardize and consolidate data across the university’s five campuses. By deploying a standardized business intelligence tool that will integrate with the university’s recently selected PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management applications, as well as Oracle’s <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/045711.pdf" target="_top">PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions Warehouse</a>, the university will be able to deliver real-time information in a secure format to key executives, enhancing the decision-making process. The University of Minnesota has completed a successful pilot program with Oracle Business Intelligence and demonstrated that the university will reduce software costs while significantly reducing burden on the IT team as it moves forward with its full implementation. </div><div class="pressBullet"> <a name="P13_4833"></a> <a href="http://www.gatech.edu/" target="_top">Georgia Institute of Technology</a>, one of the nation’s top research and technological institutions, has selected <a href="http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-intelligence/hyperion-financial-performance-management/hyperion-strategic-finance.html" target="_top">Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance</a> to enable better understanding of the financial implications of specific planning scenarios. Historically, the university used multiple Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and internally developed modeling systems to develop long-term financial plans, but found that these tools did not provide the necessary financial visibility. Hyperion Strategic Finance will enable the Institute to develop a student enrollment-driven long-term plan with scenario planning capabilities at the university, campus, college, and account levels. The implementation will enable Georgia Tech to project its long-term operating budget while evaluating scenarios impacted by variables such as capital projects, state appropriations, cost recovery, tuition growth, and inflation. Georgia Tech is working with Edgewater Ranzal on the implementation. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Other higher education institutions that have recently selected, implemented or upgraded Oracle applications or infrastructure software to support improved decision making include: <a href="http://www.act.org/" target="_top">ACT</a>, Iowa City, Iowa; <a href="http://system.nevada.edu/" target="_top">Nevada System of Higher Education</a>, Las Vegas, Nev.; <a href="http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml" target="_top">Northern Illinois University</a>, Dekalb, Ill.; <a href="http://www.suny.edu/" target="_top">The State University of New York</a>, Albany, NY; <a href="http://berkeley.edu/" target="_top">University of California Berkeley</a>, Berkeley, Calif.; <a href="http://www.missouri.edu/" target="_top">University of Missouri</a>, Columbia, Mo.; <a href="http://wsu.edu/" target="_top">Washington State University</a>, Pullman, Wash.; <a href="http://www.yale.edu/" target="_top">Yale University</a>, New Haven, Conn. </div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Considering the tough economic climate for higher education institutions throughout the country, it is critical for universities to gather business-critical information in a concise and efficient manner to ensure they are making optimal financial decisions,” said Jessie Lum, senior director for CMS, chancellor’s office, California State University. “Oracle’s solutions will provide CSU with the relevant and timely information it needs to develop effective short and long-term strategies for the University, helping maintain a vital role with our students, faculty and staff at the campuses and in California’s communities.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “The Business Intelligence/Summit enterprise reporting program provides users at all levels of the university easy access to financial information in a comprehensive format.  We are creating dashboards that summarize our data, giving administrators the ability to see trends and details that help them efficiently manage operations,” said Jacqui Watrous, director of administrative systems for administration and finance, University of Massachusetts. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “After being hampered by an antiquated legacy system, we knew we would need new software to build a detailed salary budgeting and employee profile model to enhance human resources and payroll planning,” said Mike Gower, chief financial officer, Yeshiva University. “Oracle’s Hyperion and Business Intelligence solutions provide comprehensive analytical tools that deliver the insight we need to plan and execute effectively for optimum financial efficiency.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle Business Intelligence is the most effective solution in the market for generating actionable data from Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications, while providing an integrated tool set that business officers can use for secure and comprehensive reporting,” said Bernie Gulachek, senior director for strategy management, information technology, University of Minnesota. “This implementation will give us the necessary tools to create accurate financial forecasts and adjust the university’s resources accordingly.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “In order to plan strategically for the future, we need comprehensive financial forecasting models, “said Jim Kirk, director of budget planning and administration, Georgia Institute of Technology. “Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance further enhances our capabilities of developing a long-range plan driven by the many workload factors that affect the Institute’s budget, especially the projected research activity and student enrollment mix. The application provides us the ability to test a number of scenarios, as we support our executives in making informed decisions about Georgia Tech’s growth through our current strategic planning process (<a href="http://www.gatech.edu/vision/" target="_top">http://www.gatech.edu/vision/</a>).”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Sophisticated higher education institutions understand that it is no longer sufficient to collect data,” said Theo Bosnak, senior director for education and research, Oracle Higher Education. “They must put that data into user’s hands quickly and easily so that they can begin to derive real benefits via more strategic and efficient decision making. Whether tracking research grants, monitoring budgets or keeping an eye on enrollments, Oracle’s Hyperion and Business Intelligence tools provide the stable foundation for reliable, flexible data and analytics systems.” </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/industries/education/highered.html" target="_top">Oracle in Higher Education</a></div><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems in the world. For more information about Oracle, visit <a href="http://oracle.com/" target="_top">oracle.com</a>.</p><p class="pressBody">About Oracle Applications <br> Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs.  For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">www.oracle.com/applications</a>.</p><h3>Trademark</h3> <p><font face="Arial">Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</font></p><h3>Contacts</h3><p class="pressBody">Katie Barron Janice Hazen </p><p class="pressBody">Oracle O’Keeffe & Company</p><p class="pressBody">+1.703.364.2488 +1.404.254.5881</p><p class="pressBody"><a href="mailto:katie.barron@oracle.com" target="_top">katie.barron@oracle.com</a><a href="mailto:jhazen@okco.com" target="_top"> jhazen@okco.com</a></p></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Leading Analyst Firm Names Oracle as a Leader for IT Project Portfolio Management
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Leading Analyst Firm Names Oracle as a Leader for IT Project Portfolio Management </h1> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 27, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Gartner, Inc. has named Oracle a leader in its report “<a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article133/article133.html" target="_top">Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2010</a>.”* </div><div class="pressBullet"> Gartner defines IT Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) applications as those that “primarily automate and centralize the collection of data about demand, costs, schedules and resources for investment prioritization, as well as the execution of the programs and projects delivering new technologies and other IT assets to the business. They can also be used to assess, justify, rationalize and otherwise control the investment in ongoing IT operations or specific applications.” </div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle's PPM solutions support the full lifecycle of project and portfolio management with an integrated, accurate view of all project-related activities, helping companies and organizations achieve and maintain strategic advantage over their competitors.</div><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle’s PPM for IT is an integrated solution with capabilities to help assess, select and manage complex project portfolios. The solution provides enterprise visibility into project resources, schedules, budgets, costs and challenges to enable better IT project planning, execution, and governance. With these tools, an IT organization acquires an intuitive platform to increase IT agility, effectiveness and structured portfolio assessment methods rapidly,” said Joel Koppelman, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit. “Oracle is pleased to be recognized by Gartner as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for IT Project Portfolio Management.” </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article133/article133.html" target="_top">Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2010</a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/project-management.html" target="_top">Oracle Project Portfolio Management</a></div><p class="pressBody">*Gartner “Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2010,” by Daniel B. Stang, June 7, 2010.</p><h3>About the Magic Quadrant </h3><p class="pressBody">The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.</p><h3>About Oracle Applications </h3><p class="pressBody">Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to: <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">www.oracle.com/applications</a>.</p><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com. </p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Danielle Cormier<br> Oracle<br> +1.610.766.3463<a href="mailto:danielle.cormier@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> danielle.cormier@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Simon Jones<br> Blanc & Otus<br> +1.415.856.5155<a href="mailto:sjones@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> sjones@blancandotus.com</u></a> </p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

NaviSite Uses Oracle’s Sun Servers as a Foundation for its Managed Services Offering
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>NaviSite Uses Oracle’s Sun Servers as a Foundation for its Managed Services Offering</h1><h2>Helps Customers Lower IT Costs and Boost Performance with Combination of Oracle Technologies</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 27, 2010</div><h3><br> News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a premier provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of <a href="http://www.oracle.com/servers" target="_top">Oracle’s Sun servers</a> and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems.</div><div class="pressBullet"> With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across the US and UK, NaviSite needed to expand its virtualization platform to meet the growing infrastructure demands of its customers, while delivering industry-leading performance and availability. </div><div class="pressBullet"> By deploying a combination of <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc-enterprise/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers</a> running <a href="http://www.oracle.com/solaris" target="_top">Oracle Solaris</a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 clustered systems</a> running <a href="http://www.oracle.com/linux" target="_top">Oracle Enterprise Linux</a>, along with Oracle software, including <a href="http://www.oracle.com/database" target="_top">Oracle Database</a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/options/real-application-clusters/index.html" target="_top">Oracle Real Application Clusters</a> as its integrated and optimized technology platform, NaviSite provides its worldwide customers with highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions.</div><div class="pressBullet"> The company uses Sun SPARC Enterprise servers for applications requiring a high-level of performance, reliability and security. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle’s Sun x86 blade servers are ideal for virtualized application environments, delivering excellent performance and superior energy efficiency, while reducing datacenter costs and complexity.</div><div class="pressBullet"> NaviSite also runs many of its internal systems, including <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/financial-management/index.htm" target="_top">Oracle E-Business Suite Financials</a> and customer portal, on the same Oracle platform.</div><div class="pressBullet"> With Oracle, NaviSite has improved the flexibility of its service offerings, decreased the time to provision the computing platform for managed applications and gained the ability to scale application environments as business grows. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Using NaviSite’s managed application services, customers can reduce costs while delivering high service levels. Typically, customers benefit from at least a 20 percent cost reduction, higher application availability and 20 percent better application performance all while lowering IT costs – when compared to managing their applications internally or outsourcing to another provider. </div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “This combination of Oracle technologies provides exceptional performance, scalability and reliability – and is the perfect platform for running our Oracle managed application services and our internal systems,” said Brady Reiter, General Manager, Enterprise Architecture and Application Strategy, NaviSite. </div><div class="pressBullet"> “We look forward to our ongoing relationship with NaviSite as they continue to grow and expand their managed application service offerings,” said Cheryl Martin, senior director of marketing for Sun Systems, Oracle. “We are focused on providing companies like NaviSite with a portfolio of mission-critical systems that deliver high performance, simplified management and cost savings – while easily scaling to support future growth.”</div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.navisite.com/index.php" target="_top">About NaviSite</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/servers" target="_top">Oracle’s Sun Servers</a></div><h3>About Oracle</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at <a href="http://www.oracle.com" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com.</a></p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Nicole Maloney<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.0806</p><p class="pressBody"> <a href="mailto:nicole.maloney@oracle.com" target="_top"><u>nicole.maloney@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Susan Vander May <br> Blanc & Otus<br> +1.415.856.5112<a href="mailto:svandermay@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> svandermay@blancandotus.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Oracle Enhances Tape Storage Product Line
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Oracle Enhances Tape Storage Product Line</h1><h2>High Availability and Capacity Capabilities Extend Company’s Leadership in Enterprise Tape Market </h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, CA – July 26, 2010 </div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Extending its leadership in the enterprise tape market, Oracle announced high availability and capacity enhancements to its <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/index.html" target="_top">StorageTek tape libraries and drives</a>. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle’s tape product portfolio delivers the most scalable, cost-effective, energy-efficient solution in the storage hierarchy for customers that need to archive and protect growing amounts of data. </div><div class="pressBullet"> New features of the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System include an increase in scalable capacity from 70,000 to 100,000 tape slots and redundant electronics to help customers manage growth, increase availability and reduce risk. </div><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle’s StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives, with 1.5 terabytes of native capacity, are now available, and supported, on StorageTek tape libraries. </div><div class="pressBullet"> The StorageTek LTO-5 drive coupled with the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System makes Oracle the first enterprise tape automation vendor to offer up to 150 petabytes of native storage capacity managed in a single tape library – more than a 100 percent increase in total system capacity.</div><div class="pressBullet"> StorageTek tape libraries and drives lead the industry in quality and reliability and are designed to help customers with heterogeneous data protection, consolidation and long-term data preservation. </div><div class="pressBullet"> As part of Oracle’s commitment to deliver complete, open and integrated systems, the StorageTek tape product line is engineered and supported with <a href="http://www.oracle.com/solaris" target="_top">Oracle Solaris</a><a name="P10_1615"></a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/linux" target="_top">Oracle Enterprise Linux</a><a name="P10_1640"></a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/virtualization" target="_top">Oracle VM</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/exadata" target="_top">Oracle Exadata V2</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/database" target="_top">Oracle Database 11g</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/middleware" target="_top">Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">Oracle Applications</a>, and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/servers" target="_top">Oracle’s Sun Servers</a><a name="P10_1770"></a>, as well as by leading third-party mainframe and open systems products.</div><h3>Scalable Capacity, High Availability Support Growth</h3><div class="pressBullet"> The StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System offers:</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Industry-leading scalability: Ten StorageTek SL8500 Modular Tape libraries can be linked and managed as one massively-scalable 100,000 slot library, reducing complexity while boosting capacity to five times that of other enterprise tape libraries.</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Unsurpassed reliability: The only tape library with non-disruptive hot-swappable robotics that also provides redundant electronics and hot-swappable library control cards. These new features maximize availability by providing automatic failover capabilities that are transparent to host applications. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Simplified management: The Storage Tek SL8500 Modular Tape Library System enables superior tape consolidation across multiple, heterogeneous system environments with on-line service and upgrades and per-slot mixing of media so storage administrators can spend more time addressing business critical issues and less time managing islands of storage. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Cost savings: The improved scalability and enterprise-wide consolidation capabilities of the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Tape Library System helps reduce acquisition, maintenance and administrative costs since a single library supports mainframe, open systems and technical computing environments.</div> <ul><p><font face="Times New Roman">• </font><font face="Arial">The StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive provides: </font></p></ul><div class="pressSubBullet"> High capacity: 1.5 terabytes of native capacity and a throughput of 140 megabytes per second, uncompressed, a 90 percent increase in capacity over LTO-4 drives and a 16 percent improvement in overall performance. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> Energy efficiency: Significantly reduced energy costs from LTO-4, consuming 48 percent less power when idle. </div> <ul><p><font face="Times New Roman">• </font><font face="Arial">StorageTek tape libraries and drives are part of a complete data management solution, which includes data protection with Oracle Secure Backup and Oracle Recovery Manager 11<i>g</i>. Oracle Recovery Manager 11<i>g</i>’s support of the StorageTek tape and library families ensures superior data protection capabilities for Oracle Exadata V2 and other mission-critical database environments.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman">• </font><font face="Arial">The StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives combine with Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager and multiple tiers of Oracle storage to simplify storage operations and reduce the overall cost of storage by up to 70 percent when compared to a single tier of performance-optimized disk. </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman">• </font><font face="Arial">The StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives are the latest additions to Oracle’s complete portfolio of software and hardware products, designed to enable customers to start small and grow into next-generation cloud computing infrastructures.</font></p></ul><h3>Supporting Quote</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Over the past 40 years, Oracle’s StorageTek tape library solutions have incorporated innovative technology to improve scalability, performance and reliability while continuing to lower the total cost of ownership,” said Jim Cates, vice president, Tape Development, Oracle. “With today’s announcement, large tape users now have the capacity to accommodate the explosion of data in their organizations. Only Oracle’s StorageTek enterprise tape solutions enable customers to easily scale capacity to upwards of 150 petabytes in one, easy to manage storage system – while systems remain up-and-running.” </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/034341.pdf" target="_top">Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System Data Sheet</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/033631.pdf" target="_top">Oracle’s StorageTek LTO Tape Drives Data Sheet</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/tape-storage/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Storage Product Line</a></div><h3>About Oracle</h3> <p><font face="Arial">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.oracle.com/" target="_top"><u>oracle.com</u></a></font><font face="Arial">.</font></p><h3>Trademarks</h3><div class="legalese">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</div><h3>Contact Info</h3><p> <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="324"><p class="pressBody">Nicole Maloney<br> Oracle<br> +1.650.506.0806<a href="mailto:nicole.maloney@oracle.com" target="_top"><u><br> nicole.maloney@oracle.com</u></a></p></td> <td valign="top" width="264"><p class="pressBody">Susan Vander May<br> Blanc and Otus<br> +1.415.341.3529<a href="mailto:svandermay@blancandotus.com" target="_top"><u><br> svandermay@blancandotus.com</u></a></p></td></tr></table></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

Washington State University to Enhance Student Experience and Operational Efficiency with Oracle
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Washington State University to Enhance Student Experience and Operational Efficiency with Oracle </h1><h2>Leading Research Institution Will Optimize Student Systems and Increase Reliability While Adding New Analytical Capabilities</h2> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 26, 2010</div><h3>News Facts</h3><div class="pressSubBullet"> <a href="http://wsu.edu/" target="_top">Washington State University</a> (WSU), a world-class land grant research university serving more than 26,000 students, has selected a comprehensive set of Oracle software and infrastructure technology solutions to modernize its student data systems, improve service to students and deliver actionable business insight to university leaders. Washington State is partnering with Oracle Consulting on the project.</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> As WSU has grown in recent years, demands on its legacy student system have increased, resulting in a breaking point during student registration last fall. The university turned to Oracle to deploy a centralized student system with a reliable technology infrastructure supporting it. By combining <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications/peoplesoft/campus_solutions/ent/index.html" target="_top">Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions</a> with <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/enterprise-edition-066483.html" target="_top">Oracle Database Enterprise Edition</a>, WSU will create a comprehensive and reliable student administration system that is user-friendly and secure, minimizes the demands on IT and integrates easily with other campus systems. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> The new student system will enable the university to effectively meet and adapt to the changing needs of its student body across all four campuses and a distance learning program. It will provide each of the university’s 26,000 student and 6,000 faculty and staff users with timely data and self-service tools. For example, students will have access to personalized tools to manage academics, financial transactions and collaboration with other students and faculty. With the high performance inherent in Oracle’s technology, the system will be able to handle high-traffic events such as registration and new student orientation. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> WSU will also add <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/ent-performance-bi/enterprise-edition-066546.html" target="_top">Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus</a><a name="P8_1987"></a> and <a href="http://www.oracle.com/media/peoplesoft/en/pdf/datasheets/fusion-intelligence-campus-solutions-data-sheet.pdf" target="_top">Oracle Campus Fusion Intelligence</a> to deliver actionable student data via a series of dashboards – helping officials to perform their jobs more efficiently and improve decision making across the university. WSU administrators will be able to analyze student application and retention rates and course enrollment trends, as well as examine financial aid disbursement to make more informed decisions.</div><div class="pressSubBullet"> To minimize the IT resources, risk and maintenance efforts required, WSU opted to have Oracle host the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions Warehouse, PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration, PeopleSoft Enterprise Self Service for Student Administration, PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and the Oracle User Productivity Developer, Employee and Student Administration content via <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/ondemand/index.html" target="_top">Oracle On Demand</a>. </div><h3>Supporting Quote </h3><div class="pressSubBullet"> “Oracle’s solutions will provide us with the necessary resources to not only maintain our status as a leading public land grant research university but also to move the institution toward a digital campus.  By using Oracle On Demand to host our student solution, we will be able to minimize risk and maintenance efforts as well as deliver the project on time,” said Viji Murali, vice president for information services and chief information officer, Washington State University. </div><div class="pressSubBullet"> “Sophisticated higher education institutions understand the importance of giving each student the flexibility to create his or her own unique campus experience. At the same time, these institutions know first-hand the challenges of rising educational costs, increased global competition for students and heightened regulatory requirements,” said Steve Koporec, vice president, Oracle Higher Education. “By optimizing their student systems with PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions and Oracle’s reliable technology infrastructure and advanced business intelligence tools, universities can provide students with tools that help them reach their full potential while giving administrators the tools to maximize the university’s operational efficiency.” </div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <p><font face="Times New Roman">• </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.oracle.com/industries/education/highered.html" target="_top">Oracle in Higher Education</a></u></font></p><h3>About Oracle </h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.</p><p class="pressBody">About Oracle Applications <br> Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs.  For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to <a href="http://www.oracle.com/applications" target="_top">www.oracle.com/applications</a>.</p><h3>Trademarks</h3><p class="pressBody">Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial Unicode MS"># # #</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="-2"> </font></p><h3>Contacts: </h3><p class="pressBody">Katie Barron Janice Hazen<br> Oracle O’Keeffe & Company<br> +1.703.364.2448 +1.404.254.5881<br> katie.barron@oracle.com jhazen@okco.com </p></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> 

City of Boston and City of Sacramento Use Oracle Software to Enhance Decision-making and Improve Service Delivery to Citizens

Oracle Introduces Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager

Oracle Named a Leader in Transportation Management Systems and Supply Chain Execution by Leading Analyst Firm
  <DIV id=pressReleaseHeader><SPAN class=contents>Oracle Press Release</SPAN></DIV> <DIV class=topRptImg> <DIV class=bottomRptImg> <DIV class=leftRptImg> <DIV class=rightRptImg> <DIV class=bottomLeftImg> <DIV class=bottomRightImg> <DIV class=topLeftImg> <DIV class=topRightImg> <DIV class=pressRelease style="padding:15px 15px 15px 15px;"><h1>Oracle Named a Leader in Transportation Management Systems and Supply Chain Execution by Leading Analyst Firm</h1> <div class="pressDate">Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 22, 2010</div><h3><br> News Facts</h3><div class="pressBullet"> Oracle has been named as a leader in two recent Gartner, Inc. reports on supply chain management as described in the “<a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article129/article129.html" target="_top">Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS)</a>(1)” and the “M<a name="P3_360"></a>arket Share: Supply Chain Management, Worldwide, 2009 (2)” reports. </div><div class="pressBullet"> In its 2010 report, “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS),” Gartner positioned Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant.</div><div class="pressBullet"> Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report positions vendors within a particular quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.</div><div class="pressBullet"> According to Gartner, “Leaders have a compelling vision and a reliable ability to execute. TMS market leaders have broad, deep and formidable functionality that addresses a broad range of user requirements. These vendors have proven products, track records of customer success and demonstrated momentum in growing their market presence. Leading vendors support sophisticated and complex transportation strategies for large customers with substantial freight spending, as well as being deployable in smaller shippers. They also meet the needs of users throughout the transportation process, with offerings from strategic planning and procurement through to freight payment and audit functionality. Leaders also offer adaptable technical architectures that allow for rapid innovation, which is needed to stay ahead of market demands. Leaders are innovators and have compelling strategies for addressing the ongoing market changes related to the emergence of new technologies, the integration of dedicated and private fleet assets, the convergence of TMS with other SCM functionality, and support for global transportation operations. Leaders are extending the reach of TMS beyond traditional shippers to include LSPs and other styles of transportation, such as bulk commodities, adding functionality to address the unique needs of emerging markets. They're out in front of the evolution of transportation management as an enterprise shared service. Leaders are also furthest in front supporting the transportation needs of multiple geographies, and adding capabilities to support the complex needs of multileg global logistics and transportation.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> In its <a name="P7_2380"></a>Market Share: SCM, Worldwide, 2009 report, Gartner ranked Oracle No. 1 in worldwide market share in the Supply Chain Execution marketplace based on total software revenue for 2009.</div><div class="pressBullet"> In Gartner’s Market Share: SCM, Worldwide, 2009 report, Gartner defines total software revenue as “revenue that is generated from appliances, new licenses, updates, subscriptions and hosting, technical support, and maintenance. Professional services revenue and hardware revenue are not included in total software revenue.”</div><h3>Oracle Value Chain Execution Solutions Help Customers Streamline Supply Chain Logistics</h3><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/scm/018756.htm" target="_top">Oracle Transportation Management</a> is the only solution that enables companies to manage their comprehensive trade compliance and transportation requirements, including common carrier and private fleet operations, on a global basis within one central platform.</div><div class="pressBullet"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/logistics/053330.html" target="_top">Oracle Value Chain Execution</a> is a comprehensive set of supply chain execution solutions that work together to provide Oracle customers with a broad array of logistics capabilities. Using a combination of the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle standalone applications, Oracle Value Chain Execution provides users unprecedented flexibility in how they purchase, design, implement and manage their supply chain solutions.</div><h3>Supporting Quotes</h3><div class="pressBullet"> “Driven by freight cost volatility and globalization, many organizations are looking for a single, global platform to optimize their transportation business processes for cost control and supply chain agility,” said Derek Gittoes, Oracle Vice President, Logistics Product Strategy. “We believe that Gartner’s recognition affirms our commitment and investment in delivering best-of-breed transportation management solutions for a broad range of transportation functions that support the needs of both shippers and Logistics Service Providers.”</div><div class="pressBullet"> “Oracle recognized early that globalization has made logistics and supply chain execution the essential infrastructure to any product-oriented company,” said Jon Chorley, Oracle Vice President, Supply Chain Product Strategy. “This is why Oracle chose to make and sustain a set of major investments in this area, as part of our overall Information-driven Value Chain strategy. We are pleased to be recognized by Gartner as the market leader supply chain execution for 2009.” </div><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:-5px;"><div class="horidotted dottedspacer"> </div></div><h3>Supporting Resources</h3> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article129/article129.html" target="_top">Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems</a><a name="P20_4807"></a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/scm/018756.htm" target="_top">Oracle Transportation Management</a><a name="P21_4843"></a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebusiness/logistics/053330.htmll" target="_top">Oracle Value Chain Execution</a><a name="P22_4875"></a> </div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/043266" target="_top">Oracle Delivers Oracle Transportation Management 6.1</a></div> <div class="pressBulletSingleSpace"> <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/043265" target="_top">Oracle Launches Oracle Global Trade Management</a></div> <p><font face="Arial">(1) Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems” by C. Dwight Klappich, April 13, 2010</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">(2) Gartner, Inc. “Market Share: SCM, Worldwide, 2009” by Chad Eschinger et al, April 29, 2010</font></p><h3>About the Magic Quadrant</h3><p class="pressBody">The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. 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