Oracle Announces the Immediate Availability of the Oracle Database Appliance

Simple, Highly Reliable, Affordable Database System for Small/Midsize Enterprises and Departments

Redwood Shores, Calif.

News Facts

· Available today, Oracle announced the Oracle Database Appliance, an easy-to-use, affordable, and highly available database appliance that is built using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on a 2-nodeSun Fire server cluster running Oracle Linux. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system of software, servers, storage and networking that offers high availability for a wide range of custom and packaged OLTP and data warehousing application databases. 

· Built using the latest release of the world’s #1 database, the Oracle Database Appliance protects databases from server and storage failures with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management, respectively. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance offers unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing for Oracle Database and related software from 2 to 24 processor cores. This allows customers to align their software spend with their business growth without the need for any hardware upgrades. 

· With proactive system monitoring, one-button software provisioning, full-stack integrated patching, and automatic phone home on hardware failures, the Oracle Database Appliance also reduces the cost and resources required to build and maintain a highly-available database system. 

· Oracle’s extensive ecosystem of partners offers customers a wide range of horizontal and industry-specific applications that can benefit from the higher availability of the Oracle Database Appliance. 

· Additional information on the Oracle Database Appliance will be available during Oracle OpenWorld 2011. 

· Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. 

Supporting Quotes

· “Companies are spending tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours to buy, build and customize database solutions,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle. “With the Oracle Database Appliance, customers get the power of the world’s leading database in a highly-available system from a single vendor. We’ve taken the risk out of designing and deploying database infrastructures, which makes it ideal for small and midsize companies or enterprise departments that want higher availability for their application databases.” 

· “Oracle resellers want differentiated solutions that can be sold at volume. By combining a dramatically simpler user experience with pay-as-you-grow pricing, the Oracle Database Appliance plays well in this Oracle reseller sweet spot,” said Judson Althoff, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels and Embedded Sales, Oracle. 

Supporting Resources 

· About Oracle Database Appliance

· About Oracle Database 11g

· Oracle Database Appliance Customer and Partner Quotes

· About Oracle Database Appliance for Partners

· Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter

· Judson Althoff Blog

About Oracle

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 website at http://www.oracle.com. 

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Oracle Outlines Plans to Move Java Forward

Highlights Java Technology Innovation and Details Roadmap of Future Java Platform Advancements

JAVAONE, SAN FRANCISCO – October 11, 2011

News Facts

Oracle has outlined plans for the future of the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations during the recently held JavaOne 2011.

Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Cameron Purdy, vice president, Development, Oracle, revealed Oracle’s strategy to evolove Java platform.

“Our strategic objectives for the future of Java are to accelerate technical innovation in the Java platform and increase Java technology adoption,” said Rizvi.

“We expect to keep Java vibrant and moving forward through ongoing support for open standards and by working closely with the Java developer community,” he added.

Java is #1 programming language with 9 million developers worldwide and 80% of mobile developers using the Java platform. 97% of enterprise desktops run Java while more than 3 billion devices have been powered by Java technology including more than 125 million Java-based TV devices.

Oracle announced plans to improve the interoperability between HTML5 and Java technology in order to simplify the development of rich client/server interaction for cloud based applications.

Oracle also announced availability of JavaFX 2.0, an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle intends to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community.

Java EE continues to be hugely popular with increasing developer adoption and over 40 million downloads of Java EE components, including Oracle GlassFish Server.

Java EE 7, the next generation of Java EE, is well underway which will further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments with support for features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling).

Rob Benson, Director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform.

IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also demonstrated their ongoing support for Java technology.

        

Supporting Resources

•        Java 7 Celebration Webcast Replay

•        Java at Oracle

•        Planet JDK (JDK developer blogs)

•        Java User Groups

•        Java Source Blog

•        Follow the conversation on Twitter: follow @Java

About Oracle

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.

About JavaOne

JavaOne San Francisco returns to the Zone October 2-6, a developer-friendly neighborhood. At the heart of the Zone is the Mason Street Cafe, a block-long playground and lounge bordered by JavaOne hotels (the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Hotel Nikko, and Parc 55 Wyndham).  JavaOne brings experts and enthusiasts together for an extraordinary week of learning and networking focused entirely on all things Java and moving the #1 development platform forward.  With more than 400 sessions covering topics that span the breadth of the Java universe, keynotes from foremost Java visionaries, and engaging activities geared toward developers, JavaOne is the world's most important event for the Java community. For more information, please visit:

www.oracle.com/javaone

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The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle Corporation.   

PTCL to provide country-wide connectivity to NSO

Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will facilitate National Savings Organization (NSO) in transforming into an automated and dynamic corporation by providing country-wide connectivity services.

NSO is a key player in domestic debt management arena which manifested by its portfolio over Rs. 1.85 trillion with an extensive outreach to over 6 million valued investors who park their life-long savings in the schemes offered by NSO through its more than 350 countrywide branches.

According to the details, NSO has initially awarded the project to PTCL to establish private, secure, and efficient wide area connectivity (Intranet) of 132 branches across the Pakistan. PTCL will establish connectivity over its highly secure and efficient Internet Protocol (IP) /Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Infrastructure to facilitate NSO in adopting new technologies and working approach. A fail-over solution is devised for NSO where each branch shall be provided with both primary and backup links.

By availing PTCL’s state-of -the-art technologies NSO will be able to provide better services to its investors by extending the outreach to more countrymen in land and abroad, introducing new investment products and advanced working facilities. Furthermore, ensuring business continuity would result in building up stronger relationships with customers. 

It goes without saying that rapid development in the financial sector in the country has, besides setting high standards of excellence, made it incumbent upon business leaders to bring about immediate reforms in their organizations’ functioning to meet the challenges posed by the competitive environment. PTCL has also allocated its technological resources and expertise to NSO to streamline its processes that would, in turn, increase productivity of each employee. It will also make wide-ranging improvements and benefits in areas such as customer experience & retention, cost reduction, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance.

Furqan Qureshi, PTCL’s SEVP, Corporate Services, while elaborating the use and benefits of modern telecom technologies mentioned that PTCL was determined to assist public and private sectors in promoting good governance by providing latest technologies, a wide range of product portfolio, and customized services that were critical for the public, corporate and social sector organizations in Pakistan to meet future challenges and serve their customers in the best way possible.

Oracle Unveils Oracle Fusion CRM in the Cloud

Enterprise-grade Cloud CRM Helps Companies Sell Smarter

ORACLE OPENWORLD, San Francisco, CA – Oct. 5, 2011

Oracle has recently launched the world’s most advanced CRM in the cloud, unveiling the public cloud offering of Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Part of the recently announced Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle’s enterprise-grade CRM cloud applications offer the advantages customers expect from SaaS (software as a service), without the limitations of older SaaS CRM solutions. They deliver all the power of Oracle’s most advanced applications in a simple subscription pricing model – with no hardware to buy or software to support.

“We believe Oracle Fusion CRM is the smartest Customer Relationship Management solution available in the cloud or anywhere else,” said Anthony Lye, Group Vice President of Oracle CRM.

“Oracle Fusion CRM is also a part of the most complete set of enterprise-grade public cloud services available today. That provides a clear path to the cloud for companies that require enterprise-strength power, security, and vendor accountability,” he added.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service helps sales professionals outsmart their competition by planning, prospecting, collaborating and closing smarter. The system’s embedded business intelligence delivers unprecedented insight into sales planning and sales performance management, so that sales representatives and sales leaders can sell smarter. 

Oracle’s Cloud Services are built on Oracle technology and support customers’ choice of deployment models by offering portability between the public cloud, private cloud and on-premise deployments.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service delivers best-in-class CRM capabilities that drive smarter selling.

Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service enables organizations to:

o       Integrate sales territory management with quota management to help sales organizations optimize resource allocation.

o       Combine customer and product master data information with all CRM processes – a first for cloud based CRM solutions.

o       Deliver a consolidated customer center for all CRM business processes that is supported by a common 360 degree view of customer information.

o       Help sales people focus efforts on solutions that the customer needs with white space analysis of targeted customer products.

o       Improve lead generation processes by managing customer dialogs with multi-stage campaigns and standardized lead qualification processes.

Organizations can start with one module and grow to a full suite over time.

        

Supporting Resources

·        Oracle Public Cloud

·        Oracle Applications Strategy

·        Oracle Fusion Applications

·        Oracle Fusion Applications Design Principles

·        Oracle Images and Screenshots on Flickr

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About the Oracle Public Cloud

The Oracle Public Cloud is an enterprise-grade cloud that offers the advantages customers expect from SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service), without the limitations of niche solutions. The Oracle Public Cloud has all the power of Oracle’s most advanced technology and applications in a simple subscription pricing model – with no hardware to buy or software to support.

About Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications are 100% open standards-based business applications that provide a new standard for the way we innovate, work and adopt technology. Delivered as a complete suite of modular applications, Oracle Fusion Applications work together with existing applications portfolio to evolve business to a new level of performance.

About Oracle Applications

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: www.oracle.com/applications.

About Oracle

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.

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Oracle Optimizes Integration Between Oracle Applications and Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Integration Delivers Extreme Performance, Simplicity and New Capabilities Across Oracle Applications

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 3, 2011

News Facts

·         Further demonstrating its commitment to delivering integrated business software and hardware engineered systems, Oracle today announced that Oracle Applications are fully optimized for Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

·         The enhanced integration delivers tangible business benefits for customers by enabling Oracle Applications to take advantage of the extreme performance, reliability and scalability delivered by Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

·         With the integration, the performance of the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle’s ATG Commerce Suite and Oracle Supply Chain Management applications is enhanced.

·         The combination of Oracle Applications with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud gives customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including superior system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, extreme performance, and low total cost of ownership.

Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together

The integration of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud with Oracle Applications delivers performance benefits across Oracle's complete application solutions. These include:

·         Oracle E-Business Suite: With the integration, HR and procurement transactions are now eight times faster, Order to Cash transactions are now three times faster, and Accounting transactions are seven times faster.

·         Oracle’s PeopleSoft: The integration improves the speed and scalability of PeopleSoft financials and HCM applications. PeopleSoft financial applications benefit from five times faster journal posts and 40 percent faster payroll runs, while PeopleSoft HCM applications benefit from ten times the scalability and three times the response time for HR Self Service capabilities. 

·         Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne: The integration enables a 33 percent improvement in batch completion rates and the fastest response times ever tested across the comprehensive enterprise resource planning suite.

·         Oracle's ATG Commerce Suite: The integration enhances the industry's top-ranked cross-channel commerce solution by enabling three times improvement in response time for online shopping.

·         Oracle Supply Chain Management applications: The integration delivers a significant reduction in supply chain planning time and decreases POS demand analysis from six hours to 45 minutes.  

Extreme Performance Drives Better Business Performance

Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud support new capabilities across Oracle Applications. These include:

·         PeopleSoft applications built on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud deliver real-time visibility into the financial impact of “what-if” scenarios that helps customers optimize decision making with continuous management of the bottom line and real time reporting to the finance and executive offices. New capabilities include:

o        Financial Position Analyzer provides the ability to model multiple scenarios of material activity impact on the financial position with real time reporting views.

o        Allocations Analyzer provides the collaborative ability to quickly model changes to complex and multi-step cost and revenue allocations to assess results to the financial position. Once scenarios are approved, changes can then be fully realized into the financial flows.

o        Average Balance Analyzer allows Financial Services organizations to model the effects of material activity on the balance sheet with focus on average balance positions needed for internal profitability analysis and external regulatory reporting.

o        Close Analyzer enables finance to speedily run through multiple close scenarios to assess bottom line results.  This would include allocations, multi-currency revaluation, consolidations with virtual close.

·         Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne supports the move from batch to real-time transactions by providing progressive order processing. New capabilities include:

o        Real Time Up-sell and Cross-sell provides capabilities that dynamically analyze the customer’s recent purchasing behavior for items not on the current order, promotions or discounts in effect for those products and related products other customers purchased when buying the same products as on the order.

o        Profitability Analyzer provides capabilities that analyze the profitability of an order and the order’s individual lines.  Graphically displays profit/margin vs. target during order entry. One chart which displays the profit margin for each item on the sales order and the overall profitability for the total sales order.

o        Dynamic Fulfillment Scheduling enables the ability to continuously rank sales orders to help ensure fulfillment of the highest priority orders to core orders in real time, evaluate service level rules for orders and run auto-fulfillment processing for inventory commitments.

·         Oracle’s Siebel CRM:

o        Order Management: Enhancements help Communication Service Provider improve operational efficiency by enabling real-time changes to large-scale existing assets. Customers also benefit from reduced time-to-market through faster batch processing and improved order accuracy.

o        Loyalty Management: An integrated loyalty and commerce experience is designed to maximize conversion rates, delivers actionable customer insights and supports a superior cross-channel customer experience.  

o        Master Data Management: Advanced data cleansing capabilities can dramatically reduce the time required for data consolidation projects in high-volume data environments, deliver sub-second response times and enable real-time de-duplication, onboarding and account creation.      

Supporting Quote

·         “Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud deliver tangible business benefits across all Oracle Application suites,” said Steve Miranda, SVP of Application Development, Oracle. “By optimizing the integration with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle is not only enabling extreme performance, reliability and availability across its complete application solutions, but also delivering new capabilities that directly support line of business managers.”

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle Applications

·         Oracle Exadata Database Machine

·         Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

·         Oracle E-Business Suite

·         Oracle’s PeopleSoft

·         Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

·         Oracle’s Siebel CRM

·         Oracle’s ATG Commerce Suite

·         Oracle Supply Chain Management

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About Oracle

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.

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Oracle Raises the Curtain on Oracle OpenWorld 2011

Conference Showcases the Latest Advancements in Oracle Technology and Offerings Engineered for Innovation

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 3, 2011

·         ‘Oracle OpenWorld 2011 San Francisco’, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, kicked off in San Francisco today.

·         The industry’s largest event for Oracle developers, customers and partners draws over 45,000 attendees from more than 117 countries.

·         The event features five days of education and insight into Oracle's strategy and roadmap on the software, hardware and engineered systems built to optimize business from end-to-end.

·         The conference will have more than 2,000 educational sessions, nearly 400 Oracle product demonstrations and over 475 partner exhibits showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. 

·         “Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers five days of wall-to-wall sessions and demos geared toward helping companies maximize their current Oracle investment and stay ahead of the competition,” said Tania Weidick, vice president, marketing, Oracle.  “At the year’s premier event for business executives and developers, attendees will have the opportunity to learn the latest techniques for optimizing enterprise infrastructure, get insight from strategists and developers, and hear about emerging technology trends and breakthroughs from industry leaders.”

·         Industry leaders from Oracle, Cisco, Dell, EMC, and Infosys will deliver keynote addresses on how new technology paradigms will transform IT and create opportunities for innovation

·         In addition, the JavaOne 2011 conference, running concurrently is dedicated to unparalleled Java education, practical hands-on sessions and engaging activities geared toward the developer community.

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle OpenWorld 2011

·         Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Keynote Agenda

·         Oracle OpenWorld blog

·         Oracle PartnerNetworkForum at Oracle OpenWorld

·         Oracle OpenWorld on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, the information technology event dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs, draws more than 45,000 attendees from 117 countries.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 offers more than 2000 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 475 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation.  Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco.  For more information or to register please visit www.oracle.com/openworld.  Watch Oracle OpenWorld live on YouTube for keynotes, sessions and more at www.youtube.com/oracle.

About Oracle

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.

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Qubee conducts Pakistan’s largest viral video competition ever

Qubee, the newest WiMAX entrant in the Pakistanibroadbandpromote, recently conducted ‘Spurt-em-up’, a viral video struggle that received nationwide participation. The activity involved 9 major educational institutes ofPakistan, including, IBA, Bahria, FAST-NU, IQRA, PAF-KEIT, KSA and NAPA among several others. During a span of 45 days, over 5,000 of Pakistan’s youth participated from 9 different cities includingKarachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, Gujranwala,Hyderabad,Baden,Faisalabad and Jhelum.

Over 360 videos were submitted, of which 52 certified for prizes. The grand prize of the struggle, PKR 100,000, was won by Taha Kirmani from Bahria University (Karachi), whereas the runner-up prizes of the newly launched Apple iPads were won by Mr. Hasan (Institute of Business Management, Karachi) and Saad Mahmood (SSUET- Karachi).

Oracle Announces New Oracle Exastack Program for ISV Partners

Oracle Exastack Program Enables ISV Partners to Leverage a Scalable, Integrated Infrastructure to Deliver their Applications Tuned and Optimized for High-Performance
Redwood Shores, CA – June 28, 2011

News Facts

Enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle Partner Network (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications to end customers, Oracle today introduced Oracle Exastack Ready, available now, and Oracle Exastack Optimized, available in fall 2011 through OPN.

The Oracle Exastack Program focuses on helping ISVs run their solutions on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud - integrated systems in which the software and hardware are engineered to work together. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. Leveraging the new Oracle Exastack Program in which applications can qualify as Oracle Exastack Ready or Oracle Exastack Optimized, partners can use available OPN resources to optimize their applications to run faster and more reliably – providing increased performance to their end users.

By deploying their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ISVs can reduce the cost, time and support complexities typically associated with building and maintaining a disparate application infrastructure - enabling them to focus more on their core competencies, accelerating innovation and delivering superior value to customers.

After qualifying their applications as Oracle Exastack Ready, partners can note to customers that their applications run on and support Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud component products including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server. Customers can be confident when choosing a partner’s Oracle Exastack Optimized application, knowing it has been tuned by the OPN member on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud with a goal of delivering optimum speed, scalability and reliability.

Partners participating in the Oracle Exastack Program can also leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready and Oracle Exastack Optimized applications to advance to Platinum or Diamond level in OPN.

Oracle Exastack Programs Provide ISVs a Reliable, High-Performance Application Infrastructure

With the Oracle Exastack Program ISVs have several options to qualify and tune their applications with Oracle Exastack, including:

Oracle Exastack Ready: Oracle Exastack Ready provides qualifying partners with specific branding and promotional benefits based on their adoption of Oracle products. If a partner application supports the latest major release of one of these products, the partner may use the corresponding logo with their product marketing materials: Oracle Solaris Ready, Oracle Linux Ready, Oracle Database Ready, and Oracle WebLogic Ready. Oracle Exastack Ready is available to OPN members at the Gold level or above. Additionally, OPN members participating in the program can leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready applications toward advancement to the Platinum or Diamond levels in the OPN Specialized program and toward achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status.

Oracle Exastack Optimized: When available, for OPN members at the Gold level or above, Oracle Exastack Optimized will provide direct access to Oracle technical resources and dedicated Oracle Exastack lab environments so OPN members can test and tune their applications to deliver optimal performance and scalability on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle Exastack Optimized will provide OPN members with specific branding and promotional benefits including the use of the Oracle Exastack Optimized logo. OPN members participating in the program will also be able to leverage their Oracle Exastack Optimized applications toward advancement to Platinum or Diamond level in the OPN Specialized program.

Oracle Exastack Labs and ISV Enablement: Dedicated Oracle Exastack lab environments and related technical enablement resources (including Guided Learning Paths and Boot Camps) will be available through OPN for OPN members to further their knowledge of Oracle Exastack offerings, and qualify their applications for Oracle Exastack Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready. Oracle Exastack labs will be available to qualifying OPN members at the Gold level or above.

Partners are eligible to participate in the Oracle Exastack Ready program immediately, which will help them meet the requirements to attain Oracle Exastack Optimized status in the future. Guidelines for Oracle Exastack Optimized, as well as Oracle Exastack Labs will be available in fall 2011.

Supporting Quotes

“In order to effectively differentiate their software applications in the marketplace, ISVs need to rapidly deliver new capabilities and performance improvements,” said Judson Althoff, Oracle senior vice president of Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales. “With Oracle Exastack, ISVs have the ability to optimize and deploy their applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to customers.”

“We view performance as absolutely critical and a key differentiator,” said Tom Stock, SVP of Product Management, GoldenSource. “As a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions for securities and investment management firms, with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, we see an opportunity to notably improve data processing performance - providing high ‘quality golden copy’ data in a reduced timeframe. Achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status will be a stamp of approval that our solution will provide the performance and scalability that our customers demand.”

“As a leading provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecommunications, media and entertainment service providers, our customers continually demand more readily accessible, enriched and pre-analyzed information to minimize their financial risks and maximize their margins,” said Alon Aginsky, President and CEO of cVidya Networks. “Oracle Exastack enables our solutions to deliver the power, infrastructure, and innovation required to transform our customers’ business operations and stay ahead of the game.”

Supporting Resources
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)
Oracle Exastack
Oracle Exastack Datasheet
Judson Althoff blog
Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn, OPN on YouTube, or OPN on Twitter

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

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 http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Oracle

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 athttp://www.oracle.com.

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Oracle Health Sciences Delivers Oracle® Argus Safety from the Cloud

Oracle Health Sciences today announced the availability of Oracle® Argus Safety On Demand, a cloud-based version of Oracle’s industry-leading integrated global adverse events management and regulatory reporting solution.

Oracle Argus Safety On Demand provides an advanced and comprehensive adverse events management system that helps life sciences companies enable regulatory compliance, drive product stewardship, and integrate safety and risk management.

“Oracle Argus Safety On Demand enables health sciences organizations to accelerate deployment and time to value for the industry’s leading adverse event reporting and management software,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “Oracle Argus Safety, as delivered via the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud, provides new levels of agility in deploying, managing and scaling the comprehensive solution – all backed by Oracle’s unmatched technical and industry expertise.”

As a cloud application, Oracle Argus Safety On Demand enables health sciences organizations and their contract resource organization (CRO) partners to accelerate deployment, obtain on-demand scalability, reduce IT management resource requirements and gain a more predictable IT spending pattern.

Oracle Argus Safety On Demand is part of a comprehensive portfolio of Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications and is powered by the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud.

Supporting Resources

• Oracle in Health Sciences
• Follow Oracle Health Sciences on Twitter
• Join the Oracle Health Sciences Community on Facebook
• White Paper:  Oracle Health Sciences Cloud

About Oracle

Oracle 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.

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CHAIRMAN PTA FOR LOCAL LANGUAGE CONTENT ON INTERNET

.PK Registry PKNIC in collaboration with online Urdu literature website U4U.COM organized a conference on “Local Language Content Stimulus” at Lahore. Chairman Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Dr. Mohammed Yaseen was the chief guest of the event. Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) was co-sponsor of this event.

Speaking at the occasion, Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen said that Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading markets in telecommunications especially in the voice segment. However, the key towards further development of the sector remains with the availability of local content and applications. Organizing such events is surely an important step for identifying the requirement of the subject issue. He said that our market players may not neglect an important point that the future technological platforms will only be needed if we have future content / services available to the people. There is a huge potential for local content and applications for education, health, governance and banking.

Chairman PTA also emphasized on need for development of local language social networking platforms, search engines and entertainment platforms on the basis of popular internet usage trends in Pakistan. He said that users are surfing and seeking information on internet. There stands no reason for not encouraging local language content. We have some very good examples of China, Japan and Korea with respect to availability of local language content and applications on internet.

Mr. Ashar Nisar, Chairman of PKNIC said that the purpose of this event is to bridge the gap between the producers, facilitators and other stakeholders for local language content ecosystem. “This is a continuing effort of likeminded companies in the local industry to recognize the importance and growth potential of local language content on computer and mobiles”. He further added.

Chairman PTA appreciated the efforts of PKNIC for organizing the event and inviting associated stakeholders to discuss this important subject towards the future of digital society in the country.

Oracle Insurance Announces Availability of Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 9.4

New Version Expands Localization Options for Global and Regional Insurers, and Includes New Features that Facilitate Compliance and Reduce Risk.

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Oracle Insurance today announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity 9.4, the newest version of its rules-based policy administration system for life, health and annuity insurers. This release includes expanded multi-language, unit-linked product and fund processing capabilities that enable regional and global insurers to rapidly configure and deliver localized products and provide better service for end users with a single, adaptive policy administration solution.

To further support insurers in the growing Japanese market, Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity 9.4 includes Kanji/Kana language support and pre-defined content, as well as imperial date processing..For the broader global market, Version 9.4 includes new localization flexibility for configuring and managing international mailing addresses as well as regional variations for client information.The solution now enables insurers to calculate unit-linked pricing and valuation, in addition to market-based processing and pre-configured unit linked content – enabling insurers operating in international markets to rapidly configure unit-linked products and ensure accurate fund pricing and valuations for their customers. Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity 9.4 includes new features that facilitate compliance and reduce insurer risk, such as expanded role-based security and masking capability to further protect sensitive customer data.The solution can be configured to restrict processing of specified activities based on time of day and user role, reducing exposure to market timing risks.This newest version enables insurers to eliminate duplicate records of clients, helping to reduce underwriting risks and providing a single view of the client for improved service.

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“Despite the turmoil in financial services generally, and among life, health and annuity insurers in particular, there is still keen interest in renewing and/or replacing policy administration systems,” said Craig Weber, senior vice president, Insurance, Celent. “The ability to leverage a single, rules-driven policy administration system for multiple global operation centers can help insurers realize significant improvements in speed to market, customer service, compliance with regional regulations, and consolidation efforts. We believe such initiatives are necessary to help the industry address service and distribution imperatives.”

“Today’s global insurers require the ability to provide higher levels of service and quickly bring to market innovative products that stand out from the competition, and also stay current with local legislation. To succeed, they require agile and flexible systems that enable them to meet the unique localization requirements of the markets in which they operate, whether in North America, Asia Pacific or the Pan-European Region. Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity 9.4 meets this need with expanded international market capabilities that enable insurers to reduce risk and profitably compete wherever their business takes them,” said Kevin Walma, vice president, Insurance Products, Oracle Insurance.

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