Category: Oracle

Oracle donates software

Oracle today announced their involvement in the Muslim Youth Helpline organization, a charity providing support service to Muslim youths living in the United Kingdom. Muslim Youth Helpline upgraded to Oracle software from … paper, believe it or not. Oracle donated the database software as part of a training project for a team of three graduate […]

Oracle’s Singapore strategy

Down Singapore way, Oracle unveiled its go-to-market strategy and a full menu of flexible customer relationship management deployment options for small- and medium-sized businesses. “Oracle continues to extend its CRM market leadership and widen the functionality gap over its smaller competitors,” said Oracle Corp. Asia Pacific Division vice president Will Bosma in making the announcement, […]

Oracle in the city

After a short break (about twenty-four hours exactly, by this writer’s calculation), the Oracle PR stream is flowing again. Today, Oracle representatives took the time to detail the activities of several local governments currently running recently implemented Oracle applications, including Oracle e-business suite customer relationship management, PeopleSoft enterprise CRM and Siebel CRM applications, to support […]

Songini says some dissatisfied with Oracle

Despite a steady stream of love, propaganda and product releases for Oracle that came out of the firm’s OpenWorld 2006 conference in San Francisco this week, some Siebel clients still have axes to grind. In what appears to be his debut piece for Computer World, Marc Songini tells of attendees of Oracle OpenWorld 2006 that […]

Kudos to Oracle

Would you believe somebody in the industry media is giving Oracle kudos. Really. It says it right there in the first line: “…kudos to Oracle.” The piece comes out of CRMBuyer, whose Denis Pombriant attended the Oracle Open World user conference in San Francisco this week. (It’s all over now, guys, sorry…) A Pombriant story […]

Oracle’s got a brand new bag?

Amid the tons of hullabaloo generated by the big Oracle show in San Francisco this week, please allow The Chump to allow some semblance of “objectivity.” Take a look at ZDNet for an interesting article by Martin LaMonica and Dawn Kawamoto regarding Oracle’s newer strategy moves entitled “Oracle’s new plan: Make friends, don’t buy them.” […]

Quality in Business Objects

Representatives of Business Objects (love that name!) today announced the general availability of BusinessObjects Data Quality XI for Siebel Customer Relationship Management applications. The new solution is powered by Business Objects Data Quality XI Release 2 and seeks to provide a single, tightly integrated data quality platform that scales across operating and application environments. Data […]

All Oracle, all the time

Oh, it’s all going to be about the Oracle this week… The firm kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2006 party … i mean, show … i mean, well, the Oracle OpenWorld 2006. The exhibition of partners and clients opened on Sunday, proving that though The Almighty himself rested on the seventh day, Oracle does not. […]

Two new Oracle thingees

Oracle closed out the business week with a headline grabber, announcing the general availability of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise On Demand and Oracle On Demand for Siebel CRM. In addition to giving customers choice and flexibility, these new services further expand the Oracle On Demand portfolio of industry-leading Software as a Service and managed applications offerings. […]

Oracle the POWER in Polk County

Oracle and AST Corporation, a Certified Advantage partner in the Oracle partner network, broke the metaphorical champagne bottle on a successful enterprise resource planning launch at Polk County, Florida. The launch of the ERP system running on Oracle applications, has been called “a major milestone for the county … to respond quickly to the needs […]