Category: Oracle

i-flex teams with some bigger cousins

Well, i-flex isn’t the biggest of companies, but it certainly knows how to choose its allies… Oracle and i-flex representatives said today the companies will collaborate to provide joint banking customers with infrastructure, services, and support for enterprise applications, core banking, and risk management. The banking collaboration will combine the business and IT architectural leadership […]

On Oracle’s week

Oracle closed out the week on a bit of a tear in terms of PR and product release. Posted right around closing time on Friday came some rather emphatic statements from Oracle representatives. Talking more smack about the competition than Charles Barkley ever did, Oracle president Charles Phillips was quoted as saying, “Our most recent […]

Quite a Catalyst

Now this is a huge project and a major catalyst: Eight leading telecommunications companies have announced the launch of the collaborative “Product and Service Assembly TeleManagement Forum Catalyst” project. The Catalyst Eight include Atos Origin, Axiom Systems, BT, Cable and Wireless, Celona, Huawei, Oracle and TeliaSonera. The project goal as stated “aims to create a […]

Oracle in Oz

In a move made possible by the massive Siebel Systems acquisition, Oracle Corp. has announced the creation of a customer relationship management business unit in Australia, a unit that will support Oracle’s newly acquired customer base of Optus, Telstra, Westpac and others. Mark Innes, former Australia/New Zealand managing director of WebMethods, was named leader of […]

Everything — including Oracle — is bigger in China

From anyone else it might be called bragging, but this is Oracle. Oracle will buy 21 firms to act as subsidiaries in the country, declared Wang Chunwen, general manager of Oracle’s Enterprise Management Software Service in China. Oracle currently has five subsidiaries in China. Wang stated that China has become the fastest growing market for […]

Oracle’s new Sleepycat awakens

Oracle is putting another of its acquisitions to work, as company officials announced today the release of its first version of the core Berkeley DB embedded database since acquiring the software through its February purchase of open-source developer Sleepycat Software. First developed in 1991, Berkeley DB is the core version of the Sleepycat embedded database, […]

Oracle, on a Humanscale

Oracle’s first business announcement of the week came early, with representatives today announcing that Humanscale, a leading manufacturer of ergonomic office products, has chosen the Oracle e-business suite. (And they wanted to point out the Humanscale chose them over SAP, too.) Humanscale will deploy Oracle Applications to assist in improving customer service and the ever-popular […]

No one in here ‘cept for us chickens

Coimbatore-based Suguna Poultry Farm has announced completing the implementation of Oracle e-business suite. Suguna representatives were therefore able to lay claim to the distinction of becoming the first Indian poultry farming company to “use a world-class enterprise applications suite from a global software vendor for ERP and management of other key business processes.” Talking turkey […]

Oracle releases Capture

Oracle releases Capture And another product from the big boys this week. Oracle today introduced Oracle Remote Data Capture Onsite, a next-generation electronic data capture system designed to simplify the collection of clinical data and the deployment of EDC studies at clinical trial investigative sites. Oracle Remote Data Capture Onsite is an interface that can […]

Oracle, probably

Only a company of this standing can command such a headline: “Oracle’s Profit Probably Rose as Acquisitions Boosted Sales.” You have to love that “probably.” Analysts expect Oracle Corporation to report a first-quarter fiscal year profit, thanks to some US $20 billion in acquisitions. The estimates have Oracle’s numbers rising 19 percent to a total […]