http:// 2013-04-29T23:48:00Z 2013-04-29T23:48:00Z boral-limited-consolidates-it-infrastructure-with-oracle-s-engineered-systems-to-get-better-business-performance-from-less

News Facts • Boral Limited deployed Oracle Engineered Systems to help reduce data centre complexity and ensure a high performing IT environment to support its mission critical Oracle applications. As a result, the company has been able to consolidate onto a single platform that will help deliver an enhanced customer experience. • Boral is an international building and construction materials group, headquartered in Sydney, with more than 13,000 employees working across over 600 operating sites. The company has four main operating divisions: Boral Construction Materials & Cement, Boral Building Products, Boral USA and Boral Gypsum. • Driven by the requirement to upgrade its ERP system based on Oracle E-Business Suite R12, accompanied by the need to replace its IBM pSeries servers which were end-of-life, Boral selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to consolidate the multiple environments. • As a result of the upgrade, the company has been able to remediate a large number of legacy items and significantly reduce the number of aged transactions in its systems. The total system runtime was reduced by 36 per cent, run time for jobs over 15 minutes were reduced by 41 percent and the database size reduced by 50 per cent through the use of Oracle Advanced Compression. • In business terms, the company has been able to improve data management, make significant advances in standardising business processes, and provide staff with faster access to customer and product information. • The system went live in December 2011, and was immediately required to support Boral’s half yearly reporting process. This was successful, despite the requirement for Boral to integrate additional IT systems due to the company’s recent acquisition of Queensland-based Wagners Group. • The new platform also provides Boral with a high performance environment for non-production and disaster recovery. In addition, the company has reduced the risk of compatibility issues between production and non production environments as the two environments are identical. • Following its success with Oracle Exadata, in February 2013 Boral purchased Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud in order to further consolidate its Oracle application, middleware and business intelligence technologies on to a pre-engineered and optimised platform as part of a move to a new data centre. • Boral used Oracle Managed Cloud Services to deploy the new systems and the upgrade of Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle also provides ongoing maintenance through Oracle Platinum Support for Exadata and enables Boral to reduce the total cost of ownership of the new systems based on capital investment, maintenance costs and licensing fees. • The company also aims to utilise Oracle Engineered Systems as a building block for its Big Data strategy as it is progressing toward a new data management approach. Supporting Quotes • “We were attracted to Oracle Engineered Systems because of the way in which they combine servers, storage and software all pre-engineered to work together, and the resulting performance, scalability and flexibility they offer. This meant we had much lower capital set-up costs against comparable traditional infrastructure, with up to 20 per cent saving on software licenses. Our use of Oracle Cloud Management Services also means we have a single platform managed by a single company. This has helped us regain control over our IT maintenance cycles, in particular around patching,” said Robert Lutz, IT Project Office Manager, Boral. • “Boral’s success demonstrates the power of Oracle Engineered Systems for companies wanting to get more out of their IT infrastructure. With their ability to get business applications up and running rapidly, and substantially improve their performance, Oracle Engineered Systems provide a great building block, for companies like Boral, seeking to modernise their IT infrastructure and consolidate multiple systems,” said Robert Gosling, Vice President, Technology Sales, Oracle ANZ. Supporting Resources • Oracle Exadata Database Machine • Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud • Oracle Cloud • Learn more about Oracle Exadata Customers • Learn more about Oracle Exalogic Customers • Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter • Connect with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud on Twitter and Facebook • Connect with the Oracle Cloud online communities: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Oracle Cloud Blog About Boral Limited Boral is an international building and construction materials group, headquartered in Sydney, with more than 13,000 employees working across over 600 operating sites. The company has four main operating divisions: Boral Construction Materials & Cement, Boral Building Products, Boral USA and Boral Gypsum. For more information please visit: www.boral.com.au About Oracle Exadata The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time. About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), www.oracle.com. Trademark Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2013-04-29T23:44:00Z australian-companies-deploy-oracle-fusion-middleware-for-business-transformation-and-innovation

News Facts• Australian organisations including Tabcorp, Griffith University, Jurlique and Pickles Auctions have chosen to deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware to transform and differentiate their business operations, simplify IT, reduce costs and drive business innovation. • By leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware customers can more quickly and easily develop, extend and integrate business applications to run on-premise or in the cloud, automate business processes, scale applications to meet customer demand, simplify security and compliance, manage lifecycles of documents and get actionable, targeted business intelligence; all while continuing to utilise their existing IT systems. • For example, organisations including Engineers Australia, Griffiths University, and Jurlique are utilising Oracle Fusion Middleware in a layered approach with Oracle Applications. By doing so, the solutions have enabled them to implement new capabilities and extend the business value of existing investments on enterprise applications includingSaaS based applications. • Oracle WebCenter is being used by companies including Tabcorp to improve their customer experience by taking advantage of the complete user engagement platform that it offers for social business, connecting people and delivering anytime, anywhere access to information and applications through portals and composite applications. • In addition, organisations including Entity Solutions and Pickles Auctions amongst others are gaining the benefits of Oracle WebLogic server, a high performance and scalable cloud application platform that offers users the potential to dramatically simplify application deployment and management, and accelerates time to market. In this space, Oracle is again the #1 vendor in the Application Server space for 2012 with a market share of 60.6%in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), according to the March 2013 Gartner “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2012” report.(*) Supporting Quotes • “Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a complete, open, and integrated approach across key transformational technologies such as social, mobile, and cloud. It offers the efficiency of working with a single, strategic partner for all middleware requirements, as well as the cost effectiveness of certified integrations with Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Engineered Systems,” said David Oakley, Vice President Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ANZ. • “Oracle offered a more comprehensive, cost-effective, and long-term solution than other middleware vendors. By implementing Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g, we have redefined business processes, ensured seamless integration for our eChartered system, and cut the time to complete engineers’ enrolments by up to 90 per cent,” said Richard Holmes, MIS Renewal Program Manager, Engineers Australia. • “We had a number of goals at the start of the project - to improve the customer experience for both our contracting professionals, and the public and private sector organisations who utilise their services, to streamline the interactions and to scale to cope with burst periods. Oracle’s integrated middleware suite has helped us build a professional portal with a modern look and feel, incorporating content from many different sources presented through mash ups that we can be proud of,” said Jonathan Knowles, CIO, Entity Solutions. • “Our new student enrolment system and website breaks new ground in usability, efficiency, design and simplicity, ensuring that Griffith students have a unique and fulfilling experience every time they interact with the university to manage their study program. Built on top of Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and leveraging Oracle’s middleware products we have the enterprise scalability and reliability we need to support the peak loads we experience during student enrolment,” said Steve Bishop, Associate Director, Enterprise Information Systems, Information & Communication Technology Services, Nathan Campus, Griffith University. • “Last year we extended our SOA footprint and built out a complete interface to handle our second round of exposure on The Today Show in the US. We used Oracle SOA Suite to help us to load sales orders and shipments automatically from our Amazon-based cloud platform to JD Edwards, using a real time dashboard to provide visibility and control of the end-to-end process. We achieved our goal and processed orders for 20,000 units in just over 24 hours with our SOA interfaces performing without any problems”, said Wojciech Peretko, CTO, Jurlique. • “We needed rock-solid middleware products that would help manage and support 200 million website hits, 350,000 unique visitors, and around 1.4TB of auction-related data every month. The resulting robust performance and high availability of our new site, means our customers can confidently register for auctions and access online data about products. By providing a reliable, up-to-date auction Website, we have improved customer satisfaction, maximised revenue, and enhanced market competitiveness,” said Harry McKenzie, Chief Information Officer, Pickles Auctions. • “Australians are changing the way they transact and connect and a multi-channel, retail, online and mobile strategy is core to our Wagering business. Our SOA-based strategy lets us build things once and re-use components, so we can deliver new products and services more rapidly. With our Oracle solution we’ve significantly reduced application development time enabling us to deliver new customer touch points across emerging technologies as customer preferences change,” said Kim Wenn, Chief Information Officer, Tabcorp. (*) Source: Gartner, Inc. “Market Share, All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2012," March 29, 2013, By Colleen Graham, et al. Supporting resources • Oracle Middleware • Learn more about Oracle Fusion Middleware Customers • Connect with Oracle Fusion Middleware via Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2013-04-29T23:38:00Z how-customers-and-partners-are-deploying-oracle-fusion-middleware-for-business-transformation-and-innovation

​Engineers Australia, the peak professional body for engineers in Australia, implemented Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g, running on Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, to redefine business processes and ensure seamless integration for its online eChartered system with Oracle E-Business Suite. The system, which went live in early 2013, provides new online self-service capabilities significantly improving the user experience for Engineers Australia members, and replacing many cumbersome manual processes. The solution has resulted in enrolment processes being completed 90 per cent faster than before, while staff can generate assessment reports in seconds rather than 45 minutes. The organisation has also cut the time taken to develop new system modules by three to four weeks. OPN Platinum partner UXC Red Rock implemented Oracle E-Business Suite and worked on the eChartered project.Entity Solutions, one of Australia's leading professional services organisations, providing engagement services to white collar contracting professionals and to the organisations that utilise their services, recently expanded its contractor portal “EntityOnline”, with a release specifically tailored for its Corporate customers to help them easily access information about their contractors. The portal acts as a self-service kiosk for 2000+ contractors, enabling them to interact more easily online with Entity Solutions to manage their contracts and information, removing many manual processes, reducing the lead time to process contracts, and improving security. OPN Gold partner LogicalTech assisted with the project which was implemented using Oracle WebCenter, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle Application Development Framework(ADF), and Oracle Data Integrator.Griffith Universityis one of Australia’s most innovative tertiary institutions and one of the most influential universities in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2011, Griffith University has worked closely with OPN Gold partner Integral Technology Solutions to build a new student enrolments interface from the ground up. The new Programs and Courses Website and Enrolments system, which went live in February 2013, are built on top of Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. They aim to streamline the student enrolment process and improve the student experience in interacting with the University. The solution uses Oracle WebLogic Suite, as well as Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Data Integrator for real-time and batch integration with Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.Jurliquerecently expanded its use of Oracle SOA to streamline integration with its new Shop Floor Management system which replaces manual dispensing of work orders, and provides real-time integration to JD Edwards. Jurlique is also continuing to expand the use of SOA to introduce new services and streamline integration as it upgrades to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne version 9.1.2. Jurlique’s initial adoption of Oracle SOA Suite in 2010 was to automate its online ordering process to cut down transaction processing time and deliver better service to its customers, after experiencing a significant growth in online sales when its products were featured on The Today Show in the US. By using a SOA framework to integrate online ordering with the company’s core JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Order Processing module, online order time was reduced by 20 per cent and order delivery times accelerated by 50 per cent. Jurlique also built a Mobile Ordering System using Oracle Application Development Framework to integrate with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to allow staff to process sales orders on mobile devices. OPN Platinum partner UXC Red Rock, delivered the SOA integration solution for Jurlique.Pickles Auctions, Australia's largest Auction Group, improved the stability, reliability and data management of its company Website by implementing Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle WebCenter Content, running on Oracle WebLogic Suite. The recently clustered WebLogic Suite platform ensures 99 per cent availability for the Website, and easily supports up to thousands of auction-related transactions per day. In addition, Marketing staff are now in control of content management, so changes made to auction and marketing data are reflected immediately to ensure customers are well informed.Tabcorp is Australia's leading wagering, racing media and Keno operator. Online transactions account for more than 20 per cent of Tabcorp’s Wagering revenue so ensuring 100 per cent availability and integrity of customer data is critical. Tabcorp’s systems infrastructure has been designed to support peak transaction loads, processing more than 50 million transactions on Melbourne Cup Day. In 2012, the company adopted a services-oriented architecture, delivering www.tab.com.auwith Oracle Fusion Middleware, using Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Service Bus, and Oracle Coherence running on clustered Oracle WebLogic Server, to support the 1000-plus transactions per second required on Cup Day as well as address day-to-day service. About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2013-02-06T05:24:00Z oracle-announces-general-availability-of-mysql-5-6

News Facts Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6, the world’s most popular open-source database.With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps users meet the most demanding Web, Cloud and embedded application requirements.MySQL 5.6 improves developer agility with subquery optimizations, online Data Definition Language (DDL) operations, NoSQL access to InnoDB, new instrumentation in Performance Schema and better condition handling.For more details, join the MySQL Technology Update webcast on Feb 14 at 10:00 a.m. US, Pacific Time.In addition, Oracle is hosting the first Virtual Develop Day for MySQL on March 12 at 9:00 a.m. US, Pacific Time. The event will include presentations and hands-on labs to educate MySQL users on essential skills and the latest features in Oracle MySQL 5.6. Register here. Continued Innovations for the MySQL Community New features and enhancements in MySQL 5.6 are available to MySQL users in the MySQL Community Edition.MySQL 5.6 provides enhanced linear scalability, helping users to leverage modern hardware capabilities.With this version, users can experience simplified query development and faster execution, better transactional throughput and application availability, flexible NoSQL access, improved replication and enhanced instrumentation.Highlights of MySQL 5.6 include: o Better Query Execution Times and Diagnostics provided through an enhanced MySQL Optimizerdiagnostics: Subquery Optimizations: simplify query development by optimizing subqueries prior to execution. New efficiencies in how result sets are selected, sorted and returned deliver substantial improvement in query execution times.The Addition of Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) and Batch Key Access (BKA): canimprove selected query throughput by up to 280x(1).Enhanced Optimizer Diagnostics: with EXPLAIN for INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations. EXPLAIN plan output in JSON format delivers more precise optimizer metrics and better readability, and Optimizer Traces enables to track the optimizer decision-making process. o Greater Performance Throughput and Application Availability with an improved InnoDB storage engine: Up to 230 Percent Improvement in Transactional and Read Only Throughput: InnoDB has been re-factored to minimize legacy threading, flushing, and purge mutex contentions and bottlenecks, enabling better concurrency on heavily loaded OLTP systems, and resulting in significantly improved throughput for both transactional and read only workloads(2).Enhanced Availability: online DDL operations enable DBAs to add indexes and perform table alterations while the application remains available for updates.Full-Text Search with InnoDB: allows developers to build FULLTEXT indexes on InnoDB tables to represent text-based content and speed up application searches for words and phrases.Simple, Key Value Lookup: flexible NoSQL access to InnoDBprovides simple, key-value lookup of InnoDB data via the familiar Memcached API. Users get the “best of both worlds,” combining key-value operations and complex SQL queries in the same database. o Improved Scale-Out and High Availability: with new features in MySQL replication including: Self-Healing Replication Clusters: the addition of Global Transaction Identifiers and Utilities make it simple to automatically detect and recover from failures. Crash-Safe Replication enables the binary log and slaves to automatically recover correct positions in the replication stream in case of a crash, and resume replication without administrator intervention. Checksums maintain data integrity across the cluster by automatically detecting and alerting on errors.High Performance Replication Clusters: up to5 times faster replication through Multi-Threaded Slaves(3), Binlog Group Commit and Optimized Row-Based Replication enable users to maximize the performance and efficiency of replication as they scale-out their workloads across commodity systems.Time-delayed Replication: provides protection against operational errors made on the master, for example accidentally dropping tables. o Enhanced PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA: new instrumentation enables users to better monitor most resource intensive queries, objects, users and applications. New summaries with aggregated statistics grouped by query, thread, user, host and object are also available. The enhancements allow for easier default configuration with less than five percent overhead. MySQL 5.6 includes a number of additional enhancements including Geographic Information Systems - Precise Spatial operations, improved IPv6 compliance and optimized server defaults. Supporting Quotes “MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate received great feedback from the community and helped us to efficiently mature the technology to announce General Availability,” said Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL Engineering. “The new features and enhancements that MySQL 5.6 delivers further demonstrate Oracle’s investment in driving MySQL innovation, making MySQL a fantastic fit for today’s most demanding Web, Cloud and embedded application requirements.”"With this latest release, Oracle shows its ongoing commitment to the MySQL community," said Carl Olofson, research vice president for Database Management and Data Integration Software at IDC. "These are significant advances in MySQL technology, enabling this open source RDBMS to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of its large and growing body of users."“We have experienced tremendous demand for our MySQL cloud services over the past year,” said Brent Juelich, senior director, Managed Services, Savvis. “Considering the dramatic performance improvements and the new features available in MySQL 5.6, along with the added value of MySQL Enterprise Edition, we fully anticipate even more interest in these offerings in the future.” Supporting Resources Oracle and MySQLMySQLMySQL 5.6 is available for immediate download at: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. MySQL Blog, Twitter, FacebookMySQL Community EditionMySQL Enterprise Edition About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. TrademarksOracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This document is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract or agreement. Footnotes (1) Based on DBT-3 benchmarks, for configuration and testing information see http://oysteing.blogspot.com/2011/10/bacthed-key-access-speeds-up-disk-bound.html (2) Based on http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.6-rc.html. (3) Based on a configuration with 10 databases/schemas. For configuration and testing information, see https://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/benchmarking_mysql_replication_with_multi

2013-02-05T06:36:00Z new-oracle-global-research-study-finds-that-brands-could-lose-up-to-20-of-revenue-due-to-poor-customer-experiences-yet-many-struggle-to-develop-successful-strategies

News Facts Today Oracle announced the results of its “Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era” report. This global survey of 1,342 senior-level executives from 18 countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America yields new insights on the challenges, strategies and lessons learned for succeeding in the customer experience era. Key Findings Global Strategic Priority with Huge Financial Stakes: Ninety-seven per cent of executives agree that delivering a great customer experience is critical to business advantage and results, and respondents estimate that the average potential revenue loss for not offering a positive, consistent and brand-relevant customer experience is 20% of annual revenue. Businesses Stuck in Idle: Ninety-three per cent of executives say that improving the customer experience is one of their organisation’s top three priorities in the next two years, and 91% wish to be considered a customer experience leader in their industry. However, many organisations are stuck in an execution chasm; 37% are just getting started with a formal customer experience initiative, and only 20% consider the state of their customer experience initiative to be advanced. The Perception Chasm: The study revealed that business executives underestimate the impact of customer experience on behaviour. Forty-nine per cent of executives surveyed indicated that customers will switch brands due to a poor customer experience, but a full 89% of customers say that they actually have switched brands due to a bad customer experience. (1)Social Media – A Key Driver for the Future: Social media amplifies the customer voice, and businesses are scrambling to answer. Eighty-one per cent of executives believe that delivering a great customer experience today requires leveraging social media effectively. But, 35% do not have social media for sales channels, and 35% do not have social media for customer service.Technology, People and Processes Present Significant Obstacles: Executives cite limitations from inflexible technology, siloed organisations and systems, and insufficient investment as the biggest obstacles to delivering the best possible customer experience.Businesses Are Investing in Customer Experience: On average, businesses estimate that they will increase spending on customer experience technology by 18% in the next two years. Improving the cross-channel experience and customer analytics are top priorities.Lessons Learned: A good customer experience strategy requires fundamental organisational changes. Successful initiatives that have improved the customer experience span people, process and technology. Executives at organisations that consider their customer experience initiatives as “advanced” appear to have been most successful in engaging their employees by: o Building training programs and incentives for employees to offer a great experience o Updating company core values to include customer experience o Implementing a specific technology to improve customer service Access the full report – which delves extensively into the obstacles organisations face and the programs they are putting in place to deliver excellent customer experiences. Supporting Quotes “This report demonstrates that organisations around the globe and across many industries are beginning to understand the real business impact of not offering great customer experiences, but are facing execution challenges. We recommend that organisations map their customers’ journeys to identify specific improvement areas that will help them cross the execution chasm. By empowering customers and employees, breaking down organisational silos, and implementing flexible processes and technology tools, organisations can deliver personalised, seamless customer service through the entire experience lifecycle,” said David Vap, group vice president, Oracle. Supporting Resources Full Report: Global Insights in Succeeding in the Customer Experience EraMicrosite: Visit the Oracle Global Customer Experience Survey MicrositeComplete the CX Assessment Survey to determine where your organisation standsOracle Customer Experience Solutions About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data centre. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Footnotes (1) According to The 2011 U.S. Customer Experience Impact (CEI) Report by RightNow (acquired by Oracle in March 2012)

2013-01-22T03:51:00Z oracle-opens-local-data-centre-in-australia-for-cloud-customers-1

News Facts Oracle has opened a second data centre in Australia in order to meet increasing demand from customers for Cloud based services.The new Oracle Cloud data centre will augment the existing data centre by offering additional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings to customers wanting to keep data onshore.The new facility will give customers and partners subscription-based, self-service access to the following:Oracle Fusion Applications - open-standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way organisations innovate, work, and adopt technology including:Enterprise Resource PlanningHuman Capital ManagementTalent ManagementSales and MarketingCustomer Service and SupportPlatform Services - enabling customers to take advantage of rapid and effective development, testing, and deployment of enterprise-class business applications on the industry’s #1 database and #1 application server.DatabaseAll offerings will be managed and supported by Oracle staff. The data centre will be housed at Equinix.The new facilities use Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, the company's flagship engineered system for running business applications and theOracle Exadata Database In-Memory Machine, which is ideal for high-end OLTP, large data warehouses, and database clouds. As key components of Oracle’s Cloud platform, these systems provide customers and partners with a high-performance, reliable, elastic, and secure infrastructure for their critical business applications. Supporting Quotes: “Cloud computing is transforming the way Australian organisations approach IT by providing an alternative delivery that supports agility and innovation. Oracle Australia’s second data centre demonstrates Oracle’s ongoing commitment to offering cloud solutions to our customers. The centre will help customers to continue to meet Government regulatory requirements and help to ensure sovereignty of sensitive data,“ said Ian White, Regional Managing Director and Senior Vice President, Oracle Australia and New Zealand. Supporting Resources: Oracle CloudOracle CloudWorldOracle’s Engineered SystemsOracle Fusion Applications About OracleOracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.TrademarksOracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2013-01-18T05:55:00Z coles-supermarkets-revamps-data-warehouse-system-with-oracle

News Facts Coles, one of the largest Australian Supermarket chains with more than 100,000 employees and 2000 stores Australia-wide, implemented Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c running on Oracle Linux to enable critical trend reporting during retail seasonal spikes.Prior to Exadata, Coles’ data warehouse infrastructure was under pressure to deliver within SLAs especially during seasonal peaks. By moving to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Coles’ processes improved 3 to 4x out-of-the-box, with 4 to 6x faster query performance so that Coles’ can now meet SLAs and drive customer satisfaction.Utilising the intelligent software capabilities in the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Coles can now also store 20+ TB of trending historical data, enabling new, complex analytical reports to help better predict the needs and potential issues for Coles’ stores.At Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2012, Chris Thompson, Database Manager, Coles was recognised as Data Warehouse Leader of the Year for JAPAC.Thompson and his team at Coles were responsible for re-architecting this innovative Data Warehouse implementation in just 12 weeks.The award, one of several categories covered by the Oracle Excellence Awards, honors individuals who demonstrate excellent technical knowledge and innovative use of Oracle data warehouse technologies to the benefit of their business.Oracle recognises data warehouse leaders across Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America / Caribbean, and North America. Supporting Resources About Oracle Excellence AwardsOracle Exadata Database MachineOracle Database 11gOracle Enterprise Manager 12cFollow Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and TwitterFollow Oracle Enterprise Manager: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and BlogOracle Linux Home Page, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube Channel, Blog About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data centre. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2013-01-18T05:53:00Z nrma-motoring-and-services-selects-oracle-to-drive-customer-centric-business-strategy

News Facts The National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) has chosen a suite of Oracle systems to set new standards for the way the organisation connects with its membership base and to help create customer-centric business processes across company-wide operations.Renowned for its legendary roadside assistance, the NRMA Group of businesses also offers a range of services and benefits in motoring, travel and car rental to its members and customers within Australia and New Zealand.NRMA recently renewed its focus on member and customer experience. As a result, the organization concluded that the current IT system would no longer meet its requirements.NRMA has chosen Oracle’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM), including Loyalty Management solutions. Oracle CRM will help support NRMA in its goal to differentiate its businesses in the market, support future growth and become a truly member and customer-centric organisation.This will also be supported through the use of Oracle Real-Time Decisions, which is a high performance automated analytical platform that delivers decisions and recommendations in real-time at the point of interaction. When combined with Oracle CRM, users are empowered with an intelligent, self-learning cross-sell and retention management capability. Call centre agents will be able to identify and present targeted marketing messages at the point of interaction with the customer. The system will help enable users to predict the risk of attrition or churn as well as the optimal retention treatment. Oracle CRM will help add to the membership experience by giving NRMA staff the insights to reward the "right" customer behaviour, without requiring reports from IT. The system delivers a full range of analytics, marketing, and service capabilities to enable a better understanding of each customer's lifetime value and design service levels and promotions that can help maximise the potential of all NRMA’s membership relationships.NRMA has also chosen Oracle E-Business Suite Financials which will allow NRMA to work smarter, increase efficiency and reduce back-office costs with standardised processes, productivity tools, and integrated performance management.NRMA will also implement, Oracle Hyperion Planning to provide an in-depth look at business operations and its related impact on financials, by tightly integrating financial and operational planning models, as well as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) to deliver contextual, relevant and actionable insight to all the staff at NRMA, driving improved decision-making, better-informed actions, and more efficient business processes.These systems will all be underpinned by Oracle Fusion Middleware including Oracle WebLogic Suite to be the consolidation platform for the Oracle applications as well as Oracle Identity Manager for easy but secure staff-related access to the system.The Oracle system will aim to help to enable NRMA to transform the entire IT infrastructure behind storing, reporting and updating its membership base and provide the organisation with customer service tools from which it can build tailored loyalty offers. This, together with a collaborative system to run the business on a day-to-day basis will endeavour to support the growth of the company in the future.The implementation started at the end of June and is being carried out by Capgemini Australia Pty Limited, a Diamond level member in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Supporting Quotes David Lumb, EGM Membership and Brand said, “By achieving a single view of our members and customers with Oracle, we expect to build on our established leadership in service excellence by delivering an even better and relevant member and customer experience.” “With this implementation, we aim to help NRMA improve its customer service, create a strong differentiation against its competitors, reduce operational resources and administrative tasks, and provide customer intelligence across the organisation for faster and more accurate decision making. This combination will help create a solid platform that we hope will enable NRMA to exceed membership expectations, achieve its strategic business objectives and realise fast value from its investments in Oracle,” said Andy Mellor, General Manager Applications, Oracle ANZ. Supporting Resources NRMA Motoring and ServicesOracle Customer Relationship ManagementOracle E-Business Suite FinancialsOracle Hyperion PlanningOracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)Oracle Fusion MiddlewareOracle WebLogic SuiteOracle Identity Manager About NRMA Motoring & Services Best known for its legendary roadside assistance service, as Australia's largest Member organisation, NRMA Motoring & Services also provides a range of services in motoring, travel and lifestyle for its Members and the community. For further information about NRMA, please visit www.mynrma.com.au About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), www.oracle.com. Trademark Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2012-12-19T04:24:00Z oracle-announces-oracle-big-data-appliance-x3-2-and-enhanced-oracle-big-data-connectors

News Facts Empowering organisations to capitalise on the opportunity of big data to help transform their businesses, Oracle has announced new releases of Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Big Data Connectors. Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 is a cost-effective, engineered system of hardware and software that has been upgraded to include Intel’s new processors and the latest release of Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager, as well as the new Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for Big Data Appliance. Oracle Big Data Connectors have been enhanced to enable greater SQL access to Hadoop from Oracle Database and to enable more transparent access to Hadoop from R. When used in conjunction with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalytics, Oracle Big Data Appliance with Oracle Big Data Connectors provides a full set of engineered systems to acquire, organise, and analyse big data. The latest releases provide more processing power, memory capacity, enhanced integration and management capabilities. Engineered System Simplifies Big Data for the Enterprise Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 hardware features the latest 8-core Intel® Xeon E5-2600 series of processors, and compared with previous generation, the 18 compute and storage servers with 648 TB raw storage now offer: 33 per cent more processing power with 288 CPU cores; 33 per cent more memory per node with 1.1 TB of main memory; and up to a 30 per cent reduction in power and cooling Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 further simplifies implementation and management of big data by integrating all the hardware and software required to acquire, organise and analyse big data. It includes Support for CDH4.1 including software upgrades developed collaboratively with Cloudera to simplify NameNode High Availability in Hadoop, eliminating the single point of failure in a Hadoop cluster; Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition 2.0, the latest version that brings better Hadoop integration, elastic scaling and new APIs, including JSON and C support; The Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for Big Data Appliance that complements Cloudera Manager to enable users to more easily manage a Hadoop cluster Updated distributions of Oracle Linux and Oracle Java Development Kit; An updated distribution of open source R, optimised to work with high performance multi-threaded math libraries Connectors Integrate Hadoop with Oracle Big Data Ecosystem Oracle Big Data Connectors is a suite of software built by Oracle to integrate Apache Hadoop with Oracle Database, Oracle Data Integrator, and Oracle R Distribution. Enhancements to Oracle Big Data Connectors extend these data integration capabilities. With updates to every connector, this release includes: Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System, for high performance SQL queries on Hadoop data from Oracle Database, enhanced with increased automation and querying of Hive tables and now supported within the Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop; Transparent access to the Hive Query language from R and introduction of new analytic techniques executing natively in Hadoop, enabling R developers to be more productive by increasing access to Hadoop in the R environment. Supporting Quotes “An influx of raw datasets is flooding every enterprise. However, before businesses can take advantage of the potential opportunity, they face a significant challenge in organising these diverse data sources,” said Cetin Ozbutun, vice president, Data Warehousing and Big Data Technologies, Oracle. “The latest updates further improve the abilities of our customers to optimise big data workloads and integrate them with their data warehouses to easily analyse all data throughout the enterprise.” “Organisations are increasingly looking for mature, reliable enterprise-ready tools to support their big data initiatives,” said Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera. “Optimised for Hadoop, Oracle Big Data Appliance with Cloudera delivers an easy-to-manage Hadoop platform, designed to meet the Big Data needs of today’s enterprise.” Supporting Resources Oracle and Big Data Oracle Big Data Appliance Oracle Big Data Connectors Oracle Advanced Analytics About Oracle NoSQL Database 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data centre. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Cloudera, Cloudera CDH, and Cloudera Manager are registered and unregistered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2012-12-19T04:13:00Z oracle-unveils-oracle-nosql-database-2-0

News Facts Continuing to drive innovation within its data management technology portfolio, Oracle has announced the release of Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0, a highly scalable, low latency, key-value database for real-time big data workloads.Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 adds efficient support for storage and retrieval of large objects such as documents and images, as well as dynamic elasticity and automatic rebalancing for allocating storage and compute resources in response to changing production data processing requirements.With tighter integration with both Oracle Database and Hadoop environments, Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 is designed to fit seamlessly into an enterprise IT stack.Oracle offers enterprise-class support for Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0, giving organisations the confidence and limited risk they need to deploy Oracle NoSQL Database into their business-critical production environments.Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 is available for download off Oracle Technology Network today. Powerful and Flexible Transaction Model for Demanding High Velocity Transactional Applications A key component of Oracle’s Big Data Platform, Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 is an enterprise grade, key-value database with flexible transaction models. It enables customers to easily manage high velocity transactional data generated by web-based applications, social media, sensors, smart meters and communications services.It is built using the proven Oracle Berkeley DB as the underlying storage engine. Oracle customers have built many mission-critical applications on Berkeley DB, serving millions of users.New and enhanced features in Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 include: Better Performance: enterprise-class elasticity with near linear scalability and under five millisecond latency enables users to dynamically grow a cluster as their data grows with no interruption in service. In recent performance tests, Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 delivered more than a million YCSB operations per second on a 2.4 terabyte database on an 18-node commodity cluster setup. (1) Automatic Rebalancing: dynamic management of compute and storage resources to maintain SLAs in response to increased demand and changing processing requirements; Enhanced Manageability: a simple, easy to use web console to manage all aspects of deployment and monitoring, as well as document management and structured data management in one product; New APIs: a new C API helps improve developer productivity, a new Large Object API supports efficient Large Object management, and new automatic serialisation APIs simplify application development; Tighter Integration with Oracle Database: Oracle Database users can view and query Oracle NoSQL Database records directly from SQL via External Tables, making NoSQL data immediately accessible and available for integrated analysis; Improved Management & Monitoring Support: SNMP/JMX support enables integration with Oracle and third party management tools; Improved Hadoop Integration: tighter integration with Hadoop through JSON object and schema evolution support for data storage and serialisation using Avro. Supporting Quotes “Oracle continues to drive innovation with its unmatched technology portfolio, encompassing all aspects of data management. Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 provides developers with that ‘last mile’ infrastructure to enable crucial real time interaction between an organisation’s applications and its customers,” said Vaishnavi Sashikanth, vice president of development, Oracle. “It provides a key mechanism for enterprises to maximise the value of big data."“One of our customers needed an innovative new online gaming platform so we turned to Oracle NoSQL Database to deliver it for us," said James Anthony, Technology Director, e-DBA. "The high availability, rapid scaling and enterprise support were critical for e-DBA and we reduced planned implementation times by 75 per cent, deploying sooner than expected. As a Specialised Oracle Platinum Partner, we are looking to further grow our expertise with Oracle NoSQL Database and help other customers take advantage of business opportunities with big data.”"At Cox Communications we know first-hand the importance of running your business-critical big data applications on rock solid NoSQL technology to meet stringent response times and availability constraints,” said Scott Seigler, vice president of engineering at Cox Digital Solutions. "We are excited about release 2.0 of Oracle's NoSQL solution with important features such as automatic resource balancing, elasticity and large object management functionality." Supporting Resources About Oracle Big DataAbout Oracle NoSQL DatabaseOracle NoSQL Database Data Sheet Oracle NoSQL Database White PaperFollow Oracle NoSQL Database on TwitterConnect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and TwitterDownload a free evaluation version of Oracle NoSQL Database. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. (1) Performance result tested on the following system configuration: Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 running on Oracle Enterprise Linux and 18 Dual socket Intel Xeon E5-2630L Servers, 2.0 GHz, 6 cores, hyper-threaded for 24 total threads, each processor using two 355GB SSDs. About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data centre. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com/index.html. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective

2012-12-14T05:53:00Z oracle-announces-rightnow-cx-cloud-service-november-2012-release

News Facts The November 2012 release of Oracle’s RightNow CX Cloud Service marks the completion of development efforts for 2012 and continues Oracle’s commitment to enhancing the Oracle RightNow offering following the acquisition.New release delivers key capabilities designed to help organisations improve customer experiences in order to increase customer acquisition and retention, while reducing total cost of ownership.Part of the Oracle Cloud, Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service now integrates Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service with Oracle Engagement Engine Cloud Service, helping organisations intelligently and proactively engage with customers through the right channel at the right time.Chat solutions have emerged as an important component of a cross-channel customer experience strategy. According to Forrester Research, Inc., chat adoption has risen dramatically between 2009 and 2011 from 19% to 37%, and it has the highest satisfaction level of all customer service channels at 62% satisfaction. (*)To help companies deliver enhanced customer experiences, Oracle has made significant investments in Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service throughout 2012.With the addition of rules-based engagement to existing capabilities such as co-browse, mobile chat, and cross-channel knowledge integration with the contact centre, all delivered via the cloud, Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service is differentiated as the industry-leading chat solution.The Oracle Cloud offers a broad portfolio of software as-a-service applications, including Oracle Customer Service and Support Cloud Service, which is based on the Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service. New Capabilities Key Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service and other cross-channel capabilities include:Chat Business Rules, with over 70 built-in rule conditions, leverage the Oracle Engagement Engine to help enable organisations capture rich visitor data and invoke complex actions and triggers. Chat Business Rules allow granular control over when to engage a customer via the chat channel based on customer behavior, customer profile information and operational information.Click-to-Call provides the option for a customer to engage with a live agent over the phone during the Web browsing experience.Chat Availability Controls provide organisations with the ability to throttle volume through the chat channel based on real-time agent availability and wait time thresholds. This ability to manage the channel more efficiently allows organisations to provide a better experience to customers using the chat channel.Strategic and Operational Chat Channel Analytics provide better insight into channel and agent productivity and utilisation and effectiveness with both out-of-the-box reports and ad hoc reports. New chat channel analytics provide comprehensive metrics with full data transparency.Background Service Updates improve high availability metrics for Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service during service update periods, setting the industry leading standard for sales and service delivery to customers via the chat channel.Additional Capabilities include:Improved Web developer tools for more efficient self-service user interface designImproved administration for enhanced user sessions managementIncreased cross-channel community collaborationEnhanced extensibility widgets and syndication managementStreamlined content management and analytics capabilities Supporting Quotes “With the latest release of the Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service, organisations can now take engagement with their customers to a new level in order to strengthen relationships that achieve greater business results. Through the ability to have more proactive, personalised engagements, organisations can increase the likelihood of a sale and reduce time to service resolution,” said David Vap, Group Vice President Products, Oracle. ”With our latest investments, the functionality of the Oracle RightNow Chat Cloud Service is unparalleled in the market.” Supporting Resources Oracle RightNow CX Cloud ServiceOracle RightNow Chat Cloud ServiceOracle CloudTry it now: Oracle Customer Service and Support Cloud Service Oracle CX on Social Media Twitter – Oracle CXFacebook – Oracle Customer ExperienceYouTube – Oracle Customer Experience Oracle Cloud SolutionsOracle provides the industry’s broadest and most complete portfolio of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings. The Oracle Cloud delivers a broad suite of subscription-based, enterprise-grade Application, Platform, Infrastructure and Social Services. Oracle also provides a comprehensive portfolio of cloud products and managed cloud services for IT providers to build and manage clouds.About OracleOracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.* SOURCE: Understanding Customer Service Satisfaction To Inform Your 2012 eBusiness Strategy, Forrester Research, Diane Clarkson, January 23, 2012

2012-11-07T07:20:00Z oracle-s-designing-an-m2m-platform-for-the-connected-world-report-companies-extending-the-use-of-m2m-data-to-increase-opportunity-and-intelligence-across-the-enterprise

News Facts Today, Oracle announced the results of its “Designing an M2M Platform for the Connected World” research, examining the evolving drivers behind ‘Machine to Machine’ (M2M) projects and how those changes are impacting solution requirements. The research, which was produced by M2M analyst experts Beecham Research on behalf of Oracle, provides a qualitative assessment of solution requirements across the M2M value chain. Participants included end-users, major product OEMs , systems integrators, mobile network operators and M2M platform providers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The research found that M2M data from remotely located assets and devices in the field is increasingly being used more broadly for strategic purposes and value creation throughout the enterprise. It has also become a means for creating new market opportunities while providing a competitive advantage for enterprise users in their own key markets. Other key findings included an increased focus on leveraging the cloud and managing data security in M2M initiatives, as more information is integrated and shared across departments and business functions. To access the full report, please visit here. M2M Data Becoming Increasingly Critical Across the Enterprise The research found that the main drivers behind M2M projects are evolving, with 75 per cent of participants noting that enabling new services and revenue streams is fuelling M2M projects. While leveraging M2M data in operations is still key, the research found a growing interest among adopters in using M2M data for strategic decision making, providing feedback on product and services performance in the field, and tailoring products and services to meet specific customer needs. 85 per cent of users said an increased focus on better managing large volumes of M2M generated data is necessary to address performance and costs issues, especially as applications, such as smart meters and automotive telematics/automotive diagnostics systems, are generating increased volumes of data. The use of Complex Event Processing (CEP) with M2M data will also provide users with the real-time intelligence they need to take immediate action on pre-determined factors. 65 per cent of respondents saw high value in the CEP opportunity, both for B2B and especially B2B2C next generation applications. This could include situations where several data sources contribute to a decision process without human intervention, such as reflecting weather conditions in agriculture management to trigger automatic irrigation or powering real-time human behavior profiling and facial recognition alerts for security applications. Increasing reliance on M2M data and tighter integration with other IT systems resulted in 80 per cent of respondents noting that minimising downtime in M2M has become critically important. Other Key Findings Securing M2M Data is Critical: The increasing value, as well as volume of data, means that storing, managing, securing and analysing data from connected devices is becoming mission critical within organisations. As such, leading implementation priorities have now become: Ensuring end-to-end security indicated by 60 per cent of participants. Integration with IT, indicated by 50 percent of participants. Coordinating partners in an increasingly complex value chain, indicated by 45 per cent of participants. Powering M2M Solutions in the Cloud Reduces Cost and Complexity: Leveraging the cloud was noted as key in M2M projects, as it greatly reduces the cost and complexity of delivering M2M solutions. In fact, 90 per cent of respondents noted the cloud as being “vitally important” to M2M initiatives. Platform Standardisation Growing in Importance: 50 percent of those surveyed noted they see the advantages of having the same software development environment and programming language, such as Java, across all components of an M2M solution. Supporting Quotes “Cheaper, more powerful devices and low cost mobile network connectivity are driving an explosion in the number of connected devices and the data generated by them. The “Designing an M2M Platform for the Connected World” research shows a shift in focus towards extracting value from that data and capitalising on new business models which are enabled by the pervasion of connected devices,” said Chris Baker, Senior Vice President ISV, OEM and Java Sales, Oracle Alliances & Channels. “From Java on the devices to Oracle Engineered Systems in the datacenter, Oracle’s end-to-end M2M platform can simplify the process of collecting, storing, managing and analysing the data collected by connected devices, while minimising storage costs and helping ensure the integrity and security of data.” “The substantial growth prospects for the M2M market can only be achieved through successful deployment of M2M solutions end-to-end, many of which are complex,” said Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO of Beecham Research. “This research helps to confirm the real trends under way for solution requirements in the M2M market, including the growing business-to-business-to- consumer opportunity, and how these can best be supported.” “Our customers use the SeeControl Nexus Cloud to design and launch unique M2M-based businesses across multiple verticals. Due to our exclusive use of Oracle technologies – from device to data center –they are confident in getting to market fast and evolving these novel M2M services as they get feedback. And, customers know our cloud offers the highest levels of enterprise grade security, scalability and performance,” Bryan Kester, CEO, SeeControl. Supporting Resources Download the full “Designing an M2M Platform for the Connected World” report Oracle PartnerNetwork Oracle PartnerNetwork M2M Platform Knowledge Zone and Specialisation Oracle’s Java Embedded Products Connect with the Oracle Partner and Java communities at OPN on Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn, and YouTube or Java on Twitter, I Love Java on Facebook and Java on YouTube About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. 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2012-10-30T00:33:00Z oracle-announces-availability-of-oracle-solaris-11-1-and-oracle-solaris-cluster-4-1

News Facts Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1.Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS that allows customers to build large-scale enterprise-class Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) clouds on a wide range of SPARC and x86 servers and Oracle engineered systems.Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 extends high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of Oracle Solaris and includes unique virtual cluster features supporting highly efficient application consolidation with best-in-class availability.Oracle Solaris 11 is already widely in production with thousands of customers with mission critical deployments across industries such as financial services, communications, healthcare, retail, public sector and media and entertainment. Read customer success stories about Oracle Solaris here.Oracle Solaris 11 is also gaining strong momentum among enterprise application vendors with hundreds of applications already qualified for Oracle Solaris Ready status through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). OPN members can develop, sell and implement their solutions on Oracle Solaris 11 and take advantage of specialised Oracle Solaris resources to expand their market reach.Customers and partners can quickly and safely upgrade to Oracle Solaris 11.1 using the built-in update tools and software repositories available with Oracle Solaris 11.Oracle will host a webcast on November 7, 2012 at 8 a.m. Pacific time on Oracle Solaris 11.1 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1, featuring Markus Flierl, vice president, Oracle Solaris Engineering, Core Technology and Bill Nesheim, vice president, Oracle Solaris Engineering, Platform Software. Register here. This event will also include an interactive chat with core developers of Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster. New and enhanced features in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 increases the performance, availability and I/O throughput of the latest Oracle Database technology.A new, optimized shared memory interface between the Oracle Database and Oracle Solaris 11.1 provides 8x faster database startup and shutdown, as well as online resizing of the Oracle Database System Global Area (SGA).Oracle Solaris 11.1 introduces unique new capabilities for optimising Oracle Database performance. Oracle Solaris 11.1 exposes Oracle Solaris DTrace I/O interfaces that allow an Oracle Database administrator to identify I/O outliers and subsequently isolate network or storage bottlenecks.A new Oracle Solaris DTrace plug-in for Oracle Java Mission Control to enable customers to profile Java applications on Oracle Solaris production systems.New cloud management features add to Oracle Solaris 11’s zero overhead built-in virtualisation capabilities across system, network and storage resources, including expanded support for Software Defined Networks (SDN) with Edge Virtual Bridging enhancements, to maximize network resource utilisation and manage bandwidth in cloud environments.New built-in memory predictor monitors application memory use and provides optimised memory page sizes and resource location to speed overall application performance.Support for an unprecedented 32 TB of RAM and thousands of CPUs unlocks the full potential of Oracle’s latest server systems. Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 highlights New Oracle Solaris 10 Zone Clusters allow customers to consolidate mission critical Oracle Solaris 10 applications on Oracle Solaris 11 cloud environments. Expanded disaster recovery operations using Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance services along with Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 to coordinate failover of applications and data to a remote disaster recovery site. Faster application recovery with improved storage failure detection and resource dependencies management. New labeled security capability in Oracle Solaris Zone Clusters provides military grade application separation in highly consolidated mission-critical deployments using Oracle Solaris 11 Trusted Extensions. Integrated Oracle Deployments and Support Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides comprehensive cloud management capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11, including self-service provisioning of Oracle Solaris 11 Zones. Ops Center’s integrated systems management delivers enterprise scale cloud performance. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is available to Oracle Solaris customers at no additional cost under the Ops Center Everywhere Program.Oracle Solaris Studio delivers the latest in compiler optimizations, multithread performance and powerful analysis tools for native development, and optimized application performance and reliability on Oracle Solaris 11.1 systems.Oracle Solaris 11 guarantees binary compatibility with previous Oracle Solaris versions through the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program, which provides customers a seamless upgrade path and the industry’s best investment protection. Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers allows older Oracle Solaris environments to be brought forward onto latest generation hardware to provide power, cooling and footprint consolidation savings.OPN members can find Oracle Solaris tools and resources in the Oracle Solaris Knowledge Zone, including Oracle Solaris Ready, Oracle Solaris 11 Specialization and Oracle Solaris Development Initiative. The Oracle Solaris Remote Lab now provides a secure cloud environment for OPN members to test and validate their applications with Oracle Solaris 11 in SPARC and x86 virtual environments. Supporting Quotes “Oracle recommends Oracle Solaris 11 for all UNIX®-based Oracle implementations. Oracle Solaris 11.1 delivers over 300 new performance and feature enhancements and is engineered together with Oracle Database, middleware, applications to increase performance, streamline management and automate support for Oracle deployments,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “The combination of the secure, highly available capabilities of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 and the built-in virtualisation of Oracle Solaris 11.1 helps customers bring their most mission-critical applications into a cost effective, agile cloud environment and delivers extreme availability for enterprise applications.”“Clients are looking for ways to reduce the complexity of systems management while enabling Platform as a Service (PaaS) & Software as a Service (SaaS) clouds,” says Lee Diamante, solutions architect, Systems Computing Solutions at Forsythe. “The value of Oracle Solaris 11 is that it maintains all the enterprise-class features expected with a mission-critical OS, while bringing in new, innovative technologies. Forsythe has a long and rich history of delivering customer solutions on Oracle Solaris systems. This is why we are excited about the Solaris 11.1 release.”“Oracle is making it much easier for partners like Informatica to gain access to their software with the new testing environments; shrinking the time to measurable results and value,” said Julie Lockner, vice president, ILM, Informatica. “With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.1 Informatica customers now have access to mission critical deployments across major industries, with an environment of high performance and high availability. With all the new feature enhancements, we look forward to making the Informatica Platform certified on the Oracle Solaris 11 product family.” Supporting Resources Oracle Solaris on Oracle.comOracle Solaris Cluster on Oracle.comOracle Solaris on OTNOracle Solaris Cluster on OTNVideo: Lee Diamante, Why Forsythe Corp Has Been Recommending Oracle Solaris 11Oracle Solaris 11 TrainingOracle Solaris Cluster TrainingOracle’s Sun Server and Storage SystemsOracle Solaris BlogConnect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. 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2012-10-25T04:37:00Z oracle-unveils-storagetek-virtual-storage-manager-6

News Facts Oracle today announced Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6, the latest generation of its mainframe virtual tape system. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is the first and only mainframe virtual tape storage system to provide a single point of management for the entire system that leverages the security of the mainframe environment. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 efficiently manages data and storage resources with automated, policy-driven management that simplifies deployment and streamlines ongoing tape operations for data protection, disaster recovery and archive. With 2x the performance and more than 1.8x the total disk capacity of the previous generation, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system(1) scales on-demand to over 640 petabytes to meet the needs of high growth data storage environments in a dense, energy efficient data centre footprint that helps lower total cost of ownership (TCO). With sustained system throughput of 1,200 MB/sec, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is approximately 20 percent faster than the IBM TS7700, and can run multiple workloads without degrading system performance, completing jobs faster. The system also scales to over 50x the disk capacity of the IBM TS7720(2). StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 offers the flexibility to address multiple enterprise configuration requirements including high performance disk-only or massively scalable disk and physical tape, as well as single or multi-site support for disaster recovery. It also offers the highest levels of availability with its end-to-end high-availability architecture and provides checks to ensure data integrity as it moves throughout the system and from storage tier-to-tier during its lifecycle. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 uses a unique triple parity RAID architecture throughout the system to minimize the impact of disk rebuilds, which can be significant with today’s high-capacity disks in other architectures. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 offers 7x lower five-year TCO(3) than the previous generation and is backwards compatible with all previous generation StorageTek VirtualStorage Manager systems for added investment protection. Oracle will host a Webcast on November 27 at 10 am PT to provide a deeper dive into the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6. Register here. Supporting Quotes “As customers continue to contend with exponential data growth and the need for 24x7 access to mission-critical data, Oracle is raising the bar with high-performance virtual tape capabilities that can help keep costs down,” said James Cates, vice president, HardwareDevelopment, Oracle. “Oracle’s new StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 delivers major enhancements in simplicity, scalability and availability that enable customers to better manage mainframe storage environments, maximise their investments in tape, and lower total cost of ownership.” “Oracle is confirming its commitment to the mainframe virtual tape market with the introduction of the next generation of the StorageTek virtual tape technology,” said Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Data Protection and Recovery, IDC.“Oracle’s Virtual Storage Manager 6 is a feature rich product that leverages the strong mainframe heritage of the StorageTek brand.” Supporting Resources Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Storage Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 3D demonstration Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com/. Footnotes Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager system includes Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 and Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Library Extension. IBM TS7700 throughput is approximately 960 MB/sec, available here:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247975.pdf. IBM TS7720 disk capacity is 11.23PB (assumes 3:1 compression), available here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts7700/specifications.html. TCO is measured as acquisition cost plus support costs over five years. Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

2012-10-23T02:32:00Z oracle-announces-general-availability-of-oracle-application-development-framework-mobile

News Facts Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile, an extension of the Oracle Application Development Framework.Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ADF Mobile is a HTML5 and Java-based framework that enables developers to easily build, deploy, and extend enterprise applications for mobile environments, including iOS and Android, from a single code base. Based on a next-generation hybrid mobile development architecture, Oracle ADF Mobile allows developers to increase productivity, while protecting investments, by enabling code reuse through a flexible, open standards-based architecture.Oracle ADF Mobile based applications enable enterprises across industries to meet frequently changing mobile requirements by allowing developers to rapidly and visually develop applications once, and deploy to multiple devices and platforms. Next Generation Mobile Development Framework Provides HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and Java Capabilities Developers can leverage the latest Oracle ADF Mobile capabilities to:Extend enterprise applications to mobile devices: Developers can simplify their application infrastructure through a common, proven platform that spans server, desktop and mobile applications, and secure mobile applications with end-to-end security and encryption.Write once and deploy to many: With Oracle ADF Mobile, developers can work on consistent cross-platform interfaces using familiar web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS, while leveraging deep access to native device services such as the camera, GPS, contacts, etc., through this hybrid mobile application architecture. A lightweight Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is also embedded to support the application logic written in Java. The unique combination of these standards-based technologies enables rapid development of mobile applications to iOS and Android, and shields developers from having to learn a new platform specific language and technologies.Increase productivity: Developers can expedite time-to-market by developing one application that can be deployed to multiple platforms through this hybrid mobile application architecture. Quicker development is also enabled through a visual and declarative programming model that is already common to Oracle ADF developers. Oracle ADF and Oracle ADF Mobile share the same declarative programming model. This allows ADF developers to create mobile applications without having to learn new skills. Developers can realize increased productivity and reduced maintenance costs by using Oracle ADF Mobile’s rich library of prebuilt and proven components that give the look and feel of device-native applications.Protect investments: An adaptive hybrid application architecture gives developers the ability to protect application investments from technology shifts and develop mobile applications with existing skills and resources on proven technologies like HMTL5, JavaScript, Java and Oracle ADF. Supporting Quotes “With Oracle ADF Mobile, developers can spend less time re-writing code and more time building the most advanced enterprise mobile applications,” said Chris Tonas, Vice President Application Development Tools, Oracle. “Oracle ADF Mobile is tightly integrated with the Oracle Fusion Middleware product portfolio, supports Oracle Fusion Applications, and can easily integrate non-Oracle-based applications. With a rich, visual and declarative programming model, Oracle ADF Mobile helps developers increase their productivity and deliver applications faster—you write applications once and deploy on multiple mobile platforms, including iOS and Android.”“Accenture is excited to integrate Oracle ADF Mobile into our industry-leading project accelerator—the Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle—to help meet the demands of clients who want to go mobile quickly and cost effectively,” said Derek Steelberg, global managing director of Oracle business for Accenture. “Our clients can use the Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle to simplify and accelerate the extension of their Oracle applications to both the iOS and Android platforms, while addressing common challenges such as device management and security.”“Infosys was one of the first off the block to implement an Oracle ADF based mobile solution for companies that wanted more flexible and agile business processes and had participated in the early access program for Oracle ADF Mobile,” said Ravi Kumar S, Vice President and Global Head of the Oracle Practice at Infosys. “Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle ADF Mobile allow us to deliver mobile solutions rapidly, integrate numerous backend applications, and support mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms through one common framework. In turn, our clients can lower Total Cost of Operation (TCO) and can bring innovative products and services faster to market for their customers.” Supporting Resources Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) MobileOracle ADF Mobile Data SheetOracle ADF Mobile BlogOracle JDeveloper PMs Blog – Oracle ADF NewsletterOracle JDeveloper PMs BlogAccenture Foundation Platform for Oracle About Oracle Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com Trademarks Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.