Oracle (ORCL) has quietly revealed pricing information for its long-awaited Fusion Applications, suggesting the software may now be generally available or will be soon following a six-year development process. Fusion Applications are supposed to combine the best attributes from Oracle’s various ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) product lines into a next-generation [...]
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Organizations using eBusiness Suite 11 have delayed upgrading to eBusiness Suite 12 as Fusion is due out this year. But Fusion is still not available and eBusiness Suite 11 goes into Extended Support in November, which will increase support fees. Oracle representatives were asked about whether it would waiver the Extended Support fee for eBusiness [...]
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Chris Leone, group vice president of Oracle Fusion Application Development, said in a statement. “”All Fusion Apps are GA but under controlled availability. - We review the project to make sure that the fit is right and the customer will be successful. It is a standard Oracle program.” About 70 Fusion Applications-related sessions were listed on [...]
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Deutsche Bank has published a report on Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) that addressed the company’s Fusion Apps suite. In the report, Deutsche Bank reported, “Our channel checks also showed that customers are continuing to buy database, middle ware and business intelligence software, which is driving license growth at Oracle. We believe that Oracle‘s infrastructure software [...]
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Interesting article on Techtarhet.com. It’s written by Patrick Gresham, an enterprise applications manager for a quick-service restaurant chain: An excerpt: After nearly 20 years of using Oracle Applications, we have millions of journal entries, invoices and receipts. Our purchasing and order lines date back to the early 1990s. Our system consists of an accounting flexfield [...]
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Oracle has quietly revealed pricing information for its long-awaited Fusion Applications, suggesting the software may now be generally available or will be soon following a six-year development process. No formal announcement of Fusion Applications’ release has been made. An Oracle spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday on the price list, [...]
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Um wow.. A jury has decided that for the theft of Oracle’s intellectual property by its now shuttered TomorrowNow division, SAP must pay Oracle $1.3 billion. This is in addition to the $120 million in attorneys’ fees SAP agreed to pay when the trial first began. SAP, which believed that the damages amounted to about [...]
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Interesting… In an article, ZDNET’s Dennis Howlett describes the result of a Computer Economics report entitled: Go-Forward Strategies for Oracle Application Customers. In that report, some of the key findings: 42% of customers are dissatisfied with the cost of Oracle customer service 58% are dissatisfied with the quality of customer service but only 25% expect [...]
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In his second keynote address of the week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage following a BMW ORACLE Racing America’s Cup highlights film. “I never get tired of watching that video,” said Ellison, who then recapped a number of significant new products before turning the spotlight on Oracle Fusion Applications. “This week we’ve announced [...]
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Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM), a component of the Oracle Fusion Applications suite, offers the following: Built from the ground up for the unique roles and processes within an organization Flexible employment and person models, and profile management framework meet the needs of all organizational models Global, enterprise-wide structures support legislative, regulatory and organizational [...]
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To help organizations meet expanding requirements for archiving, eDiscovery and regulatory compliance, Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) will embed Oracle technology to deliver a new set of enterprise content solutions. Open Text is obtaining a technology and distribution license specifically for the Oracle Universal Online Archive Content Management SDK. As part of this agreement, [...]
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Existing customers of Oracle’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) product lines like E-Business Suite that are current on support payments will receive “net-for-net” credit when upgrading to the company’s upcoming Fusion Applications, but some aspects of the next-generation suite will cost extra, said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development, Thursday during a webcast presentation [...]
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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g enables enterprises to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximizing IT efficiency through full utilization of modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the only middleware available from any vendor that offers the following innovative design principles: Complete—Work with a single, strategic partner for all middleware [...]
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Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), a component of the Oracle Fusion Applications suite, provides a complete enterprise GRC platform that gives you: The Power to Know—unified intelligence for insight into the status of all GRC activities across the enterprise The Power to Manage—end-to-end support for cross-industry and industry-specific GRC processes The Power to [...]
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Oracle officials talked up cloud computing at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo conference in Santa Clara, Calif., detailing both public and private cloud technologies. Data centers, said Rex Wang, Oracle vice president of infrastructure and management, are moving from a silo model to consolidation, to save money. “The idea is to move these data [...]
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Oracle Fusion Financials, a component of the Oracle Fusion Applications suite, offers the following innovations: Real-time information access that delivers accurate and timely information to users at all levels Role-based dashboards bring work, information, and relevant tasks directly to finance users’ desktops Single data source ensures all users work from the same source of information Embedded [...]
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