Oracle buys again: It’s almost not even news anymore. Oracle representatives today announced that the firm will attain the intellectual property assets of predictive analytics technology provider Sigma Dynamics. The move is touted as enhancement for the Oracle business intelligence suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings. Key decision applications in Sigma Dynamics’ real-time decision software […]
Perhaps Oracle is simply too big to tell when it has shot itself in the foot. Or maybe the firm thinks it has more than one leg to stand on in the case of their recent seriously troubled “Project Ocean” project. Project Ocean was begun three years ago in the hopes of replacing the city […]
Meanwhile, the excellent online investor newsletter The Motley Fool announced the AMR Research results in tandem with reportage and analysis of another big investment move by none other than Oracle. On Monday, software behemoth Oracle announced the firm’s investment of another US $125 million in Indian software and services firm i-flex, further augmenting the extant […]
As part of Oracle’s much-ballyhooed “Applications Unlimited” program, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management 9 was publicly released yesterday, though the firm unveiled the product in early June. The release promises enhancements specifically for the financial services and communications industries. Naturally, PeopleSoft 9 also comes with the hopes of increasing the use of the big […]
An interesting post on Larry Ellison. Not really CRM but makes for a quick good read.
The competition in the on-demand CRM field heats up a little more with Oracle planning to introduce an on-demand CRM service in the latter part of 2006. The company has yet to elaborate on how it plans to use tools and functionalities from its Siebel and PeopleSoft purchases. This SaaS offering from Oracle is going […]
Last week, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, a database design and extraction, transformation and load (aka ETL) tool to assist in managing the lifecycle of data and metadata. Also announced was that the core database design and ETL capabilities of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 are now […]
What, that Oracle news wasn’t big enough for you? Okay, here’s a big story with a big number, perhaps the last threshold in the microeconomy: one billon. Sure, in big business today dealing with wacky currencies and European Union programs, we hear the word “billion” bandied about frequently, but it’s still a pretty big number. […]
Finally, news from the big boys. (I’m sure you’ve all been waiting.) Oracle representatives have announced the general release of Oracle’s PeopleTools 8.48, the latest version of the PeopleSoft Enterprise development tool. Oracle assured customers, too, that the firm will continue to invest in PeopleSoft products by certifying PeopleTools with the magic Oracle Fusion Middleware […]
In a clear attempt to keep its name at the forefront of media consciousness, Oracle representatives today chose to remind news outlets of the firm’s continued run of success with small- to mid-size businesses. Naturally, the words “over SAP” were not far behind, as they never are. Just as naturally, representatives were ready, willing and […]