Some of the Oracle timetable revealed

And a bit of a strange announcement from Oracle representatives yesterday, who reiterated that their firm’s PeopleSoft 9 rollout is continuing.

The PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications suite was released to the public on Monday, and promises an integrated suite of analytic applications, featuring improved enterprise planning in budgeting and forecasting, financial control and reporting. Oracle today said that the firm had increased the integration between PeopleSoft performance management software and other PeopleSoft products.

As the company sees it, PeopleSoft serves as proof of Oracle’s plan to enhance existing applications while working in parallel on Fusion a new applications suite. This commentary comes from John Wookey, senior vice president of application development at Oracle. Wookey’s comments were part of what appears to be a media blitz regarding PeopleSoft in the face of some criticism. Oracle is halfway through delivering PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, as the CRM software earlier is now available.

A definitive September date has now been promised for the financial portion of PeopleSoft. Oracle also announced that early Project Genesis product is to be released in September, and will represent the integration of its Telephony@Work acquisition with extant Oracle CRM applications.

Others announcement by the firm stated that Oracle plans to release Siebel 8.0 and its homegrown Oracle E-Business Suite 12 before the end of 2006. Hosted CRM application Siebel OnDemand is promised for integration with Oracle e-Business Suite by the end of this year.