Thursday, April 28, 2016

Oracle Launches Latest Oracle Field Service Cloud Offering to Power a Completely Connected Customer Service Experience

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Oracle Launches Latest Oracle Field Service Cloud Offering to Power a Completely Connected Customer Service Experience

New field service capabilities can improve customer satisfaction and response times, while reducing service delivery costs

Redwood Shores Calif—Apr 28, 2016

Oracle today announced a comprehensive new release of Oracle Field Service Cloud, formerly known as TOA Technologies. The latest release, which is part of Oracle’s end-to-end cloud customer service offering,  delivers extensive new field service enhancements focused on mobility, ease of use, and connecting contact center agents delivering service via the phone, email, and chat to field technicians providing in person support.
 
Field service is a customer service cornerstone for brands spanning a number of industries – including telecommunications, utilities, high tech and manufacturing.  A field service appointment may be the only time a company engages with its customers face-to-face to deliver a differentiated customer experience.  Leveraging time-based, predictive, self-learning technology, Oracle Field Service Cloud helps create the most efficient job schedules and travel routes for field resources to ensure the right field resource arrives to every job on-time, with the parts and knowledge to complete the work the first time.
New features and integrations available in the latest release of Oracle Field Service Cloud include:
 
  • Expanded Field Resource Manager:  Using a mobile device, field supervisors can now manage all field activities in real time with additional insights into field service team capacity.  These new capabilities enable the field workforce to quickly respond to changing customer needs, while streamlining collaboration between resources in the field.
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  • Automated Urgent Work Assignment: Companies can now respond to emergency situations using Oracle Field Service Cloud. When an event occurs, the application automatically locates the field resource nearest to the job and immediately routes them to the urgent event. The ability to take action automatically, without requiring human intervention, will help companies ensure relevant resources are quickly deployed – which in emergency situations, can make all the difference.
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  • Integration with Oracle’s E-Business Suite: This integration helps streamline job scheduling and inventory tracking capabilities. New integrations with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) help Oracle Field Service Cloud customers quickly and easily integrate with other cloud applications such as Oracle Sales Cloud.
 
“At Pella we continually strive to exceed our customer’s expectations and with the recent implementation of Oracle Field Service Cloud we are gaining new levels of customer service capabilities,” said Julia Neary, IT Manager, Fulfillment and Service, Pella Corporation. “We are already seeing a reduction in manual processes and improved management of our service technicians. More importantly we are able to leverage Oracle Field Service Cloud to respond faster, more reliably and more efficiently to our customer’s needs.”
 
Oracle Field Service Cloud is part of the Oracle Service Cloud portfolio which delivers a complete service experience across a wide range of modern contact center channels including web, phone, email, chat, social and the in-person field service interaction, all powered by the latest technology. This cross channel, connected and mobile service experience is something that competitive products fail to deliver.
 
Oracle believes that the latest release further cements Oracle Service Cloud’s leadership position cited by industry analyst firm Forrester Research in:  The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions For Enterprise Organizations, Q4 2015 and The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions For Midsize Teams, Q4 2015. Both ranked Oracle Service Cloud as a Leader, with the highest current offering category scores in both reports.  In addition, Oracle Service Cloud was noted among vendors that “deliver high-volume omnichannel service” and “have a foundational layer of knowledge management to deliver channel-specific answers to customer inquiries.
 
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Oracle Buys Textura

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Oracle Buys Textura

Adds Leading Construction Contracts and Payment Management Cloud Services to the Oracle Engineering and Construction Industry Cloud Platform

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Apr 28, 2016

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Textura (NYSE: TXTR), a leading provider of construction contracts and payment management cloud services for $26.00 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $663 million, net of Textura’s cash.

Textura’s cloud services process $3.4 billion in payments for over 6,000 projects each month, helping keep projects on time and under budget while reducing risk for developers, contractors and subcontractors. Textura offers its cloud services in a consumption model preferred by the engineering and construction industry whereby the companies involved pay based on project activity. Further, usage of Textura’s cloud services creates a network effect that benefits all participants as more than 85,000 general and subcontractors are connected to the platform.

Oracle Primavera offers a complete suite of cloud solutions for project, cost, time and risk management. The Oracle Primavera flagship products have been completely re-architected for the Cloud, and the result is a set of cloud services that are growing rapidly as construction and engineering companies embrace digital transformation. Together, Oracle Primavera and Textura will form the Oracle Engineering and Construction Global Business Unit offering a comprehensive cloud-based project control and execution platform that manages all phases of engineering and construction projects.

“The increasingly global engineering and construction industry requires digital modernization in a way that automates manual processes and embraces the power of cloud computing to easily connect the construction job site, reduce cost overruns, and improve productivity,” said Mike Sicilia, SVP and GM, Engineering and Construction Global Business Unit, Oracle. “Together, Textura and Oracle Engineering and Construction will have the most comprehensive set of cloud services in the industry.”

“Textura’s mission is to bring workflow automation and transparency to complex construction projects while improving their financial performance and minimizing risks,” said David Habiger, Chief Executive Officer, Textura. “We are excited to join Oracle and bring our cloud-based capabilities to help extend the Oracle Engineering and Construction Industry Cloud Platform.”

The Board of Directors of Oracle has unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in 2016, subject to Textura stockholders tendering 66 2/3% of Textura’s outstanding shares and derivative securities exercised prior to the closing (as required by Textura’s certificate of incorporation) in the tender offer, certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

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This document contains certain forward-looking statements about Oracle and Textura, including statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning Oracle's proposed acquisition of Textura, anticipated customer benefits and general business outlook. When used in this document, the words "anticipates", “can", “will”, "look forward to", "expected" and similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements. Any such statement may be influenced by a variety of factors, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle or Textura, that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected, described, expressed or implied in this document due to a number of risks and uncertainties. Potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the possibility that the transaction will not close or that the closing may be delayed, the anticipated synergies of the combined companies may not be achieved after closing, the combined operations may not be successfully integrated in a timely manner, if at all, general economic conditions in regions in which either company does business, and the possibility that Oracle or Textura may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of Oracle or Textura.

In addition, please refer to the documents that Oracle and Textura, respectively, file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. These filings identify and address other important factors that could cause Oracle's and Textura’s respective operational and other results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements set forth in this document. You are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this document. Neither Oracle nor Textura is under any duty to update any of the information in this document.

Oracle is currently reviewing the existing Textura product roadmap and will be providing guidance to customers in accordance with Oracle's standard product communication policies. Any resulting features and timing of release of such features as determined by Oracle's review of Textura’s product roadmap are at the sole discretion of Oracle. All product roadmap information, whether communicated by Textura or by Oracle, does not represent a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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In connection with the proposed acquisition, Oracle will commence a tender offer for the outstanding shares of Textura. The tender offer has not yet commenced. This document is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of Textura, nor is it a substitute for the tender offer materials that Oracle and its acquisition subsidiary will file with the SEC upon commencement of the tender offer. At the time the tender is commenced, Oracle and its acquisition subsidiary will file tender offer materials on Schedule TO, and Textura will file a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC with respect to the tender offer. The tender offer materials (including an Offer to Purchase, a related Letter of Transmittal and certain other tender offer documents) and the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement will contain important information. Holders of shares of Textura are urged to read these documents when they become available because they will contain important information that holders of Textura securities should consider before making any decision regarding tendering their securities. The Offer to Purchase, the related Letter of Transmittal and certain other tender offer documents, as well as the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement, will be made available to all holders of shares of Textura at no expense to them. The tender offer materials and the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement will be made available for free at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Louisville Water Company Overhauls Aging Systems to Drive Comprehensive Customer Experience Strategy with Oracle Solutions

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Louisville Water Company Overhauls Aging Systems to Drive Comprehensive Customer Experience Strategy with Oracle Solutions

Oracle Utilities solutions enable utility to cut billing process by more than 80 percent

CS Week—Phoenix, AZ—Apr 27, 2016

Today’s customers live in a universe tailored to their unique needs and wants. They require instant, digital gratification and organizations—regardless of industry—are challenged to shift strategies to accommodate these requests. Louisville Water Company (Louisville Water), which provides drinking water to more than 850,000 people in Louisville, Ky., recognized this need and turned to Oracle to help meet its growing customer expectations.
 
Like many utilities, Louisville Water relied on aging systems to manage its customer care and fieldwork activities with limited to no customer self-service capabilities. The utility, known throughout the industry for its high-quality water and engineering innovation, saw an opportunity to increase its customer satisfaction and drive its competitive advantage. Louisville Water worked with Oracle Utilities Professional Services to transform its business leveraging Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management, and Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service.
 
“This implementation was the largest technology project in Louisville Water’s 155-year-history,” said Dave Vogel, vice president of customer service at Louisville Water. “Some of the immediate benefits with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing include significantly cutting down our cancel/rebill process time and the ability to view all customer information within one screen with easily accessible drop down and search menus. These simple benefits mean we can better serve our customers.”
 
Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management, another component of the implementation, helps Louisville Water to streamline field work processes. For example, the solution identifies the best field service representative available for the field activity and the most cost-effective field resources to complete the action. The solution’s daily work auto-assignment feature enables Louisville Water to use minimal manual intervention and provides alerts if overtime is needed based on work that is scheduled and being assigned for the day.
 
“Doing a large overhaul of aging systems can be a big undertaking, but with planned, measurable steps it is achievable and can have a significant impact on customers,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities. “Businesses across industries are beginning to turn to advanced technology offerings to enhance and improve customer service. Louisville Water’s overall implementation laid the foundation to continue enhancing the customer experience with self-service options and a redesigned bill.”
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Oracle Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Markie Awards

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Oracle Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Markie Awards

The 2016 Markie Awards represent Oracle Marketing Cloud’s biggest award campaign in history with 350 submissions highlighting modern marketing success

MODERN MARKETING EXPERIENCE – Las Vegas, NV—Apr 27, 2016

To promote best practices and celebrate the accomplishments of modern marketers around the world, Oracle has announced the winners of the 2016 Markie Awards. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the annual Markie Awards recognize the top companies and leaders for creative, innovative, and effective modern marketing campaigns that delivered increased engagement, conversation and ROI. Past winners include notable companies such as The Dow Chemical Company, Intel, Marriott Rewards, DocuSign, Twitter and Rockwell Automation.
 
The Markie Awards highlight the best omnichannel success stories in an age where the customer experience is more important than ever before. This year marked the Markie Award’s biggest campaign yet with a total of 350 award submissions, up 80 percent over last year.
 
The 2016 Markie Awards featured 19 categories that reflect the evolving marketing landscape, including: Best Digital Marketing Ecosystem, Best Sales and Marketing Alignment, Best Mobile Experience, Rapid Transformation, Content is King, and Modern Marketing Leader of the Year.
 
“The 10th anniversary of the Markie Awards represents a decade of marketing excellence from top companies and leaders around the world,” said Kevin Akeroyd, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Marketing Cloud. “This year’s winners have gone above and beyond, fully leveraging the most innovative marketing technologies to create campaigns that put the customer at the heart of their programs, which delivered outstanding results.”
 
Winners of the 2016 Markie Awards are:
 
  • Best Use of Audience Data: Dell, Inc.
  • Best Digital Marketing Ecosystem: Lenovo
  • Best Email Marketing Campaign: Jetstar
  • Best International Campaign: Tomtom
  • Best Mobile Experience: Zalora
  • Best Social Campaign: Family Share Network / Deseret Digital
  • Content is King: Wine.com.br
  • Best Customer Retention or Loyalty Program: Cetera Financial Group
  • Best Use of Data Analytics and Insights: Thomson Reuters (Mark Monitor)
  • Best Integrated Consumer Marketing Program: AGA
  • Rapid Transformation: BT Global Services
  • Best Sales and Marketing Alignment: Sierra
  • Best Testing and Optimization of the Customer Experience: YOTEL
  • Best Lead Management Program: Juniper
  • Best Emerging Company Marketing Program: Mobovida
  • Modern Marketing Leader of the Year: Blake Cahill, Royal Phillips
  • Best Web or Commerce Experience: SunPower
  • Most Creative Marketing Campaign: Eaton
  • People’s Choice Markie Award - Best Video: Cisco Systems
 
“At Oracle, we strive to put the customer at the forefront of everything we do,” said Catherine Blackmore, group vice president, customer success, Oracle Marketing Cloud. “Therefore, we believe the best Modern Marketers are all about the customer, too. Oracle is proud to recognize and honor these winners for their customer-centric campaigns, outstanding achievements, and their dedication to Modern Marketing.”
 
The 2016 Markie Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 26th, during Oracle Modern Marketing Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada.
 
 
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Oracle Marketing Cloud Helps Marketers Reduce Sales Cycles and Improve Conversion Rates

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Oracle Marketing Cloud Helps Marketers Reduce Sales Cycles and Improve Conversion Rates

Innovative new platform enables business-to-business marketers to scale and optimize account-based marketing programs

MODERN MARKETING EXPERIENCE - Las Vegas, NV—Apr 28, 2016

Oracle today announced new account-based marketing capabilities within the Oracle Marketing Cloud that help business-to-business (B2B) marketers increase lead generation, reduce sales cycles and improve conversion rates. By supporting the entire B2B buyers’ journey from acquisition and prospecting to closing new business, the new Oracle Marketing Cloud Account-Based Marketing capabilities enable B2B marketers to optimize targeting on paid media, more effectively engage target prospects and simplify data management and integration.   

Account-based marketing can be extremely complex and difficult to scale as marketers often have to personalize interactions with multiple IT and business stakeholders during the deal cycle. In order to simplify the process and help marketers accelerate deal cycles and maximize revenue potential, the new Oracle Marketing Cloud Account-Based Marketing capability provides one of the industry’s largest sets of curated B2B account audience data for targeting on paid media through a new direct integration between Oracle Marketing Cloud and Oracle Data Cloud. Oracle Data Cloud has data on more than one million US companies and over 60 million anonymous business profiles.  B2B marketers can now use this data within the Oracle Marketing Cloud to prospect for anonymous users based on account, online behavior and offline data such as past purchases or other behavioral data. The powerful insights delivered enable marketers to systematically drive account-based re-targeting, site and content optimization.

In addition, to empower B2B marketers to execute account-specific campaigns that increase conversion rates and decrease sales cycles, the new capabilities include unique account-based messaging that enables communications to be personalized at scale. Marketers can also easily append account data to new and existing leads, eliminating the need to present long forms for lead capture, while significantly improving data quality. The new account scoring and nurturing capabilities are powered by integrations with Demandbase and other Oracle Marketing AppCloud partners. It can be administered directly inside Oracle Eloqua, the Oracle Marketing Cloud’s marketing automation product. 

“Account-based marketing can be very powerful, but it has always been unnecessarily complex for B2B marketers,” said John Stetic, group vice president of products, Oracle Marketing Cloud. “With the latest enhancements to the Oracle Marketing Cloud, customers will benefit from a simpler and more innovative approach to account-based marketing through new integrations, data services and expanded capabilities. B2B marketers will be able to more efficiently and effectively execute account-based marketing campaigns that demonstrate a clear ROI.

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Oracle Helps Organizations Personalize the Customer Experience

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Oracle Helps Organizations Personalize the Customer Experience

New innovations within Oracle Customer Experience Cloud Suite help organizations create consistent and personalized experiences across all channels and devices

MODERN CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE CONFERENCE - Las Vegas, NV—Apr 28, 2016

To help organizations deliver a consistent and personalized customer experience across all channels, touch points and interactions, Oracle today introduced a series of new innovations within the Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud Suite. The latest additions help organizations embrace modern customer experience best practices across sales, commerce, customer service and marketing through enhancements to Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Commerce Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

Extending Oracle’s commitment to providing sales teams with the modern processes, tools, resources and intelligence required to increase revenues, Oracle Sales Cloud now includes new mobile capabilities. A new Call Report app improves mobile productivity by enabling sales reps to perform critical and frequent call report tasks on the go, while a new Mobile Commissions app enhances sales performance management by allowing the sales reps to review their compensation anywhere, any time. The latest additions build on an extensive range of mobile capabilities already available in the Oracle Sales Cloud including the Deal Management app, Oracle Voice app and the Oracle Sales Cloud Mobile app.

To help organizations further enhance selling experiences, Oracle has also updated Oracle Commerce Cloud. New visual merchandising and automated recommendation capabilities enable merchandisers to better understand the consumer experience and offer more responsive personalized interactions. In addition, a new release of Oracle CPQ Cloud helps organizations optimize commerce across channels by providing support for flexible document generation. The new Document Designer provides new drag and drop capabilities as well as new organization and execution tools.

In order to further help organizations enhance the on location customer experience, Oracle has also introduced new field service capabilities within the Oracle Service Cloud. A new release of Oracle Field Service Cloud enables customer service professionals to leverage time-based, predictive, self-learning technology to create the most efficient job schedules and travel routes for field resources. By enabling organizations to optimize field resources, the new release helps ensure the right field resource arrives to every job on time with the parts and knowledge required to meet the customers’ expectations.

The enhancements to the Oracle CX Cloud Suite also include new innovations and integrations within the Oracle Marketing Cloud. The latest additions empower consumer marketers to take advantage of powerful data insights to orchestrate and optimize the customer experience across marketing channels and enable business-to-business marketers to take a holistic approach to account-based marketing that improves results across the entire buyers’ lifecycle. For further details on the additions to the Oracle Marketing Cloud, please visit the Oracle Newsroom.

“Digitally empowered consumers demand personalized, engaging and consistent experiences whenever and however they interact with a brand, and organizations that fail to deliver risk losing revenue opportunities and ultimately market share,” said Rondy Ng, Oracle SVP. “To help organizations meet these increasing expectations, we have developed a complete customer experience suite that supports the whole lifecycle of customer interactions. With industry leading solutions across sales, commerce, service and marketing, Oracle is uniquely positioned to help organizations transform the customer experience and drive measurable results across every customer interaction.”

“Consumer expectations in the electronics industry have never been higher” said Scott Strickland, Chief Information Officer for Denon + Marantz Electronics.  “Creating a consolidated view of our end consumer’s journey – from tracking the frictionless initial sale to understanding their positive customer service experience to engaging via successful marketing campaigns and social media  – is our goal.  The Oracle CX Cloud Suite provides an integrated, cloud based solution that allowed us to exceed this goal and has quickly scaled with our business.”  

 

Part of Oracle Applications Cloud, Oracle CX Cloud Suite empowers organizations to improve experiences, enhance loyalty, differentiate their brands, and drive measurable results by creating consistent, connected, and personalized brand experiences across all channels and devices. The Oracle CX Cloud Suite includes Oracle Service Cloud, Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Commerce Cloud and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Oracle Marketing Cloud Helps Simplify Data-Driven Marketing

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Oracle Marketing Cloud Helps Simplify Data-Driven Marketing

New innovations and integrations help direct-to-consumer marketers personalize the customer experience and optimize marketing spend

MODERN MARKETING EXPERIENCE – Las Vegas, NV—Apr 28, 2016

Extending its commitment to help consumer marketers target, convert and retain their ideal customers, Oracle has introduced new innovations and integrations for the Oracle Marketing Cloud. The latest additions empower marketers to use differentiated audience data for targeting on their paid media, orchestrate cross-channel interactions and further optimize the customer experience.
 
Marketers can now improve the customer experience through a new direct integration between Oracle Maxymiser and Oracle Responsys applications. The integration enables marketers to orchestrate Oracle Maxymiser-delivered messaging on a website in conjunction with messaging in email, SMS, MMS, push messaging, in-app messaging and display advertising. In addition, Oracle Maxymiser is now fully integrated with the Oracle Data Management Platform. The integration empowers marketers to tap into first, second and third party data and use it for audience testing and optimization initiatives.
 
To help marketers connect the right audience data and deliver a more consistent customer experience, new integrations with the Oracle Data Cloud have been introduced to the Oracle Marketing Cloud’s Data Management Platform. By leveraging Oracle Data Cloud’s enhanced modeling solution, the first integration gives marketers the ability to model their online audiences based on critical offline data, such as in-store purchase transactions. The second integration gives customers access to Oracle Data Cloud's AddThis Audience Discovery tool, which helps marketers better understand and target their ideal audience with relevant paid media campaigns. The powerful data-driven marketing solution uses natural language processing to look at keywords on billions of web pages across the web. It transforms those keywords into audience data that is based on the online behaviors of two billion unique users traversing more than 15 million websites around the world.
 
The latest additions to the Oracle Marketing Cloud also reduce the complexity of data-driven marketing by delivering greater insight into how customer engagement drives revenue. By leveraging the speed and scale of Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Marketing Cloud now provides marketers with advanced data visualization and investigation tools through an easy-to-use interface that delivers deep insights into performance across different channels. To further enhance usability, a new graphical audience segmentation feature allows B2C marketers to benefit from segmentation logic that is easier to visualize, test and reuse.
 
“Marketing has the opportunity to take the lead in driving a deeply personalized customer experience across all channels, touch points and interactions,” said Steve Krause, group vice president, Product Management, Oracle Marketing Cloud. “To help marketers capitalize on this opportunity, we have introduced a number of new integrations and innovations within the Oracle Marketing Cloud that help B2C marketers orchestrate and personalize the full customer experience. The latest additions include powerful data integrations that will help brands increase engagement and optimize marketing spend.” 
 
 
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Friday, April 22, 2016

GE and Oracle Partner to Help Digitally Connect Every Industrial Asset in the World

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GE and Oracle Partner to Help Digitally Connect Every Industrial Asset in the World

Redwood Shores and San Ramon, Calif.—Apr 21, 2016

GE and Oracle today announced a strategic partnership focused on building the first of its kind platform for companies to digitally connect industrial assets across the world.

Through this collaboration, GE Digital and Oracle will develop and integrate complementary solutions across their product portfolios. GE Digital brings its Predix offering that combines cutting-edge technology and decades of industry experience into a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) targeted to securely ingest machine-grade data at scale and analyzes it to deliver outcomes –fast. The Predix platform is purpose-built for developing, deploying, operating and monetizing Industrial Internet applications. Oracle’s enterprise solutions, including its Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Applications and ERP and Supply Chain Management applications, can use the information from Industrial Internet devices to help automate and optimize business processes, enable better asset visibility, more efficient supply chains, intelligent manufacturing, predictive maintenance and service, and improve logistics and transportation efficiency.

GE’s operational technology and Oracle’s enterprise solutions are intended to integrate into one optimized view for customers, allowing for end-to-end insight from customer assets in the field and on the factory floor, to the front and back office to the boardroom. With these integrated solutions, customers can connect any machine or sensor to any other machine or business application to also create disruptive and innovative products and services. Customers will leverage these solutions to maximize the benefits of the convergence of Operational Technologies (OT) with Information Technologies (IT) in driving business outcomes such as operational efficiencies, cost to quality reduction and enhanced customer experiences.

“GE and Oracle, two industry powerhouses, share a vision for growing the digital industrial ecosystem and providing customers with the easiest path to transformation,” said Thomas Kurian, President of Product Development, Oracle. “GE’s Industrial Internet platform sets the standard for the industry and we are committed to developing joint solutions that leverage Oracle’s enterprise expertise in analytics and business applications to deliver digitally- enabled business process innovation for industrial companies.”

GE Digital and Oracle will bring their large partner ecosystems together to train, certify and implement powered by Predix solutions with Oracle’s Cloud offerings, technology software and business applications.

“We are building an ecosystem with world-class partners who share our belief that customers benefit at the intersection of information technology and operations technology,” said Bill Ruh, CEO for GE Digital. “Oracle has become a market leader in cloud-based enterprise software and we are co-developing solutions on Predix that will leverage this intersection to provide our customers with new insights that were not possible before.”

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GE Digital connects streams of machine data to powerful analytics and people, providing industrial companies with valuable insights to manage assets and operations more efficiently. World-class talent and software capabilities driving digital industrial transformation for big gains in productivity, availability and longevity. For more information, visit the website at www.ge.com/digital.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

New Cloud Storage Options Enable Oracle DIVA Customers to Securely Store Manage and Retrieve Rich Media Assets

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New Cloud Storage Options Enable Oracle DIVA Customers to Securely Store, Manage, and Retrieve Rich Media Assets

Customers can now connect the industry’s top content storage management application with Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Archive Storage

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Apr 19, 2016

Today at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, Oracle announced new cloud storage options that enable organizations with large volumes of rich media to store, manage, and retrieve content for one-seventh the cost of any other cloud archive service. By integrating Oracle DIVA, the industry-leading content storage management application, with Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Archive Storage, Oracle is enabling customers to take advantage of flexible and scalable cloud storage priced at one-tenth of a penny per gigabyte per month or $12,000 USD per petabyte per year.

“Video storage is expected to quintuple over the next three years, driven in part by higher resolution digital formats,” said James Cates, senior vice president of engineering, Oracle. “Currently, 24 hours of video requires upward of 86 terabytes of storage and this trend will only increase. We saw the growing need for flexible, scalable, and secure storage, which is why we integrated two of our most powerful offerings. Now, media and entertainment companies can focus on producing excellent content, working with a solution that makes storing, managing, and retrieving rich media for both on-premise and in the cloud.”

The integration of Oracle DIVA with Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Archive Storage also provides customers with an incremental cloud extension tier to on-premises archive solutions, such as Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 and SL3000 tape libraries. The capability to tier video content from the cloud to on-premise environments brings cloud to the entire workflow of media lifecycle management and enables customers to leverage the bulk economics of the cloud while retaining the performance and usability of on-premises solutions that is critical for video.

To further support the storage and archiving demands of the world’s largest media organizations, Oracle has also updated Oracle DIVAnet, Oracle DIVArchive, and AXF Explorer, an open format for universal content transport, storage, and long-term preservation.

  • Oracle DIVAnet 2.0: With the latest release of Oracle DIVAnet, media and entertainment organizations can securely share and back up rich media assets globally by connecting up to 10 Oracle DIVArchive systems through a single global namespace. Access control by site and by application is now enabled in DIVAnet 2.0 to provide additional security for valuable video assets.
  • Oracle DIVArchive 7.4: Oracle’s top content storage management application now has incorporated Oracle Database 12c and has added support for Oracle Linux, further enhancing the benefits of running Oracle software on Oracle hardware.
  • AXF Explorer: With the release of Oracle AXF Explorer, Oracle DIVA customers gain access to the SMPTE standard open format for sharing and managing content among disparate storage systems.

Oracle DIVA solutions are powered by Oracle Database 12c and are designed to meet the unique needs of the world’s largest media companies. Today, 10 of the top 10 media companies run Oracle software, with organizations such as Major League Baseball moving more than 600 hours of live video content daily and seven petabytes of information annually using Oracle DIVArchive with Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 modular library system and Oracle’s StorageTek T10000 tape drives.

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Monday, April 18, 2016

Oracle to Share Modern Customer Experience Best Practices in Las Vegas

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Oracle to Share Modern Customer Experience Best Practices in Las Vegas

Events for marketing, commerce, sales and service professionals to provide actionable insights that help attendees meet demands of digitally empowered consumers

Redwood Shores Calif—Apr 18, 2016

To help organizations embrace modern customer experience (CX) best practices across marketing, commerce, sales and customer service, Oracle will host four separate conferences in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 26-28. Held at the MGM Grand Hotel and Resort, Modern Marketing Experience, Modern Commerce Experience, Modern Sales Experience and Modern Service Experience will empower professionals with the insights needed to deliver a personalized customer experience whenever and however a customer interacts with a brand.
 
Digital technologies have transformed the way organizations engage with customers and have fundamentally reshaped the role of marketing. To help marketers embrace a role that increasingly includes responsibilities for overall customer experience initiatives, Modern Marketing Experience will provide attendees with the knowledge and experience they need to make a difference in their companies and careers through insights from experts in marketing automation, social marketing, content marketing, big data and testing and optimization. The event includes more than 200 sessions, presentations from CMOs of some of the most iconic brands in the world and the 10th annual Markie Awards, which honor the best of modern marketing.
 
In addition, Oracle is hosting dedicated events for customer service, sales, and commerce professionals. Modern Commerce Experience will help businesses understand how to satisfy customers who increasingly expect seamless omni-channel commerce experiences on the web, on mobile and in-store. Modern Sales Experience will demonstrate how industry experts and customers are taking advantage of modern sales tools to unlock customer insights and dedicate the right sales resources to focus on the right targets to boost results. Modern Service Experience will show how customer service teams can differentiate their brand by unifying web, social and contact-center experiences that help develop lasting, profitable relationships with their customers.
 
Highlights Across the Four Conferences
  • Engaging Keynotes: Keynote speakers includes Oracle CEO Mark Hurd; Kevin Akeroyd, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Marketing Cloud; Ryan Deutsch, divisional vice president, Digital Marketing, Sears Holdings Corporation; Nick Cerise, CMO, Western Union Business Solutions; Eric Reynolds, senior vice president & CMO, The Clorox Company
  • Inspiring Guest Speakers: The conferences will feature a range of guest speakers including Troy Carter, founder, chairman and CEO, Atom Factory and Tyra Banks, Founder & CEO of TYRA Beauty and Creator & Executive Producer of America’s Next Top Model
  • Powerful Insights: Attendees will have access to several hundred high-quality sessions, deep-dive training sessions, and expert keynotes covering marketing, sales, customer service and commerce, plus partner demos
  • Industry Best Practices: The 2016 Markie Awards, celebrating its 10th year of honoring outstanding marketing success, will host a dinner and ceremony to showcase examples of excellence in modern marketing on Tuesday, April 26th at 8:00 p.m. PT, and the event will host the award-winning band, Bastille. Modern Service Experience will also recognize service innovators during a morning customer appreciation award ceremony on Wednesday, April 27th.
  • Lots of Fun: Oracle’s customer appreciation event, on Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 p.m. PT in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, will offer attendees a night of great music, fine food and drink, and more opportunities to connect with peers from around the world. The event will feature the Goo Goo Dolls
 
“Meeting the demands of today’s mobile and social empowered consumer requires a commitment to optimizing the customer experience across the entire organization,” said Des Cahill, Vice President and Head CX Evangelist. “To help organizations succeed in this new market reality, we are bringing together thousands of people from the world’s top brands to provide insights into the trends and best practices that help enhance customer experience across all touchpoints. As the market leader in customer experience for marketing, sales, service and commerce, Oracle is uniquely positioned to deliver effective omni-channel customer experience via our Oracle CX Cloud Suite. Customer Experience is the number one technology investment area for CEOs over the next 5 years and Oracle is helping thousands of leading organizations create competitive advantage in this area.” 
 
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Tucson Electric Power Reduces Average Call Handling Time with Upgraded Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing System

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Tucson Electric Power Reduces Average Call Handling Time with Upgraded Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing System

Oracle, Cognizant, and Origin Consulting help Tucson Electric Power deliver improved customer service and streamline operations

Oracle Industry Connect—Orlando, Fla.—Apr 13, 2016

Utilities are faced with a rapidly changing industry and increasing expectations from their customers. Adapting to these factors requires a mature, flexible, and highly-scalable customer information system, designed to improve customer service and enhance financial performance. Oracle today announced that Tucson Electric Power (TEP)—which delivers safe, reliable power to more than 414,000 customers in the Tucson metropolitan area—upgraded its customer information system in its commitment to provide superior customer service.

By working with Cognizant and Origin Consulting to upgrade to Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.4 Service Pack Two, TEP is able to further leverage its existing Oracle investment as well as ensure compatibility with its enterprise software, including its meter data management system—ultimately enabling the utility to save money and provide enhanced customer service.

With the upgraded Oracle solution, TEP realized additional cost savings. The utility reduced the average call handling time by 10 seconds, received new postal discounts by implementing mail stream for customer letters, and increased operational efficiency. Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.4 also enhanced TEP’s visibility of business performance and operations through solution features such as an intuitive user interface, online help, and complete and immediate access to customer account histories.

Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.4 also helped TEP improve IT efficiencies. TEP shortened batch billing performance by 15 to 20 minutes, reduced night-batch processing time on an average of 20 minutes, and reduced batch aborts by 25 percent, resulting in timely revenue flow. The utility also reduced storage costs and improved database performance. Immediately upon go live, TEP processed 800,000 billing records and generated 30,000 bills with zero differences; validated and matched critical month-end reports; and received zero calls to the help desk during first couple of weeks post-cutover.

“We wanted to implement a solution that would improve security for sensitive data, automate manual business processes, and decrease system maintenance costs. We partnered with Cognizant and Origin Consulting to upgrade to Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.4 because it meets all our goals and more,” said Ramon Vazquez, IT customer applications supervisor, Tucson Electric Power.

Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.4 enabled more than 50 new features for the utility, including meter-to-cash analytical reporting and report standardization, leveraging integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

The Oracle solution also included encryption features that enabled the utility to reduce risk by allowing it to encrypt sensitive data, like social security numbers.

“Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing meets the express needs of a customer-centric business strategy,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities. “Tucson Electric Power was able to quickly and seamlessly upgrade to the latest version of the Oracle solution to take advantage of new functionality that helps improve the customer experience and streamline operations.”

Tucson Electric Power worked with Cognizant and Origin Consulting on the system upgrade. Cognizant and Origin Consulting are Platinum-level members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Oracle Black Belt was also involved for fine tuning of batch billing and was available during Cutover.

“Changing customer behaviors and new technologies are creating new opportunities for customer engagement and transformation of customer service,” said John Gustafson, Vice President and Business Unit Head - Energy and Utilities, Cognizant. “We worked closely with TEP from discovery, design, and development to testing, cutover, and warranty—to help ensure the utility could realize results immediately and continue to maintain a positive customer experience.”

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Oracle Bolsters Computer Science Education in America

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Oracle Bolsters Computer Science Education in America

Part of $3.3 Billion Annual Investment to Advance Computer Science Education and Increase Diversity in Technology Fields Globally

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Apr 13, 2016

Computer Science Job Market Study

Computer Science Job Market Study (2016) by Burning Glass Technologies and Oracle Academy

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In conjunction with The White House Science Fair 2016, Oracle and The White House today announced Oracle’s plan to invest $200 million in direct and in-kind support for computer science (CS) education in the United States over the next 18 months. Oracle’s pledge supports the Administration’s Computer Science for All initiative and is part of the company’ greater annual worldwide investment of $3.3 billion to empower CS educators and engage diverse student populations globally. Today’s commitment expects to reach more than 232,000 students in over 1,100 U.S. institutions through Oracle Academy, its philanthropic CS-focused educational program that impacts more than 2.6 million students in 106 countries.

In 2015, only two percent of all participants in the College Board’s AP program took Computer Science and a mere 22 percent of those participants were female.[1] Yet, programming jobs are growing 50 percent faster than the market overall, according to new research by Oracle Academy and Burning Glass Technologies, a leading labor market company. The study (2016), which analyzed and interpreted real-time data from millions of online job postings from nearly 40,000 sources, revealed that demand for CS, programming, and coding skills is large, growing, and far more widespread than just IT jobs.

“Our latest research findings confirm that access to computer science education in the United States is both an economic and social equality issue. Moreover, these findings help quantify and contextualize the need to expand CS to all students regardless of race, gender, or socio-economic status,” said Alison Derbenwick Miller, vice president, Oracle Academy. “We’ve been working to advance computer science education globally for more than two decades, and today’s commitment takes Oracle Academy to a new apex in our journey. It’s an honor to be part of this collaborative mission, led by the White House. The potential power of Computer Science for All to change the lives of our children and the future of our nation is awe-inspiring.”

As part of the White House announcement, Oracle Academy will provide free academic curriculum, professional development for teachers, software, certification resources, and more. Further, Oracle will work with K-12 schools, community colleges, and 4-year colleges and universities to support continuous CS education pathways through a number of new and meaningful ways, which include:

  • Training more teachers in computer science. Aims to double the number of U.S. teachers Oracle Academy trains in the 2016-17 academic year.
  • Providing access to free Oracle software. Offers students hands-on experience through free software licenses for a large number of Oracle products.
  • Expanding outreach to underrepresented populations. Commits to invest more than $3 million in nonprofit organizations focused on inspiring young girls and engaging underrepresented students in pursuing STEM and CS degrees.
  • Launching innovative courses in emerging CS fields. Introduces new Cloud-focused boot camps in the 2016 academic year and expands access to Oracle Academy’s Big Data Science boot camps.
  • Connecting world class innovators with educators and students. Plans to build an innovative new public high school, d.tech, at Oracle’s headquarters in California.
  • Driving efforts to ensure CS counts as an academic credit. Expands policy push and partnerships with other corporate and nonprofit leaders to encourage all 50 states to recognize CS as an academic graduation credit in K-12 schools.

[1] The College Board (2015), AP Program Participation and Performance Data 2015: Program Summary Report. Retrieved from http://ift.tt/1Nlefcc.

    • Join Oracle Academy
    • Attend an Oracle Academy workshop
    • Learn about Oracle Academy’s participation in CS For All
    • Livestream President Obama’s address at The White House Science Fair 2016 (Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 2:15 p.m. ET)
    • Follow @OracleAcademy, @Oracle, #CS4All
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As Oracle’s flagship philanthropic educational program, Oracle Academy advances computer science education globally to drive knowledge, innovation, skills development, and diversity in technology fields. To this end, Oracle Academy offers students and educational institutions a free and complete portfolio of software, curriculum, hosted technology, faculty trainings, support, and certification resources. The program works with public and private partners to provide the tools educators need to engage, inspire and prepare students to become innovators and leaders of the future. Through Oracle Academy, students receive hands-on experience with the latest technologies, helping make them college and career ready in the era of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and beyond.

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