Oracle&#39;s Improved Business Suite
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At the Open World conference, which commenced yesterday in London, Oracle laid out the most comprehensive offering yet of its Business Suite of applications and unveiled new procurement applications for contracts and services.
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At PeopleSoftâs European conference this week, the vendorâs senior executives were keen to point out the progress that the firm has made in the past year, including new services to make updates easier for customers.
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IBM has announced a slew of new or upgraded products and services aimed at helping companies better integrate business processes and make their operations more efficient through the use of service-oriented architectures.
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Sorry to say, one good guy is history at PeopleSoft. And from what can be heard from the company&#39;s board, soon, the exceptional software company itself will soon be a footnote in Oracle&#39;s annual report.
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Oracle Corp. today patched 45 vulnerabilities in its flagship database as well as its application server, collaboration suite, e-business line and PeopleSoft software.
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Oracle Corp. continued to release pieces of its PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications suite, turning its attentions to performance management. The move is part of Oracle's most substantial revamp of the suite since acquiring PeopleSoft in January 2005.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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Oracle last week revealed more details about the next version of its e-business suite, while pushing the concept of grid computing.
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Taking a page from major enterprise software providers like Oracle and SAP, Microsoft announced this week Business Ready Customer Care, an initiative that includes major enhancements to its maintenance and support program for Microsoft Dynamics, ERP and CRM, applications.The customer support initiative does three things: Extends for five years the time over which Microsoft will support its products; offers more creative financing solutions for buying its CRM and ERP products, and promises to create a more transparent environment for its channel partners and their customers about future upgrades and products.Industry analyst Josh Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, said the fact that Microsoft is offering an additional five years of software support is in recognition of how well Oracle's extended support program is working for its customer base.Under the new Microsoft program there will be a total of five years of "mainstream" support for its products plus an additional five years of extended support, according to Christine Bell, director of global services product management, for Microsoft Business Solutions.Greenbaum says the extended support is a smart move on Microsoft's part."Oracle found out that extending support for their applications does not mean customers are gong to stall on [buying] new releases. They [Oracle] have a good upgrade flow despite or maybe because of extended support," Greenbaum said.In today's market, most vendors make upgrades a revenue-neutral event."You still get maintenance revenue either way, so why cause anxiety when you don't have to," added Greenbaum.On the financing side, Microsoft is now offering more options, including financing both the cost of hardware and software.Also available through March 2008 is a program called Smart Pay which will allow customers to select what their monthly payments will be for the first year.Finally, Bell said that Microsoft is making the commitment to deliver statements of directions that look out to the next 12 to 14 months."It will be very specific and talk about features and functionality," said Bell.Microsoft will include written documents on a special partner and customer Web site and will not require signing a non-disclosure agreement.The roadmap details are expected to start in November.
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Intuit's new version stresses ease of use, while Best's adds high-end features.
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To help companies increase productivity, reduce risk and better meet regulatory compliance guidelines through improved management of unstructured data, Oracle announced the launch of its enterprise-class content management technology, Oracle Files 10g.
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Oracle has fixed 45 security flaws in its database and application products.
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New version of accounting software for small businesses has also been designed to increase efficiency.
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Oracle Corp. is finally bringing to the North American market its Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, a midmarket-aimed package of pre-installed, preconfigured software from its 11i suite of business applications.
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Oracle announced the first major upgrade of its business applications in six years, and company officials vowed that migrating won't be as difficult as it was the last time around.
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Better performance and operational refinements top the list of improvements over Windows Vista Beta 2.
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Oracle Corp. fared far better than analysts anticipated in its fiscal second quarter, easing worries that the sagging U.S. economy and slowing corporate spending on technology would drag down the business software maker.