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Business
Intelligence Applications - Business Operations and
Decision-Making, Operational BI Applications
To analyze
greater amounts and types of data, extend dashboards
companywide, and help augment its decision-making processes,
Shopzilla has selected Oracle to power its new
business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing
systems. Shopzilla connects millions of shoppers with
thousands of merchants, tracking the flow of traffic,
purchases, product searches, among other key events
transpiring through its shopping search site.
With a growing business, new Web site features resulting in
more data for analysis, and changing customer needs,
Shopzilla plans to deploy a new data warehouse comprised of
Oracle Database(R) 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters
running on six Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with two Intel
Core Duo processors on Linux.
Following a thorough five-week pilot phase, Shopzilla chose
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition
(Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE) as its platform for
alerts, dashboards, and self-service reporting capabilities
throughout the enterprise. The company tested Oracle
Business Intelligence Answers, Oracle Business Intelligence
Dashboards, and Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers
modules of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE on top of
its clustered Oracle Database with great success.
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SAP AG announced 13 North American SAP resellers - as
part of 22 SAP resellers worldwide - will assist SAP in its
further rollout of SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM), the
company's most complete on-demand business software solution
specifically addressing a new market of prospective,
fast-growing midsize customers. Formally introduced on
September 19, 2007, SAP Business ByDesign enriches SAP's
existing small and midsize business offerings by providing
an intuitive, highly adaptable, user-friendly on-demand
solution allowing for easier consumption, faster time to
value and minimized overall IT costs for the growing midsize
market.
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Informatica Corporation, data integration software,
announced PowerCenter 8.5, PowerExchange 8.5, and
Informatica Data Quality 8.5, a comprehensive release that
supports real-time integration competency centers (ICCs).
Through standardization and centralization, an ICC promotes
data integration best practices and lowers costs through
economies of scale. The real-time ICC delivers timely,
trusted data to meet information needs of the business.
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The upcoming Oracle
OpenWorld(R) San Francisco conference, to be held November
11-15, 2007 at Moscone Center, will offer customers and
partners a wide range of specialized programming. Oracle
OpenWorld will unveil new Oracle Agile and Oracle Hyperion
programs - offering customers a "conference within a
conference" experience. These new programs will be offered
alongside returning popular programs including Oracle
Develop, Oracle's JD Edwards Program, and the Oracle
PartnerNetwork Forum. These focused, breakout programs will
allow conference-goers to build agendas tailored to fit
their individual business needs and desired educational
focus.
Oracle's Hyperion Program
Featuring more than 80 sessions, Oracle's Hyperion Program
debuts at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2007 from November
12-13 at the Marriott San Francisco Hotel. The two-day
program will outline Oracle's vision for Enterprise
Performance Management and Business Intelligence (BI)
including the roadmap for how Hyperion products are being
integrated with Oracle Applications and infrastructure
software. Attendees will have immediate access to the latest
product information on Hyperion's Financial Performance
Management Applications, Hyperion Essbase, and Hyperion's BI
tools, including continued product innovations. John Kopcke,
senior vice president of the Oracle Enterprise Performance
Management Global Business Unit, is scheduled to deliver
this special program's general session.
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Oracle has agreed to acquire Interlace Systems, a provider
of strategic operational planning software. A key part of
the enterprise performance management (EPM) segment,
Interlace Systems software helps organizations, quickly and
collaboratively, combine functional processes to address
strategic operational planning needs. Its software uses a
change-based data modeling server, connecting operational
plans in an integrated model and allowing business planners
across functions to rapidly change operational assumptions,
reevaluate scenarios, assess business impact and update the
plan of record.
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Yahoo! Inc. has expanded its agreement to use MicroStrategy
for business intelligence reporting and analytics.
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Open Text(TM) Corp. released new business solutions
that give companies using SAP (R) applications a
360-degree view of supplier and employee information,
including document and email content, in the context of SAP
solutions. The company also announced a new data access
solution that makes information contained in SAP solutions
and other systems easily accessible to customers, partners
and employees. Using these solutions, companies can increase
process efficiency, more easily meet regulatory
requirements, and improve employee, customer and business
partner satisfaction.
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Telemetree Systems has released the next generation
of Cubeware: Cockpit V6pro, the intuitive Business
Intelligence software for analysis, planning,
forecasting, reporting, and dashboarding. With Cockpit
V6pro, users can connect to any data source, and can access
valuable information to quickly and easily create dashboards
in Web or Windows environments. This exciting new version of
Cubeware is highlighted by an open report design,
comprehensive traffic lighting features, attractive charts
and gauges, and seamless integration with business source
data.
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Tata Consultancy Services, business solutions and
outsourcing, is launching a new subsidiary, TCS South
Africa, to further strengthen its focus and expand
operations in South Africa.
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