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Oracle Configurator 11i.10, part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, has received a "Strong Positive" rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Sales Configuration, Q307."(1) Oracle was one of 13 vendors evaluated in the report and received the highest-ranking possible of strong positive.

Gartner considers companies receiving a strong positive rating to be solid providers of strategic products, services or solutions and recommends that existing customers continue investments while potential customers consider the vendor a strong strategic choice.

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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has been selected as a winner of a 2007 InfoWorld 100 award for its newly implemented business intelligence system.

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Genesis Corporate Solutions, a business unit of YASH Technologies, has achieved Gold Partner status in the U.S., the highest level of recognition attainable within the SAP PartnerEdge program.

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Satyam Becomes Official Information Technology Services Provider to the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups

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Clarity Systems, corporate performance management solutions, showcased software that supports both Oracle(R) Database and Oracle's Hyperion Essbase. Clarity Systems delivers CPM solutions that help the largest companies in the world optimize budgeting, planning, reporting, modeling, consolidations, and forecasting across the organization.

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MicroStrategy(R) launched a new program to aggressively recruit qualified business intelligence professionals from Business Objects and Cognos.

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Leading Organizations Back Unified Platform for Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management

In its recent report, "Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2007-2011 Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares," IDC estimates that total business analytics software revenues grew by 11.2 percent in 2006 to reach $19.3 billion. IDC expects total revenues to continue to grow at a healthy compound annual growth rate of 10.3 percent over the next five years.(1) Built on a standards-based, hot-pluggable architecture, Oracle's EPM and BI software presents a significant revenue opportunity for organizations.

Today, numerous industry-leading solution, technology and service providers in every major industry - including manufacturing, media, telecommunications, financial services, education, healthcare and pharmaceutical, public sector, transportation and logistics - team with Oracle to help customers measure performance, improve profitability and drive better business value.

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With its Global Data Warehouse, Alcoa's business and corporate executives are able to access, manage and integrate global data from a single source to targeted business analytics applications such as Oracle's Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management and Hyperion Planning - components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Alcoa consolidated data from four regional instances of the Oracle E-Business Suite it has deployed throughout the world into a single, global repository to support its business analytics, Enterprise Performance Management, and Master Data Management initiatives. The fast-growing multi-terabyte data warehouse supports approximately 9,000 users across Alcoa's strategic business units in the form of dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and scorecards.

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Planned new capabilities previewed in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System include:

• Profitability Management

• Drill-Back

• Enhanced XBRL Support

Planned new enhancements to Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation offerings include:

• Essbase Studio

• Smart Space

• Calculation Manager

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BlackLine Systems joins the Oracle PartnerNetwork with solutions that provide a link between accounting and financial reporting data that helps verify the accuracy of financial results during the critical close process.

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Clarity Systems, corporate performance management solutions, showcased software that supports both Oracle(R) Database and Oracle's Hyperion Essbase. Currently, Clarity 6.1 and Clarity FSR support Essbase version 6.x, 7.x in addition to Oracle8i Database, Oracle9i Database and Oracle Database 10g.

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Microsoft Office Accounting 2008, an enhanced version of the well-received 2007 financial management software for small businesses, is now available.

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