Oracle Press Release

Oracle Introduces Mobile Point-of-Service for Retailers

Oracle Retail Mobile POS Enables Retailers to Improve Customer Experience, Increase Efficiency, and Enhance Service

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2012

News Facts

To help retailers improve customer service and increase efficiency, Oracle today introduced Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service, a mobile extension to Oracle Retail Point-of-Service (POS) that enables store associates to assist customers and securely complete transactions from anywhere in the store using mobile devices.

Mobile POS is becoming increasingly more popular among both consumers and retailers as it speeds and simplifies checkout, eliminates lines, reduces costs associated with adding cash registers and helps keep personnel out in the store, talking with customers rather than standing behind a checkout counter.

For retailers already using Oracle Retail Stores Solutions, Oracle Retail Mobile POS leverages these applications to enable store personnel to check in-store inventory, look up product information, activate gift cards, print or email receipts and suspend transactions for completion at the register.

Because Oracle Retail Mobile POS is integrated with Oracle Retail Stores Solutions it helps ensure streamlined upgrades and consistent business logic and transaction processes across the entire suite.

Oracle Retail Mobile POS has a scalable and flexible architecture that allows any combination of fixed and mobile checkout points and supports multiple mobile operating systems and devices, such as Apple ipod Touch and VeriFone PAYware Mobile Enterprise, so retailers are not locked in to specific vendors.

VeriFone is a Gold level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

Supporting Quotes

“Gartner research shows that retailers are extremely interested in mobile POS as a way to transform the check-out experience,” said Jeff Roster, Research Vice President, Gartner. “As one of the four transformational forces that Gartner has defined as part of its Nexus of Forces research, mobility, including mobile POS, will be a key area for experimentation and investment for retailers going forward.”

“Oracle Retail Mobile POS provides the flexibility to serve customers on their terms.  By providing store associates with a consistent transaction interface and delivering actionable insights at any point of service, we help retailers level the playing field between store associates and digitally enabled customers,” said Mike Webster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail. “Oracle Retail Mobile POS provides an integrated and scalable architecture for retailers to create differentiated customer interactions.”

Supporting Resources

Data Sheet: Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service

About Oracle Retail Stores Solutions

Oracle Retail on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Oracle Insight-Driven Retailing Blog

Oracle Retail in the News

Oracle Retail Asset and Centralized Knowledge Portal

About Oracle Retail

Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and commerce channels. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/goto/retail

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

About Oracle in Industries

Oracle industry solutions leverage the company's best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to retail, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.

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Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Banking Platform

New Platform is a Transformational Solution for the Next Generation of Banking

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Sept 18, 2012

News Facts

Today Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Banking Platform, a comprehensive suite of business applications for large global banks.

Oracle Banking Platform is designed to help banks respond strategically to today’s business challenges and progressively transform their business models and processes, driving productivity improvements across both front and back offices, and reducing operating costs.

The solution supports banks as they grow their businesses through new distribution strategies, including multi-brand or white labeling, to tap new markets and enterprise product origination supporting multi-product and packages to drive an increased customer-to-product ratio.

Oracle Banking Platform is designed as a native service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform, helping banks implement key enterprise services, deliver on customer centricity, enrich channel capability, drive process improvement and tie it in with their existing applications and technology landscape.

Through pre-integrated enterprise applications and the underlying Oracle technology stack, the solution can also help to reduce in-house integration and testing efforts, ultimately, reducing IT costs and improving time-to-market.

The first release of Oracle Banking Platform includes core banking deposits and loans capabilities, as well as enterprise origination and collection for personal banking functionality. Oracle plans to continue to build out further functionality for future releases.

Oracle Banking Platform complements Oracle’s FLEXCUBE core banking product, which will continue to be sold globally to banks seeking a fully integrated banking solution, addressing the need for universal, commercial banking and international operations.

Supporting Quote

“Many banks today are burdened by complex, aging banking platforms and are beginning to look toward technology and platform modernization as part of their business transformation strategies. However, modernization is a major investment of time, money and oversight,” said Frank D. Brienzi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit. “Oracle Banking Platform provides a comprehensive suite of applications that makes the replacement of core systems viable for large banks, enabling strategic choices as well as providing a high level of flexibility and value. We have been very pleased with our strategic relationship in delivering this revolutionary new banking platform with National Australia Bank. Oracle Banking Platform is in production at National Australia Bank’s on-line direct bank (UBank), and we continue to make significant progress planning the conversions of their core retail and commercial banking units.”

“Core modernization is both a costly and complex undertaking for large banks. As such, many banks continue to operate on legacy core systems developed in the 1980s. A significant number of large banks, however, have recently undertaken core modernization efforts to meet customer demands or improve operating efficiency,” said CEB TowerGroup research director Bob Hunt. “Although a few large banks have elected to use in-house development to modernize their core systems, most banks are electing to implement integrated core systems provided by either global or regional core systems vendors. The core vendors have responded to banks’ needs for a less risky approach to modernization by using service-oriented architecture (SOA) to componentize their systems, allowing banks to implement single systems or even individual processes within the system.”

"Oracle Banking Platform forms the foundation of our strategic banking transformation initiative. It will give us the agility we need to rapidly adopt new business models, bring new services and products online quickly and deliver world-class service to our clients across any channel they prefer,” said Gavin Slater, Group Executive, National Australia Bank

Supporting Resources

Oracle Financial Services

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Join the Oracle Financial Services Community on Facebook

Subscribe to the Oracle Financial Services YouTube channel

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com

About Oracle in Industries

Oracle industry solutions leverage the company’s best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to financial services, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.

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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Oracle Press Release

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 to Offer Utilities Industry Sessions

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2012

News Facts

At Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, Sept. 30 - Oct. 4, 2012, utilities executives will discuss applications, technology and systems that transform operational excellence and customer satisfaction, manage big data and support smart metering and smart grid programs.

Executives from AGL Resources, Duke Energy, Duquesne Light, Exelon, Green Mountain Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, San Jose Water Company, San Diego Gas & Electric and Veolia Water North America will participate in more than 40 sessions, demonstrations and networking events.

Oracle Utilities will host its general session on Monday, Oct. 1 at 10:45 a.m. Oracle Utilities’ Rodger Smith and Linda Jackman will discuss industry challenges and new innovations for utilities. AGL Resources Chief Executive Officer John Somerhalder and Kelly Gallant, North American Managing Director for Accenture’s Utilities Group, will also speak.

On the second level of the Palace Hotel, Oracle Utilities will conduct live demonstrations of its mission-critical software applications.

Supporting Quote

“At Oracle OpenWorld 2012, attendees will have the opportunity to join experts for a broad range of sessions, demonstrations and activities that address the critical issues facing the utilities industry today. We designed this year’s dedicated track to help utilities improve service reliability as well as transform customer service, operational efficiency and business processes,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.

Supporting Resources

Oracle OpenWorld 2012

Join us for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 San Francisco. Register to attend.

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Keynotes

Like Oracle OpenWorld on Facebook

Follow Oracle OpenWorld on Twitter

Oracle OpenWorld Blog

Oracle OpenWorld on LinkedIn

Oracle Utilities

Oracle Utilities on Facebook

Oracle Utilities on LinkedIn

Oracle Utilities on Twitter

Oracle Utilities on Diigo

Oracle Utilities YouTube Channel

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco is the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners. This information technology event is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. The conference, which draws more than 50,000 attendees from over 110 countries, offer more than 2,100 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 450 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is being held September 30-October 4 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions and more live on YouTube. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter, Facebook and the Oracle OpenWorld Blog.

About Oracle Utilities

Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware, database technologies, as well as servers and storage. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities.

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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Oracle Press Release

Oracle Buys SelectMinds

Adds Social Talent Sourcing Capabilities to Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud

Redwood Shores, CA – September 17, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications.

SelectMinds’ applications enable organizations to empower recruiters, hiring managers and employees to leverage social connections to distribute job opportunities, source higher quality referrals, market their employment brand and manage corporate alumni relationships.

With referrals as the #1 source for external hires*, organizations are looking to tap into higher-quality talent by leveraging employees’ social connections.

The combination of Oracle and SelectMinds’ complementary social sourcing capabilities is expected to create a comprehensive recruiting, candidate sourcing, and talent management offering for organizations to reach quality referrals through social recruiting.

SelectMinds products are already fully integrated with Oracle Cloud Recruiting, Performance Management and Human Capital Management solutions and further extend Oracle’s social and mobile initiatives into talent management.

More information on this announcement can be found at http://www.oracle.com/selectminds.

Supporting Quotes

“Recruiting candidates through employee referrals is widely acknowledged as the most effective method to find talent through trusted contacts. Making recruiting efforts efficient and seamless by leveraging social connections and through mobile applications helps companies find better quality candidates and continue to build the pipeline for future talent,” said Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Development. “By adding SelectMinds to Oracle’s Talent Management Cloud, Oracle can help customers with a complete talent management solution, enabling streamlined recruiting practices, more quality referrals, faster employee on-boarding, and better performance.”

“Oracle’s proposed acquisition of SelectMinds represents a strong endorsement of SelectMinds intuitive social sourcing technology and the value customers have achieved with our solutions. We’re excited to be a part of Oracle, and look forward to combining our resources to better serve and support customers with more global scale,” said Anne Berkowitch, CEO and Founder, SelectMinds.

*Source: CareerXroads 2011 report

Supporting Resources

• About Oracle and SelectMinds

• General Presentation

• Customer and Partner Letter

• FAQ

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This document is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract or agreement.

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Linux Pavilion Returns to Oracle OpenWorld 2012

Partners Rely on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM to Deliver Leading Solutions to Customers

Redwood Shores, Calif. – September 17, 2012

News Facts

Back by popular demand, Oracle will host an Oracle Linux Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld 2012.

The Oracle Linux Pavilion will be located at Moscone South, Booth 1033, next to the Oracle DEMOgrounds and Oracle Linux demopods, from October 1 -3, 2012.

At the Pavilion, a select group of independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs), and System Integrators will showcase their products, which have been certified with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, enabling customers to run faster and save money.

Partners Deliver Leading Solutions with Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux is a general purpose Linux operating system distribution which can be used with both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and systems.

Partners use Oracle Linux to deliver solutions tailored to meet customer needs using the scalability and performance advantages it offers at lower cost than other Linux solutions in the market.

Select partners that will be exhibiting their solutions in the Oracle Linux Pavilion include:

BeyondTrust (context aware security intelligence for dynamic IT infrastructures such as cloud, mobile and virtual technologies)

Centrify (control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, mobile devices and applications)

Data Intensity (cloud services and application management)

Fujitsu (technology platforms, private cloud, services, ubiquitous and device solutions)

HP (converged cloud, converged infrastructure, application transformation and information optimization)

LSI (intelligent solid-state storage solutions for breakthrough database acceleration)

Mellanox (InfiniBand and Ethernet end-to-end server and storage interconnect solutions and services for data centers)

Micro Focus (mainframe solutions, application modernization and development tools, software quality tools)

NetApp (storage and data management)

QLogic (high performance networking)

Teleran (BI and data warehouse management solutions for Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Database)

Supporting Quote

"A healthy partner ecosystem is critical to the success of Oracle VM and Oracle Linux and the Oracle Linux Pavilion is a great way to see the contributions from our partners,” said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle senior vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering. “Working closely with these partners has led to many product innovations that solve the unique requirements of our mutual customers and we're pleased to showcase them at Oracle OpenWorld.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld 2012

Join us for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 San Francisco.  Register to attend.

Oracle Linux Pavilion

OPN Specialization

Oracle Linux Knowledge Zone

Oracle PartnerNetwork at Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)

Oracle Linux

Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn, OPN on YouTube and OPN on Twitter

Oracle OpenWorld Blog

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, is the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners. This information technology event is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. The conference, which draws more than 50,000 attendees from over 110 countries, offer more than 2,100 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 450 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is being held September 30-October 4 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions and more live on YouTube. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter, Facebook and the Oracle OpenWorld Blog.

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Oracle Press Release

Oracle Honors Hitachi Data Systems with 2012 Taleo Customer Innovation Award

High-Tech Leader Recognized at Taleo World for its Strategic Initiative Aligning Talent, Performance and Revenues

Redwood Shores, Calif. – September 17, 2012

News Facts

Oracle awarded the 2012 Taleo Customer Innovation Award to Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., for transforming performance management within its global sales organization with Oracle Taleo talent management solutions.

The Taleo Innovation Awards honor and recognize Oracle Taleo customers that advance talent management initiatives using innovation, leadership and best practices.

Oracle honored HDS along with finalists National Heritage Academies and CACI at a ceremony held September 13 at Taleo World in Chicago. Josh Bersin, President and CEO of Bersin & Associates, was the emcee for the ceremony.

The honorees were selected from dozens of global submissions by a panel of influential industry analysts with expertise in talent management.

Hitachi Data Systems Transforms Global Performance with Oracle Taleo Talent Management

Hitachi Data Systems received the 2012 Taleo Customer Innovation award for strategically organizing and centralizing its worldwide performance management processes on Oracle Taleo talent management solutions.

With more than 5,800 employees around the world, HDS provides leading information technologies, services and solutions to customers in more than 100 countries and regions.

To meet its business and revenue goals, deliver an exceptional customer experience and support its new global approach to key accounts, HDS needed to re-evaluate how it allocated resources.

By leveraging Oracle Taleo Performance Management Cloud Service, HDS created standard metrics and reporting that reflected performance competencies critical to its sales organization, enabling the company to better attract, develop and reward employees.

With Oracle Taleo, HDS sales managers have been able to invest in recruiting the right competencies, pinpoint areas of improvement, and develop and monitor employee goals to support the global account organization.

The Oracle Taleo system also benefited HDS employees by providing access to performance goals on a user-friendly system, which helps them capitalize on coaching and feedback, supporting their revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

Supporting Quotes

“As one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, HDS empowers our employees with the tools and programs necessary to grow their careers – and the company,” said Scott Kelly, senior vice president, human resources, Hitachi Data Systems. “This award recognizes our strategic approach to employee performance and the success accomplished through our ongoing investment in talent.”

“Discovering, cultivating and rewarding talent is critical to business success, and our customers are harnessing the power of Oracle Taleo to create innovative programs that align talent and performance with business results,” said Jason Blessing, senior vice president, Oracle Development. “We applaud Hitachi Data Systems and the Taleo Innovation Award finalists for their creative and strategic approaches to talent management.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Taleo

About Taleo World Innovation Awards Program

Taleo World

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)

National Heritage Academies

CACI

Video: Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)

Video: National Heritage Academies

Video: CACI

Oracle Taleo Cloud Service

Oracle Taleo Performance Management Cloud Service

Oracle HCM Blog

Oracle HCM on Twitter

Oracle HCM on Facebook

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com

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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.