EMC and VMware Unveil Early Access Program for New EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX

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EMC and VMware Unveil Early Access Program for New EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Enterprise Customers Can Preview Joint Analytics Solution Prior to General Availability

VMworld – San Francisco, CA - August 28, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC and VMware are previewing their joint analytics solution, first announced in May at EMC World, which provides EMC VNX® storage performance and capacity analytics for VMware vCenter™ Operations customers, enabling end-to-end views of health and performance critical to managing virtualized infrastructures. EMC and VMware have extended their partnership to provide the powerful visualization and patented analytics capability of VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite to storage and virtualization administrators with the EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX.
• EMC is offering an early access program to existing VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite enterprise customers, allowing access to the EMC Storage Analytics Suite before its general release later this year.
• The early access program enables IT organizations to proactively manage their EMC storage infrastructures to meet the increasingly high user expectations of performance and uptime in highly dynamic virtual environments.

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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today announced an early access program for select VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite enterprise customers to begin using the EMC® Storage Analytics Suite before it becomes generally available later this year. The EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX®, a joint solution first announced by EMC and VMware at EMC World in May 2012, combines comprehensive storage intelligence with the analytics and visualization of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.

This offer is extended to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite customers running at the enterprise level or higher and currently using EMC VNX unified storage products. The joint solution is designed to provide storage visibility, health alerts, proactive trending, rich metrics and customized dashboards within the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.

EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX: Actionable Storage Information

• This solution helps proactively identify bottlenecks, balance workloads and pinpoint the root cause of potential problems around health and performance.
• EMC Storage Analytics Suite enables customers to:
  • Maintain service levels by quickly identifying and troubleshooting performance abnormalities and remediating errors
  • Simplify storage operations management with powerful visualization and topology views
  • Proactively optimize storage performance and efficiency across physical and virtual environments with deep storage analytics and dynamic thresholding
  • Improve collaboration between IT groups and foster more holistic management across the enterprise

EMC Quote:

Eric Herzog, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing, EMC Unified Storage Division

"As more customers virtualize their business-critical applications, analytics are a transformational, must-have tool for actionable, end-to-end visibility in virtual environments. The combination of EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX and the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite provides never-before-seen capabilities for customers requiring powerful server, network and storage infrastructure performance, capacity and analytics capabilities for optimized efficiency and management."

VMware Quote:

Ramin Sayar, Vice President and General Manager, Products, Cloud and Virtualization Management, VMware

"The EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX demonstrates our shared vision with EMC to provide solutions that enable our joint customers to maximize their storage performance in heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments. This integrated cross-domain solution provides robust storage analytics capabilities with the automated optimization and simplicity of VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite."

Availability:

The early-access program is available starting in September and will run through December 2012. The EMC Storage Analytics Suite will be generally available in late 2012.

Additional Resources:

• "Assessment of Automated Tiered Storage for Midrange Arrays," Wikibon
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• Virtual Geek
• Customers Single Out EMC as #1 Storage for VMware by Wide Margin

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

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CUSTOMER WIN: CompuCom Taps BMC Software to Drive Greater Strategic Business Value from the Cloud

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 22, 2012 — CompuCom Systems, Inc., the leading IT outsourcing specialist, has selected BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC), the global leader in enterprise IT management, to help an array of joint customers realize and accelerate the strategic business benefits of cloud computing.

“In a world where every business event is an IT event, cloud computing is more than an IT strategy – it is a business strategy," said Kia Behnia, BMC's chief technology officer.  "As customers migrate business applications and services to a cloud delivery model, it is critically important to stay focused on the business imperatives and not 'get lost' in the IT.  Working together, BMC and CompuCom will increase the strategic business value of cloud computing and the speed with which customers can achieve it."

For 25 years, CompuCom has been a trusted guide for customers around the world seeking to better align IT with its business mission.  BMC has shared that priority and focus, culminating in the highly successful Business Service Management (BSM) platform and industry-leading Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) and BMC Cloud Operations Management solution.  

“BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Cloud Operations Management allow us to deliver a complete, mature solution resulting in accurate chargeback, self-service provisioning, dynamic workload reallocation and bursting to public cloud environments,” stated John Conner, senior vice president, ITO service and cloud sales for CompuCom.  

“We believe the strong credentials and cultural fit of our two organizations will bring significant benefits to clients who want to change the way they do the business of IT,” said Ed Anderson, CompuCom’s chief strategy officer.

As cloud adoption grows from initial implementations to broad business use, BMC can shoulder the burden of production workloads. To facilitate a complete cloud service lifecycle, BMC presents end-users with a straightforward “shopping cart” portal and provisions complete, configurable applications. The result is a cloud where everything is intelligently placed and governed according to policies within the environment.

Integrated seamlessly with BMC Cloud Operations Management, BMC CLM ensures that the cloud is both built for strength and operated for efficiency and service quality.

For more information about BMC Cloud Solutions and BSM platform, please visit:

• BMC Business Service Management
• BMC Cloud Operations Management
• Access the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Community
• Follow @BMCSoftware on Twitter
• Become a fan of BMC on Facebook

Business Runs on IT. IT Runs on BMC Software.

Business runs better when IT runs at its best. That's why more than 20,000 IT organizations – from the Global 100 to the smallest businesses – in over 120 countries rely on BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. With the leading Business Service Management platform, Cloud Management, and the industry’s broadest choice of IT management solutions, BMC helps customers cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives. For the four fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion.

Oracle Buys ClearTrial

Adds Leading Cloud-based Clinical Trial Operations and Analytics Applications to Oracle Health Sciences Suite

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http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1570030

Leading Broadcast Studio Harnesses Ethernet Fabric Technology to Meet Demand for HDTV and Online Viewing Services

Leading Broadcast Studio Harnesses Ethernet Fabric Technology to Meet Demand for HDTV and Online Viewing Services

United Deploys Brocade Ethernet Fabric and High Performance Brocade MLXe Series Core Routers as Part of an End-to-End Network Upgrade to Simplify Operations and Improve Service Levels

GENEVA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/27/2012 -- As the broadcast industry faces up to the challenge of delivering multiplatform content and high definition (HD) video to consumers, United -- part of the Euro Media Group (EMG) and a full-service company providing facilities, technical and creative support for multimedia audiovisual productions -- has turned to Brocade(NASDAQ: BRCD) to deliver an end-to-end data center networking solution based on Ethernet fabric technology and its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) core routing platform. 

The new deployment will provide the performance, elasticity and resilience needed to support higher traffic volumes and daily data volumes in its video production environment that are approaching 16 terabytes. The Brocade^® network will also reduce operational cost and complexity for United's IT department while providing a seamless, cost-effective path for high-density deployment of 100 GbE technology.

United provides onsite broadcast facilities for large sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup. It also manages more than 45 percent of all Dutch TV productions and works with international broadcasters such as NBC, Warner and ESPN by providing post-production services that include audio-visual rendering and trans-coding for multiplatform delivery (such as video on demand). 

Confronted with the challenge of managing multiple data feeds for various clients -- all demanding secure access/delivery of content -- United looked to significantly update and simplify its networking architecture to improve service levels to its customers.

"In our line of work, managing huge data volumes is nothing new. However, over the past two years it had become all too apparent that our disparate IT environment was no longer fit for our constantly evolving business needs. Coming at the same time as a planned move to a new facility by consolidating four buildings into one, we knew that the time was right to make a wholesale change to our data center network, radically improve performance, and also take an innovative approach to its design," said Marc Ruesen, manager of Business Development at United.

Specifically, United turned to Brocade VCS™ technology and the Brocade VDX™ 6720 Data Center Switches, part of thegrowing Brocade VDX product family as well as the primary building blocks for Ethernet fabrics that have revolutionized the design of Layer 2 networks inside of data centers. Brocade Ethernet fabrics are designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability and dramatically simplify network architectures in highly virtualized data centers. 

At the network core, Brocade MLXe Series core routers provide the breakthrough 10 GbE performance and scalability to support the firm's rising application traffic demands and deliver reliable services using less hardware -- vastly improving operational efficiency and driving down capital cost. Additionally, the Brocade MLXe provides a seamless, cost-effective path for high-density deployment of 100 GbE technology.

The Ethernet fabric and MLXe deployment are elements of a holistic network upgrade that includes the following Brocade product lines:

• Brocade NetIron® CER 2000 Series routers will be deployed to deliver high-performance Ethernet edge routing and MPLS applications, and by providing enhanced scalability and flexibility, meet the dynamic needs for higher bandwidth services.
• Brocade FCX Series, Brocade FastIron® SX Series and Brocade FastIron WS Series switches, along with Brocade ServerIron® ADX Series application delivery switches, will be rolled out across the environment in conjunction withBrocade Mobility Access Points and Controllers to form a campus-wide deployment.
• Brocade Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) enable transport over a 10 GbE connection through Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols, providing best-in-class LAN connectivity and I/O consolidation to reduce cost and complexity.
• Brocade Network Advisor provides end-to-end visibility across different network types through a seamless and unified user experience

"This was an ambitious project, but one that I am delighted to have taken on. Having used Brocade SAN solutions in the data center for many years, we knew that Brocade offered class-leading performance. The new Ethernet fabric-based environment gives us a far stronger proposition to take to market as we have the performance and flexibility to deal with anything our clients ask of us," added Ruesen.

Alberto Soto, Vice President EMEA at Brocade, commented, "Through our data center networking and Ethernet fabric solutions, we are delivering platforms that are unparalleled in today's market. In the media industry, demand will only grow. It is a huge advantage to have an environment that offers seamless scalability and performance without requiring complicated management protocols. United has found such a solution with Brocade."

VideoUnited on why it deployed Brocade Ethernet Fabric technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-C_3iwNYRo&list=UU42yfEDgSbHZm0EKYsb0oIg&index=15&feature=plpp_video

About Brocade Data Center Networking SolutionsNetwork architects are now looking for ways to build more powerful, flatter networks that can support higher traffic loads and increased east-to-west traffic in virtualized environments, all while avoiding network congestion. Collapsing network layers also reduces complexity, which lowers overhead costs and reduces risk. This type of design, however, requires high-density, high-bandwidth network components that deliver full wire-speed connectivity. With Ethernet fabric technology and the industry's most powerful routers for enterprise data centers, Brocade can help organizations build flatter, simpler networks today -- and at measurably lower cost than the competition.

About Brocade 10 and 100 GbE Routing SolutionsLeading-edge services such as HD video streaming, cloud services and mobile broadband have significantly altered network traffic behavior. Instead of localized flows with occasional bursts, traffic flows are more collaborative over geographical distances and they last longer. These new traffic patterns consume enormous amounts of network capacity and add a greater degree of complexity to network operations. Brocade 10 and 100 GbE routing solutions deliver scalability, performance, operational simplicity and cost-effectiveness to not only solve these challenges, but also help customers seize this opportunity and generate more business.

For more information, please visit www.brocade.com

About BrocadeBrocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world's leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. (www.brocade.com)

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IBM Increases Presence in Poland with New Branch Offices

New offices in cities of Katowice and Wroclaw to increase support for regional clients and partners

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KATOWICE and WROCLAW - 28 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced the opening of two new offices in the Polish cities of Katowice and Wroclaw as part of the company's geographic expansion program to strengthen its presence in the fastest growing markets in the world.

Anna Sieńko, Country General Manager, IBM Poland & Baltics (center) with Dr Maciej Bluj, Vice-Mayor of Wroclaw (left) and Aleksander Skorupa, Lower Silesian Governor (right)

"IBM has been present in Poland for the past 20 years and we have established operations across the country. In recognition of the continued importance of Poland to IBM and to ensure the highest levels of support for our clients and partners, we are strengthening our branch network in a number of strategic locations," said Anna Sienko, Country General Manager, IBM Poland & Baltics.

The new offices are in Poland's Upper and Lower Silesia regions which have seen some of the country's strongest economic growth in recent years. Traditionally known for mining and heavy industry, today these regions have seen an increase in high-tech and other innovative economic activity, as well as growth in the small and medium sized business sector which currently generates about 50 per cent of Poland's Gross Domestic Product.

Katowice

Katowice is the largest city in the Upper Silesia region. With established mining, iron and steel industries, in recent years Katowice's economic growth has come from the development of the scientific, business and transportation sectors.

One of IBM's existing clients in Katowice is the Center of Mining Technology (COIG S.A.), one of Poland's oldest IT firms, which provides computing services to the coal mining industry. IBM has helped COIG S.A. to build a data center and develop cloud computing services for its clients in the region. "For the mining industry in Poland to remain competitive on the global stage it needs to turn to the latest technologies and approaches. IBM is helping us to develop innovative solutions and services for our clients in the region and with the opening of its new office in Katowice we look forward to strengthening this relationship," said Zbigniew Koszowski, President of COIG.S.A.

IBM has also recently deployed one of its Executive Service Corps teams to work with local government on transforming Katowice and the Upper Silesia Metropolis into a smarter city.

Wrocław

Wroclaw is the largest city in the Lower Silesia region traditionally known for manufacturing and electronics. Recently the city has experienced rapid growth in the IT services sector and in 2009 IBM opened a service delivery center in Wroclaw serving clients around the world.

One of IBM's existing customers in Wroclaw is Spolem PSS Polnoc, a midsize supermarket chain which turned to IBM to streamline its checkout process. With the help of Jantar, a local IBM business partner, IBM provided Spolem PSS Polnoc with one of Poland's first self- service checkout systems.

"While speeding up the checkout process and cutting operating costs, the intelligent system from IBM also helps us to gain insight into buying trends so that we can best meet the needs of our customers," said Lech Stefanski, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Spolem PSS Polnoc.

IBM is also investing in skills in both regions. For example, IBM is collaborating with Katowice's School of Economics (KSE) to support students on research projects and provide an opportunity for IBM internships. As part of nurturing local talent, IBM has also established a University Competence Center in Gliwice near Katowice which specializes in developing solutions based on IBM systems. In Wroclaw, IBM and the University of Technology have agreed to collaborate on a cloud internship program which gives students the chance to gain experience in tackling some the most challenging IT tasks in a virtual environment.

IBM established its first operations in Poland in 1991 with its headquarters in the country's capital Warsaw. Today IBM also has a number of key facilities across Poland serving clients around the world such as IBM's Delivery Center in Wroclaw, IBM's Global Process Services Center in Krakow, the IBM Software Laboratory in Krakow and the IBM Competence Implementation Center in Gdansk.

The opening of the Polish branch offices was recognized this week at two ceremonies attended by government officials, customers, and business partners in Katowice and Wroclaw.

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Checkpoint Systems wins prestigious industry award with Nano Gate™

Monday, March 19, 2012

Checkpoint Systems wins prestigious industry award with Nano Gate™

Checkpoint Systems, a global leader in high-theft solutions has been honoured with a prestigious industry award by readers of the German publication, Handelsjournal.

Checkpoint scooped the “Best Retail Product” award in the economic efficiency category for its Alpha Nano Gate antenna, a small gate that offers big protection against theft. The award celebrates the industry’s most inventive products and services designed to help retailers increase sales, improve profitability and enhance operations.

Nano Gate is an innovative, small security antenna, which can be easily installed in retail stores, in “unprotected zones” where thieves tend to hide or attempt to remove security devices. Nano Gate works together with Checkpoint’s Alpha^® 3 Alarm™ technology products, extending their reach and enhancing their value, while serving as a comprehensive security solution.

Wolfgang Meltzner, store manager of A.T.U in Cologne-Mülheim, who has used Nano Gate in his outlets, commented: “When high-priced motor oils and tools began to disappear from our shelves, we decided to do something about it. We began using Nano Gate in our stores together with matching Alpha components. From the first day, we not only noticed the deterrent aspect, we also saw a decrease in shoplifting, which is what we hoped for.”

Commenting on the award win, Kai Beilenhoff, Vice President for Alpha Europe at Checkpoint Systems, added: “Nano Gate offers an innovative and easy-to-implement solution for securing high-theft products. It has already paid dividends for many retailers around the globe and we’re delighted to have won this award. Our nomination reaffirms that Checkpoint is meeting the retail industry’s requirements for robust anti-theft solutions.”

Available since early 2011, Nano Gate has an aesthically pleasing design and is simple to install. Nano Gate triggers Alpha’s 3 Alarm technology, preventing thieves from taking retailers’ high-risk merchandise into restrooms, emergency exits, elevators, fitting rooms, or similar unprotected areas within their stores. Merchandise protected with 3 Alarm technology alerts retail staff when products are being tampered with in-store. It activates an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) alarm when unpaid merchandise leaves a store and starts a continuous alarming for five minutes when stolen merchandise has left the store. Most thieves end up dropping the stolen merchandise and running away.

Nano Gate is particularly suitable for small retailers who do not have a traditional EAS system installed but still want to protect their high-theft items. It enables store operators to maintain an attractive, consumer-oriented shopping environment while ensuring that merchandise is kept secure. For large retail stores using EAS, Nano Gate provides additional security to prevent goods from being readily moved from proposed sale areas into other sections of the store.

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Optic 2000 Focuses on Customer Experience and Growth With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail

France’s leading eyewear-maker chooses Microsoft’s ERP solution for its usability, ease of maintenance and flexibility for future growth. Its objective: to unify its IT solution at 1,850 points of sale.

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ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France — March 20, 2012 — The Optic 2000 group, with more than 1,850 specialty stores for eyewear and hearing devices, has chosen Microsoft Corp.’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail, to manage its sales, supply and inventory across its entire network of operations in France. Usability, simple maintenance, functional excellence and ease of upgrading are the key advantages that led to the company’s strategic decision to adopt the Microsoft business solution. “The choice of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail is part of a comprehensive strategic vision for our company, which sees Microsoft as a key partner for stability, trust and innovation. Our objective is to streamline our resource management with this ERP solution, to deliver a real value proposition to our customers — through the advice and support we offer during the sales process and beyond, as well as by ensuring we are offering real value for the money,” said Didier Papaz, CEO of the Optic 2000 group. “We counted on our IT department to find a unified solution that was innovative and easy for our employees to use. The solution needed to transform IT into a genuine asset for our company, as a way of managing sales and inventory as well as the specifics related to all our lines of business.” “We are excited about the partnership established between Microsoft Dynamics and Optic 2000, who clearly have a vision for the future and are working to offer the best possible level of customer service,” said Michael Griffiths, global product director for retail, Microsoft Business Solutions. “Microsoft is all in when it comes to retail — from our stores and consumer devices to the customer already running Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail in more than 30 countries. We are taking that investment to the next level with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail and customers such as Optic 2000.” Unify, Simplify and Look to the Future With more than 1,850 stores (cooperatives, franchises and outlets) whose tools were no longer simple and effective to use and which were not able respond to industry developments, Optic 2000 was looking to adopt a unified and easy-to-use solution that could be adapted to the needs of each outlet. After extensive research, the team abandoned the idea of an eyewear-specific ERP solution in order to benefit from the power and flexibility of Microsoft solutions. Over and above the stability, the performance, the ease of maintenance and the wealth of functionality, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail distinguished itself as an innovative and open ERP solution, ideal for developing new tools specific to the eyewear industry. “We wanted a single solution that was easier to manage and that allowed us to optimize the quality of services provided by our IT department to our users,” said Patrick Seux, director of organization and IT of the Optic 2000 group. “By using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail, we can regularly update the entire system, all the applications on all the workstations. We also wanted to manage, archive and share our data from each point of sale. The data will remain specific to each outlet, but their security features will be centralized. In addition, the Microsoft solution allows us to look to a future in which we will be able to confidently access data on the go from mobile devices and heterogeneous point-of-sale terminals, and this for a price lower than that of the solution currently in place.” An Agile and Flexible ERP Solution Beyond the standard ERP functions of purchasing, inventory and pricing, Optic 2000 wanted to manage requirements that are specific to the optical sector. Glasses and lenses sold by prescription are constrained by prescription management, reimbursement, health insurance and third-party payer regulations. The supply of technical products, such as custom-made lenses, is also particularly complex to manage. This is why Optic 2000 has entrusted Prodware to develop complementary solutions specific to its industry, leveraging the adaptability of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail. “Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail brings us longevity, flexibility and ability to upgrade our technology, which are fundamental for enabling us to anticipate changes in the marketplace, whether in terms of in-store sales techniques or consumer buying preferences,” said Yves Guénin, secretary general of Optic 2000 group. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

News Release from Oracle - Changing Business Needs

Atlas Roofing Standardizes on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 to Support Changing Business Needs

Upgrade to Integrated and Flexible Platform Enables Building Materials Manufacturer to Optimize Financial Operations and Supply Chain Processes

Redwood Shores, Calif. – March 13, 2012

News Facts

Atlas Roofing Corp., a manufacturer of residential and commercial building materials, has standardized on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 9.1.

With 16 manufacturing locations in North America, Atlas Roofing needed a scalable and flexible system that could support its continued growth by standardizing financial reporting systems across business units and optimizing supply chain processes.

By upgrading its existing PeopleSoft applications to PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1, Atlas Roofing can leverage a complete, robust solution for financials and supply chain management to increase employee productivity, accelerate business processes and reduce IT costs.

With Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financial Management 9.1, Atlas Roofing can leverage best practices to enhance financial processes, improve period close, reduce liabilities and further automate compliance and financial control.

Oracle's PeopleSoft General Ledger and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Payables enable Atlas Roofing to automate financial and legal reporting to meet regulatory requirements, streamline financial processing and increase visibility into business-critical information.

In addition, the comprehensive and flexible supply chain management capabilities delivered by Oracle’s PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management 9.1 will facilitate Atlas’ ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings across its entire supply chain.

Leveraging PeopleSoft SCM applications including Oracle’s PeopleSoft Order Managementand Oracle’s PeopleSoft Inventory and Fulfillment Management, Atlas Roofing can improve inventory accuracy and customer service levels by synchronizing orders with product availability in real time.

Atlas Roofing has been a PeopleSoft customer since 1999. It upgraded to the latest version of the ERP system from Oracle’s PeopleSoft 8.4. The upgrade was completed in March 2011.

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“To help support our continued growth, we need an integrated and flexible platform that can enhance business operations by streamlining financial and supply chain processes,” said Lorraine McLaughlin, IT Director, Atlas Roofing. “With Oracle’s PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1, we now have a platform that provides us with the financial management and supply chain capabilities needed to operate more efficiently and effectively. In particular, the new features will help us to quickly and easily increase employee productivity, accelerate business processes and reduce IT costs.”

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Oracle’s PeopleSoft Inventory and Fulfillment Management