U.S. Department of Defense Awards Accenture Forecasting Improvement Contract

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August 14, 2012

U.S. Department of Defense Awards Accenture Forecasting Improvement Contract

 

Work will focus on using advanced analytics to improve supply chain cost and performance

 

ARLINGTON, Va.; Aug. 14, 2012 –The U.S. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense has awarded Accenture Federal Services a two-year contract to identify ways that will improve forecasting techniques throughout the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Accenture will work with forecasting, inventory and metrics leads from all branches of the military and the Defense Logistics Agency to baseline current practices for forecasting Department of Defense inventory.

 

Work will focus on the lifecycle of an item or weapons system: when it is fully fielded, has an established operational requirement, when it is being phased out of operations. Accenture will use advanced analytics and simulation tools to determine how enhanced forecasting processes may help improve forecast accuracy, inventory levels and supply chain performance. 

 

“As budgets continue to shrink and demand for smart business decisions increases, analytics and simulation are essential tools to accelerate and improve supply chain systems,” said John Goodman, who leads Accenture’s defense and intelligence business.

 

Accenture’s federal business serves every cabinet-level department and 20 of the largest federal organizations. The U.S. federal portfolio spans across clients in civilian, defense, intelligence and public safety agencies.

 

Learn more about Accenture’s defense work, from Insights to Outcomes, its work with federal agencies and delivering Public Service of the Future.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US $25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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HMEL Adopts IBM’s Analytics Solution to Improve Plant Performance and Operational Efficiency

New IBM solution to help the refinery analyze and predict behavior of operational parameters

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Bangalore - 10 Aug 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that HMEL, a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investment Pte Ltd, Singapore, has adopted a new IBM analytics-based solution to transform how the company manages its financial and operations data to boost business performance.

HMEL has built the 9 MMTPA (million metric tonne per annum) Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Bathinda, Punjab. The first oil and gas project to be set up in the state of Punjab, the refinery produces petroleum products complying with Euro IV emission norms, with a capability of processing 180,000 barrels of crude oil per day. HMEL had earlier engaged IBM as its strategic partner for the design and implementation of manufacturing execution systems (MES) including the selection of the select processes and applications, as well as managing the mechanics of the program. 

The new IBM solution integrates information from the various components of the MES, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and control systems within the refinery and delivers a consolidated, single view of the data. The new technology will enable HMEL to analyze key corporate business processes including, planned versus actual investments, production, key performance indicators, among others. The system will generate near real-time information for HMEL business executives to use to make more intelligent decisions around optimizing productivity and margins.  

“As a green-field project, we wanted to leverage the best of technology to ensure world-class operations and efficiency. We needed a solution that would provide us with a centralized view of all our assets for operational management purposes. IBM’s framework, built for our industry, addressed our requirement effectively,” commented, Moiz Tankiwala, Chief Operating Officer, HMEL.  

IBM has been working alongside HMEL as part of Project Prism, the umbrella program to implement strategic applications for HMEL, to support the ERP system, manage master data (MDM), build key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards, and create an integration business application environment. The Cognos Business Intelligence solution helps HMEL in building an enterprise-class Performance Management platform closely aligned with their existing technical architecture. 

"This project is a testament to our ongoing collaboration to build smarter solutions across industries in the region. We are proud to be associated with HMEL in helping them build a truly world-class refinery,” said Vanitha Narayanan, Managing Partner, Global Business Services, IBM India/South Asia. "Amidst complex processes, like in a refinery, use of analytics can transform financial processes and improve operational efficiencies thereby establishing a new standard of excellence in business performance.”  

The IBM analytics solution not only delivers the ability to access data consistently, but also equips the organization with power to interpret, transform and derive process operation actions from the information. It provides an industry standards based information model and associated integration techniques, enabling HMEL to turn data into information that can be accessed and delivered through Web services. 

HMEL is one of the five refineries in the world to commence integrated operations from day one. The implementation at HMEL is a clear reflection of IBM’s approach to analytics that brings together its deep consulting expertise, information management and enterprise content management software, that help clients like HMEL align their organization around information; anticipate, predict, and shape business outcomes, and act with confidence at the point of impact.  

About HMEL: 

HMEL is a joint venture between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and Mittal Energy Investments Pte Ltd, Singapore – a Lakshmi N Mittal Company. Both the joint venture partners hold a stake of 49% each in the company, the balance 2% is held by Indian financial institutions. HMEL has built a world-class state of the art refinery, GGSR, incorporating the latest technologies. The refinery has high Nelson Complexity Index which will enable maximizing value added products even from heavy / sour crudes.  

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New Release of Oracle® Enterprise Performance Management System Helps Organizations Achieve Predictable Performance Through Superior Analytics

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New Release of Oracle® Enterprise Performance Management System Helps Organizations Achieve Predictable Performance Through Superior Analytics

Major Release Extends Oracle’s Leadership with New Project Planning and Account Reconciliation Modules, Support for Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Significant New Capabilities

Oracle OpenWorld, Tokyo and Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 4, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced a new release of its industry-leading Oracle® Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Release 11.1.2.2.

Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.2 introduces new application modules – Project Financial Planning and a new Account Reconciliation Manager -- as well as major enhancements across the Oracle Hyperion EPM application portfolio.

In addition, customers can now achieve extreme performance for planning and forecasting by leveraging Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine.

A component of Oracle Business Analytics, Oracle’s EPM System combines category-leading EPM applications and business intelligence (BI) products to support a broad range of business processes that enable organizations to become smarter, more agile and better aligned.

Oracle is the global leader in Business Analytics with engineered systems, platforms, applications and tools that enable organizations to acquire, integrate, manage and analyze all of their data to make faster, better informed business decisions.

Planning at the Speed of Business with Improved Analytic Insights

With Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.2, Oracle Hyperion Planning customers can now take advantage of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine for planning and forecasting at the speed of business, in more detail and supporting more users – all with dramatic performance gains.

Organizations can carry out project-based budgeting, funding, approvals and tracking with a new Project Financials Planning module. This pre-built application helps customers improve the financial performance of key projects and project portfolios, and complements investments in ERP project modules and project management applications.

In this release, Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management supports fine-grained profitability modeling to help customers perform micro-costing and gain granular insights into costs and profitability across large volumes of products, customers and transactions to help improve performance.

For the public sector, Oracle’s industry leading Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting application now features integration with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Commitment Control and supports Decision Packages for more accurate tracking of budgetary spend for key programs and departments.

Also in this release, Oracle Hyperion Planning customers can improve the accuracy of their forecasts with a new predictive planning feature, which leverages statistical forecasting technology from Oracle Crystal Ball.

Helping Organizations Achieve Faster Financial Reporting, with Improved Visibility and Reduced Risk

Oracle’s industry leading Hyperion applications for financial close and reporting deliver significant new capabilities in this new release.

Organizations can further streamline the close process and reduce audit risks and associated costs with a new Account Reconciliation Manager module.

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management application now features configurable dimensionality to deliver more flexibility and detail in financial and management reporting to support internal as well as statutory reporting initiatives.

With Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.2, Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management now provides built-in support for SEC validations as well as other enhancements.

Delivering Rapid Value and Lower Cost of Ownership

With a new Web 2.0 style user experience that delivers improved collaboration and productivity, Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.2 introduces a number of platform technology enhancements enabling organizations to achieve rapid time to value and a lower total cost of ownership.

Oracle EPM System 11.1.2.2 now provides pre-built integration with Oracle Fusion Financials, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financials and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Commitment Control to help customers simplify the integration of management and operational processes.

This release also introduces out-the-box integration of Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management with ERP data sources including Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 and Oracle Fusion Financials. This enables faster and easier integration of chart of accounts and other financial master data across ERP applications, and between ERP and EPM applications.

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“This major release of Oracle’s EPM System will provide compelling value to our customers while extending Oracle’s leadership in the EPM market segment,” said Balaji Yelamanchili, senior vice president, Analytics and Performance Management Products, Oracle. “This release will help customers plan and forecast faster and more accurately, streamline the financial close and filing process, and lower their total cost of ownership.”

“Organizations that lack visibility into cost and profitability will find the expanded features of Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management attractive,” said Robin Ranzal, president of Edgewater Ranzal. “These features allow revenues and costs to be allocated at a very granular level. Executives gain improved insight into how customer-driven interactions across any channel impact profitability and allow for improved decision-making about company offerings.”

“We are extremely excited about the potential of Oracle Hyperion Planning applications running on the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine,” said Ramke Ramakrishnan, EPM and BI senior practice director of MarketSphere Consulting. “Our planning and forecasting customers can now leverage more detailed data, and greater scalability with a larger number of users to deliver reduced plan cycle time and greater accuracy across their organization.”

“The new Account Reconciliation Manager brings the old manual account reconciling process into the 21st century with great functionality and speed,” said Andy Ievins, solutions architect TopDown Consulting. “The mapping process, detailed reconciliation and strong security help reconcile a huge quantity of accounts in an expedient manner with a very strong audit trail. Both clients and auditors will love this tool.”

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Oracle News Release: Oracle Business Analytics Strategy

Oracle News Release: New analytic applications for SAP

Oracle News Release: Two new Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

Oracle News Release: General availability of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

About Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

About Oracle Enterprise Planning Business Solutions

About Oracle Financial Close and Reporting Solutions

About Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine

Oracle EPM System Brochure

View Oracle EPM System Release 11.1.2.2 screen shots

Connect with Oracle Business Intelligence via Blog, Facebook and Twitter

Download free, evaluation versions of Oracle Hyperion applications.Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

Link to Oracle Business Analytics Launch webcast

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Compuware and Rosetta Announce Partnership to Help Customers Ensure e-Commerce Readiness

Compuware and Rosetta Announce Partnership to Help Customers Ensure e-Commerce Readiness

DETROIT and CLEVELAND, March 29, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, and Rosetta, an independent brand within the Publicis Groupe of global agencies and a member of the Compuware Partner Network, today announced a strategic partnership designed to help customers ensure that their e-commerce sites are production-ready and perform well in production.

To complement Rosetta's unmatched technology depth in e-commerce, mobile platforms and systems integration, the company will incorporate Compuware Application Performance Management (APM) solutions into its product offering. This will allow Rosetta to extend the value it delivers by offering end user performance and application monitoring.

"This partnership benefits our customers in the form of peace of mind. Our customers can be confident that Rosetta will be keeping a close eye on the performance and availability of their enterprise e-commerce applications," said Arnold Huffman, Partner, Business Development, Rosetta. "We believe that our partnership with Compuware represents a significant strategic growth opportunity by expanding and supporting our customers' Multi-Channel enterprise solutions.

Compuware APM solutions will enable Rosetta's customers to benefit from deploying Rosetta enterprise e-commerce applications that are highly available and perform well. The monitoring, analysis, reporting and alerting that Compuware APM solutions provide integrate with and complement Rosetta's enterprise class e-commerce applications.

"Rosetta and Compuware are partnering to help customers improve the performance of e-commerce projects, which today is key to revenue growth, brand and customer satisfaction," said Kimberly King, Vice President of Channels and Alliances, Compuware Corporation. "We look forward to working closely with Rosetta to bring this capability to market and deliver complete e-commerce solutions to customers."

The Compuware Gomez APM platform is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of Web, non-Web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user's browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

The Compuware Partner Network (CPN) is an award-winning, global program for select VARS, consultants, service providers, system integrators and strategic technology alliances. This program enables Compuware customers to have access to the world's most innovative and comprehensive technology performance solutions from their preferred partner. CPN members benefit from specialized marketing, sales and support programs, industry leading technology and dedicated account management all designed to help each partner succeed. Please visit www.compuware.com/partnersto learn more.

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Recognized nationally as a leader in the e-commerce space, Rosetta was the first agency in the world to become Smarter Commerce certified. A premier strategic partner of IBM, it has the largest WebSphere Commerce implementation team in the country and more than 100 successful implementations during its partnership with IBM.

Rosetta is a consulting-centered interactive agency engineered to transform marketing for the connected world. Rosetta drives material business impact by translating deep consumer insights into personally relevant brand experiences across touch points and over time. Their differentiated capabilities and structure have enabled them to become one of the market leaders, operating as an independent brand platform in the Publicis Groupe of global agencies. Rosetta is ranked by Ad Age among the top U.S. digital agencies and was named the #1 Agency to Watch in Ad Age's 2011 Agency A-List.

Rosetta has deep industry expertise in Healthcare, Consumer Technology & Entertainment, Consumer Products & Retail, Financial Services and Business-to-Business (B2B). The combination of a patented approach to market segmentation; technological depth across platforms and devices; world class creative, design and user experience capability; scale and integrated structure; and deep vertical industry expertise have attracted many of the nation's leading brands to Rosetta. The agency's clients include Allergan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Novartis in Healthcare; Microsoft, Rogers Communications and T-Mobile in Consumer Technology & Entertainment; Coach, Express, Jos. A. Bank, OfficeMax, Valvoline and United States Mint in the Consumer Products & Retail sector; Citizens and Nationwide in Financial Services; and MSC Direct, Wirtz Beverage Group and Lincoln Electric in B2B. Rosetta is headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with additional offices in New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Toronto, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Orange County.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.

CCC Information Services Inc. Leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware to Help Optimize Efficiency, Increase Scalability and Support Performance Levels of its Claims Management Platform

Redwood Shores, Calif. – March 26, 2012

News Facts

CCC Information Services Inc. has selected an Oracle Fusion Middleware-based solution to help the company realize greater efficiency in its development environment and to deliver improved performance to its installed customer base of approximately 21,000 collision repair facilities, 350 insurance companies and a range of other claims industry participants.

CCC is the nation’s leading provider of advanced software, workflow tools and enabling technologies to the automotive claims and collision repair industries.

CCC is a customer advisor to Oracle through the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Council.

With Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Coherence and other Oracle Fusion Middleware products, including Oracle Identity Management, Oracle JDeveloper, andOracle WebCenter, CCC can simplify its technology environment and minimize development time, improving the company’s ability to quickly deliver enhanced solutions to customers.

CCC leverages Oracle WebLogic Server as its corporate standard to deploy enterprise applications in a highly available, high performance clustered environment.

Oracle WebLogic Server will also support a roles-based workflow to provide CCC customers with more intelligent routing and automatic approval for streamlined processing of claims.

CCC uses Oracle SOA Suite to manage processing for its more than one million daily claims-related transactions, which must be processed within a set timeframe. These transactions are of varying sizes and are distributed into the application grid, which then useOracle BPEL Process Manager to successfully process the transactions.

CCC is also in the process of consolidating several server racks into a dedicated Oracle Exadata Database Machine, to speed the processing of queries to its data warehouse.

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“CCC’s relationship with Oracle has proven to be very valuable,” said Pervinder Johar, CTO and EVP Global Technology and Products for CCC Information Services Inc. “The Oracle solution has helped CCC improve our internal development run rate and offer more creative solutions for our clients. We are also pleased that our participation on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Council allows us to give direct feedback to Oracle executives based on our experiences with Oracle products and technologies.”

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Oracle Cloud Application Foundation blog

Oracle WebLogic Server on OTN

Connect with Oracle WebLogic Server via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

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Compuware Publishes New Whitepaper: "How End-User Experience Affects Your Bottom Line"

Paper Explains the Business Impact of Application Performance and Why End-User Experience is the Ultimate Measure of an Application's Success

DETROIT, March 22, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that it has published a new whitepaper titled: "How End-User Experience Affects Your Bottom Line." The paper explores the business impact of application performance and explains why end-user experience is the ultimate measure of an application's success that can affect an organization's bottom line.

Applications don't always perform optimally — especially now that they're increasingly delivered via the cloud and accessed from a variety of devices and platforms. Worse yet, the majority of problems go undetected until end users complain. The result is a major hit to productivity, customer loyalty and the bottom line.

This white paper outlines:

·         why applications often perform poorly and need to operate at peak performance;

·         how successful companies manage their applications; and

·         how organizations can ensure optimal application performance by using an application performance managementsolution that monitors the entire application delivery chain.

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To download the whitepaper, click here.

The Compuware Gomez^® platform is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of Web, non-Web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user's browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

Compuware is recognized as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring" report. To view and download a complimentary copy of the report, click here.

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