Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL – News) today announced that both Oracle® E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel Field Service have been included in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management, 2008 and Siebel Field Service has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant(1).]]>
Oracle announced Friday it has acquired SPL WorldGroup, which will serve as a keystone to launch a global unit focused on utility companies.]]>SPL, based in San Francisco, develops software for the electric, gas and water industries to handles customer service and billing, mobile workforce needs, and the management of assets, distribution and outages.
“With the addition of SPL, Oracle plans to deliver the first end-to-end packaged revenue and operations management solution for investor-owned and public-sector utilities,” Charles Phillips, Oracle’s president, said in a statement. …read more at CNET.
Oracle (Quote) said the acquisition will complement and extend its existing content management solution portfolio, which includes Oracle Content Database to store and centrally manage unstructured content in Oracle databases.
Stellent’s Universal Content Management solution works with Oracle Content Database and offers a variety of solutions for Document Management, Web Content Management, Information Rights Management, Digital Asset Management, Records and Retention Management, Imaging, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance.
Stellent, based in Eden Prairie, MN., has more than 4,700 customers worldwide, including such blue chip companies as Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, The Home Depot, ING, and Vodafone.
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Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for Linux. Recognizing the demand for true enterprise-quality Linux support and seeing an opportunity to significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs, Oracle is now offering Linux operating system support.Enterprise Linux | Oracle on Linux]]>
Oracle on Monday announced plans to pay $219 million for MetaSolv Software, which specializes in serving the telecommunications business.]]>MetaSolv develops software designed to automate the process of ordering and activating service for wireless, wired and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers. The company also offers software designed to help carriers manage their network operations.
The deal to rename the Arena in Oakland also includes additional exclusive team sponsorship elements with the club. Financial terms were not released by Oracle, which is headquartered across the San Francisco Bay in Redwood Shores.
The Oracle, with a capacity for 19,596 people, will play host to 43 Warriors regular-season home games each season along with a variety of events that include concerts and other entertainment.
The venue’s new name comes in the same season the club has brought in a new coach to try to reverse the fortunes of a team struggling to return to the playoffs for the first time since 1994.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Corporate women made impressive strides in 2006, taking charge at a slew of giant companies, and bringing in big paychecks to boot.The top-earning woman executive is Safra Catz, president and CFO of Oracle (Charts), who took home a cool $26.1 million in total compensation last year, according to Equilar, Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based compensation research firm, which calculated the results for Fortune magazine. Second-highest paid is Susan Decker, CFO of Yahoo! (Charts), who brought in $24.3 million