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""Customers love to shop Neiman Marcus from anywhere in the world, in stores and via e-commerce, or with our call center representatives, and we will continue to improve our ability to get the right items to them conveniently and with a full service model. Taking advantage of better analytics, information and processes enables us to serve customers better while improving margins in support of our offline to online global initiative," Karen Katz, the CEO of Neiman Marcus Group, states in a news release from Oracle."

""Customers love to shop Neiman Marcus from anywhere in the world, in stores and via e-commerce, or with our call center representatives, and we will continue to improve our ability to get the right items to them conveniently and with a full service model. Taking advantage of better analytics, information and processes enables us to serve customers better while improving margins in support of our offline to online global initiative," Karen Katz, the CEO of Neiman Marcus Group, states in a news release from Oracle."

DOWNLOAD/REGISTRATION Required This cover story of this special report features Ovation Brands, who had just gone live on Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud (and still implementing Oracle EPM Cloud). The story chronicles Ovation's move to the cloud, starting small, adding Micros, then implementing ERP and HR in the cloud, citing business gains, newfound analytical insight and lower operating cost as benefits of the migration.

DOWNLOAD/REGISTRATION Required This cover story of this special report features Ovation Brands, who had just gone live on Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud (and still implementing Oracle EPM Cloud). The story chronicles Ovation's move to the cloud, starting small, adding Micros, then implementing ERP and HR in the cloud, citing business gains, newfound analytical insight and lower operating cost as benefits of the migration.

The new talent management system also gives the company better insight into its recruiting process through advanced reporting and analytics.

The new talent management system also gives the company better insight into its recruiting process through advanced reporting and analytics.

Article by Guerry Waters, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities discussing pre-packaged customer and billing analytics. The article notes that in order to maximize the benefits from smart grid programs like demand response and net meterin

Oracle's Spatial division presented TARGUSinfo with the 2011 Oracle® Spatial Excellence Award in the Innovator category. TARGUSinfo, the developer of the ElementOne Analytics Platform, was chosen for its adoption and innovative use of Oracle Spatial and O

Oracle today introduced its Retail Merchandising Analytics solution, a business intelligence application that incorporates common performance metrics from across the retail enterprise along with built-in capabilities for retailers to quickly act on the in

"It is a very exciting development, particularly since Forrester's research shows that the process driving merchandising decisions in many retailers is based on spreadsheets, and is desperately in need of an analytics boost," said George Lawrie, Vice Pres

Oracle is making BI more actionable with Retail Merchandising Analytics, a prebuilt, merchandising-specific BI application that offers insight into performance indicators such as item sales, store performance, inventory turn, and sales and profit trends -

Oracle Retail has released a new tool to help retailers analyse the vast amount of data they are required to deal with across various platforms on a daily basis.

The Oct. 22 edition of GCN includes the following article highlighting the Pennsylvania's Treasury Department financial system upgrade. The article notes that the Treasury uses Oracle's PeopleSoft Financials to handle cost-payable processes and Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance for audit analytics and forensic analysis on payment processes. The article also quotes Sid Sinha, Oracle's senior director of application development, who discusses how auditors can adapt the technology.

The Oct. 22 edition of GCN includes the following article highlighting the Pennsylvania's Treasury Department financial system upgrade. The article notes that the Treasury uses Oracle's PeopleSoft Financials to handle cost-payable processes and Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance for audit analytics and forensic analysis on payment processes. The article also quotes Sid Sinha, Oracle's senior director of application development, who discusses how auditors can adapt the technology.

The November 15 edition of Campus Technology includes the following second installment of a two-part series highlighting big data and examines how pioneering schools are mining big data in hopes of improving student learning and performance.  The article highlights multiple schools, including Oracle customer Arizona State University (ASU) which considers itself to be at the forefront of student data analytics.  The article notes that ASU was among the first universities in the country to build a data warehouse and maintains big data and Hadoop working groups.  The article includes comment by John Rome, deputy chief information officer (CIO) and business intelligence (BI) strategist, ASU, who notes that when ASU looks at outsourcing, they consider core versus context.  He also notes that ASU has already outsourced its email as well as the hosting of its ERP and LMS systems. He also notes that the university knows there are big opportunities in big data, and ASU fully intends to exploit them.

What follows is a compendium of educated guesses and forecasts, and the editors at STORES would like to think that most of them have value. Still, if we had to sum up our expectations for 2013 in one word, it would be "convergence" - tying together the web, Big Data, analytics, mobile, social and all things digital to deliver a seamless experience to shoppers...

"The Oracle Retail platform deployed by Deckers provides them with a single, scalable platform and the operational and analytics tools to be very agile across all channels and regions."

Oracle Financial Services has expanded its Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Risk Management suite to include a new model risk management solution, as well as enhanced offerings for regulatory capital management and credit risk management. Oracle's Enterprise Risk Management suite, part of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications family, provides a single, unified platform that helps today's financial institutions meet increasingly complex compliance requirements and performance objectives. The end-to-end platform enables financial services organizations to effectively identify and manage risk to support their risk-adjusted performance objectives, promote a proactive risk management culture and mitigate the costs of compliance. Model Risk Management To meet evolving regulatory mandates, financial institutions require a comprehensive view of risks associated with inaccurate or improperly applied financial and business models. Many firms are struggling to achieve this transparency because they continue to manage their models in siloed environments. Oracle Financial Services Model Risk Management provides a common environment to manage all risks associated with the use of models, including risks arising due to poor data quality, incorrect or inappropriate use, design flaws, incorrect implementation and unauthorized access. The solution delivers a single repository for all model information across the enterprise, includes pre-built dashboards to jump start benefits and provides drill-down capabilities for in-depth insight. This application provides a common environment to manage risks associated with the use of models including risks arising due to data quality, incorrect or inappropriate usage, design flaws, incorrect implementation and unauthorized access. The solution helps firms to improve governance around the use of models through a comprehensive, structured and consistent framework for periodic assessment and validation of models ac