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Table-service restaurant operators know from hard-won experience how vital cost controls are to profitability and growth. Factors as diverse as portion control, inventory management, waste minimization, and labor costs all need to be kept in line in order for a restaurant to maintain acceptable profit margins. If one or more of these factors veers too far off, no amount of volume will make up for the imbalance.

Redwood Shored, Ca: In a move to evolve its network to provide converged communications, leading European communications service provider (CSP) Telefónica Spain has chosen Oracle as a supplier of session border controller and will use the Oracle Communication Session Border Controller for its full portfolio of services which include residential ser

Redwood Shored, Ca: In a move to evolve its network to provide converged communications, leading European communications service provider (CSP) Telefónica Spain has chosen Oracle as a supplier of session border controller and will use the Oracle Communication Session Border Controller for its full portfolio of services which include residential ser

Billing World highlighted that Oracle announced the availability of its Network Charging and Control 4.4, which includes a complete stack of software, hardware and support to help communications service providers (CSPs) offer their customers more flexible charging options and create new revenue streams in the wake of explosive mobile data growth. The article notes that the solution offers a number of features - including multi-network prepaid charging, voucher recharge, promotions management, Intelligent Network (IN) and Next Generation Network (NGN)-based service control and graphical service configuration.

Pipeline highlighted the availability of Oracle COmmunications Network Charging and Control 4.4, which offers a number of features, including multi-network prepaid charging, voucher recharge, promotions management, Intelligent Network (IN) and Next Generation Network (NGN)-based service control, and graphical service configuration. The article features comments from Graham Carey, Product Marketing Director, Oracle, who discusses how the product benefits both service providers and consumers by helping combat bill shock. The article notes that the solution is also "social network-aware," offering innovative promotional opportunities through social networks like Facebook.

Q Software Global, an Oracle Gold Partner and provider of risk management, compliance and security solutions for Oracle ERP application users, announced a new webinar for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) users who wish to improve controls whilst reducing the

Oracle will provide merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, size profiling and optimization systems. It's a full suite of retail business applications so that supply chains are managed better, inventory control gets tighter, core merchandising is improved and so Arcadia can track sales and fashion trends better and learn more about what sizes are needed in the stores, on an individual basis, rather than by country. According to Green, Oracle will enable Arcadia to "romance the customer" and intensify efforts to put up flagships and grow the online business.

Oracle will provide merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, size profiling and optimization systems. It's a full suite of retail business applications so that supply chains are managed better, inventory control gets tighter, core merchandising is improved and so Arcadia can track sales and fashion trends better and learn more about what sizes are needed in the stores, on an individual basis, rather than by country. According to Green, Oracle will enable Arcadia to "romance the customer" and intensify efforts to put up flagships and grow the online business.

Entries for two thirds of last week's 18 Oracle Retail Week Awards came from the contenders themselves. This is not to denigrate the winners' success, as many powerful peers had also put themselves forward. But no entries were invited for the top five awards, which depended solely on the judgement of the industry and the panel. And they coincidentally had something else in common: Aldi, Alliance Boots*, Arcadia, Inditex and John Lewis are all privately held or controlled businesses (*pre Walgreens).

The chain Unicoop Florence - the largest cooperative in Italy, with a network of over 100 hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores in seven provinces - has chosen to rely on Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management with the aim to optimize the management of its stores and inventory, while improving the customer experience, and to unify all the various processes in a single solution and get more control over the goods in the shop.

Alltel is using Oracle Retail software to help improve store operations, tighten inventory control, simplify the purchase process, and enhance the customer experience

...A good example of a core project Wolfe started was the re-architecture of the company's front-end Oracle ATG e-commerce platform to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) public cloud. This was key to enhancing customer experience across Shop Direct's retail websites, with availability the main area of focus. The retailer's entire e-commerce infrastructure now sits on the cloud - including ATG and Oracle's enterprise data discovery platform Endeca, as well as the AWS-provided Elastic Load Balancing and Relational Database services, which now support Shop Direct's database. "The migration was a good example of that drive to get service under control, and since our shop is always open, availability is critical to us and therefore the first thing to tackle," says Wolfe.

The retail chain will build a new online retail platform using software from Oracle after years of outsourcing web sales to GSI Commerce, now eBay Enterprise. It's the latest in a series of retail chains taking control of their own e-commerce destiny.

On the back end, there is another large implementation - the company's core trading platform will be the Oracle Retail Suite, which will include sub-products Retail Merchandising System, Retail Sales Audit and RPM for database monitoring. "[With the Oracle systems] it's all about controls, stability, joining up - the usual things. We've got lots of heritage systems. So the idea is to get a back end that's solid, secure, reliable and less complex than other technologies we currently have," says Haywood.