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Oracle buys Convergin

Highlights Oracle's announcement of its upgraded Database Lite, a solution that enables the deployment, development, and management of applications for mobile and embedded environments

Built on Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite (OBIEE), Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics combines a prebuilt data model for building a data warehouse with predefined dashboards, metrics, and reports on various aspects of retail perf

Highlighting that Oracle and Echelon have collaborated and are offering a new integrated solution that will help them manage outages and new applications more efficiently, as well as introduce renewable energy sources. The article notes that Oracle integrated their Utilities Smart Grid Gateway with Echelon's smart metering solution to enable utilities to deploy multiple applications quickly and safely and help reduce the cost and complexity of enhancing smart grids with new devices, data streams and business processes. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that utilities need to act now even though regulations, standards and available technology will change, so they are looking for an open, multi-application solution that will grow with them over time.

Oracle has announced that ASOS will be implementing an Oracle solution for its retail operation after experiencing issues with their previous ERP solution. It is one of Clifford Cohen's, CIO at ASOS first major decisions since he joined the company from M&S in May 2015.

"It is not just on the website that Lenox are seeing the benefits of the E-Commerce solution. The customer service team uses the Oracle console to access data about customers, including their purchase history and their personalised coupons according to their preferences. Customers have a unified experience be it always receiving free shipping for orders over $29 or discounts off holiday ornaments regardless of the channel they use to purchase."