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Highlighting that Echelon Corporation has teamed with Oracle to help utilities better manage outages, protect revenue, offer demand response, and offer prepayment options. The article notes that Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution, allows utilities to deploy multiple applications to manage their assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president 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.

Highlighting that Echelon Corporation has teamed with Oracle to help utilities better manage outages, protect revenue, offer demand response, and offer prepayment options. The article notes that Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution, allows utilities to deploy multiple applications to manage their assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president 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.

The Oct. 12 edition of Billing World includes the following article highlighting that Telefónica Germany has gone live with the first phase of its implementation of Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0. The article notes that the solution will unify order management across Telefónica Germany's retail and business offerings, combine order capture across multiple channels and streamline self-service capabilities for corporate, customer value management, customer services, marketing and sales processes.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation - the company behind shoe brands including Ugg Australia and Teva - is using a cloud-based digital commerce platform to support global expansion.

To help retailers improve customer service and increase efficiency, Oracle today introduced Oracle Retail Mobile Point-of-Service

Canadian retailer offering luggage, handbags and accessories, has selected Oracle Retail solutions to optimize operations and establish an integrated, scalable platform to help drive growth

Oracle-sponsored Report Reveals Consumers' Cross-channel Behavior

South African fashion retailer has implemented Oracle ATG Web Commerce applications to underpin its new cross-channel commerce offering which went live early this summer.

With the Oracle Retail system supporting its e-commerce site and 26 stores in 11 states, Von Maur is able to respond more quickly to customer demand, maintain appropriate inventory levels, and increase sales by having the right products

"Our customers seek out the UGG brand online, on their mobile devices and in stores. By creating a single, accurate view of their engagement with us, we can better align our service, marketing and merchandising with their needs," said Dave Powers, President, Global Direct to Consumer, Deckers Outdoor.

The study demonstrates that consumers are demanding that this 'good for me' experience be delivered across multiple touch points, which offers considerable opportunities for retailers to differentiate from Amazon's online offering by developing strategies to better understand preferences, deliver more targeted personalization techniques and provide commerce anywhere.