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Highlighting University of Western Ontario's selection of Oracle's Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's AutoVue to support major campus engineering and contruction portfolio. The release notes that the university will be able to support its aggressive sustainability and green initiative directives. The release includes comment by Paul Martin, director of business operations, facilities management at the University of Western Ontario, noting that the university is looking for ways to do things better and improve the student experience. The release also includes comment by George Qubty, director of facilities engineering, facilities management, noting that Oracle solutions give the college the kind of state-of-the-art learning facilities that can meet both the academic and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

"To extend its "commerce anywhere" strategy, Stage Stores has implemented Oracle Commerce. The initiative, completed in less than six months, provided the retailer with a new e-commerce engine, along with guided search and recommendation solutions, all before the 2012 holiday shopping season kicked off."

"To extend its "commerce anywhere" strategy, Stage Stores has implemented Oracle Commerce. The initiative, completed in less than six months, provided the retailer with a new e-commerce engine, along with guided search and recommendation solutions, all before the 2012 holiday shopping season kicked off."

...To superpower its innovation capabilities Kohl's selected Oracle Commerce to power its e-commerce engine. The Digital Center worked with Oracle to customize the solution to fit the retailer's specifications and ensure that the platform was prepared not only for today's requirements, but tomorrow's challenges.

...To superpower its innovation capabilities Kohl's selected Oracle Commerce to power its e-commerce engine. The Digital Center worked with Oracle to customize the solution to fit the retailer's specifications and ensure that the platform was prepared not only for today's requirements, but tomorrow's challenges.

Retail IT is being transformed. CIOs are shifting from proprietary systems to package solutions and from an emphasis on cost reduction to a solid bump in IT capital spending. A strong customer focus means CIOs are fixing their attention on channel integration and analytics that will help them spot and anticipate shopper preferences more quickly. "Talking about re-engineering the foundation of retail IT may not be the sexy side of technology, but it's critical," Webster says. "If a company jumps into mobile-assisted in-store selling ... but doesn't have accurate visibility of inventory across the enterprise, what have they accomplished?" That's a point of view echoed by Gartner vice president of research Jeff Roster. "The big attack has to be on infrastructure," he says. "There are still a whole lot of retail companies out there that need to retire legacy systems and get out of the proprietary code writing business. Once they move to packaged systems, the opportunity to decrease infrastructure costs and reshape the business around today's customer can move forward at a quicker pace."

Article highlighting the results of the recent Oracle "Water for All?" study. Among the various results, the article notes that the need to address challenges like wasteful consumer behavior, climate change and low tariffs are prompting innovation in the water sector, with utilities investing in a range of efficiency-improving technologies, including desalination technology, network sensors and smart meters. The article also notes that the threat of water scarcity is not an insurmountable challenge, but water utilities will need to make much more productive use of water available and better educate their customers about its value to overcome it.

Tilly's expects Oracle Endeca will help increase site visits and improve search engine rankings by making it easier for consumers to encounter the brand as they go online to seek information and products related to the West Coast inspired lifestyle and the sought-after brand rooted in action sports, music, art and fashion

The June 23 broadcast of Federal News Radio includes the following segment featuring Aaron Cornfeld, vice president, pre-sales engineering, public sector, healthcare & higher education, at Oracle. During the interview, Cornfeld discusses how Oracle is reinventing itself as a cloud company and is helping federal government agencies make the transition to the cloud.

UK supermarket chain chooses automation engine to accelerate critical IT processes

Highlighting that Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.3.1, running with Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2, processed an unprecedented 16,500 bills per minute or 993,240 bills per hour. The article notes that in tests, a typical night's billing run for a utility with one million customers-47,600 bills- was processed in 2.87 minutes. The article also includes comments from Linda Jackman, group vice president of industry strategy noting that this benchmark demonstrates that Oracle software and hardware systems-engineered to work together, and available today-can process routine customer bills in a fraction of the time traditionally used by most utilities.

Highlighting that Oracle's recent testing has demonstrated that the Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management 2.0.1 system, running in tandem with Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, can successfully process 1 billion meter reads per hour. The article notes that the test used data from 5.5 million smart meters measuring consumption in 15-minute intervals. The article also includes comments from Linda Jackman, group vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that the test assures utilities that Oracle hardware and software - engineered to work together, and available today - can process the huge volumes of data arriving from interval reads and ensure the usability of the data to produce the accurate, timely bills customers expect.

Highlighting that Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.3.1, running with Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2, processed an unprecedented 16,500 bills per minute or 993,240 bills per hour. The release notes that in tests, a typical night's billing run for a utility with one million customers-47,600 bills- was processed in 2.87 minutes. The release also includes comments from Linda Jackman, group vice president of industry strategy noting that this benchmark demonstrates that Oracle software and hardware systems-engineered to work together, and available today-can process routine customer bills in a fraction of the time traditionally used by most utilities.

Highlighting a recent study by Oracle Utilities, "The EMEA Smart Grid Rollout," revealing that organizations in the EMEA region are making progress towards the adoption of smart grids and smart meters. The byline notes that to ensure smart grid projects