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PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

PureFormulas.com spent an estimated 1,000 hours, or more than 40 full days, meeting with or investigating all the major e-commerce platform vendors-including Demandware Inc., hybris AG, Magento-before buying from Oracle Corp. The retailer signed a contract with Oracle in May 2013, downloading Oracle Commerce software on its own servers. The implementation required in-house design work and coding in advance of the full launch in August of the retailer's new platform-which has also been deployed by larger retailers, including, last year, Kohl's Corp., a retail chain that took in $1.76 billion in web sales in 2013, according to Top500Guide.com.

As the East Coast prepared for Superstorm Sandy, the American Red Cross's new cloud platform allowed users in the storm's path to read customized preparedness warnings and shelter information, based on their location, as they checked the organization's homepage. And when Americans reached into their pockets after the storm, a scalable ecommerce platform allowed the organization to handle as many as 75,000 concurrent donations - the most ever. The American Red Cross is merging its 400-500 chapter websites, under a new cloud platform, from Oracle Corp. , that allows the organization to scale up its capacity when a disaster strikes and users are clamoring for preparedness information, Craig Oldham, vice president of digital engagement told CIO Journal. The platform, which the Red Cross began rolling out in August, was already implemented by half its chapters by the time the storm struck. The ability to scale up allowed the Red Cross to handle a peak of more than 500,000 page views per minute, during a NBC telethon to draw donations for the relief effort in early November...

Amazon just obtained a new competitor for its Amazon Web Services cloud hosting and development platform. Oracle is going head-to-head with Amazon with a slew of more than 24 new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle's new integrated cloud services include infrastructure, platform and software delivered as a service. Specific cloud-based services include hosted Exadata-based production databases, archive storage, Big Data, enterprise mobility, and application integration. Oracle says it offers the same products, with 100% compatibility, in the cloud and on premises, which means that companies can move to and from the cloud without changing applications. Furthermore, workloads can be moved to the cloud instantly. "Oracle is growing really fast," said Larry Ellison, CTO of Oracle, in public remarks. "Oracle is the only company on the planet that can deliver a complete, integrated, standards-based suite of services at every layer of the cloud. Those technology advantages enable us to be much more cost-effective than our competitors. Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it's one-tenth their price."

The July 1 edition of Campus Technology features an article highlighting that worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms accounted for 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments in just the first quarter of 2014. The article cites Oracle as the number one integrated platform vendor.

The July 1 edition of Campus Technology features an article highlighting that worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms accounted for 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments in just the first quarter of 2014. The article cites Oracle as the number one integrated platform vendor.

The November 14 edition of IT Wire includes the following release highlighting the University of Melbourne implementing Oracle Platform for its student portal. The article includes comment from Niranjan Prabu, Director, University of Melbourne who notes it was straightforward to add the new portal functionality and the dream of service-oriented architecture (SOA). The new platform reduced the cost of redeveloping the portal by 40 percent.

"...the ATG commerce platform not only has the robustness but also the ability to customize and personalize, to give the guest a much more personalized experience.  Finally mobile was really important to us.  We saw a huge uptick in mobile over the holidays.  We wanted a platform where we could use that same platform and put a mobile front end on it and we knew it would work well."

British multinational retailing company Arcadia Group has selected Oracle retail platform to optimize retail operations and support its developing international business. The fashion retailer will use Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management, Oracle Retail Merchandise Planning and Optimization, and Oracle Commerce applications to meet customer demand in its 2,507stores and 600 international franchised outlets across 36 countries.

British multinational retailing company Arcadia Group has selected Oracle retail platform to optimize retail operations and support its developing international business. The fashion retailer will use Oracle Retail Merchandising Operations Management, Oracle Retail Merchandise Planning and Optimization, and Oracle Commerce applications to meet customer demand in its 2,507stores and 600 international franchised outlets across 36 countries.

"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."

Kohl's previously announced that it will relaunch Kohls.com on an e-commerce platform from Oracle Corp. this summer. It will also test a mobile payment acceptance technology in stores later this year. In 2012, Kohl's generated $1.43 billion in sales on the web, up 41.6% from $1.01 billion in 2011. It is No. 28 in Internet Retailer's Top 500 Guide. "We have made significant investments in our IT and omnichannel initiatives to ensure we have the platforms, technology and tools to allow customers to shop when they want and from where they want," Mansell says.

....Lululemon also recognizes that a strong digital presence requires ongoing investment in technology. Last year Lululemon moved its e-commerce operations from a third-party vendor to an in-house platform from ATG . "We significantly lowered operating costs as a percentage of sales by in-sourcing our strategic platform," reported CFO John Currie.

The Aug. 14 edition of GreenTechMedia includes the following article highlighting the ten predictions and trends for what the utilities industry will see in the software and smart grid market in coming years identified by the keynote speakers at GreenTechMedia's The Soft Grid 2012 conference. The fourth trend sited in the article notes the increasing role of open-source platforms in terms of distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers. The article notes that legacy players in the industry, such as Oracle, are building solutions around new open-source platforms.

Article highlighting the announcement of Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management (ODM), an information systems platform that helps utilities manage the change, configuration, and inventory of smart grid assets for improved operational efficiency. The article notes that the new ODM smart grid software platform is designed to manage the range of "smart devices" in utilities' new distribution infrastructure.

"Redtag Group, a Dubai-based chain of value fashion and home stores, is deploying a new merchandise planning platform to help it make better-informed purchasing and pricing decisions."

...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.

Hosted cloud computing is becoming an increasingly hot market. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which recently launched a major Indian initiative in Alibaba's backyard, maintains a dominant position. Oracle has released a slew of more than 24 new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform. Also Google is entering a new partnership that will base the next generation of JDA Software Group of cloud-based omnichannel and supply chain solutions on the public Google Cloud Platform.

Highlighting that Oracle unveiled an integrated health care platform designed to help states set up health insurance exchanges. The article also notes that the applications can support Health and Human Services Department programs and core business functions such as eligibility and enrollment; billings, collections and premium reconciliation; customer service; premium tax credit tracking; broker management; payment processing and financial and management reporting.

GENBAND, announced its successful unification of its finance, order management and supply chains into a single platform running the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. The company noted a combined team of implementation specialists from OPN Platinum level partn

Based on Oracle's Sun Blade X6270 M2 servers and iAX™, Tango Telecom's next generation messaging platform achieved sustained performance of over 10,000 message delivery attempts (MDA) per second. The benchmark report shows that the iAX platform demonstrat

An article highlighting Oracle's acquisition of eServGlobal's Universal Services Platform

An article highlighting Oracle's acquisition of eServGlobal's Universal Services Platform