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The Sept. 3 edition of Enterprise Times includes the following article about Oracle's new data center in Canada. The article quotes Mario Meroni, area vice president, Oracle Canada Public Sector, who discusses the value of the Oracle Cloud offerings supported by the Canadian data center for customers.

The Sept. 3 edition of Enterprise Times includes the following article about Oracle's new data center in Canada. The article quotes Mario Meroni, area vice president, Oracle Canada Public Sector, who discusses the value of the Oracle Cloud offerings supported by the Canadian data center for customers.

Highlighting that Oracle released Siebel Customer Relationship Management 8.2 with applications specifically targeting public sector organizations' unique needs.

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has selected Oracle's Primavera Contract Management for $4.6 billion water system improvement program. SFPUC chose Oracle's Primavera Contract Management based on document CMIS functions, overall functiona

The Oct. 19 edition of Metro Magazine includes the following byline by Patrick Mungovan, vice president, Oracle Public Sector. In the byline, Mungovan discusses the digital engagement journey for transit agencies, covering the steps of initiation, selection, conversion and advocacy.

The Oct. 19 edition of Metro Magazine includes the following byline by Patrick Mungovan, vice president, Oracle Public Sector. In the byline, Mungovan discusses the digital engagement journey for transit agencies, covering the steps of initiation, selection, conversion and advocacy.

Coverage announcing the release of the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2013 Shortlist in the Retail Week publications.

The Chinese online publication, Computer Business Online news, covers the announced launch of the latest versions of Oracle Retail Category Management (Oracle Retail Category Management) solutions.

The February 11 edition of University Business include the following article by Cole Clark, global vice president of education and research industries, Oracle, discussing cloud computing in higher education. The article notes that many higher education institutions are moving to the cloud because of shrinking budgets, increasing system complexity, and escalating user expectations. The article also notes that while implementing new solutions can be costly, higher education institutions are realizing significant returns on their cloud investments, whether public or private. The article concludes that for higher education, with the tangible benefits of efficiency, cost savings, and improved service delivery, the challenge is "how, what, and when" to move to the cloud-not "if."

Coverage of the Good For Me by-line article in this Austrian technology publication.

The May 1 editions of eSchool News includes the following press release announcing Oracle and Ciber's implementation of an integrated student service system and enterprise resource planning platform for Washington State Board of Community and Technical College (WSBCTC). The system of 34 public community and technical colleges will work with Oracle and Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Platinum Partner Ciber to implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Financials, and Oracle Fusion Analytic Applications.

The May 1 edition of eCampus News included the following press release announcing Oracle and Ciber's implementation of an integrated student service system and enterprise resource planning platform for Washington State Board of Community and Technical College (WSBCTC). The system of 34 public community and technical colleges will work with Oracle and Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Platinum Partner Ciber to implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Financials, and Oracle Fusion Analytic Applications.

Article highlighting how Oracle is positioning itself as a leading cloud service provider to federal government clients tasked with major IT initiatives that include moving to the cloud with tight or declining budgets. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan's keynote address at a government IT conference, suggesting that service-oriented model Oracle is trying to bring to its database offerings could resonate with federal clients who are being asked to undertake major IT initiatives while seeing their budgets decline. Oracle's holistic cloud offering would eliminate the multiple vendors commonly involved in cloud deployments today, a streamlining that should translate into lower costs for customers, which might particularly resonate with federal CIOs. The article also notes that Oracle announced its cloud advancements at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference.

The Aug. 12 edition of GovLoop includes the follow article highlighting five ways to improve communication between information technology (IT) professionals and the business team members. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan, Group Vice President and Chief Technologist, noting that many projects fail due to an inability for IT professionals to explain and communicate their capabilities to the business side, and for the business to communicate back to the IT side, stating their needs and requirements to have a tangible impact on the outcome. The article goes on to discuss five starter questions and suggestions on how to best improve communication among a team.

The January 31 edition of University Business  includes the following article highlighting that the University of Puget Sound selected Oracle's PeopleSoft applications and Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Budgeting and Planning running on Oracle Database to facilitate information exchange and enhance strategic reporting capabilities.  The article notes that the new systems will overhaul the university's legacy student, financial and human resources systems.

The January 31 edition of eCampus News includes the following article highlighting that the University of Puget Sound selected Oracle's PeopleSoft applications and Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Budgeting and Planning running on Oracle Database to facilitate information exchange and enhance strategic reporting capabilities. The article notes that the new systems will overhaul the university's legacy student, financial and human resources systems.

The February 1 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article highlighting that the University of Puget Sound selected Oracle's PeopleSoft applications and Oracle Hyperion Public Sector Budgeting and Planning running on Oracle Database to facilitate information exchange and enhance strategic reporting capabilities.  The article notes that the new systems will overhaul the university's legacy student, financial and human resources systems.  The article includes comment by Sherry Mondou, vice president for finance and administration, University of Puget Sound who notes that by moving to an integrated Oracle software environment, the university will realize a tremendous opportunity to transform and streamline its operating processes.

The November 15 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article highlighting the recent release of the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system (OS). The article notes that Oracle Solaris 11 provides built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network, and storage resources and is designed to run enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds.

...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 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.