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BioPharm Systems, a provider of clinical trial, data, and drug safety solutions, announced that Oracle Health Sciences Global Business Unit granted the company PartnerNetwork Gold Specialization status for Oracle Argus Safety and Siebel Clinical.

BIAS Corporation announced the achievement of 10 OPN Specializations, including: Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation, Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture, Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle Real Applica

MSS, Inc. announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.

eVerge announced it has achieved OPN Specialization in six categories: Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

Groupware announced that it has achieved the OPN Specialization for Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

MindStream has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Hyperion Planning

Oracle awarded DSP Managed Services with the Most Innovative Use of Oracle Software & Hardware award during its annual Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized UK Awards held at The Renaissance Chancery Court, London

DOWNLOAD/REGISTRATION Required This cover story of this special report features Ovation Brands, who had just gone live on Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud (and still implementing Oracle EPM Cloud). The story chronicles Ovation's move to the cloud, starting small, adding Micros, then implementing ERP and HR in the cloud, citing business gains, newfound analytical insight and lower operating cost as benefits of the migration.

DOWNLOAD/REGISTRATION Required This cover story of this special report features Ovation Brands, who had just gone live on Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle HCM Cloud (and still implementing Oracle EPM Cloud). The story chronicles Ovation's move to the cloud, starting small, adding Micros, then implementing ERP and HR in the cloud, citing business gains, newfound analytical insight and lower operating cost as benefits of the migration.

Tony Kontzer's article on Ovation Brands - including a quote from CIO Patrick Benson - was called out in the editor's note at the beginning of the special report. "Those who have gone beyond testing the waters are finding there is no looking back. In Tony Kontzer's cover story, Ovation Brands CIO Patrick Benson recounts how the chain restaurant operator was faced with an outdated IT infrastructure and needed help fast; it found it in software as a service. "The major difference in the journey has been the warp speed at which we were really able to do this. It wasn't artificial or forced. It's just an organically faster process," Benson said. "We used to wait a day or two just to get the previous day's performance information. That stuff now becomes real-time."

Tony Kontzer's article on Ovation Brands - including a quote from CIO Patrick Benson - was called out in the editor's note at the beginning of the special report. "Those who have gone beyond testing the waters are finding there is no looking back. In Tony Kontzer's cover story, Ovation Brands CIO Patrick Benson recounts how the chain restaurant operator was faced with an outdated IT infrastructure and needed help fast; it found it in software as a service. "The major difference in the journey has been the warp speed at which we were really able to do this. It wasn't artificial or forced. It's just an organically faster process," Benson said. "We used to wait a day or two just to get the previous day's performance information. That stuff now becomes real-time."

Interview with EMEA A&C Manager Stein Surlien: In EMEA Oracle introduced a new partner program in 2009. Oracle now has 500 partners who have chosen to specialize in one or more of the 50 specialist areas. The goal is to reach 2000 in the course of 6-9 m

Northgate Information Solutions has been awarded the Oracle ISV Partner of the Year Award at the annual Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized UK Awards.

The article analyzes how Cisco can energize the company - and its channel partners? An example: Create a channel campaign that gets Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized partners trained on UCS.

Caroline Donnelly penned an article highlighting the success of Oracle's channel specialization program. She spoke with Stein Surlien, senior vice president for EMEA alliances and channels at Oracle for details.

Kohl's Department Stores, the value-oriented speciality department store, has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising, Planning and Supply Chain solutions.

The Moscow office of Oracle presented a study Evolution of Experience Retailing, held corporation in Brazil, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the U.S. and Japan. In each country, through a specially selected site were surveyed about 500 people from 18 to 60 years.

A panel led by Citibank retail analyst Deborah Weinswig included Dave Finnegan, CIO of Build-A-Bear Workshops, who's company partnered with Oracle to donate proceeds from the sale of special teddy bears...

New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway makes a strong case that pure-play retailers, whether just brick-and-mortar or just e-commerce, are doomed. He predicts that Amazon will stumble as stores beef up their e-commerce and especially their fulfillment options. Others don't buy that, saying that Amazon is in many ways as special as Jeff Bezos seems to think it is. "I disagree," writes Oracle's David Dorf in his Commerce Anywhere blog of Galloway's assertions. "Not because the logic is flawed, but rather because Amazon is not a typical retailer. I believe they could be profitable if they wanted to but instead choose to continue investing in widening their competitive moat. Not only is their retail business state-of-the-art, but their investments in AWS, tablets, payments, IoT, etc. are complementary, and help to diversify the business (yes, they can do both). Amazon is not your typical pure-play."

Toys said it will be using Oracle ATG e-commerce software to build its new Web platform. The decision "tells me they're looking to increase the percentage of business they do online," said Paula Rosenblum,managing partner at RSR Research, a research and consulting firm that specializes in retail technology. GSI, and now eBay Enterprises, typically don't handle operations for the largest retailers, she said. Rosenblum said she is surprised Toys hadn't moved in this direction already. "Given that they've been under attack by Amazon and WalMart both, you would think they would have done this sooner," she said.