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"...We're really marrying up purchase behavior within the stores, purchase behavior in the digital channels and other external information to put together more relevant assortments. It's a great partnership between our merchants and our e-commerce business to bring it to life."

The dawn of cloud-based retail as a service (RaaS) platforms, such as Oracle's new suite of Oracle Retail cloud services, enables retailers to use the cloud to manage everything from inventory and e-commerce to customer engagement and order fulfillment.

With the addition of Oracle Retail Insights and Oracle Retail Science, Oracle is now a "one-stop cloud shop"; with 17 different software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud offerings available for large and mid-size retailers, explained David Dorf, Senior Director of Solutions Management in an exclusive interview with Retail TouchPoints. ..."The SaaS offerings are much more affordable for mid-tier retailers, in part because they are paying for what they use," Dorf noted. "We are now able to avail cloud science to smaller retailers."

Oracle is focusing squarely on retail agility with the latest additions to its comprehensive set of retail cloud solutions. ..."Retailers can react to the market a lot faster," said David Dorf, senior director of product strategy at Oracle Retail, during a phone briefing with Chain Store Age. "Retailers do not have to focus on mundane IT tasks, but the retail business itself. They can also obtain access to more features and functions faster, with automatic upgrades in the cloud."

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.

Oracle is enabling retailers to fulfill orders in the cloud with two new product releases on the Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud platform.

The retail chain will build a new online retail platform using software from Oracle after years of outsourcing web sales to GSI Commerce, now eBay Enterprise. It's the latest in a series of retail chains taking control of their own e-commerce destiny.

Oracle Hospitality HITEC Booth #1011 As hotels and restaurants employ mobile, social, and informational tools to connect with guests, they require a new type of "engagement" device at the point of service (POS). To meet this need, Oracle has introduced Oracle's MICROS Workstation 6 with a fresh, modern design that provides hospitality and select retail venues with a next-generation POS terminal that works in concert with mobile, cloud, and social media to deliver consistent, integrated content across multiple sources.

On the back end, there is another large implementation - the company's core trading platform will be the Oracle Retail Suite, which will include sub-products Retail Merchandising System, Retail Sales Audit and RPM for database monitoring. "[With the Oracle systems] it's all about controls, stability, joining up - the usual things. We've got lots of heritage systems. So the idea is to get a back end that's solid, secure, reliable and less complex than other technologies we currently have," says Haywood.

The June 26 edition of Education Dive includes the following article featuring an interview with Dr. Sasi Pillay, CIO and associate vice president at the University of Wisconsin (UW). In the article, Dr. Pillay discusses how UW is using Oracle solutions, such as PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, to recruit students. With the ability to mine social media, Oracle helps UW target and recruit cohorts of students.

...The new tool, built for the Oracle Public Cloud, is part of Oracle's Customer Experience (CX) applications portfolio. "It's rare that a retailer just wants to discuss commerce by itself," Ian Davis, senior director of product management for Oracle Commerce, told Chain Store Age. "They want to discuss social media, marketing, customer service and sales." Oracle Commerce Cloud's SaaS infrastructure allows online businesses to launch responsive storefronts across desktop and mobile devices. Pre-integrated core commerce features include search / navigation, recommendations, promotions, reporting, payments, design templates and SEO. A unified experience management console enables catalog, content, design and merchandising management. Responsive design and HTML5 user interfaces let users build additional functionality or develop integrations that connect Commerce Cloud with other systems while also allowing consumption for third-party development efforts. "We use an API-first development approach," said Davis. "Exposing APIs makes the solution easy to use." Davis also commented on Commerce Cloud's capabilities to seamlessly fit into retailers' business-to-business efforts, as well as their business-to-consumer markets....

Oracle Commerce Cloud is designed to offer online merchants "simplicity, quick time-to-market and shorter implementation cycles," said Ian Davis, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Corporation, in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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.

Oracle Communications this week unveiled four new products that address service providers' move to network functions virtualization. The solutions were announced at the LTE World Summit 2015 in Amsterdam.

Oracle Communications this week unveiled four new products that address service providers' move to network functions virtualization. The solutions were announced at the LTE World Summit 2015 in Amsterdam.