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Oracle is making BI more actionable with Retail Merchandising Analytics, a prebuilt, merchandising-specific BI application that offers insight into performance indicators such as item sales, store performance, inventory turn, and sales and profit trends -

Built on Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite (OBIEE), Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics combines a prebuilt data model for building a data warehouse with predefined dashboards, metrics, and reports on various aspects of retail perf

Brian Kilcourse, managing partner of retail research and advisory firm Retail Systems Research LLC, says the Oracle application can help retailers access deep data on customer activity needed to predict consumer demand. "Modern business intelligence capab

"It is a very exciting development, particularly since Forrester's research shows that the process driving merchandising decisions in many retailers is based on spreadsheets, and is desperately in need of an analytics boost," said George Lawrie, Vice Pres

Oracle today introduced its Retail Merchandising Analytics solution, a business intelligence application that incorporates common performance metrics from across the retail enterprise along with built-in capabilities for retailers to quickly act on the in

Guest blogger Mark Lawrence walks retailers through some of the highlights of this new BI application

Next-generation BI application helps retailers improve performance and decision-making

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle Database. The service brings pay-by-the-hour access to Oracle's database

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Highlighting the Oracle Utilities Resource Centre. The article notes that the resource center Web site is user-friendly, easy to navigate and loaded with resources any smart-grid-eyeing utility company might need, from whitepapers and data sheets to case

Video interview with Guerry Waters, vice president for industry strategy, Oracle Utilities, discussing the major challenges, threats and opportunities facing power industry from game changing developments. Waters notes that Congress, the Obama Administra

Highlighting that Oracle and Infosys Technologies announced the completion of a successful business transformation program incorporating the implementation of Oracle Utilities Network Management System at Seattle City Light. The article notes that the ne

Highlighting that the IJIS Institute announced that Oracle has upgraded its member status to become the organization's seventh Sustaining Member. The article notes that Sustaining Members receive a number of benefits including enhanced recognition on the

Discussing the United States' natural and man-made disaster preparedness evolution. The article includes comments from Peter Doolan, vice president and chief technology officer, Oracle Public Sector discussing how preparedness consists of organizational

Press release highlighting that Veterans Canteen Service implemented Oracle Retail applications and the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to establish new merchandising, inventory and price processes designed to help increase sales and establish more control over inventory throughout its locations. The article notes that Veterans Canteen Service selected the Oracle Retail applications and Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 based on integration capabilities and product attributes. The article also includes comments from Mike Webster, general manager, Oracle Retail noting that Veterans Canteen Service offers an important service to America's Veterans and Oracle Retail is proud to be a part of the team working to provide better service to canteen customers.

Home Care Provider Improves Decision Making with Timely, Accurate Intelligence

"We want to transform our business and needed a proven retail technology platform as a part of that process," said Anna Martini, president, Groupe Dynamite

One of the most recognized fashion brands in Canada selects Oracle Retail to support expansion

"We are enabling next generation best practices that will center on optimizing the customer experience at both the store and ecommerce level," said Mike Laurenti, CIO and executive VP, Belk.

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff event for fiscal year 2012 is coming a few days after Oracle announced 4Q 2011 financial results. This article examines how Oracle is performing heading into this new fiscal year.