Oracle Media Resource

Highlighting that Oracle announced its solution for health insurance exchanges that provides state governments with the functionality and services required to help ensure health insurance exchange success. The release notes that Oracle's comprehensive solution for healthcare insurance exchanges can support Health and Human Service 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. The release also includes comments from Mark Johnson, senior vice president, Oracle Public Sector noting that Oracle offers a robust solution which consists of proven technologies that are architected to work together, and include the necessary capabilities needed to deliver a successful program.

Highlighting University of Western Ontario's selection of Oracle's Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's AutoVue to support major campus engineering and contruction portfolio. The release notes that the university will be able to support its aggressive sustainability and green initiative directives. The release includes comment by Paul Martin, director of business operations, facilities management at the University of Western Ontario, noting that the university is looking for ways to do things better and improve the student experience. The release also includes comment by George Qubty, director of facilities engineering, facilities management, noting that Oracle solutions give the college the kind of state-of-the-art learning facilities that can meet both the academic and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

Hughes Telematics, a provider of connected services, has launched a new business model to provide connected vehicle services and has chosen a best of suite CRM and revenue management solution from Oracle to support the initiative. The article notes that Hughes Telematics has recently secured a strong position in the telematics industry with a partnership with AAA.

At OpenWorld, Oracle announced deals with Sky Brasil and Hughes Telematics. The article notes that digital-to-home (DTH) subscription service Sky Brasil will implement Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management solution to improve operational efficiency, and reduce cost and deployment time and Sky-a subsidiary of DirecTV-will be able to converge all its customer offerings into one bill.

Oracle Communications billing and revenue management solution has been selected by Sky Brasil to help it provide more sophisticated and differentiated services to its rapidly growing subscriber base. The article notes that with the solution, Sky Brasil will be able to rapidly design, deliver and monetize creative service offers/bundles and deliver a wide range of services based on customer or market driven conditions.

Oracle is providing technology to Hughes Telematics, a provider of next-generation connected services, and Sky Brasil, digital-to-home (DTH) pay-TV operator to support their businesses. The article notes that the Oracle solutions enabled HTI to expand its business model to deliver connected services, customer support and billing directly to consumers and Sky Brasil to help provide more sophisticated and differentiated services to its rapidly growing subscriber base.

Highlighting Oracle's release of JavaFX 2.0 and NetBeans IDE 7.1 preview. The article notes that Oracle released Java FX 2.0 as a major rewrite of the company's Java platform for creating and deploying rich internet applications.

Highlighting Oracle's recent release of a new version of Oracle Enterprise pack for Eclipse. The article notes that the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 is a free set of Eclipse-based plugins for developers building Java EE, Java Web, Web Service, Spring and Oracle ADF applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform.

Highlighting Oracle Public Cloud, a set of integrated services that provide access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database. The article notes that Oracle Public Cloud technologies are portable and built on open standards, so organizations with existing Java and Oracle Database applications will be able to migrate them to the Oracle Public Cloud without rewriting them.

Highlighting Oracle's Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and the company's plans for Java SE (version 8). The article notes that Oracle plans to release Java SE 7 on Mac OS X for developers in the second quarter of 2012 and Java SE (version 8) during the summer of 2013.

Highlighting Oracle Solaris 11, which was previewed at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 and touted as the first and only fully virtualized operating system. The article notes that Solaris is the operating system at the heart of Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and powers the SPARC T4 server line, SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, Exadata Database Machine X-2 and X2-8 systems and Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

Highlighting that CACI International has bolstered its presence in the government transformation arena with the acquisition of Advanced Programs Group LLC, an Oracle Platinum Partner and provider of Oracle e-Business services in the federal market. The article notes that services include Oracle e-Business Suite implementations, IT program management, enterprise architecture, and security assistance.

Highlighting that Oracle rolled out plans to enter the public cloud business at the company's OpenWorld conference. The article also notes that Larry Ellison said Oracle Public Cloud would be available on a monthly subscription basis and would combine platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service capabilities.

Highlighting that to help better manage outages, Echelon and Oracle are teaming up to offer them a new, integrated solution. The article notes that the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway, integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution, is designed to help utilities more quickly and reliably deploy multiple applications to manage assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that utilities need to act now even though regulations, standards and available technology will change, so they are looking for an open, multi-application solution that will grow with them over time.

Highlighting that Echelon Corporation is integrating its smart metering technology with the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway to give utilities an efficient means to deploy multiple smart grid applications. The article notes that Echelon's head-end-based system software pre-processes the data collected from meters or other smart devices deployed and passes it to the Oracle Utilities gateway which then presents this data in a unified fashion to Oracle's suite of applications.

Highlighting that Echelon Corporation has teamed with Oracle to help utilities better manage outages, protect revenue, offer demand response, and offer prepayment options. The article notes that Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution enables utilities to deploy multiple applications to manage their assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that Oracle and Echelon are pleased to offer a highly flexible solution that is adaptable to changing customer, operations and regulatory needs.

Highlighting that Echelon announced its association with Oracle to assist utilities to manage outages, protect their revenue, offer demand response, and offer prepayment options. The article notes that leveraging the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution, utilities can deploy multiple applications to manage their assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that utilities need to act now even though regulations, standards and available technology will change, so they are looking for an open, multi-application solution that will grow with them over time.

Highlighting that Echelon Corporation has teamed with Oracle to help utilities better manage outages, protect revenue, offer demand response, and offer prepayment options. The article notes that Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway integrated with Echelon's smart metering solution, allows utilities to deploy multiple applications to manage their assets and customers. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that utilities need to act now even though regulations, standards and available technology will change, so they are looking for an open, multi-application solution that will grow with them over time.

Highlighting that Oracle and Echelon have collaborated and are offering a new integrated solution that will help them manage outages and new applications more efficiently, as well as introduce renewable energy sources. The article notes that Oracle integrated their Utilities Smart Grid Gateway with Echelon's smart metering solution to enable utilities to deploy multiple applications quickly and safely and help reduce the cost and complexity of enhancing smart grids with new devices, data streams and business processes. The article also includes comments from Bastian Fischer, vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that utilities need to act now even though regulations, standards and available technology will change, so they are looking for an open, multi-application solution that will grow with them over time.

The October 11 edition of Campus Technology includes the following article highlighting Oracle's recently announced social networking tool, Oracle Social Network. The article notes that the Oracle Social Network is integrated with other Oracle Public Cloud Application services, and it enables users to communicate and collaborate with other people inside or outside of their organization using a variety of tools, such as personal profiles, groups, activity feeds, status updates, discussion forums, document sharing, co-browsing and editing, instant messaging, e-mail and Web conferencing.