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Oracle Product Support Advisor Webcasts July 2017

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Oracle Hot Topics: CARDINALITY FEEDBACK POOR SUBSEQUENT PLAN, FIX FOR BUG 13454409 APPLIED & MORE

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Italian Consumer Electronics Retailer Unieuro SpA Drives Efficiency Through Supply Chain


Press Release

Anticipate Demand and Simplify Operations with a Unified View of Inventory


Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jun 27, 2017

Today, Oracle announced that consumer electronics retailer Unieuro SpA purchased Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting and Oracle Retail Allocation & Replenishment to optimize stock levels, increase profitability and improve cash flow. 
Unieuro aims at improving its centralized supply chain organization in order to support effective omnichannel replenishment processes including DOS, affiliate and online channels. With this initiative, Unieuro is in a stronger position to optimize the cross-channel opportunity to minimize stock, reduce obsolescence and streamline organizational costs. The supply chain organization will have the much needed visibility into demand coming from all touch points and to ultimately orchestrate the supply, reduce lost sales and increase customer satisfaction.
“Oracle Retail provides a distinctive replenishment approach for short lifecycle products which includes attribute based forecasting.” said Luigi Fusco, COO, Unieuro SpA. “We believe the optimized orchestration of the stock across channels will help improve our fulfillment rate to improve customer satisfaction and reduce obsolescence to eliminate costs.”
“After conducting a proof of concept with our data, Oracle Retail gained our confidence to move forward with the project. We validated our choice with customer references in the consumer electronics and hardlines businesses,” said Luca Girotti, IT Director, Unieuro. “We are thankful to the Sopra Steria team who helped us evaluate the market offerings and ultimately decide to move forward with the Oracle Retail solution.”
“Retailers like Unieuro can proactively position inventory in the right place in the right quantity by using analytic algorithms to drive accuracy and visibility. The visibility of this new supply chain organization will help Unieuro inspire consumer loyalty with a better in-stock position wherever they are inspired to shop,” said Ray Carlin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail.

Bank of America Selects Oracle Cloud for ERP and Financials

Press Release

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jun 26, 2017

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) announced today that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has selected Oracle’s cloud-based ERP and financial applications for both its international general ledger and its broker-dealer systems. Oracle is the world leader in Cloud ERP systems. The company now has more than five thousand Fusion Financial cloud applications customers installed worldwide.
“Bank of America is among the most sophisticated applications customers in the world,” said Mark Hurd, CEO, Oracle. “Companies in record numbers are migrating legacy ERP applications to Oracle ERP Cloud. Oracle will deliver Bank of America the most modern, complete, global ERP applications in the world.”
“Our continued focus on technology modernization has positioned Bank of America as a contemporary technology company,” said Cathy Bessant, Chief Operations and Technology Officer. “Our agreement with Oracle is about our technology and culture; we’ll learn with and from each other to deliver the best solutions. We anticipate 80 percent of our technology workloads will be delivered on the cloud within the next few years, and this solution for general ledger reflects our evolving strategy and the improvements in cloud security and economics.”
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Oracle Named a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile App Development Platforms

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Oracle positioned as a leader based on ability to execute and completeness of vision


Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jun 23, 2017

Oracle today announced that it has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms” report[1]. This recognition is another milestone in the tremendous momentum and growth of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, part of Oracle Cloud Platform, this year.

“We believe this recognition is another acknowledgement of Oracle’s strong market momentum in the mobile and larger PaaS market, driven by the successful adoption of Oracle Cloud Platform offerings by thousands of customers,” said Amit Zavery, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Platform. “By delivering a comprehensive offering with key differentiating capabilities, such as chatbot support, predictive analytics, and adaptive intelligence to make apps more contextual and smarter, Oracle has given customers a powerful option to meet their ever-evolving development needs.”

Gartner positions vendors within a particular quadrant based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to Gartner, leaders must represent a strong combination of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In the MADP sector, this means that Leaders are not only good at cross-platform development, deployment and management across the full life cycle, but also have a good vision of the omnichannel and post-app requirements, support for multiple architectures and standards, a solid understanding of IT requirements, and scalable sales channels and partnerships. Leaders must provide platforms that are easy to purchase, program, deploy and upgrade, and which can connect to a range of systems of records and third-party cloud services.

Oracle was recognized as a market leader for more than doubling its customer count for Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. A cloud-based Mobile Application Development Platform (MADP), Oracle Mobile Cloud Service provides a no-code approach to app development. It has been deployed by many midsize and large enterprise customers who praised the product’s integration capabilities and cloud architecture. Oracle continues to expand its mobile cloud platform with chatbot support, expanded analytics, and high-productivity development tools.
Download Gartner’s 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms” here.

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is an open, standards-based platform built from the ground up for the cloud to help developers build better apps faster. Oracle Mobile Cloud Service was designed to help customers to engage with their customers and their employees across web, mobile, wearables, and the growing bot channel with conversational interfaces. Its persona-based approach provides the best tools for each persona involved in a mobile solution to provide a collaborative mobile-first and API-first solution.  It provides a rich set of mobile services that makes it very easy for mobile developers to add mobile context to their apps through services like push notifications, stateless offline sync, and location-based services that supports beacons and GPS. Additionally, Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator capabilities provide business-friendly tools with an easy drag and drop tool to build engaging mobile applications without writing any code. The depth and breadth of mobile analytics provide both developers and business owners with deep insights into mobile application performance, usage and adoption so they can personalize the engagement with their mobile users and increase adoption of their mobile applications. Oracle Mobile Cloud Service provides complete software development life cycle (SDLC) support for mobile app developers in the cloud as one integrated solution.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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[1] Gartner, “2017 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms,” Jason Wong | Van L. Baker | Adrian Leow | Marty Resnick, 12 June 2017
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IOUG Oracle Database In-Memory & Multitenant Virtual Conference

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Tuesday, July 11 and Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central Time

Are you curious to know how you can get mind blowing analytics performance as well as simplified database consolidation with Oracle Database 12c Release 2? Oracle Database In-Memory and Multitenant are the two most important capabilities of Oracle 12c, and you will want to learn how you can benefit from the latest innovations. Join Oracle experts for a 2-day deep dive and also hear from customers who are already successfully leveraging these technologies!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 – In-Memory Day
  • Motivation & Technology Overview
    11:00am – 12:00pm Central Time
    Database In-Memory is an unprecedented breakthrough in-memory columnar technology providing massive performance gains for analytical and mixed workloads, with the ability to process data in real-time at the rate of billions of rows per second. In this session we will look at the Oracle in-memory technology portfolio, the motivation and underpinnings behind in-memory database technology and provide a technology overview of Oracle Database In-Memory.
    Featured Speaker: Tirthankar Lahiri & Raj Rathee, Oracle Corporation
     
  • Real World Experience with Oracle Database In-Memory
    12:00pm – 1:00pm Central Time
    There is nothing quite like learning how a cool new technology is actually being put into action in the real world. Hear about real scenarios and real results, directly from those who have put Oracle Database In-Memory into action.
    Featured Speakers: Paolo Kreth, die Mobiliar, Phani Yenugu, EyeMed VIsion Care
     
  • Oracle Database In-Memory – Getting Started & Best Practices
    1:00pm – 2:00pm Central Time

    Oracle Database In-Memory is seamlessly integrated in Oracle, requires no application changes, and is remarkably easy to get started with. You do, however, need to be thinking of the right use cases to best leverage this technology. This session will help you get thinking of the best use cases, and get you started with the technology implementation and best practices.
    Featured Speaker: Andy Rivenes, Oracle Corporation 
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 – Multitenant Day
      • Multitenant Delivers Isolation and Agility with Economies of Scale
        11:00am – 12:00pm Central Time
        Isolation and agility with economies of scale: That is a very good slogan to summarize the requirements of a Cloud Database architecture. Economies of scale may be achieved through consolidation. But without delivering isolation, nobody wants to consolidate. Agility enables technology teams to support an organization’s requirements to innovate. This is what we deliver with Multitenant in 12.2. And this is the overarching theme of this presentation.
        Featured Speaker: Patrick Wheeler, Oracle Corporation
      • Real World Experiences with Oracle Multitenancy
        12:00pm – 1:00pm Central Time
        • Multitenancy at Wells Fargo Bank
          Wells Fargo Bank shares its experience with implementing Oracle Multitenant as part of a large-scale Oracle Exadata deployment. The Oracle Multitenant option is a vital component that will enable Wells Fargo to reach desired consolidation densities. The session covers data-gathering and planning for consolidation, consolidation selection criteria, impacts to existing processes, resource management, integration with other Oracle products, and database provisioning, and provides tips and future directions.
          Featured Speakers: Gerald Bowers, Wells Fargo
        • Uncompromising SaaS on Oracle Cloud, Powered by Multitenant
          Wells Fargo Bank shares its experience with implementing Oracle Multitenant as part of a large-scale Oracle Exadata deployment. The Oracle Multitenant option is a vital component that will enable Wells Fargo to reach desired consolidation densities. The session covers data-gathering and planning for consolidation, consolidation selection criteria, impacts to existing processes, resource management, integration with other Oracle products, and database provisioning, and provides tips and future directions.
          Featured Speakers: Silviu Lupsa, Tango
      • Stale Standalone to Superb SaaS in Single Session!
        1:00pm – 2:00pm Central Time

        You’ve seen the pretty PowerPoint. (If not, check it out on YouTube!) In this session I’ll walk you through how simple it is to convert an application’s back-end database to SaaS with no code changes!
        Featured Speaker: Patrick Wheeler, Oracle Corporation 
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      Oracle Q4 FY17 GAAP EPS UP 15% TO $0.76 and NON-GAAP EPS UP 10% TO $0.89

      Press Release

      Total Cloud Revenues Up 58% to $1.4 Billion, Total Revenue Up 3% to $10.9 Billion

      Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jun 21, 2017

      Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2017 Q4 results and fiscal 2017 full year results. Comparing Q4 2017 to Q4 last year, SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud revenues were up 67% to $964 million, and non-GAAP SaaS revenues were up 75% to $1.0 billion. Cloud PaaS (Platform as a Service) plus IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) revenues were up 40% to $397 million, and non-GAAP PaaS plus IaaS revenues were up 42% to $403 million. Total cloud revenues were up 58% to $1.4 billion, and non-GAAP total cloud revenues were up 64% to $1.4 billion. Cloud plus on-premise software revenues were up 5% to $8.9 billion, and non-GAAP cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 6% to $8.9 billion. Total revenues were up 3% to $10.9 billion.

      Operating Income was up 3% to $4.1 billion, and the operating margin was 37%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was up 5% to $5.0 billion, and the non-GAAP operating margin was 46%. Net Income was $3.2 billion, and non-GAAP Net Income was $3.8 billion. Earnings Per Share was $0.76, while non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was $0.89. Without the impact of the U.S. dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 2 cents higher, and non-GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 1 cent higher.

      Short-term deferred revenues were up 8% to $8.2 billion compared with a year ago. Operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was up 3% to $14.1 billion.

      For fiscal 2017, Cloud SaaS revenues were up 61% to $3.2 billion compared to fiscal 2016. Non-GAAP SaaS revenues were up 68% to $3.4 billion. Cloud PaaS and IaaS revenues were up 60% to $1.4 billion for both GAAP and Non-GAAP. Total cloud revenues were up 60% to $4.6 billion. Non-GAAP cloud revenues were up 66% to $4.7 billion. Cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 4% to $30.2 billion. Non-GAAP cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 5% to $30.4 billion. Total Revenues were up 2% to $37.7 billion. Non-GAAP Total Revenues were up 2% to $37.9 billion.

      Operating Income was $12.7 billion, and operating margin was 34%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was $16.2 billion and non-GAAP operating margin was 43%. Net Income was $9.3 billion while non-GAAP Net Income was $11.6 billion. Earnings Per Share was $2.21, while Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was $2.74. Without the impact of the U.S. dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 4 cents higher and non-GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 3 cents higher.
      “Our fourth quarter results were very strong as revenue growth and earnings per share both substantially exceeded the high end of guidance,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “We continue to experience rapid adoption of the Oracle Cloud led by the 75% growth in our SaaS business in Q4. This cloud hyper-growth is expanding our operating margins, and we expect earnings per share growth to accelerate in fiscal 2018.”

      “We sold $855 million of new annually recurring cloud revenue (ARR) in Q4, putting us over our $2 billion ARR bookings goal for fiscal year 2017,” said Oracle CEO, Mark Hurd. “We also delivered over $1 billion in quarterly SaaS revenue for the first time. Next year is going to be even better. We expect to sell a lot more than $2 billion in new cloud ARR in fiscal year 2018.”

      “AT&T has agreed to migrate thousands of existing Oracle databases containing petabytes of data plus their associated applications workloads to the Oracle Cloud,” said Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. “In the coming year, I expect more of our big customers to migrate their Oracle databases and database applications to the Oracle Cloud. These large-scale migrations will dramatically increase the size of both our PaaS and IaaS cloud businesses.”

      The Board of Directors also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of outstanding common stock. This dividend will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 19, 2017, with a payment date of August 2, 2017.

      Q4 Fiscal 2017 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

      Oracle will hold a conference call and webcast today to discuss these results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific. You may listen to the call by dialing (816) 287-5563, Passcode: 425392. To access the live webcast of this event, please visit the Oracle Investor Relations website at http://www.oracle.com/investor. In addition, Oracle’s Q4 results and fiscal 2017 financial tables are available on the Oracle Investor Relations website.
      A replay of the conference call will also be available by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406, Pass Code: 34656498.

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