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Another week, another middle east implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite to report. This time it is AwalNet, the ISP based in Saudi Arabia, who is implementing a range of Oracle E-Business Suite modules to help it improve customer service. AwalNet is implementing:- Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Siebel CRM, Oracle Financials, Oracle Human Capital Management and Oracle

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Bradford & Bingley, one of the first building societies to convert to plc status (in December 2000), reported gross profits of £351m for its financial year ending December 2007. It has over 3,000 staff in the UK. The bank has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Human Capital Management HR Self Service, Learning Management and Daily Business Intelligence. The new installation reduces HR

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The long and complicated history of Gulf Oil as a company and brand is well-documented at the excellent Wikipedia article - Gulf Oil. Today there are now 2400 Gulf-branded petrol stations as well as a thriving wholesale fuel distribution business. With the renaissance of this brand, powerful software was required to support the coroprate growth strategy. A year-long search for the most

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BREG, the American manufacturer of orthopedic, reconstructive and postoperative products, has deployed Oracle E-Business Suite in order to standardise production processes, centralise key back-office capabilities and create a more flexible supply chain. Already a user of another Oracle product, Siebel CRM, BREG have made a natural choice in implementing Oracle E-Business Suite, given its

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The Indian manufacturer Kirloskar Ferrous has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite in order to improve business processes at its two production plants in the Karnataka region of India. Kirloskar has implemented Financials, Human Resources (HRMS), Manufacturing and Distribution modules. The integrated view of the business across locations improves the basis on which management makes decisions, and

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The healthcare sector in Victoria, Australia has been struggling to replace core clinical systems and complete a general overhaul of its IT. The overall HealthSmart programme is over two years later and substanitally over budget. However the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite has been completed in 8 of 11 sites, with the remaining sites due to go live this month. This makes it the best

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Oracle has opened a Global Support Service Centre in Cairo, intending to grow to 520 seats. It will service customers in EMEA and North America including Oracle E-Business Suite customers. The working languages will be Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Dr Tarek Kamel, Minister for Communication and Information Technology and Sergio Giacoletto, executive vice president, Oracle EMEA, opened the

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The latest Oracle critical patch update has been released. Details available at http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm?msgid=6443477 Affected versions of Oracle E-Business Suite are: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, version 12.0.4 Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, version 11.5.10.2

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Oracle have released a set of notes for upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite to Release 12, called the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Upgrade Guide. You can download it from Metalink Note 461705.1

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Property development company Blue City Company One in Oman have selected Oracle E-Business Suite as their ERP package of choice. The company is developing a 15km stretch of the Omani coastline with a mix of commercial, residential and leisure over 20 million square metres. This huge project is anticipated to take 12-15 years to complete and will cost in the region of US$20 billion. BCC1 have

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Aditya Birla Retail Limited has selected Oracle Retail applications to support its planned growth in the Indian retail sector, now the fifth biggest in the world (US$330bn in 2007). Oracle Retail was chosen over competition which included SAP Retail and will be supplemented with financials modules from Oracle E-Business Suite and several application infrastructure components from Oracle Fusion

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Oracle has announced Release 8 of its (take a deep breath) Oracle(R) Application Access Controls Governor Release 8, a key component of the Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) applications suite. http://www.oracle.com/solutions/corporate_governance/index.html This product allows administrators to enforce access control policies in Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and even

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Staffordshire University has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite, specifically financials (inc payroll), CRM and HRMS modules for 200 users. The aim is to reduce costs and streamline business processes by using the integrated package approach to providing business functionality, and to improve accuracy and consistency of financial information.

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This particular Middlesex is not in South-West London, but a company providing water and sewage services to New Jersey and Delaware. They have selected Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, and Work and Asset Management, among other packages, to better support their business. In particular they are spurred on by a need to support public private finance initiatives,

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DB Consulting has discovered a company with a unique work flow simplification engine that enables Oracle E-Business Suite to be used on construction sites, oilrigs and other environments when limited connectivity is a problem. Please contact us for more details.

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Oracle has announced in Metalink Note 552692.1 that JInitiator 1.3 will no longer be supported for Oracle Applications 11i. Instead customers will have to migrate to the native Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE). JInitiator is these days an increasingly irrelevant technology, licensed by Oracle from Sun in the days when standards compliance was poor and a specific Oracle implementation of the JRE

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Oracle has announced new capabilities for its Application Integration Architecture (AIA). The product enables integration of a customer's on-premise Oracle E-Business Suite implementation with a hosted instance of Siebel CRM On Demand. New integration packs are to due to be released to enable a Siebel CRM On Demand instance to be integrated with a customer's on premise implementation of Siebel

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Las Vegas is a city with a population of 600,000. This has grown remarkably from the early 1980s in which it was less than 175,000. The city authorities have introduced Oracle BPEL Process Manager (part of Oracle Fusion Middleware) in order to spearhead their move into service-oriented architecture (SOA). The software has been implemented in order to control sensor monitoring at the city's water

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Morrisons is the UK's fourth largest supermarket chain, with 9 million customers visiting weekly and 115,000 staff. Oracle and Morrisons jointly announced that they will be implementing the Oracle suite of retail applications covering planning and merchandising as well as the Oracle E-Business Suite financials, HRMS and manufacturing modules.

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The broad scope of Oracle E-Business Suite is very well illustrated by an implementation announced today by New York YMCA. They have chosen to implement the HRMS (Human Resources), Grants Accounting, Financial Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) modules. This is in a Not For Profit organisation with 4,400 employees. Oracle E-Business Suite is very well suited to charities and DB

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Oracle announced today that its Database Vault product is now certified for use with the Oracle E-Business Suite. Database Vault is used to help protect data from unauthorised access, by enabling companies to set up policies around who is permitted to view and change what data at what times of day, etc. It can be used to enforce so-called "separation of duties" so that, for example, DBAs can

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The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) announced that most Oracle-based enterprises intend to upgrade to Oracle's Fusion middleware infrastructure within the next two years, according to a survey carried out in partnership with Noetix. The figures suggest that over 40% of Oracle-based enterprises will increase spending in 2008 to bring in new middleware solutions. However the survey also

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API Group, based in Macclesfield, produces specialist packaging materials for luxury goods brands. It has over 1,000 employees worldwide, turning over £120m. API Group director of information systems Iain Anderson was reported by Computer Weekly as saying that API's strategic investment in Oracle E-Business Suite as a platform for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) "has revolutionised the way the

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Want to know why you should upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resources (HRMS) to Release 12? Here are a few reasons to get you started: » Global standardisation - be able to apply standards throughout a global organisation and achieve global visibility of resources (e.g. demographics) to drive better decision making » Apply best practices such as offering lifecycle benefit programmes,

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After being asked a couple of times where the official documentation for Oracle E-Business Suite R12 is, note that R12.0.4 documentation set can be found at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B40089_09/current/html/docset.html [Note that the UK-specific HRMS documentation is included at this location, no need to go elsewhere for this.] If you are interested in an overview of E-Business Suite,

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