HP`s Deep Trouble: 10 Reasons Why HP is Struggling - Hewlett Packard news from Channel Insider

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HP finds itself in a somewhat unlikely position right now. With no CEO at the helm, its former leader at a top competitor, and little vision for what the future will look like, the wheels are coming off. And the chances of the company reversing its fortune anytime soon seem slim. Realizing that, it’s probably time to call some of HP’s decisions into question. Getting rid of Mark Hurd without a fully effective non-compete agreement in place was a mistake. And allowing the company to look bad in the process has proven to be even worse. Simply put, HP is in deep trouble right now. And here’s why:

HP`s Deep Trouble: 10 Reasons Why HP is Struggling - Hewlett Packard news from Channel Insider

Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?

Sam: This is a shortened Summary of this interesting Article.
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"by Stephen Jannise, ERP Software Advice

 

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By: Stephen Jannise Stephen Jannise

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Stephen writes about various topics related to ERP software, with particular interests toward manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain management. He came to Software Advice after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a master's degree in communications, and he blogs about films at AustinCinephile.com. ERP Market Analyst, Software Advice
on 8/3/2010

A few weeks ago, we started a poll asking which company Oracle will acquire next. Thanks to all the bloggers in the community who got the word out, we received a staggering 1,250 responses before closing the poll. This is what you had to say.

The favorites were two of our “fairly straightforward ideas,” Informatica and Teradata, each with 14% of the votes. This suggests that 28% of our voters believe Oracle will play it safe the next time around and strengthen their already formidable data warehousing and business intelligence offerings.
However, more than a few of you were a little bolder with your predictions, arguing that Oracle is going to make one or two “pricey buys in hot markets.” With VMWare getting 143 votes and Salesforce.com getting 115, 20% of our readers feel that the Sun deal is merely the first in a series of game-changing buys for Oracle.


Read more: http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/enterprise/oracle-mergers-acquisitions-whos-next-1080310/#ixzz0zQzobcZe

Oracle Buys Secerno, Adds Heterogeneous Database Firewall to Oracle Database Security

On May 20, 2010, Oracle announced the acquisition of Secerno, adding a heterogeneous database firewall to Oracle's industry-leading database security solutions. This combination is expected to further enable customers to reduce the cost and complexity of securing their information throughout the enterprise with a protective perimeter around Oracle and non-Oracle databases.
Secerno's products are expected to expand Oracle's portfolio of security solutions to ensure data privacy, protect against insider threats, and enable regulatory compliance. Together, Oracle and Secerno's technologies are expected to further extend Oracle's comprehensive database security solutions to safeguard critical business information across the enterprise.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of June 2010. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently.

• Read the press release at Oracle

Tnuva goes to advanced ERP with Oracle

This is in Hebrew, Tnuva that changed ownership recently is changing ERP Strategy too Oracle: from Oracle Israel:

תנובה הצטרפה לטרנד העולמי ובחרה באורקל
אלברטו מרנפלד, סמנכ"ל פתרונות עסקיים באורקל ישראל:
עכשיו זה כבר לא סוד. כולם יודעים שתנובה, חברת המזון הגדולה בישראל, עוברת בימים אלה לאפליקציות העסקיות של אורקל. בתנובה מצטרפים לטרנד עולמי של חברות שבוחרות את אורקל לפלטפורמת מחשוב ארגוני

תנובה היא ארגון הקמעונות הגדול בישראל. היא הוקמה ב-1926, ונשלטת ע"י אייפקס (56%). היו"רית היא זהבית כהן מאייפקס, המנכ"ל הוא אריק שור, וה-CIO הוא יעקב רבינוביץ'. במהלך השנים התרחבה תנובה בתעשיית המזון, והיא מחזיקה בפעילות ייצור (מחלבות), שיווק, ניהול לוגיסטי ושרשרת הפצה מורכבת.

לאחרונה, החלה תנובה בפרויקט יישום מערכת ERP של אורקל. תחום מערכות התוכנה הארגוניות הגדולות אינו זר לתנובה. במשך השנים, השתמשה החברה במערכות של ספקים שונים בכל חלק מהפעילות - פיננסים, ניהול משאבי אנוש, לוגיסטיקה וייצור.

הבחירה של תנובה באורקל מהווה חיזוק משמעותי להצלחה המתמשכת של אורקל ישראל בשנים האחרונות. תנובה מצטרפת לכ-35 לקוחות חדשים בתחום ה ERP בשנתיים וחצי האחרונות. החברה בחרה באורקל כפלטפורמה למערכות מידע לאפליקציות עסקיות לעשור הקרוב. הפרויקט החל בתחילת נובמבר האחרון. בחברה מותקנים כיום פתרונות נוספים של אורקל, כגון מערכת איחוד דוחות כספיים של היפריון ומערכת CRM של Siebel.

תנובה מצטרפת לטרנד עולמי של חברות CPG וכן של תעשיית ה-Food & Beverages, שבוחרות את אורקל לפלטפורמת מיחשוב ארגוני. בין השמות הגדולים של חברות שביצעו את המעבר לטכנולוגיית אורקל ניתן למנות את חברת נסטלה העולמית, אשר כל מערך ה-CRM שלה עבר לאורקל, חברת יוניליבר, פפסי, הייניקן, חברת המיצים welchs, המחלבה הגדולה הבריטית dairy crest, חברת המיצים האמריקנית טרופיקנה, חברת דנונה הארגנטינאית והרשימה עוד ארוכה.

למה החברות הללו בוחרות באורקל? ישנן כמה סיבות עיקריות. אורקל מביאה פתרונות ייחודיים לתעשייה זו בתחום ניהול תחזיות, ניהול שרשרת אספקות, ניהול קשרי לקוחות, ניהול מבצעים, ייצור תהליכי ופתרונות ייחודיים. בנוסף, באורקל קיימת רמת שירות גבוהה ומחויבות עמוקה של החברה ושל צוות הניהול בפועל להצלחה של הפרויקט. עניין זה מחזק את ההובלה של אורקל במגזר העסקי. הפורטפוליו של אורקל גדל ומאפשר לכל מי שהשקיע באורקל, חידושים טכנולוגיים ואפליקטיביים. החידושים הללו וקצב העדכון וההתאמה על פי צורכי הלקוח, מאפשרים ללקוחות שקט נפשי וריכוז במטרות החברה, בזמן שאורקל דואגת שהחברה תעמוד בקצב השינויים.

תפקידה של חברת אורקל היא להבטיח שה-CIO יידע תמיד להציע לחברה פתרונות לתהליכים העסקיים וכן תמיכה מלאה בדרישות המשתנות. האסטרטגיה של אורקל מוכיחה את עצמה. בסופו של דבר, אורקל מציעה פתרון בכל תחום עסקי ובצורה מוצלחת.

Oracle Claims Victory Over EC; Says Sun Will Sell Clouds- from sys-con.com

Oracle Claims Victory Over EC; Says Sun Will Sell Clouds

Oracle Keynote at Cloud Expo

Cloud Computing Expo - Oracle expects the European Commission to wave its acquisition of Sun through next month MySQL and all without any annoying conditions.

Oracle president Safra Catz, who’s been wrestling with the EC, said so when the company posted its fiscal second-quarter results Thursday, another reason Oracle’s going to have a Merry Christmas.

Catz took a bunch of Oracle users to an EC hearing a week ago to buttress the company’s claims that the EC had put words in users’ mouths to support the theory of harm it manufactured to try to stop Oracle from getting MySQL.

Oracle Named Exclusive Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010

The meeting was backed by a write-in campaign from hundreds of users as well as a letter from the US Senate and a public statement from the Justice Department.

A grateful Catz said, “I want to thank all of our customers for the overwhelming support they have given us during this process.”

After further discussions with the agency over the weekend Oracle Monday made a few relatively non-restrictive promises regarding MySQL so the EC could leave the stage with its dignity intact. It still has until January 27. It will be curious to see it takes that long.

Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison, who blamed the EC’s foot-dragging for Sun losing $100 million a month to rivals said he expects “Sun to rapidly improve both its market share and margins once this merger closes,” claiming that “Sun’s new Sparc Solaris system and Sun’s new Exadata database machine both run the Oracle database faster than IBM’s fastest computer.”

Ellison reckons the Exadata-style business is the future of computing and worth billions of dollars.

During a conference call Ellison said Sun had no talent for selling high-volume, low-margin x86 machines and would leave that business to Dell and HP. Instead it will focus on the high-performance end peddling SMP machines and private clouds based on both Sun Solaris operating system and Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux and complete with integrated storage and networking.

Oracle’s Q2 beat the Street and the numbers hint that enterprise spending might be coming back into fashion again.

Oracle earned $1.46 billion, or 29 cents a share, up 15%, on revenues up 4% to $5.9 billion, pushing past the $5.69 billion expected. On a non-GAAP basis it realized 39 cents a share, three cents better than expected.

New software license revenues were up 2% to $1.7 billion, versus the $1.54 billion expected. Software updates and support revenues were up 14% to $3.2 billion.

The company’s operating income was up 10% to $2.2 billion and operating margin was up 200 basis points to 37%. Operating cash flow on a trailing 12-month basis was $8.7 billion, up 7%.

In a prepared statement, CFO Jeff Epstein said, “We delivered results which were substantially better than we expected on both the top and bottom line, growing non-GAAP operating margins by 280 basis points to 49%, the highest Q2 non-GAAP operating margin in our history.”

Oracle claimed it took market share from SAP in every region around the world for the fourth consecutive quarter. President Charles Phillips said that in constant currency, “our applications business grew 1% in the Americas and 2% in Asia Pacific versus a negative 35% and negative 34% respectively for SAP.”

Catz said Sun, for all its losses, is still expected to bring Oracle $1.5 billion in operating income. Leaving Sun out – Oracle will redo its predictions next month – she forecast software license revenues to grow this quarter somewhere between minus 1% to up 9% and revenue to be up 3%-6% with non-GAAP ESP of 36 cents-38 cents

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Oracle Announces Oracle® Rapid Planning

Oracle Announces Oracle® Rapid Planning

New Value Chain Planning Product Promotes Real-Time Decision-Making

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 16, 2009

News Facts

To improve companies’ ability to quickly adapt to unplanned supply chain events, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Rapid Planning.

With Oracle Rapid Planning, customers will benefit from real-time, event driven planning and simulation that delivers quick, predictive and actionable intelligence, enabling planners to react quickly to changes.

Complementary to the existing suite of Oracle Value Chain Planning applications, Oracle Rapid Planning features out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. It also supports integration with ERP systems such as SAP or other legacy systems. This enables customers to leverage their existing IT investments, lower installation costs and maximize value.

Oracle Rapid Planning Drives Real-Time, Profitable Supply Chain Decisions

Companies must react quickly to events such as a sudden increase in demand, an urgent engineering change, an unexpected production shortfall or a supplier quality issue. Oracle Rapid Planning enables customers to benefit from:

Improved Planning Speed and Flexibility

Fast, event-driven, simultaneous material and capacity planning enables quick decision-making.

Rapid incremental simulation and embedded analytics enables user-driven “what-if” scenario analysis and plan performance evaluation and comparison.

Mass edit and manipulation of items, bills, routings, resources, capacity, supply and demand data promotes quick, user-driven “what if” capabilities, without requiring changing data in the ERP system.

Increased Planner Productivity

Next generation productivity enhancing spreadsheet style user interface supports configurable workspaces, filters and saved queries, and simultaneous analysis of exceptions, supply chain pegging, performance indicators and material and resource requirements.

Comprehensive Modeling Capabilities

Comprehensive configurable exception management increases planners’ productivity and response by focusing on the most important problem first.

Comprehensive supply chain constraint modeling and decision automation with support for alternates (resources, process, facilities, ship methods, components), substitution, lead times, order modifiers, and priority-based ranking enables improved plan quality.

Standards-based Solution

Standards-based technology enables scalability and lower cost deployment.

Oracle on saving costs with linux

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/linuxcutcost.html
" Cut Costs Now
With decreasing budgets and increasing demands, IT professionals are under constant pressure to do more with less. And as an open source operating system, Linux is an attractive enterprise choice for several reasons-portability across a variety of commodity hardware architectures, an active community of contributors, and zero license cost."