Oracle unveils enhanced application suite

NEW DELHI

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Oracle has announced the launch of new versions of all the five Application
solutions.

E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0, Siebel CRM
8.0, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and JD Edwards World A9.1, were unveiled at
its global "Applications Unlimited" event held in New York.

The new releases of Oracle Applications provide next-generation, role-based
analytics, comprehensive application management, integration, search, master
data management, and XML-based reporting capabilities.

Additionally, it can be managed with Oracle Enterprise Manager, to help
increase the performance and quality of the application service, while reducing
the costs of systems management.

Oracle Applications provide extensive Web services and business events,
enable modeling of business process, and offer published repositories of Web
services.

Along with enhanced products, Oracle also delivers the components needed to
enable successful implementations, such as automated upgrade scripts, extensive
product documentation, an extensive, trained, partner ecosystem and a
wide-variety of end-user education courses, Oracle said in a statement.

Charles Phillips, president, Oracle, said, "With the "Applications
Unlimited" program, Oracle is providing best infrastructure technology that
delivers next-generation capabilities today, and we are giving our customers the
choice as to when they upgrade without having to re-license their applications.
This is a first in the software industry."

The company also outlined its Fusion Applications, next-generation
application suite. Leveraging Web 2.0 design principles, Oracle Fusion
Applications intend to deliver increases in both user and partner productivity,
while delivering significant reductions in cost of ownership.