14 Partners Recognized for Excellence at Annual Event ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today announced the recipients of the third annual Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork North America Oracle Titan Awards at a ceremony held at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel. Fourteen partners in 13 categories across multiple channel types were recognized for their success in developing and implementing solutions based on Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel application families, as well as for marketing and sales achievements. This year, new award categories were added for partners building solutions based on emerging technology trends, including Business Intelligence, Integration and Service- oriented Architectures, and Security and Identity Management. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO ) The Oracle Titan Awards continue to gain in popularity and prestige with record nominations submitted this year. The awards identify excellence in solution development and business achievements. Winners, nine of which were first time award recipients, successfully defined new markets, achieved leadership positions in target markets, and transformed traditional business practices building on Oracle's offerings. They also clearly demonstrated a strong commitment to Oracle and a complete understanding of customer needs. Award recipients were selected by an esteemed group of third-party media and analysts from CMP Media, Gartner Group, IDC, as well as Oracle, and based on partner contributions during Oracle's fiscal year 2006. Additionally, Oracle judged submissions from Siebel partners for calendar year 2006. "The caliber of this year's nominees and winners clearly demonstrates the overwhelmingly positive response from the partner community to Oracle's investment in building a world-class partner business," said Rauline Ochs, group vice president, North America Alliances and Channels, Oracle. "We continue to work closely with our partners to ensure we are delivering the right solutions to best meet the needs of our joint customers." The North America OracleTitan Award 2006 winners announced were: 10g Database and Application Server Momentum -- Accenture Accenture expanded its already-formidable Oracle technology practice and increased its joint Oracle clients this year. In addition to leveraging its core set of cross-industry resources to help clients successfully implement and benefit from Oracle software, Accenture opened the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle within Oracle headquarters, which is dedicated to the development of new ideas and innovative Oracle-based solutions, initially focusing on the development of leading-edge service-oriented reference architectures and reference applications based on Oracle Fusion Middleware. Accenture also provided the equivalent of more than 400 days of awareness sessions on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database products. Key success factors included employees skilled in Oracle technologies, and a core team of resources providing capability development, training, marketing and communications programs, alliance and pipeline management, initiative development, and support for Accenture's sales and delivery teams. http://www.accenture.com/ Applications Momentum -- IBM Global Business Services IBM surpassed its North American application co-sell targets by a wide- margin, helping to drive market acceptance of Oracle Applications through numerous customer events, telesales campaigns, corporate events and networking campaigns. IBM's continued investments helped Oracle deepen its penetration in key vertical markets and segments such as banking, retail and health sciences, as well as the mid-market. http://www.ibm.com/bcs/oracle Applications SMB Solution -- eVerge Group eVerge leveraged Siebel to help a customer in the health care industry replace an outdated customer call center system with an integrated software solution to deliver significant operational and financial improvements. The solution decreased call and training times, reduced customer complaints and significantly increased operating margins. http://www.evergegroup.com/ Business Intelligence Solution -- BearingPoint Inc. BearingPoint's integrated Basel II banking solution leverages expertise in business processes, technology, and the financial services industry. BearingPoint strategically identified the bank's major credit risks and used data acquired from many different systems to develop and implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse, data marts and analytics. BearingPoint's Basel II solution supports critical measures of success, enabling compliance and strategic capabilities based on data availability and analytics. http://www.bearingpoint.com/ Grid and RAC Solution -- TriCore Solutions LLC TriCore's solution delivered advanced authentication services to customers of large financial institutions, resulting in no downtime. Leveraging Oracle Grid technology, TriCore was able to deliver advanced availability, scalability, and performance to improve total cost-of-ownership through lower- cost hardware and software costs. http://www.tricoresolutions.com/ Industry Solution -- Cerner Corp. Cerner created Cerner Community Health Record to provide a state healthcare program with increased visibility into patient and prescription data to reduce overall costs. Not only does the Web-based solution display claims data, but it also enables healthcare providers to document allergies, vital signs, and immunizations. Additionally, Cerner's e-Prescribing solution allows physicians to place and maintain prescriptions during the patient's visit and electronically route them to the desired pharmacy. http://www.cerner.com/ Industry Solution -- Fadel Partners Fadel developed a software solution that is critical to helping customers track and manage their complex intellectual property rights, licensing configurations and royalty processing. As a result, customers can determine which properties are being properly exploited and how much each is earning across various attributes such as product lines, articles, territories and channels. The eRoyalty solution helps companies replace a series of common manual and legacy based processes used to track complex earnings and licensing data for intellectual property by managing and processing rights and royalties and consolidating data into the Oracle E-Business Suite. http://www.fadelpartners.com/ Integration and SOA Solution -- Rapidigm Inc. -- A Fujitsu Consulting Company Rapidigm leveraged its expertise in higher education, coupled with Oracle Fusion Middleware and a Service-Oriented Architecture, to integrate Oracle E- Business Suite, Diebold, Tririga, infiNET and additional third-party applications in a solution designed for students, staff, and administrators. The resulting solution serves the needs of more than 10,000 users and provided an immediate return on investment. http://www.rapidigm.com/ http://www.fujitsu.com/us JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solution -- SYSTIME Computer Corp. SYSTIME implemented its storefront solution built on top of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and the Oracle 10g platform to help a fast-growing manufacturer better manage its expanding global supply chain and speed time-to-market for its popular products. The project helped the customer with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, enhanced ROI and reduced operational costs. http://www.systime.net/ Oracle E-Business Suite Solution -- Deloitte Consulting Deloitte Consulting provided consulting services in support of a multi- faceted transformation effort to replace disparate applications with a single, integrated instance of the Oracle E-Business Suite, to make it easier for the customer to report financial results and to manage the enterprise. Deloitte Consulting's focus on value creation and pragmatic advice helped the client uncover significant annual sales tax overpayments, consolidate its solution vendors, reduce month-end closing times, and gain a tax loss write-off. http://www.deloitte.com/us/oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Solution -- CIBER Inc. CIBER developed a repeatable federal billing aid reporting solution that helps state government departments of transportation ensure they are compliant with federal government reporting regulations and enables them to gain access to grants, a major source of funding for state DOTs. CIBER worked with an existing vendor to create and maintain interfaces between PeopleSoft and a custom asset management application. As a result, the client is the only DOT in the U.S. with a fully integrated human capital management, financial management, supply chain, asset management, and asset maintenance system. Originally designed for a state government department of transportation, the solution was touted by the Federal government as a benchmark for other departments of transportation to follow. http://www.ciber.com/ Security and Identity Management Solution -- Entology Inc. Entology used Oracle COREid Access Server to develop and implement a new enterprise single sign-on solution for more than 60 applications. Taking advantage of existing product features, coupled with Entology's expertise and development personnel, Entology was able to customize Oracle's identity management software to help the client significantly increase security for access to Web applications across 20 different product teams. http://www.entology.com/ Siebel Solution -- Deloitte Consulting Deloitte Consulting and its customer jointly developed an online portal with decision support capabilities to guide consumers through the insurance shopping, application and enrollment processes. The solution delivered several benefits, including a health plan membership increase, reduced operational costs and increased customer retention rates. http://www.deloitte.com/ SMB Database 10g Solution -- Fusion Data Solutions Fusion Data delivered a go-to-market solution on time and under budget that met requirements for end-user experience, availability, scalability, and service recovery. The solution, based on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters, transformed the ISV customer's traditional software platform to a software-as-a-service offering. http://www.fusion-data.com/ About Oracle PartnerNetwork Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of 17,700 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate the highest level of product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to business with Oracle qualify for the Oracle Certified Advantage Partner level. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com/ About Oracle Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://oracle.com/. Trademarks Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Oracle CONTACT: Carol Sato of Oracle, +1-650-633-5551 or ; or Amy Grady of Zeno Group, +1-415-369-8104 or , for Oracle Web site: http://www.oracle.com/

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