Oracle Corp. (ORCL:NASDAQ)

Oracle Corp. 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 ChainDecisions. 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, Increased Planner Productivity, Comprehensive Modeling Capabilities and Standards-based Solution.

Infosys Technologies Ltd. announced that it has teamed up with Oracle Corp. through the 'BPO Powered by Oracle program,' and is launching a comprehensive managed services platform for multi-function HR through its Infosys Business Platforms offering. With this launch, Infosys moves into the next generation of multi-process HR transformational outsourcing. This platform is built on state-of-the-art technology and will enable process transformation, while also being cost-effective. This will help companies streamline their HR operations and reduce operational costs. The Infosys Business Platform for HR frees up significant capital expenditure locked into HR technology and process investments, allowing the HR function to be a strategic enabler of an organization's business objectives. The Infosys Business Platform for HR is built on Oracle's industry-leading PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) Suite and offers the entire 'Hire-to-Retire' processes and operations such as HR Administration, Payroll and Talent Management functions like Recruitment, Performance Management, and Learning Management in a fully hosted and managed environment. Clients can take advantage of the scalable IT infrastructure to achieve economies of scale, best practices and variable cost models. Offshore teams will provide integrated technology, process and language support from multiple offshore and near-shore delivery centers. The unique shared services business model helps clients realize transformational benefits by unlocking capital expenditure, streamlining business processes and enhancing operational performance metrics.

Oracle Corp. and E2open Inc. announced that E2open Logistics Network (ELN) is now available as an integrated connectivity solution for Oracle Transportation Management, which simplifies the effort of establishing electronic integration between shippers, transportation carriers, and logistics service providers. Electronic connectivity enables the advantages of timely and accurate information, lower transaction costs, and unlimited scalability. However, traditional approaches to implementing and maintaining integrations can be expensive and time consuming due to the myriad of technologies and formats, and the global nature of transportation and logistics. As a business process network specifically designed for global transportation and logistics processes, ELN offers several unique capabilities, including pre-built integrations with Oracle Transportation Management, a network of existing (reusable) connections to logistics-related trading partners, support for nearly all trading partner integration methods, and advanced self-service Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) tools.