Oracle announced that SaskTel as implemented Oracle Communications Unified Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Solution and Oracle Communications Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery Solution to help provide a consistent customer experience. Facing increased competition from traditional and non-traditional CSPs, SaskTel sought to increase customer loyalty by enhancing its cross-channel customer experience, simplifying its business processes and streamlining sales to reduce order fallout.

Oracle Corporation announced the general availability of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications Release 11.1.1.7.1. Completely redesigned to increase implementation productivity, the new release incorporates significant enhancements across the entire BI Applications product line and introduces new in-memory analytic applications for indirect spend planning and student information analysis. Leveraging Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, and new setup and configuration utilities, the applications can be implemented faster, with reduced costs and improved real-time reporting. Use of new visualizations, improved user interface and significant data access updates allow users to easily interact with analytics to achieve rich insights. Pre-built for a range of data sources and business applications, Oracle BI Applications deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence to enable better decisions, actions and business processes. Built on Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite and part of Oracle Business Analytics, Oracle BI Applications enable organizations to reap the value of a best-of-breed, packaged BI solution, while tight integration with a single, common BI architecture allows businesses to easily extend those solutions to meet their specific needs or build completely custom BI applications.

Oracle Corporation announced general availability of new Oracle In-Memory Applications for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Benefitting from the extreme performance delivered by Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Sales Advisor enable customers to increase revenue and profitability by making faster and more efficient business decisions. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Applications provide new functionality never before possible by delivering immediate availability to summarization and simulations leveraging massive sets of broad and deep near real-time transactional and rich information to aid in decision making, process accuracy and control. Powered by Oracle Engineered Systems, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Applications provide unprecedented speed to gather, aggregate and summarize real-time data. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Project Portfolio Management: Helps executives and project managers make quicker, more informed decisions about their portfolio and projects by providing previously unavailable executive-level visibility into project portfolio cost and profitability.