Montclair State University has recently filed a lawsuit against California-based ERP giant Oracle, citing, among other things, gross negligence and a breach of contract. The New Jersey public university signed a deal with Oracle in 2009 to update their 25-year-old campus computer system and is now claiming that Oracle’s mismanagement of the project and failure […]
When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), three companies are the clear leaders in the industry.’ SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft each have significant market share, with much greater coverage than the 4th place company.’ No ERP comparison is truly complete without looking at each of these three companies, so a quick review of each […]
Oracle is planning to take ERP to the cloud with help from Amazon. According to the online retail giant, ERP and CRM applications from Oracle will soon be available on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Amazon shared in a blog post last week that Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and E-Business Suite applications and databases […]
For some companies, the idea of a recession may not even enter into strategic thinking as sales are going strong. Such is the case for Oracle in its ERP division. Reported sales were strong for the second quarter and show no signs of slowing. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison plans to let no competitor rest as […]
After a three year legal battle, SAP AG was ordered to pay $1.3 billion to rival Oracle Corp. for violating copyright law. The $1.3 billion award is the largest jury verdict ever for a copyright case. Despite the long legal clash between the two ERP rivals, a California jury took less than two days to […]
More Than 4,500 Migrations to IBM in Last Four Years, Mostly from Oracle/Sun and HP ARMONK, N.Y. (November 11, 2010) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that nearly 400 customers moved critical business workloads to IBM servers and storage systems from Oracle/Sun and HP in the third quarter, a record high since the company began […]
Yesterday Oracle agreed to purchase Passlogix, an enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) solutions provider. The acquisition will take place at the end of this year, as financial details and logistic details are discussed and agreed upon. Oracle decided to buy Passlogix to be able to provider deeper integration and to expand its OEM relationship. Passlogix provides […]
Oracle FLEXCUBE was chosen by First Global Bank and First Global Financial Services Limited to increase efficiency within business operations and to help with growth. First Global hopes to have many new business opportunities as a result of this deployment. In addition to Oracle’s FLEXCUBE, Oracle’s Reveleus Operational Risk solution will also be deployed. This […]
Oracle, the major software provider, is suing Micron, the solid-state memory maker, for price fixing. Oracle filed the lawsuit on September 24 in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Micron is being accused with price fixing for approximately five years. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the storage and workstation franchise. Sun Microsystmes bought over […]
Forrester Research, the independent research analyst, recently released its Forrester Wave for Quarter 3, 2010. Oracle, the integrated business software provider, was named a leader in the Order Management Hubs (OMH) report. Eight vendors were examined across 122 criteria points. Forrester divided the criteria into three categories, Current Offering, Market Presence and Strategy. The vendors […]