Oracle Press Release

Oracle(R) E-Valuator Tool Receives Award for
Services Marketing Excellence

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 9, 2001 -
(http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?560676)  The Information
Technology Services Marketing Association, ITSMA, awarded
Oracle the Services Marketing Excellence Award for 2000 in
the Increasing Services Sales Effectiveness category. This
award recognizes companies that have a successful process for
identifying and choosing opportunities to pursue, assigning
opportunities to appropriate sales channels, and equipping those
channels with tools to significantly raise sales productivity and
achieve the "right" growth. The Oracle e-Valuator tool, an online
interactive tool that helps organizations identify their e-business
opportunities, was selected based on its ability to achieve
measurable results in sales productivity gains. Judges noted the
e-Valuator as "a very strong submission, both innovative and
effective, that leverages e-components and is metrics-based." 

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Oracle(R) E-Valuator Facts

Oracle e-Valuator is an interactive web-based tool that enables 
your Executive management, in a half-day consultation with your 
Oracle Representative, to define the high-level e-business needs 
and opportunities for your company. 

Oracle e-Valuator is an online interactive tool, based on Oracle 
technology, that drives an executive-level analysis of how you 
should approach integrating e-business into your corporation's 
traditional business model. Through a series of targeted questions 
and exercises, Oracle e-Valuator guides senior executives through 
the process of understanding the company's current e-business 
maturity, outlining future plans and strategies for moving more 
towards e-business, and assessing the value of such a move in 
five key areas: 

 * Customers - How your company interacts with customers 
 * Procurement - How your company's procurement process works 
 * Supply Chain - How your company plans and schedules supply 
   chain activities and interactions 
 * Enterprise Management - How you manage enterprise data for 
   decision making 
 * Technology - How well is your company's underlying architecture
   equipped to deal with the 24x7 demands of e-business?

Oracle e-Valuator uses base financial information from your 
organization to assess against industry benchmarks, and 
provides a benefit opportunity report that is specific to the 
e-business opportunity for your corporation.