Redwood Shores, CA, March 31, 2009 -- Organizations worldwide are turning to Oracle® Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) software to manage and optimize financial and operational performance across the enterprise, Oracle announced today. Organizations that have purchased Oracle EPM and BI software recently include: ABB, Aksigorta, Astra Zeneca, Automobile Club of Southern California, Batiçim Bati Anadolu Çimento Sanayii A.S., Diesel, Emperia Holdings S.A., Erasmus Medical Center, Federal Tax Services – Russia, Florida A&M University, General Mills, Go Ahead Group, Health Protection Group – U.K., Illycaffè, Istanbul Su ve Kanalizasyon Idaresi Gn. Md., Kendle, Landesbank Berlin AG, Royal Saudi Air Force, Sklepy Komfort S.A., Telecom Egypt, and Turkcell Iletisim Hizm. A.S.

Oracle’s EPM system helps organizations achieve management excellence by unifying the category-leading Hyperion performance management applications, pre-built BI applications and a foundation of BI products and tools, into a complete and integrated system that helps produce smart, agile and aligned organizations.

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“We required a BI platform that could leverage all of our strategic information assets and provide a holistic view of our Institution's performance,” said Robert Seniors, CIO and Vice President for Information Technology, Florida A&M University. “We are confident that Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus will enable us to gain fact-based insight into our core business objectives and increase efficiencies across the entire University, supporting our goals today and well into the future.”

"We knew our investment in ERP would not be complete without including corresponding investments in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Data Warehousing to support our decision making process across the organization,” said Bill Hayfer, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, Kendle. “Oracle’s Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management solutions offer us comprehensive capabilities spanning analysis, monitoring, planning, and reporting, that will help us to take advantage of data stored across multiple platforms and applications enabling us to gain greater insight into our business.”

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