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To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (13685)	4/12/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: bob	Respond to of 19080

Wednesday April 12, 2:00 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Oracle Corporation Oracle Sets Pace For Internet Procurement Market REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?187655) Quarter after quarter, Oracle has set the pace for the Internet Procurement market by taking the ``pole position' in the race to provide Internet-based solutions for both production and non-production procurement. Oracle capped off calendar year 1999 with license revenue of $69 million -- more than its two closest competitors' revenues combined. This past quarter was no different; Oracle comfortably led the procurement pack with record license growth of 231%. The key to the rapid growth and market leadership appears to be Oracle Internet Procurement's ability to automate the entire purchasing life-cycle from planning to procurement to payment. When combined with Oracle's real-time integration and inter-operation between procurement automation systems and critical back-office business functions, Oracle© Internet Procurement is the only true e-business-ready Internet Procurement solution available today. Now that's a winning performance. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. SOURCE: Oracle Corporation

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (13685)	4/12/2000 2:59:00 PM
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Wednesday April 12, 1:46 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Oracle Corporation Oracle Announces Availability of Advanced Planning and Scheduling Solution For E-Business Supply Chain Optimization Solution Key to B2B Exchange Platform, Delivers Next Day Return on Investment (ROI) REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- ( oracle.com ) Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced the availability of its Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution to optimize e-business processes for planning and scheduling across the extended supply chain. As part of Oracle's E-Business Suite, Oracle Applications Release 11i Advanced Planning and Scheduling enables peak performance for collaborative supply chain optimization-important for any business with an extended supply chain and an absolute requirement for any business hoping to participate competitively in an industry ``business to business' online marketplace or exchange. With Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling, companies participating in online exchanges can instantly collaborate with trading partners to optimize resources, minimize inventory balances, and consolidate requirements to gain the best pricing, quality and delivery by utilizing online auctions. This capability allows a company to gain maximum benefit from the wide range of e-business practices that are driving fundamental business changes in the ``new economy.' Oracle's offering is the first and only Advance Planning and Scheduling solution that fully leverages the Internet and that was built exclusively for e-business. It allows companies to enable their suppliers and customers as strategic partners in the planning process by sharing critical information such as demand forecasts, production schedules, and plan exceptions globally and in real time, using only an Internet browser. Because it is so tightly integrated with Oracle Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Oracle's APS solution also delivers immediate benefits by offering one-day return on investment for existing customers of Oracle's suite of e-business applications, including Release 11 and Release 10.7. ``Oracle has leveraged its strengths in internal data management and Internet technologies to develop an innovative and technically astute APS solution that Aberdeen believes will quickly become an industry leading APS solution,' said Jack Maynard, research director at Aberdeen Group. ``Oracle APS is setting a new standard of flexibility, usability, and engineering excellence for advanced planning and scheduling with its revolutionary holistic optimization architecture.' Optimizing the Extended Supply Chain to Compete More Effectively in the World of E-Business Comprised of Oracle Demand Planning, Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Oracle Global Available To Promise (ATP) Server, and Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling, the Oracle APS solution enables companies to collaborate with their trading partners to plan across their extended supply chains in order to fully optimize resources while reducing inventory and speeding cycle times. While no software other than a browser is required to participate in many online exchanges, it is imperative to have complete, up-to-date and accurate information in order to be able to respond to the extremely fast market dynamics represented by these new online business-to-business marketplaces. Those suppliers who are armed with the most comprehensive analytical information about their supply chain's capabilities will be in the best position to react quickly to changing market conditions, meet the unique demand of each customer and still be able to operate profitably. Key exclusive benefits of Oracle APS include: -- One Day Return on Investment (ROI): Existing Oracle Release 10.7 and 11 customers can implement the Oracle APS solution in as little as one day, offering customers the opportunity to maximize profitability, increase efficiencies and improve responsiveness almost immediately. -- Support for All Manufacturing Processes: Oracle's APS solution is compatible with any manufacturing environment, including project, flow, process and discrete manufacturing, or any combination of these. -- Increased Collaboration: Oracle APS enables supply chain partners to participate in a collaborative planning process to increase customer service and lower costs - promising orders based on supplier resources and capacity as well as sharing demand forecast and production schedule information via the Internet for near instantaneous competitive bid capabilities. Unlike other planning systems, Oracle APS utilizes a single data model to quickly generate a single, global plan encompassing all levels of planning -- high level strategic planning down to shop floor detailed scheduling -- and does not require time consuming data and plan synchronization. ``The Internet demands new business practices, and Oracle's 100% Internet-based Advanced Planning and Scheduling software is meeting those needs in every way,' said Don Klaiss, senior vice president, manufacturing and supply chain development, Oracle Corp. ``With Oracle APS, companies can now take full advantage and leverage the extended supply chain to compete effectively in the new economy driven by online exchanges.' Availability Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling is available as part of Oracle's e-business suite, Oracle Applications Release 11i. About Oracle Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. For more information about Oracle, please call Oracle Public Relations at 650-506-4176 Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE: Oracle Corporatio