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Oracle and Sun ...

Oracle announced a new strategic partnership with InQuira, Inc., a provider of integrated software applications for web self-service, agent-assisted support and enterprise knowledge management. The sales and product partnership brings to market a tightly integrated solution driving a seamless and valuable customer service experience across phone, web and community-based channels. Combining collaboration and web self- service with Oracle's applications, the integrated solution brings Enterprise 2.0 features into a best-in-class experience for consumers.

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Godfrey Sullivan, former President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions - has agreed to join Splunk as President and CEO and will join the board of directors. Sullivan joined Hyperion Solutions in 2001 as president and COO and served as president and CEO from 2004 until its acquisition by Oracle in 2007.

Splunk has been rapidly adopted by over 750 enterprises, service providers and government agencies around the world to improve IT operations, enhance security, achieve compliance, and provide valuable business intelligence. Sullivan's extensive experience and deep understanding of the BI market is incredibly valuable as Splunk customers continue to mine logs and IT data for new forms of insight into customer, user and system activities.

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Oracle has agreed to acquire ClearApp, a leading supplier of application management solutions for composite applications.

- ClearApp addresses the increasingly difficult task of managing composite applications built on SOA platforms by providing visibility of business services across all related application components.

- ClearApp products and Oracle Enterprise Manager are expected to provide customers with a comprehensive application management solution providing enhanced service levels, reduced system down-time and improved return on SOA investments.

"As customers deploy more SOA-based applications, the task of effectively managing them becomes paramount," said Leng Leng Tan, Oracle Vice President, Applications and Systems Management. "Oracle is focused on delivering the best solutions for managing such complex application environments by delivering solutions for end-user experience management, business services and application performance management, as well as application testing and quality management. With the addition of ClearApp's technology to the Oracle Enterprise Manager product family, our customers are expected to get continuous and uninterrupted top-down views of their business services and applications, helping them maximize service availability while reducing IT operations costs."
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RWD Technologies and Mythics Partner to Boost Oracle Investment Value - RWD to Provide End User Training Services and Change Management Solutions to Wide Range of Customers

Information Builders, business intelligence systems, has been recognized by CRM magazine as a CRM Market Leader in the Business Intelligence category of the CRM Market Awards

Knowledge Relay, business intelligence solutions, release of the Knowledge Relay Suite

The Business Intelligence Network (TM) forms a strategic partnership with Data Governance Institute

SAS customer General Electric Rail Services selected by The Data Warehousing Institute as a co-winner of its Enterprise BI Best Practices Award

SAP lets Business One users access Crystal Reports 

Business Objects Provides Data Visualization Via Excel (shared via Power Point and Adobe .pdf)

Oracle has agreed to acquire Global Knowledge Software LLC (GKS), a division of Global Knowledge, Inc.

The transaction is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2008. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

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