Oracle Launches PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

--  To help organizations accelerate business performance, increase user
productivity and lower the cost of ownership, Oracle today announced the
availability of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and
Supply Chain Management 9.1.
--  This latest release was developed with feedback from more than 150
customers, and offers a broad range of new features and solutions.
--  This release contains significant enhancements across all of the major
product areas including Financials,
Supplier Relationship Management (Procurement), Enterprise Service Automation (Projects),
Supply Chain and Asset Life Cycle Management solutions.

Complete, Robust Solution for Financials and Supply Chain Management

--  PeopleSoft Financials 9.1 helps organizations achieve
world-class finance processes by dramatically improving the period close,
maximizing cash and reducing liabilities, and further automating compliance
and financial control.
--
PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management 9.1 expands procurement
control by enforcing procurement policies, engaging internal stakeholders,
and extending supplier management programs.
--
PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management 9.1 optimizes processing across the
entire supply chain by enabling increased efficiency of order capture and
returns, accelerated fulfillment and logistics execution, and improved
operational coordination.
--
PeopleSoft Enterprise Service Automation 9.1 supports full project
lifecycle management with tools to enforce fiscal discipline, advanced
support for complex Public Sector, Research, Staffing, and Government
Contracting industry functions, and new data management facilities to
simplify enterprise integration and growth.
--  PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management 9.1 optimizes
capital infrastructure decisions and helps reduce equipment downtime with
new analytics, streamlined asset and lease accounting and configurable
alerts to detect and resolve asset-related issues proactively.

Benefits of PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1

--  Improved Productivity -- This latest release of PeopleSoft Financials
and Supply Chain Management drives increased user effectiveness with Web
2.0 functionality that helps companies connect and service their workforce
using new engagement and collaboration tools, and offers workbenches,
dashboards, and embedded analytics.
--  Accelerated Business Performance -- PeopleSoft Financials and Supply
Chain Management 9.1 helps users execute end-to-end business processes
through integrated solutions and assists them in meeting industry specific
requirements with industry tailored offerings, addressing today's business
needs with functionally deep and complete applications.
--  Lower Cost of Ownership -- PeopleSoft 9.1 is built on Oracle's
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, the PeopleSoft Enterprise
technology platform, which offers a highly-flexible development environment
for customers to manage, customize, integrate and support their PeopleSoft
applications. Compatible with previous application releases, PeopleTools
8.50 can reduce the total cost of ownership by providing customers valuable
enhancements without requiring an upgrade to core Financials and Supply
Chain Management applications.  In addition PeopleSoft 9.1 helps achieve
cost effective interoperability using the Oracle(R) Application Integration
Architecture and expanded Web services.

Supporting Quotes

--  "PeopleSoft 9.1 has done a tremendous job at improving employee
productivity.  With the many new features related to the user experience,
it builds on the already strong user interface and offers a more intuitive
and enhanced experience that will greatly benefit our users," said Patrick
Wells, ERP Technical Lead, Kentucky Community & Technical College System.
--  "This release of PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain
Management helps companies operate more efficiently, saving time and
money," said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle's vice president and general manager of
PeopleSoft.  "We developed PeopleSoft 9.1 based on feedback from customers
and have responded to their needs by adding functionality that helps them
improve financial processes and better manage their supply chains."

Supporting Resources

--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications
--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and
Supply Chain Management 9.1
--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

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