Accenture has received an award that acknowledges the company’s support of Oracle-based products and services offered in Asia and the Pacific. The “Specialized Partner of the Year: Applications – APAC” award was presented at the 2013 Oracle Excellence Awards held in Shanghai, Accenture said Monday. “We are always thrilled to be …

Deloitte has opened a center of excellence to provide an environment where customers can trial Oracle applications with Deloitte’s prebuilt industry services. The facility is intended to give enterprises a boost in project startup, investment management and implementation, Deloitte said Tuesday. “Our clients across industries are looking for Oracle solutions …

DLT Solutions has been awarded a five-year enterprise license agreement covering Oracle product licenses for the Department of the Navy, Defense Systems reported June 18. DON aims to consolidate Oracle purchases across the agency and save more than $60 million through the agreement, according to the article. The report says …

Oracle and microprocessor technology developer ARM have expanded their partnership with a multi-year agreement to further develop Java software for ARM’s 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The companies aim for their for unified technology to support data centers, network infrastructure and machine-to-machine systems, ARM said Monday. Oracle’s Java virtual machine is …

Oracle Corp. has released a new study that shows utilities are still struggling to convert smart grid data into business value. The “Utilities and Big Data: Accelerating the Drive to Value” study surveyed 151 North American utilities executives to measure how their smart grid programs handle huge volumes of data, …

Oracle has rolled out new software for original equipment manufacturers to monitor their outsourcing activities and work to mitigate risks in supply chains. The Outsourced Manufacturing for Discrete Industries platform works to provide OEMs real-time visibility into transaction flows, inventories and production bottlenecks, Oracle said Monday. Cliff Godwin, Oracle senior …

A General Dynamics business unit has won an Oracle specialized partner of the year award for the unit’s innovation and performance in the U.K.’s healthcare sector. The Oracle Independent Software Vendor/ Original Equipment Manufacturer award recognizes General Dynamics Information Technology for its work to develop reporting software for the U.K. …

Oracle has released two new in-memory computing applications intended to help businesses manage supply chains and reduce planning cycle times. Both Oracle Value Chain Planning apps run on the company’s database appliance that works to accommodate large volumes of data, Oracle said Thursday. Rick Jewell, Oracle senior vice president of …

Oracle Corp. has developed a database infrastructure for Strata Health Solutions to modernize its resource matching and referral technology that healthcare customers use to address the growing demands of patients. Strata picked Oracle’s Database Appliance and Real Application Clusters that work with its software-as-a-service pathways with the goal of helping …

Samik Nandi has joined KPMG India as a partner in the firm’s Oracle enterprise resource planning advisory practice, the Economic Times reports. Nandi previously worked at IBM India for four years and was responsible for building its Oracle practice in South Asia. Ambarish Dasgupta, KPMG India’s management consulting lead, said …

Deloitte, NetSuite and Oracle will collaborate to provide cloud-based human capital management and enterprise resource planning systems and services to medium-sized businesses. Oracle will combine its technology for managing human resources with NetSuite’s platform for connecting business operations, Oracle said Wednesday. Deloitte aims to establish a practice that helps clients …

Salesforce.com and Oracle have formed a partnership to combine their applications, platforms and infrastructures in an effort to help customers implement cloud-based services. Oracle will also power Salesforce’s applications and platform while the latter will use Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial cloud applications, Oracle said Tuesday. Salesforce will integrate Linux …

Oracle has partnered with Microsoft for an undisclosed value to help customers run software on Windows platforms, aiming to extend cloud computing services for clients. The partnership intends to help Oracle customers deploy Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server in Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure with support …

Oracle President Mark Hurd; Executive Vice Presidents Thomas Kurian and John Fowler; and Chief Information Officer Mark Sunday are among the company leaders set to address an annual virtual conference on June 25. The Oracle PartnerNetwork kickoff event, themed “Engineered for Growth,” aims to showcase the company’s products and other …

Oracle has agreed to provide the curriculum for technical education in India’s Goa state, The Economic Times reported Thursday. Representatives from the software developer and state government signed a memorandum of understanding providing the framework of the curriculum integration. The work will include training for teachers on the Oracle Academy syllabus, …