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Oracle has announced that an exceptional number of organisations have selected Oracle's leading Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) software to help gain better insight, make better decisions, and drive better results. As components of Oracle(r) Fusion Middleware -- the industry's fastest growing, most standards-compliant, and best-of-breed technology foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture -- Oracle Business Intelligence is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry's first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System. With the recent acquisition of Hyperion, Oracle is number one in Enterprise Performance Management -- unifying Business Intelligence, Financial Management and Operational Analytics.

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence software is hot-pluggable and works with Oracle, non-Oracle, and mixed technology environments. Leading organizations worldwide across varied industries have recently purchased components of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence including: ADMB, Anadarko, AngloGold Ashanti, City Building (Glasgow) LLP, City Council of The Hague, Dalhoff Larsen & Hornemann, Emperia Holding, Energinet.dk, Fagor Industrial, Fiat, Getin Bank, Giant Eagle, GLOBUS SB-Warenhaus Holding, Headquarters Land Command, Goodyear, International Labour Organization, Jawwal, Mediaset, Lottomatica, MobilKom, National City Bank, Oman Insurance Company (P.S.C.), Pirelli, Polish Police, Reader's Digest, Skvader, Standard Parking, Sallie Mae, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Stonesoft, Telef?nica O2 Czech Republic, T-Systems (formerly Gedas), University at Buffalo, SUNY, U.S. Army Human Resources Command, U.S. Army Program Executive - Soldier and VistaCare.

"We selected Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management and Planning -- System 9 and Essbase to help streamline our financial planning processes, gain better insight, drive predictable results and achieve our business objectives," said Steve Rosen, director, Finance Operations and Controls, Biogen Idec. "The Hyperion software will complement our use of the Oracle E-Business Suite, by enabling us to more closely integrate our systems and more rapidly and accurately close our books across our worldwide operations."

"Oracle Business Intelligence Applications will help reduce our deployment time and cost, while providing us the foundation to more efficiently accomplish key business drivers such as analyze processes and drive deeper business insight, ultimately leveraging our data across the organization," said Larry Rencken, CIO, Welch's. "After an extensive evaluation, we selected Oracle over the competition due to the company's advancements in Business Intelligence and the applications' best-in-class functionality."

"Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence software is rapidly evolving to deliver customers more value throughout their entire organization," said John Kopcke, senior vice president of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Global Business Unit. "Organizations today are benefiting from the breadth and integration of our EPM and BI offerings that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence and enable individuals across the enterprise, including front line employees to senior management, to gain better insight, make better decisions and drive better results that are delivered more quickly."

With the seamless integration of Hyperion, Oracle Business Intelligence continues to be recognized with industry honors. According to Datamonitor's report "Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Intelligence Vendor," Oracle ranks as a business intelligence leader. One of 12 vendors profiled in the report, Oracle was named a segment co-leader as a result of combining excellent technology with a strong position on both user sentiment and market impact assessments. The report states that "Oracle has successfully integrated its recently acquired BI expertise and, as a result, it has managed to exert itself within the BI market. If one considers its considerable user-base, commanding presence in the global applications market, and a comprehensive yet flexible BI solution, its position can not be considered as a surprise."