Posted on 02 Feb 2007
Oracle Releases Five Major Product Suites
According to the press release of Oracle, Oracle has released the new versions of its five product lines, i.e. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0, Siebel CRM 8.0, JD EDwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and JD Edwards World A9.1.
Some excerpts from the press release (The product details):
- Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Oracle has released 18 new products and 2443 new enhancements to help global businesses think globally for better decision-making, work globally to be more competitive and manage globally to lower cost and increase performance.
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0: It included PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.0. PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9 contains 2 new products and 1478 enhancements. The new release of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM delivers enterprise-wide talent management capabilities and, like the other applications in PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware to give customers a comprehensive, standards-based platform to address the challenges of disparate technologies and applications.
- Siebel CRM 8: The new release of the Siebel CRM suite offers ten new products and 366 enhancements that extend Oracle’s investment in industry-specific CRM and enable companies to propel business growth through customer-driven business transformation. The new release accelerates user adoption, enhances business responsiveness and delivers increased value to the enterprise with a new task-based user interface, enterprise search capabilities, SOA-enabled CRM and embedded intelligence driving real-time insight at the moment of customer interaction.
- JD Edwards World A9.1: The first major release of JD Edwards World in ten years, this new version offers 4 new products and 1297 enhancements that provide customers with compliance support, operational excellence, technology improvements and capabilities for global operations.
- JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12: Delivered in the spring of 2006, the latest release of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne delivered 5 new products, including a new Operational Sourcing and three new modules for the food and beverage industry, as well as 291 enhancements.
In the bigger picture, one of the best offerings Oracle did to its customers is: The customers have the options of upgrading the respective softwares without having to re-license their Oracle application. This may be the first time ever in the software history, but in the long term, will help Oracle win the loyalty war with the customers.
However, the above products released may not the new customers that they want to buy, I always believe most of the new customers are waiting for the new release of Oracle Database.
