Oracle Delivers Next-Generation Cloud Applications

Singapore – August 2,
2017 – To help organizations around the world grow
faster, differentiate from competitors, and better serve their customers,
Oracle today announced significant new capabilities and enhancements to Oracle
Cloud Applications. With the introduction of Oracle Cloud Applications Release
13, Oracle is further extending the industry’s broadest, deepest, and fastest
growing suite of cloud applications. Innovations in the new release enhance the
user experience and empower business users across the organization including customer
experience, finance, HR, and supply chain
professionals.

“We are committed to
helping organizations of all sizes transform critical business functions to
drive their growth and stay competitive,” said Steve Miranda, executive vice
president of applications development, Oracle. “With the latest release of
Oracle Cloud Applications, we are introducing hundreds of new innovations. The
latest updates include major enhancements to our supply chain management suite
that will help customers create intelligent, connected, and customer-centric
supply chains. In addition, we are introducing a brand new solution that
enriches the customer experience by bridging the gap between sales and customer
service. The new release also includes further advancements to the user
experience and customer-driven changes for human resources and finance.”

Oracle Cloud
Applications provide a complete and fully integrated suite of applications that
allow organizations to increase business agility and reduce costs. The latest
release includes new capabilities and enhancements across Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud, Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud Suite, Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud and Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud. In
addition, Oracle has enhanced the user experience across Oracle Cloud
Applications to help customers personalize their experience and further improve
productivity, insight, and collaboration.

Oracle SCM Cloud delivers
the end-to-end visibility, insights, and capabilities that organizations need
to create intelligent supply chains. Oracle SCM Cloud Release 13 extends the
most comprehensive SCM suite in the cloud with the introduction of more than
200 major features and six new products that cover Sales and Operation
Planning, Demand Management, Supply Planning, Collaboration, Quality Management
and Maintenance. The new innovations help organizations transform their
operating models to meet rapidly changing business demands by evolving from
traditional supply chain systems to connected, comprehensive, agile, and
customer-oriented supply chain management capabilities.

Oracle CX Cloud Suite
empowers organizations to take a smarter approach to customer experience
management and business transformation initiatives by providing a trusted
business platform that connects customer data, experiences, and outcomes.
Oracle CX Cloud Suite Release 13 introduces new innovations to Oracle Sales
Cloud, which include enhanced mobile and data visualization capabilities, as
well as a range of new capabilities that increase sales rep productivity. In
addition, Oracle has extended Oracle CX Cloud Suite with the introduction of
Oracle Engagement Cloud. The new solution combines sales and service
capabilities to enable organizations to increase customer satisfaction,
loyalty, and up-sell opportunities.

Oracle ERP Cloud is
the industry’s leading and most complete, modern, and secure financial platform
delivered seamlessly through the Oracle Cloud. Oracle ERP Cloud helps
organizations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing
business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity. Oracle ERP Cloud
Release 13 builds upon the industry’s broadest and most integrated public
cloud. Extended depth and breadth across Financials, Procurement, and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) help
organizations accelerate the pace of innovation via deeper domain functionality
including Dynamic Discounting and Multi-Funding. In addition, industry coverage
for higher education, financial services, and manufacturing, as well as
expanded country localizations for India and Brazil, enable organizations of
all sizes, and from different industries and geographies, to quickly and easily
take advantage of the new release.

Oracle HCM Cloud
provides organizations with modern HR technologies that enable collaboration,
optimize talent management, provide complete workforce insights, increase
operational efficiency, and make it easy for everyone to connect on any device.
Oracle HCM Cloud Release 13 extends Oracle’s commitment to customer success
with 80 percent of enhancements being customer driven. Release 13 enhances
Oracle’s complete, end-to-end solution for all HCM processes by introducing
expanded user experience personalization and branding and additional Tier 1
localization support. It also includes improved capabilities to support the
needs of customers with unionized workforces, such as retail and healthcare
with flexible work models.

The Oracle Cloud
offers complete SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class
database Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more
information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com