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products with its business-driven IT management capabilities to deliver a holistic approach to IT management across the entire Oracle
technology portfolio, including Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle
Applications, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and our complete hardware portfolio. Oracle Enterprise Manager is designed to manage
Oracle’s software and hardware portfolio whether deployed using traditional IT architectures or in cloud computing architectures. In both cases,
Oracle Enterprise Manager is designed to provide a complete IT lifecycle management approach, including configuring elements of an IT
environment, monitoring service levels, diagnosing and troubleshooting problems, patching and provisioning IT environments, managing
compliance reporting and providing change management in a unified way across physical and virtualized IT environments.
Application Software
Oracle Applications are designed using an industry standards-based, integrated architecture to manage and automate core business functions
across the enterprise, as well as to help customers differentiate and innovate in those processes unique to their industries or organizations. In
addition to applications that are deployable to meet a number of business automation requirements across a broad range of industries, we also
offer a number of industry-specific applications through a focused strategy of investments in internal research and development and strategic
acquisitions. We provide industry-specific solutions for customers in a number of different industries including communications, engineering
and construction, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, retail and utilities, among others. Oracle Applications are offered
via license and subscription based arrangements and are designed to reduce the risk, cost and complexity of our customers’ IT infrastructures,
while supporting customer choice with flexible deployment models and upgrade paths.
Our applications strategy is designed to provide customers with complete choice and a secure path to benefit from the latest technology
advances. Our Oracle Applications Unlimited program demonstrates our commitment to customer choice through ongoing investment and
innovation in current applications offerings including our Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications software
products, among others. Since announcing our Applications Unlimited program in 2005, we have delivered major releases of all applications
product lines by combining business functionality with innovative technologies, providing customers with more adaptive industry processes,
business intelligence and optimal end-user productivity.
We continue to expand our enterprise-grade cloud software subscription offerings such as those offered through our Oracle Cloud Software-as-a-
Service in order to provide customers a broad choice of software applications within a cloud-based IT environment. These include a
comprehensive suite of modular, next-
generation cloud software applications that span core business functions including sales, marketing, social,
service, supply chain management, human capital, talent management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise planning, and financial reporting,
among others.
Oracle Applications address specific business and industry requirements including:
Human Capital and Talent Management
Our complete and integrated suite of human capital management application software is designed to help organizations manage their human
resource operations and attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital.
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Human Capital and Talent Management;
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Customer Experience and Customer Relationship Management;
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Financial Management and Governance, Risk and Compliance;
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Procurement;
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Project Portfolio Management;
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Supply Chain Management;
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Business Analytics and Enterprise Performance Management; and
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Industry
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Specific Applications.