Oracle Press Release

Oracle Buys Assets of Skire

Adds Leading Cloud-based and On-premise Capital Program Management and Facilities Management Applications to Oracle Primavera Project Portfolio Management

Redwood Shores, CA – July 19, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Skire, a leading provider of capital program management and facilities management applications available both in the cloud and on-premise.

Skire’s software provides a complete set of management and governance tools across all project phases from planning and building to operations, enabling companies to efficiently manage their capital and construction programs.

By combining Skire with industry leading capabilities from Oracle Primavera products, Oracle intends to create a full lifecycle Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) platform that provides a comprehensive offering from capital planning and construction to operations and maintenance for owners and operators, contractors and sub-contractors.

The combination is expected to help organizations manage their projects with more predictability and financial control, improving profitability and operational efficiency.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. More information on this announcement can be found at http://www.oracle.com/skire.

Supporting Quotes

“Project-intensive enterprises are facing intense pressure to deliver projects on time and on budget”, said Mike Sicilia, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Primavera. “Adding Skire to the Oracle Primavera Suite will help our customers gain complete visibility, automation and financial control across their entire project and program portfolio to help them manage for long-term growth.”

“The capital construction and facilities industry has for decades sought a tighter relationship and greater synchronization between owners and service providers, and the Oracle-Skire combination makes that vision a reality,” said Massy Mehdipour, founder and CEO of Skire. “This announcement is the result of years of tremendous dedication by our employees, and with the support of our customers we are thrilled to be joining Oracle to provide the choice of both cloud-based and on-premise governance spanning the entire lifecycle of EPPM.”

Supporting Resources

About Oracle and Skire

General Presentation

Customer Letter

FAQ

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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CUSTOMER SUCCESS: MemorialCare Health System Improves Its Own IT Health

BMC Software helps major hospital network improve patient satisfaction

HOUSTON, July 16, 2012 – To serve a network of six leading hospitals across southern California, MemorialCare Health System (MHS) relies on highly specialized technology to diagnose and treat patients. For obvious reasons, it’s absolutely necessary that computer systems work flawlessly.

Streamlined IT operations are a key factor in making sure the hospital network runs smoothly. Before selecting BMC Software, MHS could not efficiently manage IT requests from all of its medical facilities. What’s more, the hospital system did not have an automated system to track computer and software assets in real time.

This collective gap in the MHS IT management capability had a direct and profoundly negative effect on customer satisfaction.

“Prior to selecting BMC Software, we had no way of determining the number of IT assets we had. We spent an exorbitant amount of time gathering this information and manually entering it into a database,” explained Terolyn Phinsee, project manager at MHS. “Today, our successful implementation of BMC Track-It! has produced a measurable increase in customer satisfaction, with an overall score of 95 percent for ‘quick response to issue.’”

The Challenge

MHS lacked an efficient method for tracking and assigning help desk requests between hospitals. The company also needed a way to track hospital hardware and software assets in real time, without inundating internal IT resources. Finally, MHS needed to ensure it was compliant with healthcare security regulations such as HIPPA Administrative Safegaurds.

The Solution

MHS reviewed a number of help desk solutions, including the FrontRange HEAT product. The hospital network selected the Track-It! solution from BMC Software for its superior customization capabilities, ease of use, flexibility and automated workflow.

Benefits

The BMC solution was in full production at MHS within eight hours. Once implemented, the organization experienced the following immediate benefits:

• Increased employee and patient satisfac­tion with IT service and support
• Real-time view of all computer and software assets across all six hospitals and the ability to assign work orders to techni­cians at any site
• Improved help desk agent workflow to quickly and efficiently solve IT problems and requests
• Improved compliance to healthcare regulations such as HIPPA

For more information on the MHS implementation and the BMC Track-It! solution, please visit:

• Read the full case study here
• Access the BMC Track-It! Customer Community
• Follow @BMC_TrackIt  on Twitter
• Become a fan of BMC on Facebook

Business Runs on IT. IT Runs on BMC Software.

Business runs better when IT runs at its best. That's why more than 20,000 IT organizations – from the Global 100 to the smallest businesses – in over 120 countries rely on BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. With the leading Business Service Management platform, Cloud Management, and the industry’s broadest choice of IT management solutions, BMC helps customers cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion.

EMC Accelerates Journey to Cloud for Engineering, Plant and Facilities Management Organizations

EMC Press Release

EMC Accelerates Journey to Cloud for Engineering, Plant and Facilities Management Organizations

Delivers EPFM OnDemand – Cloud-based Managed Service for Designing, Building and Operating Complex Plants and Capital Infrastructure

EMC WORLD, LAS VEGAS - May 22, 2012

News Highlights:

• EMC Documentum Engineering, Plant and Facilities Management (EPFM) OnDemand manages project and asset lifecycle from design to construction and operation
• Available as part of EMC® OnDemand, a hybrid cloud deployment model for enterprise applications
• Accelerates project execution by optimizing critical business processes; supports collaboration across the project supply chain

Full Story:

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announcedthe immediate availability of EMC® Documentum® Engineering, Plant and Facilities Management (EPFM) OnDemand, delivering a high value purpose-built application as hybrid-cloud managed service. The Documentum EPFM Solution was built in response to common challenges faced by energy operators, engineering and construction companies and engineering project teams within large enterprises. Challenges such as misplacement and/or loss of information, poorly-managed supplier/contractor and operator collaboration and content sharing, and significant health, safety and environment risk due to project/operations inefficiencies, can often cause project slowdown, project failure and costly fines.

Documentum EPFM focuses on highly project-centric and repeated "transmittal" processes for managing supplier/contractor and operator interaction through potentially thousands of drawings and documents. It can support hundreds of project engineering capabilities such as bulk importing and validation of content, engineering numbering systems, and collaboration across multiple parties. As a managed service, EPFM OnDemand enables customers to stay current on the latest software releases, simplify management of highly-complex applications and lower total cost of ownership. Many projects can be resource-intensive over short periods of time, making the delivery of this capability as a cloud-based service especially compelling for lowering the total cost of ownership and accelerating project initiation and completion.

Customer Benefits:

• EPFM OnDemand increases agility, saves time and costs, improves IT efficiency, and simplifies management of highly-complex applications.
• Faster, lower cost for project initiation.
• Highly secure infrastructure management by EMC experts for enterprise grade security, high availability, backup and disaster recovery.
• Optimizes operations and supply chain management processes with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and business tools such as SAP® Plant Maintenance, Oracle® E-Business Suite®, Primavera®, Maximo®, AutoCAD®, Microstation®.
• Lowers the risk of non-compliance by improving collaboration inside and outside the firewall.
• The EPFM solution is also available for implementation in a traditional environment.

The underlying technology of OnDemand is a hybrid cloud deployment model for enterprise-class applications, designed to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. Developed using a range of best-in-class technologies from VMware, RSA and EMC, the infrastructure can contain one or many EMC and EMC partner products and can be completely portable from one data center to another. It also enables customers to provision and configure the system for rapid deployment.

In addition to EPFM, EMC OnDemand is available for EMC® Documentum® D2 for configuring intuitive user client interfaces to the EMC® Documentum® platform , EMC® Captiva® for enterprise capture,EMC® Document Sciences® for customer communications management and EMC® Documentum® for enterprise content management.

Executive Quote:

Paul O'Brien, Vice President of EMC OnDemand for the Information Intelligence Group at EMC

"EPFM OnDemand brings together a powerful solution for managing complex processes with a managed services infrastructure to help businesses focus on getting work done. We're pleased to expand the offerings available on this platform as the cost and time savings, agility and 'worry free' IT maintenance are huge customer benefits."

The Information Intelligence Group division of EMC is focused on four key strategic priorities for customer success - delighting the "New User" of the Post PC era with a compelling, fast and modern user experience across a variety of end-point devices; accelerating our customers' journey to the cloud; delivering pervasive governance to protect information wherever it exists, and helping our customers transform their business with high value solutions. EPFM OnDemand helps accelerate our customers' journey to the cloud.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about EMC Documentum EPFM solution
• Learn more about EMC OnDemand
• Read the Documentum EPFM solution overview
• Stay connected with Momentum on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
• Follow the @EMC_Momentum account and join the #mmtm12 conversation on Twitter.
• Watch Live video streams and participate in Q&A during Momentum Keynotes and Buzz Talks:http://bitly.com/mmtm-live

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.