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Ethiopian bank Debub Global Bank (DGB) selected Oracle solutions and will be deploying Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking, Oracle’s SPARC T5-2 server, and Oracle’s StorageTek storage solutions” to achieve its vision of becoming best-in-class within Africa’s banking industry.Read More…

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Oracle recently claimed that its partners around the world are continuing to deliver Oracle Accelerate solutions to better meet the needs of midsize companies by expanding their portfolio of simple to deploy solutions for growing organizations. Oracle Accelerate is Oracle’s partner-driven approach to providing simple to deploy, fast time to benefit solutions to midsize organizations. Oracle Accelerate solutions include Oracle’s enterprise-class application software delivered with business accelerators, partner intellectual property and services, available from Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) partners and Oracle Consulting.Read More…

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As the single point for the clearing of all cheques and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) transactions in the country, the Central Bank of Kenya clearing house can ill afford any database downtime. Sybrin Systems teamed up with RDB Consulting to deliver high availability and uptime with Oracle’s Standard Linux database and fully redundant servers.
Sybrin Systems, a company that specialises in payment processing solutions, mainly across Africa, was awarded the contract, adding to their high profile client portfolio. The solution involved 41 banks using Sybrin Systems’ Client Participation Module, providing an interface to their Central Bank Clearing Module, running off high end clustered servers with Oracle’sStandard 11g database. Read More…

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Avnet Technology Solutions launched its first demo centre in Dubai based on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Platforms for its channel partners in the Middle East and North Africa region. The demo centre will works as a point of reference for companies that would like to understand the potential of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. It will enable companies to experience the use of Oracle technologies by creating proof of concept designs and performance benchmarks based on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a leading foundation for Cloud, to transform business requirements into a proven IT solution within an optimized, agile and risk mitigated environment.Read More…

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Oracle held “Oracle Day” in Amman, Jordan under the headline “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, the Oracle Day event was a powerhouse combination of C-level, functional, and technology tracks, all dedicated to one goal: showing Oracle customers and prospects how the power of simplicity can change IT to a force that drives business innovation. Among the key unveilings of Oracle Open World which were highlighted during the event in Amman was Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, the industry’s first in-memory hardware and software system engineered to run analytics faster than ever, provide real-time speed-of-thought visual analysis, and enable new types of analytic applications.Read More…

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Oracle and Intertec Systems will jointly be hosting the “Oracle Technology Summit” at the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi on 16th November, 2011 and it expects to bring together key IT decision makers under one roof to demonstrate the efficacies of Syros ERP, Oracle BI and Oracle’s latest technologies on Database & Fusion Middleware. The aim is to simplify ERP software selection, alleviating some of the painful inefficiencies faced by IT, finance & business operations and delivering solutions in one event. Read More…

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As part of its ongoing Oracle Day roadshow across the EMEA region, Oracle today held the “Oracle Day” in Kuwait to share with local customers and the local IT community the latest innovations that were unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco, California, earlier this month. Oracle Day coined as “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, was a powerhouse combination of C-level, functional, and technology tracks, all dedicated to one goal: showing Oracle customers and prospects how the power of simplicity can change IT to a force that drives business innovation.Read More…