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Lynette LiuSenior Business Development
Manager Oracle Corporation
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Oracle Application Server Helps Retailers
Innovate and Differentiate
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Agenda

• Retail Industry Trends
• Oracle in Retail
• Oracle Application Server in Retail
• Oracle retail partner presentation Tomax
• QA

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What is the Retail Value Chain?
DCs Warehouses
Suppliers
Finished Goods
Raw Materials
Contract Mfgrs
Consumer
Stores
Customers
Business
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Industry Transformation
Today
Tomorrow

• Push retail buyer-centric product offerings
• Reactive financial decisions based on latent
  information
• Fragmented sourcing and purchasing processes
• Low associate satisfactionand empowerment
• Manual, slow warehouse and transportation
  management

• Pull product selection basedon customer demand
• Automated, data-driven financial process
  optimization
• Collaborative, consolidated sourcing and
  procurement
• High employee productivityand retention
• Streamlined logistics planning and execution

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Oracle Solutions for Retail

• Leverage An Integrated, Consolidated Information
  Infrastructure
• Ensure Corporate Visibility Consistent Internal
  Controls
• Optimize Real Estate Facilities Investments
• Differentiate Through Employee Empowerment
  Productivity
• Collaboratively Share Real-Time Information with
  Vendors
• Attract Retain Profitable Customers

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Oracle Application Server for Retail

• Leverage An Integrated, Consolidated Information
  Infrastructure
• Ensure Corporate Visibility Consistent Internal
  Controls
• Optimize Real Estate Facilities Investments
• Differentiate Through Employee Empowerment
  Productivity
• Collaboratively Share Real-Time Information with
  Vendors
• Attract Retain Profitable Customers
• Manage IT investments in a highly cost-effective
  and efficient manner

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Application Development
Web Services
J2EE Applications
EnterpriseIntegration
Business Intelligence
Portals
Wireless
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Application Deployment
Performance
Availability
Caching
Systems Management
Scalability
User /Security Management
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Oracle Application Server 10g

• Next generation of Oracles award-winning
  application server follow-on to Oracle9i
  Application Server
• Focus on grid computing
• Scientific grids existed as means to pool
  computing resources to solve one big problem
• Enterprise grids focused on reducing information
  technology costs while providing the capability
  to add server and storage capacity quickly

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Benefits of Grid Computing
Challenge Changing business needs require
flexible infrastructure Costs need to be reduced
while maintaining quality of service Protect
existing investments while achieving rapid return
on new investments

• Grid Computing Capability
• Policy-based workload management to shift
  resources where needed
• High availability features to improve reliability
  of apps running on grid
• Use of inexpensive servers / storage
• Enterprise Manager 10g / Grid Control single
  console to manage all nodes in grid
  infrastructure
• Existing enterprise apps are enabled to share
  resources on demand
• A2A, B2B and Web services integration in one
  product

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Retail ISVs supporting Oracle Application Server
10g
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Oracles Retail Customers
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A N N O U N C E M E N T

• Oracle announces 10g (Sept. 2003)
• Oracle announces broad support for 10g among ISVs
  (Sept. 2003)
• Leading retail ISVs use Oracle9i Application
  Server to help retailers lower technology costs
  (June 2003)

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Tomax retail.net
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Next Steps.

• Recommended sessions
• 40059 Grid Computing for Oracle Application
  Server 10g, Sept. 9, 830am
• 40187 First Steps with Grid and Oracle
  Application Server 10g, Sept. 9, 500pm
• Relevant web sites to visit for more information
• Oracle Technology Network http//otn.oracle.com
• Tomax http//www.tomax.com

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