UC4 Media Alert

UC4 to Showcase Workload Automation Suite at Oracle OpenWorld 2008

UC4 Software, a leading global provider of workload automation, job scheduling and IT process optimization solutions, today announced that during Oracle OpenWorld 2008 it will demonstrate how the UC4 Workload Automation Suite can bring additional value to organizations using Oracle Retail, Oracle Utilities, Oracle Modernization or Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), as well as other Oracle applications including JD Edwards and PeopleSoft. Jointly developed with Oracle, the UC4 offerings allow Oracle users to reduce implementation time and errors due to manual processing, and increase processing efficiency and ROI for their Oracle solutions.

WHAT
UC4 showcasing Workload Automation Suite at Oracle OpenWorld 2008

WHEN
September 21-25, 2008

WHO
UC4 Executives and Experts

WHERE
Moscone Center: 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHY
Oracle provides a variety of business applications to efficiently manage and account for business processes. As part of the Oracle Partner Program (OPP), UC4 helps to automate Oracle’s solutions to provide efficient and error-free processing of core business processes as well as reduce implementation time, accelerate business processes, and provide true enterprise scheduling, both within and beyond the Oracle environment. UC4 offerings include:

Oracle Retail
UC4 and Oracle Retail have worked together to develop unique, fully supported solutions for application automation that bring significant benefits to Oracle Retail implementation projects and to the operation of the production Oracle Retail environment. UC4 enhances Oracle Retail through:

• Reduced Oracle Retail implementation time
• Increased processing efficiency through standardized batch schedules
• Automated Oracle Retail restart and recovery logic
• Improved and intuitive alert notifications
• Reduced processing errors due to elimination of manual entry of parameters
• Increased sophistication of event-driven process handling

Oracle Utilities
The UC4 Software solution, developed jointly with Oracle, brings many benefits to the Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing environment:

• Significantly reduces implementation time
• Provides full automation of business processes across all applications in the enterprise
• Ensures business completion of processes
• Safely maximizes computing resources

The result is faster processing with fewer errors, ensuring a reliable and continuous revenue stream from the billing process.

Oracle Modernization
There is more then one way to modernize legacy systems. No matter which approach an organization chooses: SOA Process Modernization, SOA Data Modernization, Re-architecture or Replatform of Legacy Systems, it will need a Business Process Execution Engine. UC4 and Oracle have partnered to offer solutions that provide customers a reliable, scalable, available and agile platform with reduced risk/faster time to market. Significant business value can be derived from using the Oracle platform and UC4 to re-architect a legacy platform.

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
The Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is an extensive set of business applications for managing important business processes across an organization. This suite of complex business applications requires extensive business and application process integration. The UC4 Workload Automation Suite can improve ROI for the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) by:

• Simplifying complex IT infrastructure
• Providing visibility, management and control of business processes
• Mitigating risk by controlling your most mission critical business processes
• Providing business with the agility to respond to a dynamic market  

About UC4 Software
UC4 Software is a leading global provider of workload automation, job scheduling and IT process optimization solutions that ensure core business processes and enterprise information systems run faster, more accurately and without interruption. More than 1,600 companies worldwide have successfully enhanced application processing performance and improved IT efficiency using UC4’s business acceleration solutions. Customers include American Suzuki Motor Corporation, Cadbury, eBay, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Mattel, McGraw Hill, Panasonic, Robert Bosch, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, T-Systems and Verizon.