Customers Benefit from Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0

    DENVER, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- COLLABORATE 2008 --
    -- Oracle today announced that leading organizations rely on Oracle's
       PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 to address their most business-
       critical strategic requirements.
    -- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 combines industry-leading functionality with
       a best-in-class user experience and demonstrates Oracle's continued
       commitment to protect, extend and evolve customer investments as part
       of the "Applications Unlimited" program.  "Applications Unlimited"
       enables customers to maximize the value of their current applications
       through Oracle's on-going product development.
    -- Customers including Blackboard, Cytec, Drummond, Flagstar Bancorp,
       Michigan Sugar, Moody Bible Institute, Northwestern University and
       University of California, San Francisco have deployed PeopleSoft
       Enterprise 9.0 applications, including Human Capital Management (HCM),
       Financial Management Solutions (FMS), Supplier Relationship Management
       (SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management
       (CRM) and Campus Solutions.

    Product Functionality
    -- Beginning June 2006, Oracle has unveiled PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0
       solutions, including: PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management
       (HCM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management (FMS) 9.0,
       PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise
       Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise
       Supply Chain Management (SCM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier
       Relationship Management (SRM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance
       Management (EPM) 9.0 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management
       (ELM) 9.0.
    -- Developed through collaboration with customers, PeopleSoft Enterprise
       HCM 9.0 (http://tinyurl.com/5fm93a) enables organizations to deploy
       enterprise-wide talent management strategies and configurable business
       processes to increase efficiency and operating performance.
    -- With PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management 9.0
       (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_jun/elm.html), companies
       are equipped for better compliance with increasingly complex
       multinational regulatory requirements. With the 9.0 release, Oracle
       responded to customer feedback by including substantial usability
       enhancements while strengthening Oracle's talent management offering.
    -- Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.0
       (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_oct/fms9.html), features
       enhancements to core financial accounting, asset lifecycle management
       and enterprise service automation applications. Additionally, new
       features were introduced in PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls
       Enforcer, a key product designed to enable users to automate and
       enforce internal controls required under Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.
    -- The latest releases of PeopleSoft Enterprise SCM 9.0 and SRM 9.0
       (http://tinyurl.com/65fxdp) help streamline business processes,
       improve supplier relationships with increased visibility into, and
       measurement of, supplier performance and simplify regulatory compliance
       with new tools to manage risk.
    -- Highlights of PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.0
       (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_aug/psft-crm-9.html)
       include enhancements designed specifically for the financial services
       and communications industries, usability enhancements designed to help
       increase productivity and increased use of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware.
    -- PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 9.0
       (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_aug/psft-epm9.html)
       demonstrates Oracle's focus in building out analytic applications by
       extending the suite's capabilities, while continuing to emphasize
       usability. New features of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management
       include expanded enterprise planning and compliance management
       capabilities and new industry functionality.
    -- Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Release 9.0
       (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_feb/campussolutions9-0.htm)
       is a feature-rich student information and alumni donor management
       system. It is the most adaptable solution serving all sizes and types
       of institutions including small, private universities, community
       colleges, research institutions, and large, public, multi-campus
       systems.
    -- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 is certified on the Oracle Fusion Middleware
       platform and has adopted key technology components including Oracle
       Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process Manager and Oracle
       XML Publisher. This enables customers to lower implementation costs,
       simplify upgrades and reduce the complexity of maintaining integration
       points with next-generation technology.
    -- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 is supported by PeopleTools release, 8.48 and
       the subsequent release 8.49. PeopleTools 8.48 delivers tools for
       enabling a Service-Oriented Architecture like the new Web Services
       designer. These PeopleTools platforms provide a solid and high
       performance foundation for PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and are
       backwards compatible-enabling customers to run their release 8.4 and
       greater PeopleSoft Enterprise applications on them.

    Supporting Quotes
    -- "The release of PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 demonstrated a
       milestone in Oracle's commitment to Applications Unlimited," said Doris
       Wong, Oracle Group Vice President of PeopleSoft Enterprise
       Applications.  "Today, customer adoption rates reveal that the next
       generation technology and enhanced functionality of the latest release
       are delivering the value organizations seek.  We're pleased with the
       increasing market traction of PeopleSoft solutions and believe the
       application will continue to transform the way customers manage their
       most strategic objectives."
    -- "University of California, San Francisco has benefited from PeopleSoft
       Enterprise Financial Management and its value to support our business
       processes," said Jane Wong, Director of Application Services,
       University of California, San Francisco.  "Now with the improvements in
       the upgrade processes, we can continue to leverage the new capabilities
       of PeopleSoft Enterprise and Supply Chain Management Release 9.0 to
       further streamline our business processes."
    -- "Oracle and PeopleSoft enabled Moody Bible Institute to market our
       course offerings and optimize contact with each student, significantly
       improving our recruiting, response rates and students' experiences,"
       said Frank Leber, Vice President Information Systems, Moody Bible
       Institute.  "We know that we can always rely on Oracle to deliver next-
       generation technology for our PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM
       implementations, and look forward to the outstanding new usability in
       our PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 upgrade."
    -- "As many companies can attest, the prospect of a CRM upgrade can seem
       daunting and extremely complicated," said Rav Sandhu, Director,
       Enterprise Applications, Blackboard.  "Blackboard's upgrade to
       PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 CRM was incredibly smooth and the
       massive improvements to the upgrade process are unparalleled.  We
       highly recommend this latest version for organizations to upgrade, not
       only for the process' new simplicity, but for the terrific gains with
       usability and performance that are now available."
    -- "Our technology goal is simple - provide our students, faculty, and
       staff with the best user experience possible," said Betty Brugger,
       Director of IT Management Systems, Northwestern University.  "With
       Oracle's strong commitment and its lifetime support of our PeopleSoft
       Enterprise Release 9.0 Campus Solutions, we are assured that we can
       continue to cost-effectively invest in our systems to satisfy our
       users' current needs and to support their future requirements."
    -- "As our organization grows, Oracle's core foundation of HR data and
       processes is expanding to accommodate our needs," said Jeffrey C.
       Futterman, Vice President, Information Technology, Cytec. "As we've
       rapidly grown through acquisition to more than 7,000 employees
       globally, we realized we needed a global system to manage our human
       capital that could evolve with our needs. Cytec standardized on
       PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.0 because it provides the global visibility
       into talent our organization requires now, and we know this support
       will continue in the future with the Applications Unlimited program."


    Supporting Resources
    Oracle PeopleSoft 9.0:
    http://tinyurl.com/6f5zum

    Press Release - Oracle To Deliver PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0:
    http://tinyurl.com/4o4j67

    PeopleSoft Technology Blog:
    http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/

    Podcast - Update on PeopleSoft 9.0:
    http://tinyurl.com/2hnpmm

    White Paper - PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0: The Extended-Value Release:
    http://tinyurl.com/2873o3

    Oracle ACE PeopleSoft Enterprise Forum:
    http://tinyurl.com/4f9qcu

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