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From portfolio of cloud It makes the following enterprise Together" strategy, built to exploit the DATABASE solutions to the world’s best enterprise applications available as part of combined capabilities of software and database, Oracle always stands first Oracle E-Business Suite: hardware to deliver transformative For Three and Half in the customer requirements. Oracle solutions. has been successful in building the Asset Lifecycle Management database and applications as per It improves equipment reliability and Oracle Financial Applications the industry demands. At present they plant utilization with solutions that The Oracle E-Business Suite provides offer solutions in storage equipments, offer real-time collaboration and a set of financial applications used servers, operating systems, adaptive procedures. It also improve internationally in businesses. Oracle virtualization software, middleware productivity with real-time analytics Corporation groups these applications DECADES and the seminal Oracle Database. and better PM schedules into "suites", which it defines as sets By Neethu Mohan of common, integrated applications Oracle Fusion Applications Customer Relationship Management designed to execute specific business Oracle