Oracle Press Releases

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2019 Q2 results. Total Revenues were unchanged at $9.6 billion and up 2% in constant currency, compared to Q2 last year. Total Cloud Services and License Support plus Cloud License and On-Premise License revenues were up 1% to $7.9 billion. Cloud Services and License Support revenues were $6.6 billion, while Cloud License and On-Premise License revenues were $1.2 billion.

GAAP Operating Income was up 2% to $3.1 billion and GAAP Operating Margin was 32%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was down 2% to $4.1 billion and non-GAAP Operating Margin was 43%. GAAP Net Income was up 5% to $2.3 billion and non-GAAP Net Income was up 3% to $3.1 billion. GAAP Earnings Per Share was up 18% to $0.61 while non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was up 16% to $0.80.

Short-term deferred revenues were up 3% to $8.2 billion compared to a year ago. Operating Cash Flow was up 5% to $15.2 billion during the trailing twelve months.

Without the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported GAAP and non-GAAP Total Revenues would have been approximately $140 million higher, and Earnings Per Share would have been 2 cents higher in comparison to as reported amounts for fiscal 2019 Q2.

“In Q2, non-GAAP earnings per share grew 19% in constant currency,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “In addition to our strong EPS growth, free cash flow grew 10% to $13.8 billion over the previous twelve months. I am confident that we will continue to record strong EPS and free cash flow growth during the second half of this fiscal year.”

“Oracle’s two cloud ERP businesses, Fusion ERP and NetSuite ERP, delivered a combined revenue growth rate of 32% in Q2,” said Oracle CEO, Mark Hurd. “With nearly 6,000 Fusion ERP customers and over 16,000 NetSuite ERP customers, Oracle is the clear leader in cloud ERP. ERP has always been the largest segment of the enterprise applications business, so we have lots of room to grow as customers migrate from their traditional on-premise ERP to the Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud.”

“The Oracle Autonomous Database for data warehousing and transaction processing is the world’s only self-driving database,” said Oracle CTO, Larry Ellison. “The Oracle Autonomous Database lowers costs by eliminating human labor and increases reliability by eliminating human error. And Oracle is the only database that automatically patches and upgrades itself while running.”

The Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of outstanding common stock. This dividend will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 16, 2019, with a payment date of January 30, 2019.

Oracle will hold a conference call and webcast today to discuss these results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific. You may listen to the call by dialing (816) 287-5563, Passcode: 425392. To access the live webcast, please visit the Oracle Investor Relations website at http://www.oracle.com/investor. In addition, Oracle’s Q2 results and fiscal 2019 financial tables are available on the Oracle Investor Relations website.

A replay of the conference call will also be available by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406, Passcode: 9393468.

Oracle today announced the Oracle Cloud Native Framework, providing developers a cloud native solution that spans public cloud, on premises and hybrid cloud deployments. Capitalizing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the recently announced Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment, the Oracle Cloud Native Framework introduces a rich set of cloud native managed services and on-premises software. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework also introduces Oracle Functions, a new breakthrough serverless cloud service based on the open source Fn Project.

As organizations move to the cloud, they are facing new and difficult challenges addressing cultural change and increased complexity. DevOps and cloud native tooling have left many developers and projects behind the curve. Moreover, organizations eager to use standard open source components and leverage cloud capabilities, but are impeded by the number of complex choices, lack of training and fear of cloud vendor lock-in. By providing cloud native capabilities and offerings regardless of the deployment scenario and leveraging open standards established by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Oracle, a platinum member of CNCF, is uniquely providing its customers with choice while meeting the broad deployment needs of developers.

“With the growing popularity of the CNCF as a unifying and organizing force in the cloud native ecosystem and organizations increasingly embracing multi cloud and hybrid cloud models, developers should have the flexibility to build and deploy their applications anywhere they choose without the threat of cloud vendor lock-in. Oracle is making this a reality,” said Don Johnson, executive vice president, product development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

To further enable developers to build and deploy modern applications, Oracle is introducing a rich set of first class Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services built on Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud IaaS and existing foundational Kubernetes orchestration and management layer, the Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). These new offerings are focused on three critical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud native layers:

• Application Definition & Development

  • Oracle Functions: Scalable, multi-tenant serverless functions that let users focus on writing code to meet business needs without having to know about any infrastructure concepts. Users only pay when a function is invoked, but pay nothing when the code is not running.
  • Streaming: A highly available, scalable and multi-tenant streaming platform that makes it easy to collect and manage streaming data. Streaming enables applications such as IoT, security and supply chain, where large amounts of data are collected from many sources and need to be processed in real time.

• Provisioning

  • Resource Manager: A managed service that can provision all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources and services. Resource Manager reduces configuration errors and increases productivity by managing infrastructure declaratively (i.e. “infrastructure as code”) using industry standard Terraform.

• Observability & Analysis

  • Monitoring: An integrated service that reports metrics from all resources and services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Use predefined metrics and dashboards, or use the service API to obtain a wholistic view of the health, performance, and capacity of the system. The monitoring service includes alarms to track these metrics and take action when they vary or exceed defined thresholds. Alarms provide a critical service to help users meet service level objectives and avoid interruptions.
  • Notification Service: A scalable service that broadcasts messages to distributed components, such as email and PagerDuty. With the notification service, users can easily deliver messages about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to large numbers of subscribers through a publish-subscribe pattern.
  • Events: An offering that enables users to react to changes in the state of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources, both when initiated by the system or by user action. Events can store information to Object Storage, or they can trigger Functions to take actions, Notifications to inform users, or Streaming to update external services.

With the announcement of Oracle Functions, a new breakthrough serverless solution based on the open source Fn Project, developers can easily deploy and execute function-based applications without the need to manage compute infrastructure. Oracle Functions is Docker container-based and completely pay-per-use, so charges are incurred only when functions are run. The underlying Fn Project, which Oracle Functions offers as a fully-managed service, can run on-premises, in a data center, or on any cloud. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework supports both modern (cloud native) and traditional (WebLogic, Java, and database) applications. The enterprise grade platform can be leveraged for sustainable strategy, managed services, and curated OSS.

Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ: WDC) selected Oracle Cloud to help modernize its business processes as part of its digital transformation journey. The company chose Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud in May, 2016 to bring together the core business systems of three multi-billion dollar companies – Western Digital, SanDisk and HGST – all with growth in mind. As a result, Western Digital has been able to combine numerous applications, reduce approval times by 70 percent, rationalize suppliers by 50 percent and improve acquisition agility on a global scale.

After acquiring SanDisk and HGST, Western Digital faced the challenge of rationalizing three Fortune 500-size on-premises ERP systems. Western Digital decided it needed a modern suite of best-in-class ERP applications that would enable it to enhance the customer experience and achieve a competitive advantage while improving employee productivity. After careful evaluation, Western Digital selected Oracle ERP Cloud, which has allowed it to seamlessly extend its on-premises applications to the cloud and establish a modern business platform that can seamlessly scale to support its future expansion plans and new technology innovations.

“The process of rationalizing three large legacy systems and associated applications gave us a unique opportunity to drive change, as more than two thirds of our organization would have to undergo change no matter what application we selected. We needed a simple, yet scalable cloud platform that could power our rapidly growing business,” said Steve Phillpott, CIO at Western Digital. “With Oracle Cloud we have been able to consolidate applications, automate key financial workflows and radically improve productivity. Oracle has been the catalyst for change and is pivotal in our digital transformation journey.”

“The technology industry is an incredibly fast-paced and competitive market, where the quickest, most agile players win. Western Digital has done an incredible job bringing three large enterprise organizations onto a single Fortune 100-scale platform to significantly improve efficiency and business agility,” said Rondy Ng, senior vice president, Oracle Applications Development. “With Oracle ERP Cloud, Western Digital will be able to continually take advantage of the latest innovations to gain a competitive advantage and successfully position itself for future growth.”

Western Digital’s adoption of Oracle ERP Cloud builds upon its use of both Oracle on-premises and Oracle Analytics Cloud. With Oracle, Western Digital is able to avoid massive file download times and manual analysis to provide its employees with access to the information they need to make better, faster decisions. Learn more about how Oracle is “empowering Western Digital with Oracle Analytics Cloud.”

Caractère, the first restaurant from husband and wife team Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari, has debuted with the support of Oracle Food and Beverage technology. Based in one of London’s most fashionable neighborhood’s, Notting Hill, Caractere serves up contemporary Italian cuisine, with French culinary inspiration. To ensure the experience is as memorable as the food, Caractère is using a combination of the Simphony Cloud Point of Sale Platform the Oracle MICROS workstation 6 family and the Compact Workstation 310.

New restaurant concepts have a variety of obstacles they must overcome as they create a signature menu that customers want to return to. With Oracle Food and Beverage solutions operators can take comfort in the reliability of the time-tested restaurant management and point-of-sale workstations and focus on expressing their creativity and differentiating their offering.

“With Oracle, the ordering process is seamless. The order is taken and sent straight down to the kitchen. If our guests have any dietary requirements or allergies the system makes it very clear to the kitchen, so there’s no slip ups or confusion which is essential,” said Emily Roux, Owner, Caractère. “The system saves time and energy, enabling our front of the house staff to spend more time on the floor engaging with guests and ensuring they have a positive experience.”

Oracle Food and Beverage Simphony restaurant management platform empowers restauranteurs to streamline operations, increase customer loyalty and elevate profitability with the ability to orchestrate their entire operations on one platform. Combined with the reliability of the Oracle MICROS workstations, both independent restaurants and chains have the trusted system they need to support the business they have today and scale to support their future aspirations.

“Technology plays a crucial role in enabling new restaurants to scale and deliver the consistent service that guests expect,” said Chris Adams, vice president of strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. “Consistency of experience can define the trajectory for new restaurants and restaurant management technology is critical to ensuring that service and kitchen operations are in sync. Caractère has been an out of the gate success and we look forward to continuing to work with its talented founders to support their growth.”

Caractère purchased Oracle Food and Beverage in August before opening in October 2018.

Hotel Julian, the highly-anticipated luxury-lifestyle property from Oxford Capital Group, LLC., open to the public since October 2018, offers guests a remixed luxury experience supported by Oracle Hospitality solutions.  

“Hotel Julian embodies the spirit of luxury hospitality and we are excited to provide guests with a unique experience that blends architecture, history and art,” said Ludmila Chervona, Hotel Julian general manager. “With OPERA property management software, we are able to provide guests with curated service that will help establish Hotel Julian as a new landmark property in Chicago.”

Hotel Julian uses Oracle Hospitality OPERA property management software to create a unique experience for guests staying in one of the 218 available rooms. On-property restaurant About Last Knife also features Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 and MICROS Workstations to streamline operations and provide engaging service for diners.

“Hotel guests today are looking for more than the basics–they are looking for an unforgettable experience from the moment they check in through to departure,” said Greg Webb, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Hospitality. “Battle tested at the largest hotel chains in the world, Oracle provides independent operators the technology needed to deliver engaging guest experiences that will drive long-term loyalty.”

Oracle Hospitality OPERA provides a full-featured property management system that enables hoteliers to deliver world-class guest service and increase operational efficiency across the property. In addition, Oracle Hospitality RES 3700, a leading food and beverage management platform, provides enterprise point-of-sale and back-office functionality to support a wide range of food and beverage operations.

Hotel Julian purchased Oracle Hospitality OPERA, RES 3700 and MICROS Hardware in April 2018.

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority ("Cyta"), the leading provider of integrated electronic communications services in Cyprus, has selected the Oracle Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (RODOD) solution to provide a modern, digital business experience for their customers, employees and partners.

Cyta, a semi-governmental organization, provides a wide range of services and facilities for voice and data applications in both fixed and mobile telephony. The company continues to innovate to meet the ever-growing needs of its customers for new value-added content and multimedia services. For example, Cyta recently secured the audio-visual rights to the FA Premier League for Cyprus, for the football seasons 2019-2022.

"We chose Oracle for the breadth, maturity and completeness of its solution, its proven track record of helping CSPs achieve digital transformation, and the continuous innovation being delivered in Oracle Cloud, said Mr Chrysis Phiniotis, Cyta’s CTIO. "As a result, we will be positioned to achieve measurable results in our highest priority areas, including faster offer time to market, shorter cycle times, improved operational efficiencies and improved Net Promoter Scores."

After identifying a wide range of shortcomings in its legacy business support systems (BSS), including slow-time to market for new offers, a fragmented offer design process, and a lack of digital customer engagement, Cyta knew it needed a modern approach. As part of its digital transformation efforts, Cyta will implement Oracle's RODOD solution together with Oracle’s Customer Experience (CX) solution for communications.

With these solutions, the company will be able to quickly introduce new offers, execute agile marketing and sales campaigns, acquire and engage customers with services that are relevant and timely, efficiently deliver and flexibly monetize those services and empower their customers with information, insights and innovations.

"CSPs are recognizing the fast, powerful impact that a digital transformation can have in modernizing front office operations," said Doug Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications. "Cyta employees will be able to provide their customers with a more effective, modern engagement for buying, order delivery, subscription monetization and personalized usage experience."

RODOD is part of Oracle Communications, which provides integrated communications and cloud solutions for Service Providers and Enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journey in a communications-driven world from network evolution to digital business to customer experience. www.oracle.com/communications.

The Oracle Challenger Series announced today that it will be returning to Southern California for two events in early 2019, to be held at the Newport Beach Tennis Club on January 21-27, 2019 and at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on February 25 - March 3, 2019.

The Oracle Challenger Series launched earlier this year with inaugural events in Newport Beach and Indian Wells. Taylor Fritz and Danielle Collins captured the titles in Newport Beach, while Sara Errani and Martin Klizan triumphed in Indian Wells. The Series, which has a mission of providing new opportunities for up-and-coming American tennis players to secure both ranking points and prize money, restarted earlier this year, expanding to include events in Chicago (September 2-9) and now Houston (Nov. 10-18).

The Newport Beach and Indian Wells tournaments will conclude the 2018-2019 Series, and be instrumental in determining which two American male and female players receive wild cards into their respective singles main draws at the 2019 BNP Paribas Open. The two American women and two American men who accumulate the most points over the course of the four events in the Series will be awarded the wild cards into the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined two-week event in the world, held annually at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Last year, Bradley Klahn, Reilly Opelka, Amanda Anisimova and Collins earned the wild cards. Collins and Anisimova made the most of the opportunity as they each reached the Round of 16, the best performances of their professional careers to date.

“Oracle launched the Challenger Series to help more tennis players compete at a high level here in the United States,’’ said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from players and fans, and Oracle is committed to the Series in 2019. Newport Beach and Indian Wells are terrific venues for winter tennis. We’d love to see a big turnout from fans.’’

Each tournament in the Series is a joint ATP Challenger Tour/WTA 125K Series event and pays equal prize money ($150,000 per Tour) for a total of $300,000. All Oracle Challenger Series tournaments are free and open to the public.

For more information about the Oracle Challenger Series, visit oraclechallengerseries.com.

Oracle today announced availability of new bare metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instances to help enterprises run various performance sensitive workloads, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or engineering simulations, in the cloud. These new instances are part of Oracle’s new “Clustered Network,” which gives customers access to a low latency and high bandwidth RDMA network. Oracle now provides large organizations with a complete set of solutions for any high performance computing (HPC) workload, enabling businesses to capitalize on the benefits of modern cloud computing while enjoying performance comparable to on-premises compute clusters at a cost that makes sense for their businesses.

Countless enterprises have considered a transition to the cloud for years for their legacy HPC workloads, but were unable to do so due to the lack of high performant cloud offerings or economics that would make it too expensive to run in the cloud. Organizations have struggled to find a cloud that can support new workload requirements while realizing cost efficiencies and flexibility that meet business goals and overall technology vision. With today’s news, organizations finally have a low-cost path to extend their on-premises HPC workloads to the cloud without sacrificing performance.

“HPC has been underserved in the cloud due to lack of high performance networking (RDMA) and unappealing price/performance. We’ve listened to our customers and over the last few years Oracle has focused on improving high performance bare-metal offerings, such as Clustered Networking, to provide on-premise customers with the options they need to extend their HPC workloads to the cloud,” said Vinay Kumar, vice president, Product Management & Strategy, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Our growing collaboration with trusted vendors helps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure continue to expand and offer the best performance at the lowest cost for the workloads that customers really need to extend into the cloud.”

With Oracle’s Clustered Network offering at the data center level, Oracle has opened up an entirely new set of use-cases and workloads that enterprises can harness the power of cloud computing for, ranging from car crash simulations in automotive and DNA sequencing in healthcare to reservoir simulation for oil exploration. Organizations can now deploy additional use-cases previously out of their reach, such as using data from their Oracle Database and cutting-edge NVIDIA(R) Tesla(R) GPUs to run Neural Network AI training and instantly adding value to their data.

The new offering is powered by high-frequency Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Mellanox’s high performance network interface controllers. For more than 25 years, Oracle and Intel have worked closely to bring innovative, scalable, and secure enterprise-class solutions to its customers. This new addition completes Oracle’s comprehensive set of infrastructure solutions for the full range of both CPU- and NVIDIA GPU-based HPC workloads, providing customers with streamlined and lower cost access to specialized offerings in the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now provides a complete range of HPC workloads, including the only bare metal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering on the market with RDMA.

These new HPC instances with Clustered Networking are offered across Oracle regions in the US and EU at $0.075 per core hour, a 49 percent pay-as-you-go savings compared to other cloud providers on the market.

Additionally, these capabilities will also be expanded for Oracle’s recently announced support for NVIDIA HGX-2 platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Customers will be able to take advantage of clustered networking as part of the next generation of NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, opening up large scale GPU workloads such as AI and deep learning.

“HPC is critical for more use cases, complex workloads, and data-intensive computing than ever before. Access to HPC capabilities in the cloud enables users to do more by extending into the public cloud while providing new HPC and AI users a platform to develop and test new classes of HPC and AI algorithms,” said Lisa Davis, vice president of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Digital Transformation and Scale Solutions. “We are working with Oracle to enable leading HPC offerings that take advantage of the advanced performance, efficiency and scale delivered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors across HPC and AI workloads, all while benefiting from the agility and flexibility of Oracle’s next generation, enterprise-grade cloud offering.”

“As organizations look to ensure they stay ahead of the competition, they are looking for more efficient services to enable higher performing workloads. This requires fast data communication between CPUs, GPUs and storage, in the cloud,” said Michael Kagan, CTO, Mellanox Technologies. “Over the past 10 years we have provided advanced RDMA enabled networking solutions to Oracle for a variety of its products and are pleased to extend this to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help maximize performance and efficiency in the cloud.”

“With the massive explosion of data, you need larger clusters of GPUs to process and train the data being produced. HGX-2 on Oracle is the perfect fit for this problem,” said Ian Buck, vice president of Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA. “HGX-2 on Oracle combines cutting-edge V100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVSwitch along with ability to scale across multiple HGX-2s using Clustered Networking to solve the biggest computing challenges.”

Gonzaga University is using Oracle Cloud to streamline its operations and better serve its student and staff community. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Database Cloud, the University has not only cut costs and reduced complexity but also upgraded to new versions of Ellucian and its ERP system in just seven months—all while improving security and reliability.

Ranked the fourth best regional university in the West for the fourth straight year by U.S. News & World Report, Gonzaga University is an exemplary learning community that educates students for lives of leadership and service for the common good. In keeping with its Catholic, Jesuit, and humanistic heritage and identity, Gonzaga models and expects excellence in academic and professional pursuits and intentionally develops the whole person—intellectually, spiritually, culturally, physically, and emotionally. When an aging IT infrastructure was struggling to support the University’s strategic goals, it knew it needed to rethink its approach.

“Achieving sustainable operations is one of the key tenets in Gonzaga’s strategic plan,” said Darren Owsley, Chief Technology Officer at Gonzaga. “Our existing IT infrastructure on premise would have required significant upgrades to support new technology moving forward as well as the applications that are critical to our operations today. After a competitive bid process, Oracle Cloud was the clear choice for what Gonzaga needed, both in price and performance.”

By moving its core functions to the cloud, Gonzaga was able to eliminate the need for time-consuming configurations and provision new servers in minutes versus weeks. This has dramatically improved efficiency, while also allowing for the acceleration of new projects. And with the ability to easily scale and pay for only the capacity it’s using, Gonzaga now has the cost-effective foundation it needs to grow well into the future. The University is also utilizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for disaster recovery.

“At a recent event, other universities were lamenting about cloud projects that took years,” added Borre Ulrichsen, Chief Information Officer at Gonzaga. “With Oracle, our implementation through to production took mere months. Moreover, I know our database and server infrastructure is being continually upgraded and patched by Oracle, taking the burden off of our limited IT resources. This has allowed us to focus more time on strategic initiatives that better serve our students and staff and continue to help make Gonzaga one of the top universities in the West.”

“Gonzaga was looking for a partner that would provide support every step of the way during its transition to the cloud,” said Kash Iftikhar, vice president of product and strategy, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers the reliability needed – at the lowest cost, and highest performance. We are honored to be working with such a highly-esteemed institution, and helping them focus on their mission, instead of infrastructure.”

Gonzaga was also recognized at OpenWorld 2018 as a winner of the Oracle Excellence Award for Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation, awarded to customers and partners who are using Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to accelerate innovation and drive business transformation by increasing agility, lowering costs and reducing IT complexity.

Severe weather events are increasing in both frequency and intensity. To help keep power available while supporting predictable restoration for millions of affected customers, the top utilities across the globe rely on the performance and dependability of Oracle Utilities Network Management System (NMS).

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, “In 2018 (as of October 9), there have been 11 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States.” Likewise, a study by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) covered in Science Daily, noted that “extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago.”

When emergencies strike, utilities’ grid operations need to effectively respond to unplanned outages, integrate emergency and mutual-aid crews, and get accurate information to customers fast. Built from the ground-up as a fully-integrated outage and distribution management system, NMS gives utility operations teams accurate, timely, and reliable information critical for meeting the challenges of 21st-century grid operations. Today, more than 40 utility customers—including 6 of the top 9 utilities in the U.S.—depend on the industry-leading Oracle NMS platform in their control centers; several of which have the most demanding storm performance requirements in the industry. On the East Coast of the U.S. alone, power can be restored to 19.4 million customers faster thanks to Oracle NMS.

“The past three years has brought a relentless stream of hurricanes and storms, including Matthew, Irma and Michael,” said Josh Stallings, systems & standards manager, Georgia Power Company. “During each, Georgia Power Company was able to rely on Oracle NMS to bring order to an otherwise chaotic situation. In particular with Irma, which resulted in service interruptions for some 1,630,000 customers we had more than 425 concurrent users on NMS, allowing our operations staff to have a single valid source to monitor and understand what specific parts of the electrical distribution system were impacted, as well as validate the current state of various devices and equipment on the distribution system. The software also allowed us to perform meaningful customer communications ranging from broad-scale restoration targets down to event level communication for cases of trouble with repair crews onsite.”

“In Ireland, we are experiencing more extreme weather events each year,” said Robert Power, NMS system manager at ESB Networks. “Storm Darwin was a turning point in February 2014. The development team fully supported us implementing all required enhancement requests identified in the aftermath of this storm. Since going live with Oracle NMS in April 2017, the system has demonstrated exceptional performance for more than 150 users, coordinating and reporting on all outage activity. Hurricane Ophelia was our first real test, however, the intuitive and flexible nature of the application allowed us to configure storm rules, ETRs and UI as needed to reflect our unique user and system requirements to best manage the restoration effort.” 

Based on 30 years of market experience, NMS leverages market-leading outage management technology with distribution management and advanced analytics to empower utilities to maximize grid operation capabilities, shorten outage duration and optimize distribution, all while keeping their customers engaged and informed. NMS reported outstanding performance during the recent hurricane season, which included Florence and Michael. Oracle is now working closely with its utility customers to brace for extreme weather on the horizon this winter, 15 of which serve more than 1 million customer meters each.

“While we previously viewed a catastrophic episode such as Katrina as a once in a lifetime event, they are fast becoming yearly occurrences,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager for Oracle Utilities. “As such, the technology to stabilize the world’s power grids and prepare them for uncharted weather territory needs to be equal parts cutting-edge and battle-tested. Oracle’s field-proven NMS system has enabled our customers to weather the most intense storms, helping maintain and restore power to millions. Utilities have enough to worry about during a major weather event, they will attest that our Network Management System isn’t one of them.”

Providing a “single-pane-of-glass” to maintain efficient grid operations, Oracle NMS presents the information control center operators need to effectively optimize the grid end-to-end from the substation to the end customer. Built on a data-centric, platform-based approach with integrated applications, Oracle NMS delivers unified user access to outage management (OMS), distribution management (DMS), distributed energy resource management (DERMS) as well as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.