An Oracle partner since September 2005, Business & Decision (B&D) today confirms its global status as integrator, distributor and expert in Oracle technologies. This status is only awarded to Oracle's most eminent partners and reflects B&D's high level of commitment to Oracle. The achievement of this status is in addition to our existing Certified Advantage Partner level in North America, reflecting the truly global capability of the company, one of very few companies with this accreditation. B & D offers a high level of Oracle technological expertise as well as additional services, including support and specialist resourcing. Business & Decision has helped develop Oracle's solutions portfolio and contributed numerous benefits to its customer base.

The partnership relates to all areas of Business & Decision's expertise in addition to Oracle's entire product portfolio:
• EPM/BI (Enterprise Performance Management/Business Intelligence): The initial association with Oracle arose from a long standing and successful partnership with Hyperion. As a result of this association Business & Decision assists Oracle to market business-specific analytical applications, such as BI Apps, and high performance solutions, such as Oracle Exadata.

• CRM (Customer Relationship Management): By drawing upon its experience in both Oracle Siebel CRM and on-demand applications (Software as a Service), Business & Decision collaborates with Oracle to support its efforts to expand Siebel On-Demand across Europe.

• EIM (Enterprise Information Management): During the last few months, thanks to a number of targeted acquisitions, Oracle has developed a broad information management offering. This includes Repositories Management (MDM), Content Management, Portal and Identity Management. Business & Decision's EIM practice provides a range of solutions and skills enabling the adaption of solutions to specific business requirements.

• ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning): Since its acquisition of BnV in Benelux, Business & Decision has accumulated skills in Peoplesoft and JDEdwards solutions, and developed an understanding of the e-Business Suite and its Life Sciences applications. B&D's competency in this area now extends across Europe.

• Management Consulting: Business & Decision supports financial departments by providing consulting services on multi-national financial consolidation and reporting processes (IFRS, US Gaap). The Group has an impressive number of references across Europe, particularly around the delivery of the HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) financial consolidation platform. B&D offers a comprehensive service proposition including change management, migrations management, hosting and operation support.

Today, Business & Decision provides its customers with an extensive range of Oracle skills, through a specialist team exceeding 700 B&D consultants worldwide. The Group has established itself as a leader in the management of large scale projects within specific business sectors. B&D also offers RightDelivery®, assuring the delivery of valued services by dedicated and expert teams.

Business & Decision's Oracle expertise is internationally recognised among market analysts. In a recent Gartner publication the Group was ranked one of the market's main players, both in Europe and in the United States.

About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's leading business software vendor. For more information, please go to http://www.oracle.com/

About Business & Decision
Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and a major player in e-Business, Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Solutions as well as Management Consulting. Business & Decision contributes to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors.
Located in 19 countries, Business & Decision currently employs more than 2700 people worldwide.
Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.com

About Right Delivery®
Through their Right Delivery® offer, Business & Decision provide customers with a unique solution for the delivery of specialised projects using the best operating mode at the lowest possible cost. Right Delivery® is used in BI, CRM, e-Business, EIM, Enterprise Solutions and Management Consulting projects.

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