Aldata Solution : Aldata Supply Chain Management Achieves Oracle Exadata Optimized Status

Aldata, now part of Symphony EYC, and a global leader in retail and distribution improvement software, today announced it has achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Aldata Supply Chain Management, the company's flagship retail supply chain optimization solution, has been tested and tuned with Oracle Exadata Database Machine to deliver speed, scalability and reliability to customers. Additionally, Aldata Supply Chain Management has been tested and supports Oracle Linux.

Aldata Supply Chain Management provides retailers with a total supply chain solution comprising product data and information management, merchandising/assortments, in-store operations, demand forecasting and replenishment, logistics and distribution and supplier management - all supported by a safety and traceability backbone.

Aldata is a Gold level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork.

"Aldata's retail supply chain optimization solution has been benefiting customers globally for over 25 years. Leveraging the superior performance of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Aldata can now enhance the very high levels of business performance that today's retailers need to operate in an omni-channel world," Donal Mac Daid, Aldata VP Supply Optimization.

Oracle Exadata Optimized is part of the Oracle Exastack Optimized program which allows partners, such as Aldata, to leverage OPN enablement resources and dedicated lab environments to help develop, test and tune their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster engineered systems. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, making it the ideal platform for database consolidation and database clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. Oracle Linux, with its default Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, brings the latest Linux innovations to market, delivering extreme performance, advanced scalability, and reliability for enterprise applications, at a lower cost.

By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status, Oracle recognizes Aldata for developing, testing and tuning Aldata Supply Chain Management on Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Customers can be confident when selecting Aldata Supply Chain Management that it has been tested and tuned to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability.

"Oracle Exadata Optimized recognizes partners who have optimized their solutions on a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure in order to help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to users," said Chris Baker, Senior Vice President, Worldwide ISV and OEM Sales, Oracle. "By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status, Aldata has demonstrated that its Aldata Supply Chain Management solution is tested and tuned to work with Oracle Exadata Database Machine to help deliver optimum performance, scalability, and reliability to their customers."

About the Oracle Exastack Program
The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster. With an Oracle Exastack Optimized status, partners will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they are supported, and have been tested and tuned with the goal to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SPARC SuperCluster and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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