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  • PureApps win Oracle EMEA Accelerate Partner of the Year 2011 - November 1, 2011



    PureApps are very pleased to announce that on October 2nd at Openworld in San Francisco we won the Oracle EMEA Accelerate Partner of the Year 2011 award.

    The EMEA Partner Specialization Awards, is an annual awards program which recognizes partners’ achievements in delivering customer value and innovation.

    Partner Specialization Awards are open to specialized partners in EMEA who have demonstrated success with specialization and outstanding solution or service innovation.

    Dermot O’Kelly Senior Vice President, Alliances and Channels, Oracle EMEA said:
    “These awards recognise Specialized partners who deliver the highest levels of innovation and customer value. They also enable customers to find and select Oracle’s top performing partners. This year’s winners really demonstrated their contribution to tangible customer success by delivering outstanding Oracle solutions; their results are truly impressive.”


    Jordan Wilson with Dermot O’Kelly collecting our award.

    The nominees were judged by a panel of Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels executives and a renowned team of IDC executives and analysts.

    The Accelerate Partner of the Year

    Criteria
    Recognizes an Oracle Accelerate Partner who has successfully sold and delivered multiple Oracle applications license deals to midsize customers.

    Measurements
    OPN Specializations achieved, % revenue growth, investment in Oracle skills and demand generation, leads/deals per year, new customer references, usage of OBAs (Oracle Business Accelerator tools), and the successful creation and implementation of Oracle Accelerate Solutions.

    To see a video blog by Jordan Wilson detailing what this award means to PureApps please click the following link:

    PureApps Limited, winner of the Oracle EMEA 2011 Accelerate Partner of the Year 2011 with 5 specializations under their belt, delivers BI & EPM solutions for customers. The company believe that the OPN Specialized Program has enabled PureApps to take the leading position in the EPM and BI space

  • Nick Wyatt - Managing Director, Talks with Oracle about BI & EPM Specialization - October 30, 2011

    PureApps Talks with Oracle about BI & EPM Specialization – Nick Wyatt, MD of PureApps discusses the impact specialisations have had on our business and how it relates to clients and prospective clients.

    Ritchie Edwards (WE Channel Director Applications – Oracle EMEA) interviews Nick Wyatt from Pureapps in the UK about specialization with Oracle and also the launch of the first HFM Accelerate solution in the U.K.

  • PureApps Wins Prestigious Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized UK Award - April 21, 2011

    Oracle Recognises PureApps Expertise in Delivering Specialised Oracle Solutions

    LONDON UK – 21st April 2011

    NEWS FACTS

    • Oracle awarded PureApps the Oracle Applications Specialist Partner of the Year 2011 award during its annual Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized UK Awards at The Renaissance Chancery Court, London on March 10.
    • Oracle judges recognised PureApps’ success in delivering innovative solutions and achieving strong customer success using Oracle technology.
    • PureApps was chosen based on excellence in software licensing, full lifecycle implementation, specialised consultants, infrastructure expertise, and support and maintenance delivered via the UK-based PureApps Support & Excellence Centre.
    • PureApps is a Platinum level OPN Specialized member, with specialisations in Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies, Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, and Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation.

    SUPPORTING QUOTES

    • David Callaghan, Senior Vice President, Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel said: “These awards recognise the specialised partners that have consistently delivered high level innovation and excellence in their areas of expertise over the past year. The judging panel believes PureApps has shown commitment to growing its Oracle business, has enhanced skills in its Oracle product line and has shown focus in vertical industries. We’d like to congratulate all partners on their award wins.”

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    • Nick Wyatt, Managing Director, PureApps said: “We’re thrilled to receive this award, which is further recognition for the 100 Group companies we support that PureApps is the right choice for their business. Customers already benefit from the broad range of Specialisations we hold, plus the fact we’ve recently been selected to deliver the UK’s only Approved Education Centre for Oracle Hyperion EPM and BI. Everything we do, every specialisation and accreditation, is 100% focused on giving our customers more. For our customers, PureApps bridges the gap they perceive between the big consultancies on the one hand and the many smaller providers on the other: we not only have the Oracle skills, experience and infrastructure to deliver, but also the personal touch and hands-on approach our customers truly value.”

  • PureApps are the Oracle Applications Partner of the Year 2011! - March 21, 2011

    PureApps are pleased to announce that we are the Oracle Applications Partner of the Year for 2011! PureApps beat multinational “big 4″ and local Partner competition to claim the award on the night.

    Oracle held the Partner Awards 2011 at the Renaissance Chancery Court, London on March the 10th where Managing Director Nick Wyatt collected the award and had this to say “I think receiving this award goes a long way to acknowledging the investment in accreditations that PureApps have made over the last 12 months and I am confident that recently having been announced as Oracle’s Only UK Accredited Education Partner for Hyperion Applications PureApps will continue to be at the forefront of the Partner community for years to come!”

    PureApps have recently become the only Platinum Partner in the UK to be specialised across all Hyperion Applications: HFM, Essbase, Planning and Oracle Business Intelligence as well becoming an Accelerate Partner for Hyperion Financial Management.

  • PureApps make a difference at ICAP charity event. - December 9, 2010


    PureApps Customer ICAP, has once again held it’s 18th annual charity day at their Broadgate office in the City. Notable attendees included HRH Prince William, HRH Prince Harry and Daniel Craig. PureApps made a supporting donation to the event and were proud to attend on the day.

    The 18th annual global Charity Day raised over £12.1 million! Beneficiaries ranged from the Ashinaga Foundation in Tokyo to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in New York; Sweet Louise in Wellington; Operation Smile in Hong Kong; Autistica in the UK and almost 200 other charities worldwide.

    You can find out more about the event and the work it supports here. PureApps provide worldwide Hyperion software support to ICAP.

Webinars

    Seminars

    • Oracle Hyperion Event - Finance Transformation from a customer perspective. - January 11, 2012

      Topic: Oracle Hyperion Event – Finance Transformation from a customer perspective.
      Dates: Thursday 9th February 2012 09:30 am – 13:00 pm
      Location: Oracle City Office, London, EC2M 2RB Map
      Register: Registration link
      Description: You are invited to the following event to hear how 4 organisations have delivered Finance Transformation with PureApps and Oracle Hyperion Solutions. The event will be held at Oracle’s City Office, 1 South Place, London EC2 on 9th February 2012 and will have the following Agenda: The presenting companies names will be confirmed in the new year but we do have the topics confirmed below.

      09:30 – 10:00 Registration
      10:00 – 10:20 Oracle EPM and BI Overview – The Financial Transformation process
      10:20 – 10:40 Improving the Group Financial Close Process
      10:40 – 11:00 Planning for a changing economy – How the EPM complete Solution has enhanced our Business.
      11:00 – 11:20 BREAK
      11:20 – 11:40 Manage Risk and uncertainty with a good Corporate Strategy
      11:40 – 12:00 The benefits of a robust planning solution.
      12:00 – 12:20 Panel discussion and Q&A
      12:20 – 13:00 Lunch

      We expect high numbers of registrations and hence if you wish to reserve a place, please email me back asap. (Note we are limiting attendance to 2 per company at this time.)

      Who Should attend? This event is aimed at anyone with an interest in developing their companies existing performance management systems. We would typically anticipate that HR, Finance and IT decisions makers would be in attendance as well as any other personnel concerned with scalable BI & Hyperion solutions.

    • Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Hands-On Hyperion Planning Workshop - January 11, 2012

      Topic: Hyperion Planning Hands-On Workshop.
      Dates: Morning: Thursday 23rd February 2012 09:15 – 13:30
      Afternoon: Thursday 23rd February 2012 14:00 – 17:00
      Location: Oracle City Office, London, EC2M 2RB Map
      Register: Registration link
      Description: Ensure Accurate Financial Forecasts with Integrated Analytical Capabilities

      Oracle Hyperion Planning is a centralised planning, budgeting and forecasting solution that helps organisations to create accurate forecasts and reduce budgeting and planning cycles by weeks or months.

      Complementary and with out of the box integration to all leading financial management systems including e-business, Peoplesoft, JDE, SAP and others, Oracle Hyperion Planning is quick to implement.

      “Oracle Hyperion Planning enables us to deliver timely, accurate medium- and long-term budget forecasts without the need for additional resources.”— Julie Cave, Finance Systems Manager, Reading Borough Council.

      Register now for one of our complimentary hands-on half-day workshops.

      What you will achieve in this workshop:

      • An understanding of the value and power that Oracle Hyperion Planning can bring to your business
      • Through a set of guided hands-on tutorials, you will be shown how to:
      • Update plan data and add information to support plan requirements
      • Use the built-in Planning process functionality to manage your plan process
      • Amend the plan process to support plan capture and further analysis and communicate this through the enterprise
      • Use graphical reporting, presentation and visualisation tools to rapidly identify trends and glean business insight



      Gain an appreciation of how the Oracle Essbase OLAP Server offers broad support for demanding business intelligence analytics requirements enabling business users to manipulate large data sets to model complex scenarios, forecast outcomes, and perform what-if analyses to identify trends and optimise business results.

      Feedback from past attendees:
      “This was an extremely helpful overview of the functionality”
      “Very useful to have hands-on experience of a new tool”
      “The presenters were very approachable and helpful in answering questions. Gave a good practical overview of the system”

      Who Should attend?
      • Financial planning, budgeting and forecasting managers
      • Financial Controllers who are responsible for Business / Financial Planning
      • Operational planning managers
      • Business analysts
      • MI or BI managers, and heads of BI or MI
      • Users who spend a large proportion of time producing and delivering Excel spreadsheets and reports to business users

    • Get Oracle Certified with PureApps. 2011 Oracle Specialist Partner of the Year