Performance Architects Achieves Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized Status for Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies

Online, April 17, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Performance Architects, Inc., an Oracle Accelerate partner and a Platinum level member of Oracle® PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced its solution using Oracle Enterprise Performance Management, and that Performance Architects, Inc. has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies. Performance Architects now offers an Oracle Accelerate solution for financial and management reporting and analysis using Oracle Essbase and reporting and analysis tool sets including Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Microsoft Office access and Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, providing customers with multi-dimensional analysis capabilities and improved visibility into their organization's finances, general ledger and other transactional systems.

To achieve a Specialized status, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customer and partner community. By achieving a Specialized distinction, Performance Architects has been recognized by Oracle for its expertise in delivering services specifically around Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies through competency development, business results, and proven success.

"We are proud to have achieved the Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies Specialization as a result of our Oracle Accelerate Enterprise Performance Management offering," said Mark Solimini, Principal at Performance Architects. "Our midsize customers need to have confidence that they are engaging with a successful, dedicated partner who understands the needs of high-growth organizations. Our achievement of this Specialized status demonstrates our dedication to helping midsize customers continue to improve their enterprise performance."

"Performance Architects' achievement of the Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies Specialization shows its team's dedication to the special needs of the midsize organization," said Steve Cox, Vice President, Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies. "We are proud to see that Performance Architects is providing solutions to midsize companies and we look forward to working with Performance Architects on additional Oracle Accelerate solutions for enterprise performance management and business intelligence applications for our customers."

Performance Architects has achieved other Oracle Specializations including Oracle Essbase 11, Oracle Hyperion Planning, and Education and Research (Higher Education). The Performance Architects team has worked with Oracle solutions since the 1990s.

About Oracle Accelerate
Oracle Accelerate is Oracle's partner-driven approach to providing simple to deploy, fast time to benefit solutions to midsize organizations. Oracle Accelerate solutions include Oracle's enterprise-class software delivered with business accelerators by expert implementers. Business accelerators are rapid implementation tools, templates and industry-specific and geography-specific leading practice process flows to help dramatically reduce implementation time, complexity, cost and risk. To find out more visit www.oracle.com/accelerate.

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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