Thursday, May 24, 2012

OracleDaily ? Oracle Buys Vitrue

Redwood Shores, CA ? May 23, 2012

News Facts

Oracle announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Vitrue, a leading cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform that enables marketers to centrally create, publish, moderate, manage, measure and report on their social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.

Vitrue?s social media SaaS marketing applications help customers amplify their social community engagement by giving marketers the ability to develop campaigns from global to local, across multiple social networks and devices, and publish content that engages fans and drives leads.

Oracle?s leading sales, service, commerce, social data management and analytics capabilities, combined with Vitrue, are expected to create the most advanced and comprehensive social relationship platform.

The combination is expected to help organizations develop more meaningful customer engagements with consistent brand experiences, improve their return on investment across all channels and media, and enhance customer service through real-time responsiveness and high touch relationships.

Supporting Quotes

?The proliferation of social media and an increased demand by consumers to engage with brands across multiple social channels is driving chief marketing officers to look for an integrated social marketing platform,? said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Development. ?Vitrue?s leading social marketing and engagement platform coupled with Oracle?s leading sales, service, and commerce products offers a complete social experience solution to our customers.?

?The world?s greatest brands have been built by creating meaningful relationships between organizations and their customers," said Reggie Bradford, founder and chief executive officer, Vitrue. ?As a part of Oracle, we can help our customers ensure that consistent high-touch social engagement is delivered across marketing, sales and service interactions.?

Supporting Resources

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.? For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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Contact Info

Carol Sato
Oracle Corporate Communications
+1.650.633.5551
carol.sato@oracle.com

Ken Bond
Oracle Investor Relations
+1.650.607.0349
ken.bond@oracle.com

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