Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities With UBmatrix, Inc.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:01am EDT

Oracle's EPM System to Help Customers More Effectively and Efficiently Report
Financial Statements in XBRL Format

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts
    --  To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing
        and automatic exchange of financial statements in XBRL (eXtensible
        Business Reporting Language), Oracle will embed UBmatrix, Inc.'s
        leading XBRL technology into Oracle's Enterprise Performance
        Management (EPM) System, Oracle announced today.




Building Upon Robust XBRL Reporting Capabilities
    --  Specifically, organizations relying on components of Oracle's EPM
        System such as Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management for financial
        and statutory reporting will benefit from UBmatrix's Taxonomy
        Designer, XBRL Processing Engine and Report Builder technology through
        the automation of XBRL statement processing helping to ensure
regulatory
        compliance and streamline the filing process.
    --  Oracle's Hyperion performance management applications have long
        supported XBRL as a basic output format via Hyperion Financial
        Reporting.  The UBmatrix technology will help to provide a much deeper
        level of XBRL functionality to organizations.
    --  XBRL is fast becoming the standard for financial information exchange
        and reporting driven by the XBRL standardization programs being
        implemented by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
        (SEC), FDIC and the European Central Banks.  Over 500 organizations in
        27 countries are now participating in XBRL efforts.
    --  According to XBRL.us, the SEC has mandated the use of XBRL for three
        reporting applications:
        --  Public Company Reporting - all public companies must file in XBRL
            format; companies with worldwide public float greater than $5
            billion to comply first starting with period ending June 2009; all
            other large accelerated filers to comply next starting with period
            ending June 2010; all other public companies comply with period
            ending June 2011; and,
        --  Risk Return Summary portion of Mutual Fund Prospectus - mutual
funds
            must begin publishing the risk return summary portion of their
            prospectuses in XBRL format starting January 1, 2011; and,
        --  Credit rating agencies - must begin reporting all ratings actions
            (initial rating, upgrades, downgrades, etc.) in XBRL format
starting
            in August 2009.
    --  Oracle and UBmatrix are also working together to provide enterprise
        class storage and management for XBRL-based information in Oracle(R)
        Database 11g.  Using Oracle Database's XML DB feature,
        organizations can easily and quickly store, access and query their
XBRL
        data.


    --  A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, the Oracle EPM System helps
        organizations achieve management excellence by uniting
category-leading
        Hyperion performance management applications, prebuilt business
        intelligence (BI) applications and BI products, into a complete and
        integrated system for managing and optimizing performance across
        business functions.




Supporting Quotes
    --  "As a leader in financial close, consolidation and reporting,
        we're committed to helping our customers meet the required XBRL
        reporting requirements," said Bill Guilmart, vice president of EPM
        Product Management, Oracle.  "Working with UBmatrix will help
        accelerate our efforts to deliver the most robust XBRL reporting
        capabilities possible to the thousands of Oracle Applications and
        Hyperion customers."


    --  "The adoption of XBRL is a global phenomenon. Integrating UBmatrix
        Inc.'s XBRL products into Oracle's EPM System will facilitate
        integrated XBRL reporting for thousands of organizations and will
extend
        Hyperion's broad footprint in the regulatory reporting
        market," said Sunir Kapoor, President and CEO of UBmatrix and
        Member, XBRL US Board of Directors.  "This approach represents the
        future of how XBRL reporting will be done."




Supporting Resources
    --  About Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Business
Intelligence
    --  Oracle EPM System Brochure
    --  Hyperion Financial Reporting - XBRL Manager Data Sheet
    --  Oracle Blog: Frank Buytendijk
    --  UBmatrix


    --  XBRL International Web Site



About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For
more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at
http://www.oracle.com.

About UBmatrix
UBmatrix, Inc. is the leading provider of XBRL-based information exchange
solutions for global organizations and enterprises, allowing them to more
efficiently and effectively address the challenges of business and financial
information management, exchange, and reporting. XBRL is fast becoming the
standard for financial information exchange and reporting demonstrated by the
XBRL programs being driven by the SEC, FDIC, and the European Central Bank
Supervisors. UBmatrix XBRL solutions increase operational efficiency and
financial transparency, and ensure reporting accuracy and regulatory
compliance. UBmatrix is based in Silicon Valley with development centers in
Bellevue, WA, and New Delhi, India. For further information, visit
www.ubmatrix.com

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SOURCE  Oracle

Eloy Ontiveros of Oracle, +1-650-607-6458, eloy.ontiveros@oracle.com; or Steve
Levine of UBmatrix, +1-650-264-4510 ext. 1107, steve.levine@ubmatrix.com
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