Oracle intros serialisation, pedigree app

Oracle has released Pedigree and Serialisation Manager, which it says will improve supply chain integrity in the pharmaceutical industry, reports CBR Online.

The company claims its new integrated mass-serialisation and pedgiree application offering enables pharmaceutical manufacturers to comply with electronic pedigree (ePedigree) initiatives and regulatory requirements.

According to Oracle, the release will reduce business and reputational risk associated with drug counterfeiting and product diversion. Additionally, the new offering generates, stores, transmits and authenticates drug product serial data and ePedigree data.

Six Indian companies among the 21 award winners bagged iCMG Architecture Excellence Awards, at an event in Bangalore last week, reveals Silicon India.

The awardees were selected from more than 100 nominations for the three different categories - technical, business and enterprise.

Sunil Dutt Jha, chief architect and CEO, iCMG said, "The idea behind the Architecture Excellence Awards is to honour architects and enterprises whose work demonstrates a combination of talent, vision and workmanship which are creating successful and enduring systems and enterprises."

A new study has shown how smaller businesses are becoming more aggressive in their adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, says Outsourcery.

According to the research by Spiceworks, 38% of small and medium-size businesses with fewer than 20 employees use or plan to use cloud solutions, including SaaS, in the next six months.

Meanwhile, 17% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees and 22% of organisations with more than 100 employees plan on doing the same.