Dear Shareholders,
Oracle Financial Services Software has completed another stellar year.
In the year under review, on a consolidated basis, we delivered a 44
percent increase in net income driven by a 21 percent increase in
license revenue and a 14 percent increase in support revenue. We won
several marquee customer names for our product and service offerings.
Our leadership in the markets we operate in together with our focus on
operational excellence has led to superior performance.
Innovation is the key to our success and we have added new
functionality and features to our existing products and introduced new
products. New releases of Oracle FLEXCUBE added additional modules. In
addition, FLEXCUBE''s existing business functionality that helps bank
manage a wide range of banking activity was enriched to meet the needs
of our focus countries. New releases of Oracle Financial Services
Analytical Applications that address enterprise risk and enterprise
performance management have helped us gain new customers and momentum.
Oracle''s Liquidity Risk Management solution helps financial
institutions identify and assess enterpriseRs.wide liquidity risk under
normal and extreme market conditions, and develop strategies to
effectively bridge liquidity gaps. Oracle Financial Services Data
Warehouse is designed to specifically address the complex and
crossRs.functional analytical challenges of global financial
institutions. Oracle''s Energy and Commodity Trading Compliance solution
automates the surveillance of the trading activity of energy and
commodities market participants.
Our products and services continue to win industry accolades and
recognition. Leading research and advisory firm, Celent, has named
Oracle a leader in core banking sales for 2010. Operational Risk &
Regulation (formerly OpRisk & Compliance) readers once again ranked
Oracle Financial Services Software as a leader for compliance software
based on the publication''s 2010 Annual Compliance Software Survey. The
publication''s readers named Oracle (including Sun) as a leading vendor
across seven of the survey''s eight compliance software categories. No
other vendor achieved this distinction in the 2010 survey. Oracle
Financial Services Software Limited customers, Jibun Bank and United
Bank Limited Pakistan, were honoured with 2010 Model Bank Awards from
industry analyst firm Celent.
Though the global economy is on a firmer footing than it was that in
2008 and 2009, financial institutions are all too aware of the need to
align their management of finance and risk. A recent study conducted by
the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by Oracle Financial
Services titled Transforming the CFO Role in Financial Institutions:
Towards Better Alignment of Risk, Finance and Performance Management
found a positive correlation between greater alignment of risk and
finance functions and financial performance in financial institutions.
Also, several studies have confirmed that because of their fragmented
IT infrastructure many banks were not able to track their overall risk
exposure prior to and during the downturn. Regulatory authorities are
now demanding that banks rectify these gaps and we are uniquely placed
to help banks confront these challenges. The opportunities are exciting
and we look forward to another rewarding year at Oracle Financial
Services Software.
Our employees are our major asset. Their commitment to our mission and
to our customer''s success has been the reason for our Company''s
performance.
Regards,
William T Comfort, Jr.
Chairman
Oracle Financial Services Software Limited
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