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eWeek, Renee Boucher Ferguson, August 24, 2006

Oracle quietly announced Aug. 23 that it acquired the intellectual property assets of Sigma Dynamics, a company that develops predictive analytics technology.

The terms of the deal were undisclosed.

Sigma Dynamics, based in San Mateo, Calif., has software that combines customer insight and business requirements in real time to make recommendations regarding customer interactions. Applications include real-time offer management, field service optimization, predictive call routing and fraud detection.

The company's applications are built using the same standards-based approach Oracle is touting with its Fusion line of products�Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications, the latter a suite that's expected in 2008. Sigma Dynamics applications use a services-based architecture using J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), XML and Web services standards to collect data in real time using events, according to the company's Web site.

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