BOSTON, Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagle Investment Systems, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced its Eagle V12.1 solution suite has achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Achieving this status demonstrates that Eagle's suite of middle and back-office financial services solutions has been tested and tuned with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine to help deliver speed, scalability and reliability to clients.

"Eagle's software on Oracle Exadata offers additional scalability options and reliability of the services that Eagle provides to our investment management and financial clients," said Marc Firenze, Eagle's chief technology officer.

"Attaining Oracle Exadata Optimized status complements our Eagle ACCESS^SM private cloud strategy. It is vital we continue to evaluate and implement emerging technologies to continually improve our platform. We believe investment managers utilizing the latest technology from Eagle and Oracle can more efficiently grow their assets."

Recent testing of Eagle V12.1 on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine indicated that the performance of critical workloads improved 2.6 times compared to Eagle's performance lab baseline, without the need for code changes.  Eagle is a Gold-level member in OPN.

Oracle Exadata Optimized is part of the Oracle Exastack Optimized program which allows partners, such as Eagle, to leverage OPN enablement resources and dedicated lab environments to help develop, test and tune their applications on Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SuperCluster engineered systems. Oracle Exadata delivers extreme performance and is the ideal database platform for OLTP applications, data warehouses as well as the varied and unpredictable workloads of cloud computing.  It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure and redundant. Oracle Linux brings the latest Linux innovations to market, offering extreme performance, advanced scalability, and reliability for enterprise applications, and enabling lower costs.*

"Oracle Exastack Optimized recognizes partners who have optimized their solutions on a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure to help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to users," said Chris Baker, senior vice president, Worldwide ISV and OEM Sales, Oracle. "By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status, Eagle has demonstrated its Eagle Suite version 12.1 is tested and tuned to work with Oracle Exadata Database Machine to help deliver optimum performance, scalability, and reliability to its customers."

About the Oracle Exastack Program The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SuperCluster. With an Oracle Exastack Optimized status, partners will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they are supported, and have been tested and tuned with the goal to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SuperCluster and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Eagle Investment SystemsEagle is committed to helping financial institutions worldwide grow assets efficiently with its innovative portfolio management suite of data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions that are delivered over its secure private cloud, Eagle ACCESS^SM. Since 1989, Eagle has deployed trusted solutions and services that create operational efficiencies and help reduce complexity and risk. Eagle Investment Systems LLC is a subsidiary of BNY Mellon. Additional information is available at www.eagleinvsys.com.

About BNY Mellon Asset Servicing BNY Mellon Asset Servicing supports institutional investors in today's fast-evolving markets, safeguarding assets and enhancing the management and administration of client investments through services that process, monitor and measure data from around the world. We leverage our global footprint and local expertise to deliver insight and solutions across every stage of the investment lifecycle.

About BNY Mellon BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. As of June 30, 2013, BNY Mellon had $26.2 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.4 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com, or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon.

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*Some information contained in this press release has been obtained from Oracle and has not been independently verified by Eagle.

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