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Oracle Buys Opower
Together, Oracle and Opower Will Become the Largest Provider of Mission-Critical Cloud Services to the $2.3 Trillion Utilities Industry
Redwood Shores, Calif.—May 2, 2016
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Opower (NYSE: OPWR), the leading provider of customer engagement and energy efficiency cloud services to utilities, for $10.30 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $532 million, net of Opower’s cash.
Opower’s solutions enable over 100 global utilities, such as PG&E, Exelon and National Grid, to deliver a modern digital customer experience. Opower’s big data platform stores and analyzes over 600 billion meter reads from 60 million utility end customers, enabling utilities to proactively meet regulatory requirements, decrease the cost to serve, and improve customer satisfaction.
"Utilities want modern technology solutions that work together to meet their evolving customer, operational and compliance needs," said Rodger Smith, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit. "Together, Oracle Utilities and Opower will be the largest provider of mission-critical cloud services to utilities."
"The combination will provide the industry with the most modern, complete cloud applications for the entire utility value chain, from meter to grid to end-customers," said Dan Yates, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Opower. "We are excited to join Oracle and to bring even more value to our customers as part of the Oracle Utilities Industry Cloud Platform."
The Board of Directors of Opower has unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in 2016, subject to Opower’s stockholders tendering a majority of Opower’s outstanding shares and derivative securities exercised prior to the closing of the tender offer, certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
More information about this announcement is available at www.oracle.com/opower.
近日，甲骨文(NYSE:ORCL) 宣布签署了一份最终协议，以每股10.30美元现金的价格收购公用事业行业领先的客户互动和能源效率云服务提供商Opower(NYSE: OPWR)。除Opower自有现金之外，该笔交易的价值约为5.32亿美元。
Opower的解决方案协助了全球100多家公用事业公司（例如太平洋煤电公司、爱克斯龙和英国国家电网）创造现代化的数字用户体验。Opower的大数据平台存储并分析着6,000多万家公用事业终端客户的6,000多亿笔电表数据，帮助公用事业的客户主动符合监管要求、降低服务成本和提升顾客满意度。
甲骨文高级副总裁兼甲骨文公用事业全球业务部总经理Rodger Smith说：“公用事业公司希望能获得现代技术解决方案，满足不断变化的客户、运营和合规的需求。甲骨文公用事业部和Opower将成为公用事业领域最大的关键任务型云服务供应商。”
Opower共同创办人兼首席执行官Dan Yates说：“我们双方将为业界提供最现代化和最完整的云应用程序，涵盖从电表和电网一直到终端客户的整个公用事业价值链。我们很高兴加入甲骨文，作为甲骨文公用事业行业云平台的一部分，我们将为客户创造更多价值。”
Opower董事会一致批准了该笔交易，该交易预计将于2016年完成。
如需进一步了解本次收购，请访问www.oracle.com/opower。
