As recently as a year ago, if any company in the retail, hospitality or food and beverage industries using Oracle software and hardware wanted to add payment processing, a referral was made to a third-party partner. Oracle customers had to negotiate payment processing rates and gateway services directly with the merchant acquirer. That practice has changed with the creation of Oracle Retail Payment Cloud Service. Oracle has become a payment facilitator in the US for transactions that originate on its Oracle Micros Simphony POS and Xstore POS products. In partnership with Adyen, it will provide...