Significantly Enhances Ease of Use for Virtualization Administrators
Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 18, 2012
News Facts
Today, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle VM Server for x86 Release 3.1, the latest release of Oracle’s server virtualization solution designed to support rapid application deployment and simplify data center management from applications to disk.
Enhanced user interface is designed to significantly simplify ease of use for virtualization administrators and help reduce deployment times.
Key new capabilities improve storage availability and backup support and hardware compatibility.
Oracle VM’s Windows drivers (PV 3.0.1) and virtualization implementation have been validated as part of the Microsoft Server Virtualization Vendor Program (SVVP).
Ease of Use Accelerates Virtualization Deployments
The intuitive user interface of Oracle VM 3.1 Manager provides streamlined wizards for easy access to tasks, fast completion of workflows and simple large-scale VM deployments in a Web browser interface.
Enhanced storage configuration capabilities allow external NFS access to virtual machine storage for easy backup. Additionally, iSCSI and Fibrechannel-based storage repositories can now be quickly copied or moved from one cluster and to another, including across a wide area network, to facilitate availability and disaster recovery.
Oracle VM is integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, which are both included as part of an Oracle VM subscription. The combination of Oracle VM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides a complete virtualization and cloud solution at a lower in cost than comparable offerings.
Supporting Quote
"Making it easier to deploy and manage enterprise applications in the data center and cloud is the driver behind Oracle’s application-driven approach to virtualization,” said Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President of Oracle Linux and Virtualization. “Oracle VM 3.1 introduces a number of user interface enhancements designed to improve ease of use for administrators, and storage related features that can increase flexibility when migrating Virtual Machine storage repositories. With this new release, customers should find it significantly easier to manage their applications and virtual environments and at the same time lower their cost.”
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Oracle Unveils Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service Combined with Oracle Fusion CRM in the Cloud
Customer Experience Capabilities Coupled with Sales Force Automation Help Companies Achieve Sustainable Business Growth with Relevant Customer Interactions
Redwood Shores, CA – May 17, 2012
News Facts
The May 2012 release of Oracle’s RightNow CX Cloud Service, the customer experience suite, is now integrated with Oracle Fusion Sales, helping organizations to achieve sustainable business growth through relevant, cross-channel customer interactions that can increase revenue opportunities and drive organizational efficiencies.
Armed with a comprehensive view of all customer interactions across channels, the context and status of these interactions, and an awareness of the customer’s value to the organization, companies can offer more relevant products and services to customers.
Using the combined Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Sales solutions, organizations can increase customer retention, drive higher levels of customer advocacy, and increase sales conversion rates with tools designed to:
Provide a complete, cross-channel view of the customer to sales, marketing and service.
Empower sales and service departments to collaborate to proactively solve customer issues, using opportunities to provide purchase advice at the right time and with the right solutions.
Allow sales to review service history in preparation for sales calls.
Enable agents to understand customer value based upon prior buying habits and existing opportunities.
The combination of Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Sales allows sales and marketing organizations to leverage service interactions from RightNow CX and sales prediction and segmentation capabilities from Fusion Sales. This helps companies to:
Better match products and services to specific customer needs based on customer service history.
Deliver targeted, personalized interactions intended to help customers derive more value from purchases and to inform future buying decisions.
Identify new opportunities to increase deal size and conversion rates.
Supporting Quote
“Every interaction is a relationship opportunity to grow your business. When these interactions are relevant and add value for customers, customers are more likely to trust the relationship and seek purchase advice,” said David Vap, group vice president, Oracle. “This customer trust provides an opportunity to increase customer product adoption and to reduce the cost of customer acquisition, thereby increasing company profitability.”
This document is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract.
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Oracle Says Customers Should Draw Their Own Conclusions on Itanium
Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 16, 2012
Oracle released a letter to Itanium / Oracle customers, which can be read here: http://www.oracle.com/itanium.
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Oracle Introduces Newest Version of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting
New Functionality Enables Insurers to More Seamlessly Manage ISO Electronic Rating Content, Helping to Improve Flexibility and Time-to-Market
ACORD LOMA, Orlando, Fla. – May 15, 2012
News Facts
Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.6, an adaptive, enterprise-wide rating engine for product management, premium calculation and underwriting rules management. The new release is designed to make it easier for insurers to use Insurance Services Office (ISO) standards and incorporate them into their unique rating environments to accelerate time-to-market.
The latest release extends the market-leading product’s capabilities to support ISO Electronic Rating Content (ERC) – content which includes complete and current rating data and rules for all major ISO lines in the United States.
Using the new ISO ERC Accelerator, insurers can import ISO ERC into Oracle Insurance Insbridge. Variables such as input and table variables are automatically created, reducing the amount of manual work required. Insurers can use the ISO definitions as-is or tailor them to meet their specific business needs, getting a jump-start on new product creation and ultimately accelerating time-to-market.
Other new features of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.6 include:
Import/Export 2.0 – Helps reduce production downtime for a new rating release. Insurers can export rating data into a “sandbox” environment where actuaries, underwriters and business analysts can make changes to a product line, collaborate, and test the impact of the new rates – then seamlessly import them into the live environment and put them into production.
Advanced Math Functionality – Enables actuaries, underwriters and rate analysts to create even the most complex rating algorithms to help make an insurer’s offerings more competitive. The new functionality provides a user-friendly environment for rate modeling and testing.
Custom XML Mapping Screen – Designed to improve data accuracy by enabling users to define and store custom XML templates in a central location. Further, insurers can improve productivity by enabling users to reuse the custom XML templates saved in the library for use in mapping from multiple systems such as legacy systems or other rating engines.
Supporting Quotes
“ISO rates can provide a jump-start on creating new products because insurers don’t need to enter loss costs, deductibles and other data from scratch. Yet every insurer wants to keep the ‘secret sauce’ that makes their products unique. This leads to property and casualty insurers spending significant amounts of time and money to maintain and customize ISO rates; every time a new update is issued, the insurer has to manually comb through the circulars and find out where the deviations are. The ability to automatically compare and customize ISO content to an insurer’s specific business needs can greatly accelerate time to market and result in significant savings,” said Karlyn Carnahan, principal analyst, Novarica.
“With Release 4.6, insurers can more seamlessly manage their ISO content. The application’s flexibility also enables them to deviate from ISO and still accept regular ISO updates. The Import/Export 2.0 and Custom XML capabilities further improve the mapping process so insurers can maintain their competitive edge and have the flexibility to do rating their way. By expanding the math functionality, Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting continues to broaden its functionality to provide insurers with a wide variety of tools to help maximize their competitive differentiation,” said Srini Venkatasanthanam, vice president, insurance products, Oracle.
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Oracle Announces Latest Version of Oracle Health Sciences ClearTrial Software
Award-Winning Clinical Trial Operations Software Now Features Enhanced Integration into Business Processes Across the Plan-to-Payment Lifecycle
Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 15, 2011
News Facts
Oracle today announced availability of Oracle Health Sciences ClearTrial 4.6, the latest version of the cloud-based clinical trial operations software developed by ClearTrial, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle.
To deliver a faster, more accurate, and consistent platform for managing clinical trial information across the plan-to-payment lifecycle, the new release includes the following enhancements:
Greater accuracy and consistency through rules-based assignment of department and general ledger codes to clinical study labor tasks and pass-through costs, based on organization-defined parameters – allowing streamlined integration between ClearTrial and financial systems
Increased support for sponsor/CRO collaboration and negotiation by enabling the dynamic generation of a detailed Bid Grid Report, incorporating the specific tasks and outputs based on the study’s unique clinical assumptions – providing a comprehensive framework for the RFP and outsourcing processes.
Expanded capabilities to seamlessly forecast and budget a portfolio of studies by therapeutic area, service provider and development organization with an increased number of possible study scenarios and faster, easier refinement during the portfolio scenario planning process.
Supporting Quotes
“We are proud to deliver another comprehensive product release incorporating extensive industry research and input from our global customer base,” said Andrew Grygiel, chief marketing officer, ClearTrial. “Oracle Health Sciences ClearTrial 4.6 expands the breadth and depth of the software’s capabilities, further enabling biopharmaceutical and medical device companies to streamline clinical development from plan to payment.”
“This announcement reinforces our commitment to maintaining the release schedule and continuing development of the recently acquired ClearTrial solutions, which are an ideal complement to the broad range of Oracle Health Sciences software that helps life sciences companies reduce the cost of clinical trials while accelerating their execution and improving their outcomes,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences.
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Social Media Users Expect Rapid Live Help, According to Consumer Report from Oracle
Study Shows Consumers Prefer to Reach Customer Service Online
Redwood Shores, Calif. – May 14, 2012
News Facts
Oracle today released the results of its “Consumer Views of Live Help Online 2012” report, which surveyed more than 3,000 consumers worldwide regarding their use of customer service channels including call centers, live chat, click-to-call and email.
Compared with a similar survey conducted in 2009, consumers go online more frequently, are more likely to use Live Help and have higher expectations for customer service via social media and Web sites.
Key Findings
Social media users expect rapid response: More than half of Twitter users worldwide expect a personal response within two hours of tweeting a question or complaint and 51 percent of Facebook users expect a same-day response to questions or complaints posted via the social media site.
As consumers spend more time online, they rely more on Live Help: Half of consumers worldwide browse and research products online daily, nearly double the number reporting daily habits in 2009. Consumer use of online customer service is also on the rise, as 50 percent of consumers use of Live Help compared with 37 percent in 2009.
In China, consumer use of online support jumps dramatically: 76 percent of Chinese consumers are online daily to browse or research products (vs. 49 percent worldwide) and 60 percent say they use Live Help to reach customer service (vs. 50 percent worldwide).
Latin American consumers are most likely to expect a social media presence: 84 percent of consumers surveyed in Mexico and Brazil use Facebook and 63 percent of those using Facebook said they expect companies to have a presence there.
Consistent with findings in 2009, Live Help remains among the three most important features consumers expect to find at a company’s Web site, along with detailed information about products and services and access to personal account information.
Supporting Quotes
“As consumers frequent online sites more than ever, they expect to engage with companies’ customer service representatives while they are there,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail. “Whether the customer visits the company’s commerce site or social media page, there must be a clear link to a customer service person that is informed and able to help.”
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and commerce channels. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/goto/retail
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About Oracle in Industries
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These products provide users access to their personal desktop computing environment, enterprise applications and data without being tied to a particular physical client device, delivering benefits such as greater mobility, data security, and easier, centralized administration.
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 and Sun Ray Software 5.3 provide up to 720p High Definition (HD) video playback on Oracle Sun Ray thin client devices, for a richer user experience.
New security features including support for 802.1x identity-based network authentication enhance security.
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 delivers expanded storage options, allowing customers to choose from a wide variety of Oracle and third party storage solutions.
Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1 introduces the ability to copy and paste between local applications on the client device and remote virtual desktops, new HD multimedia capabilities, and enhanced integration of smart card authentication.
Richer User Experience, Enhanced Security and Expanded Storage Options
Key improvements in both Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.4 and Sun Ray Software 5.3 server software include:
Broader range of storage options: In addition to taking advantage of integration with the industry-leading performance and analytical capabilities of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 now enables support for local storage and third-party storage solutions, giving customers a variety of storage choices when designing deployments or leveraging their existing storage investments.
Easier management scalability: The new Global VDI Centers feature in Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 allows the creation of multiple, independently administered VDI deployments that automatically direct users to the proper server group on login.
Key improvements for Sun Ray 3 Series Clients and PCs running the new Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1 software include:
Richer user experience: Improvements to multimedia acceleration enhance the desktop user experience. New features include acceleration of Adobe Flash and Windows Media Player on the Sun Ray 3 Series Client devices and 720p HD quality video on Sun Ray 3 Plus Clients and PCs with Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1.
Smarter hot-desking: New user location awareness features enable applications to provide dynamic capabilities such as follow-me-printing and help ensure more secure access to applications. New auto-resizing features automatically adapt the user’s virtual desktop display size when moving between devices.
Enhanced smart card support: Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Sun Ray Software now support the Extended Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) standard for smart cards that allows larger amounts of information to be stored on smartcards and exchanged with applications, for greater user functionality.
Increased security: Sun Ray 3 Series Clients now support more sophisticated authentication to the network using 802.1X Extensible Authentication Protocols to allow matching of the network address of the device to the identity of the user prior to access authorization.
Enhanced USB support for Sun Ray 3 Series Clients: Delivers up to five times faster USB mass storage performance and provides access to a broader range of USB devices.
Supporting Quote
"Oracle is the only company that offers everything needed for a complete desktop virtualization solution––hardware and software,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. “With our continued product enhancements, Oracle’s desktop virtualization solution is making it easier and more cost-effective for IT to deliver centrally managed, secure services for end user desktops and provide access to enterprise applications from a wider variety of locations and devices.”
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Available through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), and in some locations Oracle Consulting, Oracle Business Accelerators are powerful, easy-to-use, rapid implementation tools, templates and wizards developed by Oracle to achieve faster time to benefit and improved return on investment (ROI).
Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications provide a structured and guided approach to deploying Oracle’s Business Intelligence Applications with pre-built integrations and comprehensive analytics reporting functionality that enable rapid deployment and reduced implementation risk.
The new Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications enable companies to rapidly connect Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12 through 12.1.3 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 and 9.1 transaction systems to the Oracle Business Intelligence dashboards.
The Oracle Business Accelerators configure the data warehouse based on the company’s industry leading business flows mapped to the analytics dashboards.
For example, customers can now track key business metrics and analytics across their order-to-cash business flow processes.
Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications help expedite delivery of the following out-of-the-box benefits of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications:
Over 1,500 Business Metrics in 17 interactive dashboards across 36 industry leading business flows are available for Oracle E-Business Suite decision makers. These include comprehensive Financials, Procurement and Spend, Supply Chain and Order Management, and Projects analytics capabilities.
Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne decision makers can now benefit from more than 700 Business Metrics in nine dashboards across 15 industry leading business flows covering Financials and Supply Chain and Order Management.
Supporting Quotes
“Oracle Business Accelerators help Ndevr deliver ideal business intelligence solutions to our customers that are simple to deploy and help enable a fast return on investment,” said Maureen Clifford, CEO, Ndevr. “By utilizing Oracle Business Accelerators to implement business intelligence applications, we feel confident that our customers can be ready to tackle and solve difficult business problems.”
“Oracle Business Accelerators for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications deliver world-class functionality to Oracle E-Business Suite customers, providing fast implementations, low total cost of ownership and a real return on investment,” said Haider Tirmizi, CEO, AbbuSys. “AbbuSys has worked with Oracle to offer these solutions to power midsize enterprises with the real-time data and cross operational visibility needed to improve decision-making capabilities. With Oracle Business Accelerators, we feel confident that our customers are prepared to succeed in increasingly complex business scenarios."
“Oracle Business Accelerators help reduce implementation discovery, setup and testing project phases,” said Mark Keever, group vice president, Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies. “Now, with new functionality for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, CFOs and other decision making executives at midsize companies can quickly gain access to over 1,500 key business metrics directly connected to end-to-end business flows, achieving a significant reduction in setup and configuration time to obtain out of the box business intelligence dashboards. These capabilities provide executives with the intelligent decision-making tools that are the foundation of every growing, successful business.”
Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications are built upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go to www.oracle.com/applications.
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Oracle Spatial, an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, provides advanced capabilities to support geospatial applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems.
Achieving a Specialized status differentiates partners in the marketplace for their proven expertise and customer success in Oracle Spatial and for delivering value-added spatial and mapping solutions to customers’ Oracle applications.
The Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial User Conference 2012, hosted by Directions Magazine in Washington, DC on May 22-23, 2012, is the premier event for customers and partners on enterprise geospatial and location trends and technologies.
Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial User Conference 2012
At the Location Intelligence and Oracle Spatial User Conference 2012, systems integrators and technology vendors can learn more about Oracle Spatial Specialization and gain valuable business and technical insights on integrating spatial technology into business applications.
The event will also provide a unique opportunity for senior executives to network and get a comprehensive view of enterprise geospatial cloud computing, GEOINT, cyber security and open standards.
The synergies of the two events will focus on the intersection of location-based technology, business intelligence and analytics in leading industries including defense, federal, public sector, utilities and retail.
Keynotes and panels include Oracle executives:
Peter Doolan, Vice President and CTO, Public Sector
James Steiner, Vice President, Server Technologies
Pat Sack, Vice President and CTO, National Security Group
“Location has become integral to a broad array of standard business processes and applications such as business intelligence, in addition to traditional geospatial systems,” said James Steiner, Vice President, Server Technologies, Oracle. “The ecosystem of systems integrators and vendors delivering Oracle Spatial based solutions has grown tremendously as a result. The new Specialization provides customers with trusted guidance toward solutions providers with the best expertise.”
Nick Kritikos, Vice President, Partner Enablement, Oracle added, “Through the tools and resources provided with an OPN Specialization, partners can gain increased visibility and become more competitive. The new Oracle Spatial Specialization adds another technology area, allowing current and new partners to expand their reach into this vital and growing market.”
“We are excited to collaborate with Oracle on two premier events covering trends and technologies in the location intelligence space. Thought leaders and technology experts will highlight trends, and deliver tutorials on cloud computing, spatial data management, ‘big data’ and geospatial analytics. The event will enable end users and solutions providers – from the DC area and globally – to learn how to deploy innovative applications that deliver value and ROI,” said Joe Francica, editor in chief and vice publisher of Directions Magazine. “Bringing together some of the best thought leaders in the industry provides attendees a comprehensive view showing the real advantages that come when using enterprise, location enabled services.”
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’s 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.
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Learn the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications through presentations and hands-on labs demonstrating innovative and performance-enhancing methods. Oracle database application development experts will answer your questions via real-time moderated chat. Enjoy post-event benefits such as advanced lab content downloads.
Americas - Tuesday May 15th, 2012
9:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm BRT
Customers and partners who have excelled at driving business value and innovation with Oracle solutions are invited to submit their success stories for consideration.
The 2012 awards consist of the following categories, including new categories for C-level line of business executives, database administrators, and Oracle partners:
CIO of the Year—Recognizes outstanding performance and vision in the role of chief information officer of an enterprise that uses Oracle products and services.
Database Administrator of the Year—Honors an individual who demonstrates excellent technical ability and superior knowledge of the Oracle database and Oracle engineered systems within their organizations.
Data Warehouse Leader of the Year—Acknowledges an individual who demonstrates excellent technical ability and superior knowledge of Oracle data warehouse technologies, and consistently applies best practices while demonstrating leadership.
Eco-Enterprise Innovation—Recognizes select customers and their partners for the customer's use of any Oracle product(s) to reduce their environmental footprint while reducing costs and improving business efficiencies using green business practices. Customers or their partners can submit a nomination. Winners are selected based on the extent of their environmental impact, as well as the business efficiencies they achieved through their use of Oracle products.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation—Awards Oracle customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Winners are selected based on the uniqueness of their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation, and the originality of architecture.
Oracle Leadership—Celebrates Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs), Chief Marketing Officer (CMOs), and Chief Operating Officers (COOs) worldwide who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and technology vision in the successful deployment of Oracle solutions to simplify IT, power innovation, and drive transformational change in their respective lines of business or organizations. The annual awards honor individual achievement in the following categories: finance, human capital management, marketing, and supply chain management.
Proactive Support Champion of the Year—Acknowledges Oracle customers and partners for driving adoption of proactive tools and resources within their company. Winners are selected based on their usage of proactive capabilities and how it has benefited their organizations.
Specialized Partner of the Year (Global)—Honors global Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized partners excelling in six categories, including database, middleware, applications, industry, server and storage systems, and Oracle-on-Oracle.
Technologist of the Year Awards—Recognizes individuals in key roles for their extraordinary efforts and contributions to enterprise technology solutions.
The awards will be reviewed by a panel of judges recruited from Oracle’s independent users group communities around the world.
Striving for success is what drives Oracle and its customers and partners to continually discover innovative uses for Oracle technology and to deploy successful and ground-breaking solutions and best practices. The Oracle Excellence Award recognizes customers and partners that have excelled in driving business value together with Oracle in eleven different award categories. Full details are available on our Website.
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Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange @ OpenWorld will provide partners with a program-specific keynote and new deep dive sessions, further enabling partners to grow and succeed with Oracle.
At the event, Oracle executives will provide insight into Oracle’s strategic priorities for the current year and how to further differentiate and expand their business with Oracle’s extensive application-to-disk technology portfolio.
With over 30 partner-focused educational sessions throughout the week, partners will have exclusive access to Oracle’s top experts, as well as customers and fellow partners.
The conference will also help partners take advantage of OPN enablement resources, including the ability to complete onsite OPN Specialized testing.
Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange @ OpenWorld will kick off on Sunday, September 30th with a keynote dedicated to partners, featuring leading Oracle executives, including Judson Althoff, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances & Channels and Embedded Sales.
Following the keynote, regional Oracle Alliances and Channels team members will meet with partners from around the world to discuss opportunities and challenges unique to each region: Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Japan, Latin America, and North America.
The Oracle PartnerNetwork Lounge will be available to partners throughout the week. The lounge will include meeting spaces, demo kiosks, OPN information stations, and a special area for blogging/video blogging in the OPN Video Blogging Room, as well as opportunities to network with colleagues, customers, prospects, and other industry professionals.
• Over 450 partners will be exhibiting in Moscone West and South. Five Partner Pavilions will enable partners to showcase their expertise and Specialized solutions based on Oracle technology in the following areas:
Oracle CRM Pavilion: Showcases how partners are delivering proven, integrated solutions that drive customer success and help organizations extend their investments in Oracle CRM.
Oracle Hyperion Pavilion: This track will provide an update on Oracle's Hyperion performance management applications and demonstrate how partners are working with customers to drive better business value with Oracle Hyperion solutions.
JD Edwards Pavilion: The JD Edwards track will provide an opportunity for users to learn about partner product solutions that complement and enhance their Oracle’s JD Edwards portfolio.
Oracle Linux Pavilion: Enables partners to demonstrate their Linux-based solutions and service offerings – delivering customers unmatched scalability and performance.
Retail Row Pavilion: Demonstrates how Oracle and partners are working together to deliver an integrated retail experience for customers across their traditional, mobile and social channels.
Supporting Quote
“We are excited to unveil Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange @ OpenWorld,” said Lydia Smyers, Vice President, Worldwide Alliances & Channels Programs & Communications, Oracle. “The event will feature the same great content and networking opportunities as previous years, but will also provide an enhanced week of programming and sessions created to further expand opportunities for our valued partner community. We have no doubt that our partners will benefit from Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange and we look forward to sharing the experience.”
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’s 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 Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Solution Helps Automate the Currency Transaction Reporting (CTR) Process, Support New Electronic Filing Requirements and Provide a Complete and Holistic View of CTR Compliance
The new solution enables banks to consolidate and streamline cash transaction processing, and generate and file electronic CTR reports using a single, enterprise-wide platform. Banks also gain a 360-degree view of all daily cash activities to help support compliance and improve reporting efficiency.
Using Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting, banks can automatically and accurately consolidate the entire CTR process -- from teller entry through automated aggregation and generation of CTRs, to logging of monetary instruments for record-keeping and managing exemptions, through generation and filing of required e-file reports.
Together, Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting and Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting Analytics enable banks to actively assess cash activity, monitor CTR metrics, and productivity, as well as determine historical trends to prevent future compliance issues. The solutions also support quicker reporting for electronic and internal reporting across the enterprise.
Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting and Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting Analytics are offered on Oracle’s Financial Crime and Compliance Management platform.
Supporting Quotes
“The onus to comply with new FinCEN electronic CTR filing requirements by March 31, 2013 weighs on financial services organizations as they consider their options,” said S. Ramakrishnan, group vice president and general manager, Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications. “Oracle Financial Services Currency Transaction Reporting enables banks to manage the entire reporting process -- from teller entry through electronic submission -- from a single platform, streamlining compliance while delivering important insight into all daily cash activity, as well as historical trends that can drive process improvements and reduce risk.”evolving market needs, while helping our clients reduce transportation costs, improve service and increase asset utilization.”
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
About Oracle in Industries
Oracle industry solutions leverage the company’s best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to financial services, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.
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The Oracle Java teams have delivered update releases for Java SE and Java FX.
Java SE 7 Update 4
This is the first time Oracle is delivering both the JDK and JavaFX SDK for Mac OS X
Oracle has continued to work on merging JRockit and HotSpot JVMs to leverage the best features in each.
Java SE 7 Update 4 features includes the next-generation Garbage Collection algorithm Garbage First (G1).
New JVM (Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, version 23) features JRockit JVM feature convergence. Some of the value-add features of the JRockit JVM are re-implemented in the HotSpot JVM.
Java SE 7 Update 4 is the first consumer release of the Java 7 JRE that will be made available as the default version on Java.com.
Java FX
The JavaFX 2.1 release includes the JavaFX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. The JavaFX SDK provides the tools and technologies for developing JavaFX applications with these new features:
Playback support for digital media stored in the MPEG-4 multimedia container format containing H.264/AVC video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio.
New Webview support for JavaScript to Java method calls, which allows a user to render HTML/JavaScript and let JavaScript (in WebView) make calls to Java APIs to offload specific operations to Java.
The JavaFX 2.1 release adds the ability to use Windows-style LCD sub-pixel rendering. All the JavaFX UI controls will be LCD-text enabled by default on Windows, as will WebView, the Webkit-based node for rendering Web content. Applications can also opt-in to use LCD text on the low-level scenegraph text node by a new API.
Additional user interface enhancements in JavaFX 2.1 include: controls for combo box, stacked chart and application-wide menu bar.
JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0 Early Access - a visual layout tool for the JavaFX platform. The JavaFX Scene Builder enables designing UI screens by simply dragging and positioning objects.
New Release of Oracle WebCenter Sites Enables Organizations to Transform Online Experiences, Increasing Customer Acquisition, Brand Loyalty and Business Success
Redwood Shores, CA – May 1, 2012
News Facts
To help organizations transform the online experiences they can offer to their customers, Oracle today announced a new release of Oracle WebCenter Sites.
The new release of Oracle WebCenter Sites helps organizations drive customer acquisition and brand loyalty by simplifying the creation, management and optimization of interactive and social experiences.
Oracle WebCenter Sites is a best-in-class web experience management solution that is part of Oracle WebCenter. Oracle WebCenter offers capabilities for engaging customers and enabling and empowering employees and partners, including web experience management, portals, enterprise content management and enterprise social collaboration technology.
Driving Business Success with Online Customer Engagement
The new release of Oracle WebCenter Sites includes features that help organizations optimize customer engagement via web, mobile and social channels.
New authoring capabilities include:
A new business-user web site authoring environment that provides a modern interface with intuitive tools and drag-and-drop capabilities that fit the way marketers and line-of-business teams work today.
Rich search functionality and visual search results that simplify the authoring experience by making it easy for users to locate the content they wish to use, and place it into the context of the webpage.
Social login, social sharing and user-generated content enhancements include:
Out-of-the box integration with more than 20 social networks, including Facebook Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google, which removes barriers to site visitor registration and facilitates social interaction by enabling visitor authentication based on social network credentials.
The integrations also provide social sharing capabilities that help organizations extend the reach of their brands and promote engagement by making it easy for site visitors to automatically disseminate site content of interest to their Facebook page, Twitter feed, or more than 20 other social networks.
New user-generated content (UGC) capabilities that make it quick and easy for marketers to create and deploy polls on their websites or add new ratings widgets such as Thumbs Up/Down, Like It or Recommend, and more. These additions complement an already strong offering in the product for UGC including comments, ratings, reviews, and blogs, all with leading enterprise moderation capabilities.
Supporting Quotes
“Acquiring new customers and sustaining their loyalty over the long term is increasingly dependent upon an organization’s ability to deliver rich and engaging online customer experiences,” said Kumar Vora, senior vice president, Product Development, Oracle WebCenter. “With the new release of Oracle WebCenter Sites, Oracle is putting powerful tools in the hands of business users and marketers for creating online experiences that are relevant, social and interactive for site visitors. Oracle WebCenter continues to lead the way in helping organizations to engage customers and empower their business through its combination of web experience management, enterprise content management, portal and collaboration technologies.”
“Our web site is the heart of our business,” said Blane Nelson, systems architect, Ancestry.com. “The latest enhancements to Oracle WebCenter will make it easier for our business to deliver an engaging and interactive experience for our customers that we hope will exceed their expectations and keep them coming back to make more discoveries in their family’s history.”
“As the web becomes a core aspect of an organization’s business strategy, marketers increasingly need tools that help them use the web to engage customers with targeted and social experiences that reach from the company’s web presence to the social networks on which individuals choose to spend their time,” said Melissa Webster, vice president, Content and Digital Media Technologies, IDC.
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.
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Oracle Announces Availability of Advanced Metering Infrastructure Vendor Adapters for Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway
Redwood Shores, California – May 1, 2011
News Facts
Oracle announced the availability of several advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) vendor adapters for Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway. These adapters provide utilities with a simplified link between smart grid devices and the applications that use their data.
Using Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway and a vendor adapter can create a central interface point between AMI head-end systems and a variety of other applications such as meter data management, customer care and billing, and network management systems.
This unified approach allows utilities to quickly connect multi-vendor solutions without requiring complex integration efforts. As a result, utilities can reduce total cost of ownership and more efficiently implement their smart grid initiatives.
The adapters handle the most common AMI processes including remote connect/disconnect, meter ping, and on-demand reads. They can also be extended, in concert with Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway, to support additional devices or commands.
The available adapters include:
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Adapter for Echelon
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway MV-90 Adapter for Itron
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Adapter for Landis+Gyr
Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Adapter for Sensus RNI
Oracle will soon release Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Adapter for Silver Spring Networks.
Supporting Quotes
“As the smart grid evolves, utilities will gather an ever-increasing volume of data from a growing list of devices. Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway and its AMI vendor adapters provide a single point of connection linking devices to the applications that need their data. This enables utilities to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of enhancing smart grids with new devices, data streams and business processes. A simplified connection also decreases data duplication, fosters application interoperability, and bolsters the security and auditability of smart grid processes,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.
Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware, database technologies, as well as servers and storage. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
About Oracle Industries
Oracle industry solutions leverage the company's best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to utilities, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.
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Oracle Announces Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service
New Out-of-the-Box Solution Helps Utilities Deliver 24/7 Customer Self Service with Greater Efficiencies and Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Redwood Shores, California – May 1, 2011
News Facts
Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service, a new Web self-service platform that helps utilities give their customers online options for paying bills, requesting service, and reducing costs.
Unlike traditional custom-built Web portals, Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service provides utilities with out-of-the-box access to many powerful Web self-service features, including:
Account and Security Management – Provides robust account and security management across self-service modules and enables customers to manage registration, passwords, alerts, notifications and more.
Billing and Payment Management– Enables utilities’ customers to more easily manage financial transactions. For example, customers can view their bill and payment histories and service charges to date. They can review their consumption history and compare different rate plan options. Customers can also manage electronic billing, including one-time payments and recurring payments, as well as request payment arrangements.
Customer Service Management– Provides an online venue for customers to interact with their utility. For example, customers can request start, stop or transfer of service; view detailed service usage and costs; report outages; and view outage maps and estimated restoration times.
The Oracle solution enables utilities to quickly build a new portal or supplement an existing one. Web content is accessible through desktop, laptop and mobile browsers.
Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service reduces utilities’ total cost of ownership for Web self-service. Customers can access a lower-cost support channel that is always available. Further, utilities can reduce maintenance costs by easily deploying updates and new features that become available, without breaking the existing Web portal.
Supporting Quotes
“Not long ago, utilities communicated once a month with their customers in the form of a mailed paper bill. Today’s customers expect self-service access, anytime, to a wide variety of features on their utility’s Web site. Utilities have responded largely by building expensive custom portals inside their sites, which may not meet customer needs. Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service enables utilities to provide customers with 24/7 access to information and services that will strengthen the relationship between utilities and their customers,” said Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.
Oracle Utilities delivers proven software applications that help utilities of all types and sizes achieve competitive advantage, business performance excellence and a lower total cost of technology ownership. Oracle Utilities integrates industry-specific customer care and billing, network management, work and asset management, mobile workforce management and meter data management applications with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, middleware, database technologies, as well as servers and storage. The software enables customers to adapt more nimbly to market deregulation, meet ever-evolving customer demands and deliver on environmental conservation commitments. Additionally, Oracle Utilities helps utilities prepare for smart metering and smart grid initiatives that enhance efficiency and provide critical intelligence metrics that can help drive more-informed energy and water usage decisions for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.oracle.com/goto/utilities.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
About Oracle Industries
Oracle industry solutions leverage the company's best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to utilities, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.
Trademarks
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Oracle is again the #1 vendor in the Application Server category with a market share of 43.1% based on revenue, according to the most recent Gartner "Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide 2011" report.
With a strong growth rate of 18.4%, higher even than in 2010, Oracle continues to lead the application server category with a total market share (based on revenue) greater than the next three competitors combined and almost 10 points higher than its nearest competitor.
SAP® Applications Certified for Oracle SPARC SuperCluster
Pre-Integrated Engineered System Enables SAP Customers to Consolidate on a Single System, Speed Deployments, Improve Efficiency and Performance
Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 30, 2012
News Facts
Oracle today announced SAP® applications are now certified for use with the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general-purpose engineered system designed for maximum simplicity, efficiency, reliability and performance.
SAP infrastructure and applications based on the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 6.4 and above and certified with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, such as the SAP ERP application and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, can now be deployed using the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.
The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 provides an optimized platform for SAP environments that can reduce configuration times by up to 75 percent (1), reduce operating costs up to 50 percent(2), can improve query performance by up to 10x(3), and can improve daily data loading up to 4x(4).
SPARC SuperCluster Delivers Pre-Integrated Infrastructure for SAP Applications
With the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, customers can:
Consolidate and Simplify – SAP applications, central services and the Oracle Database can be run securely and efficiently on a single engineered system to greatly simplify deployment, management and service of their SAP infrastructure. With its built-in virtualization and high availability capabilities, up to 4TB of memory and up to 10x database storage compression, the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 can scale to support the largest centralized deployments.
Speed Deployments and Reduce Cost – The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 provides hardware and software engineered to work together, which is designed to simplify and accelerate application deployment and systems management. Operating system, virtualization and systems management via Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c are included at no extra cost with Oracle Premier Support services.
Improve Performance and Productivity – Optimized hardware and software - including Oracle Exadata which provides up to 1,000,000 Database Flash IOPS and up to 32 GB/s query throughput – can radically accelerate business queries, reporting, and analysis enabling more informed business decisions. Factory integrated components and comprehensive systems management tools can reduce administrative overhead, helping to free up IT resources.
Supporting Quote
“The Oracle SPARC SuperCluster is an ideal platform for consolidating SAP applications and infrastructure,” said Ganesh Ramamurthy, vice president of engineering, Oracle. “Because the SPARC SuperCluster is a pre-integrated engineered system, it enables data center managers to dramatically reduce their time-to-production for SAP applications to a fraction of what a build-it-yourself approach requires and radically cuts operating and maintenance costs.”
The Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is the world’s fastest general purpose engineered system, delivering high performance, availability, scalability and security to support and consolidate multi-tier enterprise applications with web, database and application components. The SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 combines Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 servers running Oracle Solaris 11 with the database optimization of Oracle Exadata, the accelerated processing of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud software, and the high throughput and availability of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance all on a high speed InfiniBand backplane. Part of Oracle’s engineered systems family, the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 demonstrates Oracle’s unique ability to innovate and optimize at every layer of technology to simplify data center operations, drive down costs, and accelerate business innovation.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Footnotes
(1) Comparison based on individual components of SPARC SuperCluster sold separately.
(2) System comparison based on two Sun Fire E25K servers with 288 cores and EMC VMax SE with 87 TB storage capacity versus one SPARC SuperCluster half rack. The software licensed for these systems is based on number of cores and multipliers including Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
(3) System comparison based on Sun Fire E6900 and SPARC T3 servers versus one SPARC SuperCluster half rack.
(4) System comparison based on one SPARC Enterprise M9000-32 and EMC2 DMX versus one SPARC SuperCluster half rack.
What Oracle Partners are Saying about Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers and Oracle Solaris
April 30, 2012
BGH – Specialized, Platinum level member in OPN and Systems Integrator in Latin America
“The latest innovations in Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers including Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enable us to give customers better performance and server utilization with less complexity and cost. That is a win for our customer and a win for us.”
- Pablo Gutierrez, Business Development Manager, BGH
Frontline Systems Australia – Gold level OPN partner with 2 Specializations in Oracle Solaris
“Oracle’s SPARC T-Series Server product line and Oracle Solaris combined with our specialized Oracle implementation expertise helps customers achieve the scalability and high performance they require to remain competitive.”
- Bill Frangeskakis, General Manager, Frontline Systems Australia
InfoVista – Gold level OPN member and ISV based in EMEA
“As a leading provider of service performance assurance and optimization software solutions for IP-based network and application services, Oracle Solaris continues to be critical to the success of our business. With Oracle Solaris 11, we have measured strong memory performance increases for both Java applications and the Oracle Database. We have also successfully tested Oracle Solaris 11 on Oracle’s new SPARC T4-4 Server and our central storage and consolidation layer, based on Oracle Database 11GR2, has shown major performance increases. In addition, we have successfully tested vertical scalability through Oracle Solaris Zones and found deployment and administrations have been tremendously simplified in Oracle Solaris 11. Last but not least, our applications are storage I/O intensive and we have improved our performances thanks to ZFS on hybrid storage pools and mechanisms such as LogBias, ZIL and L2ARC.”
- Michel Schuster, Systems Architect, InfoVista
Keste – Platinum level member in OPN and Systems Integrator in North America with multiple Specializations
“Keste provides implementation services for many Oracle products and we are using the SPARC T4 server line to give our customers excellent performance, stability, and scalability while minimizing costs of licensing. Keste is also looking at SPARC T4 Servers and Oracle Solaris as a scalable consolidation platform to virtualize the large number of applications still running on legacy Sun platforms at our clients.”
- David Cocking, Systems Consultant, Keste
Maplesoft Group – Canadian Systems Integrator and Platinum level member in OPN with multiple Specializations including Oracle Solaris and SPARC
“Running Oracle software on SPARC T4 Servers with Oracle Solaris helps us respond to customer demand for solutions that deliver high reliability, performance and security. Our OPN Specialization in Oracle software and the SPARC T-Series product line helps us differentiate our business and we are pleased to see continued traction for our solutions.”
- Jack Gulas, CTO, Maplesoft Group
MCR - Platinum level member in OPN and a Systems Integrator in Australia with a Specialization in Oracle Solaris
“Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers provide an architecture that reduces complexities and operating costs. Relying on SPARC T-Series Servers with Oracle Solaris gives our customers impressive performance and reliability they require to remain competitive.”
- Harry Vakili, CEO, MCR
Mobile Tornado - Gold level OPN member and ISV based in EMEA
"By using the virtualization capabilities of Oracle Solaris 11 in combination with the flexible resource partitioning in Oracle's advanced SPARC T4 CPUs, Mobile Tornado can consolidate its IPRS PTT Server and Oracle Database in a single machine, reducing TCO with higher levels of performance."
- Shlomo Birman, R&D Manager, Mobile Tornado
Mythics, Inc. - North American reseller and Platinum level member with multiple OPN Specializations
“Many of our customers continue to benefit from relying on Oracle’s SPARC T4 Servers. We are finding it is the ideal platform, including Oracle Solaris, for virtualizing and consolidating critical applications from CRM and ERP systems to the database.”
- Nick Psimas, Vice President Systems, Mythics, Inc.
Numerix – A Gold level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork
"A leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, Numerix is a long-time partner of Oracle Solaris with many of our products having been imbedded into Oracle Solaris’ top Financial Services ISV applications. Numerix is committed to supporting the SPARC T4 platform and implementing Oracle Solaris 11 realizing the enormous benefit it will bring to both partners and customers. Numerix looks forward to leveraging Oracle Solaris’ proven, innovative technologies, especially the enhanced capabilities for fast, intelligent cloud deployment. Numerix clients are now able seamlessly burst pricing and risk analytics to the cloud, so together with Oracle Solaris 11 accelerating enterprise workloads to a cloud environment will be even easier."
- Steve O’Hanlon, President and Chief Operating Officer, Numerix
Q Associates – EMEA Platinum level reseller with multiple OPN Specializations including Oracle Solaris and Oracle’s SPARC T4
“The Oracle Solaris and SPARC T-Series Server Specializations combined with our architecture and industry expertise allow us to design and implement powerful and optimized platforms for mission-critical applications.”
- Andrew Griffiths, Business Development Director, Q Associates
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Oracle Unveils Sun ZFS Backup Appliance for Oracle Engineered Systems
New Backup Solution Can Deliver up to 4x Faster Restore Performance than NetApp and EMC; Enables Efficient Test and Development on Oracle Database with Hybrid Columnar Compression
Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance delivers up to 20 terabytes per hour full backup and up to 9.4 terabytes per hour full restore throughputs, the fastest published recovery rates among general purpose storage systems for Oracle engineered systems data protection.
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance’s extremely fast backup throughput is based on backups of unique data, and does not require additional host-side software or CPU resources.
Tested, validated and supported with Oracle engineered systems, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance provides superior speed, simplicity and savings.
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance can decrease recovery time by up to 4x, compared to published Oracle Database backup performance rates from NetApp and EMC(1).
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance also offers up to 3.9x lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over a three year period, versus comparable NetApp and EMC Data Domain solutions(2).
Oracle Hardware and Software Engineered Together Provides Superior Data Protection and Return On Investment
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance helps reduce the risk of failed restores by optimizing availability with predictive self-healing features and a fault management architecture that automatically detects and diagnoses underlying problems. End-to-end data check-summing also automatically checks and repairs corrupted data down to the bit level.
Using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) direct connection via TCP/IP over InfiniBand, the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is more efficient and cost effective than competitive solutions and can eliminate the need for additional servers and expensive third-party backup software.
The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance also helps eliminate complex and costly changes to data protection procedures by delivering full performance and optimal space savings while implementing Oracle recommended RMAN full and incremental backup procedures.
Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) on the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance allows better return on investment through efficient data and system usage. Oracle storage, including the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, is uniquely able to clone and enable full system operation on HCC-compressed database copies. Snapshots of HCC-compressed tables can be cloned without decompression overhead, and used for test and development, quality assurance, reporting, or additional data protection.
Quick and easy to configure, deploy and manage, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is available in two configurations, High Performance and High Capacity, and comes pre-racked and cabled, helping to eliminate hardware tuning.
“Business operations are highly dependent on database availability, making fast backup and recovery an enterprise imperative,” said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president, Storage, Oracle. “Oracle's Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is purpose-built to work with Oracle engineered systems, taking advantage of hardware and software engineered together to deliver the speed, simplicity and savings customers need to protect their data and meet stringent recovery time objectives.”
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Footnotes
(1) NetApp FAS3170C aggregate throughput for a single clustered system. Read only: 1.5GB/sec (1500MBPS) and Write Only:.75GB/sec (750MBPS). From performance data for four clustered systems in “Extreme Throughput with Oracle RAC, 10GbE and NetApp Storage” presentation by NetApp at Oracle OpenWorld, September 2010: http://openworld.vportal.net/?auid=12838
Data Domain 880 performance rates:http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h6835-backup-recovery-oracle-clariion-data-domain-ra.pdf, pp 18-19, February 2010.
(2) Comparison based on current U.S. list price for initial investment and cost over three year period for the NetApp FAS3270C, EMC Data Domain 890 and Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance.
Oracle Engineered Systems Power CISDI to Establish Cloud Computing Platform
Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 30, 2012
News Facts
CISDI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD (CISDI INFO) has selected Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine for its cloud computing platform. The move is designed to help improve CISDI INFO’s capabilities to offer complete solutions for customers, and help it achieve its strategic objective to become the “International Engineered Technology Company and the Engineered Technology Service Provider- the first choice of steel companies”.
As a fully-owned subsidiary of CISDI Group, CISDI INFO provides leading information solutions, experience and capabilities for the engineering and construction industries and iron and steel customers. CISDI INFO has become a leader in providing construction industry solutions, which help improve management effectiveness and efficiency, on a cloud computing platform.
The CISDI Cloud Computing Platform is a cost effective information system allowing enterprises to demonstrate and manage their design results on the design service platform. The release of CISDI Cloud Computing Platform is designed to support the rapid growth and development of small design companies in Chongqing and attract more global design organizations to the city.
With Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine, CISDI INFO plans to go through three phases in the construction of its cloud computing platform: first, it will relocate its existing database to Oracle systems, establishing the private cloud for CISDI; secondly, it will gradually provide mixed cloud services for its subsidiaries and partners; and finally, it will become an industry public cloud with a more mature environment, more secure technologies and improved methods, providing public cloud services for customers in the engineering construction and steel industries, among others.
To create the cloud computing platform, CISDI INFO plans to relocate its current production database to Oracle Exadata to create a private cloud environment and leverage Oracle’s cloud computing technology and solutions to construct a cloud environment which can fully demonstrate the capabilities of CISDI INFO. After the enterprise information system’s management system is in place, all the data will be transferred to Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata, which is designed to provide measurable service improvements for business departments.
The new cloud computing platform is designed to provide access to the shared computing resources pool in a self-service, dynamic, elastic and measurable way. Its flexible and scalable grid structure can support elastic expansion and sustainable growth, and can bring significant benefits in speed, agility and efficiency. Further, the platform can greatly cut down deployment and maintenance costs.
Additionally, to facilitate the smooth implementation and release of this project, Oracle will provide CISDI with a technical team, project management support and technical consultation, helping control implementation risks.
Supporting Quotes
“Based on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic, the cloud computing platform can help us better support internal information management and provide diversified and customized cloud service solutions for all kinds of ecosystem enterprises,” Li Zhiyou, CEO of CISDI INFO, said. “The platform can also help us realize our goal of becoming the ‘International Engineered Technology Company and the Engineered Technology Service Provider- the first choice of steel companies’.”
“Regardless of whether we construct private clouds, public clouds or mixed clouds, Oracle’s engineered systems are the best choice for industry-leading technology,” Edwin Lo, Senior Vice President and Managing Director Oracle Greater China, said. “We are glad to see that Oracle has an opportunity to work with CISDI to establish its cloud computing platform. We can continue to provide powerful business support for more local companies with our innovative products.”
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is a superfast engineered system designed, optimized and certified for running Java, Oracle and non-Oracle business applications with simplified management, open standards compliance and one-stop support. It offers customers the best choice for extreme data center performance, reliability and scalability, and enables a lower total cost of ownership and faster time to market.
About Oracle Exadata
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time.
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Charming Shoppes Selects Oracle Retail Merchandising and Store Applications to Drive Cross-Channel Growth
Lane Bryant Parent Company Chooses Oracle Retail to Improve Inventory Management Across Multiple Channels and Brands
Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 30, 2012
News Facts
Charming Shoppes, the parent company of Lane Bryant, Lane Bryant Outlet, Fashion Bug and Catherines Plus Sizes, has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising and Stores to establish a cross-channel platform serving its brands.
Charming Shoppes will use Oracle Retail applications to deploy a modern technology platform that helps transform its merchandising, supply chain and store operations to reduce the total cost of ownership of hardware, software and support while enabling a better shopping experience for customers across channels and brands.
The retailer will use Oracle Retail Stores Solutions to improve cross-channel sales capabilities, gain better access to information and deliver a consistent, personalized experience at customer touch points.
“Charming Shoppes’ mission is to be the plus-size authority for fit, fashion and value, profitably serving as the destination for all of her lifestyle needs, and we are always looking for ways to improve the execution of this mission,” said Michael Barrett, chief information officer and senior vice president, Charming Shoppes. “Oracle Retail will help us improve our internal processes, analysis and decision making to manage inventory and deliver assortments that provide a variety of choices for our targeted segments, so we may offer her trend-right, fashion-appropriate, and quality apparel with consistent, great fit offered in multi-channels.”
“Charming Shoppes is establishing a platform that will allow them to deliver an exceptional customer service experience for each of its brands,” said Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Retail. “By selecting Oracle Retail, Charming Shoppes will gain additional insight and control to optimize performance across all locations.”
Oracle provides retailers with a complete, open and integrated suite of business applications, server and storage solutions that are engineered to work together to optimize every aspect of their business. 20 of the top 20 retailers worldwide - including fashion, hardlines, grocery and specialty retailers - use Oracle solutions to drive performance, deliver critical insights and fuel growth across traditional, mobile and commerce channels. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/goto/retail
About Oracle
Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.
About Oracle in Industries
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Oracle meets its environmental goals with products we design for sustainability -- find out how you can too.
Oracle sees sustainability as a natural extension of how its business operates. The same sustainability solutions and environmental best practices that are embedded in our normal business operations are also available to our customers. Whether through measurement accounting, waste reductions, the elimination of hazardous materials, or optimizations, Oracle is in the unique position of being able to provide sustainability solutions for customers that span the entire spectrum of IT and business requirements.
Learn how to achieve environmental best practices with products designed to help you meet your sustainability goals.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 exceeds SAP Sybase in DBA productivity.
A recent ORC International cost comparison study found that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 far exceeded SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 in DBA productivity and helped to significantly lower database management costs.
The study concluded Oracle Database 11g allowed IT organizations and DBAs to:
Perform administrative tasks 71% faster
Take 43% fewer steps for the same set of standard routine functions
Save up to US$85,200 per year, per DBA by increasing productivity
Register to download the study and find out how Oracle offers more performance, more automation, and more control than Sybase--all at a lower cost.
Find out how Solaris 11 will revolutionize your cloud and support your mission-critical applications.
The demands placed on IT organizations to increase performance, reduce complexity and lower costs are putting a strain on constantly shrinking budgets. Moving to the cloud can be a solution, but complications surrounding security and manageability can make the transition daunting.
Join the Online Forum on the 25th April to hear both customers and Oracle experts, including Markus Flierl, Vice President of Oracle Solaris Engineering, explain how the latest developments to Oracle Solaris 11 since its launch in November can help revolutionize your cloud adoption and transform your data center.
You'll discover how Oracle Solaris 11 can help you:
Improve Performance and Simplify the Management and Deployment of over 11,000 third-party Applications
Maximize Systems Utilization
Protect Your Data
Enhance Business Agility
Boost Productivity
With live online chat available for all sessions you'll be able to ask the experts the questions that are important to you on Oracle Solaris.
Oracle's Mark Hurd delivers IT simplification strategy and emphasizes business analytics strategy.
Oracle Business Analytics can change the way you do business. Harness exploding volumes of data to forecast and plan at the speed of business, deliver real-time intelligence to your mobile workforce, and accelerate your financial close and reporting process. Place analytics into the hands of every one of your decision-makers -- so they can see more, think smarter, and act faster.
Breakout Sessions:
Achieving Predictable Performance with Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management
Explore All Relevant Data -- Introducing Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
Run Your Business Faster and Smarter with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
Simplify Storage Management with Oracle's Latest Software
Event Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT
Tape monitoring solutions have been very expensive and require risky deployments directly into your data path, leaving critical data insecure. With Oracle's new StorageTek Tape Analytics software, you proactively capture library, drive, and media performance metrics, getting the insight to ensure the health of your global tape environment.
Join this webcast to hear Jim Cates, Vice President of Hardware Development and Michael O'Donnell, Director of Hardware Development at Oracle give an overview of the new, exciting Oracle StorageTek Tape Analytics Software.
Speakers:
Jim Cates, Vice President, Hardware Development, Oracle
Michael O'Donnell, Director, Hardware Development, Oracle
Tom Wultich, Director, Tape Systems Product Management, Oracle
The Industry's Best x86 Platform for Running Oracle Enterprise Applications
Event Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT
Join us on April 10 for an important launch Webcast. You'll hear how Oracle is enhancing the Sun x86 server family. This new generation of x86 servers provides enhanced performance and security, improved virtualization tools, and reduced costs -- all with no change to your existing software environment.
Watch this Webcast and learn how you can have improved reliability, better performance, and power efficiency, plus:
Enhanced virtualization for consolidation and improved server utilization
Reduced licensing costs with 0.5 core factors for Oracle per core-priced software
Unparalleled reliability and availability for enterprise environments
Increased visibility and efficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and expert 24/7 support
Ongoing protection for your existing software and training investments
You can increase data center performance and security while you decrease complexity and realize better overall TCO. Join us on April 10 and find out more.
Oracle engineered systems, storage, and analytics support the Avengers.
With extreme performance in mind, S.H.I.E.L.D. Chief Systems Administrator John Smith assembled an integrated private cloud on a foundation of Oracle engineered systems and business analytics software. Individually, each system component delivers extreme performance. Together, the systems support even more information for deeper analysis and some of the most important decisions in the history of humankind.
Total Cloud Control for Systems
Event Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. GMT or 12 noon GMT / 4 p.m. MSK / 8 p.m. CST
Join Oracle Vice President of Systems Management Steve Wilson and a panel of Oracle executives to find out how your enterprise cloud can achieve 10x improved performance and 12x operational agility. Only Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c allows you to:
Accelerate mission-critical cloud deployment
Unleash the power of Solaris 11, the first cloud OS
Simplify Oracle engineered systems management
You'll also get a chance to have your questions answered by Oracle product experts and dive deeper into the technology by viewing our demos that trace the steps companies like yours take as they transition to a private cloud environment.
Join us on April 4 for a Webcast--chat live with business analytics experts.
Event Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. GMT or 12 noon GMT / 4 p.m. MSK / 8 p.m. CST
Join Mark Hurd and Balaji Yelamanchili as they unveil the latest advances in Oracle's strategy for placing analytics into the hands of every one of your decision-makers -- so that they can see more, think smarter, and act faster.
Learn about the latest developments in business intelligence technology and applications, advanced analytics, performance management applications, and engineered systems. You'll find out how you can harness the exploding volumes of data being generated inside your organization -- and beyond the firewall -- to:
Deliver real-time intelligence to your mobile workforce globally
Forecast and plan at the speed of business
Accelerate your financial close and reporting process
Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear how Oracle Business Analytics can change the way you do business.
Learn Why Oracle Linux Is the Best Linux for Enterprise Computing
Event Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Time: 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET
Join us for a series of information-rich Webcasts and "Live Online Chat" with some of the most knowledgeable Linux experts. Fresh off Oracle's launch of Oracle Linux with the latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, we'll cover a host of key technology and strategic developments.
Agenda:
Leading Innovations in Enterprise Linux hosted by Oracle Executives
Customer Presentation: How Oracle Helps Reduce Cost and Improve Performance of Database Applications at Progressive Insurance
Successful organizations no longer see IT as just an internally-focused cost center. They are improving the bottom line with more efficient technologies and processes, and investing those savings into innovative new technologies that drive top line growth. By simplifying IT with modern technologies, organizations can maximize application investments and optimize resources. Get started by refreshing older server and storage hardware with the latest generation of faster, more efficient equipment to reduce cost and gain competitive advantage.
Across industries, executives are realizing that we have entered a new era. It's the era of the empowered consumer, where success can only be achieved by delivering great customer experiences.
View the Webcast replay with Oracle President, Mark Hurd and senior executives from Oracle and RightNow to learn more about our strategy and combined, best-in-class solutions that will transform the way organizations deliver great customer experiences across every channel to achieve sustainable business advantage.
Together, Oracle and RightNow will:
Enable unified, personalized and relevant customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints along the entire customer journey.
Offer a best-in-class customer service cloud that delivers exceptional experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers.
Help organizations accelerate the acquisition of new customers, maximize customer retention, and improve operational efficiency.
Speakers:
Mark Hurd, President, Oracle
Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development, Oracle
Greg Gianforte, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, RightNow
Wayne Huyard, Senior Vice President and General Manager, RightNow Global Business Unit
Rapid Application Development for "Zero Downtime" Telecommunication Applications
Event Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET
The telecommunications market is changing fast -- does your organisation have the agility to keep up? Without seamless integration across the hardware and software stack, developing applications that require service availability can be slow, expensive, and risky.
The Oracle Communications Service Availability Machine is an integrated package of hardware and software optimised for service availability. Fully tested and rapidly deployed, it allows you to develop applications faster and more predictably than ever before -- and maintain your competitive advantage.
Join our live Webcast on Tuesday, 20 March to discover how you can:
Deliver superior application and service availability with real-time fault management and stateful failover with session integrity
Drive revenue with streamlined project lifecycles and faster application deployment
Minimise risk with a proven, standards-based solution optimised for service availability
Analytics at the Speed of Thought
Event Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET
What if you could run financial and operational planning cycles 10 times faster? Or monitor and adjust marketing campaigns in real time? What if you could instantly visualize how a price change would impact the profitability of thousands of products?
Join this interactive online event and learn how you can manage your business smarter and faster with the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine - an industry first. In this exclusive briefing, you'll find out how organizations like yours are embracing Oracle Exalytics to plan, monitor, and make decisions at unprecedented speed.
You'll gain valuable information and practical tips on how to:
Support exponentially growing data volumes and user populations
Run business intelligence and analytic applications faster than ever before
Enable business users to interact with data, visualize it, and discover new insights
Forecast and plan more frequently, and at greater levels of detail
Enable mobile intelligence across your organization
Speakers: Balaji Yelamanchili - Senior Vice President of Analytics and Performance Management, Oracle
Paul Rodwick - Vice President, Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle
Join Oracle Hardware Systems on The Extreme Performance Tour to see the future of enterprise hardware—and discover how you can get it today. Learn about the future of enterprise hardware and how every Oracle system is engineered to deliver extreme, industry-leading performance—driving reduced complexity, higher productivity, and igniting faster innovation.
At this high-octane event, discover how Oracle hardware and software are optimized to deliver extreme performance across your IT infrastructure.
Get the inside track on Oracle's hardware strategy and product roadmap from the people who know Oracle hardware best. And be sure to meet our global experts in the Extreme Performance exhibition area.
Coming to a city near you.
Follow the conversation on Twitter. Use hashtag #oraclehardware
Oracle Offers Free Trial of Innovative Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates to Red Hat Customers
News Facts
Oracle today introduced a 30-day free trial of Oracle's Ksplice zero-downtime kernel update technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
Oracle is the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero-downtime updates that enable customers to apply security updates, diagnostic patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers can experience the benefit of Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for the kernels they have installed today without any system reconfiguration.
Access the 30-day free Ksplice trial here. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.
Oracle also announced that Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for Oracle's Red Hat Compatible Kernel are now available to Oracle Linux Premier Support customers. Zero-downtime updates for Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel have been available since September 2011.
Additionally, Oracle extended the support lifecycle for Oracle Linux from eight to ten years, further enhancing the industry's most comprehensive and low-cost Linux support program.
Oracle's Linux support program has distinguished itself from the start by offering more value to customers through lifetime support policies, premier backporting, comprehensive legal indemnification, best practices for deployment, and lower cost.
The word is out. There is one event that delivers the full spectrum of Oracle Technology and Applications education that you need to boost results and drive efficiency all year long. Designed and delivered by users just like you, COLLABORATE 12: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community offers:
Sessions, interactive panel discussions and hands-on learning opportunities packed with first-hand experiences, case studies and practical "how-to" content
Breaking product news and insider information from Oracle executive management and developers
Ample opportunities to build your personal and professional networks, including special interest group (SIG) meetings, geographic networking events and receptions
Informative and inspiring keynotes
An exhibitor showcase packed with products and solutions providers who can help you solve your specific challenges
Unique events such as the Women in Technology Forum- connect with key women who are examples of success in a fast-changing environment
Get information tailored to your needs through our three participating user groups.
COLLABORATE is a big event, but you can find just what you need with help from one of our three participating users groups. Submit your presentation or register with the group that best meets your needs to receive:
Special access to events based on your Oracle product investments
Event communications that keep you in the loop and help identify what you should be watching for at COLLABORATE
Advance access to proceedings for the sessions you plan to attend
Delivers up to 70x More Performance for Complex Queries
News Facts
Continuing to drive MySQL innovation, Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2.
For highly demanding Web-based and communications products and services, MySQL Cluster is designed to cost-effectively deliver 99.999% availability, high write scalability and very low latency.
With SQL and NoSQL access through a new Memcached API, MySQL Cluster represents a "best of both worlds" solution allowing key value operations and complex SQL queries within the same database.
With MySQL Cluster 7.2, users can also gain up to a 70x increase in performance on complex queries, and enhanced multi-data center scalability.
MySQL Cluster 7.2 is also certified with Oracle VM. The combination of its elastic, on-demand scalability and self-healing features, together with Oracle VM support, makes MySQL Cluster an ideal choice for deployments in the cloud.
Also generally available today is the latest release of the MySQL Cluster Manager, version 1.1.4, further improving the ease of use and administration of MySQL Cluster.
Attend the free Webcast to find out how to manage massive data volumes efficiently.
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET
Smart meters and smart grids can dramatically improve utility operations and customer interactions—but only if utilities manage the massive data volumes efficiently.
Oracle Engineered Systems—Exadata and Exalogic, plus Oracle's unique business and mission-critical applications—can:
Process data at unprecedented rates
Turn data into real intelligence
Improve efficiency across every department
In this webcast we will explore the ways utilities of all sizes can take advantage of Oracle Engineered Systems to maximize the value of advanced metering and grid modernization programs.
Hear our compelling results—including lower total cost of ownership obtained when Oracle Engineered Systems run meter-to-cash business processes
We'll discuss in detail how we can help you convert the data deluge into actionable information and business value
Attend this webcast to learn how you can lower your cost and risk and simplify your operations with Oracle Engineered Systems for utilities.
On February 9, 2012, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of cloud-based talent management. The proposed transaction is subject to Taleo stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals, and customary closing conditions and is expected to close mid-year 2012. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.
Taleo's Talent Management Cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth.
Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers. The combination is expected to empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster on boarding and better collaboration with team members via social media.
Oracle Beats NetApp and EMC in Storage Magazine Quality Awards for NAS
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Earn Highest Ratings for Enterprise and Midrange NAS Systems
News Facts:
Oracle today announced its Sun ZFS Storage Appliances earned the highest overall scores in the six-year history of Storage magazine's Quality Awards for NAS, for both enterprise and midrange NAS.
Oracle bested the competition in initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and received high marks for sales force competence.
In its analysis of the results, Storage magazine noted, "Oracle Corp. storage users are apparently the most satisfied among the legions of NAS users," and reported that 97 percent of Oracle enterprise NAS users surveyed would buy again.
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances deliver enterprise-class NAS capabilities to more than 3,000 customers and are ideal for enterprise applications, virtualization, cloud, storage consolidation, and data protection.
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle's SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and are optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Engineered integration enables Oracle software to run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
The Storage magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage/SearchStorage.com readers who assessed products in five categories: initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence.
Big Data Online Forum – Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET
Big data is big news these days. But you don't base IT investment decisions on magazine headlines.
Join us for the Big Data Online Forum to learn the essentials of big data - from the technology underlying it to real-world use cases. Oracle Senior Technical Architect Tom Kyte, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and other industry thought leaders will be on hand to explain how big data can deliver revolutionary insight and competitive advantage.
You'll get answers to tough questions surrounding big data, including:
What business insight can big data uncover?
How do you manage big data?
How do you integrate big data and decision-making?
Register today for this half-day online event featuring live Q&A with big data experts.
Join Oracle for a live Webcast
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Across industries, executives are realizing that we have entered a new era. It's the era of the empowered consumer, where success can only be achieved by delivering great customer experiences.
Join Oracle President, Mark Hurd and senior executives from Oracle and RightNow to learn more about our strategy and combined, best-in-class solutions that will transform the way organizations deliver great customer experiences across every channel to achieve sustainable business advantage.
Together, Oracle and RightNow will:
Enable unified, personalized and relevant customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints along the entire customer journey.
Offer a best-in-class customer service cloud that delivers exceptional experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers.
Help organizations accelerate the acquisition of new customers, maximize customer retention, and improve operational efficiency.
MySQL Embedded Online Forum:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:00AM PST - 12:00 PM PST
MySQL is even better than you think. According to the experts, it's easier to use and it's more capable than most ISVs / OEMs realize, and by taking a few tried-and-tested steps before shipping your MySQL-embedded products, you can lower your product's costs and increase its performance.
Join our expert-created and delivered MySQL Embedded Online Forum to learn:
Why MySQL is a great embedded database for startups as well as the largest software, hardware, and appliance vendors in the world, and how its features ensure costs remain low throughout an application's life cycle
MySQL installation options that require minimal or zero end user effort and how to easily build them into your application
How to secure MySQL embedded in applications, appliances, and devices
Tips to simplify your integration with MySQL using the most popular MySQL Connectors and guidance on selecting the settings that will maximize your application's performance
Why MySQL delivers excellent performance and how to go beyond the default settings to optimize MySQL's queries, reporting, and search capabilities
Register now or click the tabs (to the right) to learn more about the agenda, sessions, and speakers.
With all the cloud deployment choices available today—public, private, and hybrid—and all the service choices—software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service—how do you determine the right mix for your IT and business needs? Attend this conference and we'll help you find the cloud strategy that's right for your enterprise.
Oracle's cloud experts will show you how to:
Choose the right public and private deployment models that best fit your enterprise usage
Transform your data center to a private cloud model, plus add self-service, autoscaling, and metering/chargeback
Select from Oracle's private and public cloud services to provide efficient, flexible enterprise cloud services for your business applications
Whether you are transitioning to the cloud or advancing to the next level, this event offers practical insights that can help you make the most of your cloud computing choices.
Learn about modern, lightweight development with Java EE 6 and Coherence
Java Developers and Architects will learn about Java EE6, WebLogic Server, Coherence, Eclipse, NetBeans, Maven and Hudson in hands on labs and sessions while interacting with Oracle product experts in live, moderated chats.
Oracle Enterprise Management Online Forum: Gain Total Control of Enterprise Clouds
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET
Join Oracle executives and product experts for this complimentary, half-day online forum and live chat to learn about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle, challenges associated with each phase and the Oracle cloud management solution that keeps you in total control of your cloud services every step of the way.
You'll hear from business and IT experts on how to:
Justify your cloud initiative based on proven best practices
Manage the entire cloud lifecycle from planning, provisioning, deployment through monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades using a single console
Deliver integrated management of the entire cloud stack from applications to disks to maximize IT agility while minimizing the complexity and costs associated with IT management
Create a business driven cloud with deep insight into applications, business services and transactions
Attend this interactive online event and find out how you can fast-track your business to the cloud.
Oracle Online Systems Forum: Oracle Accelerates Your Business with Breakthrough Application to Disk Solutions
Event Date: 01/11/2012 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
Join us for this online event and learn how Oracle Optimized Solutions help businesses lower their TCO, mitigate risk, and improve productivity while accelerating innovation across the entire technology stack. This event for information technology professionals features an executive keynote, breakout sessions with analyst insights, and customer case studies.
Please join us on December 1, as Hasan Rizvi unveils the next generation of the industry's #1 application server and cornerstone of Oracle's cloud application foundation—Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.
Now is the time to find out why Oracle WebLogic Server is outperforming competitors with higher speed, lower TCO with simplified management, and accelerated time to market with developer efficiency innovations. Join fellow IT managers, architects, and developers to hear how the new release of Oracle WebLogic Server is:
Designed to help you seamlessly move into the public or private cloud with an open, standards-based platform
Built to drive higher value for your current infrastructure and significantly reduce development time and cost
Optimized to run your solutions for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); Oracle Fusion Middleware; and Oracle Fusion Applications
Enhanced with transformational platforms and technologies such as Java EE 6, Oracle'sActive GridLink for RAC, Oracle Traffic Director, and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder
See the latest demos and hear from our leading developers on how this new release dramatically improves your deployment of applications for the cloud. In addition, you can participate in a developer-focused deep-dive session at 11 a.m. where experts will answer live chat questions on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.
Build Your Next-Generation Datacenter in the Cloud
Join Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler at the Oracle Solaris 11 launch event in New York, and learn how you can build your infrastructure with Oracle Solaris 11 to:
Accelerate internal, public, and hybrid cloud applications
Optimize application deployment with built-in virtualization
Achieve top performance and cost advantages with Oracle Solaris 11–based engineered systems
The launch event will also feature exclusive content for our in-person audience including a session led by the VP of core Solaris development and his leads on Solaris 11 and a customer insights panel during lunch. We will also have a technology showcase featuring our latest systems and Solaris technologies. The Solaris executive team will also be there throughout the day to answer questions and give insights into future developments in Solaris.
Don't miss the Oracle Solaris 11 launch in New York on November 9.
On October 24, 2011, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNOW), a leading provider of cloud-based customer service. RightNow's Customer Service Cloud helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks.
Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud. Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel.
On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011.
After the transaction closes, Oracle with Endeca plans to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together enabling businesses to make stronger and more profitable decisions. The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce with Endeca's InFront web commerce solutions is expected to enhance cross-channel commerce, merchandising, and online customer experiences. Adding Endeca Latitude software to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) is expected to provide a single unified user interface for analysis of structured and unstructured data.
Welcome to San Francisco and Oracle OpenWorld! This is an extraordinary week filled with learning, networking, hands-on demo and exhibit experiences, and fun. If you find your free time is at a premium, then all is going as planned. Enjoy the conference and the city, and thanks for joining us.
This is an extraordinary week filled with learning, networking, hands-on demo and exhibit experiences, and way too much to do. If you find your free time is at a premium, then all is going as planned. Enjoy the conference and the city, and thanks for being a part of the worldwide Java community.
Come learn why Oracle offers the broadest, most complete integrated offerings for enterprise cloud computing. Unlike other companies that narrowly define the cloud as public software as a service or server virtualization, Oracle provides a comprehensive strategy that includes both private and public clouds, and all cloud layers—software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Now, you can get the inside scoop about Oracle's comprehensive cloud roadmap. Register now for your Oracle Powers the Cloud Pass and be there as we reveal breakthrough cloud news on Thursday, October 6, at Oracle OpenWorld.
You'll get access to:
More than 25 cloud sessions and 15 cloud demos
The cloud keynote with Robert Shimp, Group Vice President, Product Marketing, Oracle
And It's a Wrap! closing event, sponsored by Tsingtao, with musical guests Berlin, featuring Terri Nunn, and The Five Hundreds
Come see why Oracle is the foundation for many of the world's public and private clouds—and why Larry Ellison says "Oracle is the technology that powers the cloud."
Get your Oracle Powers the Cloud Pass today to learn more about Oracle's latest cloud offerings!*
*Oracle OpenWorld full-conference registrants get automatic access to Oracle Powers the Cloud activities.
Live Webcast: Oracle SPARC SuperCluster Announcement
When extreme innovation happens, it's called a revolution. Watch it take place when Oracle reveals the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, the first engineered system from a new generation of high-performance Oracle SPARC servers.
Join Larry Ellison and John Fowler on September 26 at this live event to learn how the breakthrough SPARC SuperCluster T4-4—powered by Oracle's SPARC T4 processor and running Oracle Solaris—will redefine the IT industry.
Oracle Executives Share an Important Oracle Database Product Update
Don't miss this important event where Oracle executives will share plans for a new product that will offer customers and partners a faster path to take advantage of the world's #1 database.
Presented by Oracle executives Mark Hurd, Andy Mendelsohn, and Judson Althoff
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET
Virtualization that makes applications easier to deploy, manage, and support.
As enterprises embrace cloud computing and pressure mounts to serve global businesses around the clock, traditional server consolidation-focused virtualization is no longer sufficient. Virtualization needs to focus on making applications easier to deploy, manage, and support.
Watch these Webcasts and learn about the newly released Oracle VM 3.0 to discover how your organization can benefit from application-driven virtualization.
We are pleased to invite you to a discussion with SquareTwo Financial who will share their experience with Oracle Exalogic. Please click on the register button to confirm your attendance.
In this informal reference call, participants will have the opportunity to speak firsthand with SquareTwo Financial. The call will open with a brief overview, followed by candid discussion and an open question and answer session. Please allow one hour for the call.
You're invited to our live Webcast series where you can ask questions and get advice from Oracle experts on how to use Oracle Exadata—the world's fastest database machine—to transform your business.
Welcome to Java Magazine, one of Oracle's newest and most significant investments in the continuing health and growth of the Java technology ecosystem. This publication, which is designed from the ground up to fulfill the full reader-engagement promises of digital publishing, is an essential source of knowledge about Java technology, the Java programming language, and Java-based applications for people who rely on them in their professional careers, or who aspire to.
That's an ambitious goal, and we'd never be able to, or even desire to, reach it on our own. Rather, the entire Java community is directly and transparently involved in the editorial process; in fact, only a minority of authors and contributors will be Oracle employees. Every lineup will contain an all-star list of contributors from across the ecosystem. So although there are other examples of publications that bring you news from the world of Java, there are no other examples that combine the voice of the Java "steward" (Oracle) with the voices of the rest of the community (developers, ISVs, device manufacturers, users, and students) in an innovative, all-digital package. And we wouldn't want it any other way.
Oracle WebCenter Transforms Your Organization Into A Social Business.
Now available on demand. Originally broadcast July 13, 2011
Access this on demand webcast to hear key executives discuss how Oracle is committed to delivering the user engagement platform to connect people and information and how Oracle will continue to deliver on and expand the most complete, open, integrated, and best-of-breed solutions to transform your organization into a social business.
Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, Oracle
Kumar Vora, Senior Vice President of Development, Oracle
Andy MacMillan, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle
Oracle WebLogic Server Tops All Major Performance Benchmarks
The Oracle WebLogic 11g application server product line is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications. It provides the foundation for application grid, which is an architecture that enables enterprises to outperform their competitors while minimizing operational costs.
Outperform your competition—Fast, scalable systems enable IT to change as the business grows
Lower operational costs—Superior manageability with automation reduces the time and expense of keeping systems up and running
Best for Oracle portfolio—The product line is well integrated with the rest of Oracle's portfolio and has excellent support for interoperability with other systems
Webcast Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Webcast Time: 8:00 a.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. ET
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Oracle recently acquired Datanomic, a leading provider of enterprise customer data quality solutions. The combination of Datanomic technology and Oracle's data integration and master data management products, will deliver a complete, integrated and best-of-breed solution for data quality.
Hear how you can apply the combination of Datanomic technology and Oracle's Product Data Quality solutions to:
Ensure data integrity across your enterprise while reducing the manual effort required to resolve customer, product and other data issues
ldentify a single view of your customer data for better segmentation and analysis
Improve compliance screening for regulations such as Anti-Money Laundering legislation, Politically Exposed Persons, and other government mandates
Ensure effective business improvement with a single data quality platform that includes specialized capabilities for different data types
Attend this webcast to learn about Oracle's strategy and product plans and how the new products acquired from Datanomic will impact Oracle's Applications, Oracle Data Integration, and Oracle Master Data Management.
Learn tips and techniques from Oracle experts, talk back through live chat.
Join us for the Oracle CRM & Commerce Online Forum, where analysts, customers and Oracle executives will come together to share why it's more important than ever to deliver an engaging and consistent experience that sets your business apart.
If you manage your company's strategy for marketing, sales, service, or commerce, the Oracle CRM & Commerce Online Forum offers you the unique opportunity to learn about key market trends. Event highlights offer you the chance to:
Hear Anthony Lye, Oracle's senior vice president of CRM, discuss six CRM transformations that are driving innovation and increasing customer effectiveness
Learn how leading companies are using Oracle CRM and commerce solutions to deliver a superior customer experience that sets their business apart
See what's new in the latest release of Oracle CRM On Demand, including more mobile, enhanced cloud-based multi-channel communications, deeper industry support, and increased collaboration
Register now to learn more about the agenda, sessions, and speakers.
Find out how Oracle is working with the Java community to move Java forward.
Join us for a global gathering of the Java community on July 7, when Oracle will host multiple events and a Webcast to celebrate Java 7. With contributions from Java users around the world, Java 7 is a testament to the vibrancy of the Java community and to Oracle's ongoing commitment to the language and technology. Come see what Java 7 can do for you and how we're moving Java forward together.
Get an update on Oracle Storage and news about Oracle and Pillar
Oracle Agrees to Buy Pillar Data Systems.
Please join Mark Hurd and John Fowler for an update on Oracle's storage strategy, including more information on Oracle's agreement to acquire Pillar Data Systems.
Oracle is changing the face of IT by providing the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems.And we're about to redefine storage. Join us on June 30 to find out how you will benefit.
Japanese Telco got 8 times the performance at 1/10th the energy consumed
Softbank Mobile Corporation, a fast growing mobile telecommunications provider based in Tokyo, Japan, has gained eight times the data warehouse processing capacity while replacing 36 Teradata racks with just three Oracle Exadata racks. The new data warehouse running on Oracle Exadata is connected to the company's customer care and billing system and has resulted in these benefits:
150% increase in storage capacity
Reduced database running costs by 50%
Reduced operational costs by more than half
Accelerated analysis of billions of call records by more than 300%
SoftBank Mobile initially considered updating its existing Teradata warehouse but decided it would be too costly. The company then compared five solutions before selecting Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Give your users the dashboards, customizable processes, and self-service reporting they need.
Live Webcast
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Extend Your Oracle Applications: Meet Business-User Demands While Satisfying Business Objectives
It's all about combining the right applications with the right business-oriented tools.
Are your business users asking for role-based dashboards, customizable business processes, and self-service reporting?
Business users have become a lot more savvy about analysis and data - and they want fast results at their fingertips. You need to create complete user experiences for your applications that include:
Contextual, personalized user interfaces
Agile, decision-centric business processes
Self-service reporting and analysis
Are you concerned about customizations that may not be sustainable or scalable?
Oracle has the tools that let you easily configure your applications to meet changing business needs. Make the changes you want without relying on heavy coding. Open, standards-based, business-driven tools align with your current IT portfolio - without adding more complexity. This kind of extensibility gives business users greater control while increasing their productivity, improving their ability to respond to changing business conditions, and lowering total cost of ownership.
Get up to speed on Oracle's application-extensibility tools.
Join Steve Miranda, SVP of Oracle Applications Development, as he hosts a conversation with two senior Oracle executives in applications product development: Ted Farrell, chief architect and SVP; and Paul Rodwick, VP of product management.
Develop Your Strategy and Roadmap for Cloud Computing
The cost and speed advantages of cloud computing are clear and compelling. But how do you actually move to cloud computing? To discover practical approaches to building your cloud foundation, join us for our four-part webcast series.
Cloud experts will share real-world best practices, reference architectures, detailed customer case studies, and more. You will learn how to transform your IT into a superior service provider with a strategy and roadmap for building, deploying, and managing your enterprise cloud.
Attend the webcast series to learn how to:
Build a state-of-the-art cloud architecture
Leverage your existing IT investments
Optimize your IT management processes
Whether you are considering a move to cloud computing or have already adopted a cloud model, the cloud computing webcast series offers you the insights you need to take full advantage of cloud computing.
Registration is required to attend these events. Please register now to attend any, and all, of the complimentary Webcasts.
May 5, 2011 9:00 AM PT - The Roadmap to Enterprise Cloud Computing
May 12, 2011 9:00 AM PT - Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Revolutionizing Data Center Consolidation
May 19, 2011 9:00 AM PT - Private Cloud Database Consolidation
May 26, 2011 9:00 AM PT - Planning a Cloud Implementation
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud simplifies management and maintenance.
Webcast: Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011 Time: 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET
Simplify Your Oracle Application Infrastructure
Many IT organizations have adopted do-it-yourself application infrastructure models, creating multiple infrastructure silos and the need for multiple vendors. As a result, managing and maintaining the infrastructure has become a costly and time-consuming task, hindering business. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud simplifies all of this for you.
Join us for this Webcast and hear about the industry's first engineered enterprise application consolidation platform.
You'll discover how to:
Consolidate your Oracle applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards on Oracle Exalogic
Build cloud-enabling elastic capacity in your Oracle application infrastructure
Expedite time to market for your Oracle applications
Get the Technical Know-how to Succeed with the World's Most Popular Open Source Database
MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database, and powers websites and applications of numerous leading and fast-growing organizations.
The OTN Developer Day MySQL is a one-stop shop for you to learn all the essential skills about MySQL. In this free, one-day seminar, we will cover everything you need to know to successfully design, develop, and manage your MySQL databases. You'll also learn the guidelines and best practices in performance tuning and scalability.
Attend this event and gain the knowledge to:
Develop your new applications cost-effectively using MySQL
Improve performance of your existing MySQL databases
Manage your MySQL environment more efficiently
Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to network with your peers, and hear the tips and tricks from the MySQL experts at Oracle. No matter you're a DBA or a developer, come find out how you can make the best of MySQL in your IT infrastructure.
FREE, Online, Live, Expert-Driven Sessions and Labs
Many enterprises are reducing travel, conference, and training budgets for their developers without any change in expected results demanded of those developers. How can you keep up?
Join us for a new breed of online, FREE developer events at Oracle Technology Network's Virtual Developer Day.
Come join us and learn how Rich Enterprise Applications, powered by Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), can be developed faster than ever. Learn how to extend Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware with rich user interfaces and Web 2.0 functionality. Create multichannel capable applications delivering desktop quality, highly interactive user experiences that are pre-integrated to enterprise class server technology.
You will learn how Oracle's REA solution, built on Oracle ADF Faces and Oracle WebCenter, which uniquely delivers:
Oracle WebLogic Server tops all major performance benchmarks.
The Oracle WebLogic 11g application server product line is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications. It provides the foundation for application grid, which is an architecture that enables enterprises to outperform their competitors while minimizing operational costs.
Outperform your competition—Fast, scalable systems enable IT to change as the business grows
Lower operational costs—Superior manageability with automation reduces the time and expense of keeping systems up and running
Best for Oracle portfolio—The product line is well integrated with the rest of Oracle's portfolio and has excellent support for interoperability with other systems
Access new resources on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and see all the latest innovations.
Compare Oracle WebLogic to IBM WebSphere and you'll see why Oracle is the top choice. Not only does Oracle WebLogic lead IBM WebSphere in performance, it is also significantly less expensive to own and operate.
Oracle WebLogic is the industry's most comprehensive Java platform for developing, deploying, and integrating enterprise applications. With Oracle WebLogic Server as your foundation, you can outperform your competitors, get the most complete platform for the cloud, and keep your costs under control.
Join this Webcast and learn how Oracle WebLogic outperforms IBM WebSphere:
In total cost of ownership, by up to 58%
In performance, according to SPECj benchmarks
In cloud readiness, as the power behind Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
Introducing Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management: New SaaS Applications from the Leader in HCM
It's time to rethink the business of HR.
Are you getting the best from your people?
Talent-driven innovation is the top source of competitive advantage in today's global knowledge economy. The resulting pressure on HR professionals has never been more acute. Against this backdrop, it's no surprise that next-generation human capital management (HCM) solutions and software as a service (SaaS) are generating intense interest among HR executives.
Do you have all the relevant information?
You may be evaluating your HCM technology investments today or you might simply be gathering information on the available options. Your best opportunity is to understand how Oracle has rethought the business of HR to provide value to every person in the organization—from HR professionals to employees and managers.
Two Webcasts designed to bring you up to speed
Join your host Steve Miranda, SVP of Oracle Applications Development, for two executive Webcasts featuring special guests from the Principal Financial Group, a customer using Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (Oracle Fusion HCM).
Register Now for Oracle Fusion HCM: Rethink the Business of HR, April 19, 9:00–10:00 a.m. PDT. Hear directly from HR executives about the value that modern HCM applications bring, and discover the innovations delivered in Oracle Fusion HCM.
Register Now for Oracle Fusion HCM: Next-Generation Technology for HR in the Cloud, April 20, 9:00–10:00 a.m. PDT. Hear a CIO's perspective on the key considerations for HR in the cloud, and explore the technology that powers Oracle Fusion HCM.
Get an insider look at powerful new capabilities for Java EE 6
Live Webcast:
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 19.00 CET
With the latest release of GlassFish, developers can now enjoy the power and elegance of Java EE 6 development combined with extensive support for clustering in the administration console.
Join engineering for a deep dive into these new capabilities of Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1. Developers, Architects and IT Management will learn about:
The Most Advanced Gateway for Fast, Secure, and Scalable Connectivity to SOA and the Cloud
Free Webcast:
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET
The new Oracle Enterprise Gateway solution makes it easy to secure, accelerate, integrate, and route XML and other types of data in your enterprise and beyond. By joining this Webcast you will learn why Oracle Enterprise Gateway is the one-stop shop for all of your SOA and cloud security management needs. Maneesh Joshi and Jyothi Swaroop of Oracle will discuss product benefits of Oracle Enterprise Gateway such as:
DMZ-class security and comprehensive threat defense system for SOA and cloud environments
Ultrafast XML processing, allowing SOA and cloud applications to offload resource-intensive, XML-based operations
Open and standards-based, certified on Oracle Fusion Middleware and non-Oracle technologies
Oracle to Spotlight Business-Ready Storage Solutions at SNW Spring 2011
Storage portfolio enables customers to lower IT cost and accelerate performance
SNW Spring 2011: April 4-7, Santa Clara, California
Oracle is proud to be a platinum sponsor at SNW Spring 2011, the world's largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference. While at SNW Spring 2011, please visit booth #306 and learn about Oracle's complete portfolio of business-ready storage solutions.
Oracle will demonstrate key elements of its storage products and solutions portfolio, including Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance, its record-setting Flash technologies, and the recently announced StorageTek T10000C tape drive, the industry's fastest, highest capacity tape drive.
Oracle storage experts will also present on a range of topics including protecting, replicating, and de-duplicating databases, cloud backup and recovery, and the impact of PCI Express on storage architectures and the data center. For more information on Oracle's sessions at SNW, visit Oracle's SNW events page.
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the fastest selling new product in Oracle history—with a growing community of satisfied users and a strong sales pipeline. Here what analysts, the media, and, most importantly, Oracle customers are saying about Oracle Exadata.
Oracle's rich portfolio of cloud offerings includes Oracle On Demand, which provides software as a service, as well as hosted and managed alternatives to on-premise deployment. For enterprises that are building private clouds and for service providers that are building public clouds, Oracle offers comprehensive solutions for platform as a service and infrastructure as a service.
Talk to Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g experts, hear how companies are improving service quality and lowering costs.
Register to attend one or more of the upcoming Oracle Enterprise Manager Webcasts, presented by Oracle experts. Each Webcast will include an interactive Q&A session and is scheduled for 60 minutes.
Registration is required to attend the Webcasts. Please select each Webcast you are interested in attending and then complete the registration form below.
Event Date: 03/24/2011 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Choose the Best Integrated Service-Oriented Architecture Platform for Your Business
Oracle SOA delivers increased agility and lowers total cost of ownership in the most heterogeneous environments while addressing a broad range of complex integration requirements.
Attend this Webcast to gain a solid understanding of:
The difference between the Oracle and IBM approach to comprehensive SOA
How Oracle reduces complexity and costs while achieving faster time to market for your business
Oracle SOA Suite technology that gives your business a competitive edge
Live Webcast: 03/09/2011 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
Mainframe Migration with Oracle Technologies: a Low-Cost, Low-Risk Choice
Attend this Webcast to learn how technologies such as Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle GoldenGate, enable businesses to quickly and safely migrate away from their IBM mainframe environments. Oracle customers can run their applications on standards-based open systems, significantly cutting their time to market and costs.
Join us for this Webcast and see what Oracle technologies can do for your business:
Oracle Tuxedo rehosting tools and techniques can provide automated migration coverage for more than 95% of mainframe application assets, at a fraction of the cost
Oracle GoldenGate can migrate data from mainframe systems to open systems, eliminating risks associated with the data migration
Oracle Coherence hosts transactional data in memory providing mainframe-like data performance and linear scalability
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Find out why the world's most popular open source database is even better on Windows.
Live Date/Time: March 16, 2011 | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Join our Online Forum and discover how you can win with MySQL on Windows. Oracle's MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin will kick off a comprehensive agenda of presentations enabling you to better understand:
Why the world's most popular open source database is extremely popular on Windows, both for enterprise users and ISVs
How MySQL fits into the Windows environment, and what are the upcoming milestones to make MySQL even better on the Microsoft platform
What are the visual tools at your disposal to effectively develop, deploy and manage MySQL applications on Windows
How you can deliver highly available business critical Windows based MySQL applications
Why Security Solutions Provider SonicWall selected MySQL over Microsoft SQL Server, and how they successfully deliver MySQL based solutions
Additionally, Oracle experts will be on live chat throughout the event to answer your toughest questions.
Charting Your Course with Oracle Applications is a global event series designed to help business and IT executives assess the impact of new inflection points on their business and applications roadmap: changing workforces, shifting customer and constituent bases, and increased volatility.
Learn how innovations ranging from new deployment models like cloud computing to the introduction of social applications and smart devices are delivering results across all areas of business and industry.
The new Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g is like no other portal or social computing solution. We've consolidated the best of our industry-leading portal products and technologies into one exceptional modern user experience platform. Developers can quickly build and business users can easily customize portals, Websites, and composite applications with integrated social and collaborative services—all on a comprehensive content management infrastructure.
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g helps improve business productivity by giving employees, customers, and partners access to contextual information in a personalized, social, and collaborative work environment.
Event Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011
Event Time: 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET
Financial institutions are faced with a new normal. Their IT departments are revisiting strategies to enhance customer service, reduce costs, and cater to a complex regulatory environment—all while differentiating their financial institution. Attend a new Oracle Webcast to see how these strategies are achieved with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.
Oracle Exalogic offers an IT solution that is highly scalable for growth and reliable for maximum customer service. Easy to maintain at the lowest cost and with minimal downtime, Exalogic allows your IT department to maximize the utilization of hardware resources and help lower transaction costs.
Oracle Exalogic—with the world's #1 application server, Oracle WebLogic Server—is the perfect fit for your financial institution delivering extreme Java performance for mission-critical, latency-sensitive applications.
Join us for this Webcast and learn more about the benefits of Oracle Exalogic for your financial organization:
Rapid deployment of financial Java applications on a standardized, pre-engineered platform
Highly tuned engineered systems that provide extreme Java performance with low latency
Unmatched reliability and scalability with Oracle WebLogic Server
Cloud-enabled elastic capacity to help you manage and expand your business
Develop Your Strategy and Roadmap for Cloud Computing The cost and speed advantages of cloud computing are clear and compelling. But how do you actually move to cloud computing? To discover a practical approach to building your cloud foundation, join us for the Oracle Enterprise Cloud Summit.
During this full-day event, cloud experts will share real-world best practices, reference architectures, detailed customer case studies, and more. You'll learn how to transform IT into a superior service provider with a strategy and roadmap for building, deploying, and managing an enterprise cloud.
Attend the Oracle Enterprise Cloud Summit to learn how to:
Build a state-of-the-art cloud architecture
Leverage your existing IT investments
Optimize your IT management processes
Whether you are considering a move to cloud computing or have already adopted a cloud model, this event offers you the insights you need to take full advantage of cloud computing.
Watch "fireside chats" with experts about new tools, technologies, and trends in application development. Includes live Q&A, bring your questions!
Next Show (subject to change):
Feb. 15 @ 10am PT: Java and Oracle, One Year Later (with Ajay Patel)
Join us for a special live conversation with Ajay Patel, VP of Product Development for Application Grid Products about the changes that have come to Java and Oracle since the Sun acquisition, just over a year ago.
Capture More from Data Integration: Why You Get More Value from Oracle than IBM
Event Date: Thursday., February 10, 2011
Time: 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET
Oracle has best-of-breed technology in every category of information management. And the same holds true for data integration.
Oracle Data Integration products, which include Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition and Oracle GoldenGate, provide complete, open, and integrated solutions and deliver more value than IBM. Compare the solutions offered by the two companies and you'll find Oracle provides:
Lower cost of ownership
Higher performance in both bulk data movement and real-time data replication
Easier and faster development and management
Rock-solid reliability for data delivery and integrity
A unified offering under Oracle Fusion Middleware
Join us in this live Webcast and discover why customers choose Oracle over IBM in data integration projects and how Oracle delivers flexible and robust solutions for the enterprise.
Presented by:
Irem Radzik - Director of Product Marketing, Data Integration, Oracle Dain Hansen - Director, Product Marketing, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Coming to your town soon is a full day of real world database performance with:
Tom Kyte, author of the ever popular AskTom Blog,
Andrew Holdsworth, head of Oracle's Real World Performance Team, and
Graham Wood, renowned Oracle Database performance architect.
These Oracle experts will debate, discuss and delineate the best practices for designing hardware architectures, deploying Oracle databases, and developing applications that deliver the fastest possible performance for your business.
During open Q&A you'll get your most pressing performance questions answered, and hear how IOUG members and Oracle customers leverage Tom, Andrew and Graham's best practice guidelines.
Live Date/Time: February 24, 2011 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
Join us for the Oracle Security Online Forum, where leading industry executives and Oracle product experts will come together to discuss security trends, best practices, and proven solutions for your business.
Security professionals, IT executives, IT architects, identity management and database specialists, data architects, IT administrators and auditors will all benefit. Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear:
Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's Chief Security Officer-onindustry-leading standards, technologies, and practices that ensure that Oracle products-and your entire system-remain as secure as possible.
Jeff Margolies, Partner, Accenture's Security Practice-on key security trends and solutions to prepare for in 2011 and beyond.
Vipin Samar, Vice President of Oracle Database Security solutions-on new approaches to protecting data and database infrastructure against evolving threats.
Tom Kyte, Senior Technical Architect and Oracle Database Guru-on how you can safeguard your enterprise application data with Oracle's Database Security solutions.
Nishant Kaushik, Oracle's Chief Identity Strategist-on how organizations can look to Oracle Identity Management solutions to help them reduce fraud and streamline compliance.
Additionally, Oracle security solution experts will be on live chat throughout the event to answer your toughest questions.
Attend this online event and find out how you can take a proactive approach to secure your enterprise.
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Creating an auto increment field has to have a trigger and to have a trigger, you need a sequence.
CREATE SEQUENCE XXIMG_USERS_USERID_SEQUENCE MINVALUE 5484 MAXVALUE 9999999999 START WITH 5484 INCREMENT BY 1 CACHE 10;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER USER_TRIGGER BEFORE INSERT ON XXIMG_USERS
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT xximg_users_userid_sequence.nextval INTO :NEW.USERID FROM DUAL;
END;
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Here's how to list triggers in a database:
select trigger_name from user_triggers;
Here's how to get details on a trigger:
select trigger_type, triggering_event, table_name, referencing_names, trigger_body
from user_triggers
where trigger_name = '';
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The following quote is from page 4-27 of the MSCP Basic Disk Functions
Manual which is part of the UDA50 Programmers Doc Kit manuals:
As stated above, the host area of a disk is structured as a vector of
logical blocks. From a performance viewpoint, however, it is more
appropriate to view the host area as a four dimensional hyper-cube, the
four dimensions being cylinder, group, track, and sector.
. . .
Referring to our hyper-cube analogy, the set of potentially accessible
blocks form a line parallel to the track axis. This line moves
parallel to the sector axis, wrapping around when it reaches the edge
of the hyper-cube.
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