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Overview: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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A Complete SAP Support Solution: How Oracle User Productivity Kit Complements SAP Solution Manager by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This white paper describes SAP Solution Manager, its use within the context of ASAP implementation methodology, and how Oracle User Productivity Kit integrates with it to provide complete and complementary support.

  View A Complete SAP Support Solution: How Oracle User Productivity Kit Complements SAP Solution Manager research abstract

A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

  View A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine research abstract

Accelerating Enterprise Application ROI by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Through interviews with service providers, this white paper identifies the most important capabilities of an effective training platform as well as examines the pressures companies and their project managers confront when tackling enterprise application implementations and upgrades.

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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid by Oracle Corporation. December 19, 2008 - Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer. Discover how to get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service with an application grid.

  View Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid research abstract

Achieving Reliability in Financial Reporting by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle’s financial governance solution can focus resources on high-risk areas, improve the quality and efficiency of the financial reporting process, and strengthen operational controls.

  View Achieving Reliability in Financial Reporting research abstract

Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited Application Scalability by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications.

  View Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited Application Scalability research abstract

Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 01, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

  View Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

Advanced Consulting Enterprises - Mapping Database Solutions to Your Needs by Oracle Corporation. January 28, 2009 - Guardianship Program is involved in all decisions like paying bills, medical treatments, rent for each person in its system and to manage this they implemented an Oracle Database and Oracle Developer Tool.

  View Advanced Consulting Enterprises - Mapping Database Solutions to Your Needs research abstract

Aero and Defense - Streamline, Automate and Accelerate with Project Management by Oracle Corporation. March 01, 2009 - This white paper asserts that the common thread that must run through all phases of project manufacturing is a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system. A PPM system will constantly examine resources, supplies and schedules to ensure that every phase of the project's lifecycle is on time and within budget.

  View Aero and Defense - Streamline, Automate and Accelerate with Project Management research abstract

Analytics Partners - Delivering Faster and More Strategic BI by Oracle Corporation. January 28, 2009 - Analytics Partners choosed to work exclusively with Oracle because of the strength and superiority of its product line, as well as confidence in Oracle's commitment to the emerging and mid-market as well as to its channel partners.

  View Analytics Partners - Delivering Faster and More Strategic BI research abstract

Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

  View Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation research abstract

Automating IT Configuration Controls with Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Change Console by Oracle Corporation. October 16, 2008 - This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.

  View Automating IT Configuration Controls with Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Change Console research abstract

Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g by Oracle Corporation. January 19, 2009 - In order to ensuring the EDW will get the optimal performance and will scale as your data set grows you need to get three fundamental things correct, the hardware configuration, the data model and the data loading process.

  View Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g research abstract

Best Practices in the Call Center: A Customer Touch-Point Methodology by Oracle Corporation. January 26, 2009 - One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions.

  View Best Practices in the Call Center: A Customer Touch-Point Methodology research abstract

BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? by Oracle Corporation. August 14, 2008 - The challenges faced by today’s government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied—and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.

  View BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck? research abstract

Buyer's Guide for User Provisioning and Role Management by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - Download this informative whitepaper to learn how to leverage identity administration solutions like user provisioning and role management to automate user administration for maximizing and accelerating return-on-investment while enforcing unfragmented, cost-effective compliance and control across your entire IT infrastructure.

  View Buyer's Guide for User Provisioning and Role Management research abstract

Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions by Oracle Corporation. February 13, 2009 - This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates.

  View Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions research abstract

Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Single Sign-On by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - This whitepaper offers a thorough checklist that should enable potential ESSO implementers to deploy the right ESSO solution which should help eliminate sign-on problems, reduce helpdesk costs, maximize user productivity, strengthen security, simplify administration and accelerate regulatory compliance.

  View Buyer’s Guide for Enterprise Single Sign-On research abstract

Change Management Best Practices for the Engineering and Construction Industry by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - The purpose of this white paper is to highlight best practices of identifying and managing changes that might occur on a construction project, and provide a process to effectively manage changes on construction projects.

  View Change Management Best Practices for the Engineering and Construction Industry research abstract

Choosing the Best CRM for Your Organization by Oracle Corporation. September 2007 - Explore four Customer Relationship Management (CRM) deployment scenarios and how to choose a CRM solution that will best meet your company's needs today and support your business as it grows and evolves.

  View Choosing the Best CRM for Your Organization research abstract

Circumstances and Customers Have Changed: Has Your Loyalty Program Kept Pace? by Oracle Corporation. October 02, 2009 - According to the 2009 COLLOQUY Loyalty Marketing Census, while the average household is enrolled in 14.1 loyalty programs, they're only active in 6.2 programs. In fact, poorly implemented loyalty strategies can actually diminish customer loyalty. So what do you do? Find out in this new complimentary white paper by Peppers & Rogers Group and Oracle.

  View Circumstances and Customers Have Changed: Has Your Loyalty Program Kept Pace? research abstract

Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications by Oracle Corporation. November 19, 2008 - As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility.

  View Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications research abstract

Connect and Empower Mobile Salespeople by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - Read this free white paper to see how mobile CRM will give your sales team a winning record on the road.

  View Connect and Empower Mobile Salespeople research abstract

Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 28, 2009 - With Oracle Database 11g powerful privileged user and multi-factor access control, data classification, and data masking, organizations can deploy reliable data security solutions that do not require any changes to existing applications, minimizing the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls.

  View Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

Cost-Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source by Oracle Corporation. August 01, 2009 - This IDC white paper presents the benefits to enterprises adopting a preemptive approach to IPC, the internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and highlights how Oracle provides database security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches.

  View Cost-Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source research abstract

Creating Enduring Customer Relationships by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn how investing in a new loyalty solution or improving your existing one will enable you to truly differentiate your business around the customer experience and drive lasting relationships.

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CRM Your Salespeople Will Love by Oracle Corporation. September 2007 - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can bring enormous benefits to companies, but only if users adopt it. Explore user adoption problems and an overview of the newest CRM features designed to drive ease of use and high rates of user adoption.

  View CRM Your Salespeople Will Love research abstract

Data Grids & SOA by Oracle Corporation. November 13, 2008 - This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered caching, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a competitive edge, improve financial performance, and sustain customer loyalty.

  View Data Grids & SOA research abstract

Delivering Identity Management Results in 30 Days by Oracle Corporation. September 29, 2009 - Learn how organizations like yours are leveraging identity management solutions and designing implementations to accelerate their time to value and achieve their security, compliance and IT cost savings goals today.

  View Delivering Identity Management Results in 30 Days research abstract

Demonstrating Results for Identity Management in 30 Days: A Customer Case Study by Oracle Corporation. September 23, 2009 - In this webcast, learn how a leading financial services company closed major gaps in their security and compliance programs using an identity management solution. Get details on the design and deployment, as well as how identity management aided in achieving quick results and immediate value.

  View Demonstrating Results for Identity Management in 30 Days: A Customer Case Study research abstract

Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time by Oracle Corporation. August 21, 2008 - This free white paper demonstrates how Java can be successfully deployed for real-time applications that were previously off-limits.

  View Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time research abstract

Differentiate Your Company with Complete CRM by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - This white paper will expand on what Oracle defines as Complete CRM - how businesses can better engage customers and users, manage customer transactions, and analyze results to adapt and take advantage of changing business and economic circumstances to realize greater value from CRM.

  View Differentiate Your Company with Complete CRM research abstract

Do You Have a Database Security Plan? by Oracle Corporation. November 18, 2009 - Most organizations have database discovery and maintenance plans, but surprisingly lack a database security plan. A piecemeal approach to securing the database is costly, inefficient, and creates gaps in protection and regulatory issues. View this webcast for tips from Forrester on how to design a comprehensive database security plan.

  View Do You Have a Database Security Plan? research abstract

Does Your Organization Need a Project Management Office? by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - As the number of projects grow, so does the risk of failure as resources get stretched & oversight lags. It becomes increasingly important to define project management processes & develop metrics & best practices for keeping projects on time and within budget. Read this paper to find out if a Project Management Office (PMO) could be your solution.

  View Does Your Organization Need a Project Management Office? research abstract

Earned Value Lite: Making Earned Value Management Work for Every Project by Oracle Corporation. May 01, 2009 - Read this paper to learn how the implementation of 10 fundamental steps can help your organization reap the rewards of EVM and give you the visibility you need to complete your projects on time and within budget.

  View Earned Value Lite: Making Earned Value Management Work for Every Project research abstract

Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5 by Oracle Corporation. January 01, 2009 - A recent study conducted by the Edison Group, shows how Oracle Database extends the lead over IBM DB2 9.5 for database manageability. In the whitepaper, Edison reveals how Oracle Database saves 40% in time for day-to-day administrative functions and 43% in database management costs over IBM DB2 9.5.

  View Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5 research abstract

Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Oracle Corporation. July 15, 2009 - In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

  View Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 research abstract

Empowerment as a Growth Strategy by Oracle Corporation. September 2007 - Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization's best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary results.

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Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses by Oracle Corporation. June 01, 2009 - Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.

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Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications.

  View Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness research abstract

Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures by Oracle Corporation. June 12, 2008 - This white paper discusses the testing challenges presented by Web services, and introduces best practices to ensure SOA application quality through the use of Oracle’s award-winning Web service testing solution, Oracle Application Testing Suite.

  View Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures research abstract

Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite by Oracle Corporation. February 01, 2009 - This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex,
business data is for the businesses that rely on it.

  View Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite research abstract

Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications by Oracle Corporation. December 18, 2008 - This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability.

  View Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications research abstract

Forrester: Competition Intensifies For The SMB ERP Customer by Oracle Corporation. August 2007 - This whitepaper addresses trends in Enterprie Resource Planning improvements as well as business needs and strengths to assess during vendor selection. Gain insight into the software as a service (SaaS) market and the results from heightened competition.

  View Forrester: Competition Intensifies For The SMB ERP Customer research abstract

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager by Oracle Corporation. January 19, 2009 - Oracle Identity Manager is an enterprise identity management system that manages users' access right and privileges, throughout the provisioning life-cycle, within enterprise IT resources.

  View Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager research abstract

From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game by Oracle Corporation. April 21, 2009 - This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy- to- use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company.

  View From Chaos to Order - Winning the Information Management Game research abstract

Helping Ensure Data Protection: How You Can Gain Business Advantage by Protecting Against Internal and External Threats by Oracle Corporation. February 25, 2009 - Affordable data infrastructure solutions based on open standards that are inherently secure are now available to midsize organizations. Not only are they quick and easy to deploy, use and maintain, they are designed to meet the constraints of limited IT resources and budgets in the face of the current economic downturn.

  View Helping Ensure Data Protection: How You Can Gain Business Advantage by Protecting Against Internal and External Threats research abstract

High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

  View High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

How Do You Evaluate Which On-Demand CRM Solution is Right for You? by Oracle Corporation. January 08, 2009 - The three main drivers of SaaS adoption—low initial cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and low internal IT resource profile—make SaaS solutions attractive at any time, but even more so in times of recession, provided there is a bona fide business need and the initiative can reliably be expected to create additional revenue or save money.

  View How Do You Evaluate Which On-Demand CRM Solution is Right for You? research abstract

How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP To Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - For midsize enterprises, now is the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion – despite the economic climate. Please read this case study to find out how installing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 helped Gavina Coffee improve efficiencies, cut overall costs, and make the business more competitive.

  View How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP To Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough Economy research abstract

Improving Process Flexibility: How to Respond Quickly to Changing Market Demands by Streamlining Processes by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This white paper will show that by improving process flexibility and transparency, not only can employees and systems adapt more easily to changing requirements, but existing infrastructure and applications can run more smoothly together for longer, thus raising ROI.

  View Improving Process Flexibility: How to Respond Quickly to Changing Market Demands by Streamlining Processes research abstract

Increasing Business Efficiency and End-User Productivity by Oracle Corporation. July 01, 2009 - The following report features Michael Fauscette, group vice president of IDC's Software Business Solutions research, answering questions posed by Oracle's customers regarding business efficiency and end-user productivity.

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Increasing ROI with Data Services by Oracle Corporation. August 14, 2008 - This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and BI.

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Information Connect: Program Management in the Public Interest - Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Solutions by Oracle Corporation. October 08, 2009 - Oracle's Primavera enterprise project portfolio management solutions help organizations effectively and efficiently invest their funds for the good of the public.

  View Information Connect: Program Management in the Public Interest - Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Solutions research abstract

Information Enables: Run Your Business Better – and Prove It by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn about Oracle’s comprehensive GRC platform and how leading enterprises are turning to Oracle’s new platform to meet the demands of increasingly challenging regulatory mandates while continuing to innovate and grow their business.

  View Information Enables: Run Your Business Better – and Prove It research abstract

Information Governs: Oracle Solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Now more than ever, enterprises must achieve strategic objectives while operating within prescribed boundaries. Oracle makes this possible with the most complete platform for governance, risk, and compliance. Read this white paper to learn more.

  View Information Governs: Oracle Solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance research abstract

IT Tipping Point for Mid-sized Companies: Deciding When to Move to Tier 1 ERP by Oracle Corporation. May 04, 2009 - This white paper will focus on debunking the myth that Tier 1 systems make running the business more difficult, while demonstrating that Tier 1 systems can actually make it easier for growing mid-sized companies to do the things they need to do.

  View IT Tipping Point for Mid-sized Companies: Deciding When to Move to Tier 1 ERP research abstract

It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0 by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly.

  View It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0 research abstract

Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence by Oracle Corporation. June 05, 2008 - A recent global study from Cranfield School of Management found organizations are too internally focused and did not use sufficient external information or benchmarking. A better understanding of management processes is needed. That is why we introduced our view on the management process: strategy-to-success. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

  View Journal of Management Excellence - Introducing Management Excellence research abstract

Leveling the Field: Powerful Software Solutions for Midsize Companies by Oracle Corporation. February 25, 2009 - This paper highlights the value and benefits Oracle partners bring to IT implementations through the global Accelerate program - fixed-scope/fixed-price approach that ultimately lowers costs to customers and speeds time to value.

  View Leveling the Field: Powerful Software Solutions for Midsize Companies research abstract

Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 01, 2009 - Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You’ll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

  View Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice.

  View Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications research abstract

Mainframe Rehosting with Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization by Oracle Corporation. March 26, 2009 - As companies face increasing pressure to deliver more business value from their IT spending and free up funding for new business initiatives, reducing mainframe costs and modernizing legacy applications have become top-of-mind.

  View Mainframe Rehosting with Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization research abstract

Make CRM Work the Way Salespeople Do by Oracle Corporation. October 08, 2009 - This white paper examines how traditional CRM technologies, while valuable in helping organizations manage customers and revenues, have not really assisted the salesforce do their jobs.

  View Make CRM Work the Way Salespeople Do research abstract

Manage Oracle Database Users and Roles Centrally in Active Directory or Sun Directory by Oracle Corporation. February 13, 2009 - This paper illustrates how you can now centrally administer database users and role memberships leveraging your existing LDAP directories.

  View Manage Oracle Database Users and Roles Centrally in Active Directory or Sun Directory research abstract

Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques by Oracle Corporation. November 01, 2008 - One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

  View Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques research abstract

Managing Project and Portfolio Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn by Oracle Corporation. March 01, 2009 - Project portfolio management solutions, such as those from Oracle, enable project leaders to successfully manage risk, even in this volatile climate. They also enable companies to identify the best strategies for pursuing existing projects and to identify the most-promising future projects for investment.

  View Managing Project and Portfolio Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry During an Economic Downturn research abstract

Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn how Integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

  View Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning research abstract

Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards by Oracle Corporation. July 01, 2008 - This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution.

  View Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards research abstract

Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by Oracle Corporation. July 29, 2009 - The white paper discusses what US organizations can do to prepare for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and focuses on what Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management solutions can do to help with top-end reporting.

  View Managing the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) research abstract

Maximizing CRM Effectiveness During Lean Times by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - When the economy turns around, as it will, how will your organization be poised to take advantage of the next expansion? Read the latest white paper written by Steve Diamond, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Oracle, to learn six areas your organization can focus on to improve business results.

  View Maximizing CRM Effectiveness During Lean Times research abstract

Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2007 - This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

  View Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications research abstract

Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2007 - This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.

  View Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications research abstract

Mission-Critical Java by Oracle Corporation. October 23, 2008 - Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing.

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Nucleus Research: ROI Report on Oracle User Productivity Kit by Oracle Corporation. October 01, 2008 - This report from Nucleus Research discusses how companies using Oracle User Productivity Kit estimated an average of a fifty percent (50%) reduction in time to competency for new application users as well as other benefits organizations achieved with Oracle User Productivity Kit.

  View Nucleus Research: ROI Report on Oracle User Productivity Kit research abstract

ONE Oracle News for Midsize Organizations - Issue 04 by Oracle Corporation. February 24, 2009 - In this white paper, we're taking a closer look at how cost control goes hand-in-hand with process flexibility. Your IT infrastructure can help, with integrated, automated processes that enable your staff to get things done faster.

  View ONE Oracle News for Midsize Organizations - Issue 04 research abstract

ONE Oracle News for Midsize Organizations - Issue 05 by Oracle Corporation. June 04, 2009 - In this issue of ONE, Oracle takes a look at how insight combined with effective customer-facing processes can help you rise above your competition while at the same time gaining loyalty with your customers.

  View ONE Oracle News for Midsize Organizations - Issue 05 research abstract

Online Security: A Human Perspective by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - This paper summarizes the salient findings from a research into online consumer behavior and outlines the proper mechanisms for introducing security measures to streamline security and improve end-user experience by taking into account consumers’ attitudes and understanding of online security.

  View Online Security: A Human Perspective research abstract

Optimizing Daily and Routine Maintenance in the Oil & Gas Industry through Project Portfolio Management by Oracle Corporation. August 01, 2009 - Project portfolio management solutions, such as Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, help oil and gas executives successfully manage their daily and routine maintenance projects, by enabling them to more effectively manage resources, capture best practices and complete projects on-time and within budget.

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Optimizing Information Insight: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business decisions is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data.

  View Optimizing Information Insight: How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data research abstract

Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely by Oracle Corporation. March 01, 2009 - This paper gives you an overview of how Ovum has helped penetrate the upper-midmarket. Even when the slowing growth of the market hasn't.

  View Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart but Timely research abstract

Oracle AppCast: Aligning Finance and Operations with Business Strategy by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Complexity, uncertainty, global competition and shrinking cycle times are all challenges organizations face today. As a result, finance needs to take on the role of a business partner and work with operations to accommodate the business plan. In order to do this, the proper tools need to be in place.

  View Oracle AppCast: Aligning Finance and Operations with Business Strategy research abstract

Oracle AppCast: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with The Boston Consulting Group's Hal Sirkin by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Listen to this podcast featuring Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, to learn about the new Era in international business competition.

  View Oracle AppCast: Globalization Challenges and Opportunities: A Conversation with The Boston Consulting Group's Hal Sirkin research abstract

Oracle AppCast: How to Get the Most Out of Your Oracle Applications - Challenges of the Platform by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Regulatory requirements can be challenging and expensive to manage for any organization. This podcast will address some of the most common challenges and how software and applications can ease this process.

  View Oracle AppCast: How to Get the Most Out of Your Oracle Applications - Challenges of the Platform research abstract

Oracle Business Brief: Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business? by Oracle Corporation. November 2008 - Business continuity with low administration and maintenance costs. Can you make it happen? This Oracle business brief explains how mid-sized can improve performance by creating an IT infrastructure that makes working faster, easier and more effective.

  View Oracle Business Brief: Business Continuity - Are You Always Open for Business? research abstract

Oracle Business Brief: Controlling Costs with Flexible Processes by Oracle Corporation. February 24, 2009 - Read this business brief to learn how your growing business can: lower costs by enabling process flexibility, improve process flexibility by cutting costs, use process flexibility to control costs across your entire organization, and to continuously keep your costs under control.

  View Oracle Business Brief: Controlling Costs with Flexible Processes research abstract

Oracle Business Brief: Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions by Oracle Corporation. January 05, 2009 - Midsized companies often feel challenged by their deep pocketed competitors. However, being a midsized business actually makes you more agile in the market. However, this agility is dependent on your ability to manage data, information, and develop processes. This paper will outline how Oracle can help assist your data management solutions.

  View Oracle Business Brief: Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions research abstract

Oracle Business Brief: Make Compliance Work for You by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - Read this white paper and learn how to make compliance work for your organization, rather than the other way around - with Oracle solutions for midsize organizations.

  View Oracle Business Brief: Make Compliance Work for You research abstract

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus ---Technical Overview by Oracle Corporation. February 01, 2008 - Business intelligence (BI) needs to evolve such that it is no longer about reporting results but driving business processes. Learn how BI can bring you greater business visibility and insight to improve business performance.

  View Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus ---Technical Overview research abstract

Oracle Crystal Ball: Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Strategic Business Decisions by Oracle Corporation. September 14, 2009 - Increase revenue. Decrease costs. Reduce development time. Every day you strive to meet these goals. And each business decision you make either enables you to advance toward them - or impedes your progress. Read this paper to learn more.

  View Oracle Crystal Ball: Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Strategic Business Decisions research abstract

Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.

  View Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence by Oracle Corporation. October 2007 - This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more.

  View Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence research abstract

Oracle Database 11g Product Family by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

  View Oracle Database 11g Product Family research abstract

Oracle Database 11g: Cost-Effective Solutions for Security and Compliance by Oracle Corporation. June 01, 2009 - The increasingly sophisticated nature of information theft, and the continued emergence of new data privacy protection regulations worldwide, requires strong data security. Effective information security starts by protecting data at the source - the databases in which it resides. Read on to learn more.

  View Oracle Database 11g: Cost-Effective Solutions for Security and Compliance research abstract

Oracle Financial Analytics by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Oracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions.

  View Oracle Financial Analytics research abstract

Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - With Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning your capital asset plans are an integral part of Oracle Hyperion Planning, allowing you to accurately assess the impact of capital decisions on overall expense plans. Read on to learn more.

  View Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning research abstract

Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - To regularly monitor and measure performance, senior managers require a link between their company’s strategic and operational plans. Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard can help you define a methodology-neutral strategy and measure performance against goals, monitor progress on a regular basis, and communicate across your entire enterprise.

  View Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard research abstract

Oracle Hyperion Planning by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This data sheet will outline Oracle Hyperion Planning, a centralized Microsoft Excel- and Web-based planning solution that integrates financial and operational planning processes.

  View Oracle Hyperion Planning research abstract

Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Spreadsheet models for financial reporting can be cumbersome. With Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, your finance experts will be able to focus on testing alternative strategies, building contingency plans, and understanding the impact of those strategies and plans on your company's long-term performance.

  View Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance research abstract

Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - In most organizations, employee compensation and related expenses are the largest line items in the budget. Having control over these expenses is critical to meeting corporate performance objectives. Check out this data sheet to learn more.

  View Oracle Hyperion Workforce Planning research abstract

Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA by Oracle Corporation. August 01, 2008 - More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems.

  View Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA research abstract

Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. August 01, 2009 - This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change.

  View Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2 research abstract

Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle BPEL Process Manager by Oracle Corporation. July 01, 2006 - The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. Industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows.

  View Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle BPEL Process Manager research abstract

Oracle Solutions eXpo Virtual Seminar by Oracle Corporation. October 05, 2009 - Join Oracle and our Partners at Oracle Solutions eXpo Online, a FREE virtual conference, on Thursday, December 10, 2009 for IT experts and business decision makers.

  View Oracle Solutions eXpo Virtual Seminar research abstract

Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture by Oracle Corporation. June 18, 2008 - This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.

  View Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture research abstract

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation. June 01, 2009 - Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a significant new release of the core application grid infrastructure foundation underpinning Oracle Fusion Middleware. It has been designed to provide a standards-based, mission-critical platform for organizations that deploy application grid and service-oriented architectures.

  View Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical White Paper research abstract

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: Benefit Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware by Oracle Corporation. July 01, 2009 - Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

  View Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: Benefit Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware research abstract

Oracle WebLogic Suite: A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid by Oracle Corporation. December 19, 2008 - This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn how to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run.

  View Oracle WebLogic Suite: A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid research abstract

Oracle's Database Machine Delivers Extreme Performance by Oracle Corporation. October 19, 2009 - Oracle Exadata provides the reliability, scalability, and extreme performance that database customers have been demanding in today's difficult business environment. Watch this video and learn about the exponential increases in data delivery speeds and system response times that Oracle Exadata provides.

  View Oracle's Database Machine Delivers Extreme Performance research abstract

Oracle's Financial Management Solutions: Preparing U.S. Companies for the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by Oracle Corporation. July 29, 2009 - The white paper discusses what US organizations can do to prepare for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and what Oracle's Financial Management Solutions do to streamline the process.

  View Oracle's Financial Management Solutions: Preparing U.S. Companies for the Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) research abstract

Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation. September 25, 2009 - Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

  View Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 research abstract

Performance Management Applications Overview by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of Business benefits as well as IT benefits; this overview outlines key benefits.

  View Performance Management Applications Overview research abstract

Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light by Oracle Corporation. January 2007 - Quickly implementing an ERP software solution can be of tremendous benefit. Read this white paper to learn about easy-to-follow best practices for achieving a successful accelerated implementation.

  View Performance Monitor: ERP at the Speed of Light research abstract

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability by Oracle Corporation. July 01, 2009 - Take a look at this important survey, which sought managers’ and professionals’ perspectives, both as external customers of e-business sites, as well as caretakers of their own online operations.

  View Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability research abstract

Plugging In the Universal Adapter by Oracle Corporation. January 01, 2009 - Oracle User Productivity Kit is the end user training and implementation solution for Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Check out this white paper to understand how you can 'plug in' Oracle User Productivity Kit and use it as the universal adapter for all enterprise application training and implementation needs.

  View Plugging In the Universal Adapter research abstract

Project Management Office Best Practices, A step-by-step plan to build and improve your PMO by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - The best-performing project management offices reduce business risk, optimize resources and contribute to business growth through a portfolio management office, according to Gartner. Read this informative paper from Oracle and take your first step to establishing a PMO or maturing your already established PMO.

  View Project Management Office Best Practices, A step-by-step plan to build and improve your PMO research abstract

Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing by Oracle Corporation. June 01, 2009 - Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.

  View Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing research abstract

Rapid Implementation- The New Age of ERP by Oracle Corporation. May 04, 2009 - By marrying technology with vertical industry expertise, the Oracle
Accelerate family of solutions is helping midsize companies become the nimble organizations they need to be today.

  View Rapid Implementation- The New Age of ERP research abstract

Realizing Seamless Change Management by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This white paper examines the importance of change management in the success of enterprise application implementations and upgrades. It also identifies the successful elements of change management as they relate to people, process, and technology.

  View Realizing Seamless Change Management research abstract

Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn - Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences by Oracle Corporation. March 09, 2009 - This white paper will explore the global retail industry's movement towards the attainment of total immersive shopping experience (ISE) abilities, and discuss how integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software suites will represent the key technological enabler to achieve this fundamental strategic business objective.

  View Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn - Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences research abstract

Revolutionizing Access Management with Shared Authorization Services by Oracle Corporation. November 01, 2008 - Read this whitepaper to learn how externalization and the consequent centralization of authorization policies leads to better policy transparency, improved compliance and quicker IT response to evolving regulatory requirements.

  View Revolutionizing Access Management with Shared Authorization Services research abstract

Right from the Start: SOA Lifestyle Governance by Oracle Corporation. June 18, 2008 - This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA.

  View Right from the Start: SOA Lifestyle Governance research abstract

Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them.

  View Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales research abstract

Self-Service That Really Serves by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - To truly meet the demands of the informed consumer, self-service solutions must have fully integrated e-commerce and e-billing systems that accommodate every aspect of the online customer experience. Read this free white paper to learn about all-in-one systems that build your brand and keep customers coming back.

  View Self-Service That Really Serves research abstract

Selling Through A Slump: An Industry-by-Industry Playbook to Help You Prepare for the Recovery by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - Selling in a recession is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in a recession. There are important dos and don'ts in times like these. This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump.

  View Selling Through A Slump: An Industry-by-Industry Playbook to Help You Prepare for the Recovery research abstract

Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM by Oracle Corporation. January 26, 2009 - With their rapid speed of deployment, integrated analytics and built-in best practices, on-demand CRM solutions can quickly vault a sales organization ahead of its rivals. And because of their flexible licensing structure, on-demand solutions can be deployed selectively, enabling businesses to deploy only as much CRM as they need.

  View Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM research abstract

Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies by Oracle Corporation. May 04, 2009 - This white paper will discuss the impact of Tier 1 systems on IT departments in terms of ongoing maintenance, demonstrating that Tier 1 systems make many IT tasks easier, ranging from new-report generation to user training to upgrade management.

  View Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies research abstract

SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation by Oracle Corporation. April 03, 2008 - There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is this body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled.

  View SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation research abstract

SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success by Oracle Corporation. September 01, 2008 - This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.

  View SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success research abstract

Social CRM Comes of Age by Oracle Corporation. April 01, 2009 - Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.

  View Social CRM Comes of Age research abstract

Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success by Oracle Corporation. February 2008 - Explore the results of this Yankee Group study aimed at determining how on-demand technology can be used to improve sales effectiveness. Gain a deeper understanding of the difference between sales administration and sales effectiveness and the role technology plays in driving revenue.

  View Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success research abstract

Speed Time to Value for SAP Implementations with Rapid Deployment by Oracle Corporation. September 01, 2009 - Oracle helps organizations achieve their goals with best of breed products that integrate with Oracle and non-Oracle solutions, such as SAP. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

  View Speed Time to Value for SAP Implementations with Rapid Deployment research abstract

State of the Business Process Management Market 2008 by Oracle Corporation. August 01, 2008 - Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more.

  View State of the Business Process Management Market 2008 research abstract

State of the Data Integration Market by Oracle Corporation. November 20, 2008 - This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.

  View State of the Data Integration Market research abstract

Sun Oracle Database Machine by Oracle Corporation. September 09, 2009 - This data sheet highlights the features and facts for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest for any type of database workload, and the only database machine that runs transaction processing applications.

  View Sun Oracle Database Machine research abstract

Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server by Oracle Corporation. September 09, 2009 - This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.

  View Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server research abstract

Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities.

  View Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age research abstract

Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of stakeholders by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

  View Sustainability Matters: Why - and how - business is widening its focus to consider the needs of stakeholders research abstract

Sustaining Software ROI Beyond Go-Live: How In-Application Performance Support Pays Off by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - This white paper examines post-go-live end-user support when developing training material and implementing a performance support system to boost the return on enterprise software investments.

  View Sustaining Software ROI Beyond Go-Live: How In-Application Performance Support Pays Off research abstract

The Business Case for Information Management by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

  View The Business Case for Information Management research abstract

The Capital Delivery Revolution and Technology: Connecting Capital Planning, Construction, and Everything in Between by Oracle Corporation. January 01, 2009 - This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis.

  View The Capital Delivery Revolution and Technology: Connecting Capital Planning, Construction, and Everything in Between research abstract

The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build by Oracle Corporation. June 23, 2009 - This white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems.

  View The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build research abstract

The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: Integrating Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing by Oracle Corporation. August 14, 2008 - Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time, providing continuous visibility-in short, an instantly responsive enterprise.

  View The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: Integrating Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing research abstract

The Need for Profitability and Cost Management by Oracle Corporation. September 01, 2008 - As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

  View The Need for Profitability and Cost Management research abstract

The Oracle Accelerate Program: Bring Value to Midsize Customers with Configurable and Scalable Solutions by Oracle Corporation. August 2008 - This paper explains how the HP Oracle Accelerate program benefits customers by providing a complete solution with an effective delivery mechanism that speeds deployment and improves business processes.

  View The Oracle Accelerate Program: Bring Value to Midsize Customers with Configurable and Scalable Solutions research abstract

Understanding an OLAP Solution from Oracle by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - This white paper discusses two Oracle OLAP solutions: Oracle's Hyperion Essbase and Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option which share similar characteristics but are individuals with their differences.

  View Understanding an OLAP Solution from Oracle research abstract

Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy System to SOA by Oracle Corporation. July 24, 2008 - Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.

  View Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy System to SOA research abstract

Video White Paper: Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - The best time to streamline and turbo-charge the sales process is when competitors are looking the other way. That's why now is a good time to make the shift to a CRM solution that can catapult your organization into the next round of growth.

  View Video White Paper: Seven Tips for Profiting from Lean Times with CRM research abstract

Video Whitepaper: Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses by Oracle Corporation. October 28, 2009 - Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.

  View Video Whitepaper: Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses research abstract

Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware by Oracle Corporation. October 28, 2009 - Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

  View Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware research abstract

Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning by Oracle Corporation. November 03, 2009 - A time of unprecedented market volatility and competition calls for a new business strategy. View this video white paper to learn how integrated business planning can help your company align strategic, operational, and financial plans.

  View Video Whitepaper: Managing Risk and Uncertainty - An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning research abstract

Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing by Oracle Corporation. October 28, 2009 - Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.

  View Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing research abstract

Video Whitepaper: The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build by Oracle Corporation. October 19, 2009 - This video white paper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or similar systems.

  View Video Whitepaper: The Great Debate: Buy Versus Build research abstract

Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management by Oracle Corporation. June 10, 2009 - How can Web 2.0 systems and applications support management of sales processes? Read this white paper to find out!

  View Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management research abstract

What is Your Recession Sales Strategy? by Oracle Corporation. January 26, 2009 - This study measures the effects of the recession on sales organizations and found that the mainstream response to the challenge of selling through a recession be generally off target.

  View What is Your Recession Sales Strategy? research abstract

What's New in SOA Suite 11g? by Oracle Corporation. June 01, 2009 - In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

  View What's New in SOA Suite 11g? research abstract

Why an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system is essential by Oracle Corporation. March 01, 2009 - If stimulus plans around the world are effective, we will see a boon in industrial manufacturing jobs and production. This paper stresses the importance of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system.

  View Why an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system is essential research abstract

Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size by Oracle Corporation. January 28, 2009 - Oracle's range of offerings to mid-size and emerging companies reflects its vision that BI and EPM solutions can be embraced by companies of all sizes.

  View Why BI is Ripe - Now! - For Businesses of Any Size research abstract

Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer by Oracle Corporation. October 01, 2009 - Download the Oracle CRM White Paper, "Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer," to learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization.

  View Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer research abstract

Winning the Performance Battle: Standardizing Best Practices with Technology by Oracle Corporation. March 01, 2009 - This white paper highlights the important elements and key benefits of standardizing business processes and operating procedures based on uniform, organization wide technology. It also serves as a guide for engineering and construction (E&C) firms choosing the right technology to promote standardization across their organizations.

  View Winning the Performance Battle: Standardizing Best Practices with Technology research abstract

Working the Way Salespeople Work by Oracle Corporation. September 2008 - This paper explores how the right mobile CRM application, one designed with the sales staff in mind, can lead to greater sales productivity, reduced costs, shortened sales cycles and increased revenue.

  View Working the Way Salespeople Work research abstract

Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard by Oracle Corporation. December 01, 2008 - Today the use of balanced scorecards for performance management has become a hallmark of a well-run company. This paper will provide guiding principles to help your company's overall performance.

  View Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard research abstract

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