Managing today's complex, volatile, global supply chains requires the right set of performance metrics as well as the insight into risks and opportunities that analytics provides. Read this paper to learn how to use the widely-accepted SCOR framework to assess and improve your organization's supply chain performance management. 

This white paper explains how you should balance customer service and organization efficiency by using performance data. 

This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization. 

Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution. 

The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls 

This white paper is intended to inform senior decision-makers about the business benefits associated with virtualizing IT infrastructure by using breakthrough CMT technology from Oracle. 

Read this research report to discover the results of comparison testing between two database management systems - Oracle Database Appliance and Microsoft SQL Server - in terms of the productivity and cost-efficiency differences. 

IT shops are increasingly considering failover capabilities to support critical Web-based services. This webcast looks at what factors you need to consider and tasks you must perform to successfully deploy Windows Server 2008 R2. 

Scorecards help you define, monitor and manage your company's critical metrics. By translating tactics and strategies into specific, measurable objectives, scorecards help you link corporate strategy to operations and ensure that your company's goals are consistently defined, understood and communicated. 

The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology. 

This paper is an introduction to the concept of tiered storage, the business needs that drive it and the value of implementing a tiered storage strategy. This strategy helps realize the value of information, drives down costs, lowers risks, improves accessibility, ensures the correct information is saved and so much more.