Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC. 

<p>Over the last several decades, database management systems have become an integral part of every corporate IT landscape. This database manageability and productivity cost comparison study provides IT decision makers with factual information to address these challenges.</p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

Join this webcast to learn how Oracle GoldenGate's solution eliminates downtime when migrating to Oracle Exadata. You’ll hear directly from Oracle's customer, IQNavigator, and learn how they have benefited from using Oracle GoldenGate with Oracle Exadata. 

This paper shows the value of combining Oracle software with Intel Xeon processors on Dell PowerEdge servers. It begins with an overview of the collaboration that created these synergies, before detailing the major areas where they are manifest to end-customers: intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. 

This IDC case study examines the benefits TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services firm, gained from automating their eCommerce marketing. By deploying Oracle Real-Time Decisions, TIAA-CREF was able to apply intelligent process automation to customize online customer interactions. 

Read this white paper to learn how  the Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, mitigates the risk of deploying HCM solutions while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased return on investment (ROI), and improved workforce productivity and performance. 

<p>In this presentation transcript, join representatives from American Tire Distributors and EMC Corporation as they present the results they've achieved by virtualizing their Oracle environments.</p> 

MediSync's outdated storage infrastructure couldn't handle a new and robust medical application they installed. So they turned to Dell's EqualLogic iSCSI storage array to get the job done. Read this case study for the details. 

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. 

. 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. 

Improving the overall quality of your company’s decision-making process results also improves the overall effectiveness of your business. This paper explains how reporting will help your organization make better decisions, and how on-demand reporting allows you to accomplish this task in a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to use manner. 

Storage performance and capacity demands are increasing rapidly, creating storage input/output challenges for many enterprises running applications that need fast response times. This Webcast will address those challenges and explore a proven solution: Oracle's Sun Flash storage portfolio.