This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment. 

Finding a business intelligence (BI) solution that integrates with your small to midsize organization's existing IT assets can be challenging. Read this paper to discover SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI, built on an open, heteregeneous platform and designed to integrate easily with SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and even mobile environments. 

In this webcast, representatives from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia discuss how it has consolidated multiple database services, including OLTP applications such as PeopleSoft Financials, onto an Oracle Exadata platform for improved performance and resilience and faster time-to-market. 

Read this Bloomberg Businessweek case study to learn how Swiss grocer Coop leveraged its customers' attachment to their iPhones with their long commutes and time-compressed schedules to boost both loyalty and sales with an iPhone shopping app that integrates with its back-end SAP ERP and CRM systems. 

Oracle Database Vault is the industry’s leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. Oracle Database Vault provides the flexible transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today’s global economy. 

There are both risks and rewards associated with the use of social media in a corporate setting, but one thing is clear: Decision makers can no longer ignore social media management. Read this white paper to learn more about the risks, rewards, and potential pitfalls of social networking 

Learn how one of the world's top-rated zoo uses analytics to create a more satisfying customer experience – while cutting marketing costs, increasing new visits, boosting concession revenues and much more. 

Matching technology plays an important role in achieving a single view of customers, parts, transactions or almost any type of data. Often used to identify duplicates, matching technology is vital to providing data that is fit-for-use in enterprise applications. This paper outlines the basic theories, strategies, and algorithms of record matching. 

When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise. 

This tip guide comes straight from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Read on to learn how to utilize today's technologies for enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. 

This tip guide features chapter 6 from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Access this resource now to learn how to align business process with customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives, tips for CRM strategy and how to effectively leverage the call center to improve customer loyalty. 

Read this e-guide from our award-winning editorial team to learn strategies for how to utilize innovative technologies to improve your customer experiences, retain customers and gain loyalty.