This keynote describes the frustrations of modern knowledge workers in their quest to actually get some work done, and solutions for how to guard yourself against all those distractions. 

Customer knowledge is market advantage. To refine its edge and better manage customer relationships, Haworth needed to learn what was important to its customers and deploy that knowledge to key decision makers. Read how they did it. 

Telepresence is the best video conferencing available. This Pocket E-Guide explains how telepresence looks, feels and works; identifies key telepresence providers; and provides information to help you determine if an investment in telepresence is right for your organization. 

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns? 

This white paper describes the architecture of the Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 servers, including the processor technology, I/O subsystem, built-in system management features, and range of supported operating systems. 

Oracle's vision of the next-generation data center is the Oracle Grid Computing architecture, which provides the software building blocks for creating a service-oriented, shared-resource environment. Read this paper to discover more of what Oracle has to offer. 

The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage. 

In November 2008, Sterling Commerce commissioned Forrester Consulting to investigate the value of a comprehensive integration solution (CIS) that encompasses the bulk of the enterprise’s integration needs. Forrester also conducted an online survey of key IT roles in selected geographical locations. This paper discusses the results of these studies. 

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. 

This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA. 

This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications. 

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. 

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.