Recognizing the need to grow efficiently while scaling Siebel CRM 8 capabilities, Sun created a proof-of-concept solution that consolidates Web, Gateway, Application, and Database tiers on a single Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server, reducing the number of physical machines needed to effectively deploy applications. 

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. 

Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Read this paper to learn about the operational costs and resource drains that organizations need to address when they engage in Oracle E-Business Suite projects. This paper provides tips about process automation and native tools, which help eliminate errors and simplify project execution. 

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. 

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. 

Oracle ActiveCache enables organizations to predictably scale applications running on Oracle WebLogic Server with simplified integration to Oracle Coherence. Learn more about the benefits of Oracle ActiveCache in this free white paper. 

Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available. 

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.