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Business Intelligence Edition
March 2009

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NEWS
Oracle Running Oracle BI: Mark Field Discusses Oracle's Pioneering BI Strategy
As vice president of enterprise reporting systems at Oracle, Mark Field leads the ongoing campaign to implement and optimize Oracle's own industry-leading business intelligence (BI) solutions. We asked Field to share his insight into Oracle's approach—and what's next on his agenda.
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At France Telecom, Oracle Essbase Helps Drive Business Transformation
France Telecom has chosen Oracle Essbase as the analytic foundation for its Beyond Transformation program, which is driving performance management across the organization through continuous benchmarking of financial and operational indicators.
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Latest Release of Oracle Integrated Operational Planning Brings Integration with Oracle BI
In response to today's volatile economic environment, the latest release of Oracle Integrated Operational Planning (IOP) integrates financial and operational planning with business intelligence to drive timely, fact-based decision-making across manufacturing, sales, and marketing functions.
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Latest Edition of the Journal of Management Excellence Now Available
Issue 4 is about creating value, typically the most important objective of every organization, but also the hardest to define.
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New Analyst Reports: Oracle Placed in Leaders’ Quadrants
Nominations Now Accepted for TDWI Best Practices 2009 Award
Have you completed a data warehouse or business intelligence implementation that you think other organizations could learn from? Would you like some recognition for your accomplishment? Are you a vendor with successful customers who deserve recognition? If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, then you should consider submitting an application for a TDWI Best Practices Award.
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CRYSTAL BALL
What Is Oracle Crystal Ball?
Oracle Crystal Ball is a powerful Monte-Carlo simulation and optimization engine that works within Microsoft Excel and the Office environment. It enables users to analyze problems in terms of ranges and distributions.
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WEBCASTS AND VIDEOS
Connecting the Dots with Business Intelligence Webcast
Join experts from Oracle and Gartner for a Webcast about increasing efficiency and establishing a competitive advantage in business intelligence. Learn the best ways to achieve success and how to determine the right BI solution for your company’s needs.
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Frank Buytendijk Discusses Enterprise Performance Management
“If I could give you two tips about what to focus on in order to be successful today, it would be to create transparency within the organization …and to focus on having better planning processes. The only way that you can keep in touch with reality is by having a continuously updated plan based on what truly drives the business.”
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TECH DIVE
New Business Intelligence Demo Now Available
A new demo is now available for viewing:
EVENTS
COLLABORATE 09
May 3-7
Orlando, Florida
Users of Oracle technology and applications should not miss COLLABORATE 09! Sessions will include updates on products such as OBIEE, Oracle Crystal Ball, Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance, Oracle Hyperion Planning, and of course, Oracle Essbase. There will be BI/Hyperion-focused demo stations, and OBIEE will have a dedicated station in the Middleware Demo area. Additional highlights include John Kopcke’s keynote on Monday, May 4, at 1:30 p.m., and a just-added BI Apps Hands-On Lab.
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BI Hands-On Lab at COLLABORATE 09
Dashboard and Reports Using Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for Oracle E-Business Suite
Come for an in-depth look into Oracle BI Applications, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization. The lab will include a detailed demonstration of Oracle BI Applications showing use of Action Links with Oracle E-Business Suite.

Instructor-led, under-the-hood sessions on BI Applications administrative tools will reveal the inner workings of prebuilt metadata going all the way from the presentation layer down to the extraction routines that map to Oracle E-Business Suite tables. You will create a report using the Oracle BI Answers tool, and integration with Oracle E-Business Suite (SSO, Action Links) will also be explored. Don't miss out. Seats are limited.
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