Shared Services
Shared services can be an important way for company's to cut costs and drive business. "By centralizing and consolidating IT systems and data centers, shared services implementations lower both complexity and costs," says Mike Gagas, senior director of marketing for Oracle On Demand. "Just as important, companies gain greater insight through consistent data and global business intelligence.”

In this special report, Oracle experts focus on surviving and thriving in today's market, while also providing a basic understanding of shared services and what products Oracle offers to help you build your own solution.
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First Ondemand Fights Back Against Fraud with Authentisec
Authentisec provides the ability to tag physical and virtual objects with unique identities that contain the full lifecycle status controlled by the client’s business applications. “Authentisec identities cannot be compromised by duplicating or counterfeiting,” says Douglas Shand, First Ondemand’s chief technology officer. “The solution is particularly effective where the management of high-value objects requires a robust, scalable, and secure method of redemption or validation.”
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OTN TechCasts Go Video
In this inaugural entry, development VPs Richard Sarwal and Leng Tan focus on Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 5 and the dramatic transformation of OEM from a database console to a true systems management platform since Release 1.
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Survey Shows Huge Challenges For 'Smart Grid,' Efficiency Efforts
From the New York Times: Ninety-five percent of electricity customers would like to have detailed data about when and how they use power, but just 20 percent are willing to pay for real-time information, according to a new survey by software giant Oracle Corp.
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The Value of Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management has become a top priority for corporations and governments around the world. Find out about the Primavera Global Business Unit in this webcast featuring Oracle president Charles Phillips.
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Q&A with Frank Buytendijk
"First, you need to enforce transparency, immediately. If you don’t have access to the right data about the market and your organization, you’re flying blind,” says Buytendijk, the VP of Enterprise Performance Management. “The basis of performance management is a solid business intelligence foundation."
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Big Ideas: Primavera
“The easiest way to describe the benefit of enterprise project portfolio management is that participants deserve a single version of the truth. They need to know what's going on now, what's taken place, what transactions have happened, how well they've done to date—and to be able to couple that with a real model of what's going to happen in the future so they can explore options and alternatives.” — Joel Koppelman, GM and SVP, Primavera Global Business Unit.

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