Finance
How should savvy leaders dealing with uncertainty and preparing themselves for success when the recovery starts' Right now many companies are curtailing their investments in IT, but this might be a bad idea, says Oracle Chief Financial Officer Jeff Epstein. “Continued IT investment is a proven way to lower your operating costs and improve your competitive capabilities,” he says.

In this updated special report, learn how CFO Epstein is getting results from finance automation and access to better business intelligence, plus get insight into the strategies recommended by top executives and strategists. Plus, get tips for making it easier for IT and Finance teams to communicate (and get things done).
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Where To Get the IT Help You Need to Ensure Success
Oracle has learning and networking options available, and you can find many solid consulting firms and individual consultants who can step forward with assistance. But there's one option that offers off-the-charts ROI: user groups.
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Whitepaper: Enterprise Collaboration for the Twenty-First Century
This white paper explains why improved enterprise collaboration is vital to succeeding in a hyper-competitive, global environment. And it shows how a new unified enterprise collaboration system, Oracle Beehive, can transform the way your organization collaborates.
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Oracle to Launch Next-Generation Oracle Accelerate
"With the next generation of Oracle Accelerate, we are strengthening our commitment to delivering higher-value solutions to midsize companies at a continuously lower cost," says Mark Johnson, vice president for Oracle Accelerate applications marketing and business development.
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Call for Nominations: 'Enable the Eco-Enterprise' Awards
Tell us how your company is using Oracle products to help protect the environment while reducing costs. Fifteen winners will be selected based on the extent of the environmental impact they have had as well as the business efficiencies they have achieved through their combined use of Oracle products.
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Blog: Bridging the Identity Divide
Roger Sullivan, VP of Business Development for Oracle Identity Management, "It is only by positively engaging, conversing, and collaborating with one another in an open forum that we can advance our collective interests and help customers achieve the benefits that, open, standards-based, and interoperable identity management solutions can provide."
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Proactive Project Decision Making
Hear how Oracle Primavera enables you to track project status in real-time, calculate ongoing project performance metrics, and forecast project completion metrics so that you no longer react to changing project needs, but instead avoid surprises and proactively manage projects to successful conclusion.
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Big Ideas: Content Management
“When we look at the ROI for document management, it can be measured in lots of different ways, usually about speeding processes that require a lot of document lookup, like accounts payable processing or call centers. But better than those ROI are the case of green efforts, where we really focus on three areas: Reduce paper costs, reduce shipping costs and reduce storage costs." — Brian Dirking, Principal Product Director.

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