Thirty Tips for 2009
These ideas for today’s tough market come from executives inside and outside of Oracle. Together they provide expert advice on everything from going lean, to managing content, to strategies for driving public sector projects.
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Oracle Customers Are Happy, Happy, Happy!
From ComputerWeekly.com: The UK Oracle User Group's annual survey reported that 96% of Oracle customers are happy with the overall function and features of Oracle development tools. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UKOUG, said the results showed a concerted effort by the supplier to address the concerns of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and BEA users.
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Confor Improves Animal Well-Being, Increases Safety for the Poultry Industry
Oracle Certified Partner Confor Age Srl, based in Italy, is meeting the critical need for food safety in the poultry industry with Televet, an automated system that remotely monitors the conditions of animals within an aviary farm.
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White Paper: Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques (PDF)
Oracle’s strategy-to-success framework describes a set of six management processes that lead organizations to become smarter, more agile, and better aligned—the key attributes of management excellence.
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Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
Get an understanding of Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) from Joe Thomas, Senior Director, Oracle BI Applications. Learn about Oracle's BI strategy, offerings and how customers are getting the information they need to make better decisions today with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications.
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Growing Pains: Managing a Sudden Boom in Your Midsize Business
The key to success is to be ready ahead of time. Profit discussed coping strategies with Andrew Keyt, Executive Director of the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center.
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Big Ideas: Leadership
“There are a lot of times when you will say something at a meeting, and everybody will nod and agree; but if you look at their faces, you can tell that they don't agree. A good manager will stop and say, 'I get the feeling that you guys still have some questions here or that you have reservations. Maybe we should talk about that now.' And if you do that ahead of time, before you spend US$100,000 on a project, you can change the whole direction of the project in a way that's really going to work." — Richard Conniff, author of The Ape in the Corner Office.

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Profit Magazine: November
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Oracle Launches Corporate Citizenship Report
Sales of new software licenses, a closely watched metric for Oracle because it indicates new business for the company rather than upkeep for existing customers, rose 14% to $1.2 billion. More...

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