Sticking With Vanilla
Altering your enterprise systems to fit your business might seem like the best way to get the most from your software, but widespread customization can turn out to be a costly approach. If IT managers leave without documenting their changes, your software could end up with changes that are completely unknown to future staff. With such a tangle of legacy modifications in the mix, some CIOs choose to stick with outdated software just to avoid the headache and expense of an onerous upgrade. Find out how sticking with vanilla can lay the foundation for a scalable IT strategy—and even revamp some inefficient business processes.
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How Siebel CRM 8.1.1 Drives Cost Savings, Boosts Customer Loyalty
The second major release of Siebel CRM includes an end-to-end customer loyalty solution and expanded, industry-specific customer self-service, even as it drives down costs with increased support for open standards.
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Time Out: Charles Phillips Named to Obama’s Economic Advisory Board
The New Belgium From CNET: “I created this board to enlist voices that come from beyond the echo chamber of Washington, D.C., and to ensure that no stone is unturned as we work to put people back to work and to get our economy moving," Obama said.
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Modernizing the IT Infrastructure With iGovernment
With Oracle iGovernment, you can take advantage of your current applications, make you system more accessible, develop cross agency business processes, and deliver new services to your constituents while make it easier for them to interact with.
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Blog: Thinking About the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors List
Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, "I would like actual governance structures around Intended Do Good Security programs to ensure they are administered well, fairly, do not advantage a single vendor, promote actual and cost effective security improvement and do not demand the impossible overnight."
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Big Ideas: Security
“The best place to start is putting the sensitive information in a secure, managed and controlled environment, such as a database. The database is there to not only serve the data but also protect it.” — David Knox, author of the Oracle Database Security book.

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