Beyond Web 2.0
"This is no longer about social networking, or hooking up online, or creating a gardening community, or putting a video onto YouTube," says Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics. "Mass collaboration is becoming a new mode of production. And a new mode of production that enables better innovation and competitive advantage by definition is not a fad. It's something that will endure."
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Gaining a Competitive Edge With Business Intelligence Tools
Eaton Vance had needs similar to those of other financial services firms. Financial companies need a way to distribute information and make sure it’s been interpreted, analyzed, and used in a standardized way. Unless companies can do this—and do it well—anarchy reigns.
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Oracle Announces New Release of Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance
New financial modeling application lets executives understand the full financial impact of alternative corporate strategies, further extending Oracle’s leadership in enterprise performance management (EPM) and business planning.
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The Oracle Fusion Middleware Forum
Join application infrastructure thought leaders and your peers for a range of executive keynotes and technical sessions providing strategies and patterns for maximizing operational efficiency and addressing business expansion. Learn from customer case studies and get in-depth information on the Oracle Fusion Middleware product strategy.
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Time Out: Hacked Password List Offers Security Insights
From Yahoo: "Four percent used some variant of the word ‘password.’ Seriously, people, there's no excuse for this one.”
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Finance, the CFO's Office and Middleware: Four Focus Areas for Compliance, Automation and Process Improvement
Hear why leading finance organizations in the private and public sector have turned to middleware to tackle issues like SOX compliance, asset management, the move to shared services, and measuring a return investments.
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Change Is Possible
"Anytime we want people to do things differently, that in some shape or form is going to alter their self-concept, their self worth, their sense of competency," says Dr. Lisa Lahey, co-author of Immunity to Change. "Each of us, when trying to do something new, will have something going on that makes us not want to take that risk."
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Big Ideas: Transparency
“If you don't integrate your value chain, at one moment you'll be shut out. Regulators simply demand the information they require. And competitors who did get transparency right will overtake you left and right." — Frank Buytendijk, VP of Enterprise Performance Management.

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