The Evolution of Usability
Joseph S. Dumas is a nationally recognized thought leader in user experience methods who has seen how changes in software interfaces have changed the way we work. Profit Online spoke with Dumas, now a user interface consultant with Oracle, about the evolution of usability, the impact of user interface on user productivity, and what we can expect from the next generation of Oracle products.
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Behind the Scenes with Oracle’s Applications User Experience Group
User experience is all about listening to our customers, say VP Jeremy Ashley and Misha Vaughan, architect, applications user experience, Oracle’s user experience professionals meet with our customers, the real end users, and observe how they work with existing processes from day to day.
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Win Over the New Value-Based Consumer with Next-Generation Assortment Planning
The new, value-based consumers need far more convincing. They are willing to wait longer for markdowns and are less tolerant when it comes to not having the right size or color on hand.
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Oracle Set to Release New Tool for More Accurate Spend Analyses
If spend data isn’t categorized properly, sourcing managers won’t see an accurate picture. Spend Classification mitigates this problem by combing through spending data to find misclassifications and then suggest corrections.
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OraTweet Ready for Flight
It’s all in there, pretty much everything you’d expect, including the ability to post to Twitter.
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Plugging Applications Into Oracle Technology: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle On Demand
“One of the things that On Demand does that no other service provider can match is that we have a commentating system, we have direct daily communication with our partners in other part at Oracle around what’s going on in applications around what types of situations are we seeing, what types of problems are we seeing… That makes us a very effective communications vehicle,” says Mike Beck, SVP of Global On Demand Operations.
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Today at 1:00 p.m. PDT: The Sales Game Has Changed – Are You Playing to Win?
How can salespeople develop a creative new strategy that will work in the current market? David Bonnette, Group Vice President of Oracle’s North American CRM sales organization, joins a panel of experts to discuss the most effective ways of creating and driving demand.
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Oracle Partners
At Oracle’s recent Virtual Partner Kickoff, Oracle executives Charles Phillips, Safra Catz and Judson Althoff detailed critical sales strategies for partners and announced a new program called Enablement 2.0. With new education options, enhancements to the OPN Competency Center, and an updated Oracle Partner Network portal, Oracle partners are getting more support than ever. Learn more about these efforts in this Profit Online special report.
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Big Ideas: Retail
“Sophisticated retailers know that science and statistics can make good decisions even better. Once a basic plan has been defined, it can be optimized based on forecasts and historical trends. Price, space, and replenishment optimizations are examples of processes that can squeeze out additional margin points.” — David Dorf, director of technology strategy for Oracle Retail.

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