Health Sciences
The recent acquisitions of Conformia's intellectual property and Relsys, underscore Oracle’s commitment to health sciences. With these new partnerships, Oracle will continue to be uniquely positioned with the products, vision, resources, and industry expertise to address the continued expansion of clinical trials and increased linkages across life sciences and healthcare. In this special package, Profit Online editors have assembled advice from Oracle experts regarding future of the industry and how technology continues to shape it. Plus, learn how customers are using Oracle products to transform their companies — and the lives of their patients.
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Press Release: Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of Conformia
“The addition of Conformia Software technology underscores Oracle’s commitment to provide customers with a differentiated, out-of-box industry-based solution,” said Oracle Vice President of PLM Strategy Hardeep Gulati.
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Economist Intelligence Unit report, “IT Modernization: An Exercise in Alignment”
Using survey findings and interviews with executives from around the world, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s report on IT modernization reveals how IT departments can better support strategic business transformation. Register now and find out how and why 95% of companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure and applications.
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Beyond the Spreadsheet: Business Schools Embrace Next-Generation BI and EPM
As margins tighten businesses—and the business school graduates they employ—must more carefully assess their costs and profit drivers, understand their markets and customers, and be able to make quick, informed decisions both as markets contract and in preparation for the inevitable rebound.
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The Future of Retail: A Conversation With Duncan Angrove
From Retail TouchPoints: Duncan Angove, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Oracle Retail talks about the current market, what customers will still buy, and technology’s role.
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Podcast: Green Initiatives in the Reverse Supply Chain
Product returns hurt both profits and the environment. How can green initiatives in the reverse supply chain benefit the bottom line?
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Finding a Good Fit: Interview With Acumen Founder Jacqueline Novogratz
“Probably more than any other quality, real leaders have extraordinary determination,” she says. “And they should have a comfort with being audacious, but also move from a place of humility. Today, we also need leaders comfortable with nuance and holding contradictions in their hands.”
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Unified Computing and Data Center Consolidation Virtual Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PDT

Attend the Oracle webcast on “The New Data Center Economics: Industry Trends—that can Lower the Cost of IT” and join the Oracle chat session in our virtual booth on “Oracle Cloud Computing.” Register now for this virtual event hosted by Cisco.

Big Ideas: Predictive Modeling
“One of the biggest benefits of building a simulation model is that you have to study the inputs so carefully and understand the problem so well you may not even have to run the model." — John Charnels, Senior Vice President in Enterprise Stress Testing at Bank of America and author of Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel.

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