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March 2008
Sustainability Reporting: The New Frontier in EPM Profit Q+A: Laying the IT Groundwork for Sustainability Reporting Contribute to Profit Online, Get a Free 1GB Flash Drive! Partner News: Cyber-Ark's Vaulting Technology Locks Down User Credentials AppCast: Why Oracle Customers Should Adopt SOA-Based Integration Today

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Sustainability Reporting: The New Frontier in EPM While the concept of triple bottom line reporting and the emergence of sustainable business practices may be fairly recent phenomena, tools already exist to help IT managers address the trends. Many of Oracle's products—including EPM and Financials—already have been deployed to help organizations meet the demands of this new wave of investment and reporting. More... Profit Q+A: Laying the IT Groundwork for Sustainability Reporting As the demand grows for organizations to address more stakeholders in their business practices, corporate governance systems are developing to meet the new requirements. Barry Floyd, information systems professor at California Polytechnic State University's Orfalea College of Business, talks to Profit Online about how both industry and academia are gearing up for the challenge. More... Contribute to Profit Online, Get a Free 1GB Flash Drive! Make your voice heard in the Oracle community by contributing a column to Profit Online. Our editors are always looking for reader submissions, so here's your opportunity to share a lesson or strategy about the use of Oracle in your enterprise. Whether you are a customer, partner, user, or employee, we want to know what’s working, what's on the horizon, and what intelligent IT is helping you accomplish. All serious contributors will receive a 1GB flash drive as a gift for participating. More... Partner News: Cyber-Ark's Vaulting Technology Locks Down User Credentials "As a company we find it amazing the amount of breaches of the magnitude that are happening are still happening," says Alan Bird, vice president of business development at Cyber-Ark. Thanks to "easy to guess" application identities and hard-coded passwords, users often can sign on to an application without anyone knowing who that person is or what they are doing. The 4.5 release of Cyber-Ark's Enterprise Password Vault locks those credentials down. More... AppCast: Why Oracle Customers Should Adopt SOA-Based Integration Today Nadia Bendjedou, director of product strategy at Oracle, discusses service-oriented architecture-based integration, how it will be the backbone for Oracle's next generation of applications, and why customers should be adopting it today. More... Subscribe to the Profit Online RSS Feed! Point your newsreader to Profit Online's RSS feed and get regular updates from the executive's guide to Oracle Applications. In addition to articles from Oracle's quarterly IT strategy journal, RSS users will get exclusive Web content, podcasts, and opinion from Oracle stakeholders sent directly to their computer. Just point your RSS reader to: www.oracle.com/technology/syndication/rss_profit_recent.xml Visit Oracle.com's RSS Center to learn more about syndicated Oracle content.

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Oracle CIO Executive Summit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 31–April 2 Keith Block, executive vice president, Oracle, will host this gathering for Oracle's top customers, exploring new ways to develop and capitalize on innovations that can transform businesses and promote growth over the next 12 to 24 months. More... Oracle CIO Executive Summit (EMEA) Venice, Italy April 3–5 Sergio Giacoletto, executive vice president, Oracle EMEA, will be hosting the next CIO Executive Summit April 3–5 at the Hilton Molino Stucky Hotel in Venice, Italy. This exclusive summit brings together industry visionaries, Oracle executives, and business leaders. Speakers will focus on the challenges facing CIOs and will discuss how you can identify best-in-class approaches to information and technology. More... Find an Oracle Event Near You

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