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Current Issue
August 2010
In 2005, Verizon launched a new business unit—Verizon Services Operations (VSO)—to centralize operations across all business divisions. Learn how VSO turned to Oracle to create a complete, standardized stack of technology on which to build its entire shared-services infrastructure—a process that has saved the company more than US$1.6 billion since 2006.
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 Special Report: Virtualization
This month, Oracle announced the latest Sun Ray Software 5 update. “The latest updates to Oracle's Sun Ray Software 5 demonstrate Oracle's continued commitment to deliver comprehensive, integrated and cost-effective virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering at Oracle. In this special report, read more about this release, including a closer look at its new features, and how Oracle's “desktop to data center” virtualization strategy benefits users.
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- Special Report: Workforce Effectiveness
As companies retrench and reorganize during the recovery, managing the workforce continues to be a top concern for management. Indeed, employers have many issues to consider, from how to prevent brain drain as employees retire or move on to other jobs, to how to prepare for a new crop of employees, many of whom are digital natives and expect constant connectivity in their jobs.
- Five Ideas: Taking Care of Your Customers
There's no doubt that organizations need to employ smart solutions so they can best manage their customers in today's market. Read below to get executive insight for dealing with a wide-range of clients.
- CFOs: Preparing for the Recovery
According to new research from the Harvard Business School, companies emerging strongest from a recession have achieved the elusive balance of improving operational efficiencies while investing strategically in new growth markets. Symantec Chief Financial Officer James Beer shares his strategies for how businesses can grow their top line through aggressive expansion and improve bottom-line performance.
- Are You Ready for Oracle OpenWorld?
At Oracle OpenWorld, being held in San Francisco from September 19-23, you?ll hear from executives about Oracle?s strategy and roadmap, as well as from the experts who are engineering Oracle's products. You?ll also get hands-on experience with hardware and software that is engineered to work together and built to optimize your business from end to end.
- Sun Labs: Innovation Factory
With Oracle's acquisition, Sun Labs has entered a growth phase. In addition to adding researchers, it will continue to foster relationships with university researchers, recruit students for its coveted internships, and play an active role in standards organizations.
- Five Ideas: Value of Information
Today's executives know that more and more information is available every day ? often right at their fingertips. But just how valuable is that information? These experts say sharing information can improve customer relationships, remove uncertainty from your business and more.
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Q+A
“We've had numerous CFOs tell us they've used the questions to initiate a strategic dialogue with their CIO counterparts. That was exactly the result we had hoped to achieve—to align the finance and IT organizations around key goals and raise awareness about the performance improvements that can be attained through technology,” says Epstein.
Special Delivery
Tony Hsieh
CEO of Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness.
“Despite the economy, our Q1 net sales were up almost 50 percent, year-over-year. That's really because of our focus on customer service, and the customer loyalty that that brings. On any given day, 75 percent of our orders are from repeat customers, so we're not as dependent on marketing and trying to get new customers.”
Viewpoint
Enabling Next-Generation Services in Communications
Trevor Naidoo
senior director in Industry Strategy and Insight at Oracle and leads the North American Insight Integration practice
“In a highly competitive, very dynamic market, speed and agility are critical traits for an organization to possess... Integration technologies such as SOA, Identity Management and MDM can help bring much needed speed and agility to the communications industry. ”
“in the fall of 2009, Oracle conducted the BI/EPM Innovation Awards survey. The objective of this research was to better understand the drivers behind, and benefits achieved from, investments in decision-making technology.”
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- Podcast: Improving Sustainability Reporting at DONG Energy
Nigel Youell discusses with Niels Peulicke-Andersen, Senior Advisor for Dong Energy how they are using Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System to consolidate and report financial and sustainability information for both internal management reporting and external stakeholder reporting.
- Podcast: What's New in PeopleSoft HCM 9.1?e
PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 is the most robust release in years with over 9,000 enhanced pages, 270 new features, 83 new Web services and 8 new solutions. Tune into this conversation with Jay Richey, Director, Product Marketing for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management Solutions to understand how this solution can improve the effectiveness of your workforce, drive higher organizational productivity, and continue to leverage your strategic investment in PeopleSoft HCM.
- Podcast: Improving Workforce Effectiveness with the NEW Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.6
By providing solutions for employees to better understand system and business processes, as well as their role within the company, organizations can improve employee productivity and address and aging workforce. Learn how organizations can master this challenge with Oracle User Productivity Kit.
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