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New Webcasts

Oracle Presents: Who Stole Mark Drake?
Who stole Mark Drake's identity? From San Francisco to Singapore, the hunt is on and time is running out. Oracle's interactive mystery shows how Oracle Fusion Middleware can help businesses manage risk and gain business insight.

Oracle Security Strategy Briefing
Oracle President Charles Phillips discusses Oracle's strategy for a complete, unified, and standards-based security solution to meet the ever-growing security threat that organizations face.

Best Practices for Securing Oracle Databases
John Heimann of Oracle Security Program management and Roger Raj of Oracle Protected Enterprise discuss database security challenges, implementing a database security checklist, and developing a critical patch update strategy.

Extracting More from Identity Management Using an Application-Centric Approach
Identity management is a driving force in many implementations today, especially as it relates to security and compliance. Find out why Oracle is taking a new approach to identity management.

Oracle Support

"Configuration Support Manager"
Configuration Support Manager, a proactive automated support capability included in Oracle Premier Support, offers you a simpler way to track, manage, and support your Oracle configurations while reducing the risk of unplanned system downtime. Diagnose system issues before they become critical, increase system performance, resolve problems faster, and reduce IT risks and costs.

Oracle on Demand
"Oracle On Demand Perspectives"
Gartner analysts predict that 30 percent of software will be delivered on demand by 2010. Take a look at the business, technology, and financial reasons behind Oracle On Demand to determine if it is right for your business.

"Oracle On Demand for Siebel CRM"
Oracle's On Demand offering now includes Oracle On Demand for Siebel CRM, giving Siebel CRM customers the flexibility and choice of managed applications, hosting, and software management services.

New Podcasts

Designing the Dynamic Data Center
(Search keywords: 11i Extend Oracle Applications)
Dr. Bernd Kosch, vice president of alliances for Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, offers a progress report on the evolution of grid computing and associated standards, as well as the story behind the formation of the new Open Grid Forum standards organization.

Focus on Identity Management: Standards
Prateek Mishra, product manager for Oracle Identity Management and coauthor of the Security Assurance Markup Language specification, explains the impact of that specification and other standards on identity management deployments.

Focus on Identity Management: Application-Centric Identity Management
What is application-centric identity management, and why should architects and developers care about it? Nishant Kaushik, a technical staff member from the Oracle Identity Management team, provides insight.

Inside a "Power" SMB
Jody McDonough, CE0 and vice president of development at enetrix, discusses why identity management, business intelligence, and compliance architecture are important for his small business.

Oracle Analytic Applications Strategy
Chris Leone, Oracle group vice president, applications strategy, discusses Oracle's analytic applications offerings, product road map, and benefits to customers. 

Oracle Fusion Update
Jesper Andersen, Oracle senior vice president, applications strategy, provides an update on Oracle Fusion Applications and discusses the benefits of moving to current releases and what customers can do to prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle University

Oracle Identity Manager: Develop Identity Provisioning
(Search keywords: Identity Manager)
In this five-day course, learn how to use Oracle Identity Manager Design Console and Oracle Identity Manager Administration and User Console to build, customize, and use Oracle Identity Manager connectors for provisioning and reconciliation.

OracleAS 10g R3: Oracle ADF for Forms/4GL Developers
(Search keywords: Oracle ADF)
Learn to build applications using Oracle Application Development Framework Business Components (ADF BC), Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF databinding with Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3.