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Oracle
Completes BEA System Acquisition
On April 29,, 2008, Oracle announced that it has completed
its BEA Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise
application infrastructure solutions. The
addition of BEA is expected to accelerate innovation
by bringing together two companies with a common vision
of a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure
and will further increase the value that Oracle delivers
to its customers and partners.
Charles
Phillips Announce that Oracle is Extending Premier Support
for Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 until November 2010
Hear Oracle President Charles Phillips' April 14 keynote
from COLLABORATE08 as he reviews the extended support
for E-Business Suite, previews the road to come in the
Applications Unlimited journey, and provides an update
on Oracle's strategy to enable business transformation
with complete, open, and integrated enterprise software.
Oracle
Kicks Off Registration for Oracle OpenWorld® San
Francisco 2008
Enterprise
2.0 capabilities and content sharing environments are
key additions to the conference experience.
Oracle
Introduces Oracle Deal Management
New
application helps sales professionals improve decision-making
and increase overall profitability
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- May,
22 8am PST - 11:00am EST - Hyperion:
Oracle Webcast: Strategic Planning & EVA Metrics
in an International Trading Company
Featuring: Valora Group
22 May 2008 -8am PST, 11.00am EST
This leading European trading company in FMCG reviewed
its strategy and restructured. Hear how it developed,
tested and implemented the strategic plan and monitors
progress towards its goals. Speaker: Manuela Guidicelli
– Group Financial Planning. Register
today!
- June
15-19 in New Orleans, LA - ODTUG Kaleidoscope
2008
ODTUG Kaleidoscope is THE conference for real world
technologists using APEX, Oracle Fusion Middleware,
Business Intelligence, PL/SQL, Java EE, SOA, and much
more.
This is a unique opportunity to make real world contacts
you’ll rely on again and again, discuss and
share real world topics relevant for today’s
technical scenarios, and gather real world insight
that will keep you on the cutting edge. Register
- June
22-25, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV - OHUG Annual Conference
OHUG conferences deliver a unique environment in which
members are able to openly collaborate with other
users in their industries that are leveraging the
same modules and experiencing similar challenges!
This year's event includes special vertical sessions
for Retail, Education, and Compensation & Benefits.
Register today.
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Applications
Oracle
E-Business Suite:
- Oracle
Extends Premier Support for the Oracle E-Business
Suite
During
his keynote today at the COLLABORATE conference, Oracle
President Charles Phillips announced the company has
extended Premier Support for the Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 11.5.10 through November 2010. More
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the Announcement at COLLABORATE08
- Oracle
Introduces Oracle Deal Management
New
application helps sales professionals improve decision-making
and increase overall profitability. more
- Oracle
Expands Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management Offerings
Latest
versions of Oracle’s Agile PLM and Oracle’s
Agile PLM for Process enable manufacturers to accelerate
innovation and maximize profitability. more
- New
Oracle Applications Help Manufacturers Build and Optimize
Flexible Supply, Demand and Design Chains
Manufacturing companies equipped to create Information
driven Value Chains to Drive Revenue and maximize
profitability. more
- Oracle
and Satyam Computers to Co-Develop Business Process
Integration for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Collaboration
to Produce PLM Process Integration Packs as part of
the Oracle Application Integration Architecture initiative.
more
Oracle
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PeopleSoft
Enterprise:
- Oracle
Releases Oracle Application Access Controls Governor
8.0
A key component of the Oracle Governance, Risk, and
Compliance (GRC) applications suite and the latest
release of Oracle's comprehensive application access
control solution that enables compliance, audit and
security officers to automatically enforce authorization
policies across Oracle and non-Oracle systems. more
- Oracle
HCM Receives Strong Positive Rating in Leading Analyst
Firm’s Report for Large Enterprise HRMS
Gartner
Inc. gave a Strong Positive rating to Oracle's Human
Capital Management (HCM) offerings—including
the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise
and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solutions—in
its report "MarketScope for Large Enterprise
HRMS, 2008." more
- Independent
Research Firm Finds PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital
Management Enables Best-In-Class Performance
Aberdeen Group, Inc., an independent research firm,
found that fully integrated Human Capital Management
(HCM) systems, such as Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise
HCM, enable organizations to achieve demonstrable
gains in performance over the industry average. more
- Software
downloads! Visit the Oracle
E-Delivery Web site.
Siebel:
- Oracle
Database Vault Protects Oracle's Siebel CRM Information
Certification of Oracle Database Vault for use with
Oracle's Siebel CRM, providing extensible, out-of-the-box
policies that prevent unauthorized access to critical
application data by privileged users.
more
- Leading
Analyst Firm Positions Oracle in Leaders Quadrant
in Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Contact Centers
Oracle announced that it is positioned in the leaders
quadrant in the recent Gartner report, "Magic
Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers,
2008." more
- Software
downloads! Visit the Oracle
E-Delivery Web site.
Siebel
AppCasts
JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne:
- The
Latest on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 more
JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne AppCasts | Advisor
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JD Edwards
World:
- The
Latest Updates to Oracle's Applications Strategy more
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Questions about JD Edwards World?
For answers to your questions about JD Edwards World
products, support, or training, please call 1.800.289.2999.
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Oracle
On Demand:
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Get a Glimpse of Oracle's "Best-Kept Secret.".
Discover the Future of IT! Join Oracle On Demand SVP
Mike Beck for a tour of Oracle's Austin Data Center
and download a FREE Forrester white paper - IT
Operations and Systems Management: The Next Five Years.
more
- Turn
up the Information Business Power
- Watch this FREE On Demand Webcast to see how Oracle
On Demand addresses your TCO, ROI and Business Impact
of your IT investment. More
Technology
Oracle
Database:
- Oracle
Subsidiary Innobase OY Releases InnoDB Plug-in for
MySQL 5.1
Demonstrates
continued commitment to InnoDB and open source communities.
more
- Oracle
Database Vault Protects Oracle's Siebel CRM Information
Certification of Oracle Database Vault for use with
Oracle's Siebel CRM, providing extensible, out-of-the-box
policies that prevent unauthorized access to critical
application data by privileged users.
more
- Oracle
Introduces In-Memory Database Cache Option for Oracle
Database Enterprise Edition
Oracle In-Memory Database Cache option enables
customers and partners to significantly improve application
response times and throughput. more
- Get
Started with Oracle on Windows DVD
Learn how Oracle gives you the power to grow by providing
a scalable, easy-to-use platform for running your
business at a price you can afford. Request your free
copy of this DVD, containing Oracle Database 11g software,
whitepapers, tutorials, etc. more
- Software
Downloads - Free to download, free to
learn, unlimited evaluation
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Oracle Middleware:
- Oracle
Expands Enterprise Content Management Portfolio with
Launch of Oracle Universal Online Archive
Oracle E-mail Archive Service, a scalable and hot-pluggable
e-mail archiving interface, also unveiled. more
- Oracle
Unveils Strategy for Service-Oriented Security
Achieves key milestones with Oracle Identity Management
for delivering flexible architecture designed to Improve
security and business agility. more
- Oracle
Announces Availability of Oracle Role Manager
New Oracle Identity Management offering paves path
for role-based access control. more
- Oracle
Integrates Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management
with Oracle Application Server MapViewer
Oracle
announced that the latest release of Oracle Utilities
Work and Asset Management will allow utilities to
take advantage of out-of-the-box integration with
Oracle Application Server MapViewer, a component of
Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Application Server
MapViewer displays geospatial data from a number of
sources, including Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial,
utilities' GIS systems and external geospatial Web
sites accessible through Web services. more
- BE
A PART OF OUR GROWING COMMUNITY!
Get started in the Web 2.0 Resource Library,
hosted by Oracle. It's a fast-growing wiki where you
can learn from others and share what you know. Click
here to get started!
- Get
SOA Expertise On Demand
Watch an incredible lineup of leading companies and
industry experts share their experiences designing
and implementing SOA solutions. Find out why these
organizations chose an SOA approach, how they secured
management approval and addressed the challenges and
lessons learned during implementation. View
the Webcast!
- FREE
CIO Magazine Applications Strategy Guide
Get
your FREE CIO Magazine Applications Strategy Guide,
along with other resources, including a FREE online
SOA assessment, white papers and interactive tools
and case-studies and a Podcast featuring executive
insight. Find out why leading organizations are changing
the way they think about their business, strategic
applications, and going-forward IT strategies.
- Complimentary
BPM Whitepaper
Oracle's innovative approach to business process management
(BPM) promotes closed-loop business optimization facilitating
an iterative business process development effort allowing
for continuous collaboration between business managers'
process models and IT's implementation details. Register
now and receive your copy of Oracle
Empowers Business Process Excellence through Business
and IT Collaboration.
- What
kind of ROI is Possible with Content Management Technologies?
Attend on online seminar and read an independent study
written by Forrester Consulting and learn how Oracle
customer, Emerson Process Management, achieved a 177%
risk-adjusted ROI and payback within 12 months of
deploying Oracle Universal Content Management.
Learn more!
- Reduce
Financial Operations Costs, Free-up Resources for
More Strategic Tasks, and Accelerate your Processes
into Overdrive.
Integrate Oracle Imaging and Process Management (IPM)
with your current Oracle Financial Management Solution.
Click
here to view an on-demand Webcast and learn more!
- Content
Management Resource Kit CD
Develop a strategy for managing unstructured content
- start with Oracle’s Content Management Resource
Kit CD. This free CD is full of valuable information
for anyone evaluating or interested in content management
technologies including white papers, product demonstrations,
customer videos, RFP template and more! Order
your Free CD today!
- Oracle
Webcast - "The
Trust Factor: Secure Enterprise Search for High-Value
Content"
Listen to The Gilbane Group together with Oracle as
they discuss how Secure Enterprise search can connect
disparate resources and integrate your business. Let
the experts show you what it takes to get better results.
- Oracle
Web Seminar -
The Promise of Enterprise 2.0: Make it Real"
Join Oracle and Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor,
Harvard Business School to learn how your organization
can successfully deploy Enterprise 2.0 capabilities,
and bridge the gap between structured and unstructured
data. Register
now!
- Software
Downloads - Free to download, free to
learn, unlimited evaluation.
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Oracle
Enterprise Management:
- Oracle
Extends Oracle
Enterprise Manager’s Support for Heterogeneous
IT Environments
Adds six new system monitoring plug-ins to extend
top-down application management offering. more
- Oracle
Webcast - "Utility
Computing Made Simple: Automated Provisioning and
Patching Solutions for Oracle Grid Computing"
Register today to view an Oracle Webcast featuring
Noel Yuhanna, Principle Analyst at Forrester Research.
Along with a reality check on the status of utility
and grid computing, you'll discover how to maximize
your investment in these technologies—by spending
less time managing them.
- SOA
Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager
View the new Webcast,
"SOA Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager"
and get the latest on Oracle Enterprise Manager's
hot new SOA and middleware management capabilities,
including Oracle Application Diagnostics for Java
and enhanced runtime governance for SOA.
- Drive
Better Results with Top-Down Application Management
Get
your FREE Oracle Enterprise Manager DVD kit, containing
database, middleware, applications and other typical
data center components. Oracle Enterprise Manager
helps organizations increase IT insight and reduce
resolution times with integrated management.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Downloads
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Oracle
Tools:
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Oracle Technology Network Developer Day - Free Workshops
Learn hands-on SOA Development and how to
use Fusion Development Tools in an interactive, classroom
setting staffed by Oracle experts. more
- The
Oracle Fusion Developer's Guide to JavaOne 2008
Chat up JavaOne Rock Star Cameron Purdy and SOA guru
Dave Chappell; see the Thomas Kurian keynote (and
Oracle-led sessions on JPA, RIA, and more); and get
free passes to a special showing of Iron Man - just
for starters! more
- Technical
Article: Creating Oracle Coherence Caches in Oracle
JDeveloper
Learn how to create and configure an Oracle Coherence
cache in Oracle JDeveloper, step by step. More
- Technical
Article: Authorizing Access to Dynamic Spatial-Temporal
Data
Authorizing access to individual data objects based
on spatial and temporal references is a complex task.
Read this case study to learn one feasible approach.
more
- Software
Downloads - Free to download, free to
learn, unlimited evaluation
- New
Downloads!
Advisor
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Services
Services
Appcasts
On
Demand
- Oracle
Releases Oracle CRM On Demand Release 15
Oracle
CRM On Demand Release 15 is the latest release of
Oracle's industry-leading on demand CRM service that
continues Oracle's commitment to CRM innovation by
introducing powerful new Social CRM capabilities,
including social networking and collaboration capabilities
to enhance end-user productivity. more
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Get a Glimpse of Oracle's "Best-Kept Secret".
Discover the Future of IT! Join Oracle On
Demand SVP Mike Beck for a tour of Oracle's Austin
Data Center and download a FREE Forrester white paper
- IT Operations and Systems Management: The Next Five
Years.
Turn up the Information Business Power - Watch this
FREE On Demand webcast to see how Oracle On Demand
addresses your TCO, ROI and Business Impact of your
IT investment. more
- Turn
up the Information Business Power -
Watch this FREE
On Demand webcast to see how Oracle On Demand
addresses your TCO, ROI and Business Impact of your
IT investment.
- Oracle
CRM On Demand
Oracle
Support/ACS
- Rise
Above the Upgrade Challenge
Today, a strategic IT organization is essential to
business success. And when systems play a mission-critical
function in your business, managing successfully through
change is imperative. Hear how Sun Microsystems leveraged
Oracle's “virtual center of excellence”
to cut upgrade planning effort, reduce issue resolution
time and improve business results. Join
Webcast.
- Oracle
Extends Premier Support for the Oracle E-Business
Suite
During
his keynote today at the COLLABORATE conference, Oracle
President Charles Phillips announced the company has
extended Premier Support for the Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 11.5.10 through November 2010. more
| Hear
the Announcement at COLLABORATE08
- Get
up to 50% faster problem response with Oracle Priority
Service. Listen to a Podcast and download a free customer
success case study. more
- Oracle
Unbreakable Linux
Get your free two-disc pack and discover how your
enterprise can realize the full potential of Linux
with Oracle Unbreakable Linux. more
- See
how to start saving with Oracle Unbreakable Linux
today! Watch a free webcast and see how much
your organization can benefit from Oracle Unbreakable
Linux. more
- Critical
Patch Updates
Advisor
Webcasts: Support Tools and Processes (Requires
Metalink login)
Oracle
Consulting:
- Oracle
Consulting Resource Library Now Available
more
- Visit
Oracle Consulting Online more
Oracle
Financing:
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Oracle Financing Promotions and Offers
more
- Oracle
Financing Online more
Oracle
University:
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Courses in your Region!
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Oracle
Industries In the News
- IBM
and Oracle Serve Midsize Businesses
IBM joins Oracle Accelerate Program and delivers industry
solutions. more
Communications
- Oracle
Communications Billing and Revenue Management Wins
Billing & OSS World Excellence Award
Oracle wins two awards including best revenue management
solution and best new product. more
- Independent
Software Vendors Work with Oracle to Deliver Next-Generation
Services for the Communications Industry
More than 30 ISVs leverage Oracle Service Delivery
Platform to develop and deploy services rapidly.
more
Financial
Services
- Oracle
Announces Financial Services Global Leadership Summit
Event gathers industry leaders to collaborate, share
best practices and identify opportunities in financial
services sector. more
Manufacturing
- New
Oracle Applications Help Manufacturers Build and Optimize
Flexible Supply, Demand and Design Chains
Manufacturing companies equipped to create Information
driven Value Chains to Drive Revenue and maximize
profitability. more
Life
Sciences
- Oracle
Launches Siebel Personalized Content Delivery to Empower
Life Sciences Companies with a Single Solution to
Improve Sales and Marketing Effectiveness
Closed loop marketing solution delivers industry’s
first CRM and detailing platform. more
Utilities
- Oracle
Integrates Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management
with Oracle Application Server MapViewer
Oracle
announced that the latest release of Oracle Utilities
Work and Asset Management will allow utilities to
take advantage of out-of-the-box integration with
Oracle Application Server MapViewer, a component of
Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Application Server
MapViewer displays geospatial data from a number of
sources, including Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial,
utilities' GIS systems and external geospatial Web
sites accessible through Web services. more
Industry
Specific AppCasts
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Oracle
Partners:
- The
Oracle EE-CIS Partner of the Year Awards Honoured
Eight Category Winners: more
- Enterprise
Application Partner - Singular Logic, Greece
- General
Business Application Partner - Akademi, Turkey
- Enterprise
Technology Partner - Jet Infosystems, Russia
- General
Business Technology Partner - Softline, Russia
- B
est Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner - Vizyonex,
Turkey
- Best
Systems Integration (SI) Partner - BMS Consulting,
Ukraine
- Best
Business Intelligence (BI) Partner - Eksperteam, Turkey
- Best
New Partnership - Netline Group Sp. z o.o - Poland
- Oracle
Hails Partner Innovation at Oracle PartnerNetwork
(OPN) Day
EMEA Oracle PartnerNetwork Innovation Award
winners were:
First Place - Confor Srl (Italy); Second Place - 3i
Infotech (UK); Third Place - Sait (Italy). more
- New
Oracle Partner Tool Matches Sales Opportunities With
Real Product Solutions
Online resource to connect Oracle’s expanding
product portfolio with actual business needs of partners’
customers. more
- Over
120 Oracle Accelerate Solutions Now Available From
Oracle Partners
First
Oracle Accelerate Solutions to leverage Oracle’s
Agile Product Lifecycle Management; Partners introduce
solutions in new countries and industries. more
- Oracle
Unveils Partner Leadership Programme in the European
Enlargement and CIS (EE-CIS) Region
Oracle
helps partners enhance business growth by identifying
and strengthening their leadership attributes. more
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Oracle Partner Hubs Create Dedicated Resource
Facility For Oracle’s EE-CIS Partner Community
Train, develop, showcase - new Oracle initiative
will provide the end-to-end support partners need
to succeed. more
- Oracle
Enables EE-CIS Partners to Improve Marketing Skills
‘Plug and Play’ tool will help partners
deliver world class campaigns. more
- Oracle
Publishes New Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Solution
Maps for Oracle Applications
Updated and expanded ISV solution maps demonstrate
Oracle’s continued commitment to driving application
customer and partner success. more
- Learn
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Asia Pacific & Japan Sees Strong Customer Momentum
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