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Oracle Files attracts partners.
Partners are lining up behind Oracle Files, Oracle's content management offering. Built on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Files is available as a standalone application or as part of Oracle Collaboration Suite. It provides advanced file, document, and records management capabilities for information management and regulatory compliance.
Systems integrator BearingPoint is building content management solutions for its clients and preparing content management reference architectures based on Oracle Files. "We're increasingly seeing the need for reference architectures for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance," says Donald J. Lovett, managing director at BearingPoint. "Enterprise content management, in addition to financial reporting, is an important step toward complying with regulations."
Another Oracle Partner, EMC Centera, offers a storage solution that will be integrated with Oracle Files. Centera, a division of EMC, provides a simple, scalable, secure storage solution for cost-effective retention, protection, and disposition of a wide range of fixed content. Centera provides fast, easy online access with assured content authenticity and petabyte scalability. "EMC Centera, with its unique capabilities and leading functionality, is a perfect complement to the benefits Oracle Files delivers," says Roy Sanford, vice president of content addressed storage at EMC. "The integration between EMC Centera and Oracle Files provides our mutual customers with the ability to manage and archive their enterprise information, cost-effectively facilitating regulatory compliance."
Kofax, creator of Ascent Capture, an information capture application, is partnering with Oracle to deliver regulatory compliance and business process automation solutions based on Oracle Files. Ascent Capture is used to capture, index, and validate information—in digital form or on paper. "We round out Oracle's content management application to the 100-percent level," says Anthony Macciola, Kofax's senior vice president of development and marketing.
Partners Leverage Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides a reliable solution for designing, deploying, and managing Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)-based business applications and processes. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is the first commercially available BPEL engine for Windows and is the cornerstone of Oracle's service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integration platform. Partners with BPEL expertise are making important contributions to the success of Oracle's BPEL offerings.
Popkin Software, for example, offers System Architect, now integrated with Oracle BPEL Process Manager. "We're a market leader in business process capture, analysis, and communication," says Jan Popkin, CEO of Popkin Software. "When using BPEL to link our technology to Oracle for implementing those processes, organizations gain a whole new value proposition. For the first time, this partnership adds architecture and modeling into the business process management (BPM) lifecycle." Popkin System Architect links business process models to a broader enterprise architecture, enabling users to visualize and analyze the relationships among their technology infrastructure, data flows, and business processes.
BPEL is also finding a use in the public sector. Local governments in the Netherlands, such as Ridderkerk, Tiel, and Arnhem, look to a company called Inter Access for assistance with e-government initiatives. "Within our state-of-the-art data center, we run the latest technology for optimal performance and scalability of our On Demand solutions," says Edwin van den Thillart, manager of solution development at Inter Access. "With Oracle BPEL Process Manager, we can make complex processes within municipalities easy. We are glad we are now live with more than 6,000 users within On Demand with Oracle solutions."
Oracle Partners Showcase RFID Possibilities
Oracle Sensor-Based Services provide companies looking to adopt radio frequency identification (RFID) technology with a set of capabilities to capture, manage, analyze, access, and respond to data from sensors such as RFID, location, and temperature.
Oracle partners offer extended solutions and services to enable customers to maximize the value of this powerful new technology, and this year, Oracle PartnerNetwork will launch a Sensor-Based Services Initiative to further support partner adoption of RFID technology and accelerate a worldwide community of companies to offer Oracle-based, leading-edge RFID solutions and services to customers. Some of the key partners currently engaging in joint RFID customer projects include:
AeroScout
AeroScout provides enterprise visibility solutions based on wireless standards. The AeroScout Visibility System combines positioning technologies for real-time location (RTLS), active radio-frequency identification (Active RFID), and telemetry in a single solution. AeroScout also provides a platform for application developers, OEMs, and systems integrators to deliver applications powered by its positioning technologies.
Capgemini
Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. It collaborates with companies to increase sales, reduce costs, and manage risks by using RFID. Capgemini considers RFID an enabling technology for business intelligence, mobility, and networking.
CSC Consulting Group
CSC has a 45-year record of delivering business results to hundreds of commercial and government clients worldwide. CSC's RFID practice combines life sciences, healthcare, and IT knowledge with strategic and operational capabilities. The company sees RFID as enabling the connection of supply chain management to the point of care and as a tool for data warehousing and business intelligence.
Deloitte
Deloitte's RFID group has substantial experience with a wide variety of sectors, including consumer business; the public sector; technology, media, and telecom; manufacturing; energy; financial services; and tourism, hospitality, and leisure.
EnvironMax
Working with Oracle, Intermec, and the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, EnvironMax is employing RFID in high-threat-materials management. EnvironMax has provided the foundation for tracking hazardous materials by using RFID tags to identify unauthorized movement of materials.
InfoLogix
InfoLogix Oracle Business Solutions offer Oracle users native, end-to-end mobile solutions for Oracle Warehouse Management and Oracle Mobile Supply Chain applications.
Intel
Intel architecture powers the real-world solutions that provide a better shopping experience and adds intelligence to every aspect of retail operations—from powerful mobile handheld devices on the store floor to servers delivering performance in the back office. Intel has taken the lead in designing and implementing some of the world's first digital supply chain solutions, including RFID-EPC (Electronic Product Code) solutions at the pallet, case, carton, and even item level.
Intermec
Intermec provides supply chain information products, services, and systems in hundreds of industries around the world. Intermec Intellitag RFID offers feature-rich UHF Generation 2 technology with user-requested capabilities. Intermec Intellitag systems are approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute for use in Europe and are completely compatible with ISO standards for true global supply chain operation.
R4 Global Solutions
R4 Global Solutions' Enable methodology encompasses strategy, business planning, implementation, integration, and support of RFID, helping provide real-time information to applications such as supply chain management, warehouse management, and inventory management.
Symbol Technologies
Symbol RFID solutions provide real-time visibility into the supply chain, from the dock door to the retail floor. Symbol makes fixed and mobile RFID readers, antennae, and tag inlays for use in the government, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail, transportation, and warehouse distribution markets.
Y3 Technologies
Founded in 1981, Y3 Technologies is a Singapore-based supply chain solutions provider that delivers a full suite of supply chain products and services. Y3 has developed award-winning integrated end-to-end supply chain solutions that manage materials flow, distribution flow, and customer return flows.
Zebra Technologies International
Zebra Technologies' high-frequency (13.56MHz) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPC-compatible RFID smart label printers/encoders support new standards and technologies as they evolve.
Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
By Jonathan Gennick
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 0-596-00746-9
Author and Oracle Magazine contributor Jonathan Gennick enjoys telling Oracle users how powerful the SQL*Plus tool is—so much so that he wrote a book on the topic a couple of years ago, and now he's updated the text with new and relevant information on Oracle 10g. This in-depth, comprehensive guide is for anyone who wants to make his or her work with Oracle SQL*Plus more effective, more productive, more useful, and more convenient.
The book takes you through all of the tasks you would want to accomplish by using SQL*Plus, including how to generate reports, extract data to a flat file, write simple scripts, write queries and other statements, prompt for user input, customize your SQL*Plus environment, and use SQL*Plus as a tuning aid to maximize the performance of SQL queries.
The book contains a valuable reference of command and format elements, making this a valuable addition to any DBA's Oracle library.
Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table
By Mogens Nørgaard, Dave Ensor, Tim Gorman, Kyle Hailey, Anjo Kolk, Jonathan Lewis, Connor McDonald, Cary Millsap, James Morle, David Ruthven, and Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Apress
ISBN: 1-59059-387-1
What do you get when numerous Oracle experts gather on a regular basis in coffee shops, bars, and each other's homes to trade stories and tips about Oracle technology? You get a book by 11 authors, each with key insights into the world of Oracle.
Each chapter of the book is its own separate story providing the author's personal perspective on Oracle technology and how it's used to solve critical business problems. Some authors in the book provide information on how they solved performance problems, others discuss particular methodologies or applications they developed for specific projects, and still other authors offer best practices. Such a collection of wisdom makes this book an unusual and compelling text.
Browse for these and other Oracle books at oracle.com/technology/books/10g_books.html.
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