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Oracle and NetApp Deliver Joint Solution for Compliance
Concerns about Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Basel II, and other regulations are driving the growth of content and records management. To answer that need, Oracle and NetApp have integrated Oracle Records Management with NetApp SnapLock, providing a single package for enterprise content and records management.
The combination of NetApp's SnapLock storage solution with Oracle Content Services and Oracle Records Management addresses U.S. Security and Exchange Commission rules 17a-3 and 17a-4, which mandate that company records be stored on WORM (write once, read many) storage. Moreover, the joint solution accelerates business operations and helps to manage the proliferation of content throughout the enterprise.
The joint offering provides an enterprisewide solution for unstructured content, such as documents, graphics, artwork, audio, and video. Oracle Content Services stores all documents and records in Oracle Database, allowing end users to share and find documents and apply permissions to them. NetApp provides a unified storage architecture that handles structured metadata and unstructured content using any storage architecture and any tier of disk.
Oracle Joins IBM AIX Collaboration Center as Founding Partner
Oracle has joined the IBM AIX Collaboration Center (IACC) as a founding partner. Oracle developers will work with IBM to integrate Oracle applications with current and upcoming versions of AIX 5L, IBM's UNIX operating system, and deliver Oracle applications on AIX concurrent with their availability on other platforms. AIX 5L runs on all IBM eServer pSeries systems, from entry-level servers and workstations to supercomputers. Oracle and IBM share more than 11,000 customers who can benefit from the alliance.
"Oracle's interest and investment in the AIX development platform is a recognition of IBM's leadership in the UNIX marketplace, and our focus on creating technologies that are fundamental to the futures of both our customers and partners," says Adalio Sanchez, general manager of IBM's eServer pSeries.
ISVs, Solution Providers Rely on Oracle OLAP
Leading independent software vendors (ISVs) and solution providers continue to show strong support for Oracle OLAP, the company's online analytical processing (OLAP) implementation. They're taking advantage of OLAP capabilities in Oracle Database 10g to deliver business analysis solutions, including demand planning and forecasting, product and customer profitability, sales and marketing analysis, and risk management. Oracle Database 10g integrates both OLAP and relational data, so users can access a broader range of information faster. Partner examples include:
- AITG AG's A3 WEBREPORTER, a customizable, plug-and-play, Web-based analysis and reporting application.
- arcplan's dynaSight, a rapid development environment that allows users to create analytic applications that can access multiple data sources, including Oracle OLAP, simultaneously.
- SolStonePlus, which offers business intelligence and data warehousing services and solutions and provides Oracle-related services. The company has integrated Oracle OLAP into its QubeView product to create a suite of tools for reporting and analysis.
- Vlamis Software Solutions, a provider of business solutions based on Oracle technologies that has assisted numerous customers with OLAP implementations.
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Oracle Fusion Middleware Takes Off, Led by HP
Oracle Fusion Middleware is gaining momentum, with 35 of the 50 largest global companies—and more than 28,500 customers in all—using it to address diverse information technology challenges. Some 7,500 independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators (SIs), and value-added resellers (VARs) now support Oracle Fusion Middleware. Capgemini, Computer Associates, Deloitte Consulting, FileNet, Hyperion, Mercury, and Novell are some of the leading solution providers citing Oracle Fusion Middleware's breadth of functionality, degree of integration, support for heterogeneous technology environments, scalability, reliability, and security as key factors in its adoption.
HP is one of Oracle's most active Oracle Fusion Middleware partners. HP and Oracle have long had a strong alliance in the database and applications businesses. (HP was named Oracle Technology Partner of the Year in 2005.) That same level of cooperation now extends to middleware: HP's Consulting and Integration team will incorporate Oracle Fusion Middleware into its service-oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio. With Oracle's software and the HP OpenView management software suite, HP will develop and deliver SOA-based business services that help customers automate business processes and integrate disparate data and applications, while leveraging existing applications.
"Organizations can plug Oracle's best-in-class middleware components into their existing IT systems to create flexible and automated computing environments," says Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle. "HP's adoption and support of Oracle Fusion Middleware and its SOA components are a testament to the market momentum we've experienced, and we are confident that our HP relationship will build on this momentum."
In other news, Oracle, HP, and Intel opened a center of excellence at Fundación Parque Tecnológico del Software (Parquesoft) in Cali, Colombia, to develop integrated Oracle Fusion Middleware-based solutions. More than 100 ISVs reside at Parquesoft, a combination technology park/business incubator/IT integrator.
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Oracle Partners Offer Wireless Mobile Field Service Solution
High-volume service providers, such as car rental agencies, have seen dramatic benefits by providing their field operations with robust mobile field service solutions. To extend these benefits to even more businesses with field service operations, Oracle, Symbol, Zebra, and BearingPoint have combined their products and services to provide an integrated field service solution that includes software, hardware, and services in a prepackaged wireless mobile field service solution.
Oracle provides the core field service software and development activities, which Symbol's mobile handheld device can access remotely. Zebra's portable thermal printer enables on-site printing by talking to the handheld. BearingPoint ties the entire package together with consulting and implementation offerings for field service enterprises.
The integrated solution supports barcode scanning, electronic signature capture, and wireless data synchronization. It also enables measurement of key performance metrics. While targeted at enterprises, the solution can also benefit midsize businesses, because BearingPoint's single-provider offering reduces implementation complexity and improves deployment speed and success.
CDW Debuts Ready-to-Run Oracle Database Solutions
CDW's certified technicians can now ship preconfigured and tested solutions that include Oracle Database 10g software on leading hardware platforms and operating systems. CDW's Enterprise Configuration Center, housed in its Vernon Hills, Illinois, distribution center, performs services that reduce implementation and deployment times for customers with small IT departments. CDW's expert technicians also preconfigure routers, switches, power, and storage onto racks so customers receive a complete, tested system.
"Oracle's database products continue to become increasingly attractive to the SMB [small-to-midsize business] market, specifically in terms of ease of installation and simplified management requirements," says Robert Shimp, Oracle's vice president of global technology sales support and marketing. "Combining that with CDW's proven ability to provide these preconfigured integrated solutions and their strong customer relationships makes an unbeatable combination for small and medium businesses."
The new offerings are part of CDW's expanding portfolio of IT services. "Preconfiguring and integrating Oracle database software into these solutions is the newest extension of our IT services offerings, which provide customers with multibrand solutions delivered quickly and correctly," says Harry J. Harczak, Jr., CDW's executive vice president of sales.
SQL Cookbook
By Anthony Molinaro
O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 0-596-00976-3
Do you want to take your SQL skills to the next level? SQL Cookbook demonstrates how to get more out of SQL before resorting to other tools or languages. For programmers with basic knowledge of SQL and experienced SQL developers alike, this book features more than 200 recipes for solving SQL problems. It addresses common data query and manipulation problems. Topics include window functions, pivoting rows into columns, reverse-pivoting columns into rows, creating histograms, summarizing data into buckets, generating running totals and subtotals, walking a string, and vendor-specific features such as Oracle's MODEL clause.
Author Anthony Molinaro is a database developer with nine years of experience solving SQL problems. "My goal was not so much to write a 'SQL Cookbook' as to write a 'Query Cookbook,'" says Molinaro. "I've aimed to create a book of queries ranging from the relatively easy to the difficult in hopes the reader would grasp the techniques behind those queries and use them to solve their own business problems."
Everyday Oracle DBA
By April Wells
Oracle Press
ISBN: 0-07-226208-7
Filled with tips, tricks, and shortcuts, Everyday Oracle DBA shows you how to effectively and efficiently administer an Oracle database and handle a variety of daily tasks with ease. The book is divided into logical sections, including Administration, Tuning, Backup and Recovery, SQL and PL/SQL, Troubleshooting, and a general section with tips for completing essential tasks. Author April Wells delves into database setup, user management, monitoring and tuning for peak performance, troubleshooting, testing, and how to set up and implement a sound backup and recovery plan. She also discusses critical tasks such as handling disaster recovery, allowing user access while protecting data integrity, enabling high availability using Oracle Real Application Clusters and Data Guard, and more. Other topics include enabling automated database auditing, using PL/SQL stored program units for administrative tasks, and taking advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Browse for Oracle books at oracle.com/technology/books/10g_books.html.
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