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Driving Business Value from IT Investments
Sonny Singh, senior vice president, Oracle, discusses the key questions driving IT decision-making, how you can analyze and improve the business impact of IT investments, and what Oracle is doing to improve business results for its customers.

Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Oracle executives Fred Studer, Charles Phillips, and Jose Lazares discuss Oracle Application Integration Architecture and how it fits into Oracle's overall strategy.

Oracle University
Oracle Database 11g course offerings
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Oracle Database 11g: New Features Overview
This one-day seminar introduces participants to the key new capabilities of Oracle Database 11g. Topic areas include new features for managing storage, ensuring high availability, improving scalability and performance, strengthening security, and managing data warehouses.

Oracle Database 11g: Change Management Overview Seminar
This one-day course focuses on Oracle Database 11g innovations that enable you to better manage the database and application upgrade process. Learn about features you can use to record production workloads, and then play them back in a test environment.

Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators
This five-day course gives participants the opportunity to learn about the new change management features and other key enhancements in Oracle Database 11g. Topic areas include managing change, diagnosing and recovering from problems, ensuring high availability, and improving scalability, performance, and security. New Podcasts
The New SOA Standards: Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
Vince Casarez, vice president of development at Oracle, explains why many enterprises are looking to add Web 2.0 services on top of their existing applications, and how Oracle WebCenter, a key technology in forthcoming Oracle Fusion Applications, provides infrastructure for that goal.

The Latest Updates to Oracle's Applications Strategy
John Wookey, Oracle senior vice president, applications development, talks about new releases across all product lines, the path to Oracle Fusion, and what he is hearing from customers around the world.

The Value of Oracle's Application Integration Architecture to IT Managers
Jose Lazares, vice president of Oracle's Application Development organization, talks about Oracle Application Integration Architecture and how it helps provide a pathway to Oracle Fusion Applications.

The Solution to Spiraling Scalability Demands: Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP)
Steve Harris, vice president of Oracle Java and application server development, discusses evolving customer requirements for extreme scalability, reliability, and availability and how these can be addressed with an in-memory data grid such as Oracle Coherence.

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Oracle Database Insider
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