Oracle Magazine January - February 2008 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Information Comes Home By David Baum Traditional relational content, unstructured content, XML, 3-D spatial data—your enterprise is home to all kinds of information. Read how customers are using Oracle Database 11g to store all their data, simplify management, and improve systems performance. Making Enterprise Choices By David A. Kelly With investments in SOA and other standards-based technologies, every Oracle application upgrade offers better integration choices. Find out how Oracle gives companies options for upgrades that improve performance, reduce complexity, and prepare the enterprise for the future. Definitely Not Old-School By Alan Joch Northwestern University faces all the IT challenges of any major corporation, plus a few that are unique to higher education. Learn how Northwestern's IT professionals are improving and simplifying the university's IT environment with an SOA and Oracle technology.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Capturing the Enterprise Imagination By Tom Haunert AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. Oracle OpenWorld Highlights from the show Oracle Resources Your guide to Oracle's broadband, education, online offerings, and more OTN Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Briefs Oracle News With full support for Oracle and non-Oracle applications, Oracle VM promises faster, cheaper, more scalable server virtualization. Interview By Caroline Kvitka Vince Casarez, Oracle vice president of product management, talks about Oracle WebCenter and Web 2.0. Interview By Jeff Erickson Ray Roccaforte, Oracle vice president of database development, talks about the Oracle Optimized Warehouse. COMMUNITY Commitment Oracle promotes teacher training to improve math and science education. Partner News Wipro, Promero, Centennial Software, BearingPoint, Solution Beacon, CPSG, Partners Consulting Services plus Book Beat Peer-to-Peer Chris Ostrowski, Andrejus Baranovskis, Jacco Landlust

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY DATABASE REPLAY Better Workload, Better Testing By Arup Nanda Use database replay to record and replay database activities for better testing. IDENTITY Intelligence and Identity By Mark Rittman and Joel Crisp Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Identity Management OCP Become a Certified Expert By Harald van Breederode and Joel Goodman Oracle University offers Oracle Expert certification in Oracle Real Application Clusters. ASK TOM On Tuning by Tracing By Tom Kyte Our technologist does a tune-up with SQL_TRACE.

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Services with a Smile By Steve Muench Create data-centric Web services for SOA development in minutes. BROWSER-BASED Reporting from Your Browser By David Peake Publish high-fidelity business intelligence reports with Oracle Application Express.

COMMENT IN THE FIELD Succeeding with Failure By Ari Kaplan Oracle Data Guard helps enable disaster recovery systems—and much more. ALL SECURE Beyond Data Protection By Mary Ann Davidson Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and Oracle Information Rights Management protect information. ANALYST'S CORNER Moving the Business Forward By David Baum Nucleus Research's Rebecca Wettemann discusses how Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle On Demand pave the way for application upgrades.