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Oracle
Pushes Deeper Into The Enterprise With Vertical Applications: Highlights
of the Oracle Spatial Users Meeting 2008—March 19, 2008, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice
Publisher describes how this year's presentations indicate Oracle's intent
to embed spatial functionality in its own BI solutions and how partners
and customers are responding by building location intelligent solutions
to spatially enable specific enterprise systems. |
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Information
Comes Home
—January/February, 2008, Oracle
Magazine (HTML) |
...In addition to improvements in performance,
scalability, availability, security, and management efficiency, Oracle
Database 11g includes many new features that support all your enterprise
data. For example, Oracle Database 11g's Spatial option provides
native semantic technology, which identifies and creates connections between
disparate pieces of data.... |
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Flying
Enterprise—An International Airport Integrates Oracle Spatial
—February, 2008, geoplace.com
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After taking over responsibility for
the operation of Toronto Pearson International Airport, Greater Toronto
Airports Authority developed a bold plan to construct a revitalized airport
the size of a small city. The plan requires management of massive amounts
diverse types of data for design, construction, ongoing operation and
maintenance.
The GTAA Technical Data Center (TDC) creates and maintains building,
site and utility information. The TDC chose Oracle Spatial as its primary
spatial data store. |
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Conference
Reinforces GIS–IT Connection—November 20, 2007, Cadalyst
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"Oracle Open World reveals the database
titan forging partnerships to handle the present and future need for GIS
data management"
"When a database giant like Oracle takes a decisive step toward
the geospatial market, IT and GIS inch closer toward each other." |
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Product
Overview: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus now
Supports Oracle MapViewer Map—October 11, 2007, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
The Oracle Staff discusses the integration
of Oracle spatial and location software with Oracle Business Intelligence
Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI Suite EE Plus). This integration
provides added value from location intelligence and improved decision
support for business processes throughout the enterprise. |
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Army
Corps Ready to Build on Oracle 11g—September 11, 2007, Government
Computer News (HTML) |
The Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer
Research & Development Center has been working with beta vesions of
Oracle Database 11g to explore technologies which will be useful
with programs under development by the Corps. For example, with Oracle
11g it will become possible for the Cold Regions Research Engineering
Laboratory to store point cloud data as single objects which can be queried
to do line-of-site, data point intensity or nearest neighbor calculations
without moving the data out of the database. |
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Guy
Carpenter's i-aXs Puts Data on the Map for Insurers—August 21,
2007, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
...i-aXs uses Oracle Spatial to store,
organize and manage spatial data, as well as to provide sophisticated
analytics. The technology allows i-aXs to integrate years of risk analysis,
catastrophe modeling results and current data, and put this information
on a map.... |
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Oracle
XE and Geospatial Information Systems: An Interview with Dennis Wuthrich
of Farallon Geographic—April 26, 2007, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
"...from our perspective, the big
deal about Oracle XE is that it is a free geospatial database, a relational
database management system (RDBMS) that can natively store geometry features
without the use of middleware...."—Dennis Wuthrich, Farallon
Geographics |
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Exploitation of Geospatial Information Holds the Key—January 2007,
Geospatial
Today (PDF 124KB) |
Dr Xavier Lopez, Director, Oracle Spatial
Technologies discusses the following three trends in geospatial technologies.
- Growing availability of free online consumer mapping services
- Increasing adoption of open source software
- Increasing adoption of 3D data in a variety of commercial and government
applications
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Service Oriented Architecture Approach to Semi-automated Updates of Topographic
Databases —Aug 17, 2006, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
Oracle's Giovanni Corcione and Jayant Sharma
examine the next phase of the Topographic DB (DBTI) project within the larger
SIGMATER project. Previous phases created a central integrated geospatial
database and implemented Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based processes
for data exchange between agencies. The next phase will address how to manage
updates to the Topographic DB in a SOA context. The article describes a
Web services-based approach to the issue. |
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Mashups,
Enterprise Values and the Elusive Tipping Point: Notes from the Location
Intelligence Conference 2006—Apr 7, 2006, Directions
Magazine (HTML) |
Jim Steiner, Senior Director, Oracle Server
Technologies and manager for Oracle's spatial products group discusses how
the goal expressed at the Location Intelligence Conference, of bringing
geospatial analysis, GIS and location intelligence into the mainstream if
we respect the Enterprise values of high performance, predictable behavior,
security, privacy of intellectual property and quality of information. |
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