Additional Content

• Another Chain Unbound, by Aaron Lazenby
  Delivering products to market faster. Holding less in inventory. Removing steps in complex global processes. Oracle customers are breaking free from traditional supply chains.
• Engineering Change, by Swapan Jha
  How smart IT solutions can remove inefficiencies from the product development process—and reduce the time it takes to get to market.
• Forward Thinking
• Secure Foundations
  Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson talks about protecting valuable intellectual property from hackers. Plus: the Oracle Exastack platform for independent software vendors, and a powerful new processor for Oracle’s Sun hardware.
• Unleashing ISV Application Performance
  Benefits of the Oracle Exastack program.
• SPARC T4: Best of Both Worlds
  Oracle announced that systems based on a new SPARC T4 processor will be available in late 2011.
• News Brief
• Core Competencies, by Aaron Lazenby
  Dell CIO Robin Johnson helped the company retire 6,000 internal applications—and save as much as US$350 million.
• Cool Customer, by Fred Sandsmark
  IT strategists at Tecumseh use Oracle applications to consolidate financial and supply chain data, improving demand forecasting and creating more-efficient end-to-end operations.
• Oracle's Sun Hardware: Built to Perform, by Fred Sandsmark
• Clear Connection, by Minda Zetlin
  Oracle-based systems helped Plantronics executives understand global demand and streamline manufacturing and delivery of products to reach new markets and weather economic volatility.
• Oracles Prebuilt Integrations Benefit Supply Chain Organizations
• Keeping an Edge, by Marta Bright
  Principal Financial Group pilots a cloud-based Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management project to provide new insight to global HR managers.
• Soa with Smarts, by Alan Joch
  University of Virginia bypasses expensive customizations to deliver SOA-based applications that meet users’ needs—and prepares the IT department for the future adoption of Oracle Fusion Applications.
• Peaceful Coexistence, by Alan Joch
  Coexistence, a key component of the Oracle Fusion Applications strategy.
• Oracle Takes in Some Sun, by Monica Mehta
  Oracle’s IT department basks in great results with Sun servers and storage in the data center.
• Oracle IT: Best-Practices Laboratory, by Monica Mehta
• What Is Success?, by Minda Zetlin
  Why business and IT leaders need to agree on a definition of success if they want to deliver results to their customers.
• Should Business Satisfaction Factor into IT Pay?, by Minda Zetlin
• Perfect Attendance
  Oracle Applications Users Group Executive Vice President Bonnie Johnson shares her veteran tips for attending Oracle OpenWorld.
• Minding the Shop Floor, by Monica Mehta
• A New CIO
  A conversation with Larry Bonfante, CIO at the U.S. Tennis Association and author of Lessons in IT Transformation: Technology Expert to Business Leader.

JD Edwards Special Edition

• Back in the USA, by Alison Weiss
  United Streetcar gets domestic manufacturing back on track with Oracle ERP solutions.
• Improving the Sustainability of Public Transit, by Alison Weiss
• Growing Enterprise, by Aaron Lazenby
  It’s been one year since Profit’s first product-focused special issue, and Oracle’s JD Edwards application families are still coming on strong.
• Beyond Cost, by Rebecca Wettemann
  A new report from Nucleus Research finds five other reasons customers choose an ERP solution.
• Life in the Fast Lane
  CSS connects JD Edwards World instances for global bowling supplier.
• From Legacy to Cloud
  WTS hosts a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution for R.L. Polk & Co.
• The New Era of ERP, by Aaron Lazenby
  Changing times and technologies offer new opportunities for Oracle’s JD Edwards customers.