Oracle Publishing Editorial Calendars

The minimum lead time from plan to printed article is 4 to 6 months.

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Oracle Magazine Calendar 2013

Oracle Magazine is published 6 times yearly. Each issue of Oracle Magazine comprises:

January/February 2013

Oracle Excellence Awards

The Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards are now the Technologist of the Year Awards, under the Oracle Excellence Awards banner. Learn how the 2012 CIO of the Year, Technologist of the Year, and select Oracle Excellence Award winners stand out with Oracle products and technologies.

Technical Topics: Oracle Business Intelligence; PL/SQL 101; SQL 101; Active Session History

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due September 24, 2012

Advertisers: Ad close November 9, 2012; Materials due November 14, 2012

March/April 2013

Utility Computing in the Cloud

Moving to a public cloud environment must do more than relocate your on-premises IT challenges. Your public cloud must be secure and standards-based to keep your information safe and your business agile. See how Oracle Cloud delivers a secure, portable, and low-cost public cloud for your business.

Banking on a Private Cloud

IT consolidation can cut costs, but it can do so much more, especially when consolidation also creates a dynamic, secure, and private platform-as-a-service environment. Read how one organization consolidated, managed, and conquered IT challenges and created a secure and private database-as-a-service environment with Oracle technology. 

Technical Topics: PL/SQL 101; SQL 101; Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF)

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due November 26, 2012
Advertisers: Ad close January 11, 2013; Materials due January 16, 2013

May/June 2013

Engineered for Heroes

The cloud is not just for moving some information systems off-site and reducing upfront expenditures anymore. See how Tony Stark/Iron Man, Pepper Potts, and Stark Industries use Oracle Cloud to manage global operations—and train heroes.

Integrate and Mobilize

Whether your business technology services are in a public cloud, private cloud, or traditional data center, a solid SOA [service-oriented architecture] foundation delivers the best service integration and performance—and the best return on your technology investments. Read how Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions—including Oracle SOA Suite—enable the building, deployment, and management of modern, high-performing, and efficient business services.

Technical Topics: Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF); Oracle Business Intelligence; SQL 101

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due January 28, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close March 15, 2013; Materials due March 20, 2013

July/August 2013

Grow Up, Branch Out
When refreshing and consolidating servers and storage at your midsize business or in your department is necessary, how do you also plan for the growth? Read how organizations and departments are using Oracle Database Appliance to consolidate systems, simplify operations, deliver Oracle engineered system performance, and scale up their systems with pay-as-you-grow licensing.

Blazing Performance 

Oracle unveiled two new SPARC microprocessors, SPARC T5 and SPARC M5; introduced a portfolio of systems based on these chips; and reported that the new SPARC T5–based systems have set 17 world records. Read how the revolutionary SPARC microprocessor design is moving software into silicon to power the world’s fastest database, Java, and middleware servers.
 

Technical Topics: Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF); PL/SQL; Oracle Database; SQL 101  

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due March 25, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close May 10, 2013; Materials due May 15, 2013

September/October 2013

The Cloud Database
Oracle Database has always been the leading enterprise relational database, and it has continuously evolved to support object technology, internet computing, and more. Learn how the latest Oracle Database release changes technology and changes the cloud.

Technical Topics: Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF); PL/SQL; Oracle Database; Oracle Business Intelligence

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due June 3, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close July 19, 2013; Materials due July 24, 2013

November/December 2013

Storage: A Growth Story

Engineered storage systems combine the best hardware and software to enable your business to handle exponential data growth. Learn how organizations are managing more information and improving system performance and storage reliability with Oracle engineered storage solutions. 

  

Speed Builds
Your organization runs on timely business decisions, but more data takes more time to analyze. How do you analyze more information and make better and faster business decisions? Learn how organizations are making better business decisions faster with Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine.

 

Technical Topics: Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF); PL/SQL; Oracle Database; Oracle Developer Tools

 

Editorial contributors: News items and article manuscripts due July 29 2013

Advertisers: Ad close September 13, 2013; Materials due September 18, 2013 

 

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Profit Magazine Calendar 2013

 

Profit is published 4 times yearly. Each issue of Profit comprises:

February 2013: “Talent Management”

The global economy is on the brink of a talent crunch: the growing demand for (and increasing scarcity of) knowledge workers and experienced managers is demanding that executives take a new approach to talent management. Fortunately, new business practices and enterprise solutions—as well as the advent of social recruiting—are improving the odds of finding the right fit for an open position.

Industry Focus: Public Sector
Technology Focus: Exadata; Exalytics; Primavera, private cloud

Editorial contributors: News items and suggestions for possible sources due October 1, 2012
Advertisers: Ad close November 30, 2012; Materials due December 5, 2012

 

May 2013: “Analytics”

The era of Big Data is here: the onslaught of information generated by internal and external business systems continues to increase and shows no signs of abating. But what data is the most important to your corporate strategy? What data do you keep, how long do you keep it, and how much do you pay have it on hand? Knowing the right questions to ask your data—and having the right tools to make the queries—is essential to getting the key business analytics you need to make the right strategic decisions.

Industry Focus: Financial Services
Technology Focus: Engineered Systems; Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Edition; Oracle Fusion Middleware; Hyperion
Note: Distribution at Collaborate 2013
 

Editorial contributors: News items and article sources due January 3, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close April 5, 2013; Materials due April 10, 2013

 

August 2013: “Enterprise Cloud”

Oracle solutions ARE Cloud solutions—deploying powerful enterprise technology is now more a matter of customer choice than technological limitations. Anything is possible, whether that means getting fast access to on-demand applications, building a private Cloud that delivers IT as a service across an organization, or building a hybrid model of on-premises installed IT and Cloud technology. How has this new flexibility changed the way IT strategy is executed and who is in charge?

Industry Focus: High Tech
Technology Focus: Oracle Cloud; Enterprise Social Technology; Oracle Fusion Applications

Editorial contributors: News items and article sources due April 1, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close June 21, 2013; Materials due June 26, 2013

 

Special Issue: “JD Edwards”

For four years, the JD Edwards community of partners and customers has opened their doors to Profit to tell their stories of business success. Once again, Profit devotes a special issue to the past success and future vision of the JD Edwards product line, as well as a closer look at how Oracle enterprise systems can support the business processes and long-term growth of small- and medium-size businesses.

Industry Focus: Manufacturing, Small- and medium-size business technology Technology Focus: JD Edwards
Technology Focus: Oracle Cloud; Enterprise Social Technology; Oracle Fusion Applications
Note: Distribution at Oracle OpenWorld

Editorial contributors: News items and article sources due April 1, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close June 21, 2013; Materials due June 26, 2013

 

 

November 2013: “Value Chain Innovation”

Innovation and execution: two terms that describe the operations of a modern value chain. But it takes flexible IT to capture good ideas and bring them to market. And optimized processes help managers coordinate global suppliers, retain optimum inventory levels, and maintain healthy profit margins. A manufacturing renaissance is causing major manufacturers in the United States to revisit established value chain policies and rapidly deploy new technology to build winning products consumers want. This issue of Profit will review the companies and solutions that are driving value chain innovation.

Industry Focus: Manufacturing, oil and gas
Technology Focus: Agile, Demantra, Oracle Transportation Management
 

Editorial contributors: News items and article sources due July 1, 2013
Advertisers: Ad close August 30, 2013; Materials due September 12, 2013

 

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