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Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost

Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

Connect and Empower Mobile Salespeople

Welcome to CRM in the era of mobility. It is an evolution that is just getting started, but which, its advocates say, stands finally to extend the value of CRM from the management suite down to the field salespeople to whom it was previously an annoyance. This white paper outlines how the best of the new mobile CRM applications work to help your mobile salespeople work smarter.

Four Secrets to Innovating with Packaged Applications

This white paper explains how current IT methodology for implementing application integrations and business process automation is failing the business over the long run. Learn about the four established patterns of innovation that help your organizations avoid these negative consequences.

Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization

IT organizations are faced with service-level pressures that necessitate cost reductions and greater operational efficiency. The key to success is finding the right balance. This white paper highlights how customers can use innovative virtualization and consolidation technologies from Oracle to create substantial savings on their investments in Sun servers from Oracle.

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Database
Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. more
What steps can IT managers take to make their DBAs more productive even when regular system monitoring and maintenance tasks are sure to become more complex over time? A good place to start is with a strategic plan for the IT department that is developed in conjunction with the stakeholders on the business side. more
Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. more
By deploying Oracle Database 11g within their IT architecture, organizations can leverage the power of the world's leading database to reduce their server and storage costs and improve quality of service. Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. more
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Customer Relationship Management
Welcome to CRM in the era of mobility. It is an evolution that is just getting started, but which, its advocates say, stands finally to extend the value of CRM from the management suite down to the field salespeople to whom it was previously an annoyance. This white paper outlines how the best of the new mobile CRM applications work to help your mobile salespeople work smarter. more
In the past businesses were able to cope with the lack of alignment between sales and marketing with varying degrees of success. But many of the methods they used no longer work in today's real-time, multi-channel, buyer-driven world. The hyper kinetic pace of the buyers' lives, coupled with significant shifts in the buying process make imperative greater alignment of sales and marketing with both each other and with their buyers goals, needs and wants. Download this Tech Brief to learn more. more
CRM can provide companies of all types and sizes with significant benefits, but only if users adopt it. Therefore, winning over users and obtaining buy-in at all management levels are crucial to the success of any CRM initiative. Front-line salespeople are often the major source of resistance. The newest solutions from leading software providers such as Oracle incorporate many innovations to change this trend. For example, new features let salespeople work the way they want to, reduce their administrative burden and genuinely support personal success in every aspect of the sales process. This white paper discusses user adoption problems in general, followed by an overview of the newest CRM features designed to drive ease of use and high rates of user adoption. more
Implementing a strict set of policies and procedures across all customer-facing functions often stifles the one element that enables companies to break away from the pack - employee-driven innovation. Simply stated, innovation no longer emanates solely from the CEO's office. This white paper shows why in many customer situations, an empowered, engaged employee is a more productive and profitable one. more
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Storage
Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. A single Oracle tape library unit can now house more than an exabyte of data and can offer cost savings of up to 20% compared to other tape vendors. more
Significant improvements have occurred in the tape industry, including longer media life, significantly improved drive and library reliability, higher drive duty cycles and much faster data rates than any previous generation of tape technology. LTO has become the most popular midrange and high-end technology for open systems, and is now in its 5th generation with LTO-5 and another 3 generations defined. Enterprise and midrange LTO product families, produced by six companies, are the most widely used tape product lines and are highlighted in this paper. more
Tape is a key component in the enterprise data center, and that will continue to be the case well into the future. If you're investigating new storage technologies it's worth being able to discern fact from myth as you consider your options. Download this Tech Brief to learn about five myths disk vendors like to spread about tape storage and get the facts. more
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ExaData
Making the move to cloud computing gives organizations an opportunity to revisit their IT deployments and look for new ways to consolidate infrastructure and deliver better services. One option to consider is moving Oracle databases onto a private cloud model. more
Built using industry-standard hardware from Sun, and intelligent database and storage software from Oracle, the Exadata Database Machine is a complete optimized package of software, servers, and storage. Simple and fast to implement, the Exadata Database Machine is ready to tackle your largest and most important database applications and often run them 10x faster, or more. more
The Exadata Database Machine is an easy to deploy out of the box solution for hosting the Oracle Database. Ready to go day one much of the integration effort, cost and time of database deployment has been eliminated. Whether its OLTP, DW or mixed application workloads, a common deployment creates a tremendous opportunity for consolidation economies of scale in the data center. All this with breakthrough performance. more
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Service Oriented Architecture
This white paper explains how current IT methodology for implementing application integrations and business process automation is failing the business over the long run. Learn about the four established patterns of innovation that help your organizations avoid these negative consequences. more
What are the true benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Answers to this question are often lost on complex technical discussions about what SOA is and how it works. But SOA offers a clear path to streamlined business process. This white paper provides a practical overview of SOA's business process benefits. more
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Servers
IT organizations are faced with service-level pressures that necessitate cost reductions and greater operational efficiency. The key to success is finding the right balance. This white paper highlights how customers can use innovative virtualization and consolidation technologies from Oracle to create substantial savings on their investments in Sun servers from Oracle. more
Oracle’s Sun servers are filled with cost-saving efficiencies that can help IT administrators keep costs and check while continuing to provide high-quality IT services within their budget. This paper examines five such efficiencies. more
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Application Grid
For most enterprise IT organizations, years of innovation, expansion, and acquisition have resulted in sprawling infrastructure that stretches the limits of manageability. While the individual IT systems and applications in service are often well considered and expertly implemented, the sheer scale of the ongoing IT investment itself has emerged as the dominant concern. more
For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. And although these approaches may be most valuable for extreme-scale applications, they can save time and money in almost any server-based application. more
Application grid is an emerging architecture for application server-level infrastructure that is ideally suited for consolidation. In particular, Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid technologies, including WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, Coherence, and JRockit, provide an excellent foundation for IT consolidation efforts. more
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