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Oracle helps businesses manage, use, share and protect information by offering solutions for every tier of your business: database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. Oracle delivers the information that helps you measure results and improve business processes.
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Experts Discuss Oracle Database 11g
Video: Hear why it's critical for DBAs to download Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and learn about some of the new features to make it easier to deploy, manage, tune, and secure your Oracle Database.
Preparing for Mission-Critical SOA with Next-Generation Governance Technologies
Whitepaper: Whether you are just embarking on an SOA program or expanding an existing initiative, the latest governance solutions can guide you along the path to demonstrable, measurable SOA success. Read this white paper now to see why theres never been a better time to confidently invest in SOA.
Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to Do Load Testing
Video: Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to quickly uncover Web application performance limitations. Developed through years of testing across all types of platforms, the RBI methodology dramatically reduces load testing cycles while allowing more—and more thorough—testing.
Edison Group, Comparative Management Costs Study: Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5
In a recent study conducted by the Edison Group, shows how Oracle Database extends the lead over IBM DB2 9.5 for database manageability. In the whitepaper, Edision reveals how Oracle Database saves 40% in time for day-to-day administrative functions and 43% in database management costs over IBM DB2 9.5.
State of the Data Integration Market
This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009--defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.
Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time
This free white paper demonstrates how Java can be successfully deployed for real-time applications that were previously off-limits.
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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.
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Virtualization has brought undoubted benefits to organizations forced with consolidating data centers. However, despite its triumphs in large-scale organizations, virtualization can fall short in safeguarding against unplanned downtime or consolidating beyond servers in areas of storage, data, and applications. According to this IDG white paper, next-generation grid-based solutions and strategies are now addressing the same issues that virtualization can tackle, but without compromising uptime and service delivery. Read ahead to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization. You'll also learn how grid computing is especially impactful in database consolidation with results like better availability, scalability, flexibility, lower costs, and better service levels of every kind.
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Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service. They demand extreme and predictable performance, continuous availability, and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a low cost. Read this white paper to learn how Oracle WebLogic Application Grid provides the data grid, Java runtime, and management features to meet these requirements.
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Oracle ActiveCache enables organizations to predictably scale applications running on Oracle WebLogic Server with simplified integration to Oracle Coherence. With Oracle Coherence, data is moved closer to applications for faster access and greater resource utilization. Share data and session state in memory across domains with high availability and reliability. Learn more about more about the benefits of Oracle ActiveCache in this free white paper.
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Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in IT today, but many IT professionals are struggling to determine how best to achieve cloud's promises of agile deployment and elastic capacity without losing control over data, security, and quality of service. Download this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.
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Service Oriented Architecture
The challenges faced by todays government agencies and commercial operations are many and variedand to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models. Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practicesbusiness process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0is providing a solution.
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There is an increasing desire among business users to get into the driver seat for defining how the business is run. Moreover, regulatory constraints are increasingly demanding that businesses have transparency and consistency in their decision making, and that they are able to certify compliance. Business Rules technology has emerged as the solution for addressing these requirements and Oracle Business Rules is a leading edge Business Rules product. This paper describes how Oracle Business Rules delivers on the promise of agility and enables its customer to change their business processes as well as other decisions rapidly, flexibly, and with confidence.
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Deployment procedures provide flexibility to incorporate the changes rising out of environmental conditions and technical requirements in one's environment. This unique ability provides the user with the advantage of combining the best practices defined for a task, along with user practices, to deliver automated solutions for complex, error-prone manual tasks. This white paper explains how you can automate the patching task for your database, significantly reducing time and effort normally involved in the manual patching activity.
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Managing your applications top-down from a business perspective allows you to identify business exceptions rapidly, pinpoint root cause issues using drilldowns in the underlying technologies, infrastructure, and remediate the issues automatically before they become emergencies. This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.
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As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility. Typically, these benefits are delivered to application developers by the framework vendors, using proprietary or standards-based protocols.
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