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With the acquisition of Sun now final, Oracle offers customers a complete, open, and integrated stack of products ranging from disk and storage systems to applications and management tools. See how these technologies offer customers a wider choice and can be integrated into solutions that are optimized for better performance, reliability, and security. —By David A. Kelly
Sailing the trimaran USA, the crew of BMW ORACLE Racing overpowered their Swiss competitor in the best-of-three contest to bring home the America’s Cup for the first time since 1992. Discover how Oracle Data Mining helped the sailors make the best use of their yacht’s technology. —By Jeff Erickson
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From Our Grounded in Experience —Jeff Spicer
MashUp / 13 News, views, trends, and tools
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Find out about upcoming technology and industry events.
Resources / 17 Your guide to Oracle Webcasts, podcasts, blogs, and more
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John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, talks about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and what it means for customers.
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New Zealand Oracle Users Group’s Lynne O’Donoghue on making connections
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FRAMEWORKS Libraries You Can Depend On / 69 Modularize your applications by using Oracle Application Development Framework libraries. —Steve Muench
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While reading “The Route to Success” by Steve Muench (Oracle Magazine, January/ February 2010, otn.oracle.com/oramag/ oracle/10-jan/o10frame.html), I noticed that EmpView is executed without adding FindByEmpnoEnameOrJob view criteria. What about using just one bind variable, so that I needn’t call the NumberOrNull(Strings) method:
( (Emp.EMPNO = :VarSearch ) OR (UPPER(Emp.ENAME) LIKE UPPER(‘%’ || :VarSearch || ‘%’) ) OR (UPPER(Emp.JOB) LIKE UPPER(‘%’ || :VarSearch || ‘%’) ) )
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In “Tuning Your View Objects” by Steve Muench (Oracle Magazine, May/June 2006, otn.oracle .com/oramag/oracle/06-may/o36frame.html), Muench writes,
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May 18–19, Stockholm, Sweden orcan.se/index.php/event
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May 19, Adelaide, South Australia ausoug.org.au
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May 19, Cincinnati, Ohio gcoug.org
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May 19, New York City nyoug.org
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May 20–21, Cleveland, Ohio neooug.org
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Compliance Week
May 24–26, Washington DC
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Join global regulators; federal officials; gover-nance, risk, and compliance experts; and corpo-rate compliance and risk officers to learn about compliance structures, quantification, reporting, awareness, technology, and programs.
Oracle Sun High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium
May 29–30, Hamburg, Germany
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At the Oracle Sun HPC Consortium, customers, partners, and potential partners will learn about Oracle’s strategy for Sun HPC and HPC’s benefits.
International Supercomputing Conference
May 30–June 3, Hamburg, Germany
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This conference, celebrating its 25th anniver-sary, focuses on innovations and applications of supercomputing.
IASA 2010 Educational Conference and Business Show
June 6–9, Grapevine, Texas
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Targeting financial and technology professionals in the insurance and financial services indus-tries, this conference/show features keynote
speeches, technical sessions, executive round-tables, focused seminars, and more.
DIA Annual Meeting
June 13–17, Washington DC
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Sponsored by the Drug Information Association, this event is intended for professionals involved in the discovery, development, and lifecycle man-agement of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and related products.
Edison Electric Institute’s Annual Convention/Expo
June 13–16, Hollywood, Florida
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The Association of Shareholder-Owned Electric Companies sponsors this event, which covers smart grids, renewable energy, electrical trans-mission, carbon capture and storage, and more.
OHUG Global 2010 Conference
June 13–16, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Users of Oracle human capital management appli-cations will convene for education, networking, keynotes, and specialized sessions. The confer-ence will be preceded and followed by full-day educational sessions and invitation-only events.
UKOUG Conference Series
On enterprise performance management and Oracle’s Hyperion product line: June 16–17, London, England
On Oracle’s PeopleSoft product line: June 22–23, Heathrow, England
On Oracle’s Siebel product line:
June 30, Reading, England
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These product family–specific conferences, sponsored by the UK Oracle User Group, offer a range of topics for users at all levels. Oracle personnel and peer experts will share information and provide a forum for discussion and knowl-edge sharing.
ACE10 Annual Conference and Exposition
June 20–24, Chicago, Illinois
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This American Water Works Association event explores water resource sustainability, system sustainability, workforce sustainability, and economic sustainability. The accompanying exposition features more than 500 providers of technology and services.
ACE—America’s Claims Event
June 22–24, Las Vegas, Nevada
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This insurance industry event addresses the strategic and tactical challenges facing senior- and executive-level claims professionals. Learn about scaling the claims department, optimizing claims processing through automation, using business intelligence to identify fraud, and more.
ODTUG Kaleidoscope
June 27–July 1, Washington DC
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Sponsored by the Oracle Development Tools User Group, this annual event features more than 170 technical sessions, four full-day symposia, hands-on training, and a community service day.
Oracle Applications Strategy Update Global Tour 2010
Various cities
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Join Oracle executives for “Smart Strategies: Your Roadmap to the Future,” an exclusive briefing on business trends and technology shifts, and their impact on organizational strategies.
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VIDEOS
The Techcast Show: Mark Reinhold’s JDK 7 Roundup
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Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology Network editor in chief, talks with Mark Reinhold, principal engi-neer for Java Platform, Standard Edition and the Java Development Kit (JDK), about JDK 7.
Oracle Exadata: A Single Source of Truth
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In today’s hypercompetitive environment, business analysts need to perform more predictive analytics, and they want the answers yesterday. But managing separate business intelligence, data mining, and online analytical processing (OLAP) servers and ensuring fast query performance can be a challenge for DBAs. See how two DBAs address this challenge using Oracle Exadata.
PODCASTS
Sustainability Reporting, Planning, and Management
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John O’Rourke, senior director of product marketing for Oracle enterprise performance management solutions, discusses the drivers behind sustainability reporting.
Author Aleksander Seovic on Oracle Coherence
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Aleksander Seovic, author of Oracle Coherence 3.5, discusses how to achieve scalability, perfor-mance, and reliability with Oracle Coherence.
Author Charles Kim on Oracle Data Guard
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Charles Kim, coauthor of the Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook, discusses best practices.
Author John Scott on Oracle Application Express
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Oracle ACE Director John Scott, coauthor of Pro Oracle Application Express, shares his insights on Oracle Application Express.
Author Brian Huff on Content Management
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Brian “Bex” Huff, author of Transforming Infoglut!: A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management, discusses how to glean actionable business information from your “digital landfill” by deploying a flexible, cost-effective content management framework.
The Role of Oracle Essbase in Enterprise BI
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Find out why Oracle Essbase is a key part of Oracle’s business intelligence and performance management applications.
Most Enterprise Architecture Conversations Are Too [What?]
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S0A expert Todd Biske, Jordan Braunstein of TUSC, Basheer Khan of Innowave Technology, and enterprise architect Pat Shepherd of Oracle talk about what’s wrong with most of the talk about enterprise architecture.
WEBCASTS AND INTERNET SEMINARS
Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Series
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These sessions detail Oracle’s plans for Sun’s major hardware and software technologies.
Oracle Real Application Testing: Managing Change with Confidence
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Learn how to assess the impact of changes on production Oracle databases with Oracle Real Application Testing.
Reduce Costs and Simplify Management of Oracle WebLogic Server
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Hear how Oracle Management Pack for WebLogic Server models and monitors Java Platform, Enterprise Edition and Web services applications to enable users to identify bottlenecks, perfor-mance trends, and application efficiency.
Upgrading to Oracle WebLogic Suite
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Hear how upgrading your standalone application server to Oracle WebLogic Suite can simplify operations and better manage your SOA platform.
Maximize Your Data Center ROI While Achieving Continuous Data Availability
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Learn how to ensure disaster recovery, deliver IT service continuity, and improve resource utilization with Oracle GoldenGate.
The “New Normal”: An Applications Management Outsourcing Perfect Storm
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The Hackett Group’s Erik Dorr discusses the drivers behind business agility, IT performance, and application management transformation.
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WHITE PAPERS AND E-BOOKS
Metadata Services in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
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Learn about the underlying architecture that allows developers and end users to customize their applications to match specific user require-ments without changing the base application.
Planning for IFRS Adoption
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Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is no longer a question of “if” but “how and when.” Read why a cohesive approach is critical to manage the pervasive impact of IFRS on a company’s IT systems.
Securing Data at the Source: A Guide to Oracle Database Security
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No organization can afford to let down its guard when it comes to protecting mission-critical infor-mation. Learn how to secure your databases and protect your information using your existing data management infrastructure.
Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware
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Learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a comprehensive foundation for private clouds.
BLOGS
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RESOURCE CENTERS AND KITS
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To succeed in a 24/7 environment, companies must eliminate sluggish application performance, stale data, and interruptions in data availability. This resource kit offers white papers and analyst reports on a noninvasive, real-time data integration offering.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Competency Center
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In the PaaS Competency Center, Oracle technologists and customers can collaborate on patterns, blueprints, techniques, and code examples that exemplify PaaS using Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Coherence, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and other technologies.
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Learn more about Oracle’s support for cloud com-puting and get Amazon Machine Images, view demos and tutorials, and read white papers and technical information.
ASSESSMENT
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Test your IT practices and see how your results compare in your industry with a complimentary 10-minute online self-assessment. You’ll receive a
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Oracle Consulting’s Enterprise Architecture Services are offered to customers that have invested, or are considering investing significantly, in Oracle licenses—typically under an Oracle unlimited license agreement. The services provide you with a dedicated Oracle lead architect who will conduct an examination of your most critical business challenges and identify feasible, credible, affordable solutions that help you achieve your strategic goals.
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TUTORIALS
Oracle JDeveloper How-Tos
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These step-by-step tutorials will show you how to invoke Web services from rich Oracle Application Development Framework Faces UIs, including how to handle scenarios with asynchronous and secure services and complex parameters.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Overview and Tutorials
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This tutorial series will bring you up to speed on new features in Oracle Database 11g
Release 2. The series includes: Installing Grid Infrastructure for a Single Server, Managing the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System, Performing an Online Application Upgrade Using Edition-Based Redefinition, and Monitoring SQL Statements in Real Time Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Console.
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Latest Release of Oracle Database Lite Available
Oracle has announced Oracle Database Lite Release 10.3.0.3, a comprehensive tool for developing mobile and embedded applications.
The new Oracle Database Lite environment enables users to access data on mobile clients, regardless of their connection status, freeing them from the performance constraints of network bandwidth. The small-footprint, open source SQLite database runs on mobile clients and can synchronize bidirectionally with an Oracle Database instance when a con-nection is available. The Oracle Database Lite Mobile Server enables the synchronization with the back-end database server.
Oracle Database Lite features a common access card that enables smart card user authentication for applications that require
more security. Device reregistration enables multiple users to use the same device on dif-ferent days or during difdif-ferent shifts.
“As companies look to more cost- effectively run global operations, workers need to be able to efficiently access data without interruption or hassle, despite their physical location —which is why demand for mobile applications continues to grow across many industries,” says Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of software development at Oracle. “Oracle Database Lite’s support for mobile applications built on the open source SQLite database addresses this need and helps improve productivity for a large community of mobile workers who can now access their enterprise Oracle Database, no matter where their jobs take them.”
Oracle Introduces Oracle Communications Data Model
Now available, the Oracle Communications Data Model is a standards-based data model designed and optimized for Oracle data warehouses, including the Sun Oracle Database Machine. It provides a high- performance off-the-shelf data ware-housing platform specific to the com-munications industry that gives commu-nications service providers a fast, reliable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use way to get the most out of data. The data model fea-tures a standards-based, industry-specific data warehouse schema for communica-tions service providers. With prebuilt data mining, online analytical processing,
busi-ness intelligence metadata, and industry measures, it gives communications service providers faster insight into customer management, marketing, and network and product development. The data model can be used in any application environment and is extendable.
“Organizations are seeking tuned, standards-based solutions offering predict-able deployment; integration with existing systems; and the performance, scalability, and reliability to meet their data ware-housing needs,” says Ray Roccaforte, vice president of data warehousing and analytics at Oracle.
Oracle Provides Enhanced Talent Management Options
Oracle has released integrations between its PeopleSoft 9.1 talent management applications and PeopleSoft human capital management solutions. These integrations enable PeopleSoft human capital manage-ment customers to take advantage of the PeopleSoft 9.1 talent management busi-ness process enhancements while retaining their existing implementations. PeopleSoft 9.1 talent management applications offer solutions for performance management, succession planning, career development, and compensation, as well as recruiting and learning tools to help organizations attract,
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Oracle Tuxedo 11g Unveiled
Oracle has launched Oracle Tuxedo 11g, an industry-leading application server that enables enterprises to rehost C/C++, COBOL, and other mission-critical applications. Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Tuxedo 11g provides a standards-based application development model with support for Ruby and Python in addition to C/C++ and COBOL. Two new components of Oracle Tuxedo 11g are (1) Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS and Batch 11g and (2) Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench 11g. These tools redefine the process of mainframe migration to open systems by automating rehosting, which reduces the time, cost, and risk of migration projects and improves ROI.
Key capabilities in Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS and Batch 11g include the Customer Information Control System (CICS) runtime, which runs IBM CICS applications unchanged in an applications grid environment; the 3270 terminal server, which provides complete legacy terminal support; distributed CICS resource manage-ment, which simplifies resource management and administration by enabling customers to run CICS jobs in a distributed configura-tion; the Oracle Tuxedo job enqueuing service for batch, which delivers IBM JES2–like job submission and management capabilities; and the batch execution environment, which enables organizations to support IBM batch applications by supporting job control lan-guage (JCL) and other batch utilities.
Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench 11g includes tools for ensuring application integrity, file migrators for flat files, indexed sequential access method (ISAM) files, and DB2 databases as well as migration tools for JCL and COBOL assets.
“Global organizations need the best- possible application server for mission- critical C/C++ and COBOL applications to ensure uninterrupted operation and service delivery in a cost-effective way,” says Frank Xiong, vice president of software development at Oracle. “With the new Tuxedo Application Runtime solution and increased support for SOA application development and enhanced language support, Oracle Tuxedo 11g sets the standard for scalability and performance and provides customers with an industrial-strength alternative to mainframe systems.”
Oracle SOA Governance 11g Is Introduced
Now available, Oracle SOA Governance 11g enables organizations to more effec-tively manage the SOA lifecycle. Consisting of Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle Service Registry, SOA management with Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Web Services Manager, the Oracle Fusion Middleware component enables organiza-tions to manage their heterogeneous soft-ware project artifacts under a unified gover-nance umbrella.
Oracle SOA Governance 11g is fully inte-grated with Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle’s AmberPoint, a leader in SOA management (see page 22 to read more about AmberPoint). The new product provides organizations more continuity in a closed-loop governance
process that covers both Oracle and third-party applications.
“As organizations expand SOA deploy-ments, managing the numerous software artifacts in both SOA and application integra-tion projects can be a complex and expensive process,” says Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Oracle product development. “With the launch of Oracle SOA Governance 11g, Oracle becomes the only vendor to offer a unified management approach for both best-of-breed SOA and packaged applica-tions within a single platform. This unified governance umbrella not only helps organiza-tions deliver new business capabilities more efficiently but also helps ensure that they are closely aligned with key business objectives.”
New Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Release Available
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Release 11.1.1.4 delivers significant extensions to developers and open source communities that build Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Web services applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform where Eclipse is the preferred integrated develop-ment environdevelop-ment. The pack’s enhancedevelop-ments significantly reduce the number of code cycles and increase code quality by catching errors at design time.
The release delivers Oracle WebLogic Server service component architecture (SCA) support to help developers define a server and easily configure Oracle WebLogic Server SCA libraries and metadata as well as an Oracle WebLogic Server Java Message Service
(JMS) deployment descriptor editor that helps simplify and streamline authoring of JMS configuration files. The release also fea-tures AppXRay, a design-time dependency analysis and visualization tool that makes it easy for Java developers to work in a team setting, reduce runtime debugging, and improve code quality. Other new features include WYSIWYG Web page editing and JAX-WS Web service validation.
“With the new AppXRay feature, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse provides a means of easily visualizing the complex dependen-cies of your application, resulting in higher-quality code and faster development time,” says Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice president of tools and middleware at Oracle.
Oracle Acquires Convergin
Oracle has agreed to acquire Convergin, a pro-vider of real-time service brokering solutions. Convergin’s Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)–based service broker plat-form enables communications service providers to manage services for a wide range of networks and application plat-forms, including prepaid charging. The solution enables service providers to focus on launching new services while moving to next-generation networks.
Convergin products complement the Oracle Communications integrated product
suite, including Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management; Oracle Communications Converged Application Server, Standard Edition; and Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment.
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Oracle Launches Oracle FLEXCUBE 9.0
Transfer agents and fund managers can expand their businesses and even manage popular variants of hedge fund structures with Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0, Oracle’s solution for transfer agencies.
The new release is a single technology platform that enables transfer agents and fund managers to sustain market positions by expanding business with popular hedge fund variants such as simple, master-feeder, fund of funds, and side pocket. It also includes a variety of equalization fee methods and sup-ports accrual and payment of equalization fees based on fund performance.
Oracle also offers improved management of operations compliance through its Oracle
Mantas Know Your Customer and Oracle Mantas Anti Money Laundering software. Oracle FLEXCUBE 9.0 is supported across a range of geographies and entities and uses multiple products, currencies, languages, and time zones. It is also integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to provide comprehensive reporting.
“Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0 is a comprehensive transfer agency and fund distribution system that can help transfer agents and fund management companies address their business challenges and manage complex workflow procedures,” says Joseph John, executive vice president, Oracle Financial Services Software.
Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 Available
Oracle has released Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 to equip communications service providers with a new way of orchestrating customer and tech-nical information across front- and back-office systems for improved offer design, order cycle time, and accuracy. The solution offers rapid design and order delivery to help service providers unify historically disparate processes by more efficiently introducing new offers, capturing and fulfilling new orders, and providing visibility across the entire order lifecycle.
Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 includes Oracle’s Siebel Customer Relationship Management, Oracle Product Hub for Communications, and Oracle Application Integration
Architecture Foundation Pack Extension for Communications. It makes low-cost, in-flight order changes by enabling representatives to adjust existing orders to reflect new requests, and the updated orders automatically revise order fulfillment plans already completed or in process. This sequence helps accelerate order completion and reduce manual workarounds.
“Oracle Communications Order and Service Management 7.0 and the Oracle Communications solution for rapid offer design and order delivery can help commu-nications service providers cost-effectively accelerate offer introduction and decrease order delivery time from days to minutes while improving accuracy,” says Dan Ford, vice president of product marketing, Oracle Communications.
Oracle Database Lite
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Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse- pack.html
Oracle Tuxedo 11g
oracle.com/us/products/middleware/tuxedo Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base oracle.com/us/industries/healthcare/ 046614.html
Oracle Healthcare Analytics oracle.com/us/industries/healthcare/ 058441.html
Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0 oracle.com/us/industries/financial- services/046709.html
Oracle Communications Order and Service Management
Oracle to Buy AmberPoint
Oracle has agreed to acquire AmberPoint, a provider of SOA management solutions. AmberPoint’s solutions help organizations diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning, in which multiple applications need to work together.
“AmberPoint and Oracle share a vision of providing customers with comprehen-sive SOA management capabilities that support modern IT environments and are also complete, open, and integrated,” says Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development at Oracle. “We expect that the addition of AmberPoint’s products to Oracle SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that enables cus-tomers to manage the entire lifecycle of SOA-based solutions, providing visibility and management across heterogeneous environments.” W
Oracle Announces Major Healthcare Push
Oracle has announced Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base 6.1 and has introduced an enterprise healthcare analytics solution.
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base offers a multiple-use data repository that enables healthcare organizations to normalize the structure and vocabulary of administrative, clinical, and financial healthcare data to help reduce costs and improve patient care. It includes expanded Web services support for addressing meaningful-use requirements for continuity-of-care documents.
Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics
