Oracle Magazine - September/October 2008

RESOURCES

OVERHEARD

“We’re the only company that has packaged applications built on our own middleware. That same middleware is used by ISVs; that same middleware is used by customers to develop and deploy custom applications as well.”

—Charles Phillips, Oracle President, in the BEA Welcome and Middleware Strategy Briefing Webcast ( oracle.com/goto/beawebcast)

Oracle customers, part strategist, and part trend spotter, Buytendijk seeks to identify challenges even before they present themselves and to help companies find smart, creative ways to improve performance.

and focused applications for salespeople. Unlocking the Strategic Value of Workforce Management Applications oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Sherri Bartels, director of human capital management product strategy at Oracle, discusses the challenges organizations face in managing their workforce and how Oracle’s workforce management applications can help increase workforce efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. Regulatory Compliance for Public Organizations—Achieving Stronger Controls and Better Management Practices oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Stephanie Holmeen, product marketing director, Oracle governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) applications, and Gregory Williams, director of the Washington federal practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, discuss how public administrations can achieve greater control over their dispersed compliance programs and minimize their risk by using Oracle’s GRC applications. Executive Update: Oracle’s Strategy for Industries oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Sonny Singh, senior vice president of Oracle’s Products and Industries Business Unit, discusses Oracle’s extensive footprint for industries and Oracle’s industry business strategy, which focuses on providing a complete, open, and integrated solution. Announcing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Application-Specific Content for Oracle User Productivity Kit and Oracle Tutor oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Stuart Dunsmore, senior director of Oracle User Productivity Kit and Oracle Tutor development, discusses the prebuilt content available for Oracle E-Business Suite 12 and how this content can help customers from

the start of an implementation or upgrade project through go-live and beyond. Oracle Solutions for Higher Education oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Curtiss Barnes, vice president of product strategy for education and research at Oracle, describes Oracle’s best-in-class offerings for higher education institutions. All About the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for Applications oracle.com/applications/podcasts.html Nishit Rao, group product manager, and Markus Zirn, senior director, Oracle Fusion Middleware, discuss the Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s PeopleSoft and Siebel applications.

REPORTS

Forrester Total Economic Impact Studies oracle.com/goto/teistudies If you are looking for ways to manage unstructured content in your organization, or you need to justify a content management project to upper management, these two studies from Forrester Research offer valuable insight. In these total-economic-impact reports, Forrester examined the economic impact and return on investment that two customers realized by deploying Oracle content management.

RESOURCE KIT

Oracle Content Management Resource Kit oracle.com/goto/cmtoolkit This free resource kit CD contains valuable information to help you develop a content management strategy. The CD includes customer case studies, white papers, and product demonstrations.

TUTORIAL

Oracle SQL Developer 1. 5 New Features otn.oracle.com/obe/sqldev/sqldev15nf/ sqldev_nf.htm?msgid=6593108 This Oracle By Example tutorial highlights new ways to connect to your database, export objects, copy and compare schemas, use extended search and new preferences in SQL Worksheet, version your files, work with trace files, and integrate with Oracle Application Express.

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BLOGS
Oracle Open World Blog
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Get the official inside scoop on Oracle
Open World from Tania Weidick, vice presi-
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Frank Buytendijk Blog
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Frank Buytendijk, vice president of enter-
prise performance management (EPM)
strategy at Oracle, blogs about business
intelligence and EPM. Part consultant to

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