Oracle Magazine - May/June 2012

Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics Enhanced

Addressing healthcare’s growing need for actionable business intelligence, Oracle has updated its enterprise healthcare analytics solution and unveiled a new release of Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index.

Oracle enterprise healthcare analytics
makes it easier, faster, and more cost effec-
tive for healthcare organizations to integrate
and analyze clinical, financial, and research
data. It delivers the
information they need
to drive efficiencies,
support evidence-
based medicine ini-
tiatives, and improve
outcomes.

Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index

2.0 provides a single point of reference for information about a patient, provider, or other healthcare entity within and across healthcare organizations. It delivers solutions for patient and provider indexing; enables faster, more flexible deployment; and supports Simplified Chinese characters.

“The need for actionable business intelligence is no longer a ‘nice-to-have,’ but is now mission-critical as healthcare organizations work to improve outcomes, cut costs, and enable more-accountable care,” says Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences.

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Oracle User Productivity Kit Updated

Oracle User Productivity Kit 11. 1 and Oracle User Productivity Kit Professional 11. 1 are now available. These content development, deployment, and maintenance platforms streamline the implementation of Oracle, third-party, and custom applications.

Both new releases enable organizations
to expand content contribution and col-
laboration. Testing time is also decreased by
streamlining the capturing and compiling of
test step results.
“Providing every user with the ability to
easily and rapidly create and share content
is exactly what our customers are looking for
to enhance collaboration,” says Trish Trolley,
senior director of Oracle User Productivity Kit
product management.
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MySQL Cluster 7. 2 Unveiled

Now available, MySQL Cluster 7. 2 delivers up to a 70-times increase in performance on complex queries and enhanced multi–data center scalability. MySQL Cluster 7. 2 allows users to deploy a distributed, highly scalable database with both SQL and NoSQL interfaces and perform complex queries or multitable transactions with ACID guarantees. With SQL and NoSQL access through a new memcached API, MySQL Cluster represents a “best of both worlds” solution that allows key value operations and complex SQL queries within the same database.

In addition, MySQL Cluster 7. 2 is Oracle VM certified. The combination of MySQL Cluster’s elastic, on-demand scalability and self-healing features and Oracle VM support makes MySQL Cluster an appropriate choice for deployments in the cloud.

“The performance and flexibility enhancements in MySQL Cluster 7. 2 provide users with a solid foundation for their mission-critical Web workloads, blending the best of SQL and NoSQL technologies to reduce risk, cost, and complexity,” says Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL engineering at Oracle.

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Oracle Launches New Release of Business Intelligence Foundation Suite

The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite features an extensive set of capabilities for parallel performance and in-memory analytics that deliver real-time, speed-of-thought visual analysis with subsecond responsiveness.

Available now for use in conjunction with
Oracle Exalytics without application changes,
the new release features new visualiza-
tions, contextual interactions; performance
improvements; optimizations for Oracle
Exalytics; and simplifications for end users,

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New Oracle Airline Data Model Personalizes Travel Experience

“Airlines need to be able to quickly and
easily collect and analyze passenger data
in order to deliver the best-possible cus-
tomer experience,” says Cetin Ozbutun, vice
president of data warehouse technologies
at Oracle. “Oracle Airline Data Model makes
this easier by delivering a comprehen-
sive passenger data model with prebuilt
industry-specific key performance indica-
tors, online analytical
processing cubes for
multidimensional
analysis, and data
mining for predictive
analytics.”
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Now available, Oracle Airline Data Model is an industry-specific database schema that helps airlines consolidate and analyze passenger data. An option for Oracle Database, Enterprise Edition 11 g, Oracle Airline Data Model gives airlines quick insights into passenger and business information to improve customer service and grow their business.

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Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder
11g Released

Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder 11 g, now available, helps organizations quickly create and configure entire multitier application topologies and provision them onto virtualized resources. It structures the process of combining software appliances into cohesive, reusable units known as assemblies by making the necessary connections between these appliances and then deploys the entire assembly as a single unit. The product works with Oracle VM 3.0 and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 g with Oracle WebLogic Server.

“Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder accelerates customer efforts toward setting up their own private platform-as-a-service environments by enabling them to rapidly configure and deploy complex multitier applications and middleware platforms in a virtualized resource pool,” says Brad Cameron, vice president of product development at Oracle.