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Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Organizations across the world use 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. Read the white paper »

  • The Lowdown
    White Paper: Introducing Management Excellence

    Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g

    Businesses demand more information sooner and are delivering analytics from their enterprise data warehouse to an ever-widening set of users and applications. To keep up with this increase in demand, the EDW must be near real-time and be highly available. Get a set of best practices and "how-to" examples for deploying a data warehouse on Oracle Database 11g and leveraging its best-of-breed functionality. Read the white paper »

  • White Paper: Performance Management Applications Overview

    Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

    Businesses demand more information sooner, and deliver more analytics to a wider set of users and applications. The sizes of data warehouses are growing exponentially and more business processes are becoming automated, while more data is collected on more granular levels. Read the white paper »

  • Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

    Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

    Businesses need a unified database platform for consolidating applications onto one common infrastructure. Whether supporting an OLTP, data warehousing or mixed workload, a common infrastructure delivers efficiencies. Learn how Oracle Exadata and the Sun Oracle Database Machine provide a unified database platform that accelerates database performance. Read the technical overview »

IN-DEPTH

  • Best Practices for a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g

    Businesses demand more information sooner and are delivering analytics from their enterprise data warehouse to an ever-widening set of users and applications. To keep up with this increase in demand, the EDW must be near real-time and be highly available. Get a set of best practices and "how-to" examples for deploying a data warehouse on Oracle Database 11g and leveraging its best-of-breed functionality. Read the white paper »

  • Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    Advanced Compression with Database 11g Release 2 helps you manage more data in a cost-effective manner. With data volumes, on average, tripling every two years, Oracle Advanced Compression delivers compression rates of 2-4x across all types of data and applications. Learn how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes. Read the white paper »

  • Sustainability Matters: Why and How Business is Widening its Focus to Consider the Needs of all Stakeholders

    Organizations can derive strategic advantage by embracing sustainability as part of their business. Benefits of becoming a sustainable company include: cost savings by limiting waste and consumption of natural resources, new business opportunities through environmentally-friendly product innovations, and enhanced brand value and reputation with customers and partners. Read the white paper »

  • Introducing Management Excellence

    Being smart, agile and aligned are not characteristics of operational excellence, but define what we call management excellence. Management makes the difference, and enterprise performance management (EPM) should be the enabler. Unfortunately, most organizations are too internally focused. Read the Journal of Management Excellence »

  • The Great Build vs. Buy Debate

    Pre-built analytic applications have nearly all have failed to deliver, as vendors have often left data warehousing out of the application mix. Building a true data warehouse against a complex operational system takes time and money. Oracle has made the necessary data warehousing investment to create a business intelligence tool that can deliver faster deployment, a lower TCO, and an assured business value. Read the white paper »

  • Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques

    Extending operational excellence to management excellence is the next strategic imperative. Oracle's strategy-to-success framework provides a path for companies to become smart, agile and aligned while Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) technologies provide the tools. Learn about the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence. Read the white paper »

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Understanding an OLAP Solution from Oracle

    With the acquisition of Hyperion Systems in 2007, Oracle finds itself owning the two most capable OLAP products on the market — Essbase and the OLAP Option to the Oracle Database. While both products fall within the OLAP category and have some similar capabilities, they are different in significant ways. Learn where these products are similar and where they differ. Read the white paper »

  • Maximizing Operational Efficiency with Oracle BI Applications

    Global competition and pricing pressures place an extraordinary demand on organizations to strive for new levels of efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. Business intelligence applications can enable companies to respond effectively within a volatile market while maintaining operational efficiency, and can mean the difference between market leadership and struggle for survival. Read the brief »

  • Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus: Technical Overview

    The BI environment today is fragmented, which makes it difficult to get a unified view of the enterprise. There are discrepancies in the reports/insight derived from the fragmented systems as every system has its own way of interpreting the data. BI needs to evolve such that it is no longer about reporting results but about driving business processes, whether that is driving the actions of front-line users, or becoming seamlessly linked into operational workflow. Read the white paper »

  • Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

    Database partitioning can greatly enhance the manageability, performance and availability of almost any database application. Since partitioning is transparent to the application, it can be easily implemented. Learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability and extended manageability capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Read the white paper »

  • Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications

    BI applications enable organizations to maximize the value of each customer relationship and interaction, growing revenues and profits while optimizing the efficiency of customer-facing processes. Learn how BI can provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability. Read the white paper »

  • Performance Management Applications Overview

    Hyperion performance management applications deliver a wide range of business and IT benefits, including improved performance across the enterprise, delivery of predictable results, improved confidence and compliance, and more. Read the white paper »

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Webcast

  • The Sun Oracle Database Machine: The First OLTP Database Machine

    Oracle Exadata V1 transformed the data warehousing industry by providing 10 times better performance. Now, with the introduction of Exadata V2, Oracle is building on that success to deliver even faster performance for Data Warehousing while adding support for OLTP workloads on the same machine. The Sun Oracle Database machine provides extreme performance for OLTP workloads by using flash memory to run up to a million I/O operations per second. It also introduces new technologies for compression that allow 10 times more data to be stored at the same cost. The Sun Oracle Database Machine is the fastest and most economical platform for both Data Warehousing and OLTP.

    Register now for the webcast on Wed., Nov. 18 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

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Q.

In most organizations, business processes are well defined and clearly understood by everyone. But what do we call the management process?

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When we ask this question to customers all around the world, the answer is either silence, or a flurry of different activities and partial processes such as budgeting, financial reporting, resource management, and variance analysis, etc. The closest thing people mention to describe their management process is the PDCA-cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Adjust).

 

It is concerning, almost scary, that the management processes are not as clearly defined as business processes, as the competitive advantage that organizations can have is increasingly dependent on the management process, instead of business processes. Most organizations have done a terrific job in driving cost out of the process while optimizing the quality of the products and services they offer.

 

Operational excellence is not a differentiator anymore; it has become a license to just play. For winning, more is needed. Organizations that make a difference are smart, agile and aligned. Read "Introducing Management Excellence" from the Journal of Management Excellence.

 

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