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Managing Automation Magazine
Managing Automation provides a complete set of decision-support informational tools for progressive manufacturers - companies who are using information and automation technologies to transform their businesses and create a sustainable competitive advantage. Its magazine (9 issues/yr), website, Software and RFID Directories, and executive conference reach the entire integrated technology buying team-executives, line-of-business managers and IT management - at every stage of the technology buying process. Managing Automation's unique editorial focus on progressive manufacturing - helping companies to transform their businesses and build a sustainable competitive advantage through the use of technology - has built a loyal audience that relies on Managing Automation as a critical decision-making partner.
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Application Upgrades and Service Oriented Architecture White Paper
Maintenance costs, for major point releases as well as more frequent patches, is a topic that catches the attention of most ERP and CRM customers. In this whitepaper, we will provide a detailed look into why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades. This will help you accurately understand the lifetime value of investing in SOA technology now over a "like to like" upgrade.
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Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost White Paper
Clustering is a new mandate within a responsible IT data center. For more than eight years enterprises around the globe have used Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) to apply the principles of grid computing at the database tier, adding their stories to a towering spire of evidence that a clustered architecture can save organizations millions of dollars. Customers across all industries are clustering their transaction processing and data warehousing applications to deliver a higher quality of service at a lower cost. Benefits of clustering your database applications using Oracle RAC include: high availability improved resource utilization scalability manageability support for dynamic workloads and new types of applications This paper will look at the advantages of clustering, in an attempt to show exactly why this innovative architecture returns such consistent value to the enterprises that adopt it. It will show the direct cause and effect relationship between ...
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Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 White Paper
Information ranging from trade secrets to financial data to privacy related information has become the target of sophisticated attacks from both sides of the firewall. While most organizations have deployed firewall, intrusion detection, and anti-spam technologies, protecting data now requires a defense-in-depth strategy that enables both preventive and detective controls to enforce security principles such as need-to-know and trust-but-verify. Built upon 30 years of security experience, the Oracle database provides defense-in-depth security controls that enable organizations to transparently protect data. By leveraging these controls, organizations can safeguard data, ensure regulatory compliance, and achieve business goals such as consolidation, globalization, right sourcing and cloud computing while still maintaining scalability, performance and availability.
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Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses White Paper
In the last 3 to 5 years there has been widespread adoption of SOA with businesses making significant economic investments in service-enabling their IT systems. As the SOA benefits become apparent and materialize through process automation, application integration and legacy modernization, businesses are now seeking to make their enterprises even more efficient and agile by being able to rapidly compose and revise business applications while capitalizing on these SOA investments. Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward in empowering enterprises cross the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, easy customizability, and easy upgrade manageability and monitoring. In this paper we discuss how Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables agile and intelligent businesses by providing a unique design advantage, a platform for agile and intelligent business applications and innovation for ...
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Increasing ROI with Data Services White Paper
Information is an organization’s key asset—without it all that technology is at risk of being expensive unused “plumbing.” But as the sheer amount and complexity of the data collected by the typical company increases, it becomes increasingly challenging to access and use that data in a timely and efficient manner. That data’s value is inextricably tied to the overall return on investment (ROI) of IT. Increasing that data’s accessibility and agility creates an enormous amount of business value. This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and business intelligence (BI).
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Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications White Paper
In today’s challenging economy, companies are eager to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications. At the same time, these organizations need a robust platform to comply with business SLAs (service level agreements) and support future growth. In many industries such as telecommunications, public sector, travel, web commerce, and financial services there is a growing demand for low cost, scalable platforms for mission-critical applications that require guaranteed high-speed high-throughput processing, low latency, and extreme reliability. Oracle Tuxedo is empowering companies around the world to transform their businesses and modernize their infrastructures. It’s the world’s number one open, distributed software platform for transaction processing on standards-based software and commodity hardware. To meet these needs, market leaders are adopting low-cost, commodity hardware, standards-based software, and flexible service-oriented architectures (SOA), leveraging heterogeneous, ...
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Making the Business Case for Data Center Consolidation White Paper
A combination of compute density, the need for improved management efficiencies, energy conservation and information quality has driven the issue of data center consolidation to the top of every CIO’s agenda. Typically organisations have often responded to these challenges by employing server virtualisation solutions. However, this paper will argue that though virtualisation has brought undoubted benefits, it is not the only solution available to organisations, particularly when it comes to guaranteeing availability and the need to reduce management costs. We will show that next-generation grid-based solutions are now available that can help address the issue of data center consolidation, without compromising on the need to guarantee uptime. These latest solutions have been specifically designed for grid computing, delivering a high quality of service to business processes at lower costs, creating a single IT infrastructure that can be shared by those multiple business processes....
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Maximum Application Performance White Paper
One of the greatest challenges a merchant can face is dissatisfied customers. But what happens when customers are happy with the merchandise, but they are frustrated because they're unable to complete an online purchase? For e-commerce to work, the user experience is a crucial factor. Applications that create the shopping experience, from interactive catalogs to shopping carts to payment systems, must operate at peak efficiency. Often, the monitoring tools used to track commercial Web sites are unable to catch but the most basic of problems. When using multiple tools to monitor these sophisticated infrastructures, each tool supplies limited information, leading to situations where you see "green" status for individual components such as servers and databases, but users are still running into problems, causing them to abandon on-line shopping carts. The solution: Oracle Enterprise Manager, an IT management solution with powerful performance diagnostic and management capabilities ...
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Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA White Paper
More and more organizations are looking to service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate and maintain, hard to change, and rely on a dwindling set of skills, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. At the same time organizations are asking three important questions: Since I hear different things, what exactly is SOA, anyway? If I use it, how is it going to help my organization eliminate cost, increase agility, deal with dwindling legacy skill sets, and address compliance? Given that it has value, how do I get there? This white paper addresses all three of these questions.
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The Department of Defense and Open Source Software White Paper
Many major software companies, including Oracle, utilize Open Source software in their products. Most commercial software is actually blended software: software that is sold under a different licensing terms from Open Source, but is probably built using a variety of Open Source components. In this paper we ask two questions: Should the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) deploy substantial amounts of software based on a community development model, in lieu of commercial software, in support of their service-oriented architecture requirements? Is a community-based software development approach a viable strategy for large-scale service-oriented architecture deployments, especially in the DoD?
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Cabling and Wiring Buyer's Guide
Whether you’re moving into a new office, gutting and rewiring an existing office, or expanding to accommodate growth, a full‐service cabling vendor can ensure that your network is up and running from day one. This BuyerZone Cabling and Wiring Buyer’s Guide will help you find the right vendor and learn what to look for to ensure a clean installation.
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Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing Video White Paper
You’re ready to launch a critical Web application. Ensuring good application performance is crucial, but time is short. How can you optimally test the application and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. Developed through years of testing engagements across all types of platforms, the RBI methodology dramatically reduces load testing cycles while allowing more—and more thorough—testing. Using this approach, organizations can improve application quality, enhance the customer experience, and lower the cost of deploying new systems.
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Advanced Imaging Magazine
Advanced Imaging magazine is dedicated to the technology of imaging and its influence on the commercial, industrial, scientific, medical, security and military industries. Each month, the publication delivers the latest information on imaging hardware, software and peripherals to qualified professionals working in many areas of imaging. The publication's goal is to highlight the various opportunities for use that the science of imaging can offer. Today, nearly every industry is served by this technology including computer graphics, the semiconductor and machine vision industries, photography, food service, manufacturing and law enforcement. From the bar code on your cereal box to verifying identities with retinal scan technology, imaging and its advances are important to all of us. Unique to Advanced Imaging is its continuing theme of cross-over technology and applications. Depending on their immediate need, product availability or specific situation a manufacturer can also be an ...
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Database Trends and Applications Magazine
For the last twenty four years, Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has covered the technologies and processes involved in every aspect of the creation, management, application and storage of structured and unstructured data to create business value and competitive advantage for enterprises of all sizes in all industries. To achieve this end, DBTA's content is original, factual and uniquely valuable - providing clarity, perspective and objectivity in an increasingly complex and exciting world where data assets hold the key to organizational competitiveness.