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eBook: Gartner CRM Strategy Tips: 7 Key Ways to Improve the Customer Experience EBOOK: Read this E-Book and explore Gartner's 7 key initiatives for enhancing the customer experience as well as 7 steps for adjusting your customer-facing business processes and establishing a more customer-centric strategy. Posted: 14 Jan 2009 \| Published: 14 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Collaboration \| CRM \| Customer Satisfaction \| Customer Support Software \| Investments \| Oracle (Product) \| ROI

State of the Portal Market WHITE PAPER: The focus of this paper is to provide readers a comprehensive understanding of real-world deployment practices, trends and ROI anecdotes for enterprise portal technologies. Posted: 14 Jan 2009 \| Published: 14 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Customer Loyalty \| Knowledge Management \| Open Source \| Oracle (Product) \| Productivity \| ROI \| SOA

Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements. Posted: 17 Dec 2008 \| Published: 17 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Grid Computing \| Power Supplies \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| TCO

Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how to run sophisticated or highly-available applications in virtualized environments by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness. Posted: 17 Dec 2008 \| Published: 17 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Business Continuity Planning Software \| Cache \| Clustering \| Continuous Data Protection \| Grid Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| VM

Oracle Unbreakable Linux: True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for tips on selecting the best support approach for your IT shop's Linux platform. You'll learn about various options and the essential components of a successful support system. Posted: 17 Dec 2008 \| Published: 17 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Linux \| Mainframe Operating Systems \| Microprocessors \| Open Source \| Open Source Software

Converting Linux and Windows Physical and Virtual Machines to Oracle VM Virtual Machines WHITE PAPER: This document describes the virtual machine conversion functions built into Oracle VM in Release 2.1.2, and how you can plan and execute the virtual machine conversions using Oracle VM. Posted: 17 Dec 2008 \| Published: 17 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Linux \| Oracle (Product) \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| VM \| VMware \| Windows

Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allows Oracle Database to run any packaged or custom application, unchanged across a set of clustered events. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Published: 09 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Databases \| High Availability \| LAN \| NAS \| Oracle (Product) \| SAN \| Scalability Testing \| Storage Management

Oracle Real Application Testing - Business Agility through Superior Testing WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Database 11g Real Application Testing (Oracle Real Application Testing) facilitates new technology adoption. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Published: 09 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Data Centers \| Database Administrators \| Databases \| IT Infrastructure \| Oracle (Product) \| Storage Management \| Testing

Oracle Advanced Compression WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database 11g introduces the Advanced Compression Option to help customers cope with data growth and storage, regulatory compliance, and application scalability and performance challenges. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Published: 09 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Data Compression \| Databases \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Managers \| Oracle (Product) \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Systems

Real Application Testing with Oracle Database 11g WEBCAST: To help them stay ahead of the competition, agile businesses need to quickly adopt new technologies. Real Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g - allows businesses to quickly do this while eliminating the risks associated with change. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Premiered: Dec 9, 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Change Management \| Database Administration \| Databases \| Oracle (Product) \| Risk Management \| Strategic Planning \| Testing

Is JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Right for Your Business? WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn why the new transformation of JD Edwards applications can integrate your manufacturing strategies to improve your competitiveness and overall performance. Posted: 14 Nov 2008 \| Premiered: Dec 3, 2008, 12:00 EST (17:00 GMT) TOPICS: Accounting Software \| Business Intelligence \| CRM Software \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Financial Management \| Manufacturing \| Manufacturing Industry \| Manufacturing Software \| Order Management Systems \| Procurement \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chain Software

Performance Evaluation and Certification of Oracle VM Server from the Tolly Group WHITE PAPER: Oracle VM delivers performance on par with a bare-metal server without the expense of deploying and supporting additional hardware. Posted: 12 Nov 2008 \| Published: 12 Nov 2008 TOPICS: ERP \| Oracle (Product) \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management \| VMware

True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support: Edison Group White Paper WHITE PAPER: This white paper discovers how organization can increase operational efficiency while cutting costs with Oracle Unbreakable Linux, a support program that delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Posted: 12 Nov 2008 \| Published: 12 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Cluster Software \| Clustering \| Linux \| Oracle (Product) \| Systems Management

Oracle SOA Suite and Enterprise Portals WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how SOA can enhance your infrastructure to improve your ability to predict and respond to change, enhance productivity, simplify your IT environment and leverage existing investments. Posted: 04 Nov 2008 \| Published: 04 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Application Integration \| Business Activity Monitoring \| CRM \| ERP \| Productivity \| ROI \| SOA \| Web Services Management

Sales Prospector Demo SOFTWARE DEMO: View this three-minute demo to learn how Oracle's Social CRM application, Sales Prospector, helps increase a salesperson's effectiveness by providing relevant information about existing and potential customers. Posted: 03 Nov 2008 \| Premiered: 31 Oct 2008 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Profiles \| Lead Generation \| Oracle (Product) \| Sales \| Sales and Marketing Software \| Sales Information Systems

The Social Enterprise: Using Social Enterprise Applications to Enable the Next Wave of Knowledge Worker Productivity WHITE PAPER: Enterprise social applications are the next generation of collaboration and productivity tools, capturing the interpersonal knowledge of workers and the implicit connections among people, systems, and data. Posted: 16 Oct 2008 \| Published: 16 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Environment \| Collaboration \| Content Networking \| Enterprise \| Knowledge Management \| Productivity \| Social Networking \| Software

Information Workplace Platforms: Oracle Vs. Microsoft WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Oracle and Microsoft workplace platforms strengths and weaknesses. Posted: 16 Oct 2008 \| Published: 16 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Environment \| Electronic Discovery \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Financial Services \| ILM \| Information Management \| Middleware \| Vendor Selection

Oracle Database 11g: Real Application Testing & Manageability Overview WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the new Real Application Testing capabilities in the Oracle Database 11g allows database administrators to adapt to changes easily, lower their testing costs and reduce hardware and software investments. Posted: 14 Oct 2008 \| Published: 14 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| Database Management \| Databases \| Hardware \| Linux \| Oracle (Product) \| SQL

Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 19 Sep 2008 TOPICS: B2B \| B2C \| Collaboration \| Lead Generation \| Sales Channels \| Sales Representatives \| Social Networking

Surviving and Thriving in the Customer-Driven Age WHITE PAPER: The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 19 Sep 2008 TOPICS: CRM \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Data Management Software \| Customer Service \| Customer Support Software \| Data Mining \| Data Mining Software \| Enterprise

It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0 WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 19 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Collaboration \| CRM Best Practices \| Customer Satisfaction \| Enterprise \| Mobile CRM \| Mobile Workers \| Productivity \| Sales Channels \| Sales Force Automation \| Sales Information Systems \| Sales Representatives \| Social Networking

Understanding an OLAP Solution from Oracle WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses two Oracle OLAP solutions: Oracle's Hyperion Essbase and Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option which share similar characteristics but are individuals with their differences. Posted: 18 Sep 2008 \| Published: 18 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Database Management \| OLAP \| Oracle (Product)

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus DATA SHEET: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE Plus) is a comprehensive suite of enterprise business intelligence (BI) products that delivers a full range of capabilities. Read this data sheet to learn more. Posted: 18 Sep 2008 \| Published: 18 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Dashboards \| Enterprise \| Financial Reporting \| OLAP \| SOA

Total Economic Impact Of Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines the financial impact and potential ROI on companies who use OracleEnterprise Content Management Suite. It provides companies with the ability to easily manage, reuse, and retain content and to streamline related business processes Posted: 07 Aug 2008 \| Published: 10 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Benefits \| Content Management \| Data Management \| Information Storage and Retrieval Systems \| Investments \| Regulations \| ROI \| Storage Management

Oracle Database Vault WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database Vault is the industry's leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. Posted: 15 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Access Control \| Best Practices \| Data Security \| Databases \| Financial Services \| HIPAA \| Internal Controls \| Oracle (Product)