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Oracle completed its round of 10g Release 2 software updates yesterday with the newest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The new version of the software management suite adds high-level dashboards that help to correlate and analyze the relationship between database processes and business services. It also offers the ability to manage More... Nov 3, 2005
NASHVILLE – Open source software vendor EnterpriseDB Corp. kicked off the Collaborate '06 conference today by unveiling new functionally designed to make it easier for Oracle users to switch to EnterpriseDB's namesake PostgreSQL-based database management system. Andy Astor, EnterpriseDB's president and chief executive officer, said the More... Apr 25, 2006
Database professionals don't think much of one venture capitalist's plan to market the open source Ingres database management system to SAP users who may not want to pay for all of Oracle's "bells and whistles." Responding to a recent SearchSAP.com column that looked at the Computer Associates (CA) decision to spin off Ingres to ex-Oracle executive More... Feb 9, 2006
When the executives of the 188-year-old footwear retailer Iron Age Shoes decided the time had come to revamp their outdated systems in order to gain better insight into the business, they started down a path that led away from Microsoft, past SAP AG and straight to Oracle E-Business Suite. The project, which was completed when Oracle E-Business Suite More... Jun 8, 2006
Oracle tossed another company into its giant bag of acquisitions yesterday.
This time the database and business applications powerhouse, which has been on an acquisition tear in recent years, announced the purchase of Limonest, France-based data integration vendor Sunopsis Inc. for an undisclosed sum of money. Oracle says Sunopsis' ETL (extract More... Oct 11, 2006
Oracle today unveiled a new version of Berkeley DB, the lightweight, non-relational and embeddable database management system (DBMS) that the firm acquired when it purchased open source stalwart Sleepycat Software Inc. back in February.
Oracle says that Berkeley DB 4.5, the newest version of the original DBMS offered by Sleepycat in the early '90s, has More... Sep 28, 2006
With Oracle OpenWorld less than two weeks away and Oracle showing signs that it's going to refrain -- at least in the short term -- from making any more major acquisitions, now is the time for the database and business applications powerhouse to retrench, digest its many purchases and, perhaps most importantly, clear up any remaining confusion that
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Oct 17, 2006
The latest version of Oracle's flagship database -- Oracle Database 11g -- includes a slew of new XML-related features and enhancements, an Oracle executive said.
The main XML upgrades in Database 11g focus on XML DB, Oracle's XML storage and retrieval technology. They include a new binary XML data type, a new XML index and enhanced support for XQuery and More... Dec 14, 2006
GridApp Systems Inc. has unveiled new software designed to give DBAs a centralized view of multiple vendors' databases. The New York-based database automation company claims its new GridApp Clarity software is the first to focus on automating database operations -- such as configuration and patch management, auditing/compliance, replication and More... Oct 26, 2005
There's no motivation like customer retention. St. Louis-based legal auditing firm Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James, Ltd. got a stark reminder of this lesson when, faced with the prospect of losing two of its largest clients, the company was forced to put a long-delayed Business Intelligence (BI) initiative at the top of its IT priority list. The clients More... Jan 5, 2006
IT industry giants Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. yesterday announced a greatly expanded partnership designed to give Microsoft a standards-based run for its money.
Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the ultimate goal of the newly reinvigorated collaboration is to provide an alternative to Microsoft's .NET in the form More... Jan 12, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- The road to better business intelligence (BI) doesn't necessarily have to begin with a major data warehousing initiative, according to attendees at this week's Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) conference and one industry expert. At the very least, said Joshua Greenbaum, principal analyst with Enterprise Applications Consulting in Daly More... Feb 22, 2006
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendors like SAP AG and Oracle are racing to offer customers a comprehensive strategy for complying with data retention regulations. And when it comes to these two longtime rivals, SAP is definitely in the lead, according to one industry analyst.
Michael Rasmussen, a risk management and compliance More... Jul 6, 2006
Oracle today unveiled PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 9 (PEPM), an integrated suite of analytic applications with newly added vertical functionality for users in the higher education sector. The database and business applications mainstay says that PEPM, the latest addition to the PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 Suite, also More... Aug 30, 2006
Oracle executives took to the stage at San Francisco City Hall yesterday to reassure customers and investors that the year-old Fusion initiative -- Oracle's effort to combine the spoils of more than a dozen high-profile acquisitions -- is making progress. The executives said Oracle will unveil its first full-fledged Fusion applications as scheduled More... Jan 19, 2006
Oracle's free SQL Developer could mean trouble for Quest Software Inc.'s widely used Toad for Oracle software. SQL Developer, a new download formerly dubbed Project Raptor, lets database developers run SQL statements and SQL scripts, edit and debug PL/SQL code, view and update data and conduct object browsing and creation. Developers currently More... Mar 14, 2006
Database professionals don't think much of one venture capitalist's plan to market the open source Ingres database management system to SAP users who may not want to pay for all of Oracle's "bells and whistles." Responding to a recent SearchSAP.com column that looked at the Computer Associates (CA) decision to spin off Ingres to ex-Oracle executive More... Feb 9, 2006
LAS VEGAS -- Large organizations, with all of their complexity and varying business units, may never achieve complete master data management (MDM), but speakers and attendees at last week's Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) conference say there are plenty of reasons to make the effort anyway. Speaking to conference attendees, Cliff Longman, chief More... Feb 28, 2006
G-Log, we barely knew you. Less than five months after Oracle revealed plans to gobble up G-Log Inc., a King of Prussia, Penn.-based provider of supply chain management and logistics software, Oracle today announced that it's dropping the G-Log name in favor of Oracle Transportation Management. Oracle purchased G-Log to address a growing demand for More... Feb 7, 2006
Oracle and other business intelligence (BI) software vendors offer more features than customers need or use and don't offer enough industry-specific functionality, says business applications expert Joshua Greenbaum. In this SearchOracle.com interview, Greenbaum, the principal and founder of Daly City, Calif.-based Enterprise Applications More... Feb 16, 2006
A recent Data Warehousing Institute conference session, which focused on some possible ways to approach a master data management (MDM) initiative, began with a friendly but very real warning. "If you've got lots of different copies of what should be the same information, but it's not the same, then potentially that is a business problem," said Cliff More... Mar 14, 2006
There's been a whole lot of talk about master data management (MDM) of late, although most of it is coming from IBM, not Oracle. Implementing MDM requires more than just software. It combines middleware with data governance techniques in an effort to solve the problem of getting source or master data – and all of the copies of that data which tend to More... Mar 16, 2006
The leading business intelligence (BI) software vendors are doing their customers a disservice by not offering enough industry-specific functionality, a well-known business applications analyst said in an interview. Joshua Greenbaum, principal analyst with Daly City, Calif.-based Enterprise Applications Consulting, said he believes that the More... Mar 2, 2006
NASHVILLE – Oracle unveiled two new database security technologies at the Collaborate '06 conference this week. The company says that Oracle Database Vault and Oracle Secure Backup are designed to thwart internal threats and automate and encrypt disk-to-tape backups. SearchOracle.com sat down with Mark Townsend, Oracle's senior director of More... Apr 27, 2006
Oracle's Fusion strategy won't be enough to slow the momentum that business applications leader SAP AG has built around its NetWeaver platform, the authors of a new analyst report said in an interview. The new report from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. found that SAP has stronger momentum than Oracle, due largely to its major head start More... Apr 5, 2006
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