Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has an "information-age answer" to the myriad problems associated with the growing fragmentation of data among disparate enterprise applications. Speaking to a crowd of attendees at this past week's massive Oracle OpenWorld conference, Ellison called the "data hub" the "single most important application" needed to unite islands of information into a "single global instance," and provide organizations with real-time access to "360-degree views of their businesses."
Oracle Corporation kicks off its OpenWorld San Francisco business and technology conference on Sunday. The focus of the five-day event (Dec. 5-9) will be Oracle's ongoing grid computing strategy, launched earlier this year with the release of the Oracle 10g product line.
When a user ran “purge transaction history” just to see what it would do and lost a history of all transactions, the IT department at publisher Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) knew it was in trouble.
Logical Apps’ flagship product, AppsRules, integrates with the business rules engine in Oracle E-business Suite. From an architectural standpoint, the product sits on top of each of the elements of the Oracle applications technology stack, according to Chris Capdevila, LA’s CEO and co-founder.
Oracle Corp. is poised to make what a company executive calls a “big push” in the business intelligence market in an effort to get customers to take advantage of as much functionality as BI tools have to offer.
Providing law offices and citizens with specific data on court schedules and other judicial information without compromising security was the challenge Robert McDonald faces as chief architect of Court Services Online.
In late August, Ford Motor Co. abandoned its Herculean effort to reach the summit of its five-year Everest Web purchasing project. Neither Ford nor Oracle, its partner, is talking, but according to analysts, while cost may have sounded the death knell, the real killers were poor design, integration issues and IT sprawl.
DataDirect Connect for .NET's native managed database providers for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Sybase improve data-access performance, reliability, and scalability.
The mortality rate of software vendors seems to suggest an investment banker’s strategy, but a better approach would be that of an insurance underwriter’s.
A San Francisco database solutions provider is applying it to the daunting task of managing the burgeoning data that threatens to bury the enterprise.
JDeveloper successfully integrates features for all development phases of J2EE and several related technologies into one environment. While it is an ideal solution for building apps built on top of Oracle’s database and application server, JDeveloper’s lack of broad support for other environments may inhibit its adoption.
The Liberty Alliance Project, the non-profit trade group organized to develop open standards and tools for federated network identity, has added some more industry heavyweights to its ranks. Intel and Oracle were among seven organizations that joined as sponsor members recently.
Oracle Corp. last week unveiled what it called "the industry's first and most complete" Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Based on technology acquired with its recent purchase of Collaxa Inc., Oracle's new BPEL Process Manager features what the company claims is the first native BPEL "engine," or software that collects data from different applications to complete particular business processes.
Disparate systems make business process automation inefficient. Semantic integration of structured, unstructured and process data simplifies implementation of a robust SOA model.
Pervasive? Maybe not yet. But wireless applications are here. Now development teams must sort through a variety of tools and languages to meet the corporation’s need to be mobile.