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09 Feb 2012 Oracle purchase of Taleo indicates rising SaaS trend
Oracle has spent $3.4 billion on Taleo and RightNow in the past few months, showing that it is serious about hosting applications in the cloud for its customers.
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08 Feb 2012 Making Monday the start of the week in Oracle SQL
One reader asks how to set up a report in Oracle SQL so that Monday is the first day of the week.
Oracle Advanced Analytics bundles R with Oracle Database
Oracle Advanced Analytics is the company’s newest announcement around data analytics, a market that Oracle seeks to blanket with products.
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07 Feb 2012 BI, collaboration lead SaaS trends
Software as a Service (SaaS) and the cloud are new to many IT pros, but they’re poised to grow in BI and collaboration, according to experts.
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06 Feb 2012 Oracle details integration with RightNow
Oracle has finalized its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM SaaS provider RightNow Technologies, and to celebrate executives held a webcast outlining their future plans for all the CRM and cloud...
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01 Feb 2012 Oracle partner struggles with Fusion, but gives thumbs-up
Texas-based Oracle partner eVerge Group has had difficulty moving from PeopleSoft to Fusion Applications, largely because the hosted model gives them less control of their application. But overall...
SAP could license HANA to Oracle (Eye on Oracle)
SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told a German newspaper that the company could license HANA to Oracle, and it's really not that far-fetched.
Storing documents in an Oracle database
One reader asks if it is the best practice to store a document inside an Oracle database.
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26 Jan 2012 Forrester Wave: Informatica, IBM lead data virtualization tools market (SearchDataManagement.com)
Informatica and IBM are the top dogs in the data virtualization software market, thanks to a strong combination of “enterprise-class” features, according to Forrester Research Inc.
Oracle vs. SAP...in databases? (Eye on Oracle)
SAP's proclaims that it wants to be a leader in the database space, taking on Oracle and it's almost 50% market share.
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25 Jan 2012 Creating business rules for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (SearchOracle)
Data units are the key to forming great business rules for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, according to Brian Wilson from TopDown Consulting.
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23 Jan 2012 How Oracle Virtual Private Database helps consolidation (SearchOracle)
In this third part of a series on Oracle database consolidation, contributor Jeff McCormick explains how the Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) can promote and encourage Oracle database...
Improving the Oracle Media Recovery Process (MRP) in Data Guard (SearchOracle)
Expert William Cullen explains why you shouldn't use the Media Recovery Process (MRP) in Oracle Data Guard for multi-node RAC environments.
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16 Jan 2012 Oracle to issue 78 security fixes in quarterly patch update (Eye on Oracle)
Oracle is scheduled to release its quarterly security patch update on Tuesday. It includes 78 fixes, with 27 coming from MySQL and the most vulnerable fixes being for Sun products.
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15 Jan 2012 Working with binary large objects (BLOBs)
Learn how to create, retrieve and work with binary large objects (BLOBs) in SQL in this expert answer from Karen Morton.
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13 Jan 2012 The top five data management mishaps of 2011 (SearchDataManagement.com)
Some of last year's biggest information management mess-ups could have been avoided through closer adherence to best practices, according to experts.
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12 Jan 2012 Oracle reveals pricing for its Exalytics BI appliance (Eye on Oracle)
Oracle updated its price list, showing that its Exalytics business intelligence appliance will cost $135,000 just for the hardware.
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11 Jan 2012 Third-party Oracle support sees increased interest (Eye on Oracle)
Revenue numbers from third-party Oracle support provider Rimini Street, as well as survey numbers from SearchOracle.com, show increased interest in third-party Oracle support.
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10 Jan 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant: Oracle, IBM lead product MDM software market (SearchDataManagement.com)
Oracle and IBM are the sole product MDM “leaders,” says Gartner, which also sees some vendors starting to focus on social media data and “big data.”
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Oracle details integration with RightNow SearchOracle.com | 06 Feb 2012
Oracle has finalized its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM SaaS provider RightNow Technologies, and to celebrate executives held a webcast outlining their future plans for all the CRM and cloud...