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Database - Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Businesses now demand more information, they want it sooner, and they are delivering more analytics to an ever-widening set of users and applications. The sizes of data warehouses are growing exponentially and more business processes are becoming automated, while more data is collected on more granular levels. This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

SOA - Oracle Suite & BPEL Process Manager

The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. The industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager, supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows.

Application Grid - Mission Critical Java

Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing. Customers can now reap the benefits of a standard Java-based infrastructure, including higher developer productivity, fewer defects, a rock-solid proven kernel, and adherence to standards. Read this free white paper to learn how you can achieve:

  • Extreme and predictable performance with Java
  • Real-time, real-world memory leak detection and application performance analysis
  • Increased Enterprise performance, manageability and simplicity

Enterprise Manager - Automating IT Configuration Controls

Managing your applications top-down from a business perspective allows you to identify business exceptions rapidly, pinpoint root cause issues using drilldowns in the underlying technologies, infrastructure, and remediate the issues automatically before they become emergencies. This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.

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