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  • Managing Oracle Database with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g

    IT organizations are under extreme pressure as growing management needs conflict with shrinking resources. To close the manageability gap and ensure optimal IT performance, IT organizations must eliminate the labor intensive and costly manual tasks. Learn how major advances in the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g make it possible to sustain maximum database performance, improve IT agility with comprehensive change management and lower IT costs through database self-management and automation.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager: Real-World Insight into Business Impact and Return on IT Investment

    The fast pace of business change makes it ever more challenging for IT organizations to keep business systems available and performing optimally. With a variety of tools available on the market, it can be difficult to determine which solution might deliver the greatest value for the business. In early 2010, Crimson Consulting Group conducted a study to examine the benefits of one particular IT management software suite: Oracle Enterprise Manager. Read this research report to better understand the business cost savings and return on investment of deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager to ease the IT management burden.

  • Comprehensive Testing for Siebel with Oracle Application Testing Suite

    Siebel provides a wide range of business-critical applications for sales, marketing, contact center, self-service and more. Ensuring Siebel application quality and performance is critical, but also challenging. Siebel's highly distributed application architecture means there are many integrated components to consider, from both a functionality and performance perspective. Read this white paper to learn how Oracle Application Testing Suite (ATS) can help organizations ensure the quality and performance of their Siebel applications.

  • Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Application Performance Management

    Organizations increasingly rely on composite applications to create enterprise agility. Unfortunately, the challenge of managing the performance of these composite environments is significantly more complex than with traditional systems. To be effective and efficient, enterprises need to manage highly distributed Java EE, portal, and SOA applications in a holistic fashion while using the minimum IT resources and specialized expertise. Read this white paper to learn how semantic modeling injects intelligence and automation capabilities into application performance management platforms.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Configuration Management Pack: Delivering Open, Integrated and Application Aware Configuration Management

    In order to better manage IT configurations, enterprises seek strategic solutions that enable comprehensive management of the IT stack across the lifecycle of enterprise applications. Configuration management lies at the heart of the solutions, facilitating the day-to-day tasks of IT operations while providing C-level executives with the 360° operational and compliance views they require. This white paper takes a three-pronged approach to outlining configuration management: simplifying the management of your IT infrastructure, improving the level of service you provide your end users, and enforcing compliance with real-time change detection.

  • Oracle Real User Experience Insight

    Oracle Real User Experience Insight (RUEI) is designed for measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling the availability and performance of internet, extranet and intranet deployment scenarios, including E-business applications, Web transactions and ERP systems. This white paper discusses Oracle RUEI from a technical perspective, providing information concerning product architecture, technical specifications, and some practical information on configuration and deployment considerations.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations

    Although IT is a key contributor to the business of any modern organization, it's also a significant drain on resources. Thus, it's essential that operations find a balance between the benefits of IT services and the costs associated with running them. An approach focused on TCO can result in long-term sustainable savings by achieving efficiencies without sacrificing functionality. To help you assess both the full costs and overall benefits of datacenter management solutions, this white paper examines the primary inefficiencies found in typical datacenters, and then presents the strategies commonly used to resolve them.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: Datacenter Lifecycle Management

    Today's increasingly heterogeneous, diverse, and complex datacenters use a variety of operating systems and a number of server architectures. Running virtualized and non-virtualized environments, these datacenters typically employ several tools to manage their operations. The problem is that management tools tend to be niche products and limited in scope, designed to solve just one piece of a much larger challenge. Read this white paper to learn how a single-pane-of-glass approach to datacenter lifecycle management can help IT organizations — and your business — stay one step ahead of the competition.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Enables Datacenter Life-Cycle Automation

    Datacenter administrators face dramatically increasing rates of change and complexity as they deploy virtualization and refresh existing servers with newer, higher-performance hardware. IDC believes automation and standardization are required to efficiently manage today's dynamic datacenters. This white paper describes the emerging automation and integrated management requirements facing datacenter management teams today, and describes how operations management solutions, such as the one featured within, can help customers meet these challenges.

  • Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

    Many large IT organizations have implemented complex integration solutions that include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business process management, identity management, and business intelligence platforms. Increasingly, the productivity and financial benefits delivered by these applications are making them an indispensable part of day-to-day operations. Unfortunately, managing this class of applications is no simple task. This white paper outlines some common challenges faced by IT administrators running enterprise applications deployed on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, and describes how Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a single management console to manage the end-to-end application environment.

  • Video: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing

    Watch the free, on-demand video to learn how to easily launch a critical Web application. Ensuring good application performance is crucial, but time is short. How can you optimally test the application and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. Developed through years of testing engagements across all types of platforms, the RBI methodology dramatically reduces load testing cycles while allowing more—and more thorough —testing. Using this approach, organizations can improve application quality, enhance the customer experience, and lower the cost of deploying new systems. Watch now!

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