Introducing Oracle Business Intelligence 11g

Oracle.com -- Discover Why Oracle’s Business Intelligence Technology Is The Best-in-Class BI Solution



Event Details:

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
12:00 noon – 6:00 p.m.
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
33 West 60th Street at Broadway
New York, NY 10023
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Join Charles Phillips, President, and Paul Rodwick, Vice President, Product Management, for the introduction of the latest release of Oracle’s business intelligence software.

Be among the first to hear about Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, the new, industry-leading technology platform for business intelligence, which offers:

- A powerful end-user experience with rich visualization, search, and actionable collaboration

- Advancements in analytics, OLAP, and enterprise reporting, with unmatched performance and scalability

- Simplified system configuration, lifecycle management, and performance optimization

For a full agenda or to register, please visit here today!

Oracle for SAP

Oracle.com/SAP -- SAP supports Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for SAP products based on SAP Kernel 6.40, 7.x and higher.

Oracle Database 11g (single instance) and Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g for SAP are available for the major Linux and Unix platforms, such as Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, as listed with details regarding the OS versions in SAP Note 1398634.

The SAP release of Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g occurs at the same time as the general release of Oracle Database 11g in the SAP environment. For information about Oracle RAC support, see SAP Note 527843. It contains important details about the released RAC configurations.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux and UNIX. It provides comprehensive features to easily manage the most demanding transaction processing, business intelligence, and content management applications. Read more >>

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Data Explosion: Plan for the future -- or fail

InfoWorld -- Technology changes at such a mind-bending rate, most IT organizations can't stay off of their back foot. Planning for the future takes a permanent backseat to dealing with the present.

Constantly reacting to unforeseen challenges almost always results in waste on a massive scale. Whether it's an undersized SAN platform or a proprietary archiving architecture that fails to work with new applications, too many solutions are hastily implemented only to be replaced before their time.

Breaking the cycle of IT solution whack-a-mole is hard, but not impossible. There's no time like the present to adopt a proactive technology stance. Here are six steps to freedom that I've found to work well in the wild.

1. Clear the slate
The very first thing to do is forget everything you've done up to this point. If you have a nice Visio diagram of your current infrastructure, hide it somewhere. You'll need it later, but not now.
I frequently see infrastructure solutions chosen solely based on what is currently in use and how easy the new and old will be to integrate. While focusing on the here and now will often result in a quick deployment, solutions that are chosen this way will have a much better chance of failing to grow well into the future. As the saying goes, don't throw good money after bad.

2. Imagine the future
Imagine your infrastructure five years from now as if you were in a position to build it from scratch starting today. How will your organization grow? How will your data grow? What regulatory requirements might you fall under in the future? What new types of applications are your users clamoring for? How will you support them? Read more >>