Oracle Database 11g extends Oracle's unique ability to deliver the benefits of grid computing and allows companies to inovate faster with Oracle Real Application Testing. Read the Excerpt »

The challenge now before all organizations, is to understand how their data evolves, determine how it grows, monitor how its usage change over time, and decide how long it should survive. Information Lifecycle Management with Oracle Database 11g can help you manage this data over time and how to best utilize different classes of storage to reduce costs for your organization. Read the Excerpt »

Downtime of a critical application or data may have a significant cost to enterprises in terms of lost productivity and revenue, dissatisfied customers, and tarnished corporate image. A highly available IT infrastructure is therefore, a critical success factor for businesses in today's fast moving and "always on" economy. Learn how Oracle Database 11g can help you reach your high availability requirements. »

Because of the time and cost constraints involved in making infrastructure changes, data center managers are often reluctant to adopt new technologies and adapt their businesses to rapidly changing competitive pressures. Oracle Database 11g's Real Application Testing takes the risk out of change. Real Application Testing combines a workload capture and replay feature with an SQL performance analyzer to help you test changes against real-life workloads, then helps you fine-tune them before putting them into production. »

Oracle Database security products simplify the transition from application-level security to database-enforced security, enabling organizations to minimize the costs associated with regulatory compliance and the deployment of strong internal controls, including user management, access control, data protection, and monitoring. »

Oracle Database 11g provides best-of-breed functionality for data warehouses and data marts, with proven scalability to 100s of TBs and market-leading performance. It also provides a uniquely integrated platform for analytics by embedding OLAP, Data Mining, and statistical capabilities directly into the database. »

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) offering designed for midsize businesses or departments in larger organizations. It is a complete BI solution that includes interactive dashboards, highly formatted reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), data modeling, and server administrationall in an easy-to-install package with minimal configuration. Read the Excerpt »

The notion that emerging businesses have the same BI and EPM requirements as large enterprises is only partly true. The results of the 2007 Business Finance Hyperion Mid-Enterprise Survey show that these BI and EPM requirements depend on an organization's complexitywhether it has multiple locations, an international presence, or is publicly held will influence its BI needs. Read this paper to learn more. Read the Excerpt »

This white paper reviews the stages of business growth and provides examples of how forward-thinking emerging companies have leveraged BI and EPM solutions to manage expansion and address complex reporting and compliance issues. »

Oracle Application Express, a feature of the Oracle database 11g, combines rapid web application development with the power of the Oracle database. Its easy to use browser based application builder enables developers and non-programmers to develop and deploy data driven web applications in very little time. Utilizing Oracle Application Express in your enterprise will help consolidate the management and security of data currently scattered throughout the organization in spreadsheets and personal databases. At the same time, access to information will be improved by making the data available to anyone with a web browser. »

In this white paper, Dwight Davis, Vice President of Ovum Summit, outlines Oracle's Windows integration capabilities, which range from ensuring interoperability with core Windows features, such as Active Directory, to making sure Oracle Database and its tools work seamlessly with the popular Visual Studio development suite. This white paper introduces carefully defined Windows integration points that can lead to operational efficiencies that deliver dramatic savings in time and money. Read this white paper to learn more about how companies of all sizes can benefit from deploying Oracle Database on Windows. »

Oracle Database 11g offers innovation that enables organizations to adapt faster. Burdened by the high costs traditionally associated with changing business requirements, organizations can look to Oracle Database 11g for innovation that enables change within IT in a controlled, cost-effective manner. Read this whitepaper to learn how you can innovate faster with Real Application Testing; manage more data for less with Advanced Partitioning and Compression; securely protect data and enable compliance with Total Recall of data; and integrate 3-D Spatial and rich media content with business processes. »