Database: 5 Ways to improve performance

Join us on May 22 for a complimentary webcast on how Oracle Exalogic is the simple way to deploy and upgrade your business applications. Oracle Exalogic is hardware and software engineered together to provide extreme performance, reliability and scalability for your critical applications. Hyundai Motor Company saves more than US$1 Million per year with Exalogic and related Oracle products.

During this webcast you will hear how Oracle customers have used Exalogic to:

• Seize new market opportunities
• Lower business risk
• Reduce the cost of application deployments

“We chose Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Oracle WebCenter Content over their competitors as Oracle offers stable storage for petabytes of data and high processing speeds. We have cut the time spent each day on document-related work by around 85% and saved up to US$1.1 million in printing costs.” Kang Tae-jin, Manager, General Affairs Team

If you would like to contact Tom Smith directly for more information, his email address is tom.a.smith@oracle.com

Oracle expert Tom Kyte presents the best practices of Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) in this Complimentary Webcast on April 30
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Data is one of the most critical assets of any organisation, with many operations depending on having complete and accurate data available 24/7. By implementing Oracle’s MAA, organisations can minimise the cost and risk associated with downtime.
Oracle’s MAA best practices extend beyond Oracle Database to span a broad range of products, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance.

Join Tom Kyte at this live event to learn how to:

Protect your systems from planned and unplanned downtime
Achieve the highest quality of service at the lowest cost
Eliminate idle redundancy in the data center

Learn How Oracle WebCenter Portal Can Empower Your Customers

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest public utility company in the United States. It provides water and power for more than 1.6 million residential and commercial customers in Southern California. LADWP was looking for an enterprise-class portal to increase customer self-service Web transactions.

Join us for this Webcast and hear about Oracle’s portal- and composite-applications solution, Oracle WebCenter Portal, which is now used to power the Los Angeles utility’s ladwp.com, a multilingual, customer self-service site.

Oracle WebCenter Portal provides LADWP customers a portal that includes:
•Account information such as bills, payments, and rebate processing
•Application and content management integration
•Multichannel access, including mobile devices

This webcast includes a demonstration of their self-service portal and shows how they provide real-time access to data, reduce costs, and increase customer loyalty.

Risk, uncertainty and volatility are at unprecedented levels. Companies once prepared detailed, long-range plans with budgets based on a stable view of the future. Now they operate in an environment that regularly presents new and unforeseen challenges.

In this webcast, we will explore the growing need for advanced strategic and business planning capabilities and, drawing on the latest Accenture research, the techniques that High Performance Businesses are using to increase agility such as

•Short and long term target setting
•Rolling forecasting
•Dynamic budgeting and resource allocation
•Scenario-based Enterprise Performance Management

Who Should Attend?
All Executives who are part of the business planning, financial simulation and analytics in their organization, Managers in Finance, and Accounting and IT Managers looking to new technology in the area of planning.

Who is speaking?
Robert Bergstrom; Managing Director ,Accenture Management Consulting, Finance & Enterprise Performance, ASEAN

Robert is the ASEAN Lead for Accenture’s Finance & Enterprise Performance Business practice. He also leads the capability group for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) in Asia Pacific. Robert’s primary focus is helping organizations address key performance management challenges and align increasing shareholder value and stakeholder value.

Shridar Jayakumar
Program Director ; EPM, BI & Exalytics, Oracle

Shridar Jayakumar is the program director for Oracle Business Analytics across Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he has spent his career to date providing advisory & consulting services in a career spanning big four accounting firm, global systems integrators and Oracle in the UK, Europe and Asia. His focus has been business transformation through process re-engineering, systems strategy and implementing technology enabled best practices, in particular around analytics.

Well-executed knowledge management can help you get the right information to the right people at the right time, across all channels.

Join us for a live Webcast to discover how Knowledge Management can help you:

Foster brand loyalty with a dramatically improved customer experience . Increase productivity by empowering agents with up-to-date collective insights . Lower service costs by reducing interaction times . Share crucial insights across the enterprise for consistent multichannel service

Listen to our experts discuss and demonstrate what it really means!

Join us for a live and interactive Webcast on how to comply with regulatory requirements and data protection policies by protecting sensitive data:

•What is Data Protection and why is there a need now?
•How to use preventive controls to address insider threats
•Mitigate attacks from outsiders who exploit legitimate access
•Adopt a defense-in-depth database security strategy

Hear how organisations can mitigate risks by adopting a defense-in-depth strategy that focuses on basic controls to secure data at the source—the database. And see this in action as an Oracle Security speaker demos the solution.

Register online for this complimentary Webcast and learn how Achieving Business Visibility will help you determine how and where BPM can bring the biggest value to your organisation.

The webcast will cover three vital aspects of process leadership:
•Monitor: How can your business achieve visibility into their processes? How do you take action as a consequence?
•Identify: Which processes should I improve? What is the ROI? Why should I even embark on a BPM initiative?
•Improve: How can your business drive process improvement? What is this business/IT collaboration we hear about? What is the framework to bring these teams together?

Also included is a demonstration of these functions based on a real customer case study.

This webcast looks at what HR executives need to know about technology.

Why the buzz words of cloud, social, mobile and business intelligence are terms that HR managers need to be across and how these transformational technologies can propel an organisation forward in the business fast lane.

See how you can improve processes around recruiting, onboarding, talent retention and management and drive employee innovation.

Bob Evans is a business technology strategist and senior vice-president, communications, for Oracle, reporting to CEO Larry Ellison. Bob is a prolific writer and is heavily featured in Forbes Magazine. In his current role he is responsible for helping articulate Oracle’s strategic directions and high-level technology innovations. Before joining Oracle, he was a long-time tech-industry analyst and commentator as well as content and media executive. You can follow him on Twitter at @bobevansIT.

"Are you looking to migrate off SUSE Linux (SLES) to mitigate risk, get highest-quality support, and lower your cost?
Oracle Linux offers the best performing andlowest cost alternative with 24/7 worldwide support.

In this webcast Linux experts will discuss why and how to migrate off SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux. We will cover:

- Why migrate from SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux
- Benefits and unique features of Oracle Linux
- General migration steps including platform differences
- Tips and advice for a successful migration process

Register today."

Join us for this complimentary Webcast to learn how you can affordably enable your organisation for data-driven decision making – the key to increasing your competitive advantage.

This Webcast will cover the 4 key technology areas to help achieve this goal:

1. Leveraging Big Data in BI to get a more complete picture about your business
2. Capturing and processing data in real time for fast action
3. Maximising performance and availability of data warehousing solutions for more efficient data processing
4. Managing data between the Cloud and your premise

Companies must integrate disparate connections, systems, and formats—including big data technologies, to increase competitive advantage. Creating a new integrated world will help you:

• improve customer experience
• enhance operations
• gain actionable business insights

As data volumes increase, learn how to turn your data into an asset. Studies have shown that companies that emphasise decision making based on data and business analytics perform better.

Join this Webcast to find out how

On the 21st of February our experts will host this discussion and answer your questions. Be quick to submit your questions now to ensure they do get addressed during the event. The conversation will cover the following topics and more:

• What role can advanced technologies play in business improvement?
• How can you mitigate risks as project complexity increases?
• What steps can help to lower costs and shorten completion times?
On the 21st of February our experts will host this discussion and answer your questions. Be quick to submit your questions now to ensure they do get addressed during the event. The conversation will cover the following topics and more:
• What role can advanced technologies play in business improvement?
• How can you mitigate risks as project complexity increases?
• What steps can help to lower costs and shorten completion times?

Join us for this Complimentary Webcast to learn how to:

• Improve your Linux uptime
• Introduce and remove diagnostic patches without business disruption
• Make your Linux environment easier to manage and more secure

Oracle’s Ksplice technology will increase the security, reliability and availability of Oracle Linux by enabling customers to apply security updates, diagnostics patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.
Only Oracle Linux offers this unique capability, making it possible for you to keep up with important Linux updates without burdening your team with the operational cost and disruption of rebooting for every update to Linux.

Join us for this complimentary Webcast on 21st February to hear Dean Vaughn:

• Talk about benefits of Ksplice patching in an Oracle Linux environment
• Demonstrate how Ksplice technology will help save money by avoiding downtime and yet remaining compliant with security vulnerability and critical patch updates

As a healthcare professional you now have access to business analytics tools to help make sense of a sudden influx of data. Make decisions quickly but be assured they are based on the right analysis.
Find out how to be an analytics hero in your organisation!

Exceptional service: that’s what it is all about when customers decide whether to renew a contract or move on to a new provider. To retain their customers, utilities must make smart and fast decisions to address service issues as quickly and effectively as they possibly can.
Did you know that as a utility provider you now have the business analytics tools to make the absolute most of your data and deliver this exceptional service?
Find out how to be an analytics hero in your organisation!

Telecommunication providers are battling for the hearts and the wallets of their customers. As a provider they need to constantly search for new ways to deliver offerings, define promotions or different pricing depending on the cells availability etc.
AS a telecommunications professional you now have the business analytics tools to identify these opportunities faster and without all the guesswork involved! If you are into making reliable decision based on sound data, then you too can be an analytics hero!
Watch the video and find out how.

Join us for this Free Live Webcast to hear about Oracle's Completed Path to the Cloud.

Learn how to affordably move your large and complex Oracle environment to a virtualised, agile Cloud framework, within your existing infrastructure.

•Evolve your Data Centres to become Service Centres that deliver instantly, on demand, 24 x 7
•Respond to changing customer requirements with speed
•Meet the end-users desire for “on-demand” IT services through Cloud Computing, technology becoming more widespread in Data Centres

Oracle VM can enable you to deliver a complete and certified Oracle Cloud Architecture across your existing x86 server and storage infrastructure.

Delivering exceptional customer experience has become the key way companies can sustain competitive advantage. Customers want simple, consistent, and relevant experiences across all channels, touchpoints and devices.

However, different customer-facing channels are often separate and siloed, causing a frustrating and disconnected experience for customers when they move from one step in their journey to the next.
Unifying the customer data into a single, high-quality, trusted, repository that can be leveraged across all channels and systems allows organizations to create a more dynamic and personalized experience across all customer interactions

Join us for this free executive webcast to hear how Oracle Customer Data Management solutions can help you:
·        - Enhance the customer experience to provide targeted, differentiated customer service and relevant information
·        - Improve Cross-Sell and Up-Sell Efforts with a complete picture of the existing customer relationship
·        - Raise the reliability of your data with proven, purpose-built data quality
·        - Govern and manage privacy and regulatory policies using pre-built rules and events
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Join us for this Complimentary Webcast to hear top tips on improving performance and scalability as your organisation’s transaction volume increases. Learn how you can:

• scale services and assure service availability
• improve performance
• provide real-time situational awareness for fast decision making

Organisations in multiple industries have to handle large volumes of complex data in real time, with the need to predictably scale mission-critical applications by providing fast and reliable access to frequently used data.

Register today.