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- Commerzbank Provides High Availability and Continuity Using Oracle Data Warehouse
- As one of the largest private-sector banks in Germany, Commerzbank offers innovative consumer and business banking services through more than 900 branches and its online bank, COMLINE. Oracle allows Commerzbank to provide the high availability and continuity of its systems - to ensure that it makes the proper decisions in...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., High Availability, Commerzbank, Oracle Consulting, Business Intelligence, Storage, Banking, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Financial Services
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- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- Will identity be open source?
- Not only have project managers had to explain and defend the need for secure identities to a consumer audience which thinks it Big Brother, but they had to navigate among the interests of several big-name vendors -- Sun, Oracle and IBM among them. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Identity, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Giddyap - Oracle Mid-market apps team with Wells Fargo
- A Treasury Solution to Save Money not cost more of it I got a briefing from Oracle's Tony Kender and Wells Fargo's Brad Stewart concerning their new joint plug-in adapter product for Oracle's E-Business Suite. Basically, this adapter allows users of Oracle's mid-market applications to directly...
- Tags: Team, Oracle Corp., Wells Fargo & Co., Adapter, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security
- To learn more about how enterprises can begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP's Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP's security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group,...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Dana Gardner, Access Management, Identity, Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tool, Regulations, Government
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Central Desktop launches Enterprise SaaS suite
- When it comes to online collaboration, Central Desktop has been serving small and medium-sized businesses for some time with the tools they need to manage versions of files, emails related to a project and calendaring tools designed to keep team members in sync. Now, as rocky economic...
- Tags: Desktop, Software-as-a-service, Client-server, Tool, Productivity, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- News to know: Jerry Yang, MLB.com, Mark Cuban, USB 3.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo Larry Dignan:Â With Yang out as Yahoo CEO, Steve Ballmer licks chops ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Jerry Yang, MLB, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, USB, CEO, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Live Webcast: 5 Best Practices for Modernizing your Enterprise Portal
- Modern enterprise portals offer superior user experience, greater individual and team productivity along with reduced development and support costs. Learn how to get more business value out of your existing enterprise portal using 5 proven best practices. This webcast will show how you can modernize your portal through...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, Enterprise Portal, Best Practice, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-11-18
- Study: Don't repeat IT mistakes from last downturn.
- A report released today by research firm voke, Inc. makes a point that probably shouldn't need to be made these days - but, given the economic climate, it's probably not a bad idea to say it anyway. Resist the IT downturn slash. Former Gartner...
- Tags: Information Technology, Outsourcing, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle
- It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Whatever happened to the 'middle' in middleware?
- Quote of the week: "In the mid 1990s, 'middle' meant 'the gaps between applications and software components.' Middleware was technology you turned to in order to try to build distributed systems: transaction processing middleware, database middleware, object middleware... Middleware was a technological concept. ...Now, 'middle' means...
- Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- i-Cards: the next SSN?
- When it comes to the new information cards - the digital wallet initiative backed by the likes of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle - think of this as Phase 1, the information gathering phase This week, another partner in the effort - credit reporting agency Equifax - launched an online...
- Tags: Card, Equifax, i-Cards, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Oracle Gadgets: Flexible Desktop Access to CRM Data Goldmines...
- Oracle, who have several code line families to care for and nurture, are announcing Siebel CRM 8.1.1 today, and more intriguingly from a collaboration perspective 'Oracle Customer Relationship Management CRM Gadgets for Sales', more evidence of the effort being put into Social CRM by Oracle. As the...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Data, Siebel Systems Inc., Gadget, CRM, Sales Strategy, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- News to know: CES preview, Google tracks flu, NebuAd sued, Ad porn blocker
- Â Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front Sean Portnoy: Third-quarter HDTV sales pace slows, plasmas show new signs of life ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video, Beta, Matthew Miller, Corporate Communications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Crisis Averted: A Proactive Approach to Mitigating Disaster
- Is your business' network - and the IT staff that runs it - prepared to deal with the unthinkable? Is your data secure? Does your current disaster plan streamline your company's operations? Does it resolve your concerns about power and network outages? View this 1-hour Webcast, sponsored by Qwest Communications,...
- Tags: CIO, Qwest Communications Inc., Network, Disaster Recovery, Networking, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-11-12
- Application Server Choices: Important Considerations in Selecting an Application Server
- With a dizzying array of application server options available, organizations are concerned with compatibility when their investment dollars are at stake. This competitive snapshot compares and reviews some prominent open source application server offerings, particularly those from BEA, Oracle and IBM®.
- Tags: Application Server, Server, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-12
- Enabling Dynamic Business Processes With BPM And SOA
- IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey 300 business and IT leaders from US and UK to determine the level of common understanding and alignment between business and IT groups on key issues related to impact of their existing processes on operational efficiency and business innovation and how BPM and SOA...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-11-12
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