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Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management

Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate...

Tags: Asset, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Disaster Management, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Data Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

Integrating Oracle Spatial With Google Earth

The world is flocking to location technologies. Whether people are searching for their houses on Google Earth, tracking their kids with GPS-enabled cell phones, or utilizing the inherent location-enabling capabilities built in to their enterprise Oracle architectures, it seems that not only is everyone interested in location but their lives...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Open-source Community, Google Earth, Open Source

White papers 2007-07-01

STAR INFORMATIC & ORACLE Spatial Customer Success Story

The old adage "It's not what you know it's who you know" is often a reality that can seep into all facets of professional life, often helping to drive business forward. In 2000 Elia decided it was time to electrify its approach to network information management and launched a radical...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Information Management, Oracle Corp., Network, GIS, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies 2005-09-22

Oracle Spatial 10g

Oracle Spatial, an option for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, includes advanced spatial capabilities to support GIS applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems. Oracle Spatial extends the core location features included in every Oracle database with Oracle Locator. In general, this white paper describes those features included only...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., GIS, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2005-06-01

Oracle Database 10g: Building GIS Applications Using the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

Network modeling, management, and analysis are common tasks for Geographic Information Systems GIS. Network analysis includes routing path computation in transportation networks, tracing accessibility in utility networks, and resource allocation in decision-making and customer relationship management CRM applications. This paper presents the Oracle Spatial network data model, an Oracle Database...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Oracle Database, Analysis, Oracle Database 10g, Modeling, Network Analysis, Research & Development, GIS, Transportation, Networking, Business Operations, Software

White papers 2005-05-01

Oracle Database 10g: Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

The Oracle Spatial network data model, available with Oracle Spatial 10g, provides the capabilities for modeling and analyzing network applications. The network data model is an open and generic network data model that represents networks in object-relational form in the database and as Java objects in client or application tier....

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Network Data, Networking

White papers 2005-05-01

Oracle Spatial Partitioning: Best Practices

Oracle's scalable database architecture includes partitioning, in which a single logical table and its indexes are broken up into one or more physical tables, each with its own index. There are many different ways to partition data, however this paper will focus on range partitioning with Oracle Spatial. Range partitioning...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Index, Best Practice, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2004-11-01

Accessing Oracle Spatial Data with Autodesk Map 3D

Many organizations such as utilities, telecommunication providers, and government agencies depend on geospatial data that is stored in an Oracle database. Autodesk Map 3D enables organizations to expand access to spatial data by letting other groups such as the engineering staff obtain data that was once available only to GIS...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, 3D, Oracle Corp., Autodesk Inc., Autodesk Map 3D, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers

Shell Employs New Strategy for Managing Spatial Data, Gains Big Picture for Sustainable Environment

Shell companies have explored and produced hydrocarbons for more than a century. In the mid-1990s, SIEP decided to adopt a universal server technology for spatial information management. Although SIEP had used geographic information systems GIS to manage location-based data since the technology was first introduced in 1984, it was implementing...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Strategy, Oracle Corp., Environment, Server, GIS, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies

Environmental Protection Agency Delivers Rapid Damage Assessments

If the nation experiences a toxic chemical spill or other health-threatening pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA swings into action, dispatching analysts to size up the contamination. The application developed by the EPA's Region 5 Superfund Division has resulted in the EPA analysts having the data they need at...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management

Case studies

From Data Creation to Collection to Distribution, the City of Tacoma, Washington, Saves Time and Extends Its Resources With Autodesk Map 3D and Oracle Spatial

The Public Works Department of the City of Tacoma Tacoma, Washington, uses its geospatial data to do everything from issuing building permits and managing waste water to maintaining streetlights. The city has prioritized the centralized storage, efficient maintenance, and real-time distribution of spatial data. With Autodesk Map 3D and Oracle...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, 3D, Oracle Corp., Autodesk Inc., City, GIS, Software

Case studies

Using FME to Load GIS Data Into Oracle Spatial

When the City of Vancouver decided to move the GIS data from their existing VISION system to Oracle Spatial, they didn't want to trust the translation of the data, which they use to run a billion-dollar infrastructure, to just anyone. They turned to Safe Software. Working with Safe for a...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Vision, GIS, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies

Building a Dynamic GIS Solution With Autodesk and Oracle Spatial Products

Located about 35 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., Prince William County is a mixture of farmland and suburban development. Creating a digital representation of every aspect of the system is a huge undertaking in and of itself. The task is made more difficult by the fact that the system is...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., DLT Solutions, Autodesk Inc., GIS, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies

PEMEX SICORI Increases Productivity of Its Geospatial Services by 500% Using an Innovative Technology Platform

PEtroleos MEXicanos PEMEX, one of the largest state petroleum companies in the world, created the Corporate Information System SICORI to generate a flow of information to support operations in its central agency and subsidiary agencies specializing in exploration, production, petrochemistry, refining and gas. SICORI needed to make a definitive decision...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...

Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Office 2.0 Conference day one

David Allen discussed his 'getting things done' methodology with conference creator Ismael Ghalimi during the opening keynote session at the Office 2.0 conference at the St Regis Hotel, San Francisco. The core of the methodology is to free up the sophisticated processing unit that is your brain...

Tags: Google Inc., General Electric Co., Conference, Office 2.0, Matthew, Cloud Computing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Leaked in iTunes 8.0: Genius

It may have gotten lost in the end of yesterday's particularly long-winded fortune teller piece, but the Oracle of Cupertino, ahem Kevin Rose, posted a pretty convincing-looking snippit of a document proclaiming to be "What's new in iTunes 8." It goes like this: iTunes 8 includes...

Tags: TV, Apple iTunes, Music, Genius, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)

Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04