Oracle News & Articles

The London launch of Oracle’s (news, site) 11g Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition this week is the culmination of three years work to pull together all its business intelligence tools and build on the technologies it acquired with the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions.

If there was a certain amount of hand-wringing at this year's IOUG conference over how Sun would integrate into Oracle’s (news, site) portfolio from a technology perspective, from the financial side there were no such discussions. The deal is being cited as one of the principal reasons why the software giant has seen its profits grow by 25% in the fourth quarter.

There has been a lot made this week of the announcement that Google is to offer a new PDF reader with Google Chrome that will add web-like functionality to documents. Appian integrates with AnyDoc to combine on-demand BPM with automated document capture.

Last week Oracle) announced a major upgrade to its enterprise content management suite. This week it has announced it is upgrading its Business Process Management suite.

This week, with the general release of Office 2010, Google challenges with updates to Docs, and gets some added support from other companies like OpenDrop. On the BPM front, Oracle followed its ECM Suite 11g release with an upgraded BPM 11g.

At the Liferay (news, site) East Coast Symposium, announcements have been flying. Here's what the open source portal vendor has in store.

Oracle (news, site) has just announced the release of its Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, which tightly integrates its content management platform into the Fusion Middleware architecture and is built on a unified content repository.

While document management, and more generally enterprise content management, have made strides in the past year, many companies are still fighting to management their content. Oracle has improved its document management capabilities by upgrading Documaker for insurance.

If IBM (news, site) has been busy on the acquisition front recently, it’s only a taste of things to come. Between now and 2015, according to CEO Sam Palmisano, Big Blue intends to spend a lot more -- about US$ 20 billion -- and double its profits over the same period.

In a move that is likely to cause Oracle (news, site) some discomfort, SAP (news, site) has announced that it has agreed to acquire Sybase for US$ 5.8 billion and in doing so extend its reach into the mobile business application market.

One of the principal talking points at last month’s IOUG conference was how Oracle is going to integrate Sun and what the roadmap for that integration would be.

Since then, work has already been done on moving this forward. The first instance of this was with the upgrade to Oracle’s (news, site) Enterprise Management platform to 11g. The second, which has just been announced, is the extension of its PartnerNetwork (OPN) with training modules encompassing both Oracle and Sun technologies.
 

The recent release of WorkSimple’s Goal and Performance management platform is the first time an entire platform has been dedicated to creating a results-based environment where enterprise managers can access and create enterprise objectives in real-time rather than the usual quarterly or even yearly reviews.

Anyone who has ever combed through the help files provided with many software programs knows that it can often be a frustrating experience. The search results are usually too generic or it takes too much trolling to finally pin down the answer you’re looking for.

Author-it Software Corp. (news, site) is now offering a solution called Author-it Assist, designed to help users help themselves.

A new hosted human resources management system, built around Oracle’s (news, site) E-Business suite has just been launched by a Mumbai-based business process outsourcing company which says the new solution will dramatically cut the costs of implementing human resources management software.

Who’s not using social media? Probably very few. But while you’re using it, research shows chances are you are being monitored by your employer. Your iPad is also being watched, not by your employer but by hackers trying to get into your PC.