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Ballertainment Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State Warriors in OT The Lakers beat the Warriors in an overtime barn burner Saturday night in Oakland. This was the return game for Steve Nash, and after being sidelined for 24 games, and he was a breath of fresh air. It wasn't a perfect game — the Lakers had to overcome a double digit second quarter deficit just stay in the game, but in the end they prevailed, closing things out 188-115. Kobe Bryant scored 34 points, followed by Metta World Peace with 20. Dwight Howard contributed 11 points and 6 rebounds, while Steve Nash ended the night with 12 points and 9 dimes. Jarrett Jack led all scorers for the Warriors with 29 points and 11 assists. Stephen Curry was 3-for-10 from the three-point line. Hmmmmmm…. Anyway, this win should give the Lake Show a boost as they have been struggling as of late. Maybe they will hit their stride now that Nash is at the helm. The Lakers host Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks at Staples Center on Christmas Day in one of five NBA games scheduled that day. Ballertainment - Sports Entertainment, Gossip, Lifestyle, and News
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By Tanu Sood-Oracle on Oct 22, 2014
Based in Lewisville, Texas, Overhead Door is a 92-year-old, nearly US$1 billion company focused on manufacturing, distributing, installing, and servicing a wide range of openers and doors, from residential and commercial garage doors and revolving, automatic sliding, and pedestrian doors to truck doors and ramps. The company manufactures, installs, and services the doors, and the company's products are sold through OEMs; dealers; distributors; and retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot, and Amazon. Overhead Door is owned by Sanwa Holdings Corporation of Japan and has more than 3,500 employees; 17 manufacturing locations across the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom; and about 100 company-owned sales and service centers across North America.
When the company acquired its largest competitor, Wayne-Dalton in 2009, the company needed to rethink its IT strategy to streamline its IT footprint, optimize business processes and maintain industry leadership. Overhead Door selected an Oracle integrated hardware and software solution to help improve customer intimacy with increased performance and support. An Oracle AppAdvantage story with Oracle Fusion Middleware in use with Oracle Applications, alongside Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle technology provides the foundation that will allow Overhead Door to scale and grow over time.
Catch the brief video to learn how the company used technology to move their business forward.
Global Perspective is a monthly series that brings experiences,
business needs and real-world use cases from regions across the globe. This
month's feature showcases real-world business stories from the APAC region.
Author: Juliana Button
We recently had the pleasure of Mohamad Afshar, Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Management and Rick Beers, Senior Director Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Management, join us in Australia for our inaugural Business Innovation Summit. This full-day thought leader's event was attended by 50 business and IT leaders, and proved to be an excellent opportunity to network and share ideas and best practices around Oracle's key mobile and cloud-based strategies for infrastructure modernisation and business transformation. The interactive agenda included joint customer/partner presentations, panel discussions and workshop exercises where attendees discussed Oracle AppAdvantage, Engineered Systems and Oracle Fusion Middleware and how these technologies provide a pathway to simplify IT complexity, support innovation and agility to reduce costs and deliver competitive differentiation in their organizations today.
Let's take a look at how some of these Australian
customers are using Oracle AppAdvantage today to deliver benefits in each of
the three Oracle AppAdvantage layers.
Simplify IT by minimizing complexity, improving performance and lowering cost with secure and reliable systems across the entire Enterprise.
Yarra Valley Water (YVW) – YVW needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure to better support its Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing system and its plans for creating customer-facing Web portals. In mid-2012, the organization developed a private cloud infrastructure, based on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. The infrastructure includes a pair of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic engineered systems at YVW's production and disaster recovery centers. By taking advantage of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic's high performance and stability, YVW ensured its Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing applications can reach their full potential. It reduced application response times from up to 9 seconds to a subsecond, lowered average customer call times by 30 seconds, and cut the overnight batch processing time by 71%. It has also reduced the time required for development, testing, and production tasks by 30%. For more information you can read the full case study or watch one of the videos - Exalogic Boosts Performance / Streamlines Resources for YVW | YVW Streamlines IT Practices with Exalogic and Exadata | YVW Uses Oracle Identity and Access Management
Differentiate Layer: Move business specific processes and applications to the Differentiate Layer, thus creating greater business agility with process extensions and best of breed applications using standards-based re-usable integration, managed by cross- application process orchestration.
Jurlique – Jurlique has experienced significant growth in online sales in the U.S. When Jurlique's products were featured on The Today Show in the U.S., the company received 16,000 orders in a 24-hour period, and it took more than one month to settle the orders. Jurlique quickly realized it needed to automate its online ordering process to cut down transaction processing time and deliver a better service to its customers. This involved integrating its online ordering application with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system to create a streamlined service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. SOA has reduced the time it took to complete online product orders by at least 20%, and it accelerates delivery times from order to shipment by 50%.
More recently, Jurlique has extended its SOA footprint to (i) support real-time standards-based integration between its third-party warehouse management systems and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne manufacturing systems, (ii) integrate with third party credit card provider, (iii) implement mobile ordering , and (iv) deliver a business activity dashboard. OPN Platinum partner UXC Red Rock, delivered the SOA integration solution for Jurlique. For more information take a look at the Jurlique Presentation from the Business Innovation Summit, read the full case study or watch one of the videos - Jurlique Uses Oracle SOA Suite to Extend JD Edwards | Jurlique Streamlines Online Ordering with Oracle SOA Suite | Jurlique Streamlines Wholesale Order Process with Oracle ADF |
Australia – Engineers Australia needed to replace
its aging legacy IT infrastructure, redefine its business processes, and
develop new online and customer relationship management (CRM) functions to
improve the services it provides to engineers. The organization's system, which it calls eChartered, went live in
November 2012. It provides new online self-service capabilities that improves
the user experience for Engineers Australia members and replaces many
cumbersome manual processes. In 2012, the organization implemented Oracle
Business Process Management Suite 11g
and Oracle
SOA Suite 11g, integrating with
E-Business Suite and cloud-based Salesforce.com, running on Oracle
WebLogic Suite 11g,
to support its eChartered system.
Engineers Australia moved from paper-based to online processes, improved monitoring, management, and visibility of its chartered engineer processes, and ensured seamless integration for eChartered, thereby reducing the time and effort required to manage members' enrollments, assessments, and registrations. It now completes the enrollment processes 90% faster, while staff can generate assessment reports in seconds rather than taking 45 minutes, as was the case previously. The organization also has cut the time to develop new system modules by three to four weeks. OPN Platinum partner UXC Red Rock, delivered the BPM solution for Engineers Australia. For more information take a look at the Engineers Australia Presentation from the Business Innovation Summit, read the full case study or watch one of the videos - Engineers Australia Recognises AppAdvantage | eChartered Built with Oracle BPM Suite and SOA Suite | Engineers Australia Transforms eChartered Process
Innovation Layer: Drive business innovation by connecting people, information, and applications anywhere, anytime.
Stryker South Pacific - Stryker South Pacific, a global organisation that provides a wide array of medical devices, needed to streamline its business critical manual ordering process for surgical kits. OPN Partner Intelligent Pathways, delivered a SOA-based mobile solution for Stryker South Pacific to enable surgery kit bookings to be captured in the field on laptop or mobile devices, with booking data automatically entered into JD Edwards EnterpriseOne via SOA-based business services with an automated approval process. The integrated mobile solution has improved customer service, reduced errors and improved the user experience. For more information take a look at the Stryker South Pacific Presentation from the Business Innovation Summit.
We hope you have found these Oracle AppAdvantage customer case studies insightful to help you on the journey to delivering Business-IT alignment and enhanced business value from Oracle Applications, in your own organizations. The Oracle AppAdvantage customer reference booklet available off oracle.com showcases additional business use cases and customer examples so do take a look at it. And, I look forward to hearing from you on which business case you best relate to.
About the Author:Juliana Button is Director of Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware. Since 1992, Juliana has held various technical and management positions in Oracle Corporation based in Australia and at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores. Juliana's current responsibilities include supporting go-to-market initiatives for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AppAdvantage, and working with customers and Partners across the globe.
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This week has been full of Oracle Exalogic information. On Tuesday, we had our screencast, "Running Applications on Oracle Exalogic" (you can catch the replay below.
On Thursday, we published our latest white paper, "Getting the Most Out of Your Applications with Oracle Exalogic" (download here).
As an applications platform, Exalogic offers a critical
piece of the middleware puzzle. And to address today's business imperatives,
you may be interested in many of the other pieces that Oracle Fusion Middleware
offers. You can find all the videos and assets for The New Business Imperative:
Social, Mobile, Cloud screencast program here.
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We hoped you enjoyed our recent screencast, "Running Application on Oracle Exalogic", and got a fresh perspective on moving applications to the cloud without having to build the entire application platform yourself. In case you missed the screencast, you can catch the replay here
While it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, it's sometimes interesting to read a thousand words, too (or even 3,000). You can now download our new Exalogic white paper, where you can read:
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In all the excitement about cloud computing, it's easy to overlook a little practical matter: you still need actual hardware, software, networking and storage components to make it work.
So while the cloud frees end users from having to build and manage their own computing infrastructure, someone else (whether internally or at an external service provider) has to do it for them. And that someone will face the age-old questions of which hardware and software components to buy, how to integrate and manage them, and how to support the applications that users are running. And this now comes with the added requirement to support the cloud, social and mobile capabilities needed by today's users.
This week's installment in The New Business Imperative: Social, Mobile, Cloud, discusses the best platform to run your applications in this new era. Oracle Exalogic gives you a pre-integrated and certified hardware and software solution, with all the cloud capabilities already built in.
Ayalla Goldschmidt, Director, Product Marketing discusses how Exalogic supports key IT and helps you seize business opportunities faster, lower business risk, and lower the cost and complexity of doing business.
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Today, we are featuring a customer interview with Ingvar Petursson, Senior VP of IT at Nintendo of America. Nintendo is the leading game and entertainment company with products like the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and its next great home console Wii U. Nintendo has enabled fast time-to-market and provided a high-availability platform for global business and gamer support systems with Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata.
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Hasan Rizvi, Executive Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware & Java took the stage on Tuesday to discuss how Oracle Fusion Middleware helps enable business innovation. Through a series of product demos and customer showcases, Hassan demonstrated how Oracle Fusion Middleware is a complete platform to harness the latest technological innovations (cloud, mobile, social and Fast Data) throughout the application lifecycle.
Fig 1: Oracle Fusion Middleware is the foundation of business innovation
This Session included 4 demonstrations to illustrate these strategies:
1. Build and deploy native mobile applications using Oracle ADF Mobile
2. Empower business user to model processes, design user interface and have rich mobile experience for process interaction using Oracle BPM Suite PS6.
3. Create collaborative user experience and integrate social sign-on using Oracle WebCenter Portal, Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle Social Network & Oracle Identity Management 11g R2
4. Deploy and manage business applications on Oracle Exalogic
Nike, LA Department of Water & Power and Nintendo joined Hasan on stage to share how their organizations are leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware to enable business innovation.
Managing Performance in the Wrld of Social and Mobile
How do you provide predictable scalability and performance for an application that monitors active lifestyle of 8 million users on a daily basis? Nike's answer is Oracle Coherence, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Exadata.
Fig 2: Oracle Coherence enabled data grid improves performance of Nike+ Digital Sports Platform
Nicole Otto, Sr. Director of Consumer Digital Technology discussed the vision of the Nike+ platform, a platform which represents a shift for NIKE from a "product" to a "product +" experience. There are currently nearly 8 million users in the Nike+ system who are using digitally-enabled Nike+ devices. Once data from the Nike+ device is transmitted to Nike+ application, users access the Nike+ website or via the Nike mobile applicatoin, seeing metrics around their daily active lifestyle and even engage in socially compelling experiences to compare, compete or collaborate their data with their friends. Nike expects the number of users to grow significantly this year which will drive an explosion of data and potential new experiences.
To deal with this challenge, Nike envisioned building a shared platform that would drive a consumer-centric model for the company. Nike built this new platform using Oracle Coherence and Oracle Exadata. Using Coherence, Nike built a data grid tier as a distributed cache, thereby provide low-latency access to most recent and relevant data to consumers. Nicole discussed how Nike+ Digital Sports Platform is unique in the way that it utilizes the Coherence Grid. Nike takes advantage of Coherence as a traditional cache using both cache-aside and cache-through patterns. This new tier has enabled Nike to create a horizontally scalable distributed event-driven processing architecture. Current data grid volume is approximately 150,000 request per minute with about 40 million objects at any given time on the grid.
Improving Customer Experience Across Multiple Channels
Customer experience is on top of every CIO's mind. Customer Experience needs to be consistent and secure across multiple devices consumers may use. This is the challenge Matt Lampe, CIO of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) was faced with. Despite being the largest utilities company in the country, LADWP had been relying on a 38 year old customer information system for serving its customers. Their prior system had been unable to keep up with growing customer demands.
Last year, LADWP embarked on a journey to improve customer experience for 1.6million LA DWP customers using Oracle WebCenter platform.
Figure 3: Multi channel & Multi lingual LADWP.com built using Oracle WebCenter & Oracle Identity Management platform
Matt shed light on his efforts to drive customer self-service across 3 dimensions – new website, new IVR platform and new bill payment service. LADWP has built a new portal to increase customer self-service while reducing the transactions via IVR. LADWP's website is powered Oracle WebCenter Portal and is accessible by desktop and mobile devices. By leveraging Oracle WebCenter, LADWP eliminated the need to build, format, and maintain individual mobile applications or websites for different devices. Their entire content is managed using Oracle WebCenter Content and secured using Oracle Identity Management. This new portal automated their paper based processes to web based workflows for customers. This includes automation of Self Service implemented through My Account - like Bill Pay, Payment History, Bill History and Usage Analysis. LADWP's solution went live in April 2012.
Matt indicated that LADWP's Self-Service Portal has greatly improved customer satisfaction. In a JD Power Associates website satisfaction survey, results indicate rankings have climbed by 25+ points, marking a remarkable increase in user experience.
Bolstering Performance and Simplifying Manageability of Business Applications
Ingvar Petursson, Senior Vice Preisdent of IT at Nintendo America joined Hasan on-stage to discuss their choice of Exalogic. Nintendo had significant new requirements coming their way for business systems, both internal and external, in the years to come, especially with new products like the WiiU on the horizon this holiday season. Nintendo needed a platform that could give them performance, availability and ease of management as they deploy business systems.
Ingvar selected Engineered Systems for two reasons:
1. High performance
2. Ease of management
Figure 4: Nintendo relies on Oracle Exalogic to run ATG eCommerce, Oracle e-Business Suite and several business applications
Nintendo made a decision to run their business applications (ATG eCommerce, E-Business Suite) and several Fusion Middleware components on the Exalogic platform. What impressed Ingvar was the "stress" testing results during evaluation. Oracle Exalogic could handle their 3-year load estimates for many functions, which was better than Nintendo expected without any hardware expansion.
Faster Processing of Big Data
Middleware plays an increasingly important role in Big Data. Last year, we announced at OpenWorld the introduction of Oracle Data Integrator for Hadoop and Oracle Loader for Hadoop which helps in the ability to move, transform, load data to and from Big Data Appliance to Exadata. This year, we've added new capabilities to find, filter, and focus data using Oracle Event Processing. This product can natively integrate with Big Data Appliance or runs standalone.
Hasan briefly discussed how NTT Docomo, largest mobile operator in Japan, leverages Oracle Event Processing & Oracle Coherence to process mobile data (from 13 million smartphone users) at a speed of 700K events per second before feeding it Hadoop for distributed processing of big data.
Figure 5: Mobile traffic data processing at NTT Docomo with Oracle Event Processing & Oracle Coherence
Did you miss this general session on Monday morning presented by Amit Zavery, VP of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Management? There will be a recording made available shortly and in the meanwhile, here is a recap. Amit presented 5 strategies customers can leverage today to extend their applications.
Figure 1: 5 Oracle Fusion Middleware strategies to extend Oracle Applications & Oracle Fusion Apps
1. Engage Everyone – Provide intuitive and social experience for application users using Oracle WebCenter
2. Extend Enterprise – Extend Oracle Applications to mobile devices using Oracle ADF Mobile
3. Orchestrate Processes – Automate key organization processes across on-premise & cloud applications using Oracle BPM Suite & Oracle SOA Suite
4. Secure the core – Provide single sign-on and self-service provisioning across multiple apps using Oracle Identity Management
5. Optimize Performance – Leverage Exalogic stack to consolidate multiple instance and improve performance of Oracle Applications
Session included 3 demonstrations to illustrate these strategies.
1. First demo highlighted significance of mobile applications for unlocking existing investment in Applications such as EBS. Using a native iPhone application interacting with e-Business Suite, demo showed how expense approval can be mobile enabled with enhanced visibility using BI dashboards.
2. Second demo showed how you can extend a banking process in Siebel and Oracle Policy Automation with Oracle BPM Suite.Process starts in Siebel with a customer requesting a loan, and then jumps to OPA for loan recommendations and decision making and loan processing with approvals in handled in BPM Suite. Once approvals are completed Siebel is updated to complete the process.
3. Final demo showcased FMW components inside Fusion Applications, specifically WebCenter.
Boeing, Underwriter Laboratories and Electronic Arts joined this quest and discussed 3 different approaches of leveraging Fusion Middleware stack to maximize their investment in Oracle Applications and/or Fusion Applications technology. Let's briefly review what these customers shared during the session:
1. Extend Fusion Applications
We know that Oracle Fusion Middleware is the underlying technology infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Applications. Architecturally, Oracle Fusion Apps leverages several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware from Oracle WebCenter for rich collaborative interface, Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle BPM Suite for orchestrating key underlying processes to Oracle BIEE for dash boarding and analytics. Boeing talked about how they are using Oracle BPM Suite 11g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Fusion Apps to transform their supply chain.
Tim Murnin, Director of Supply Chain talked about Boeing's 5 year supply chain transformation journey. Boeing's Integrated and Information Management division began with automation of critical RFQ process using Oracle BPM Suite. This 1st phase resulted in 38% reduction in labor costs for RFP. As a next step in this effort, Boeing is now creating a platform to enable electronic Order Management. Fusion Apps are playing a significant role in this phase. Boeing has gone live with Oracle Fusion Product Hub and efforts are underway with Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO). So, where does Oracle BPM Suite 11g fit in this equation? Let me explain. Business processes within Fusion Apps are designed using 2 standards: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). These processes can be easily configured using declarative set of tools. Boeing leverages Oracle BPM Suite 11g (which supports BPMN 2.0) and Oracle SOA Suite (which supports BPEL) to "extend" these applications. Traditionally, customizations are done within an app using native technologies. But, instead of making process changes within Fusion Apps, Boeing has taken an approach of building "extensions" layer on top of the application.
Fig 2: Boeing's use of Oracle BPM Suite to orchestrate key supply chain processes across Fusion Apps
2. Maximize Oracle Applications investment
Fusion Middleware appeals not only to Fusion Apps customers, but is also leveraged by Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards customers significantly. Using Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite is the recommended extension strategy for Oracle Fusion Apps and Oracle Applications Unlimited customers. Electronic Arts, E-Business Suite customer, spoke about their strategy to transform their order-to-cash process using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Foundation Packs and Oracle BAM.
Udesh Naicker, Sr Director of IT at Elecronic Arts (EA), discussed how growth of social and digital gaming had started to put tremendous pressure on EA's existing IT infrastructure. He discussed the challenge with millions of micro-transactions coming from several sources – Microsoft Xbox, Paypal, several service providers. EA found Order-2-Cash processes stretched to their limits. They lacked visibility into these transactions across the entire value chain.
EA began by consolidating their E-Business Suite R11 instances into single E-Business Suite R12. EA needed to cater to a variety of service requirements, connectivity methods, file formats, and information latency. Their integration strategy was tactical, i.e., using file uploads, TIBCO, SQL scripts. After consolidating E-Business suite, EA standardized their integration approach with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack. Oracle SOA Suite is the platform used to extend E-Business Suite R12 and standardize 60+ interfaces across several heterogeneous systems including PeopleSoft, Demantra, SF.com, Workday, and Managed EDI services spanning on-premise, hosted and cloud applications.
EA believes that Oracle SOA Suite 11g based extension strategy has helped significantly in the followings ways:
- It helped them keep customizations out of E-Business Suite, thereby keeping EBS R12 vanilla and upgrade safe
- Developers are now proficient in technology which is also leveraged by Fusion Apps. This has helped them prepare for adoption of Fusion Apps in the future
Fig 3: Using Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle e-Business Suite, Electronic Arts built new platform for order processing
3. Consolidate apps and improve scalability
Exalogic is an optimal platform for customers to consolidate their application deployments and enhance performance. Underwriter Laboratories talked about their strategy to run their mission critical applications including e-Business Suite on Exalogic.
Christian Anschuetz, CIO of Underwriter Laboratories (UL) shared how UL is on a growth path - $1B to $2.5B in 5 years- and planning a significant business transformation from a not-for-profit to a for-profit business. To support this growth, UL is planning to simplify its IT environment and the deployment complexity associated with ERP applications and technology it runs on.
Their current applications were deployed on variety of hardware platforms and lacked comprehensive disaster recovery architecture. UL embarked on a mission to deploy E-Business Suite on Exalogic. UL's solution is unique because it is one of the first to deploy a large number of Oracle applications and related Fusion Middleware technologies (SOA, BI, Analytical Applications AIA Foundation Pack and AIA EBS to Siebel UCM prebuilt integration) on the combined Exalogic and Exadata environment. UL is planning to move to a virtualized architecture toward the end of 2012 to securely host external facing applications like iStore
Fig 4: Underwrites Labs deployed e-Business Suite on Exalogic to achieve performance gains
Key takeaways are:
- Fusion Middleware platform is certified with major Oracle Applications Unlimited offerings. Fusion Middleware is the underlying technological infrastructure for Fusion Apps
- Customers choose Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend their applications (Apps Unlimited or Fusion Apps) to keep applications upgrade safe and prepare for Fusion Apps
- Exalogic is an optimum platform to consolidate applications deployments and enhance performance
Please join Hasan Rizvi, Cliff Godwin, and other key Oracle executives on July 25 for the launch of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0. Oracle's latest release of hardware and software is engineered to work together to run your business applications.
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So much buzz in a single day. I have to say I was quite blown away with the starting videos by Mark Hurd outlining our success thus far, and then ending with Thomas Kurian in the morning detailing a number of key advancements around Enterprise Manager 12c, Big Data, and Exalytics. The theme of Oracle OpenWorld (if you haven't been paying attention to our banners) is all about Engineered for Innovation.
Hasan Rizvi during his General Session today discussed such innovations in Fusion Middleware highlighting Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Cloud Application Foundation which help provide a foundation for Cloud applications, make IT more efficient and business users more productive.
Rizvi outlined how Oracle is the leader in Fusion Middleware, with the #1 position in the market –with over 120,000 existing customers having added 9,500 new customers in the last 12 months.
In fact, Oracle runs on Oracle; running its own applications on Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle invests heavily in integrating its products together into cohesive solutions, reducing professional services costs compared to competition while reducing time-to-market for on-boarding new services from 3 months to 2 weeks.
Oracle also runs its most innovative business software, Fusion Applications, on Oracle Fusion Middleware - leveraging its modern user interface, in context Business Intelligence, integrated SOA, centralized security, and built for on-premise and on-Cloud.
Rizvi also discussed in detail the advantages of Oracle Exalogic,
Ultimately that means: Oracle Exalogic provides customers a solution which relies on less hardware and software, is easier to deploy, manage, maintain, while at the same time runs faster.
In fact many Exalogic customers experienced dramatic gains. Rizvi quoted a few important customer examples:
In addition, Rizvi outlined new advancements in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software which are worth highlighting:
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Better Together is a song written and performed by Jack Johnson. It is the first track on Johnson's album In Between Dreams, which was released in February 2005. "Better Together" was released as a single in January 2006. It charted at #24 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, a live version from the En Concert live album was released as a single in 2009, peaking at #23 on the Mediabase Triple A chart. It was also included in a Cuban remix of the song which was included in Rhythms del Mundo.
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Show Period2012 - Now
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- Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes
- Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson
- Aidan Quinn
- Jon Michael Hill
- Kristen Bush
- Liam Ferguson
- John Noble
- Rhys Ifans as Mycroft Holmes
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- Freda Foh Shen
- Stephen Park
- Gbenga Akinnagbe
- Reg Rogers
- David Batonvert
When a supposedly uncrackable bank vault called 'The Leviathan' is breached for the second time, Sherlock is called in to figure out what went wrong. When the vault was breached for the first time, the heist was committed by a once-in-a-lifetime assembly of world class criminals. Because they went to jail for the crime, the vault company can't imagine how anyone else got in. When Sherlock learns that not even he can break into The Leviathan, he realizes that the second group of criminals must somehow be connected to the first.


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Pardon my rusty Portuguese (ok, my non-existent Portuguese, which is even rustier), but I just discovered a great art blog, Gramatologia, published by the Brazilian artist Amir Brito Cadôr. Amir's work and the work of other artists he features is predominantly text-based in many different languages, and the site is mostly visual, so it doesn't matter if you don't read Portuguese. Check it out.
Amir's work is often caligraphic, and plays with type and alphabets. Here is a self-serving example of three randomly chosen pieces from his Livro dos Seres Imaginários (Book of the Imaginary Beings) that just happen to spell my name when combined in just the right way:
I've discovered a lot of interesting artists and work on Gramatologia that I had never heard of before, such as Jan Olof Mallander, whose work (another "J"..hmm… is this a pattern with me?) is at right. Here is a good bio on the Finnish artist, which leads off with this bit of inspiration:
In the winter of 1972-73, the Cheap Thrills Gallery , founded by Jan-Olof Mallander, was converted into a macrobiotic restaurant. For a few weeks, the gallery served the public vegetarian cuisine instead of art. The experiment was the forerunner of the first vegetarian restaurant in Finland. When Mallander, a macrobiotic himself, was some time later seen in a restaurant cutting up a juicy steak, he merely said: " Know your enemy .."
I was about to show more examples, but there is so much good work on Gramatologia, I'd be here all day, so just go check it out for yourself.


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Re: Wonder how well you PC will run Crysis
I'm not sure i'd call that a discussion in that thread, hehe. They seem to be saying that interlaced video fields and motion blur are the same thing?! bless.
The motion blur in crysis won't mask a low framerate in terms of responsiveness, but it will change the perceived smoothness of movement within the scene at low framerates. Whether that's moving the mouse (the entire perspective) or just a guy running across your view.
In short, it'll give the impression of a smoother framerate, without the same responsiveness improvement you get from a high fps.
I'd imagine it makes a huge difference to perceived fluidity of the game in the 35-to-50 fps range though (will appear more like a solid 'gaming' 60 fps to the eye).
I'd say it's a good thing, and it'll help immersion even when you've already got a great framerate.
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Late Antiquity, the period stretching roughly from the restructuring of the Roman empire in the late third century AD to the rise of Islam in the seventh, witnessed the transformation of the ancient Mediterranean and near eastern worlds. This book illustrates the dramatic political, social and religious changes of Late Antiquity through the words of the men and women who experienced them. This collection draws from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Persian, Arabic and Armenian sources, some translated into English for the first time. The Roman empire is kept at the centre of discussion, with chapters devoted to government, society, army, law, medicine, philosophy, Christianity, polytheism and Jews. Other chapters deal with the societies that surrounded the Roman state: Persia, Huns, Germanic invaders who established new states in the West and Islam. The carefully selected sources present a comprehensive insight into the lives of emperors, abbesses, aristocrats, slaves, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, historians and saints who left a vivid record of their experiences.
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Hi-Liner wrestling earned their second win in a three-game Eastern Dakota Conference stretch as 8th-grader Jake Tangen, third-ranked 145-pound senior Reed Beckman and fifth-ranked 160-pound senior Mark Miller scored pins to help Valley City defeat Fargo South, 47-19, on Tuesday night.
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Valley City State's Aaron Duske is the latest North Star Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the NSAA announced Monday.
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Hi-Liner 160-pound senior Mark Miller is the Farmers Union Insurance Dec. 30 - Jan. 5 Wrestler of the Week, Farmers Union announced Monday.
Maple Valley senior center James Richman scored 19 points on Friday night as the Raiders beat District 2 rival Northern Cass, 48-27, in Tower City.
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Lisbon senior center Saraya Deibert scored 37 points in Wimbledon on Saturday night as the Broncos downed Barnes County North, 66-40.
LaMoure/Litchville-Marion senior guards Courtney Carlson and Tasha Piehl scored 15 points each as the Lady Loboes beat Hankinson on Saturday night, 60-37.
Lady Hi-Liner basketball hit the road to face Bismarck St. Mary's on Saturday night and followed Dec. 14's 69-41 home win with a 60-23 win.
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SQL Server Replication – Error Converting Data Type Varchar to Geography
I've been having trouble with this error on a database set up for merge replication. The replication is having trouble synchronizing Geography columns.
Error converting data type varchar to geography. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 8114)
I finally found the solution by a following a suggestion to fix a similar error but for the Geometry data type.
Here is the original ServerVault question and answer (see Damien's).
So on your publication's properties, go to the Articles tab and select Set Properties for all Tables. Then find the option "Convert File Streams to Max Data Types" and set it to "True".
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The researchers added color, representing evolutionary age, to their diagrams of metabolic networks (for an example, see the purine metabolism network in MANET). The result is a multicolored mosaic of protein fold evolution. The mosaic shows that modern metabolic networks ?and even individual enzymes ?are composed of both very ancient and much more recent protein architectures.
"This mosaic is telling you that the new enzymes and old enzymes are together performing side by side," Caetano-Anollés said. "In some cases in the same protein you have old domains and new domains working together."
This finding supports the hypothesis that protein architectures that perform one function are often recruited to perform new tasks.
The new, global family tree of protein architecture also revealed that many metabolic protein folds are quite ancient: These architectures were found to be quite common in all the species of bacteria, animals, plants, fungi, protists and archaea the researchers analyzed.
Of 776 metabolic protein folds surveyed, 16 were found to be omnipresent, and nine of those occurred in the earliest branches of the newly constructed tree.
"These nine ancient folds represent architectures of fundamental importance undisputedly encoded in a genetic core that can be traced back to the universal ancestor of the three superkingdoms of life," the authors wrote.
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When a user first attempts to download Secret from the Google Play app store, they're informed of the data they'll be sharing with the developers of said app. You'll be sharing your GPS and network-based location, full network access, network connections, and the app will be sharing information with you from the internet. Very standard for an app that's not based on secrecy.


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Why International Adoption Matters
International adoption is always a hot button issue—and my recent post about Russia cutting American families out of their adoption program was no exception. Inevitably, any story about international adoption brings out a slew of people commenting that "American families should just adopt from the U.S." (And just as inevitably, those people are rarely people who have adopted or plan to adopt themselves.)
But domestic adoption isn't the best choice for every family—and it cuts thousands of children from around the world off from the possibility of a loving family. Here's why international adoption matters, to my family and the thousands of others who were created that way.
Domestic adoption can be challenging. Most families who adopt domestically eventually succeed. But the time frame before you're picked by a birthmother is completely random—some families find a match within days of putting their information out there, while others wait for years. And many families have at least one "failed placement," when the birthmother decides she wants to parent her child. (Fabulous for the birthmother and child—but heartbreaking for the potential adoptive parents.) My husband and I simply couldn't deal with all of those unknowns.
Today, most adoptions in the U.S. are open, which means the birth family and adoptive family maintain contact. Open adoption is much better and healthier for everyone involved—especially the child. But there are some families who aren't comfortable with that, and international adoption is a more closed option.
Foster adoption can be even more challenging. People point to the number of children in foster care in the U.S.—463,000—and say that we should all simply adopt from foster care. But keep in mind that some of those children do end up being reunited with their birth families weeks or months later. For those who remain in foster care, sometimes it is possible to adopt young children, but in many cases it's older children who are available, many of whom have seen and experienced things no child should have to experience. These children need a special kind of love and support that some families are simply not equipped to provide.
All children deserve a loving family. Does our capacity for love and kindness really end at the border? Ideally, children in Russia or China or Ethiopia should find a loving family nearby, to help them preserve their connection to their birth culture. But many of these children—especially those with special needs—have few prospects for finding a family within their own country. If there are willing and able parents somewhere in the world who want to raise them, why should we stop them?
Life in the orphanages is devastating to a child's future. Institutional care is always subpar, no matter how "good" the orphanage is. There is no replacement for a loving family—and it bears out in research, which shows that a baby who is raised in an orphanage loses a month's worth of development for every three months she spends there. (Which means that an 18-month-old sitting in an orphanage is much more like a 12-month-old.) Children in orphanages often have limited opportunities for education, and are sent out into the world as young as 14 years old, left to fend for themselves.
Until you have personally visited an orphanage, you simply can't understand how devastating it is. I do.
Imagine a classroom filled with 30 cribs. The cribs have no mattresses, and the babies all lie on wooden slabs in the cribs. Every single crib is filled except for one by the window (which is where your new baby rested her head until a few days before). There is one single attendant charged with caring for all of these babies, and she walks around with the same dirty rag to wipe the babies' noses—it seems that all of the babies are horribly sick with colds.
The babies all stare at you, and reach out to you. You touch their hands, and wish you could simply scoop them all up and take them out of there. There are no toys (despite the fact that you and other adoptive parents have donated plenty), and nothing to stimulate these babies as they lie in their cribs day after day. Most of them (including your baby) have huge flat spots on the backs of their heads, due to lying on their backs for months. They are fed the same thing every day—a mix of rice cereal and formula, put into a bottle. The attendant has too many mouths to feed, so the babies aren't held when they're fed—the bottle is propped up for them.
This is where my daughter would have spent her days. Because she has a small medical issue, she would have had little to no education—despite the fact that she is incredibly bright. If she was lucky, she would have gotten a job at a nearby factory after the orphanage left her go. If she wasn't….well, I shudder to think about that.
Foster care isn't ideal, but these warehouses of children are far, far worse. This is why I chose to adopt internationally—not once, but twice. And why I continue to support charities that work with the orphanages, so that the kids who are left behind can go into foster care, get an education, and get proper nutrition.
Maybe someday, we will get that perfect world, where kids can stay with the parents who gave them life—or with friends and family nearby. Where anyone who wants to be a parent can make that dream happen. But until we get that perfect world, we have to make the best of the one we have.
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by Paula Hall
On January 4, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Thank you for a well- written, informative article. It's so easy for those who have not adopted to presume to know what is best for all of us. Building a family is very personal, and just as I would not ask someone why they were trying infertility drugs or a surrogate, I would not expect anyone to question my decision to adopt internationally.
When we returned from China with our daughter, the customs official questioned why we adopted from China. Although I expected the questions, I didn't expect them so soon. How about a nice, "Congratulations on your new daughter."
When people want to be parents, a child to love is all that's important.
by Christina
On January 4, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Thank you for wording this so eloquently. We are on our own adoption journey…taking a sidestep with the recent ban from Russia.
It's frustrating to argue with people who know nothing about our reason and choices and refuse to listen. I will send them to your article next time.
Thank you and happy new year.
by Karen W.
On March 10, 2013 at 2:39 pm
This is a very real and controversial topic that I have read a lot about. Thank you for sharing your very personal and thoughtful views on international adoption.I am majoring in child, adolescent and family mental health and we are currently delving into the world of adoption. I recently have been researching trans-racial adoption and this is a very difficult yet rewarding thing to do. It also is shown to be quite popular among celebrities yet I don't think the media is painting the full picture. I just read a fantastic memoir by author Catana Tully entitled, "Split at the Root" derived from the author's own personal experience of being adopted into a family of a different race and culture. This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and/or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs. Her adoption has molded her into the person who she is today; she held the position of tenured Associate Professor at SUNY Empire State College, she was also a mentor and instructor in the Lebanon program, and as Interim Program Director for the Dominican Republic. An accomplished life to be proud of. I recommend it to anyone who is looking to adopt or perhaps to those of you who are already on this journey


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Interesting post i have recently encountered this exact problem with Arches platine and can vary from print to print, i have since added 1 drop of tween to 2ml of platinum/palladium sensitiser when mixed,(Tween is a polysorbate surfactin and has the effect of decreasing the surface tension of the mixed sensitiser which allows more adequate wetting of the surface fibres of the paper), the problem has not been eliminated but is significantly improved, and i have smoother results, it does seem as though there is a slightly colder hue shift with the tween but i would expect this could be counteracted with me heating my developer. Adding two much tween will result in water spots which will appear in the final dried down print.
Before the tween i would have around 6-8 passes with the rod, now its only 3 with a drop of tween before the mixed sensitiser runs out. My darkroom temp and humidity is 15C and 50 rh respectively and i use Potassium Oxalate as developer so i dont use Ferric oxalate solution 2, i found that that mottled a lot of my highlights.
I was reading Stan Klimek's comments in the Dick Arentz book on platinum printing last night and i found his comments quite relevant to what platinum printers go through :
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Both seem really difficult to do... teams are vying to do both this season... which is more difficult? Parity is supposed to rule the day in the NFL these days...
Both seem really difficult to do... teams are vying to do both this season... which is more difficult? Parity is supposed to rule the day in the NFL these days...
It's more likely that a team will go winless than it is that one will go undefeated, in my opinion. Once teams get to 13-0 or 14-0, there is a great likelihood that they have sewn up home field advantage for the playoffs, so they're likely to rest players near the end of the season. The only way I see it happening is if their schedule is stacked at the end with weak teams, so that they win regardless of who rests.
As for the other, it will take a lot of bad luck for a team to go winless. There have been some pretty bad teams since the '76 Bucs, and all have found a way to win at least one.
Apologies to Chip, but I think it would be neat if the only organization with an undefeated regular season also had the only season with an 0-16 record as well
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The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
If Ronnie Brown's knee ligaments are indeed torn, the Dolphins have a great shot at 0-16.
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24 Years and Counting...
Any Cam Cameron lead team has a good shot to go winless. The Dolphins deserve going winless just for hiring that guy.
When I see the 2015 Reds, I see a 100 loss team.
16-0 is way more difficult than 0-16, IMO.
There's too much pressure to try to go undefeated, so a team would slip up in that pursuit, whereas winless teams seemingly have no pressure to win, but doesn't mean that'll guarantee a W.
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Recently, we heard from several major enterprise clients that they choose Lotus collaboration software over Microsoft software. Recent Lotus wins include The Coca-Cola Company, HSBC, ABB, BASF, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fidelity Investments, Hyundai, Liberty Mutual, Linde Group, Mass Mutual, Nationwide, State Bank of
Driven by guidance from Microsoft to abandon evaluation of currently-shipping products, Microsoft customers are choosing IBM Lotus software, driven by the higher return on investment and easier deployment of Lotus software.
At the recent Microsoft Tech Ed conference in
"In this environment of cost-cutting, lowered headcounts,
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The rapid market acceptance of Notes and Domino 8 is being driven, in part, by features that deliver efficiencies. For example, Domino 8 has been proven to lower the cost of ownership for enterprises by as much as 30 percent as a result of new capabilities that allow companies to reduce the number of severs needed; drive down the hardware required to support mail files and attachments; and minimize administrative overhead.
Since people choose a variety of ways to collaborate with each other, IBM continues to expand Notes/Domino capabilities well beyond email by tightly integrating instant messaging and presence awareness, enterprise grade social networking tools, and access to team rooms and repositories into the Notes user interface. In fact, 30 percent of new Lotus Sametime unified communications customers are Microsoft Outlook and Exchange messaging users. In addition, with more than four million downloads of Lotus Symphony, IBM's no charge productivity software, customers are looking to alternatives to Microsoft Office which are based on open standards and feature lower costs.
"While Microsoft is telling customers they need to wait seven years for major enhancements to Exchange and Windows, IBM continues to deliver new Lotus releases with richer capabilities on time," said Picciano. "Clients are embracing IBM's holistic view of collaboration as a means of working smarter and more efficiently with powerful Web 2.0 and social software tools. The net effect is our clients' employees are collaborating at a much deeper, more profound level, gaining insight and productivity, while lowering their IT spending."
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