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oracle.com/goto/oraclemidsize WINTER 2013/14 CONSOLIDATE & SAVE Only Oracle has the complete solutions to help you consolidate your IT and lower your costs. PAGE 2 DATABASE SKILLS RELOADED Check out the latest news from Oracle University. PAGE 2 SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE Listen, learn and leverage. PAGE 3 SALES MANAGEMENT CENTRAL The only sales tool you’ll ever need. PAGE 4 INTEGRATED TALENT MANAGEMENT Win the battle for the best talent. PAGE 5 ORACLE MAGAZINE FOR MIDSIZE COMPANIES

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WINTER 2013/14

CONSOLIDATE & SAVE Only Oracle has the complete solutions to help you consolidate your IT and lower your costs.

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DATABASE SKILLS RELOADEDCheck out the latest news from Oracle University.PAGE 2

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT MADE SIMPLEListen, learn and leverage.PAGE 3

SALES MANAGEMENT CENTRALThe only sales tool you’ll ever need.PAGE 4

INTEGRATED TALENT MANAGEMENTWin the battle for the best talent. PAGE 5

ORACLE MAGAZINE FOR MIDSIZE COMPANIES

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Oracle Database 12c – got the skills? Oracle University has just introduced Oracle Database 12c: Managing Multitenant Architecture, a new course that demonstrates how to simplify the consolidation of multiple applications onto a shared database environment by removing the limitations that existed with schema consolidation.

The course helps IT professionals gain a conceptual understanding of the multitenant architecture that enables the deployment of a multitenant container database (CDB) containing one or more pluggable databases (PDBs).

Attendees will practice plugging and unplugging databases in multitenant container databases, while learning how to create common and local users and administer database security to meet business requirements.

Discover how your organisation can benefit from Oracle Multitenant and other new Oracle Database 12c technologies with training from Oracle University.

»Get to know the Oracle Database 12c curriculum: oracle.com/goto/dbcurriculum

ORACLE UNIVERSITY

Consolidate IT, control costs Midsize organisations need two things from their IT above all else – simplicity and cost-effectiveness. That can seem like a tall order if your infrastructure has grown organically into a complex web of hardware, applications and systems.

Simplifying your infrastructure automatically generates cost savings by reducing what you have to buy, maintain and manage. That should make IT consolidation a key priority. And fortunately, Oracle provides lots of ways to get started.

Consolidate and saveServer consolidation on Oracle SPARC and X86 servers: Built-in virtualisation helps you eliminate servers, shrink the size of your data centre, and decrease power consumption.

Database consolidation on a private cloud with Oracle Exadata: This complete engineered system enables extreme performance and scalable capacity for both

OLTP and Data Warehouse databases, while reducing hardware requirements and simplifying management.

Application consolidation on an Oracle SPARC Supercluster: Provides all the hardware, software, and management tools you need to deliver applications as cloud services efficiently and cost-effectively.

Leverage the Oracle CloudIf building a private cloud is a step too far, consuming Oracle Database and state-of-the-art Oracle applications via the Oracle Cloud on a predictable subscription basis is also a great way to reduce your IT expenditure.

This edition of Oracle ONE Magazine shows you how to use Oracle’s complete range of integrated hardware, software and solutions to consolidate your IT and reduce costs across the board.

We hope you find it useful.

Time to ditch dedicated servers? Using dedicated server infrastructure to support the database and application needs of different parts of your organisation is a siloed approach that wastes resources and prevents efficient administration.

Oracle Database 12c enables the consolidation of databases onto fewer systems in a private cloud environment. This ensures higher utilisation of resources, simplifies the management of many databases as one, streamlines provisioning and patching, and reduces capital and operational expenditure.

»Read the white paper, updated for Oracle Database 12c: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

ORACLE ONE MAGAZINE

IT CONSOLIDATION & COST CONTROL

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MidsizeCompanies

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ACCELERATE yOuR ADVANTAGE Agility is a key advantage for midsize organisations – but restricted resources can hinder fast implementation of IT projects that support it.

Oracle Accelerate is Oracle’s approach for providing simple to deploy, packaged, enterprise-class software solutions to midsize organisations through its network of expert partners. You get fast time to benefit, helping your organisation maintain its competitive edge.

»Access the customer reference booklet here: oracle.com/goto/applications/uk

Lowering the cost of data managementData spread across different systems is expensive and time-consuming to manage, and extract insight from. A centralised database changes that picture dramatically.

Oracle Database 12c enables you to consolidate your data onto one streamlined, secure and easy to manage platform, whether on your own servers or in the cloud, lowering the cost of managing your data. Plus, the Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture

eliminates costly downtime by protecting your business from its most common causes, including human error.

» Register for the Oracle Database 12c webcast: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

Zuger Kantonsspital AG & Oracle DatabaseSwiss hospital Zugar Kantonspital AG needed to manage data on more than 50,000 patients each year more efficiently and cost effectively. It implemented Oracle Database Standard

Edition One and Oracle License Management, and gained: • A highly available and secure patient data

foundation

• Lower IT costs by enabling fast retrieval of archived data without having to keep the data online

• Straightforward compliance fulfilment

• Accelerated reporting allowing doctors to spend more time with patients

»Access the full case study: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

Social engagement is easy with the right toolsFast growing companies that may not be on top of social media engagement can’t maximise their strategic advantages over big enterprises – speed and agility. Think it won’t have an impact, or that you don’t have the resources to manage social properly? Think again.

Using Oracle Social Relationship Management, you’ll be amazed how fast and easy it is to identify the important social media conversations around your brand, get more involved, measure the impact, and improve business performance through faster responses to customer needs. It’s the only complete, fully integrated social media relationship management solution, delivered from the cloud.

»Schedule a live demo here: oracle.com/goto/oracle-cloud/uk

Virtual servers, tangible benefitsServer virtualisation and consolidation is increasingly essential for companies of all sizes that want to increase application performance while reducing capital and operational costs.

Oracle’s new SPARC servers make extreme application performance more affordable, and the new Oracle Sun Server X4-2 makes clustered computing and virtualised environments more versatile when it comes to running applications.

In fact, whether you need to run enterprise-class business applications, develop your own software, or run web and IT infrastructure applications, the Oracle Sun Server X4-2 system offers unparalleled performance.

»Learn more and get a free copy of Server Virtualization for Dummies, 2nd Edition now: oracle.com/goto/IT-infrastructure/uk

15%

Just 15% of HR’s time is spent on strategic activities.

»View the infographic now: oracle.com/goto/applications/uk

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Making high availability affordableYou can’t maximise your investment in applications if you can’t rely on their availability. Oracle Real Application Clusters, part of Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition, ensures high application availability cost effectively. How? By letting you run the Oracle Databases that support those applications on a cluster of low cost servers, rather than one high-end machine. So, if a server fails or downtime is planned, your applications continue to run uninterrupted.

It’s also the only solution that manages workloads efficiently while providing the best application throughput for specific application configurations and availability requirements - all at no extra cost.

»Read the white paper now: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

It’s storage, but not as you know it Ever-increasing volumes of data can create a complex storage environment that quickly affects application performance, while also becoming hard and expensive to manage.

Oracle’s next generation Application Engineered Storage solutions help you avoid all this by delivering breakthrough improvements in application performance and storage efficiency.

»Watch the webcast now: oracle.com/goto/ IT-infrastructure/uk

Building your cloud-powered businessEmpowering your employees to perform at their maximum is one of the best reasons to start using software-as-a-service, delivered from the cloud. There are plenty of others too. But beware – all cloud providers and the solutions they offer are not the same.

Only Oracle has the comprehensive range of integrated, enterprise-level software and hardware that supports all types of cloud-based scenarios, including public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid options, suitable for organisations of all sizes.

What’s more, Oracle’s cloud-based applications cover everything from enabling greater customer intimacy via social

media, to managing your core business processes. Data security and compliance are comprehensively supported too.

»Sign up for a free trial now: oracle.com/goto/oracle-cloud/uk

Need business insight? Integrate your data!As a fast growing organisation, how do you maximise the value of data spread around a heterogeneous IT infrastructure? After all, without the ability to integrate data sources, it’s impossible to extract meaningful insight from them.

Oracle Data Integrator 12c meets this need by running on a range of popular platforms, and working with middleware and applications from Oracle and other software vendors. It also features a unique ELT (Extract Load and Transform) architecture, which is simpler, more efficient and provides more performance than traditional ETL (Extract Transform Load) architecture.

What’s more, it’s suitable for any data integration task, from high-volume, high-performance batch loads, to event-driven, “trickle-feed” integration processes, and SOA-enabled data services.

These capabilities, combined with an easy to use interface, enable Oracle Data Integrator 12c to help you improve productivity, reduce development costs and lower the TCO of data-centric architectures.

»Register for the webcast to learn more now: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

Sales reps spend 78% of their time searching for information and only 22% selling. That’s especially frustrating for them because the web and social media are generating unprecedented levels of customer information that can help them sell.

The Oracle Sales Cloud gives sales reps and their managers access to sales and customer data in a single, complete and integrated cloud solution, accessible from anywhere and via any device.

The benefits are clear: • Sales reps spend less time on admin

and more time selling.

•Managers are always up to date and can visualise, track and act on trends, even when they are on the road.

•Organisations benefit from higher sales through targeted, fully informed selling.

»Watch the webTV show now: oracle.com/goto/applications/uk

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ALL ABOUT APPS

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Smarter decisions on the go.Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile technologies.

Easily customise your analytics and design your own Mobile Business Intelligence apps.

Mobility is becoming a growing requirement for businesses, according to most analysts. Now Oracle BI Mobile gives people on the go simple, secure and fast access to mission-critical data – for better informed decisions, anytime and anywhere.

· See how easy it is to create your own mobile analytics app.

· Experience how business users can get the same range of BI functionality they have on their PC, on iOS devices.

oracle.com/goto/bi-mobile

Oracle CloudApplications, Platform, Infrastructure

Our Data Center Your Data Center

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Run some of your applications in the Oracle Cloud and others in your Private Cloud. You Choose.

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Oracle Cloud

Oracle Managed Private Cloud

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Win the battle for talent!How can your midsize business fend off competition from industry giants to recruit and retain the best talent? By differentiating your organisation as an employer with a structured, engaging talent management strategy that helps employees maximise their performance and feel valued.

Oracle Taleo Business Edition is a complete cloud-based talent management solution for small and midsize organisations that helps you: • Build a strong recruitment foundation with socially enabled,

compliant recruiting

•Make the right impact on employees from the start with efficient onboarding, clear performance goals and tailored learning programmes

• Develop future leaders by tracking performance, identifying high performers and creating long-term career plans

»Register for a free 30-day trial now: oracle.com/goto/oracle-cloud/uk

Dubai Customs & Oracle RACServing one of the world’s major trading hubs, Dubai Customs keeps a watchful eye over the goods and people crossing its borders to ensure that transactions and activities are carried out within the law.

Managers needed to deploy a high performance relational database management system to support an in-house risk engine that selects customs declarations for manual verification. Ensuring high availability and scalability, while also enhancing integration capabilities for its mission critical applications, were also key requirements.

Dubai Customs deployed Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters to achieve these objectives. Results included: • Customs declaration clearance time reduced from 4 hours to 10

minutes

• Risk engine application TCO reduced by 60%

• Exceed performance expectations for mission critical applications

Younis Othman, IT Director at Dubai Customs commented, “Thanks to Oracle technology, we deployed mission-critical applications with real-time capabilities and standardised workflows as an integrated solution, and delivered a high-performance risk assessment engine capable of assessing more than 20,000 customs declarations per day.”

»Read the full case study: oracle.com/goto/technology/uk

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Smarter decisions on the go.Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile technologies.

Easily customise your analytics and design your own Mobile Business Intelligence apps.

Mobility is becoming a growing requirement for businesses, according to most analysts. Now Oracle BI Mobile gives people on the go simple, secure and fast access to mission-critical data – for better informed decisions, anytime and anywhere.

· See how easy it is to create your own mobile analytics app.

· Experience how business users can get the same range of BI functionality they have on their PC, on iOS devices.

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This includes a new Oracle Cloud Overview course, as well as recently enhanced courses that address cloud implementations. Training is designed to provide architects, developers, administrators and end users with the core skills to deploy, configure, manage and use Oracle technology in either a public or private cloud environment.

»Learn more now: oracle.com/goto/oracle-cloud/uk

Empower your organisation with cloud training from Oracle universityTransitioning your business to a cloud environment means more than just changing your technology. Industry professionals need to understand how to leverage and use these technologies to reap the benefits of cloud computing.

Make sure your staff has the necessary skills to build, manage and evolve your cloud with training and certification from Oracle University. Training is available for the entire Oracle portfolio of cloud services and products.

Networking that’s 70% simpler & 50% cheaperVirtualisation is not just about server workloads – there are big benefits to be gained by virtualising your SAN and LAN networking infrastructure too. In fact, defining network connectivity through software can help you: • Accelerate virtual machine live migration

time 19x

• Reduce infrastructure complexity by 70%

• Reduce SAN and LAN capital expenditure by 50%

Even independent industry experts agree!

»Download the IDC white paper now: oracle.com/goto/IT-infrastructure/uk

The Couch is where today’s business leaders come to talk. About what works. About what doesn’t. And about what’s next.

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