Oracle White Papers

Cloud Integration: A Comprehensive Solution

This white paper describes how to integrate on-premise and cloud applications, including Oracle Cloud
applications, with this type of pragmatic, universal perspective.

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

What can you expect from Oracle Database Cloud Service? This guide highlights:
- Full capabilities of the Oracle Database, including SQL and PL/SQL Support
- Proven declarative development environment
- Instant deployment of applications in the cloud
- Integrated identity management for user repository and Single Sign-On
- Pre-built business productivity applications

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The Benefits of Cloud Without Compromise

Deploying your business applications in the cloud can deliver both short- and long-term benefits, including cost savings, improved agility, and faster innovation-but only if your cloud is enterprise-grade. This white paper looks at why, when evaluating your cloud strategy, it's important to consider the level of control and choice you will either maintain or have to give up to achieve some of these benefits.

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Managing Data with Cloud Computing

This Oracle and InfoWorld article looks at data center best practices for managing data with cloud computing. Cloud computing is a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed.

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Oracle Cloud Solutions Knowledge Vault

As cloud adoption has grown, so too has the variety of cloud types and functionality available through the cloud. Before deciding which services and cloud is right for your enterprise, you must first assess the business drivers and technical feasibility of moving all or part of your applications to the cloud. Visit this KnowledgeVault to access brief videos that explore the benefits of Oracle Cloud Solutions from three perspectives: Cloud Developers, Cloud Builders, and Line of Business Managers. The KnowledgeVault also offers a variety of other resources, such as white papers and research, so you can learn more about the vast offerings of Oracle Cloud Solutions.

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Agile Computing: The Path to Strategic Agility

Financial institutions globally are facing increasing regulatory requirements while operating in a more competitive environment. How can an organization maintain a competitive edge? Part of the answer is knowing how to stay ahead of change and respond quickly when market conditions turn on a dime. Learn how to leverage technology to transform your organization into one that is strategically agile.

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Reduce Complexity and Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

To reap the full benefits of cloud computing, the IT infrastructure must run efficiently. Many organizations, however, are operating an IT infrastructure that has been cobbled together over time and is based on disparate technologies that often are aging, labor intensive to maintain, and difficult to adapt to changing workloads. Upgrading the IT infrastructure to support the latest cloud computing technologies can be a big undertaking. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure on SPARC greatly simplifies the task of building out an enterprise cloud infrastructure that can deliver on the promise of the cloud.

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Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies

Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When designing cloud infrastructure architecture, multiple design methodologies are available. Selecting the right methodology is critical, with the integration and optimization of components being a key to success. Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure focuses on careful integration of hard-ware and software at every level of the infrastructure. Through the use of virtualization technologies and comprehensive management software, cloud computing is enterprise-ready with benefits of reducing costs and complexity, providing faster deployment, improving business agility, and simplifying management in enterprise environments.

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Transforming Customer Experience: The Convergence of Social, Mobile, and BPM

To stay ahead in today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations need agile business processes that allow them to adapt quickly to evolving markets, customer needs, policies, regulations, and business models. The convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices-social computing, mobile computing and business process management (BPM) - is opening up interesting avenues for business.

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SOA: Cloud Integration White Paper

This white paper describes how to integrate on-premise and cloud applications, including Oracle Cloud applications, with this type of pragmatic, universal perspective. While Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday are used as examples, the principles apply to many vendors.

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Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds

Consolidation can be achieved through server, operating system, and database consolidation, and the higher the consolidation density achieved, the greater the return on investment (ROI). This white paper describes how to successfully consolidate your database onto a private cloud through several deployment models.

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Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. You'll discover how its new options and features can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades.

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Time Savings and Ease of Deployment Comparison Study - Database Appliance vs Microsoft SQL Server

This independent analysis of Oracle Database Appliance compared to Microsoft SQL Server reveals some surprising results. See how Oracle was able to save 835 DBA hours its first year due to its pre-configured nature, ability to automatically bring a system up to its proper patch level, validate an environment and quickly gather all necessary log files and more.

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Evolution from the Traditional Data Center to Exalogic: An Operational Perspective

IT organizations are struggling with the need to balance the day-to-day concerns of data center management against the business level requirements to deliver long-term value. This balancing act has proven difficult and inefficient; systems and application management tools are resource intensive and traditional infrastructure management architectures have developed over time on a project by project basis. These traditional management systems consist of multiple tools that require administrators to waste time performing too many steps to handle routine administrative tasks. Operational efficiency and agility in your enterprise are directly linked to the capabilities provided by the management layer across the entire stack, from the application, middleware, operating system, compute, network and storage. Only when this end to end capability is provided will we experience the full benefit of a scalable, efficient, responsive and secure datacenter.

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Exalogic and PCI Compliance - Implementing Oracle Exalogic in a Payment Card Environment

This paper is intended to examine the suitability of the Oracle Exalogic platform for securely hosting Payment Card Industry (PCI) applications in accordance with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Due to the unique business, technical, security and governance requirements that every organization has, this paper does not provide detailed recommendations for how to configure Exalogic to meet the applicable portions of the PCI DSS.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Applications With Oracle Exalogic

Learn how to deploy and upgrade applications quickly, handle massive transaction volumes, maintain a consistent set of technological standards across the application stack, and connect components seamlessly. Success in these areas allows companies to improve customer satisfaction, get to market faster, improve operational efficiency, and reduce cost and complexity, delivering applications with the performance and ease of use that customers and business users demand while simplifying deployment and administration.

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Computerworld Custom Publishing: Bright City Lights

As one of the fastest-growing cities in America in the last decade, Las Vegas has also seen its information technology needs grow in leaps and bounds. Meeting these needs has meant implementing an IT foundation that would not only scale as seamlessly as possible to accommodate rapid growth, but also be flexible enough to support a wide range of applications with open interfaces. At the city of Las Vegas, that foundation is Oracle. To learn more, download this Computerworld Custom Publishing white paper.

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