Oracle Products and Services
A Brief Overview of the Oracle Product and Service Lines
Oracle is one of the premier database and application providers in the Industry. With the support of developers world wide, Oracle offers cutting edge technology in both the public and private sectors. Oracle has taken on many of its partners and today competes with some of the biggest names in the industry, such as:
Computer Associates with the Ingres database
IBM with DB/2 database
Informix with the Informix database
Microsoft with Access and SQL Server database
Software AG with ADABAS
PostgressSQL (free open source database)
With all these different competitors, it is sometimes difficult for people to understand what business Oracle is in. Oracle Corporation is a supplier of software for the management of information. This includes database management, application development, business intelligence, and the development of Internet-based business applications. Oracle also offers a full range of integrated industry packages t...
Trinity installed the Oracle system (EDP) which centralized their financial data of all the BUs in one system to have reliability and accountability of their financial statements. This system combined four ledgers in one system and save Trinity $.5 million annually in SOX compliance expense. This system improved their reporting process, timely closing of books, and availability of financial information. This systems left little room for misrepresentation of their financial statements which satisfied some of the SOX requirements.
The next project deliverable is a robust, modernized database and data warehouse design. The company collects large amounts of website data and uses this data to analyze it for the company’s customers. This document will provide an overview of the new data warehouse along with the type of database design that has been selected for the data warehouse. Included in the appendix of this document is a graphical depiction of the logical design of the
In 1994, Jim Donehey was brought in to update Capital One’s IT system. His solution was to replace their aging mainframe computers with an object-based system, but this technology had never been used on such a large scale. In contrast, two-thirds of Capital One’s competitors outsourced their IT functions. Within 5 years the company had the world’s largest Oracle database with 23 terabytes of data – winning them the Gartner Group’s Excellence in Technology Award.
SQL Server 2000 vs Oracle 9i. Retrieved December 1, 2007, from MSSQLCity.Com Web site: http://www.mssqlcity.com/Articles/Compare/sql_server_vs_oracle.htm
What technology can do for a company is important. A database takes information from one location and sends it to another location. Amazon’s database is the backbone to the company because Amazon is an e-commerce base company. Amazon runs off of a Linux- based database. As of 2...
Oracles were there simply for people in need for guidance and help. When people didn’t know what to do with their lives, they would go see oracles and ask for help. In fact, most important decisions were not confirmed or made official before someone asked an oracle what the future would bring for them.
SAP mission is to help every customer become a best-run business by delivering technology innovations that they believe address today’s and tomorrow’s challenges without disrupting their customers’ business operations. Organizations around the world are entering a new era of business model innovation, made possible by the convergence of cloud, mobile, social, and big-data technologies.
Oracles are priests and places that people go to, where they can get advice/prophecy sought from the god’s classical antiquity. Oracles played an important role in both the ancient Greeks and the play Oedipus Rex. It was important for the ancient Greeks because they believed that oracles was a way of communication with the gods at certain places, times, and people that could give them advice and see their future. Similar to the ancient Greeks, oracles were important
... Oracle in The Matrix is all due to fate. In the end, fate was the overall ruler of his destiny in becoming ‘the One’ in this film.
Some faculties and departments are already using Oracle applications in their day-to-day operations. As time goes by, more and more information users will be working with an application based on Oracle database technology. If you get the opportunity to be a member of an application development team, you will become familiar with the workings of Oracle and relational databases. Other users may have to learn about this popular database management system through their own experience. This article is for our readers who, as of yet, have no access to Oracle databases but have a yearning for learning what they're all about.
In 1977, Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates founded System Development Laboratories. After being inspired by a research paper written in 1970 by an IBM researcher titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks” they decided to build a new type of database called a relational database system. The original project on the relational database system was for the government (Central Intelligence Agency) and was dubbed ‘Oracle.’ They thought this would be appropriate because the meaning of Oracle is source of wisdom.
Software brands can also be seen as a threat to Deloitte. Software brands, especially SAP and Oracle, have a high degree of recognition and intent to use among buyers of consulting services. Even though the consulting offerings of these vendors are focused around their own products, there have been shown a willingness among buyers to consider them for business-oriented services. Even if these specific vendors do not become more active in this area, this buyer perception opens the door to new types of competitors, entrants, and substitutes for business
Oracle developed a suite named Flashback Technology which enables Oracle application users and database administrators to wind the clock back and examine their database objects and data in a previous state without having to restore using backup media.
ERP (enterprise resource planning) is an interactive system which compiles various data in order to help optimize the resources. In terms of implementing between production and sale, SAP also helps all of the department collaborate each other in favor of controlling and tracking of resources . There are two types of data usages: decentralized and centralized. They normally structuralize data at central location shared with various departments. From old system using the decentralized system, those effects have pointed out the drawbacks which are disparate information generated individually over time, integrating the information becomes more time and money consuming. The updating data are made inconsistently or made mistakes in data entries. As a consequence, all above reason can lead to lack of timely information causing the reluctance for customer services as well as the total revenue and reputation. Following this position, according to Fawzy S and Mohamed AY 1998, Dr Henning emphasizes about SAP benefit which all of the sections can access to the all resources’ data rather than relying on separating systems for each department or functional area which possibly may not interface with each other. Therefore, all data will be recorded correctly and effectively and particularly in sale, finance, material management and human management functions. Apparently, There is top 5 software to strive the efficiency of management ‘s system beside of SAP such as Epicor, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle which has tied up around more than 50% of market share and SAP also has the highest proportion in market at roughly 24% ( Panorama, 2012 )
Dilman, M., Hu, W., Loaiza, J., & Jernigan, K. (2014, April 11). Guide for Developing High-Performance. Retrieved from An Oracle White Paper: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/performance/perf-guide-wp-final-133229.pdf