Twenty-five years ago, Larry Ellison saw an opportunity other companies missed when he came across a description of a working prototype for a relational database and discovered that no company had committed to commercializing the technology. Ellison and his co-founders, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, realized there was tremendous business potential in the relational database model--but they may not have realized that they would change the face of business computing forever.
Today Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is still at the head of the pack. Oracle technology can be found in nearly every industry around the world and in the offices of 98 of the Fortune 100 companies. Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100% internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, business applications, and application development and decision support tools. Oracle is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company.
Oracle has always been an innovative company. It was one of the first companies to make its business applications available through the internet--today, that idea is pervasive. Now Oracle is committed to making sure that all of its software is designed to work together--the suite approach--and other companies, analysts, and the press are beginning to acknowledge that Oracle is right. What's in store for tomorrow? We will continue to innovate and to lead the industry--while always making sure that we're focused on solving the problems of the customers who rely on our software (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/index.html?story.html)
We will first look at the hardware and software platforms to see how they measure up, and what, if any, special requirements are needed, as well as the costs that are associated with them. Next, we will look at the deployment of the application and what it takes to roll out a production system. Once the application is up and running, performance becomes the top priority of the data center. We can first note that the hardware and software requirements are similar. The abstraction to the application is also the same with both solutions - it gives an illusion of a single database and there is no need to modify the SQL code. The differences are in ease of deployment, performance and manageability.
Both databases have similar cluster hardware requirements. A cluster is a group of independent servers that collaborate as a single system. The primary cluster components are processor nodes, a cluster interconnect (private network), and a disk subsystem.
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.
In the past number of years data has grown exponentially. This growth in data has created problems that and a race to better monitor, monetize, and organize it. Oracle is in the forefront of helping companies from different industries better handle this growing concern with data. Oracle provides analytical platforms and an architectural platform to provide solutions to companies. Furthermore, Oracle has provided software such as Oracle Business Intelligence Suite and Oracle Exalytics that have been instrumental in organizing and analyzing the phenomenon known as Big Data.
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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...
This paper will profile Jeff Hawkins, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for PalmOne, Inc. examining qualities that Mr. Hawkins exhibits that make him influential leader. The paper will also examine details of the business strategy that make this man an exceptional innovator and his contribution to eBusiness technology.
International Business Machines, or IBM, saw this trend and moved their company away from hardware and into software and services, following the money. It is because IBM is so adaptive that it has lasted for over a hundred years. IBM is constantly evolving, growing, and changing.
Oracle's relational databases represent a new and exciting database technology and philosophy on campus. As the Oracle development projects continue to impact on University applications, more and more users will realize the power and capabilities of relational database technology.
Bloomberg, (2015) states IBM a Fortune 500 company has a struggling business model due to other providers such as Amazon offering business intelligence tools at a more cost effective rate. Bloomberg West (2015) also states IBM of the past would offer a complete solution with heavy cost due to a large support staff. Companies can now rent Cloud space and utilize Amazon tools to create workable BI solutions at lower cost. However, IBM is a Fortune 500 company and has reinvented itself on serval occasions. Enderle, (2015) states “This made me realize that I hadn 't clearly communicated that this isn 't about technology at all. It 's about understanding how to work with large government organizations — something IBM has been doing for nearly a century — and why process is more important than product. Enderle, (2015) poses a solid hypothesis because the effectiveness of the Amazon tools will derive their success from the IT professionals using them. Does offer a competitive advantage of understanding processes and solutions from beginning to end. With reduced cost and a solid marketing planning IBM could gain control of the BI market as they did with the network solutions in the
In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.
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.
The Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. Oracle specializes in developing and selling computer hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly its own brands of database management systems. As of 2011, the company is the second only to Microsoft in terms of revenue. The company also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software and supply chain management (SCM) software. Oracle sells a large suite of business applications. The Oracle E-Business Suite contains software to perform lots of enterprise functions connected to, for instance, financials, manufacturing, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resources. The Oracle Retail Suite covers the retail-industry vertical, supplying merchandise management, price management, invoice matching, allocations, store operations management, warehouse management, demand forecasting, merchandise financial planning and assortment planning. Users have access to these facilities through a web browser interface, over the Internet, or through their corporate intranet.
Currently Siebel also needs to sustain their competitive advantage against prevalent competitors. They can do this by convincing Q&R and FleetBoston of the superiority of their SFA system over the existing Oracle system. This could well be done by demonstration, eradicating the need for an integrator and result in a huge financial transaction for Siebel Systems.
In 2010, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and made marking the company’s entry into the hardware market. This deal entailed that Oracle would pay $7.4 billion (Montalbano, 2009). In return, this would enable Oracle to deliver complete and “integrated computer systems – from database to disk – that would be optimized for easier management, enhanced security, improved reliability and high performance while at the same time reducing the total cost of ownership” (Montalbano, 2009). Prior to this event, the company has never had a server ...
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In our world, people rely heavily on the power of technology every day. Kids are learning how to operate an iPad before they can even say their first word. School assignments have become virtual, making it possible to do anywhere in the world. We can receive information from across the world in less than a second with the touch of a button. Technology is a big part of our lives, and without it life just becomes a lot harder. Just like our phones have such an importance to us in our daily lives, database management systems are the same for businesses. Without this important software, it would be almost impossible for companies to complete simple daily tasks with such ease.