Business intelligence package for small firms and midsized companies gains natural-language query, Oracle integration kits and performance management options.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
SQLstream, Pentaho & SQL Power Unleash Powerful Real-Time Business Intelligence Partnership
Perez Hilton tweets and then blogs that Lindsay Lohan was just spotted leaving Santa Monica Pier while drinking a Red Bull. Paparazzi swarm the promenade as curious onlookers follow Twitter from their iPhones. Tipped off by their new real-time BI solution, a cutting edge advertising executive receives a mobile alert that there is a spike in Twitter activity about a client. The agency shelves the usual morning Raisin Bran ads for an energy drink campaign, all in real-time. Sales volume surges as the agency establishes web advertising leadership by delivering unique value to their client. The morning ends with executives on their Blackberries discussing the rapid progress made toward KPIs and sales goals while drinking a.......
Fresh off the Pentaho Partner Summit, SQLstream, Pentaho and SQL Power announce a collaborative partnership to deliver actionable, affordable real-time business intelligence. This easily integrated solution will query, triage and analyze high volume data feeds such as Twitter, on the wire, then deliver it via sub-second updates into an executive business intelligence dashboard.
Cellular South selects Oracle's integrated applications
Cellular South, a provider of wireless communication services, has selected Oracle's integrated applications to support its order-to-cash business process - from service creation and deployment through revenue recognition.
According to Oracle, Cellular South will implement Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications to help increase time to market for new products and services, enable accurate and timely revenue recognition and improve customer satisfaction with flexible billing options and quality customer service.
SAP Adds 'Google-Like' Search to Business Software
SAP SAP extends its SAP BusinessObjects Edge solutions to small to midsize businesses, giving them access to SAP BusinessObjects Polestar software, which allows employees to search and retrieve data from across the company. Other Edge solutions are designed to create efficiencies in these companies’ budget and strategy processes. SAP has been introducing enterprise solutions at a steady clip throughout 2009.
On March 18, SAP announced a new version of its SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services Application, integrated along with its SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management application, designed to automate regulatory compliance across the supply chain.
Another of SAP’s competitors in the supply-chain space, Oracle, released Oracle Sourcing On Demand, a SAAS solution for strategic sourcing on March 9.
The Stack: Encouraging Adoption Through Ease of Use
Most of the open source applications in the world are missing their stack. The stack is the complete suite of software that actually makes an application work. These are the prerequisites, the plugins, the installer, the management tools, and the application itself. If you're writing a game, then you might have some sound libraries and a 3-D rendering engine as part of your stack. If you're writing a desktop app, then you might have a windowing application programming interface like GTK+. If you're writing a server application, you might have Apache and MySQL as part of your stack.
more at http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/The-Stack-Encouraging-Adoption-Through-Ease-of-Use-66743.html
Monday, April 6, 2009
Supply Chain Fusion Implements Oracle Demantra’s BAL Tool
Supply Chain Fusion, Inc, a leader in Demantra solutions, is one of the first companies to leverage Oracle’s new Business Application Language (BAL) tool to automate an upgrade of Oracle’s Demantra.
The new Business Application Language Utility in version 7.2.0.2 of Demantra is a metadata management tool which compares business models between versions originating from Demantra 7.1.1 or later. The tool highlights the differences and allows for user intervention while migrating business objects. The utility enables comparisons between standard Demantra releases and customer extensions, allowing for a merge of business best practices.
Sidmach, Microsoft advocate business intelligence for enterprise growth
Most organisations’ pathway to expansion and productivity is limited by fragmentation, duplication and paucity of information with which to recognise, share and apply knowledge to make better and timely decisions. However, as information continues to grow at an exponential rate, there is need for organisations to manage data and make it readily accessible through the adoption of technology for better business opportunities and outcomes.
Mike Olajide, managing director, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria, a foremost Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firm in Nigeria made these remarks at a seminar entitled, “Business Intelligence: The Competitive Advantage” held in Lagos recently.
He noted that a new survey by IDC reveals that the information contained in enterprises worldwide is expected to reach 120,000 petabytes by 2010.
Five Reasons Why Microsoft Shouldn't Buy Sun
News Analysis. Some people are suggesting that Microsoft should bid for Sun, in wake of apparently failed talks with IBM. They're mistaken.
Sun would be nothing but trouble for Microsoft. I doubt that anyone at Microsoft is seriously even considering a bid for Sun. The deal is a non-starter because:
more at http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/five_reasons_why_microsoft_shouldnt_buy_sun.html
IBM Still the Best Option for Sun, Analysts Say
Despite reports that IBM has taken its $7 billion offer off the table, Sun’s best option is to broker a deal to be bought by IBM, analysts say. There are not a lot of possible suitors out there for a server vendor that is struggling in an already struggling market, and remaining an independent company isn’t a good option for Sun, they said. IBM offers Sun the best chance at a good selling price, and is the best option among HP and Oracle. Though Cisco has been mentioned as a possible buyer, analysts say such a deal wouldn’t make sense for Cisco.
more at http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Still-the-Best-Option-for-Sun-Analysts-Sa-238672/
After IBM, What Now for Sun?
Now that merger talks between IBM (IBM) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have broken off, the future of Sun, long one of the tech industry's most innovative and dynamic companies, is in doubt.
The breakdown puts Sun in an extremely weak position, and analysts expect its stock price to come under severe pressure. The stock had been trading at about $4 a share, but rose to above $8 when word of the IBM talks leaked in late March. "Sun is now sort of damaged goods," says Peter Falvey, a partner at Boston-based Revolution Partners, which invests in Silicon Valley firms. "If IBM got under the covers and didn't like what they saw, then what does that mean for other potential buyers?"
United Online Streamlines Global Financials with the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite Release 12
News Facts
- United Online, a $1.2 billion company and a leading provider of consumer products and services over the Internet, has upgraded to the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite Release 12 to improve financial collaboration between its diverse lines of business and increase control and visibility into its sub-ledgers.
- With the goal of increasing synergy among the business units and reducing discrepancies between disparate financial systems, United Online turned to the latest release of the Oracle E-Business Suite to improve the intercompany transaction and reporting process.
- Already using Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, United Online determined, with the help of Oracle Consulting, that an upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 would address its most pressing business technology needs, including better corporate governance of its diverse business units.
- The upgrade took only three months to complete and was deployed completely out-of-the-box, with no customizations.
more at http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-06-2009/0005001207&EDATE=
Oracle Introduces Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management Integration to SAP ERP
Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Design-to-Release Process Integration Pack (PIP), connecting the Enterprise PLM Product Record in Oracle's Agile PLM with SAP ERP.
more at http://www.itnewsonline.com/showprnstory.php?storyid=39843
MySQL to MSSQL database converter
MySQL to MSSQL database converter software provides an efficient and flexible way to convert MySQL database records to MSSQL database format with support to all major attributes, database types and key constraints. Depending on user’s choice, converter software allows migrating of MySQL database into new database or overwrites the content of MySQL converted database with existing MSSQL database easily. Software effectively converts individual database table or group of DB table’s records of MySQL to MSSQL database server. Support indexes and primary keys with all attributes and maintain the integrity of database.
More at http://www.data-recovery-usb-drive.com/usb-drive/mysql-mssql-converter.html
HP StorageWorks Launches HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server
HP StorageWorks Division today announced the launch of the HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server. HP PolyServe’s unique “shared data” architecture delivers enterprise class availability and virtualization-like flexibility in a utility platform for customers.
The HP PolyServe Software helps enterprises not only reduce the cost of the SQL server but also improve agility. The new product offers mission critical high availability, instance mobility, and management automation required for mission-critical databases. It will give a scale out capability to the customers SQL infrastructure just by adding more processing power.
more at http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=18633
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Oracle Asia Pacific Continues Good Customer Momentum in Q3FY09
Organizations across key industries in Asia Pacific continue to adopt or expand implementations of Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management and Oracle Business Intelligence, and Oracle Applications for their strategic company-wide business systems.
“Now more than ever, customers are looking to information technology to meet a wide range of business challenges, such as reducing risks, innovating business processes, delivering superior customer service, and building a foundation for growth,” said Steve Au-Yeung, Senior Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific. "Organizations continue to choose Oracle’s standards-based software solutions to replace legacy, proprietary systems, so as to optimize performance and lower costs. Our strategy to offer choice and value is winning customers across the region."
more at http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=45453
Sun's Future In Question As IBM Talks Collapse
Shares of Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) were poised for a sharp selloff Monday following reports that the company's $7 billion merger with IBM (NYSE: IBM) is off.
Negotiations collapsed Sunday following IBM's tabling of a price that was lower than its original offer and Sun's insistence that it consider other proposals, according to several published reports—all of which cited unnamed sources. Officials for Sun and IBM have not commented on the issue since the discussions reportedly began.
more at http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216402817
Western Power buys Oracle billing software
Western Power has invested in Oracle software to help manage larger volumes of customer information brought about by disaggregation of the electricity market in Western Australia.
The utility has purchased the Utilities Customer Care and Billing platform and will work with Logica on the implementation.
more at http://www.itnews.com.au/News/100434,western-power-buys-oracle-billing-software.aspx
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Oracle Exadata Storage Server class now available
Oracle University is now offering a class on Oracle Exadata Storage. The class is a Live Virtual Class (LVC) allowing your resources and our resources to come together in class without traveling. After all, greener is better!
more at http://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/2009/04/oracle_exadata_storage_server.html
Ntirety Inc. Supports SQL Server Loadfest
Ntirety Inc. (www.ntirety.com), the pioneer of Database Administration as a Service™, recently cosponsored SQL Server Loadfest, a free, hands-on installation of SQL Server 2008.
The Loadfest included a discussion of different editions of SQL Server as well as a review of the preparation required for installation, including server sizing, preparing discs for SQL Server, and security preparation. The installation process included step-by-step instructions and a live demonstration by SQL Server experts. After the installation process, participants attended breakout sessions, including SQ Server Clinic, Securing SQL Server, Business Intellegince and Reporting, and Data in the Cloud.
more at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/4/prweb2294314.htm
Panorama Positions Itself As PerformancePoint Alternative
Panorama Software has always had a complex relationship with Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), working cooperatively with the giant vendor to develop Panorama's business intelligence tools to run with Microsoft's SQL Server database, and yet competing with Microsoft's own PerformancePoint Server business intelligence and performance management software.
Friday, April 3, 2009
IBM cuts Sun takeover price: WSJ
IBM has cut the price of its takeover bid for Sun Microsystems Inc. to nine to 10 dollars a share from 10 to 11 dollars a share, The Wall Street Journal online reported on Thursday.
The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said Sun had agreed to accept a lower price "in return for stronger commitments from IBM that it will complete the deal even if it faces intense regulatory scrutiny."
more at http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLLbe8vTvDQKHTqWo4lYsDxvxnTw
Next-gen SQL injection opens server door
A vulnerability estimated to affect more than 1 in 10 websites could go lethal with the finding that it can be used to reliably take complete control of the site's underlying server.
Research to be presented at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam later this month will show how so-called SQL injection attacks open the door to much more serious exploits that give hackers unfettered access to a website's database and the operating system that runs it. Penetration tester Bernardo Damele Assumpcao Guimaraes says his techniques prey on design flaws in three of the most popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/02/new_sql_injection_attack/
Sybase Has an Edge on Oracle, IBM
WE ARE HEARING THAT Sybase's (ticker: SY) IQ Analytics Server product continues to carry strong momentum and have a healthy pipeline despite challenging macro conditions.
more at http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123869465685083195.html
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Security Researcher to Unveil Database Server Hack at Black Hat Europe
A security researcher plans to demonstrate attacks that uses SQL injection as a stepping stone to take full control of database servers at the upcoming Black Hat Europe conference. If successfully exploited, the attacks give the hacker complete control over the database server operating system, file system and the rest of the internal network machines.
SQL injection consistently rates as one of the top vulnerabilities affecting Web applications. But for all the attention paid to it, one researcher feels the full impact of SQL injection has yet to be fully demonstrated in public.
Sun looks to break through the cloud
Sun Microsystems made a net loss of $209m (£145m) in its last financial quarter, and plans to have shed 6,000 jobs worldwide by the end of this year. UK-specific numbers are not available. Despite this, and rumours of a possible takeover by IBM, the company’s vice president of Americas systems practice, Marc Hamilton, insists that Sun is better placed than rival vendors to weather the current economic turmoil.
more at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2239692/sun-looks-break-cloud
Sybase IQ 15 Analytics Server Software Achieves Industry Leading Price/Performance Result for Data Warehousing
Sybase, Inc. the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced that Sybase® IQ 15, combined with Sun Microsystems’ Sun Fire™ X4540 storage server and running the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS), recorded the best price/performance result in the TPC-H benchmark at 3000 GB scale factor for all non-clustered systems1. This benchmark simulates decision support systems that analyze large volumes of data, executes queries with a high degree of complexity, and gives answers to critical business questions. The outcome of this testing further illustrates the effectiveness of Sybase IQ 15 in helping to optimize IT asset utilization and significantly reduce ownership costs.
Firefox beats IE in Europe: A sign of duopoly to come?
Mozilla's Firefox 3 is now Europe's dominant Web browser with 35.05 percent market share, beating out Internet Explorer (IE) 7's 34.54 percent share, according to data released by StatCounter and reported by Reuters.
Is this a sign of good things to come for open source? Or is it an indication that we're rapidly nearing an industry-wide duopoly: Microsoft and open source, with everything and everyone else an afterthought?
We still have a ways to go before open-source competitors in ERP, CRM, ECM, middleware, databases, operating systems, and other product segments attain Firefox's dominant share, but progress toward that goal is being made. It's not inconceivable, for example, that the server operating system race will soon be between open-source Red Hat and Microsoft, or that Sun will help to turn MySQL into a mainstream enterprise competitor against Oracle and IBM's DB2, rather than "just" the market leader in Web databases.
Oracle & UniKL MIAT Partnership To Fuel Aviation Industry Growth
Oracle Corporation Malaysia Sdn Bhd has joined Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Institute of Aviation Technology (UniKL MIAT), a branch campus of Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), to develop technology training programme for the growing aviation industry.
Its managing director, K.Raman, said that the collaboration was to support the Malaysian government's plan to turn the country into a regional hub for aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO).
"By working together, Oracle and UniKL MIAT are making a direct investment in developing Malaysia's workforce and helping fuel growth in the aviation industry," he said after a formal agreement for the Oracle Academy's Enterprise Business Applications programme was signed here today.
Representing UniKL was its president and chief executive officer, Professor Datuk Dr Abdul Hakim Juri.
more at http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news_business.php?id=401154
Core Services Expands Oracle Offerings by Hosting Hyperion Application Solutions
Core Services Corporation ("Core Services"), an Oracle Certified Partner, recently announced that they have successfully extended their services to include Oracle Hyperion hosted solutions.
In recent years, Oracle shifted their focus from offering a business intelligence solution that works for Oracle-only environments towards offering a best-of-breed business intelligence product family that works with both Oracle and non-Oracle ERP products. "With Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion, our Oracle E-Business Suite customers gain access to a leading provider of performance management software," says Jim Bistis, CEO and President of Core Services. "Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management web-based applications deliver global financial consolidation, planning, reporting and analysis that are highly scalable." Bistis continues, "Hyperion utilizes the most advanced technology available, making Oracle's business intelligence capabilities one of the most comprehensive systems for enterprise performance management."
Black Hat Europe Researcher Hacks Database Servers
A researcher at Black Hat Europe this month will demonstrate a new hack that uses SQL injection as a stepping stone to take control of a database server.
"SQL injection becomes a stepping stone to the real target: the operating system," says Bernardo Damele, an IT security engineer based in London. "I will focus on exploiting SQL injection in a Web application to get control over the underlying OS," in addition to the database software, he says.
SQL injection is a popular attack vector in Web applications, mainly because it's one of the most common flaws found in these apps. Web application SQL injection attacks typically target client browsers, infecting them when the victim visits a compromised Website. Another SQL injection attack is on the database itself, via a Web application carrying that vulnerability.
more at http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216402297
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Total Economic Impact of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade
This Forrester study provides readers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact on their organization of upgrading from a previous version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2008. The study shows all related costs, whether or not they are incremental to the new solution, to best give readers a complete understanding of the costs their organizations might incur.
Oracle 11g's Transparent Data Encryption Security Feature
A crucial reason for upgrading the storage capabilities of Large Objects (LOBs) is the ever-expanding requirements for data security within an Oracle 11g database. This article – the last in this three-part series – investigates how to extend Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) security features to LOBs and tablespaces to secure data, and explains how these features enable improved security for complex, unstructured data like Digital Imaging for Communication of Medical Information (DICOM) objects.
more at http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Oracle11g-Secure-Files3.shtml
Getting the most out of SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 has been credited for its markedly better scalability and performance, but it also has an assortment of capabilities that fundamentally change how enterprise developers interact with the database.
Microsoft made several changes to SQL Server from version 2005, ranging from the introduction of new developer tools to fulfilling long-sought developer requests in coding, tools, management and performance monitoring.
more at http://www.sdtimes.com/GETTING_THE_MOST_OUT_OF_SQL_SERVER_2008_/About_MICROSOFT_and_SQLSERVER/33370
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