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Procter & Gamble Scales 18 Terabyte Data Warehouse Using Materialized Views Technology | 2009-06-01 | Oracle |
| Procter & Gamble (P&G) has a large portfolio of trusted and respected brands, including Pringles, Pampers, Tide, Always, Pantene, and Charmin. The company started as a small, family-operated soap and candle company, but now it employs over 138,000 people in more than 80 countries worldwide, and provides products to 160 countries. The challenge was to perform complex and detailed global reporting with multiple dimensions and hierarchies for P&G's expanding business. P&G Leveraged Oracle's key capabilities for supporting very large databases, with materialized views with query rewrite as the aggregation engine of the new solution. | |||
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Improve Performance in SAP Application Environments | 2009-05-20 | Quest Software |
| With the exploding growth of data, the typical DBA must spend a significant amount of time on tasks to improve performance and application availability. Achieving these goals in large dynamic database environments—especially those running SAP Applications on Oracle--presents many challenges. There is no time for downtime.
Learn how to optimize storage space for your growing SAP applications without downtime. Reclaim wasted space after archiving and achieve significant database performance gains in the process. Read this Quest technical brief today. Tags: Enterprise Planning, Enterprise Planning, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Offload Reporting To Improve Oracle Database Performance | 2009-05-20 | Quest Software |
| Is your organization looking for a more cost-effective way to get critical data from Oracle production databases to make business decisions? Hardware upgrades and databases reserved for ad-hoc reporting are expensive, and often affect the performance and productivity of your IT environment.
Splitting online transaction processing is one way to save time and money. In this new Quest technical brief, discover best practices and tools to quickly and easily get this critical data from your Oracle production databases. Read it today. Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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Performance Automation in DB2 LUW | 2009-05-20 | Quest Software |
| Are you getting top notch performance from your DB2 LUW applications? Optimizing and tuning your DB2 environment means considering ALL the pieces - not just your SQL.
In the Quest white paper, "Performance Automation in DB2 LUW," Jim Wankowski tells you if it's performance you're after, you must consider all the factors in your DB2 environment. See why memory, physical design and SQL transactions MUST work together for optimal performance. Read the white paper today. Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools, Software Development Tools |
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Caja Municipal de Ahorro y Credito de Arequipa Triples Daily Business Volume With Robust Data Infrastructure | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Caja Municipal de Credito de Arequipa wanted to establish a robust, high-capacity data infrastructure to process banking transactions and support the company's growth and centralize and consolidate client information to give regional managers online access to updated information. The challenge was to eliminate manual procedures that led to unnecessary reprocessing and duplication of client data and launched new banking products and services to improve client services and increase competitiveness. Caja Municipal de Credito de Arequipa implemented Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, creating a robust database that enabled the company to triple its daily volume of banking operations and centralized business information - consolidating data from 42 banking offices and eliminating manual procedures, reprocessing, and duplication of data.
Tags: Data Tools |
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Emsdetten City Council Modernizes Administration and Reduces Processing Times by 30% | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Emsdetten wanted to consolidate more than 40 disparate applications that comprise the organization's patchwork IT system, resulting from the diverse range of individual services provided and eliminates delays and errors of paper-based processes, specifically with interactions between different departments when exchanging information on paper forms. The challenge was to ensure adequate protection against system and physical hardware failure for the three terabytes of stored data and increase the city's attractiveness and quality of life by enabling transparency in the council's administrative process. Emsdetten worked with Oracle Consulting to consolidate multiple, legacy databases onto Oracle Database 11g with Real Application Clusters, guaranteeing high availability and reducing administration effort in general by 50%.
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Integrates Academic Information and Accelerates Registration by 75% | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Pontificia Universidad Javeriana wanted to implement a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure to improve admissions procedures and management of student information and create a database to consolidate academic information and facilitate access to and administration and analysis of information for timely decision making. The challenge was to automate enrollment procedures to accelerate student registration and reduce reprocessing and duplication of data and provide a self-service Web environment in which students can enroll, select classes, consult assignments, and receive academic advice online. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana worked with Oracle Consulting to implement a flexible, high-availability platform, improving access to academic information and facilitating timely decision making and implemented PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions, automating registration procedures and accelerating enrollment by 75%.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools |
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SKY Brasil Servicos Automates Service Management, Reduces Redundant Processing by 20% | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| SKY Brasil Servicos Ltda wanted to provide high levels of customer service despite dramatic growth in subscriptions resulting from the 2006 merger and improve customer relationship management to meet growing demand and fulfill customer service deadlines. The challenge was to provide the history of relationships with installation, repair, and technical assistance partners to motivate them and promote committed customer service and deploy an infrastructure that meets new processing demands. SKY Brasil Servicos implemented - with Oracle Partner Infobase - Siebel Customer Relationship Management for an IT infrastructure that ensures high availability and scales quickly to meet growing demand and implemented Oracle Real Application Clusters to achieve new processing levels and integrate all databases.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools |
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Manages Terabyte Data Growth Each Week While Driving Down Costs | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) wanted to ensure continued rapid accessibility to 650 researchers and the worldwide scientific community of 74 terabytes of Large Object (LOB) sequencing data in the WTSI's short read archive, while handling data growth of 4 terabytes to 10 terabytes weekly and cut hardware and system maintenance costs. WTSI implemented Oracle Database 11g to benefit from SecureFiles, a re-engineered storage concept that enables large unstructured files to reside and be managed in the database and used SecureFiles to consolidate structured and unstructured LOB data, such as complex sequenced data previously held in separate file server-based archiving systems, on Oracle Database 11g.
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Tarjeta Nevada Accelerates Credit Card Authorization Response by 50% | 2009-05-01 | Oracle |
| Tarjeta Nevada wanted to provide a flexible, up-to-date, high-availability IT infrastructure to guarantee secure information access and transfer, as well as operational continuity and accelerate time required to authorize credit-card purchases to improve the company's competitiveness. The challenge was to maintain a historical record of operations and transactions to provide statistics on account statements, sales, credits, and debits for customers and associated businesses. Tarjeta Nevada worked with Oracle Partner Ayi & Asociados to create an integrated application infrastructure built on a flexible, high-availability platform and implemented Oracle Database Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Oracle's Automatic Storage Management option to reduce system downtime and ensure operational continuity.
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