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Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster
Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. Taobao.com has used Oracle Database and clusterware products since 2004, building an enterprise data warehouse to process and analyze business and customer data.
230 days ago by OracleRandstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Cuts Timesheet Settlement Bottlenecks for 60,000 Staff
Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, part of the Dutch group Randstad Holding nv, is a leading staffing provider in Germany. In addition to traditional temporary staffing, Randstad offers comprehensive personnel services, including personnel consultancy, providing outsourced personnel management as well as on-site, in-house services that support major projects for its business customers. It needed to resolve extensive performance bottlenecks, particularly in relation to the month-end reconciliation of 200,000 timesheets. Randstad Deutschland deployed Oracle Database Enterprise Edition to achieve outstanding response times for processing timesheets with no performance issues - completing 200,000 timesheets in two days.
291 days ago by OracleProcter & Gamble Scales 18 Terabyte Data Warehouse Using Materialized Views Technology
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.
291 days ago by OracleDBAs, Developers and Analysts - Everyone Can Benefit from Toadî for Oracle
Although you may be most familiar with Oracle, occasionally you may need to access non-Oracle data sources - and understanding and reporting on that data requires learning multiple tools. This costs time AND money.
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In this Quest technical brief, learn how the challenges of accessing and managing Oracle and non-Oracle data sources can be simplified. See why Toad is a friend to developers, analysts and DBAs, and learn how Toad can query multiple data sources - regardless of platform - to quickly and easily get you the information you need.
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Oracle Warehouse Management 11i
Oracle Warehouse Management System (Warehouse Management System) and Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Architecture (MSCA) have provided the ability to perform many traditional material handling processes more quickly and efficiently. Oracle Warehouse Management System has the ability to manage and improve the process of material picking, receiving and replenishment by incorporating barcode and RFID scanners. MSCA is an Oracle server that provides connection for transactions in Oracle Warehouse Management System via mobile devices through a telnet connection. MSCA is embedded into Warehouse Management System.
378 days ago byKeys to Successful Oracle Applications Chart of Account Conversion
It is common that a business wishes to change their Chart of Accounts (COA) in their Oracle production environment. The reason could be to support tracking of Key Business Indicators support business strategies, or to support the business growth since the original design of the current COA. The challenge is a change to a current COA in a production environment is not recommended or supported by Oracle. Changes to a COA in a production environment can have serious impacts to one's Oracle Support Agreement even to the point of nullification of the support agreement in place. Many companies struggle as they grow and acquire other companies to accommodate the variations in multiple COA's among its many businesses.
379 days ago byWorthington Industries Assesses IT Cost Reduction Opportunities to Boost Transformation Initiative
Worthington wanted to better leverage current investment in Oracle products and identify potential IT cost savings associated with customization removal and application rationalization and identify opportunities to capitalize on advances in new Oracle product suites that were not standard offerings at the time of the customization creation. The challenge was to determine consolidation options to simplify the existing application landscape and align with industry best practices to enable rapid change. Worthington reviewed current list of customizations and determined candidates to be moved back to Oracle base applications with a product upgrade as well as reviewed implementation of a new module, improving integration capabilities, and/or modifying business processes.
383 days ago by OracleInteractive One Improves Performance and Ensures Greater Cost Savings
Interactive One wanted to improve performance and scalability of Interactive One's IT infrastructure to support the company's rapid growth and enable the company to manage new systems efficiently and cost -effectively. Interactive One implemented Oracle VM, Oracle Database 11g, and Oracle Enterprise Manager to power the infrastructure for Interactive One's fast growing social networking and media properties and switched from Red Hat Linux support to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support to simplify the support process and ensure significant cost savings.
411 days ago by OracleTelefonica del Sur S.A. Guarantees Operating Continuity and Improves Client Service
Telefonica del Sur S.A. wanted to implement a stable, high-availability platform to support the company's 100% growth rate and provide a reliable database with quick access to information and prompt information recovery in case of disaster. The challenge was to centralize technical support services to improve availability of client service for telecommunications customers and reduce complaints about system failures. Telefonica del Sur S.A. worked with Oracle Consulting to migrate to a stable, platform, providing 100% support for the growth in IT infrastructure needed for business and operational administration and implanted Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, facilitating quick access to information and continuity of telecommunications services.
411 days ago by OracleMoving an MS Access Database Application to the Web With Alpha Five Version 9
This paper explains the need to seriously consider moving the MS Application to the Web. It turns out that the Web provides a number of very compelling reasons for doing this such as: once the application has been moved to the Web, any authorized user can log onto the application from anywhere in the world. Also, different permissions and usage privileges can be assigned based on the logon. In addition, while "First" generation Web applications were often a bit slow, the AJAX technology embedded into Alpha Five Version 9 allows Web applications built in Alpha Five to be very fast, and offer a smooth "Desktop like" experience to the users. The paper explains how to move a Microsoft Access desktop application to the Web with Alpha Five.
424 days ago by Alpha Software
