Featured free training: Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course

Many players in the tech industry publish topical whitepapers that include analysis and commentary on a wide range of issues that are relevant to technologists and IT overlords alike. Last month we shared some papers about privileged access auditing, wireless security, and RFID technology. This week, we have something a bit different. Rather than a conventional whitepaper, we are offering Oracle 11g training material.

The Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course is a step-by-step tutorial with lots of screenshots and extremely clear and explicit instructions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with Oracle's standard 2-Day DBA guide, which is a good starting point for learning how to install and manage Oracle database systems. Unfortunately Oracle's guide leaves a lot of things unexplained and contains some ambiguities that might prove frustrating for beginners. The Course, which we are offering to you this week, provides context clues and some useful clarifications that make the guide much easier to follow.

The Course covers a wide range of topics, including initial installation and configuration, user and security administration, manipulating schema, performance tuning, and backup processes.

If you are a developer and you want to prototype an application for nonproduction use on top of an Oracle 11g database, you can also grab a bunch of other Oracle downloads and white papers here.

Full disclosure: we work with TradePub.com and other sources to identify the most interesting whitepapers. If you guys check them out, we make money. If we pick bad stuff and no one looks at it, we make zip. So it's in our interest to find the best stuff to share with you, but of course if you're not interested in this kind of material, we mark the headlines really clearly so it's easy to skip.

Source: http://arstechnica.com

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Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Wins Billing & OSS World Excellence Award

Yesterday at the Billing & OSS World Conference and Expo in Chicago, Oracle was honored as the winner of two Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards, recognizing Oracle(R) Communications Billing and Revenue Management as the Best Revenue Management Solution and Oracle Communication and Mobility Server as the Best New Product. The annual awards recognize the leaders - vendors, service providers and integrators -- in the development and deployment of billing and operations support systems (OSS) technologies and solutions.

Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides a single platform to manage revenue in real time across any customer type, network service, payment method, business model or geography - helping to rapidly convert transactions into revenue. The multi-service, real-time nature of the platform enables communications service providers (CSPs) to quickly roll out cutting-edge next-generation services to the market, and to reduce revenue leakage by helping ensure all usage and charges are rated and recorded properly.

A key component of the Oracle Service Delivery Platform, Oracle Communication and Mobility Server (OCMS) provides the underlying software infrastructure and services that make a host of carrier-grade telephony and multimedia services possible. OCMS enables CSPs and developers to easily build, deploy and manage complex, converged services, while integrating with existing business support system (BSS) and OSS applications to generate revenue efficiently and deliver a high quality customer experience.

Billing & OSS World received more than 90 submissions for the awards, and a select judging panel of experts from the billing and OSS community narrowed the field to three finalists for each of eight categories. Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott presented the awards at a ceremony on April 30.

Supporting Quotes

"Oracle is honored to receive the Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management and Oracle Communication and Mobility Server. These prestigious awards are a testament to Oracle's commitment to developing the industry's most compelling and fully featured communications application suite, enabling global service providers to rapidly deliver and profit from next-generation IP services," said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.

"Our panel of experts judged Oracle's achievements as exemplary among its peers. Billing & OSS World congratulates Oracle and is pleased to acknowledge its products as examples of excellence in billing and OSS for the communications industry," said Mike Saxby, group publisher, Biling & OSS World.

Supporting Resources http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/industries/communications/communications-billing- revenue-management.html

http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/service-delivery- platform/communication-mobility-server.html

http://www.billingworld.com/

About Oracle Communications

Oracle is #1 in Communications globally with 20 of the world's top 20 communications companies running Oracle applications. Oracle Communications integrates industry-specific BSS and OSS solutions with the capabilities of Oracle's industry-leading enterprise applications, business intelligence tools, and carrier-grade middleware and database technologies. Oracle Communications enables service providers to deliver next generation convergent services rapidly, increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduce costs in the business and the network. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/Communications.

Source: www.oracle.com

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Cianbro selects Oracle business intelligence suite

Oracle has announced that Cianbro, a provider of construction and service solutions, has selected Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus to standardize reporting and deliver actionable insight across the company.

After evaluating a number of solutions, Cianbro concluded that Oracle BI suite EE Plus's open, scalable, and comprehensive analysis and reporting capabilities were best equipped to serve its growing business by enabling integration with its Oracle Database and other data sources as well as business critical applications and functions such as payroll, human resources and financial reporting.

Dale Thomas, director of information technology and corporate security officer at Cianbro, said: "As a construction and an employee-owned company, our people are our most important and valued asset. By replacing homegrown reports and standardizing on Oracle Business Intelligence, we will be able to improve how we track, analyze and report on our people assets - helping us to better forecast for and utilize our resources and better serve our projects and clients."

Source: www.cbronline.com

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