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Last week at Oracle we had a very important event. In addition to the visit by the roaming Gnome, who really enjoyed posing for pictures on our campus, I had the priviledge to host a webcast with guest speaker Amjad Saeed from Sabre Holdings. We focused on Sabre's data integration (more...)

It is always fascinating to see how our customers turn Oracle Data Integration products into a major force for their critical initiatives. I particularly like the success stories that tie back to the products or services that I use in my personal life. A little gnome that travels around the (more...)

One of the key improvements in Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2 is in the monitoring area. This release brought  integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, as well as a new product dedicated for monitoring Oracle GoldenGate, called Oracle GoldenGate Monitor.  This new product is included in the Management (more...)

Do you check yesterday's weather forecast when deciding on what to wear today? I assume not, and that sums up my response to the question above. But let me explain with a bit more detail.

Real-time data capture is one of the new requirements for data integration solutions and there (more...)

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2013 Oracle Excellence Awards: Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation. If you consider yourself a pioneer using middleware solutions, including data integration, in innovative ways to achieve significant business value, submit your (more...)

Hospitality business is all about customer service. Creating the right customer experience efficiently means good business. Of course, it is not as simple as I write it here in a couple of sentences; especially when you have so many properties and (more...)

If you have been following our blogs over the years you know about the richness of features in our data integration products, and our passion about helping our customers achieve their information management goals. Our customer testimonials in all kinds of solutions have proven our leadership in both data integration (more...)

Cloud adoption has been rising in recent years. Based on a survey conducted with Oracle users, 38% of the respondents already have implemented a private cloud architecture. Many great benefits of cloud computing--such as agility, scalability, cost savings--drive this fast (more...)

Couple of weeks ago I announced our new white paper that outlines the five key data integration requirements and how Oracle’s data integration product family addresses these requirements. After discussing the “Pervasive Access to Any Data” requirement in last week’s blog, (more...)

In my previous blog, I shared with you the five key data integration requirements, which can be summarized as: integrating any data from any source, stored on premise or in the cloud, with maximum performance and availability, to achieve 24/7 access to timely and trusted information. Today, I want to focus on the requirement for integrating “any data”.

We all feel the impact of huge growth in the amount of raw data collected on a daily basis. And big data is a popular topic of information technology these days. (more...)

As you strive to compete better in meeting your customers’ needs, data takes the role of a critical asset in improving how you run your company. You work on making better decisions with a complete picture of the business. Bringing all relevant data together enables more breadth and depth in analysis and reveals trends and opportunities with higher accuracy.

The bottom-line impact of data-driven decision making is no longer a speculation. In a recent study, Erik Brynjolfsson an economist at Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lorin Hitt, a professor at the Wharton School of the (more...)