SmartBiz IT Research Library

CASE STUDY - As an STR Software customer since 2004, Texas Petrochemicals was excited about the opportunity to leverage its existing AventX investment and automate another manual process - the printing of work order database attachments from Oracle E-Business Suite. This case study has the details.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: May 7, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Business Process Management | eBusiness | eBusiness Infrastructure | eBusiness Services | eBusiness Software | Oracle (Product)

CASE STUDY - Experiencing continued failures generated by their existing fax solution, Sloan Valve's replacement solution needed to integrate with SAP and MS Exchange. STR Software developed a product to address Sloan Valve's needs - AdventX Connector For SAP ERP on Windows. Read this paper for more details on how it works!
Posted: May 7, 2009 | Published: May 7, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Process Management | ERP | Fax Software | FoIP | Microsoft Exchange | Oracle (Product) | SAP (Product)

CASE STUDY - MasterCard International implemented Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) in January 2000 and required a document delivery solution capable of intelligently distributing high volumes of purchase orders each month. After a competitive evaluation, MasterCard determined AventX Oracle Connector was the only solution that could meet its needs.
Posted: May 7, 2009 | Published: May 7, 2009


Topics:  Business Management | Business Process Automation | Document Imaging | Document Management | Document Management Software | Document Production | Oracle (Product) | ROI

WHITE PAPER - The best-performing project management offices reduce business risk, optimize resources and contribute to business growth through a portfolio management office, according to Gartner. Read this informative paper from Oracle and take your first step to establishing a PMO or maturing your already established PMO.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Oracle (Product) | PMOS | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Project Management | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - As the number of projects grow, so does the risk of failure as resources get stretched & oversight lags. It becomes increasingly important to define project management processes & develop metrics & best practices for keeping projects on time and within budget. Read this paper to find out if a Project Management Office (PMO) could be your solution.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | IT Management | Oracle (Product) | PMOS | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - If stimulus plans around the world are effective, we will see a boon in industrial manufacturing jobs and production. This paper stresses the importance of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Aerospace and Defense Industry | Business Development | Business Intelligence | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Resource Management | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This white paper asserts that the common thread that must run through all phases of project manufacturing is a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system. A PPM system will constantly examine resources, supplies and schedules to ensure that every phase of the project's lifecycle is on time and within budget.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Aerospace and Defense Industry | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Systems | Infrastructure Management | Oracle (Product) | Portfolio Management (IT Management)

BOOK - Authored by database security expert Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press) is the definitive 454-page guide for both security pros and DBAs. Chapter 2, presented here, covers topics central to hardening the database.
Posted: April 3, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Security | Oracle (Product) | Regulatory Compliance | Security | Security Management | Security Threats

WHITE PAPER - Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance.
Posted: April 3, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  Data Security | Database Security | DB2 | Oracle (Product) | Security | Security Best Practices | Security Management | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | CRM | CRM Analytics | Customer Service | Customer Service Best Practices | Oracle (Product) | Social Networking

CASE STUDY - For midsize enterprises, now is the perfect time to invest in a significant IT expansion – despite the economic climate. Please read this case study to find out how installing the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 helped Gavina Coffee improve efficiencies, cut overall costs, and make the business more competitive.
Posted: April 1, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Business Structures | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | ERP Software | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: March 16, 2009 | Published: February 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Storage | Grid Computing | Oracle (Product) | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Oracle's vision of the next-generation data center is the Oracle Grid Computing architecture, which provides the software building blocks for creating a service-oriented, shared-resource environment. Read this paper to discover more of what Oracle has to offer.
Posted: March 16, 2009 | Published: November 7, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business IT Alignment | Data Center Management | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | Oracle (Product) | Server Virtualization | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Check out this paper to learn how Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM) successfully automates the printing of Oracle eAM documents such as work orders and accompanying attachments into company business processes.
Posted: March 9, 2009 | Published: March 9, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Forms Software | Oracle (Product) | Print Management | Productivity | Vendor Selection

PODCAST - Hear this Podcast to discover how you can rapidly synchronize your sales and customer service data with a variety of on-premise and on-demand systems.
Posted: March 4, 2009 | Premiered: March 3, 2009


Topics:  Application Hosting | Application Infrastructure | CRM | CRM Software | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Oracle (Product) | Sales | Software Infrastructure