DATABASE TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS
The Journal of Information Integration and Management
Volume 29 | Number 4
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015
FEATURES
RESEARCH@DBTA
2 Database Skills: More Important Than Ever in Emerging Digital Enterprises
By Joe McKendrick
FEATURE STORY
4 The Oracle Ecosystem Gets Cloudy
By Joe McKendrick
READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS 2015 > SPECIAL SECTION
11 Database Trends and Applications Readers’ Choice Awards 2015
Who to See @ Oracle OpenWorld > SPECIAL SECTION
30 What’s Ahead at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
By Joyce Wells
31 Don’t Miss IOUG at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
By Maria Anderson, President of the IOUG
32 Oracle Applications Users Group Members Connect to Find Answers
By Karen Daniel, OAUG Director of Operations and Membership Marketing
33 The QUEST for Answers and Solutions to ERP Challenges
By Jon Vaughn, Executive Director, Quest International Users Group
DEPARTMENTS
MULTIVALUE SOLUTIONS
27 Rocket Software and MultiValue Technology Mark Milestones
By Adam Shepherd
28 Revelation Provides Policy for Success for Midstate Mutual
By Joyce Wells
29 Entrinsik Informer 4.5 Expands SQL Capabilities
29 For Software Search, It’s All in the Family
APPLICATIONS
36 Elevate Your Data Center and Raise Your Competetive Advantage
By Richard Jenkins
COLUMNS
39 Next-Gen Data Management > by Gerardo Dada
Breaking Down Barriers to Application Performance
40 IOUG OBSERVATIONS > by Maria Anderson
Leadership and IT—Closing the Gap
41 DBA Corner > by Craig S. Mullins
The Big Unstructured Data Lie
42 Big Data Notes > by Guy Harrison
NoSQL Means Yes SQL! With Couchbase’s N1QL
43 SQL Server Drill Down > by Kevin Kline
The Top 10 Mistakes Made by SQL Server DBAs
44 Database Elaborations > by Todd Schraml
With BI Functions, a House Divided is Business as Usual