Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
April 10, 2013
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News Flashes
Confio Software released version 8.3 of its Ignite database performance monitoring software at COLLABORATE 13 this week. Ignite 8.3 enhancements were developed specifically to address the needs of DBAs with very large database deployments spread out geographically as well as enterprise-level requirements for security and compliance, Don Bergal, chief marketing officer of Confio, tells DBTA.
Oracle has introduced a major new release of its Business Process Management Suite. Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g provides updates to Business Process Composer, support for Adaptive Case Management, and an expanded list of Oracle Process Accelerators. The new capabilities provide business users with greater control over the design, analysis, execution and monitoring of business processes in order to help enhance organizational efficiency.
At COLLABORATE 13 in Denver, Oracle announced new releases of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite and Endeca Information Discovery. Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite centralizes enterprise reporting, dashboards, and analytics on an integrated platform, and Endeca Information Discovery is an enterprise data discovery platform for intuitive analysis of information from structured and unstructured sources.
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As part of IOUG's continued efforts to support year-round engagement and education on Oracle's Engineered Systems, this year's COLLABORATE 13 - IOUG Forum includes a full week curriculum on products like Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, Oracle Database Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster.
Sunday, April 7 marked the beginning of this year's COLLABORATE Oracle users conference. Over 5,000 Oracle users, experts and solutions providers descended upon Denver to join IOUG, OAUG and Quest International users groups to kick off a week full of education, networking and making business plans.
Ari Kaplan, former Chicago Cubs Statistics Manager and past IOUG President, will speak Thursday, April 11 on Sports Analytics in Action at the IOUG closing session.