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Business Integration

Business integration encompasses information architecture, data management and integration, application integration, database management, and all of the technologies that make those goals possible enterprise-wide. The end goal: a smoothly functioning information technology foundation for all business activities. Whether IT is dealing with a merger, legacy technologies, upgrades or new technologies that have been chosen to support the business' core functions, integration of technologies remains a priority.

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The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing

Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >

Communities Have Gone Virtual, Why Not the Legal System?

Lora Bentley spoke with Charles Moore, CEO of RocketLawyer , regarding the gradual movement of today's law practice and legal system from bricks and mortar to virtual environments. Australia, he says, is the first country to start going down that road. Bentley: Does the legal system need to... More >

Data Quality Management for the Insurance Industry – A Practical Approach

Most industries are heavily dependent on data, since it is vital and forms the basement for revenue generation, cost controls and risk management. In particular, the insurance industry’s reliance on an efficient data management is many degrees higher due to the nature of the business, which... More >

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Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2

This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.

Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Want to learn how to get more from your data warehousing investment? This white paper discusses the key features and technologies by which this innovative business intelligence and data warehouse system can integrate information, perform fast queries, and scale to very large data volumes, all with best-of-breed data analytics.

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Microsoft Office 2010 Will be LinkedIn

In conjunction with the public beta release of Office 2010 , LinkedIn announced a partnership with Microsoft in which LinkedIn contact information can be integrated with contacts in Outlook. When Outlook users receive an e-mail from one of their contacts who also is a member of LinkedIn, a collapsible pane of the... More >

WSO2 Extends SOA into Cloud Computing

The WSO2 launched the WSO2 Cloud Platform yesterday. According to the press release, published on dBusinessNews , the platform, which extends SOA into cloud computing , features the company's Cloud Virtual Machines, Cloud Connectors and WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. In a statement released by the company, WSO2 CEO... More >

Syncplicity Hopes to Capitalize on Business Need for Sync Services

Mobile computing in the enterprise has created a real business need for syncrhonization services. Startup Syncplicity is looking to capitalize on that need with the introduction of a namesake service that not only backs up the files on mobile devices, but also automatically synchronizes them with the files on your... More >

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