Databases White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Software-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption is complex and successful strategies based on a maturity model and lessons learned provide an excellent pathway for your roadmap. This data sheet provides an executive overview of Oracle's proven approach to SOA.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In today’s complex business environments, IT managers are driven to lower both capital and operating expenditures while increasing capacity for more application services and growing markets. Read this white paper to learn how many of these challenges can be addressed by effective implementation of chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based servers.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for  consolidating  enterprise servers and workloads and  deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely over the next 12 months. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download the "Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2" white paper and discover new options and features that can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Software-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption is complex and successful strategies based on a maturity model and lessons learned provide an excellent pathway for your roadmap. This data sheet provides an executive overview of Oracle's proven approach to SOA.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle Solaris and SPARC are optimized to work with each other to improve security, drive ROI, and minimize TCO in your database environment. Also find technical descriptions of features and capabilities of Solaris that are implemented system-wide to optimize the functionality of the SPARC processor.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache significantly reduces response time, while improving overall application throughput, by bringing data closer to the application, and by processing queries in an in-memory database.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 25 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 25 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This reference contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Learn how you can use Oracle Exadata to reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve the performance of all applications and much more.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper to learn about the market-leading e-Commerce solution and how improved performance can lead to increased conversion rates and higher revenue.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a four-step approach to overcoming the key challenges of an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 upgrade. According to 152 surveyed IT managers, the top issues they'd like to see addressed are: cost and effort estimation, cost justification and impact analysis.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to gain a detailed understanding of how Cisco and Oracle have collaborated to deliver integrated, enterprise-class NoSQL solutions that offer exceptional agility, availability, scalability and manageability. Learn how it provides the infrastructure for the quick deployment of scalable and effective big-data solutions.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about how to improve your IT investments for better business.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This research report details the most recent versions and developments surrounding Sybase IQ and offers key findings for which prospective users should be aware. It also delves into the details of its latest release, version 15.4, including its architecture, query performance, indexes, in-database analytics and more.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will learn intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior business intelligence (BI) faster, the characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling and how to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects.

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discuses the benefits of consolidating data and retiring (or decommissioning) redundant or older systems to improve overall operational management costs.

Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Published: 22 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains master data in more detail, offers guidance for planning a master data management (MDM) plan and focuses on aligning IT with your business needs.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to discover how you can improve your current business intelligence (BI) system through an innovative partnership and drive new revenue to allow your organization the ability to expand your service offerings.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download this paper to learn data masking best practices and enable your organization to safely use production data for development, testing, and sharing with out-source or off-shore partners, without risking a sensitive data breach.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges several assumptions about scale-out architectures and explains how consolidation and virtualisation can help you regain control over your infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011