Oracle Database PodCasts

Wellcome Trust Sanger Scales its Multi-Terabyte Data Archive with Oracle

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) is the leading global genome research institute and is driving the 1000 Genomes Project, an international research consortium formed to create the most details picture of human genetic variation available to date. Learn from Karen Ambrose from the WTSI Database Administration Team, why WTSI selected Oracle Database 11g for its 70+ terabyte data archive, which continues to grow by 4-10 terabytes per week.

EPCOR Integrates Spatial Data into Utility Work Management

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:00:00 -0800

In this podcast, learn how EPCOR uses Oracle Spatial-based software from Oracle partner eSpatial to integrate geospatial data into its water utility work management system and provide real-time support to mobile field workers. EPCOR recently won the Oracle Spatial Integrated Enterprise Excellence award at this year's Oracle Spatial User Conference.

Where2GetIt Leverages Location with Oracle Spatial 11g

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Attend this podcast to learn how Where2GetIt uses Oracle Spatial 11g to support its customers with store location and routing capabilities and other location-related services. Guest speaker Jon Scarbrough, VP Technology, at Where2GetIt, outlines the key role played by Oracle Spatial 11g in the company's solutions and the resulting business benefits it delivers.

Pirelli Tyres Runs its SAP Applications on Oracle Real Application Clusters

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Find out why Pirelli Tyres consolidated its SAP applications on Oracle Real Application Clusters to meet its availability, performance, and scalability requirements.

Oracle Introduces Oracle Retail Data Model to Enable Insight-Driven Retail Intelligence

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:00 -0800

To help retailers accelerate their design and implementation of an enterprise data warehouse, Oracle introduced the Oracle Retail Data Model, a standards-based data model for Oracle Database. Learn from Don Rome from Oracle's Retail Product Strategy Group, about Oracle's new product announcement and how retailers can jumpstart data warehouse and business intelligence initiatives helping retail organizations realize a fast return on investment by reducing implementation time and costs.

Allegro Group's Enterprise Data Warehouse runs on the HP Oracle Database Machine

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Allegro Group is the number one e-commerce company in Eastern Europe and, the second largest online auction business in the world. Millions of auctions are open on their trading platform every day, and growing over 40 percent year-on-year. Listen to Christian Maar, CIO, discuss why Allegro Group selected the HP Oracle Database Machine to support its fast-growing enterprise data warehouse.

Solix Runs on Oracle Database 11g

Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Find out how Solix Technologies uses Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Advanced Compression, and more to meet its customer's low cost, data retention, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia Relies on Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:00:00 -0800

The Commonwealth Bank is the most recognized brand in the Australian financial services industry and one of Australia's leading providers of integrated financial services. They rely on Oracle Database and its Maximum Availability Architecture to ensure uptime of its database systems and in the process reduce it's cost of downtime.

Extending The Reach of Secure Enterprise Search

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0800

Oracle partner MuseGlobal describes the integration of their technology with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and how it benefits customers by extending their reach into a wide variety of domain-specific content repositories. This podcast discusses examples relevant to several industries and disciplines.

Drive Complexity Out of Your Datacenter Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Connectors For HP

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Hear how Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Connectors for HP OpenView Operations, HP ServiceCenter, and HP Service Manager enable IT organizations to seamlessly integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager with HP management tools, to support key processes, consolidate monitoring information, and reduce the overall cost of managing IT systems and applications.

VIDEO PODCAST - Oracle ACE Director Discusses Cost Savings with Oracle Database 11g

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:00:00 -0800

VIDEO PODCAST - Dan Morgan, Oracle ACE Director, discusses benefits of Advanced Compression, Partitioning, and other gems in Oracle Database 11g. John Brust of Oracle hosts.

Oracle ACE Director Discusses Cost Savings with Oracle Database 11g

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Dan Morgan, Oracle ACE Director, discusses benefits of Advanced Compression, Partitioning, and other gems in Oracle Database 11g. John Brust of Oracle hosts.

Cat Logistics runs SAP on Oracle Real Application Clusters

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Cat Logistics provides world-class supply chain solutions and services to its parent company, Caterpillar Inc., and more than 60 other leading corporations throughout the world. Learn how Cat Logistics depends on Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to power its SAP ERP system that includes an aftermarket parts business that manages over 25 million SKUs annually.

Turkcell Runs Large Data Warehouse on Oracle

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Turkcell, the third largest mobile network in Europe runs its very large data warehouse on Oracle. Learn from Husnu Sensoy, Turkcell's Data Warehouse Specialist how Oracle is able to support growing business demand for Turkcell's multi-terabyte scale data warehouse.

ODTUG President Discusses Oracle Application Express

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Mike Riley, President of the Oracle Development Tools User Group discusses Oracle Application Express and some of the new features in the latest release.

Infiniband Networks Drive Extreme Performance for Data Warehousing

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect and software are a key component of Oracle Exadata, helping drive extreme performance for large Oracle Data Warehouses. Learn from Asaf Somekh, Voltaire’s VP Marketing how Voltaire’s Infiniband interconnect can dramatically speed the performance of any clustered Oracle database application running on industry standard storage and servers.

2008 IOUG Data Security Report

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:00:00 -0800

How do data managers and professionals perceive the issues around database security? Do they feel enough is being done to protect against internal data breaches or incidents? To answer these questions, Unisphere Research conducted a study for the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). According to the recently published results in the 2008 IOUG Data Security Report, “Enterprise Data Insecurity: Are Organizations Prepared for the Threat From Within?”, IOUG members believe not enough is being done to address the risks to enterprise data, with one in five expecting a data breach over the coming year. In this podcast, Ian Abramson, president of the IOUG provides his perspectives on the study and the industry-wide need for strengthening data security.

Volume Ltd. Migrates from Sql Server to Oracle Database 11g for Instant ROI

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 -0800

Volume Ltd., a new-generation marketing communications agency based in the UK, combines creativity and technology to design and deliver sales campaigns, channel management solutions, online learning applications and knowledge zones. Chris Sykes, managing Director, discusses why Volume migrated from SWL Server to an Oracle Database 11g grid on Windows and how it realized an instant ROI.

USPS Leverages Location Data with Oracle

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Learn how the United States Postal Service is making innovative use of location data for planning and optimization of facility space. Guest speakers Tim Perez from USPS and Steven Pierce from Oracle spatial partner Johnston-McLamb explain how USPS benefits from improved facility planning by visualizing and analyzing spatial data with Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

Elster lowers TCO running Oracle Database 11g

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:00:00 -0800

Oracle Partner Elster is a leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and integrated metering / utilization solutions for the gas, electric and water industries. Find out how Elster relies on Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to keep costs low while powering its enterprise-class systems.

Starwood Mitigates Risk During Business-Critical Application Upgrade Using Oracle Real Application Testing

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:00:00 -0800

Listen to this Oracle Database podcast and learn how Starwood lowered risk during a recent application upgrade with Oracle Real Application Testing.

EDS drives down its costs with the Oracle Grid

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:00:00 -0800

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. Hear how EDS’ small steps towards the grid has resulted in one of the largest commercial database grids in the world.

Intergraph powers its 3D software with Oracle Database 11g.

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Hear how Intergraph relies on Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Spatial, and Oracle Real Application Clusters to power its applications.

Harvard Medical Reduces the Time to Run Clinical Trials with Oracle Database 11g in the Cloud

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Dr. Peter Tonellato runs the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine at the Center for Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tonellato and his team recently deployed Oracle Database 11g in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, enabling the team to be up and running with innovative genetic testing models in record time.

Giant Eagle Dramatically Increases Query Performance with Oracle Exadata

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:00:00 -0800

With over 3 million customers shopping in its supermarkets every day, Giant Eagle requires a data warehouse that can support millions of point-of-sale transactions on a daily basis. Steve Mitterder, Technical Services Database Manager from Giant Eagle, discusses how Oracle Exadata has enabled Giant Eagle to dramatically increase its query performance by 25 times.

Protecting Your Databases Against CyberEspionage

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Author of the Oracle Database Security book, David Knox is part of Oracle’s National Security Group which works exclusively on projects for the US National Security agencies. In this podcast, David discusses cyber-espionage and the steps organizations must take to protect their databases.

LGR Migrates its Data Warehouse to Oracle Exadata

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0800

LGR Telecommunications supplies custom telecom data warehouses to some of the largest telecommuncaitions companies in the world. To maintain its competitive edge, its data warehouses must be able to deliver extremely fast query response times for very large databases. Learn from Paul Hartley, General Manager, how LGR has been able to address this challenge with Oracle Exadata.

WebEx takes advantage of Oracle Grid Computing

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Every month, more that 3.5 million people use WebEx to communicate and collaborate online. Learn how Oracle’s Grid infrastructure including Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle ASM, and Oracle Grid Control enables WebEx to meets is high availability, cost, and future growth requirements.

Motorola's Printrak Biometric Identification Solution runs on Oracle Database 11g

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Aris Prassinos, distinguished member of Motorola's Biometrics Solutions division discusses how Motorola Printrak Biometric Identification Solution has upgraded to Oracle Database 11g using XML DB for maximum flexibility of automated fingerprint and palm-print identification, inkless live-scan stations, and mobile fingerprint capture.

RL Polk runs its data warehouse on the Oracle Grid

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:00:00 -0800

RL Polk is in the business of collecting and interpreting data for the automotive industry. Hear about their experience running Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle ASM, and thoughts on Oracle Exadata.

Improving Quality of Service for Oracle Database with My Oracle Support

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Sean Bingham from Oracle Support, talks about how My Oracle Support, the next generation support platform, improves quality of service for Oracle Database deployments. Personalized, configuration-specific information is used to help improve the performance, security and availability of your Oracle Database. The service is included for no additional charge with your Oracle Premier Support subscription. Sean will share best practices and tips for leveraging My Oracle Support, to help you get the most value from your Oracle Database solution—helping you to better meet the needs of your own customers.

Scaling Oracle Data Warehouses

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 -0800

With the recent announcements at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle is expanding its choice of data warehousing solutions - from reference configurations to Optimized Warehouses and now the HP Oracle Database Machine. In this podcast, Ray Roccoforte, the Vice President responsible for developing Oracle’s data warehousing solutions, discusses how these offerings differ yet all enable customers to easily deploy and scale an Oracle data warehouse.

Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 -0800

With Larry Ellison's OpenWorld 2008 announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine, Oracle is revolutionizing high performance data warehousing. Learn from Juan Loaiza, Senior VP of Systems Technology at Oracle, about Oracle’s new product announcements and how customers can experience performance boosts of 10x or more over their current Oracle data warehouses.

Data Privacy Protection with PricewaterhouseCoopers

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Alex Fowler is a Director and Data Privacy Specialist at PricewaterhouseCoopers. With extensive hands-on privacy and security management as well as implementation experience, Alex has worked with numerous customers to on data privacy and security in large-scale business environments. In this podcast, Alex shares some of his insights on the data privacy challenges customers face and the Oracle solutions that can help them.

Report Lifecycle Management with Oracle Content Management, Oracle BPEL and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0800

APPS Associates will discuss a Report Lifecycle Management solution built on Oracle Content Management, BPEL, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and Oracle Content Database. This solution, deployed at Siemens Water Technologies, makes it easy to organize, securely access, and find information buried in enterprise reports and other unstructured data with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search.

Intermap Runs on Oracle Database 11g

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800

Find out how Intermap Technologies uses Oracle Database 11g to manage and distribute their spatial data assets as well as enable their spatial applications while protecting it all with Oracle Active Data Guard.

RedPrairie certifies its E2e Supply Chain Suite on Oracle Database 11g and Real Application Clusters

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800

Every day, over 20,000 people in the world’s best companies use RedPrairie’s Supply Chain solutions to pick, pack, ship, and receive products worldwide. Learn from Gary Morgan, VP of Technical Services, how Oracle Database 11g enables RedPrairie to meet its high volume, real-time supply chain requirements.

Saas company upgrades to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to power its sales compensation applications

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:00:00 -0800

Satish Palvai, Founder and CTO at Xactly understands that sales compensation is one of the prime motivators for a company's success. At Xactly’s they upgraded to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to ensure their sales compensation applications had the fastest performance and greatest reliability all while being easy to manage.

Metro St. Louis Runs Oracle e-Business Suite on an Oracle Grid

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0800

Fred Linnenbrink, Director of Data Architecture for Metro St. Louis discusses how running Oracle e-Business Suite on an Oracle Grid is helping them meet the stringent performance and availability requirements, to manage the City of St. Louis’ fleet of buses, light rail and other vehicles.

Database Security for Database and Security Administrators

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0800

One of the world's premier authorities on data security, Rich Mogull, founder of Securosis and former analyst at Gartner has advised thousands of clients on issues ranging from information security, physical security, to risk management. In this podcast, Rich examines database security from the different perspectives of database administrators and security administrators.

Developing Fast, Secure and Scalable Applications with Oracle Application Express

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0800

Jason Aughenbaugh, Senior Associate IS Analyst, at a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry, discusses how he, and others are using Oracle Application Express to develop fast, scalable and secure web applications to improve employee productivity and lower operating costs.

Actionable Business Insight from Semantic Web Technology in Oracle Database 11g

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Find out in this podcast how Metatomix, a leading provider of semantics solutions, uses Oracle Database as a repository for all types of data and takes advantage of Oracle Spatial’s semantic web technology in their applications to provide customers with unique insight into complex business processes.

Rich Niemiec's View of Oracle Database 11g

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Rich Niemiec is the President of Oracle Certified Advantage Partner TUSC, and a very familiar Oracle expert having served as president of the International Oracle Users Group. Rich was recognized as an Oracle Certified Master back in 2001 and will be sharing his thoughts on Oracle Database 11g.

ISV Improves Quality of Service and Lowers Costs Running Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Andrew Wright, Director of Product Management, for the Horizon Clinicals product at McKesson discusses how running Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux has improved quality of service and cut costs in half for some of its customers.

Using Oracle SQL Developer to Streamline Database Application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Mark Harrison, Technical Lead, Pixar Animation Studios, discusses how an Academy Award ®-winning computer animation studio, has been able to enhance developer productivity and simplify database development tasks using Oracle SQL Developer 1.5.

Verizon and eSpatial Succeed with Oracle Spatial

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 -0800

In this podcast, learn how Verizon uses Oracle Spatial-based software from Oracle partner eSpatial to deploy VEGA, an enterprise geospatial application designed to streamline processes for planning and engineering of Verizon's fiber-optic network. Verizon's implementation eliminates the 'stovepipes' commonly seen in the integration of geospatial applications with other business systems.

Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Database for Better Performance and Scalability

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Sean Carey, Lead/Software Architect, discusses how SPS Commerce, the recognized SaaS leader in EDI services and B2B integration, migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle Database for improved performance and scalability.

Multi-Terabyte Scale Data Warehousing

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:00:00 -0800

Arup Nanda, Oracle Ace Director and Senior Director of Database Engineering at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide discusses the challenges and benefits of consolidating business information in a 60+ terabyte (and growing) Oracle data warehouse.

Managing Changing Business Needs with an Oracle Database 11g Grid

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0800

Plamen Zyumbyulev, Head of the DBA Team, discusses how Mobitel has been able to simplify the maintenance and administration of its business applications by consolidating on Oracle Database 11g and Real Application Clusters.

Emergency Management Ontario Benefits from AGSI and Oracle Locator

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:00:00 -0800

In this podcast, learn how Emergency Management Ontario has worked with Oracle partner AGSI to utilize the Locator geospatial capabilities in Oracle Database and Oracle MapViewer. Emergency Management Ontario (or EMO) is a government agency in the province of Ontario that leads the coordination, development and implementation of prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery strategies to maximize safety and security in Ontario.

Secure Your Data and Protect Your Budget

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:00:00 -0800

Sean McKeown, Director of Oracle’s Global IT Operations discusses how Oracle Secure Backup is helping secure enterprise data and protect IT budgets.

Developing Fast, Secure and Scalable Applications with Oracle Application Express

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Stephen Beer, Managing Director, Bridgeall, shares the benefits of using Smartsm, a unique subscription-based, hosted Library Stock Management system that runs on Oracle Database 11g.

Oracle Software Security Assurance

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer at Oracle, talks with William Hardie, VP Database Product Marketing, about Oracle’s leadership in security. Find out about the various security programs that have allowed Oracle over the years to deliver significant database security innovations, as well as provide customers with an unparalleled security posture.

Deriving Value from Spatial Information in the Enterprise

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0800

Learn how Oracle partner Leica Geosystems uses Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial and Oracle Application Server MapViewer in Leica ADE to help customers benefit by consolidating spatial and business information in the database, mobile capturing and updating of data in the field, and building location intelligence into business processes.

Oracle Database Development Tools Optimize Business Processes

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0800

James Hughes, Manager of Software Engineering, discusses how Development Dimensions International, a provider of human resource consulting services, automates business processes in custom applications developed using Oracle Data Provider for .NET and SQL Developer.

Top Five Things to Do to Prepare for an Oracle Database Upgrade

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Sameer Patkar, vice president, service engineering, discusses the top five things customers who are considering an upgrade from Oracle9i Database should take to ensure they are poised for success. Sameer addresses the importance of both technical and business processes as companies begin planning for an upgrade.

Oracle Real Application Clusters on Windows

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:00:00 -0800

Sachin Kothari, Manager Corp. Applications and Systems Integration, discusses how Solutia, a global chemical manufacturing company, improved its application performance, scalability and reliability by deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Windows.

PG&E Migrates from DB2 on Mainframe to an Oracle Enterprise Grid

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Oracle customer Alain Erdozaincy of PG&E discusses how migrating from DB2 on a mainframe to an Oracle enterprise grid is allowing PG&E to meet stringent performance and availability requirements, and scale to meet SmartMeter(tm) rollout plans in a cost-efficient manner.

Using Securefiles in Oracle Database 11g

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0800

Learn how NIF is using the new securefiles feature in Oracle Database 11g on a very large scale to help harness clean, efficient energy sources.

Managing DICOM data in Oracle Database 11g

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Naomi Rafael, Senior Database Administrator discusses how Melbourne Health are taking advantage of new DICOM data type in Oracle Database 11g on the Windows platform to help clinical researchers access consolidated information on multiple disease types from disparate sources across multiple institutions.

Oracle Real Application Testing

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Understand the key challenges facing IT when it comes to inadequate testing of production applications following change implementation. Learn how Oracle Real Application Testing stacks up against traditional methods for testing in database environments, and learn how to use it to reduce the time and effort needed to ensure adequate testing for your applications.

Growing Your Business with Oracle Database

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:01:56 -0800

Oracle customer Tom Clark of PCA discusses how Oracle Database Standard Edition One addresses the needs of midsize companies like his by providing a scalable, affordable and secure platform for growing your business.

Solving Business Challenges with Oracle Application Express

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:47:05 -0800

Chris Thomson, Solutions Director at Indigo Tide, a consulting organization with a focus on Oracle technologies, discusses how he uses Oracle Application Express to develop fast, secure, and scalable web applications that automate workflow for his clients.

Map-Enable Your Business with Oracle Spatial and NAVTEQ

Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:47:05 -0800

NAVTEQ, the world's leading provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has made its boundary data available for FREE with Oracle Database. NAVTEQ’s Steve Lytle and Oracle product director, Jim Steiner, tell us how map data that has been specially formatted for use with Oracle can enhance your business intelligence and enterprise applications.