Information Technology & Business Intelligence

IBM Agility: Turn Change and Complexity into Your Advantage!

2011-11-13T15:42:00.003-06:00

IBM Business Agility Executive Forum: A Survival Guide For Tough Economic Times

IBM Executive Forum at the Inter-Continental Hotel King Arthur Court

"Why Websphere Operational Decision Management?"

IBM Workload Deployer: Measuring Business Impact and Immediate Return on Investment (ROI)

Websphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

IBM Executive Forum: Business Agility Powers Innovation, Transformation and Growth

IBM Business Agility Executive Forum: Brian Gillooly, Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek Events, Kayne Grau, VP Technology, Cars.com, Vamsimohan Pulugurta, Enterprise Business Architect, Association of American Medical Colleges, Toby Cappella, BPM Practice Leader, North America, IBM

IBM Business Agility Executive Forum: Mary Wieck, General Manager, Application and Integration Middleware, IBM
A Survival Guide For Tough Times

IBM Executive Forum: The Power of Business Agility For Innovation, Transformation and Growth at the InterContinental Hotel Chicago, Tuesday, November 8, 2011, King Arthur Court

IBM Business Partner

IBM Websphere

Websphere Operational Decision Management Benefits

Business Agility Executive Forum: Ed Harbour, VP Websphere Software Services, IBM
IBM Global Financing

IBM Executive Forum at the InterContinental Hotel King Arthur Court
Websphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

Fermilab pulls the plug on Tevatron accelerator - Chicago Sun-Times

2011-10-01T00:50:00.000-05:00

Fermilab pulls the plug on Tevatron accelerator - Chicago Sun-Times

Photobucket 2011

2011-08-28T18:24:00.001-05:00

Lombard Police & Fire Department Caused All The Damages for Hung.wmv

2011-08-07T16:17:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: National Geographic World Championship comes to Google

2011-07-26T19:52:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: National Geographic World Championship comes to Google

START- The Royal Tour, The Prince of Wales makes a speech at the IBM Sum...

2010-09-25T10:58:00.000-05:00

Executive Forum: Reducing Errors and Drive Productivity Roundtable

2010-09-23T16:04:00.000-05:00

In a time of increasing customer expectations, what sets you apart?

Join Information Week, Pegasystems, industry peers and thought leaders for an interactive roundtable discussion.

In today’s business climate there is more pressure than ever to differentiate your business from the competition. By delivering an optimized customer experience, you can cut costs, increase staff productivity and offer the best solution to every customer interaction.

Discussions and Presentations will focus on:

Leveraging actionable customer insight to differentiate the customer experience
Transforming service delivery through technology that adapts to your business
Automating business processes across the complete service chain
Reducing errors and drive productivity through advanced case management

Wednesday, November 3, 2010
InterContinental Chicago
505 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 944-4100

Complimentary Executive Forum
8:00AM - 11:00AM

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Additional Roundtable Events
October 14, 2010 - New York, NY
October 20, 2010 - San Francisco, CA
October 26, 2010 - Washington D.C.
November 4, 2010 - Toronto, Canada

Donka Technology: Use Memory Aid for Traumatic Brain Injury at Marianjoy Franciscan Healthcare

2010-09-18T11:11:00.003-05:00

The High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group at Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare invited Donka representatives Kim Snively-Smith, Program Manager, and Kathy Kramer, Senior Trainer, to discuss Donka, Inc. technology tools used as memory aid for Traumatic Brain Injury survivors at Marianjoy in Wheaton, Du Page County, Illinois. Last Tuesday, September 14th, High Hopes presented “Using Technology to Assist with Memory and Daily Activities” by Donka, Inc., during the communication series presentation designed by Dr. Nancy Devereux for the High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group meetings on the second Tuesday of the month, at the Marianjoy Wheaton Healthcare Center.
Donka, Inc., www.donkainc.org, offers a training program whose mission is “to change the lives of people with disabilities through technology”, at the DuPage Convalescent Center, 400 North County Farm Road, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, Telephone (630) 665-8169, Ext. 11. Other Donka technology-based training centers include the office at the North Aurora Illinois workNet, 2 Smoke Tree Plaza, North Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. There are Donka mobile and remote training programs available for the disabled upon request.
The technology-based program for the disabled was founded in 1987 by Don Van Haveren, volunteer executive director and teacher. Donka, Inc. facilitates training with Assisting Technology and Hardware which includes assisting technology assessments; computer-training in Windows XP and the Microsoft Office Suite Programs, such as Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, and Internet Explorer. Mobile and remote computer training services are available for the disabled who qualify, upon request. Professional educators who work with the disabled can participate in the “Train the Trainer Workshops”. Donka, Inc. encourages and welcomes volunteers and community involvement in changing the lives of people with disabilities through technology.
Donka, Inc. is a non-profit, no cost computer training for individuals with physical disabilities and visual impairment based at the Du Page Government Center. In order to qualify for Donka training the following requirements are necessary: there must be a diagnosed physical or visual disability compromising the probability of success within a regular classroom. The applicants must have a reading (vocabulary and comprehension level) achievement of at least 8th grade or equivalent. Disabled and impaired individuals must show average or above average cognitive involvement. One must show an interest in learning various computer applications with a goal of improving occupational and/or educational opportunities. It is required to have adequate physical health and mental ability to participate in one and a half (1.5) hours of sustained and continued classroom instructions with break intervals. Be at least 16 years old and a resident of Du Page County or a resident of Kane or Will County, Illinois with an open DRS fee for service case file or alternative funding. Those students with visual impairments must have basic keyboard knowledge for software and hardware instruction.
State-of-the-art technology at Donka, Inc. includes software and hardware tools used to facilitate memory aid and recall for traumatic brain injury patients and survivors at Marianjoy. Senior trainer Kathy Kramer demonstrated several Donka software and hardware tools for the High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group. For the visually impaired and/or blind persons, there is JAWS, also known as the Job Access for Windows and Speech Screen Reader Program in Bright Yellow and Large Print to facilitate reading for visual impairment and includes Zoom Text for screen magnification. There is also Dragon Naturally Speaking, a voice-activated software for the disabled to use voice commands. Literacy training includes Premier To Go for reading and decoding. Adaptive AT Hardware has Mice with Hot Keys, Keyboards with IntelliKeys and ABC layout.
Other memory aid tools for recall featured the Pulse Pen Recorder with Voice Activated software. It is an infrared pen which uses a voice-coded notebook to take notes recorded on a voice-coded paper by location. The Pulse Pen Recorder can store 2 gigabytes of notes and information recorded to be read back at loud from the notebook location during recall. The Apple IPad applications can be also used for severe communication impairment as a memory aid tool for recall—it is also voice-activated and touch sensitive with a battery usage of 10-12 hours maximum.
Donka, Inc. technology facilitates memory aid and recall tools for Traumatic Brain Injury Support at Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, in Du Page County, Illinois, USA.
For more information, please contact Dr. Nancy Devereux at (630) 909-8607 at Marianjoy or Donka, Inc., Kim Snively-Smith, Program Manager, (630) 665-8169, Ext. 11.
Communications, Languages &Culture, Inc. is a consulting media arts communications service based in Du Page County, Illinois, USA. Visit www.consultingmedia-arts-comm.zoomshare.com

Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare

2010-09-13T16:49:00.004-05:00

Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 6:30PM-8:00PM
High Hopes Brain Injury Support Group hosting
DONKA Representatives to discuss "Using
Technology To Assist with Memory and Daily
Activities"

For More Information, Please Contact Dr. Nancy
Devereux, (630) 909-8607
Wheaton, Illinois USA

http://www.marianjoy.org

Marianjoy Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare

2010-09-13T16:49:00.001-05:00

Climate Changes Goes To the Field Museum Mall

2010-08-03T15:20:00.001-05:00

Climate Change Exhibit now at the Field Museum in the Windy City
Depending on your viewpoint, exhibit educates or agitates

29Jul2010

by Shannon Downey

I was invited to the Field Museum, as many press were, for a guided tour of the new Climate Change Exhibit. My guide was Project Manager, Janet Hong. She kindly walked me through the exhibit highlighting points of interest and engaging in some exciting conversation about malaria, the arctic fox, and carbon off-setting.

The exhibit is full, and I mean full, of information. It is content-driven which also means it’s a lot to take in. It is without a doubt geared toward middle schoolers and up simply because it is just so much darn reading.

Is the reading worth it? Absolutely. The exhibit raises interesting points, leaves most of the doomsday approach out, and offers guests a chance to internalize their role in minimizing climate change.

What I also appreciated about the exhibit was its many levels of information. If you are new to exploring climate change, you will be carefully introduced to the basics but should you be AFS readers and already know your stuff, you will still leave the exhibit with new information.

The ‘talk back board’ at the end of the exhibit gives guests an opportunity to comment on the exhibit, the changes they are willing to implement to minimize their impact on the environment, or to whine about the number of summer camps passing through. It was here that I saw a particularly interesting comment that led me to do some additional online research.

I honestly don’t remember the exact wording but it was something alluding to this particular guest’s belief that climate change was not real.

I thought this was really interesting. I love a good debate. I love a conspiracy theorist even more. I got home and hopped online and found the most amazing article I’ve ever read.

Norm Rogers of the Heartland Institute reviewed the exhibit after visiting it not once but twice. The Heartland Institute claims to, “produce an ambitious program of research and educational projects in defense of free-market environmentalism.”

Now I’m not one to give the extreme right any additional attention, but if nothing else inspires you to go support this exhibit, good ole Norm’s take on things should.

Norm Rogers writes, “The blatant effort to propagandize children is one of the most disagreeable aspects of the exhibit. The school children are bombarded with alarmist propaganda and then encouraged to post notes pledging to take actions to stop climate change. Children donʼt have the sophistication to recognize propaganda.”

I know I know, take a minute and gather yourselves. Wipe the laughter tears from your eyes.

This exhibit does in fact encourage children to pledge to take steps to help minimize climate change. Use CFL’s, walk more, get a clotheslines, eat more vegetables, in fact, wow…when you look at it, this is just the sort of propaganda that aims to makes kids healthier and get them outside more. Damn you Field Museum, using your propaganda to make our kids and world healthier!

I imagine there would be nothing more grating to Norm and his buddies than the final portion of the exhibit which is dedicated to educating guests about the Chicago Climate Action Plan.

This wonderful city initiative is an action plan for every Chicagoan to follow so that, collectively, “we can achieve an 80 percent reduction below our 1990 green house gas emissions level by the year 2050 in order to do our part to avoid the worst global impacts of climate change.”

This addition to the exhibit is, in my opinion, a fantastic way to help visitors personalize the message of climate change and learn about city initiatives and city successes.

So, when looking for something scandalous to do this summer, I suggest you head to the Field Museum and explore the highly controversial Climate Change Exhibit then weigh in with your thoughts and opinions. Just be careful not to let the do-gooder propaganda win you over! Next thing you know you’ll be riding your bike to work and bringing your own shopping bags to the grocery store.

Climate Change runs through November 28th.

While you are there, don’t miss the Mammoths and Mastodons Exhibit, now through September 6th. So

HP: Realize The Future, McCormick Place, February 25, 2010

2010-02-19T11:14:00.002-06:00

CHICAGO Thursday, February 25th, 8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.McCormick Place South · South Building/MLK Entrance · 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive · Chicago, IL 60616
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Learn about breakthroughs in cloud computing, application modernization, and automation and virtualization that will redirect your
IT investments and transform the business itself. Hear strategies, insights and vision from HP’s executive team to help you Realize the Future.
Tom Hogan
EVP, HP Software & Solutions
Marius Haas
SVP and General Manager, ProCurve Networking
Roderick Walker
VP and General Manager, Business Intelligence Solutions, HP Software and Solutions
Robb Rasmussen
VP and General Manager, Best Shore® Services, HP Enterprise Services
AGENDA
Specifically designed for IT management, this half-day agenda respects busy schedules, offering keynote presentations and your choice of one track session with in-depth discussions around technologies that will change the way we all work.
8:30 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Keynotes:
Creating Advantage Today and Tomorrow
Creating Advantage from Converged Infrastructure
Utilizing Analytics for Better Insight
Delivering Innovation through Applications and Industry Solutions
11:00 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
Track Sessions (one of the following):
Cloud computing. Behind the amorphous language often used to describe cloud computing lies tangible efficiency and flexibility. We will talk about how to build your own private cloud and what you need to know about sourcing services from the public cloud.
Automation and virtualization. With boundaries imposed by physical devices dropping fast, we’ll explore the resulting opportunities to boost IT efficiency, reduce errors, and drastically reduce manual effort, to improve service levels.
Application transformation. A radical departure from legacy application practices, state-of-the-art development and operations — the route to decreased cost, increased agility and reduced risk — will be illuminated.
12:15 p.m.
Conclusion
Presented by HP’s executive team, together we will explore technology advances that will change how IT professionals surpass service levels, trim costs and position their organizations for greater competitiveness.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Sunshiny Day in 2010

2010-02-03T13:13:00.001-06:00

Sunshine in Winter

NSF: National Solar Observatory -- the World's Largest Solar Telescope

2010-01-29T10:46:00.004-06:00

The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will be the world's flagship facility for the study of magnetic phenomena in the solar atmosphere.
Provided by NSO, Sunspot, New Mexico

Double prominences. SOHO/ESA/NASA [View Larger Image]January 22, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $298 million cooperative support agreement to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) to build the 4-meter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST).

"I want to congratulate everyone who has helped make this happen," said Stephen L. Keil, director of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and AURA's principal investigator for ATST. "It should be an exciting next several years as we bring ATST to reality."

ATST will be the largest and most capable solar telescope. No comparable facility exists or is planned. ATST will be the world's flagship facility for the study of magnetic phenomena in the solar atmosphere and will be the first large, ground-based, open-access solar telescope in the United States in more than 40 years.

"This is an exciting opportunity for the NSO to lead the community," said William Smith, president of AURA. "We look forward to achieving a first-rate, cutting-edge facility."

ATST is to be built atop Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, pending completion of a Conservation District Use Agreement and other permits. Haleakala was selected after considering 72 sites and then narrowing those down to six for additional consideration through on-site testing. Of those six sites, only the Haleakala site met all of ATST's requirements — the least atmospheric blurring, the most annual hours of low sky brightness, the lowest dust levels, and the smallest temperature extremes. The site is next to the existing Mees Solar Observatory that is owned and operated by the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, a principal partner in the project.

Understanding the role of magnetic fields in the outer regions of the Sun is crucial to understanding the solar dynamo, solar variability, and solar activity, including flares and mass ejections, which can significantly affect life on Earth. ATST research will investigate solar variability and its impact on terrestrial climate — the conditions responsible for solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other activities that can impact terrestrial communications and power systems, disrupt satellite communications, and endanger astronauts and air travelers.

ATST's 4-meter primary mirror will feed an advanced array of instruments designed to study the Sun in light ranging from near ultraviolet (350 nm) into the far infrared (28,000 nm, or 28 microns). High-order adaptive optics, pioneered by the NSO and its partners at NSO's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, New Mexico, will correct blurring of solar images caused by Earth's atmosphere, thus allowing ATST to observe features in the solar atmosphere with unprecedented sharpness, down to structures only a few tens of kilometers in size.

ATST will observe both on the bright solar disk and in the ultra-faint corona. ATST will accurately measure magnetic fields in the ultra-faint corona, which is only a few parts in a million as bright as the solar disk.

IT Roadmap Chicago, March 16, 2010, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

2010-01-27T14:09:00.001-06:00

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"Top 10 Telecom Forecasts for 2010"

2010-01-12T15:19:00.000-06:00

"Top 10 Telecom Forecasts for 2010"
January 12, 2010

Top 10 Telecom Forecasts for 2010

Download the Forecast for Free!

Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) has just announced the availability of its forecasts for 2010. Every year, Clif Holliday, author of IGI’s Lightwave report series, prepares his view of the most significant events likely to underpin telecommunications for the coming year. While Clif likes to take a somewhat lighthearted approach to this forecast (its title is “Holliday’s Holiday Horoscope,”) his accuracy has been exceptional! He is one of the few New Year’s prognosticators who always precedes his new forecast with a review of the accuracy of last year’s forecast. This gives the reader a sense of how much creditability to put in the forecasts for the coming year.
We are also offering you a similar opportunity to comment on the upcoming 2010 forecasts. Click here to download the Top 10 Telecom Forecasts for 2010 now.
“This year we have some very significant forecasts that could signal the change in many fundamental aspects of our telecommunications business, particularly in regards to Overbuild by major RBOCs. There are important implications in these forecasts to the traditional telephony carriers, the cable TV companies and the equipment manufacturers. We think there is something of significance in them for everybody concerned with telecommunications,” declared Dr. Paul Polishuk, President of IGI.
Mr. Holliday’s highly anticipated forecast is currently available on IGI’s website, in addition to various new Lightwave reports, newsletters, and conferences. The latest being the “Next Generation Carrier’s Network” and the Transformation Series and our comprehensive series of Advanced Access Architecture Reports including Cost, Equipment, Overbuild Strategies, and Bandwidth Requirements, and our just announced series of ROADM reports including “ROADMs from the Core to the Edge” and “Edge R-OADM Revolution.”
IGI is certain that its clients and readers will find these forecasts both fun and of tremendous value. Clif’s accuracy the last few years has been well above 75% in these efforts, so they may be more than just a pleasant diversion, but rather a powerful set of forecasts for 2010.

For more information regarding these forecasts please visit IGI's website or contact IGI below.

Dr. Hui Pan
Information Gatekeepers Inc.
1340 Soldiers Field Road, Suite 2
Boston, MA 02135
Tel: 617-782-5033
Fax: 617-782-5735
hpan@igigroup.com

IBC 2009, RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Holland

2009-08-07T09:36:00.001-05:00

MRG is a Media Sponsor of IBC 2009

September 10-15, 2009
RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Holland

IBC is an international forum for the electronic media industry, attracting 49,000+ visitors and 1,300+ exhibitors from more than 130 countries. It combines a highly respected and peer reviewed conference, an exhibition that demonstrates state of the art media technology and unrivalled networking opportunities.

Visitors can expect to learn about the developments which are shaping the industry, interact with the latest technologies, experience world first demonstrations and do business in a professional and supportive environment. IBC is an event for everyone involved in the world of content, creation, management and delivery.

For more information visit: www.ibc.org

MRG Multimedia Research Group, Inc.: The Future of Digital Television

2009-08-07T09:31:00.001-05:00

MRG is a Media Sponsor for the MPEGIF Master Class at IBC 2009

The Future of Digital Television
Room L, RAI Convention Center
Monday, 14 September, 2009
1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

As with past years during IBC, the MPEG Industry Forum, the largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies in the world, is presenting a full day session bringing together industry experts representing the most influential players in next generation video entertainment, multimedia and standards-based video delivery.

This latest edition of the MPEGIF Master Class, produced in cooperation with the University of St Petersburg (Russia), brings together senior executives and experts in digital television with a track record of pioneering new advanced technology, innovative service offerings with new business models. They will share their experiences, both good and bad, and expertise with a focus on technological progress and challenges, regulatory and commercial issues, and opportunities in the overall ecosystem of Digital Television.

Highlights will include insights into the following:
- How digital media standards will evolve to guarantee best-of-breed solutions
- The success factors for hybrid services bringing broadcast and unicast content together in a common platform
- How the multi-screen service will evolve as content is re-purposed and transformed for viewing on a wide variety of end user devices
- How the increase in unicast personalized video leads to a myriad of business opportunities
- Aspects of next generation digital broadcast from mobile to online video to HD and above as well as the challenges seen around the world regarding the transition to digital TV.
For a complete program agenda and speaker bios go to: MPEGIF Master Class at IBC

TOPICS:
The Evolution of New Business Models for Existing Service Operators
Is this an Opportunity for New Service Providers to Emerge?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Jeff McSchooler – VP of Engineering, EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation
Kevin Baughan – Director of Technical Strategy, Virgin Media
Dieter Engel – Senior Vice President, Product Development Media Services, Deutsche Telekom AG
Casey Harwood – Senior VP, Turner Europe, Turner Broadcasting
Bob Luff – EVP & Chief Engineering Officer, Nielsen
Stuart Collingwood – VP EMEA, Sling Media

PANELISTS:
Matthew Huntington – VP of Product Marketing, Open TV
Manuel Gutierrez – CEO & President TDVision Systems
Ross Biggan – Director General, Association of Commercial Television in Europe
Robin Wilson – VP for Business Development, NagraVision
Mark Krivosheev - Chief Scientist, State Radio Research & Development Institute (NIIR) Moscow
Kaliu Kukk - Deputy General Director, Join-Stock Company “Telecom”, Moscow
Alexander Umbitaliev - Director, Television Research Institute, St. Petersburg
Professor Konstantin Glassman - Head of Video Systems Department at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television

Chaired By:
Sebastian Moeritz, President MPEGIF / CEO dicas
David Price, Vice President MPEGIF / Vice President Harmonic

For more information on the MPEGIF Master Class go to: MPEGIF Activities at IBC 2009

Networking Drink Reception:

Join MPEGIF for a networking drink reception following the Master Class.
Monday, September 14, 2009
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Forum Room Lounge
RAI Conference Center

We hope to see you there,
MRG Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG)
1754 Technology Drive, Suite 132
San Jose, CA 95110

PHONE 1-408-453-5553
www.mrgco.com

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2009-04-22T13:28:00.004-05:00

2009-04-22T13:26:00.002-05:00

2009-04-22T13:11:00.006-05:00

Damien Ng, Manager for LKQ Corp. speaks to Oracle Customer Service representative during the Oracle Services Day Open House on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Damien Ng was selected as one of the winners of the Oracle Raffle Prize by Oracle host Jay Raymond and his assistant.

ORACLE Services Day in Chicago

2009-04-18T12:26:00.000-05:00

Optimize your Oracle investment now and drive down total cost of ownership with better utilization of Oracle services and tools.

Information technology leaders face unprecedented pressure to optimize existing solutions, generate greater efficiencies, and maintain an agile IT infrastructure that can respond to changing business priorities.

Oracle Customer Services Day is designed with practical examples to help companies like yours drive increased value from their Oracle investment. Many times, customers aren't even aware of the Oracle resources available as part of their Oracle Premier Support subscription. These information-rich working sessions feature services, technologies and best practices to illustrate how you can:

Lower Total Cost of Ownership – Drive down labor costs though better systems management and maintenance across the entire IT solution lifecycle
Minimize Business Risk – Leverage industry and Oracle best practices to optimize results
Improve Business Value – Drive better business results through better software utilization
Come meet with your peers and Oracle service executives as we discuss how you can better leverage services and your existing Oracle investments to gain greater efficiencies in your organization. See how Oracle Customer Services are helping thousands of customers get ahead and stay ahead in these challenging times.

Click here to register now for this FREE event or call 1.800.820.5592 ext. 6000.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
8:15 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.

The Westin Michigan Avenue
909 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Agenda
8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcome & Introduction
9:10 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Keynote – Driving Greater Efficiencies with Oracle Customer Services
Featured Speaker: Ian Plummer, Vice President, Customer Services North America
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Techniques for Extracting More Value from Oracle Premier Support
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Improving IT Productivity with Next Generation Support – My Oracle Support and Communities Demo
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Changing its ERP Stripes with the help of Oracle Support
Featured Speaker: Don O'Shea, CIO, Zebra Technologies
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1:
Oracle Advanced Customer Services
Drive Operational Excellence with Advanced Customer Services

Breakout Session 2:
Oracle University
Optimizing New Technology Implementations Through Comprehensive Training

Breakout Session 3:
Oracle Infrastructure
Realizing the Full Potential of Virtualization and Linux

Breakout Session 4:
Oracle On Demand
Best Practices for Doing More with Less
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1:
Oracle Advanced Customer Services
Drive Operational Excellence with Advanced Customer Services

Breakout Session 2:
Oracle University
Optimizing New Technology Implementations Through Comprehensive Training

Breakout Session 3:
Oracle Infrastructure
Realizing the Full Potential of Virtualization and Linux

Breakout Session 4:
Oracle On Demand
Best Practices for Doing More with Less

Oracle BI: Get Smart in Uncertain Times

2009-03-27T13:44:00.005-05:00

Oracle Business Intelligence hosted by Bill Kadiec and Paul A.
Rodwick, VP for Product Management, presented a
luncheon seminar at the Park Hyatt Chicago, on
Thursday, March 26, 2009, featuring business
technology to get a handle on business recovery
when it happens...since "smart companies
capitalize on the downturn by conserving cash,
driving down the cost of goods sold, maximizing
customer value, managing risk performance, and
optimizing workforce performance to gain
competitive advantage, manage operational
excellence, and maintain the lead with the next
competitive edge", according to Gartner polls and
press releases (January 14, 2009). Oracle advises
to "get smarter with better intelligence" and
integrated BI applications. Paul Rodwick
recommended smart strategies to manage risk and
performance actions that you can take immediately:
1. Consolidation of multiple Business Intelligence
Tools into a single platform.
2. Acceleration
3. Forecasting: to look into the future of the
next generation for information technology.

ORACLE Fusion Middleware

2008-10-22T15:01:00.003-05:00

"Driving Business Efficiency and Expansion"

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: ORACLE AND IBM SOLUTIONS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Archiving with Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g for Small Business Practices with IBM System p and System Storage Configuration for Unix® and Linux® operating system-based Oracle Database.

All businesses in need of information technology management are looking at the Oracle Enterprise Management Portfolio and the newest Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g with IBM Solutions.

Small business practices requiring large-scale data warehousing, combined with “powerful, reliable, and secure” information processing and computing solutions for a very large customer base, ranging from 1,000 to 100,0000 accounts or more, for operational transactions, management, market analysis, statistics, date warehousing, archives, can find the IBM System p for Oracle Data Warehousing 11g as a practical business solution to information management.

The IBM System p models run on advanced IBM Power™ Dual Core chip technology, at affordable price/performance, innovative virtualization capacity, and mainframe-inspired reliability features. System p allows simultaneous applications and multi-threading technology to run at the same time, delivering outstanding performance for a single server, using the Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g.

Case-in-point, a typical multimedia business can consolidate separate servers for graphics design, animation, audio, film, text, video games, and operational services on the IBM System p models. Multiple applications run on AIX and Linux operating systems simultaneously, separately, and securely, using one-tenth of the power with Advanced Power virtualization for the IBM System p. Flexible “capacity-on-demand” is custom-designed to scale up or down on processing power and memory load, based upon business demands and fluctuation.

IBM System p storage is compatible with Oracle Data Warehousing 11g and offers customer-oriented solutions and options for small business practices. For instance, IBM System Storage DS8000™ family delivers powerful “robust, flexible, highly available, and cost-effective disk storage operations for project management and mission-critical workloads”. While the IBM System Storage DS4000™ family-scalable, modular Fibre Channel Disk Storage, is designed for expansion growth, reliability, and availability in mind, from entry-level small business practices to corporate enterprise environments and performance-oriented service operations to capacity-oriented applications.

IBM and Oracle have teamed up to establish information technology standards used as Information Appliance Foundations, along with the Oracle Information Appliance Initiative. These are balanced configurations for data archiving warehouses that integrate system resources including hardware storage, Input/Output, and networking into data warehouse building blocks, partitioned for different economies of scale, in a linear mode—architecturally designed to support fluctuating workloads, based on varying raw data size, concurrent user load and diverse query complexity.

The architecture for Oracle and IBM System p is custom-designed and developed for Business Intelligence, reference, performance, and query analysis.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition consists of high-level architectural software and system design solutions, that is to say: interactive dashboards, reporting and publishing queries, ad-hoc analysis, proactive detection and alerts, disconnected analysis, Microsoft Office; Oracle Intelligence Server, Partition Management, Oracle Database EE, Enterprise Tools, Oracle Automated Storage Management, supported by IBM AIX 5./3/Linux on x86, for IBM System p/ System x, and IBM System Storage.

The BI Server repository in the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, with the individual client applications used to access the data warehouse, are part of the third software architecture group.

The architectural systems for Oracle on IBM System p, from data Input to Output, is defined as “a series of processes encompassing data integration, data warehousing, and data analytics; extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data constructed on repeatable building blocks, known as Oracle “nodes” for extracting, transforming, and loading data into the data warehouse and analytics application using corresponding sizing techniques for storage capacity.

Functional nodes are sized upon workload characteristics for Input/Output bandwidth, memory requirement, and the use of the central processing unit (CPU).

The Oracle BI Enterprise Edition processes data integration through ETL/Application, Synchronization, Transportation/Messaging, Information Integrity, etc.

The IBM business intelligence solution is the Oracle BI “Quick Sizer” Reference Tool developed over the years of business service to determine total storage capacity for integrated systems in the partnership between Oracle infrastructure, architectural systems design, and IBM information technology for Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g and the IBM System p.

Accurate sizing provides an exact number of Oracle data integration nodes, Oracle data warehouse nodes and Oracle analytics nodes required.

Quick sizing for the Oracle DB Data Warehousing 11g is based upon performance data and other information collected from the customer’s operational environment—used to estimate the resources required for the following:
• New Oracle Business Intelligence or Data Warehousing 11g installations
• Additional applications for an existing Oracle BI or Data Warehousing 11g production environment
• Migrations to upgrade to new IBM hardware platforms, that is to say System p or System x™ servers, for expansion and growth performance

For questions and inquiries, contact Sales, Eric W. Brown at Email: ewbrown@us.ibm.com
or call, Tel. 1-800-426-0222, Nicole Parker, Oracle.

Oracle Business Intelligence combines information technology and applications for the small business entrepreneur to the corporate level in the Enterprise Edition Model. Enterprise information is architecturally designed for smart management with business insights for the entrepreneur, who is advised by its best features, in the Oracle EE Portfolio, as follow:

• Interactive Dashboards which access data via live reports and charts, dynamically custom-designed and personalized, based on functional roles in the business setting
• Microsoft Office and Outlook Integration which users embed and interact with BI content from familiar Microsoft Office desktop tools, using Oracle Business Intelligence Server Authentication
• Disconnected and Mobile Analytics for mobile users to have full analytical functionality with the same intuitive interface, while connected or off-line
• Proactive Detection and Alerts provide notifications and alerts to managers through multiple channels in response to predefined business events to improve and fasten, refined decision-making
• Reporting and Publishing for users who can integrate data from multiple sources to provide a wide array of reports using Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, in order to deliver them through multiple channels
• Ad hoc Analysis for users who can gather and interact with a logical view of the information acquired from multiple data sources
• Essbase designed as the Oracle’s Hyperion Essbase, an online analytical processing (OLAP) server which provides users with an environment for rapidly developing custom analytics and enterprise performance management applications
• Desktop Gadgets for users who can choose multiple channels for which they want their intelligence reports delivered—including desktop gadgets.

The Oracle’s Business Intelligence Portfolio includes integrated security, user management, custom-designed personalization, a multidimensional calculation and integration engine, intelligent request generation, and optimized data access services.

With Oracle, “the innovation continues” by the current and updated Oracle Database Data Warehousing 11g, featuring:
• Online upgrades and patching
• Advanced partitioning and compression for customized archiving
• Record and replay real workloads
• Delegated jobs to a standby database
• Total Recall Query to a database “as it was a week ago”.

Oracle BI on IBM Systems can be accessed through a Web browser, portals, devices, and web services.

A model example for an Oracle data warehouse with the following specifications include:

• Architecture/OS – Powers5 2.2 GHz/Aix 5.3
• Server – IBM System p5 570
• Processors per block – 8
• Memory per block – 32 GB
• Internal Storage – 4x73GB 15K rpm HDD
• Fiber Channel HBA’s per Block 8xDual Port 4Gbps
• Interconnects per Block 4x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• SAN Switch 16 port SAN Fibre Channel Switch
• External Storage Configuration: 1xDS4800 with 10x EXP810 Expansion Units – 160 x 145 GB 15 K rpm HDD
• Raw/Usable Storage Space 5TB/18TB

The IBM System p for Oracle Data Warehousing 11g allows data deployment throughout Enterprise and other applications from data sources, unstructured, informational, external.

IBM and Oracle are simplifying data processing for archiving, extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), analytic applications through innovation and integrated technology for data warehousing with Oracle Database 11g and the IBM System p Optimized Storage configuration and deployment examples for Oracle Data Warehousing. Change without risk.

For additional information technology about the IBM System p and Oracle DB Data Warehousing 11g, visit the website at http://www.ibm.com/solutions/oracle

Small business service practices with projected expansion growth performance can benefit from the information technology and business intelligence provided by Oracle and IBM solutions.

Source: http://www.oracle.com and http://www.ibm.com

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