Integration of existing IT applications is becoming increasingly required to support business processes. In this context, the use of service-oriented design principles has proven itself in practice: both existing and new functionality is exposed in the form of (basic) services. Modern orchestration languages, such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), allow to implement business…

Integration of existing IT applications is becoming increasingly required to support business processes. In this context, the use of service-oriented design principles has proven itself in practice: both existing and new functionality is exposed in the form of (basic) services. Modern orchestration languages, such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), allow to implement business…

Integration of existing IT applications is becoming increasingly required to support business processes. In this context, the use of service-oriented design principles has proven itself in practice: both existing and new functionality is exposed in the form of (basic) services. Modern orchestration languages, such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), allow to implement business…

In 2010, Northeast Utilities (a Connecticut-based Electric and Gas utility with over 2 million customers) embarked on an ambitious BIDW initiative to integrate data across its Meter Operations business unit. The resulting Oracle data warehouse combined with a 50+ dashboard OBIEE application proved successful and is heavily-used today. But with large data volumes (and more…

In 2010, Northeast Utilities (a Connecticut-based Electric and Gas utility with over 2 million customers) embarked on an ambitious BIDW initiative to integrate data across its Meter Operations business unit. The resulting Oracle data warehouse combined with a 50+ dashboard OBIEE application proved successful and is heavily-used today. But with large data volumes (and more…

In 2010, Northeast Utilities (a Connecticut-based Electric and Gas utility with over 2 million customers) embarked on an ambitious BIDW initiative to integrate data across its Meter Operations business unit. The resulting Oracle data warehouse combined with a 50+ dashboard OBIEE application proved successful and is heavily-used today. But with large data volumes (and more…

In 2010, Northeast Utilities (a Connecticut-based Electric and Gas utility with over 2 million customers) embarked on an ambitious BIDW initiative to integrate data across its Meter Operations business unit. The resulting Oracle data warehouse combined with a 50+ dashboard OBIEE application proved successful and is heavily-used today. But with large data volumes (and more…

New features bundled with Recovery Manager have been progressively making a strong product even stronger. Oracle has attended to some useability enhancements in particular which address the difficulty of backing up and restoring huge information repositories. Reduced overhead for operating system snapshots as well as the ability to breakdown and parallelize the workload of backup…

New features bundled with Recovery Manager have been progressively making a strong product even stronger. Oracle has attended to some useability enhancements in particular which address the difficulty of backing up and restoring huge information repositories. Reduced overhead for operating system snapshots as well as the ability to breakdown and parallelize the workload of backup…

New features bundled with Recovery Manager have been progressively making a strong product even stronger. Oracle has attended to some useability enhancements in particular which address the difficulty of backing up and restoring huge information repositories. Reduced overhead for operating system snapshots as well as the ability to breakdown and parallelize the workload of backup…