SMART Technologies E-Business Suite Release 12 Success

Get smart about E-Business Suite Release 12 implementation with this customer success story. Hear Mike Battistel, VP Information Systems – SMART Technologies, discuss why they selected E-Business Suite Release 12, the implementation process, what benefits they have gained and lessons learned along the way. SMART Technologies is both the industry pioneer and market-segment leader [...]

KBACE Technologies Talks About Oracle Tutor Customer Benefits

Maryellen Papelian, Education Practice Lead at KBACE Technologies and Russell Handley, Director of Tutor Marketing at Oracle explain what Oracle Tutor is, how customers use Oracle Tutor to document business processes, and how Oracle Tutor provides both content and software tools to easily create and maintain business process documents.

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Lots of communities think of Cloud Computing as the realization of a vision that they have been pusuing for a while (“sure we didn’t call it Cloud back then but…”). Just ask the Grid folks, the dynamic data center folks (DCML, IBM’s “Autonomic Computing”, HP’s “Adaptive Enterprise”,  Microsoft’s DSI), the ASP community, and those of [...]

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Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience

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The software [...]