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Profit Magazine, February 2009 Profit Magazine: The Executive's Guide to Oracle Applications

Published quarterly, Profit Magazine is distributed to more than 110,000 C-level executives and provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages. Profit Magazine illuminates the business impact of technology and provides industry and line-of-business intelligence for your specific challenges

At the same time, Profit Magazine also wants to shed light on Oracle's product and service strategies and how they'll impact your business - today, and in the years to come.

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.

Oracle was founded in 1977, and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. As of 2005, it employed more than 50,000 people worldwide and is the world's second largest software company. (Wikipedia.org)

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Oracle Corporation (Oracle) is an enterprise software company. The Company develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and services database and middleware software, as well as applications software that help organizations to manage their businesses.

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Light-Speed Performance
by David A. Kelly, February 2009

LGR Telecommunications CEO Grant Salmon knows that businesses that thrive today are those that aren’t afraid to try new things. LGR beta-tested the new HP Oracle Exadata Storage server and is seeing blazing-fast performance that’s saving the company time and money.

LGR Telecommunications is a company that knows something about the performance of large data warehouses. Its solutions help telephone companies digest and analyze billions—yes, billions—of call records each day. But even they were a bit surprised when they benchmarked the new Oracle Exadata storage system.

“When it comes to speed, Oracle Exadata technology has changed the game completely,” says Grant Salmon, CEO of Atlanta, Georgia-based LGR Telecommunications, who appeared in a taped segment during Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s announcement at Oracle OpenWorld. “And it’s not like we had an old, cluttered-up system before. We build some of the world’s largest data warehouses on leading hardware and storage facilities, yet queries that used to take half an hour are now taking less than a minute with this new Oracle Exadata technology.” ...

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