Profit Magazine: The Executive's Guide to Oracle Applications

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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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A Healthy Result
by Molly Rose Teuke, November 2007

The U.K.'s National Health Service—the largest employer in Europe—reports success with its seven-year effort to transform payroll and human resource management processes for 1.3 million employees.

The National Health Service (NHS) of England and Wales reports success with its seven-year effort to transform its payroll and human resource (HR) management processes. NHS, which employs approximately 1.3 million people and is the largest employer in Europe, started in 2001 to develop the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). The ESR is a single system built on one central data repository.

According to Jim O'Connell, ESR programme director through most of the ESR implementation, NHS needed a big database that could help deliver real improvements through an integrated solution that could take them from start to finish in a logical manner. He says, "Oracle was far better placed to deliver appropriate solutions than the competitors."

Learn how, in spite of the pressures, O'Connell and his team stayed on time and on budget through 39 pilots and 12 waves of rollout, migrating more than 100,000 records every two months and covering more than 50 NHS organizations per wave.  ...

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Additional Content:

    *  Old Versus New, by Margaret Terry Lindquist
    * Looking at Oracle Database 11g, by John Matelski
    * Information Under Control, by Monica Mehta
    * The Performance Management Revolution
    * Modern Thinking, by Tony Kontzer
    * Information-Driven Business Networks, by David Baum
    * Forward Thinking
    * The Business of Life, by Kate Pavao
    * Talking Across Time Zones, by Carol Hildebrand
    * Avoiding the Cultural Danger Zones in Global Project Management
    * Fueling a Better View of Information, by John Papageorge
    * Michael Heagney, research director for the Oil and Gas practice at Energy Insights, on the role of technology in oil and Gas companies
    * Outsourcing Function, Not Form, by Ann C. Logue
    * Making a Better Business Case for IT, by Ann C. Logue
    * Lessons Learned, by David A. Kelly
    * Healthy ERP Strategies, by David A. Kelly
    * Sun Rises Higher, by Tom McNamara
    * Oracle Applications
    * 20 Years of Applications
    * On the Road with EPM, by Frank Buytendijk
    * Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Today
    * Getting Ahead of Web 2.0

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