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INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERS Executive Strategy Weekly Edition July 21, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT Improving Workforce Effectiveness As companies retrench and reorganize during the recovery, managing the workforce continues to be a top concern for management. Indeed, employers have many issues to consider, from how to prevent brain drain as employees retire or move on to other jobs, to how to prepare for a new crop of employees, may of whom are digital natives and expect constant connectivity in their jobs. Read this special report to learn about how to capture knowledge within your organization, prepare for future workers, and research the Oracle products that can help improve —and measure— productivity in your office. More... TECH DIVE Oracle User Productivity Kit V3.6.1 Technical Specifications Oracle User Productivity Kit is a collaborative content development platform that allows enterprises to drive user productivity and mitigate risk throughout all phases of the software ownership lifecycle. This document provides the minimum system requirements for various Oracle User Productivity Kit components. Your organization might be implementing some or all of these components, so refer to the sections that are applicable to you. More... NEWS From Information Week Oracle Reveals Strategy And Customers For White-Hot Exadata "Oracle's 22-month-old Exadata Database Machine has leapfrogged the data-warehousing market and become a major player in high-end OLTP environments, and is now being positioned as a core database-consolidation platform due to its unprecedented capacity and throughput." More... Blog: Enterprise 2.0. How Iron Man Would Work Emiliano Pecis, Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle blogs: "Tomorrow, Tony will have to explain the new features of a new product (never seen before), to a new customer (never seen before)... are you curious on how it will end?" More... Open for Business Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven on the importance of open source and open standards More... TWEET OF THE WEEK From @OracleCRM Looking for good Oracle CRM On Demand knowledge? Here are some suggestions: cot.ag/90QIIE PODCAST Whats New in PeopleSoft HCM 9.1? PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 is the most robust release in years with over 9,000 enhanced pages, 270 new features, 83 new Web services and 8 new solutions. Tune into this conversation with Jay Richey, Director, Product Marketing for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management Solutions to understand how this solution can improve the effectiveness of your workforce, drive higher organizational productivity, and continue to leverage your strategic investment in PeopleSoft HCM. Listen now... OPINION Special Delivery "On any given day, 75 percent of our orders are from repeat customers, so we're not as dependent on marketing and trying to get new customers," says Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. "Our whole philosophy is to take most of what we would have spent on paid advertising or paid marketing and invest it instead in customer service. Then, we let our customers do the marketing for us through word of mouth." More... THOUGHT LEADERSHIP Five Ideas: Value of Information "CIOs who are not looking at the value of information are selling their IT department short. The value of information is key to transforming IT from a cost center into a profit center. Identifying the value of information significantly strengthens the alignment of IT with the business strategy, and helps optimize IT's investment strategy. For both business and IT, it turns information into a measurable competitive advantage."—Thomas Oestreich is Chief EPM Strategist for Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management Global Business Unit Read more big ideas about the value of information on Profit Online.

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