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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/28/11

I was 10. Our subdivision was just being built when we moved in. We were one of the first houses. Every other lot seemed to have a house-in-progress going on, complete with giant piles of dirt in front of each. As miscreant kids (sorry for the redundancy), we didn’t understand anything about the Roofing construction

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Using PeopleTools 8.51+ to Improve Business Intelligence

The live demonstration below will discuss and demonstrate how to take advantage of native PeopleTools 8.51 and higher to improve business intelligence in your organization. In this video, we show you how to expand business intelligence into PeopleSoft utilizing delivered tools to “configure,” not “customize” your solution and improve the business process with embedded business

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RightNow Opens Oracle’s SaaS Play; Puts Salesforce.com on Alert

Two days ago, Oracle acquired RightNow for $1.5B, and many analysts immediately said the purchase was, for all intents and purposes, missiles aimed at Salesforce.com. But  how? What does this mean? How to decipher this? What does the acquisition do for Oracle? Won’t Oracle’s ‘Public Cloud’ be comprised of technologies already in Oracle’s stack? Not exactly. According

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Oracle Fusion HCM Executive Briefing

If you’re an HR executive or involved in any way with shaping your organization’s HR direction, you should seriously consider attending Oracle’s upcoming HR executive roundtable. It’s a special event that will touch on all aspects of HR challenges (such as how HR can help build the corporate brand and measuring HR’s impact on business

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Oracle Enters Enterprise Search & Data Management Market

So the news is this: Oracle bought Endeca, a search and data management company. Smart move. Enterprise search has long been lacking, especially when it comes to searching unstructured data, and now Oracle will have a very compelling differentiator for its business intelligence and analytics platforms. Here’s TechCrunch on the deal: Endeca’s core technology enables

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/21/11

Stories from Italy, Vol. 2 I had a chance to spend a day in Cortona, which aside from being medieval and kinda scary at night, I found to be insanely awesome. I could write an entire travel guide (where by entire I mean ‘laughably incomplete’) about the city, but instead I will just riff on

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Oracle Sees 20% Earnings Growth

Benjamin Pimentel, reporting for MarketWatch: Catz, who is also Oracle’s chief financial officer, said the company still believes a 20% earnings per share growth is achievable, even as the company expands. “We are hiring aggressively,” she said. Oracle saw a 14% growth in adjusted earnings per share in its last quarter. I’ve always thought Oracle’s

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OPINION: Haters Gonna Hate, So Ignore Them

A nice slice of life wisdom from Chris Shiflett, who is a studiomate of Tina Roth Eisenberg (who, incidentally, writes swissmiss, one of the best design blogs out there): I always take more pleasure in liking something than in disliking something. That’s not to say there aren’t some things that deserve to be liked and

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Oracle OpenWorld 2010

MIPRO Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2010   We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries as to our speaking schedule at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, and we now have some details that we can share.   First, we will have our PeopleSoft Practice Director and ALM/EAM guru David Brunet making the rounds at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.  If you’ve worked

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