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  • Announcing the Fusion Applications Blog

    - by Theresa Hickman
    Want to learn more about Oracle's next generation applications, Fusion Applications, from key executives, strategy and development leaders? We have a Fusion Applications blog. Steve Miranda, Senior Vice President, Applications Development of Oracle kicks off the Fusion Applications blog series @blogs.oracle.com/applications. Content will vary; some content will be applicable to all Fusion Applications families, and some will focus on a particular family (HCM, CRM, Financials, etc.) You can also follow them on Facebook www.facebook.com/OracleApps.

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  • Announcing Fusion Applications Training through 2012

    - by Theresa Hickman
    The schedule for Fusion Applications courses is now available! You can get training on the various Fusion Applications, such as CRM, Procurement, HCM, and Financials, just to name a few. Courses will run until the end of 2012 in multiple locales, such as Bangalore, India, Chicago, IL, and Belmont, CA! Please visit http://education.oracle.com/fusionapps for full schedule and course details.

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  • Taking a Chomp out of a (Social Network) Product Hype

    - by kellsey.ruppel
    Andrew Kershaw, Senior Director Oracle Social Network Product Development, speaks about Oracle Social Network One of our competitors is being very aggressive with its own developed Social Network add-on, but there should be no doubt in the minds that the Oracle social capabilities available with Fusion CRM stack up well against it. Within the Oracle Cloud, we have announced a product called Oracle Social Network. That technology is pre-integrated into Fusion Applications, enabling your customer to build a collaborative and social enterprise (without all the noise!). Oracle Social Network is designed together with our Fusion Applications. It is very conveniently pre-integrated with CRM, HCM, Financials, Projects, Supply Chain, and the Fusion family. But what's even better is that the individual teams can take a considered approach to what they are trying to achieve within the collaboration process and the outcome they are trying to enable. Then they can utilize the network and collaboration tools to support that result. And there's more! The Fusion teams can design social interactions that bridge across and outside their individual product lines because we have more than just a product line and they know they have the social network to connect them. I know we have a superior product, but it is our ability to understand and execute across the enterprise that will enable us to deliver a much more robust and capable platform in the short term than our competitor can. We have built a product specifically designed for enterprise social collaboration which is not the same for the competition. We have delivered a much more effective solution - one in which individuals can easily collaborate to get results, while being confident that they know who has access to their information. Our platform has been pre-built to cross the company boundaries and enable our customers to collaborate, not just with their customers, but with their partners and suppliers as well. So Fusion addresses the combination of the enterprise application suite with enterprise collaboration and social networking. Oracle Social Network already has a feature function advantage over our competitor's tool providing a real added value to the employees. Plus Oracle has the ability to execute in a broad enterprise and cross-enterprise way that our competitors cannot. We have the power of a tool that provides the core social fabric across all of the applications, as well as supporting enterprise collaboration. That allows us to provide intelligent business insight, connections, and recommendations that our competitor simply can't. From our competitors, customers get integration for Sales; they get integration for Service, but then they have to integrate every other enterprise asset that they have by themselves. With Oracle, we are doing the integration. Fusion Applications will be pre-integrated, and over time, all of the applications in the business suite, including our Applications Unlimited and specialist industry applications, will connect to the Oracle Social Network. I'm confident these capabilities make Oracle Social Network the only collaboration platform on which to deliver the social enterprise.

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  • javascript getMonth() gets me!

    - by Dave Noderer
    I’ve been working a lot with Microsoft CRM over the past few months and much of the screen level customization uses javascript. One thing I discovered today while breaking apart some dates was that the javascript getDate() returns the day of the month 1-31 as you would expect but the getMonth() returns 0-11… definitely not what I expected!!

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  • Salesforce ajoutera des fonctionnalités de communication en temps réel à Chatter, sa plate-forme de collaboration d'entreprise

    Salesforce apportera des fonctionnalités de communication en temps réel à sa plate-forme de collaboration D'entreprise, avec le rachat de Dimdim Salesforce.com vient d'annoncer l'acquisition de Dimdim pour près de 31 millions de dollars. Créé en 2007, Dimdim a développé des technologies critiques de communication en temps réel telles que la notification de présence et le partage de messagerie et d'écran. Grâce à cette acquisition, l'éditeur du CRM en mode Cloud le plus connu du marche pourra intégrer la communication en temps réel à Chatter, sa plate-forme collaborative et « reproduire le modèle éprouvé de Facebook, réunissant collaboration et communication en un servic...

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  • API Management Video

    - by Michael Stephenson
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2014/08/03/157900.aspxJust wanted to put the word out that the API Management video from the recent user group meeting is available.  The page on the below link has resources from that meeting:http://ukcsug.co.uk/past-events/2014-07-07/ Also we have out next two meetings available for registration at the following links:Hybrid Connectionshttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/azure-biztalk-services-hybrid-connections-tickets-12216617231?aff=eorg Hybrid Integration with Dynamics CRMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-integration-with-microsoft-dynamics-crm-tickets-12398067955?aff=eorg

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  • Heroku augmente son support des technologies Java : couche de mise en cache, serveur Tomcat et plugins pour Eclipse et Atlassian

    Heroku augmente son support des technologies Java Couche de mise en cache, serveur Tomcat et plug-in pour Eclipse et Atlassian Salesforce.com, l'entreprise dirigeante de Heroku, a lancé mercredi une nouvelle variable de sa plateforme, dite "Entreprise for Java", qui supporte un ensemble de technologies et outils nécessaires au développement d'applications Java. [IMG]http://idelways.developpez.com/news/images/heroku-java.png[/IMG] La plateforme Cloud Heroku opère depuis 2007 et a été rachetée en 2010 par le spécialiste mondial des CRM Salesforce.com. Elle permet aux développeurs de construire, déployer et étendre des applications Web en mode PaaS,...

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  • Applications Unlimited and Siebel 8.0

    Scott Nash,Vice President, Product management updates listeners on the success of the Siebel 8.0 release, the customer momentum, how Oracle continues to invest in the Siebel product line and what's new for Siebel and CRM.

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  • Service Bus random thought for the day

    - by Michael Stephenson
    Its been really nice to see that over the last few weeks since we implemented our Dynamics CRM connecting via Azure Service Bus to backend line of business applications solution how much interest this has sparked within the rest of the organisation and other subsiduaries and how many people are coming up with ideas elsewhere on how they can leverage what we did and how simple it could be to connect their applications to the cloud. Im currently working with one of these companies and its refreshing to see how much interest can be spread by a good success story.

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  • Oracle Magazine, September/October 2005

    Oracle Magazine September/October 2005 features articles on the release of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, Oracle Fusion Middleware, PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), native XQuery support in Oracle Database 10g Release 2, Oracle Data Provider for .NET, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle ADF, and much more.

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  • Accenture recrute des développeurs et des ingénieurs d'études SAP, Siebel, Java J2EE - stagiaires, jeunes diplômés et expérimentés

    Accenture recrute des développeurs et des ingénieurs d'études SAP, Siebel, Java J2EE ? stagiaires, jeunes diplômés et expérimentés Plusieurs nouvelles opportunités de carrière pourraient vous intéresser. Accenture, leader mondial du conseil, recrute pour sa filiale Accenture Technology Solutions, spécialisée dans les métiers de l'informatique, des profils SAP, Siebel, Java J2EE - stagiaires, jeunes diplômées (Bac +2 ou +5) et expérimentés. Postes à pouvoir à Paris : Ingénieur Technico-fonctionnel SAP (H/F) Analyste Fonctionnel SAP CRM (H/F) Analyste Fonctionnel SAP IS-U (H/F) Administrateur SAP BC ...

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  • Custom Business Application Development in PHP - Features & Benefits

    A revolution is taking place within the business application arena today. Just a few years back most custom business applications such as CRM, ERP, data mining and other business data information systems were inflexible and expensive applications. The database ran on a server within the company's compounds and each desktop machine was running a client application.

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  • Steltix (NL) is live on Oracle Sales Cloud

    - by Richard Lefebvre
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Steltix (NL) uses Oracle Sales Cloud (Oracle Fusion CRM in the Oracle Cloud) to improve the business performance of customers and to reduce costs and minimize risks. If you read Dutch, I encourage you reading the press release here!

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  • Siebel 8.0 – Release Update

    Listen to Mike Betzer, Vice President, Product Strategy discuss Siebel's 8.0 release updates, customer momentum, the CRM On Demand Strategy as well as a preview into what is coming up.

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  • Windows Azure fête ses un an, utilisez-vous et connaissez-vous bien la plateforme Cloud de Microsoft dédiée aux développeurs ?

    Windows Azure fête ses un an Utilisez-vous et connaissez-vous la plateforme Cloud de Microsoft dédiée aux développeurs ? En collaboration avec Hinault Romarick Le virage de Microsoft vers le Cloud Computing a été marqué par la sortie de plusieurs produits (Dynamic CRM OnLine, Office 365, les Office Web Apps, etc.). Mais c'est bien l'arrivée de sa plate-forme dédiée aux développeurs, Windows Azure, qui a montré son implication dans le IaaS (Infrastructure à la demande) et le PaaS (Plateforme à la demande). Présentée pour la première fois lors de la conférence PDC 2008, c'est en ...

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  • Oracle Applications???????????????

    - by junko.ishikawa
    ????????????????????????????Oracle E-Business Suite???JD Edwards EnterpriseOne???PeopleSoft Enterprise???Siebel CRM?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????Oracle Fusion Middleware???????????????????????????????????????????18????????????????????????????????????

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  • Migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010 UID changes from 32 characters to 64 characters

    - by Seth
    We have built a custom CRM tool that integrates with Exchange 2010 using Exchange Web Services. The issue we are encountering revolves around editing appointments through the CRM tool that were created in exchange 2003. We have migrated the sales staff from Exchange 2003 to 2010 so that we could use EWS. EWS works great except for appointments that were created prior to the migration. Those appointments created prior to the migration in Exchange 2003 cannot be modified using EWS. The reason is that the ExchangeItemUID for the appointment changed from 32 characters to 64 characters. EWS does not recognize ExchangeItemUIDs that are 32 characters. We are looking for a solution that will allow us to modify these appointments. We are open to ideas of running a script that will update all appointment events for the sales people so that 2003 appointments are converted to 2010 format. We are also open to alternate IDs as opposed to using UID. I have seen some references to using CleanGlobalObjectID, but I don't see that property in EWS. Has anyone encountered this problem before? Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!

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  • What may the reason of slowness be (see details in message body)?

    - by Ivan
    I've got a really weird situation I'm beating to solve. A performance problem which looks really like an empty waiting sequence set in code (while it probably isn't so). I've got a pretty powerful dedicated server (10 GB RAM, eight Xeon cores, etc) running Ubuntu 10.04 with all the functionality services (except OpenVPN server used to provide secure access to clients) deployed in separate VirtualBox (vboxheadless) machines (one for the company e-mail server, one for web server and one for accounting/crm server (Firebird + proprietary app server working with Delphi-made clients)). CPU load (as "top" says) is almost always near zero. Host system RAM is close to 100% usage but not overloaded (as very little swapping gets used, and freed (by stopping one of VMs) memory doesn't get reused any quickly). Approximately 50% of guests RAM is used. iostat usually shows near zero %util. Network bandwidth seems to be underused. But the accounting/crm client (a Win32 Delphi application run on WinXP machines) software works hell-slow with this server (and works much better using an inside-LAN Windows server). I just can't imagine what can make it be slow if there are so plenty of CPU, RAM, HDD and bandwidth resources available on clients and on the server even in their hardest moments. Saying bandwidth is underused I not only know that clients and the server are connected to the Internet with a bigger channels than really used (which leaves the a chance they may have a bottleneck of a sort on the route between them), I've tested bandwidth between clients and the server by copying files among them.

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  • WebCenter Marketing and Upcoming Events

    - by rituchhibber
    Events: Events: Date Event Name Location/Country October 30, 2012 ResCare Solves Content Lifecycle Challenges with Oracle WebCenter Webcast November 1, 2012 Paper Burying Your HR Processes? Dig Your Way Out With Oracle WebCenter! Webcast November 15, 2012 Social Business Thought Leader Webcast: Three Ways to Fix Your Broken Organization, featuring Christian Finn Webcast Marketing: Marketing: WebCenter Sites Sales eVite:Embrace the Base: Create an Exceptional Online Customer Experience with Oracle WebCenter Sites Directs recipients to the Connected Customer Experience Resource Center to see the latest demos, analyst reports, and customer webcasts promoting WebCenter Sites. For more information Click  here. WebCenter Social Business Thought Leaders Series: Digital Darwinism: How Brands Can Survive the Rapid Evolution of Society and TechnologyBrian Solis, Altimeter Group digital analyst and futuristDecember 13, 2012 10am PDTRegistration available soon, find other content from this speaker here. Webcast: WebCenter Sites for Applications: Disconnected Online Customer Experience? Connect it with Oracle WebCenter November 8, 2012  eVite | Registration Page WebCenter in Action Customer & Partner webcast series: Started earlier in FY13, a new webcast series featuring WebCenter customer deployments that are executed by a partner.The next webcast in the series will be November 14th:Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety Lowers Customer Service Costs with Oracle WebCenter Click here to learn more. OnDemand Webcast: ResCare Solves Content Lifecycle Challenges with Oracle WebCenterComplex documents must be created, assembled, reviewed, and tracked. To avoid fragmented, chaotic information processes, organizations must adopt an integrated set of strategies, standards, best practices, and technologies for managing information. Attend this webcast to learn how Oracle WebCenter has allowed ResCare to: solve content lifecycle challenges, reduce compliance and business risks and increase adoption of intranet as primary business communication tool. On-Demand Assets Date Event Name Location/Country On Demand Avoid Social Media Fatigue - Learn the 9 C’s of Customer Engagement, featuring Ray Wang, Principal Analyst and CEO, Constellation Research Webcast On Demand WebCenter in Action Series: Hitachi Data Systems Improves Global Web Experience with Oracle WebCenter, presented by Hitachi Data Systems and Lingotek. Webcast On Demand Managing Social Relationships for the Enterprise, featuring Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst, Altimeter Group and Reggie Bradford, Vice President, Oracle Webcast On Demand Oracle’s Vision for the Social-Enabled Enterprise, presented by Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian and Reggie Bradford Webcast On Demand WebCenter in Action Series: Qualcomm Provides a Seamless Experience for Customers with Oracle WebCenter, presented by Qualcomm and Keste. Webcast On Demand Social Business Thought Leaders Series: 6 Counterintuitive Best Practices for Social Collaboration Adoption, featuring John Brunswick, Oracle. Webcast On Demand Oracle WebCenter Connects Patients and Researchers in Cancer Control Mission, presented by Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and App-Systems Webcast On Demand Oracle WebCenter: Modernize, Aggregate and Extend Your Portals Webcast On Demand Top 10 Technology Trends Driving Business Innovation, featuring Andy Mulholland, CTO, Capgemini Webcast On Demand Ancestry.com Helps Families Uncover History with Oracl e WebCenter Webcast On Demand Organic Business Networks: Doing Business in a Hyper-Connected World, featuring Mike Fauscette, GVP, IDC Webcast On Demand Social Business and Innovation, featuring John Mancini, President, AIIM Webcast On Demand Do More with Oracle WebCenter: Expand Beyond Web Experience Management Webcast On Demand Race Against the Machine, featuring Andrew McAfee, author and principal scientist at MIT Webcast On Demand Introducing Oracle WebCenter Sites 11gR1: Transforming the Online Experience Webcast On Demand Mobile is the New Face of Engagement, featuring Ted Schadler, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Inc Webcast Analyst Report: IDC Research: Oracle Debuts New Release of Oracle WebCenter Sites.

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  • Save the Date - Oracle Partner Community Forum: Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability, Vienna, 23-24 April 2013

    - by Javier Puerta
    Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } body,td,th { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; } .color { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .c { color: #000; font-size: xx-small; } .c a { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .cl { color: #F00; } .b { color: #000; font-size: xx-small; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .c { color: #F00; font-size: small; } .b { font-weight: bold; font-size: x-small; } .c { color: #F00; font-size: x-small; } .clr { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } inside the Click Here The order you must follow to make the colored link appear in browsers. If not the default window link will appear 1. Select the word you want to use for the link 2. Select the desired color, Red, Black, etc 3. Select bold if necessary ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Templates use two sizes of fonts and the sans-serif font tag for the email. All Fonts should be (Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif) tags Normal size reading body fonts should be set to the size of 2. Small font sizes should be set to 1 !!!!!!!DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SIZE FONT FOR THE EMAILS!!!!!!!! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ -- Oracle PartnerNetwork | Account | Feedback SAVE THE DATE ORACLE PARTNER COMMUNITY FORUM: EXADATA, EXALOGIC AND MANAGEABILITY 23-24 APRIL 2013, VIENNA, AUSTRIA The 2013 event expands its scope to cover all the building blocks of the Cloud infrastructure: Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability! Dear partner I am delighted to announce the 2013 edition of the Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability Partner Community Forum for EMEA partners which will take place in Vienna, Austria, on April 23-24, 2013. After the experience of last year where we ran a joint Exadata and Manageability event, we received requests from many of you to add also Exalogic to the scope of the forum, and this way to cover the complete infrastructure architecture on the Exa platform. The continued market adoption of Exadata and Exalogic is being paralleled by a growth in the rate of projects sold and implemented by partners. Sharing customer cases and best-practices presented by other partners constitutes the core of this event. If you want to present an experience of your company around Exadata, Exalogic or Manageability that can be a learning experience for other partners, we still have some slots in the agenda. (Please contact Javier Puerta if you want to present.) Attending the Community Forum you will also have the opportunity to get Oracle’s insight on new products and market trends. And, of course, interact with the Oracle executives responsible for the Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability business. The atmosphere of beautiful Vienna will be the scenario of the event. Detailed venue and hotel booking information will be sent to you in January. Don't miss out on attending this key event! Save the date now - 23 & 24 April 2013, and watch out for your formal invitation coming soon. Kind regards, Javier Puerta Core Technology Partner Programs, Oracle EMEA E-Mail: [email protected] Jürgen Kress SOA Partner Adoption Oracle EMEA E-Mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contact PBC | Legal Notices and Terms of Use | Privacy Oracle Corporation - Worldwide Headquarters, 500 Oracle Parkway, OPL - E-mail Services, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, United States

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  • Save the Date - Oracle Partner Community Forum: Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability, Vienna, 23-24 April 2013

    - by Javier Puerta
    Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } .Ritu { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } body,td,th { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; } .color { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .c { color: #000; font-size: xx-small; } .c a { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } .cl { color: #F00; } .b { color: #000; font-size: xx-small; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .i { font-style: italic; } .c { color: #F00; font-size: small; } .b { font-weight: bold; font-size: x-small; } .c { color: #F00; font-size: x-small; } .clr { color: #F00; } .c { color: #F00; } inside the Click Here The order you must follow to make the colored link appear in browsers. If not the default window link will appear 1. Select the word you want to use for the link 2. Select the desired color, Red, Black, etc 3. Select bold if necessary ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Templates use two sizes of fonts and the sans-serif font tag for the email. All Fonts should be (Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif) tags Normal size reading body fonts should be set to the size of 2. Small font sizes should be set to 1 !!!!!!!DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SIZE FONT FOR THE EMAILS!!!!!!!! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ -- Oracle PartnerNetwork | Account | Feedback SAVE THE DATE ORACLE PARTNER COMMUNITY FORUM: EXADATA, EXALOGIC AND MANAGEABILITY 23-24 APRIL 2013, VIENNA, AUSTRIA The 2013 event expands its scope to cover all the building blocks of the Cloud infrastructure: Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability! Dear partner I am delighted to announce the 2013 edition of the Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability Partner Community Forum for EMEA partners which will take place in Vienna, Austria, on April 23-24, 2013. After the experience of last year where we ran a joint Exadata and Manageability event, we received requests from many of you to add also Exalogic to the scope of the forum, and this way to cover the complete infrastructure architecture on the Exa platform. The continued market adoption of Exadata and Exalogic is being paralleled by a growth in the rate of projects sold and implemented by partners. Sharing customer cases and best-practices presented by other partners constitutes the core of this event. If you want to present an experience of your company around Exadata, Exalogic or Manageability that can be a learning experience for other partners, we still have some slots in the agenda. (Please contact Javier Puerta if you want to present.) Attending the Community Forum you will also have the opportunity to get Oracle’s insight on new products and market trends. And, of course, interact with the Oracle executives responsible for the Exadata, Exalogic and Manageability business. The atmosphere of beautiful Vienna will be the scenario of the event. Detailed venue and hotel booking information will be sent to you in January. Don't miss out on attending this key event! Save the date now - 23 & 24 April 2013, and watch out for your formal invitation coming soon. Kind regards, Javier Puerta Core Technology Partner Programs, Oracle EMEA E-Mail: [email protected] Jürgen Kress SOA Partner Adoption Oracle EMEA E-Mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contact PBC | Legal Notices and Terms of Use | Privacy Oracle Corporation - Worldwide Headquarters, 500 Oracle Parkway, OPL - E-mail Services, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, United States

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  • Praise for Europe's Smart Metering & Conservation Efforts

    - by caroline.yu
    Recently, a writer at the Home Energy Team praised the UK for its efforts towards smart metering and energy conservation, with an article entitled UK Blazing A Trail With Smart Metering At Home? The article highlighted that the Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced that smart metering will be introduced in the next decade and that all UK households will have smart meters by the year 2020. In fact, the UK is not the only country striving to achieve carbon reduction targets, as many of its European counterparts have begun to take positive steps towards tackling the issue of energy conservation by implementing innovative new metering and billing technologies as well as promoting alternative energy solutions, such as wind and solar power. Since 1997, the states of the European Union, including France, Germany and Spain, have been working towards achieving a target of 12 percent renewable energy electricity by 2010. Germany in particular has made a significant achievement so far, having surpassed the target early in 2007. This success is largely due to the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG), which promoted the use of renewable energy. Recently, analysis from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) found that 21 of the EU Member States are meeting or exceeding their national target to achieve 20 percent renewable energy by 2020. However, six states - Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Bulgaria and Denmark - say they will not manage to reach their target through domestic action alone. Bulgaria and Denmark believe that with fresh national initiatives they could meet or exceed their targets, but others, including Italy, may need to import renewable energy from neighboring non-EU countries. Top achievers, according to the EWEA report, are Spain, which believes its renewable energy will reach 22.7 percent by 2020, as well as Germany, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden, who will all exceed their targets. "Importantly, the way that this renewable energy is controlled and distributed must be addressed in order to ensure its success," said Bastian Fischer, vice president and general manager EMEA, Oracle Utilities. "A smart gird infrastructure can enable utilities to deal with load distribution in times of increased need and ensure power is always available from these means. A smart grid also underpins the success of metering and billing technologies, such as smart metering, and allows utilities to deal with increased usage data and provide accurate billing." Outside of Europe, Australia has made significant steps towards improving water conservation. The Australian Department of Sustainability and Environment took some of the recent advancements made in the energy sector, including new metering and billing solutions, and applied them to the water industry, enhancing customer service and reducing consumption as a result. The adoption of smart metering in Europe is mainly driven by regulation, but significant technological improvements are being made the world over to change the way we use all kinds of energy. However, the developing markets are lagging behind. One of the primary reasons for this is the lack of infrastructure in place to use as a foundation for setting up energy-saving solutions, which is slowing the adoption of technologies such as smart meters. However, these countries do benefit from fewer outdated infrastructure and legacy systems, which is often cited by others as a difficult barrier to deploying new solutions. As a result, some countries should find new technologies easier to implement and adapt to in the immediate future, without this roadblock.

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