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SAP Database Administration with Oracle
Ronny Zimmermann
$79.95

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This book provides administrators with essential information on Oracle databases as well as their interaction with SAP systems. First, you'll learn how best to plan or extend an effective, secure system landscape. The authors show you how to analyze and optimize the performance of hardware, operating system, database, and SAP system as well as which parameters and tools you can use to monitor them. An entire chapter deals with the critical aspects of backup, recovery, and restore, describing different data backup concepts, BR*Tools, the Oracle Recovery Manager, and various backup strategies in detail. In addition, the authors tackle advanced topics, such as Java and SAP NetWeaver BI. By bridging the gap between basic background knowledge and real-life instruction, this book assists you in solving concrete administration problems, structuring the operation of your system to achieve higher performance, and improving data security and availability. Highlights Interaction between SAP and Oracle Planning and Extending the System Landscape System Lifecycle: Installation, System Maintenance, Upgrades Performance: Analysis of Hardware, Operating System, Database, SAP System, SQL Statements, and much more Backup, Recovery, and Restore: Data Backup Concepts, BR*Tools, Oracle Recovery Manager, Backup Strategies Oracle and SAP NetWeaver BI Includes a detailed quick-reference card with all of the most important transaction codes

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Oracle SAP Administration (O'Reilly Oracle)
Donald K. Burleson
$99.87

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Tailored to the needs of people who know Oracle, SAP R/3, or a little of both, Oracle SAP Administration explains the conventions and utilities that integrate these software tools before getting into optimization techniques and strategies for achieving increased data safety. Appropriately, author Donald Burleson emphasizes optimization of disk-access operations. He relates two methods for identifying I/O hotspots--specifically, he shows how to examine the Oracle file statistics and how to use Unix's iostat utility to get a picture of what's going on. He then describes strategies for restructuring tablespaces to minimize holdups. He also discusses RAID implementations, their performance penalties, and the increased level of reliability they provide.

Beyond file system considerations, Oracle SAP Administration describes how to reorganize tables, tablespaces, and indexes to achieve top performance. You'll find explicit listings of SQL statements and Korn shell scripts that restructure databases, plus a wealth of diagrams that illustrate how inefficient databases differ from optimized ones (a concept that's not always easy to communicate in text). The author tackles Oracle's parallel-processing solutions and explains how they (particularly the ones that came before Oracle8) interact with SAP. A quick discussion of how very large Oracle/SAP databases behave rounds out this coverage of a robust enterprise duo. --David Wall

Topics covered: Naming conventions, SAPDBA, SAPGUI, optimizing file access, reorganizing Oracle objects for better performance, administration tasks and utilities, and Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) as it applies to SAP. Burleson uses SAP R/3 and Oracle versions 7 and 8 in his documentation.

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Worldwide and U.S. ISV Services Ecosystems: Leaders for SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft Services, 2004
Stephanie M. Torto
$4,500.00

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This IDC study discusses the services ecosystems for three leading enterprise application independent software vendors (ISVs): Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. The document will size the consulting and systems integration (C&SI) ecosystems for each ISV services market and discuss trends and market dynamics. In addition, it will present an overview of the competitive landscape by each of the major ISV packages and provide a ranking of the top 5 players. The document will profile the services arms of the ISVs and the enterprise resource planning (ERP) practices of the leading systems integrators (SIs). Furthermore, it will address the impact of Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft on the SIs practices and strategy. Finally, it makes recommendations for SIs and the services arms of the ISVs competing in this market.

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"The unprecedented consolidation within the enterprise application software industry may shift the dynamics in the enterprise application services market and create further uncertainty. However, SIs with strong capabilities, a forward-looking vision, and close relationships with customers will be poised to capitalize on these opportunities," said Stephanie Torto, program manager for Systems Integration Business Strategies at IDC.

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Vendors by Vertical: Will PeopleSoft + Oracle = SAP?
Scott Tiazkun
$3,500.00

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This IDC study defines PeopleSoft and Oracle Corp. in terms of North American vertical industry penetration and discusses vertical strengths and weaknesses of both companies. Also discussed is the vertical footprint of rival SAP.

"The PeopleSoft acquisition may impact how Oracle develops solutions for specific industries, which industries it may attempt to excel in in the future, and how long-term development may precede over the years, based on newly gained vertical strengths from PeopleSoft," said Scott Tiazkun, IDC program manager, U.S. IT Opportunity, Healthcare.

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Worldwide CRM Applications 2008 Vendor Shares: Oracle and SAP Dominate the Top
Mary Wardley
$4,000.00

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This IDC study provides the market sizing for the worldwide CRM applications software market in 2007. It also provides the revenue shares along with the future market outlook and guidance for CRM software vendors.

"Organizations can offset the impact of reduced workforces and resource restrictions precipitated by the economic conditions by judiciously adding CRM automation to key areas such as sales productivity and eservice." - Mary Wardley, research vice president, CRM Applications Research This book may contain less than 24 pages of technical content.

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SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Microsoft Business Solutions - Western European Consulting and Systems Integration Ecosystems, 2004
Erik Bruin
$4,025.00

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This IDC study discusses and quantifies the consulting and systems integration (C&SI) opportunities around SAP, Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Microsoft Business Solutions in Western Europe in 2004. The C&SI ecosystem of an ISV consists of the C&SI revenues of the ISV itself, and services revenues that partners obtain in engagements directly linked to the ISV's applications.

SAP represented by far the largest services opportunity in Western Europe in 2004, with its C&SI ecosystem being a little over three times as big as the combined Oracle Applications and PeopleSoft C&SI opportunity. However, as SAP really dominates Germany, the situation in the rest of Western Europe is much closer, with the SAP C&SI ecosystem alone being almost twice as big as the combined Oracle Applications and PeopleSoft opportunity.

"SAP's and Oracle's services strategies are quite similar, and are to support their software businesses rather than to grow their services arms," said Erik Bruin, research manager, European Services. "PeopleSoft's strategy was a little different last year as the company had given services the number 1 priority for the year to come, just before its acquisition by Oracle. Microsoft Business Solutions only takes care of a very small portion of its consulting and systems integration ecosystem. Although this strategy may look very different from the services strategies of the other four ISVs taken into consideration, it is in fact quite similar to their SMB strategies towards services — to leave the services opportunity as much as possible to the reseller."

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SAP, Oracle, Siebel, and Microsoft Dynamics Western European Consulting and Systems Integration Ecosystems in 2005
Erik Bruin
$4,025.00

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This IDC study discusses and quantifies the consulting and systems integration (C&SI) opportunities around SAP, Oracle Applications, Siebel, and Microsoft Dynamics in Western Europe in 2005. The C&SI ecosystem of an ISV consists of the C&SI revenues of the ISV itself and services revenues that partners obtain in engagements directly linked to the ISV's applications.

"Although the SAP C&SI opportunity remains much bigger than the Oracle opportunity, even after the PeopleSoft and Siebel acquisition, the Oracle and SAP C&SI opportunities in the U.K. and France, as well as four vertical markets throughout Europe, are now in the same range. IDC recommends SIs to consider strengthening their local alliances with Oracle in France and the U.K., and to also increasingly consider building Oracle-based specific solutions in these competitive vertical segments," said Erik Bruin, research manager, European Services. "IDC believes that the future for SIs will be to develop 'tangible' solutions, such as composite applications. To build composite applications on top of an SAP or Oracle environment should become much easier and therefore cheaper indeed when SAP and Oracle finally deliver their business suites fully ESA/Fusion enabled, with relatively high business value. However, IDC also believes that the difficulty to link to non-SAP/Oracle applications may be underestimated by many people, as there must always be a 'translation' between the standard ESA/Fusion services and the third-party application."

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Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting (Osborne Oracle Press)
Michael D. Lairson
$29.39

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Your One-Stop Guide to Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting

Plan, build, and distribute data-rich business intelligence reports with ease. Oracle CRM On Demand Reporting details the entire report-building process and explains how to use the powerful features available in Answers On Demand to create and share comprehensive, integrated reports. The book includes proven strategies for report design and development, real-world examples, formatting tips, advanced reporting techniques, and sample formulas. Convert disparate corporate data into actionable business intelligence with help from this detailed guide.

• Maximize the features of Answers On Demand
• Strategically plan your reports
• Format, sort, filter, and modify report data
• Use column formulas with numeric, date and time, and text data
• Apply logic and transform data with column formulas
• Format report title and table views
• Add charts, graphs, pivot tables, filter prompts, and interactivity to reports
• Configure advanced views and create custom dashboards
• Manage reports and control access

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Users Speak Out About SAP NetWeaver
LWC Research
$25.00

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Very useful in seeing who is getting results using NetWeaver and the recommendations were good.

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A Line Is Drawn in the Sand for Utilities: Oracle Takes on SAP
Janet Waxman
$395.00

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This Energy Insights NewsFlash discusses the November 3 announcement by Oracle — after months of speculation and rumor —that it acquired utility software vendor SPL WorldGroup. Oracle has a large installed base in utilities, but until this acquisition, the company had in essence not committed, organizationally or with industry-specific functionality for utility operations. On the other hand, SAP has long had functionality for utility companies, with the sector representing one of its strongest verticals. With the acquisition of SPL WorldGroup, Oracle has signaled that it is taking on SAP head-to-head in this industry.