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Projects at OracleAdvancing Solutions and Your Career at the World’s Most Complete Business Software and Hardware Systems Companyoracle.com/college

Do you want to know what people just like you do at Oracle? You are at the right place. Welcome to Projects at Oracle, the most current, comprehensive book of ongoing development projects at Oracle. This book is published annually exclusively for you, the Oracle candidate, and written by Oracle product developers and management across the company. Prospective Oracle employees, including top graduates worldwide, turn to this book as their primary source of knowledge about Oracle’s development organization...

So how about starting by scanning the table of contents or index for your areas of interest? You will notice many teams responsible for developing and enhancing Oracle’s wide spectrum of global products and services. We introduce our development projects to show you how Oracle can solve just about any business need you can imagine. We believe that no matter what your interests, you will find challenging opportunities to develop your exciting career here at Oracle.

Our business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, and protect it. For more than three decades, Oracle has provided software and services for organizations to get information from their business systems. Today, Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems.

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Hundreds of thousands of organizations in just about every industry imaginable use Oracle. Global business users develop, deploy, run, and manage the applications and systems they need to succeed using Oracle’s stack of integrated offerings, from database to middleware, applications, operating systems, virtualization, storage, and servers:

Software and Hardware. Interested in Sun servers, storage, operating systems, and virtualization? Oracle combined with Sun transforms the IT industry, providing even more flexibility and choice to customers.

Database. A leader in grid computing, Oracle has produced the world’s first commercial, grid-ready database. Academic and research communities initiated the idea of grid computing, when many small servers act as one computer and computing is a utility; businesses make requests and quickly obtain precisely what they need. With years of using and providing grid technology, Oracle turned yet another evolution into a revolution: computing is an ever-present commodity. Behind the scenes, highly available grid servers allocate resources and share information more efficiently than ever before.

Middleware. Oracle’s rapidly growing family of middleware products, from application server to content management, generates huge product revenues in the billions.

Applications. Important development work is behind Fusion, a suite based on open standards and integrating the best of our application product lines. With these and other Oracle products, including mobile, enterprise search, and On Demand hosting for accessing software as a service, the world’s greatest businesses can compete and profit.

Acquisitions. Recent acquisitions position Oracle for continued success in the enterprise market and super-fast growth in the midsize business market.

And who says work can’t be entertaining? Internally and externally, Oracle supports social networking sites, blogs, wikis, podcasts, portal mashups, digital media, and more. Oracle software even powers companies making Hollywood blockbusters. We also take responsibility and contribute to our community: we run Oracle’s own business on Oracle using self-service applications, and we support environmental protection commercially in our solutions, internally in how we run our operations, and through global employee volunteer programs.

We invite you to use this book as your career resource and to browse through areas that interest you. Take time to make the right decision for you. We can find ideal work for you at one of our popular development centers, whether at our worldwide headquarters located in Redwood Shores, California or in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, and other locations. Do not be surprised to find yourself responsible for essential aspects of new product development and existing product improvement, from concept to implementation... If you would like to meet talented, sharp people like you who contribute to the full potential of our innovative technology and to our bright future, we hope you seriously consider Oracle as your career choice. We look forward to meeting you,

Larry Lynn Vice President of College Recruiting

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Projects at Oracle Page Advancing Solutions and Your Career... Software. Hardware. Complete. 1 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 5 Database Technologies 5 Advanced Queues 5 Automatic Storage Management 6 ASM Cluster File System and Dynamic Volume Manager (NEDC) 6 Berkeley Database and Mobile Server 6 Cloud Infrastructure Performance and Availability Management 7 Cluster High Availability and Manageability 7 Clusterware and Real Application Clusters 8 Data Access 8 Data Mining 9 Data Rescue 10 Data Warehouse and Language Technology 10 Database Development Tools 11 Database High Availability and Recovery 11 Database Resource Manager 12 Database Security 12 Database Server Manageability 13 Database Test and Productivity Tools 13 Database Upgrades and Utilities (NEDC) 14 Enterprise Replication (Oracle GoldenGate and More) 14 Exadata 14 Information Retrieval Platform 15 Manageability and Diagnosability Infrastructure Team 16 Maps and Spatial Location-Based Technologies (NEDC) 16 Multimedia, Medical, and GeoSpatial Imaging (NEDC) 17 Net Services 17 Online Analytical Processing 18 PL/SQL and Compiler 18 Product Development Information Technologies 19 Replay Technologies and Workload Intelligence 20 Secure Enterprise Search 20 Semantic Web Database Technologies (NEDC) 21 Server Technologies Performance 22 Storage Engine: Space, Data Storage, Transaction Processing 22 TimesTen In-Memory Database 24 User Productivitiy Kit 24 Virtual Operating System 25 Windows Technology 26 XML Database 26 Fusion Middleware/Application Server 27 Application Development Tools 28 Application Server, Application Grid 30 Business Intelligence: Technology Platform, Analytic Apps 31 Business Process Management 32 Complex Event Processing 33 Data Integration 34 Enterprise Content Management 35 Java Products 35 Security and Identity Management 36 Service Oriented Architecture, Integration 37 WebCenter and Enterprise 2.0 38 Service Bus 39 Systems and Applications Management 40 Virtualization and Cloud Computing 40 Enterprise-Ready Infrastructure 40 Knowledge Management, Application Management 41 Middleware, Application Performance Management 42 Enterprise Configuration Management 42 Software Provisioning and Install Tech; Ops Center 42 Performance, Quality Assurance 43 Collaboration Technologies 44

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Projects at Oracle Continued PageTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT 45 Services 45 Demonstration Solution Services 45 Server Globalization Technology (SGT) 45 Server Technologies Curriculum 46 Server Technologies Information 46SYSTEMS HARDWARE & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (Server and Storage Systems) 47 Developers, Performance, and Applications 47 Microelectronics 47 Netra Systems and Networking Product Development 48 Open Storage Systems 48 Platform Software 50 Solaris 50 Solaris Information Documentation and Globalization 53 SPARC Enterprise Systems 54 SPARC Volume Systems 54 Systems Revenue Product Engineering 55 Tape Technologies 56BUSINESS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT 56 Application Product Lines: Introduction 58 Fusion Applications 58 Oracle E-Business 58 PeopleSoft Enterprise (Pleasanton, CA) 58 Siebel CRM 59 JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World (Denver, CO) 59 Applications Development IT 60 Application Development Teams 61 Cost Management (Fusion) 61 Customer Relationship Management 61 E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management 63 Financial Management 66 Functional Setup Manager (Fusion) 68 Higher Education (Student System) 68 Human Capital Management (Fusion) 68 Lease and Finance Management 69 Manufacturing Operations Center 69 Pedigree and Serialization Manager 70 Procurement (Fusion) 70 Projects (Fusion) 71 Real Estate Management 72 Supply Chain Globalization (Fusion) 72 Value Chain Planning 72INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS... AND PRIMAVERA... 74 Communications 74 Health Sciences 75 Primavera Project and Portfolio Management 76 Retail 77 Utilities 77SERVICE ENGINEERING Making the Complex Simple 79ORACLE CHINA 80ORACLE INDIA 81 Gurgaon; India Development Centers, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida 81 Advanced Customer Services (India), Bangalore, Hyderabad 82 Global Consulting, Bangalore, Hyderabad 82 Oracle On Demand, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida 82 Oracle University in India, Bangalore; Communications in India 83 Retail in India 84ORACLE MEXICO DEVELOPMENT CENTER 84ORACLE EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (IRELAND) 85USER EXPERIENCE 86CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE 87 Global Product Security, Linux and Virtualization 87 Sun Labs, Sun Ray Thin Client 88 ALLIANCES AND CHANNELS Partners and the Oracle Economy 89ORACLE ON DEMAND, SUPPORT, ORACLE UNIVERSITY 90MARKETING 94

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ORACLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: INTRO Database... Fusion Middleware... Management... Collaboration... Services...

Oracle provides the complete infrastructure for deploying business systems better, faster, and cheaper. Here, we describe our technologies and solutions ranging from Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware, including Oracle Application Server, to Systems and Applications Management, Collaboration Technologies, and Services. Our products and services deliver the industry’s highest performance, reliability, and security for thousands of popular applications. If the newest, most exciting, and most profitable technologies interest you, consider these development opportunities...

Database TechnologiesIntroduction to the World’s #1 Database and Related Technologies

The vast majority of the Internet’s most popular sites and of Fortune 500 companies use O ra cle. Oracle Database delivers innovative, industry-leading performance, scalability, se curity, and reliability on a choice of clustered or single servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX. Comprehensive features easily manage the most demanding applications, from transaction processing to business intelligence to content management and more. Oracle Database is the world’s first commercial relational database as well as the first relational database designed to run on a grid infrastructure, allowing effective pooling of a large numbers of servers and storage into a flexible, on-demand computing resource for all en terprise computing needs. Powerful database options such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provide enhanced availability and scalability for customers’ most mission-critical environments. Oracle Database is designed from the ground up with 100 percent support for Internet standards such as Java, XML, LDAP, SSL, and SOAP and is continually enhanced to exploit other advances such as flash and cloud technologies. Oracle is the most secure, reliable choice for large enterprises, midsize businesses, and departments alike. Oracle provides the

• #1 database

• #1 data warehouse

• #1 database on Linux

• #1 embedded database

Oracle has added the open source database, MySQL, to Oracle’s existing database pro ducts (a line that includes the open source database, Oracle Berkeley DB). Oracle also offers InnoDB, an open source transactional storage engine, the most important and popular transaction engine underneath MySQL. With unparalleled performance, scalability, availability, and security, Oracle servers allow Internet and grid applications to be designed for all kinds of systems, including mobile computers, enterprise servers, and cloud infrastructures. We work on the most exciting Internet and grid technologies in the industry.

Advanced Queues

Oracle Advanced Queues (AQ) is the first database integrated messaging system providing a rich suite of features, including publish subscribe, event management, notification, trans-formation, routing, rules engine, Java Messaging Service (JMS), and unique replication

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integration. AQ is used as key database infrastructure by a number of database features and products. AQ is integrated into Oracle’s WebLogic application server and used by Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. Many customers, including leading technology companies, use AQ in a wide variety of ways: writing distributed database applications, workflows, application integration, messaging hubs, task schedulers, and so on. We are crafting the next-generation database messaging system with focus on new applications, new hardware architectures like multicore and flash, and extreme performance and scalability.

Automatic Storage Management

Our team is responsible for building highly available, scalable, and efficient tools to solve customer storage problems. Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) serves as a storage foundation for the Oracle enterprise software stack. Customers use ASM to manage thousands of disks, millions of files, and petabytes of data. Algorithms patented by the ASM development team provide balanced I/O even in dynamic storage configurations. ASM provides versatile protection against and efficient recovery from storage hardware failures. ASM’s unique position in the database software stack provides developers with excellent opportunities for continued innovation.

ASM Cluster File System and ASM Dynamic Volume Manager

New England Development Center

We design and develop OS kernel-based file systems and network attached storage (NAS) solutions for Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms. We focus upon competitive market and customer requirements, technology advances, product quality, product cost, and time-to-market factors. Our ASM Cluster File System and ASM Dynamic Volume Manager engineers focus on enhancements to existing products as well as new product development of both features that complement the Oracle database as well as features for competitive general-purpose cluster file system and dynamic volume management applications.

Berkeley Database and Mobile Server

The Berkeley Database Team is responsible for the Oracle Berkeley DB product line as well as for the Oracle Mobile Server. The Oracle Berkeley DB product line is a family of fast, efficient small-footprint open source storage engines designed to run within an application’s process space and provide all standard transactional data services. The Oracle Berkeley DB products are among the most widely used open source products in the world, with more than 200 million copies running in applications ranging from cell phones to LDAP Directory servers to stock market and other financial server applications. Our team maintains, enhances, and extends these products in service of its commercial customers and the open source community. The Oracle Berkeley DB product line includes three products:

• The Berkeley Database is written in C and supports C++, Java, and many scripting language APIs. It provides all standard transactional data services for applications, including a high-availability option offering high-end scalability and data availability via replication.

• Berkeley DB XML is layered on top of the Berkeley Database product and provides native XML transactional data services via XPath and XQuery interfaces.

• Berkeley DB Java Edition is a 100 percent Java storage engine providing all standard transactional storage services. In addition to its own programmatic API, Berkeley DB JE provides simple and efficient persistence of Java objects using a direct persistence layer and the Java collections framework.

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Our small, dedicated group provides state-of-the-art technology and support to application developers. We seek creative, self-motivated support and development engineers to work on all three products. Openings exist in product management and quality assurance. Candidates for development engineering positions must have significant experience implementing in C, C++, or Java. Experience with database management and operating or storage systems internals is highly desired. The source code for all Berkeley DB products can be downloaded from otn.oracle.com.

Oracle Mobile Server provides critical infrastructure to enable enterprises to extend the reach of data and applications to mobile and embedded devices. It works with a variety of devices and smart phones, including Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile handsets. In a world where mobile data access is mission critical, and network connectivity is limited or not always available, we provide a complete solution for capturing incremental changes and synchroniz-ing data between a local client database (either Berkeley DB or SQLite) and the Oracle server database. The Mobile Server solution consists of several components that rely on a variety of different technology stacks: the sync and device management server components are written in pure Java and run in a Java servlet container, the corresponding client is a native applica-tion on each of the supported device platforms, and a development workbench is a Java Foundation Classes application. Working with the Mobile Server code enables you to challenge and expand your knowledge and skills in C/C++, embedded device development, SQL, Java, and Web technologies. We are always adapting to the rapidly changing landscape of mobile computing, implementing and enhancing our existing solution based on the latest innovations in encryption, compression, and database technologies. Writing highly opti-mized, low-memory footprint, object-oriented client software and multithreaded, scalable and reliable server code are our top objectives.

Cloud Infrastructure Performance and Availability Management Team

As cloud computing begins to pervade the enterprise, its infrastructure, based upon estab-lished grid technologies, needs to provide stable performance and availability to meet service level agreements. This requires the collection, correlation, and analysis of accurate metrics and the application of workload and network models to ensure the optimum allocation and protection of virtual and physical resources in real time. Therefore, the modern on-demand datacenter needs a comprehensive, multitiered policy-managed solution to efficiently and reliably deliver various models of cloud services to its users.

We design and develop technologies that deliver this solution, including such products and features as quality of service management, cluster health monitors, and prediction-based active failure prevention. We work in the challenging areas of demand and performance modeling, autonomic and elastic computing, and prediction-based learning algorithms to develop complete Oracle technology stack solutions for release in Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager products. We are looking for engineers motivated by the challenge of solving problems in dynamic environments where related interactions between various software and hardware components add an order-of-magnitude complexity to the problem. If you are that engineer who has the breadth and depth of understanding of modern complex systems, we want to talk to you.

Cluster High Availability and Manageability Team

Our team is responsible for research, design and development of high-availability, manage-ability, and diagnosability infrastructures and tools that help the cluster database server, RAC, and other Oracle products become easy to deploy, verify, diagnose, and manage on clusters. We work on challenging problems in the areas of distributed services, hierarchical

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clusters, cluster repository, cluster high availability, storage and network discovery, cluster verification, grid plug-n-play, clusterwide deployment, configuration, database server and cluster management, database administration, workload management, and monitoring and tuning of the Oracle clusterware and RAC, supporting a single system image. We work with several teams in other Oracle divisions and many clustering groups and industry standards bodies.We have also earned several US patents for development work.

Clusterware and Real Application Clusters

Interested in parallelism, concurrency, distributed systems, massively parallel processing, and/or grid computing? The Clusterware and Real Application Cluster (RAC) group is responsible for R&D of the clustering infrastructure and RAC on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Oracle Clusterware is portable cluster software that allows clustering of indepen-dent servers so that they cooperate as a single system. Oracle Clusterware combined with Oracle Automatic Storage Management provide the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software. Clusterware functionality includes mechanisms for cluster messaging, locking, failure detection, and recovery. Oracle Clusterware includes a high-availability API to make applica-tions highly available. It can be used to monitor, relocate, and restart applications. Oracle Clusterware also acts as the foundation to run Oracle RAC, which is at the core of the enterprise grid software such as in the Database machine part of the Exadata family. RAC technology enables Oracle Database to achieve its highest levels of availability and scalability along with extreme performance. Many of our customers’ largest mission-critical OLTP systems and data warehouses run on Oracle RAC today.

If one system isn’t enough for you, and you’d like to use the latest in high-speed interconnect and cluster management to make multiple systems work together seamlessly, then pay us a visit. Our kernel development engineers focus on designing, building, testing, and charac-terizing performance of the RAC database server’s integrated product stack on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Our kernel developers design complex cache coherency and concurrency algorithms. Our engineers gain valuable exposure to leading-edge cluster technologies in the industry and work with both hardware and software systems vendors on lock-step perfor-mance characterizations to ensure optimal new-product integration with RAC technology.

Our team is instrumental in building next-generation security infrastructure and in provid-ing encryption for data stored on secondary storage and automated key management for Oracle cluster file systems and storage technology. We research and develop access control models to solve real-world problems such as internal threats and sensitive-data protection. The work in this area is a confluence of clustered filesystems, algorithms, and secure operating systems. The work involves both user-level as well as kernel-level development work on a wide range of platforms, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows. If sophisticated systems interest you, then we want to talk to you.

Data Access

The Data Access Team designs protocols, implements interfaces, and connects the database internals to the outside world. Since Oracle Database relies on the infrastructure that we create, we interact with a variety of people, including groups internally and customers externally. We have the following products:

OCI. The Oracle Call Interface (OCI) is the C API to the database, exposing the lowest-level, highest functionality of Oracle Database to the external world. This flexible API enables developers to create high-powered, very efficient n-tier applications to control resources used on both the client and server sides. Besides writing homegrown OCI applications, some of

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Oracle’s customers employ OCI indirectly by using OCCI, JDBC, and ODBC drivers, implemented on top of OCI. All of these applications share key features, including scalable connection/session management, SQL relational database access, runtime binding of input/output data, implicit and explicit data conversions, server-side embedded script execution, data caching, globalization and multibyte support, and object access. Apart from providing a public interface, OCI is used internally by the Oracle server for distributed database access and data access within the server. OCI defines the internal communication protocol for client/server and server/server communication.

Open Source APIs. Oracle is committed to providing efficient data-access drivers to all develop-ers, including those in the open source community. We work with the PHP, Perl, and Python developer communities to create the highest-quality access to Oracle Database.

OCCI. Oracle C++ Call Interface provides a fully object-oriented method of accessing the Oracle Database. As a platform-independent, easy-to-use interface, OCCI provides seamless mechanisms to map Oracle objects to C++ objects.

Precompilers. Precompilers provide simple and efficient data-access mechanisms for embedding SQL statements in applications written in various programming languages, such as C/C++, Java, Cobol, and Fortran. Oracle precompilers are ANSI compliant with Oracle-specific extensions.

ODBC. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is the most popular database-access API, originally designed by Microsoft for Windows application developers, but now reaching beyond. Oracle develops an ODBC driver that is MS ODBC 3.51 compliant and available with Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

SQL*Plus. SQL*Plus is both an interactive command line tool and a batch script processing tool. It can be used for database administration and to execute SQL and PL/SQL commands. SQL*Plus has its own set of commands enabling examining the metadata of database objects and formatting and pretty-printing query results. It also provides the ability for developing and running batch scripts composed of SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL*Plus commands.

To be part of a dynamic team working on core Oracle database technology, join Data Access!

Data Mining Technologies

We provide advanced analytics in the database based on data-mining technologies. Data mining helps users find hidden patterns within large, complex collections of data. Currently, we are developing Oracle Data Mining (ODM). Oracle Database provides a rich platform for in-database advanced analytics. Placing data-mining algorithms in the Oracle database kernel realizes benefits for performance, scalability, and security. This platform includes a new user interface, Oracle Data Miner 11g, which supports powerful transformation and data mining nodes that can be connected to create analytical workflows. This classic user interface provides guided analytics through the use of intuitive wizards and methodology-based mining activity guides. To make data mining more accessible to non-experts, our group provides a predictive analytics package that automates the data-mining process for immediate results.

ODM’s algorithms support classification, regression, clustering, association, feature extrac-tion, attribute importance, and anomaly detection. ODM provides state-of-the-art algo-rithms, including support vector machines (SVMs) and nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF), along with generalized linear models (GLM) supporting logistic and linear regres-sion. ODM provides a JSR-73 standard-compliant Java API, a PL/SQL API, and SQL language extensions for prediction to enable complete programmatic control of data-mining

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functions so application developers can automate data mining and integrate data-mining insights into business applications. ODM provides a package RODM, which is integrated with the R analytical environment, enabling seamless data mining within R.

Currently, we are working on new data-mining algorithms and tighter integration with other Oracle Database features and applications, as well as Oracle Data Miner features and enhancements. Our group plans, writes, tests, and documents our products. We also develop algorithms and track research in the area of data mining. Do you like working on intellectu-ally challenging projects? You may be a great fit if you also have skills in C, SQL, and Java/Java EE development, as well as a background in computer science, machine learning, and operations research.

Data Rescue

We are seeking bright, motivated engineers to invent the next wave of disaster recovery and database restoration software. Recover data in less time. Repair data before users know it was broken. Protect data in all kinds of environments, both real and virtual. Use the latest in storage and database technology to create a secure, error-free operation with the guarantee of recovery in the face of disaster—with no data lost and minimal system downtime. Backup and recovery in a real-world database environment presents unique challenges of concurrency and scalability; we work with the world’s best software engineers on solving these challenges.

This is an extremely challenging area. If you join our team, you will learn OS internals, database internals, storage, networking, security protocols, and Web services. Our work also requires a meticulous, scientific approach to problem analysis. Because data sizes grow exponentially year after year, our team will always be faced with the hardest problems in the data-recovery field. Our team is responsible for Oracle’s existing data-protection products.

We are also currently developing a game-changing, new data-protection system that will take data protection for Oracle databases to new heights of scalability and functionality. Our software is the last line of defense against data loss. If you are up to the challenge of design-ing and writing software that will be used by hundreds of thousands of Oracle’s customers when all else has failed, our group may be for you.

Data Warehouse and Language Technology

Our group devises and implements technologies that made Oracle the leader of the multibil-lion-dollar data warehousing and business analytic market. We focus on improving customers’ abilities to create, manage, and perform complex business analysis using very large databases. We are also responsible for most of the upper layer processing in Oracle RDBMS, including the algorithms used to implement fundamental database operations such as joins. We are responsible for the SQL Query Optimizer that caters to such diverse areas as OLTP, analytics and warehousing queries, execution that covers standard joins, selections, and aggregation, as well as sophisticated statistical, data mining, and analytic functions. We provide parallel execution that allows for massive scalability for SMP and shared nothing architectures.

The group includes algorithmically complex components like Materialized Views, Access Advisors and Database Designer that are essential for efficient processing of large queries. One of our marquee features is a comprehensive partitioning and metadata technology that has become one of Oracle’s most popular features. Our sophisticated metadata management is key to minimizing downtime for application upgrades, preventing disruptive outages in our customers’ systems. For large data warehouses, we develop techniques for extraction, transformation, and massive loading of data. Finally, our group is responsible for PL/SQL that provides scripting and extensibility capabilities for Oracle RDBMS. The group has

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made significant contributions to the database field. Our engineers have developed many database concepts like window functions, partition outer join, and pattern recognition that have become part of the ANSI SQL standard. We are regular publishers in database confer-ences like VLDB and SIGMOD (where we have been recognized as authors of best paper); our group has been awarded well over 150 patents and has helped make Oracle the leader in data warehousing industry benchmarks like TPC-H. We are investing in emerging technologies for massive scalability, fault tolerance, advanced query optimization, and new processing models like columnar and vector processing.

Database Development Tools

We provide the tools that enable developers to productively create database-centric applica-tions. Our products are the “on ramp” to Oracle Database, helping developers to easily make use of powerful Oracle Database features. We produce a broad set of innovative solutions, and our products are among Oracle’s most popular tools. Oracle Application Express is the technology that powers the Oracle Store (shop.oracle.com). Sign up for a free account at apex.oracle.com to see the excitement of Oracle Application Express! Oracle SQL Developer is our tool for visual database development, and it is used for a wide variety of purposes, including writing, testing, and debugging SQL and PL/SQL. Oracle SQL Developer also contains tools for migrating third-party databases to Oracle, unit testing PL/SQL code, and copying and comparing databases. Our latest addition to the SQL Developer family is our data-modeling tool. With Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, users can visually create a logical and physical database design and then implement it by generating the commands needed to create a physical database.

We are a customer-focused group and actively work with our development community. Our reputation is built on delivering high-quality, highly intuitive solutions to our customers. Our team uses the latest technologies and is made up of highly talented and motivated developers. We have a distributed team with developers across the US, Ireland, India, UK, and Australia. If you want to join a fast-paced, dynamic team, please consider us. We use languages such as C, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, and SVG.

Database High Availability and Recovery Development

We are responsible for developing core technologies that underlie Oracle’s high-availability solutions such as clusters and standby databases. High availability is an area where Oracle excels; we are constantly looking to extend our lead by pushing the boundaries of the possible. Our goal is to either prevent failures or ensure that we can recover from all causes of failure—be they system failures, data failures, human error, or disasters. Some projects that we work on include self-healing systems, subsecond recovery of a database after a system crash, flashback technologies that can rapidly repair a damaged database, whether 2 gigabytes or 2 petabytes in size, and parallel recovery that harnesses the combined power of clusters of computers to cooperatively maintain database replicas for disaster recovery.

The software that we develop must meet extremely demanding requirements. First, our code has to be reliable; software must work even when the system is failing. In addition, the software must perform well during recovery situations and impose minimal overhead during normal operation. For example, our designs must scale on multiprocessors containing hundreds of CPUs as well as clusters of many computers. Finally, our software must be easy to use. To meet such needs, we are building intelligent fault-detection and self-repair capabilities that can detect failure and automatically figure out the optimal repair option. If you are interested in the challenges inherent in building lifeline software—code that can function even when the rest of the system has failed or is failing—please talk to us.

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Database Resource Manager Group

Today’s databases typically run a variety of workloads, such as OLTP transactions, ad hoc queries, and long-running complex reports. In addition, they often host multiple applica-tions as DBAs seek to fully exploit their server and storage systems. This reality makes work-load prioritization and resource partitioning an important issue for any database. The Database Resource Manager provides DBAs with the ability to manage how multiple workloads use server and storage resources by specifying workload priorities, resource allocations, and utilization limits. Today, Resource Manager manages how multiple work-loads use the database’s CPUs by scheduling database processes, much like an operating system scheduler. It also manages their use of the disks for Oracle Exadata storage through a sophisticated I/O scheduler.

For future releases, we need to control resources such as memory, internal caches, I/O for non-Exadata storage, parallel statements, and more. These implementations require devising sophisticated, innovative algorithms that are portable across different operating systems and different server and storage platforms. They require intimate knowledge of today’s server and storage technologies, operating systems internals, and OS workload managers. Their implementations should have minimal overhead and should include optimizations for specialized environments like clustered databases, virtual machines, and NUMA systems. They will require product development on both Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. We hire developers who can convert ideas to solutions and make Resource Manager a go-to product for all QoS and resource management needs. Developers also benchmark workload scenarios, publish best practice papers for customer use, and interact with hardware and software vendors to address platform or vendor-specific challenges and roadmaps. We seek strong analytical and problem-solving skills, operating system and storage system funda-mentals, performance evaluation and tuning skills, and proficiency in C or C++. If you like solving complex problems and learning about new technologies, talk to us!

Database Security

Data security is absolutely fundamental for today’s connected world. Enterprises deploy sophisticated tools, identity management systems, scanning software, all with just one goal —to protect data. The stakes are high—customers are worried about the confidentiality of sensitive data; privacy of the employee, customer, or citizen data; and whether the next attack is going to come from well-heeled external hackers or informed insiders.

We develop database security technology that provides defense in-depth for sensitive business data. We were the first in the industry to come up with innovative technologies such as protection realms, multifactor authorization, transparent data encryption, virtual private database, real-time audit warehouse, fine-grained auditing, multilevel database security, and data classification, to name a few. We pride ourselves in building security technology that is transparent to the applications, adds negligible overhead, and integrates with customers’ existing infrastructure.

We are working in many exciting areas of database firewalls, embedded database access controls, database auditing, intrusion detection, compliance controls, key management, data privacy, secure configuration, data masking, and more. We work with many other groups and technologies, including applications, application servers, identity management, and operating systems. Our group is the perfect home for someone passionate about building security solutions that scale, perform, and, most importantly, stay many steps ahead of hackers and malicious insiders. You would shape how the majority of the enterprise custom-ers would secure their data and enable a fully connected secure world.

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Database Server Manageability

After decades of industrial development, most database systems have become feature-rich but cumbersome to configure, tune, and test. This concern resonates with our customers and well-respected database community alike. Our group’s vision is to develop a self-tuning, self-diagnosing database, designing technologies in the database kernel so that the database can manage itself out of the box.

Consider that we are a small group of highly motivated, bright database system engineers; we have filed around 40 patents for self-managing technologies released in Oracle Database; we regularly publish papers in well-respected database conferences; and we boast an unusually high number of fun outings since the group formed several years ago. Our projects touch all corners of the database kernel, from query optimization and transaction processing, CPU, memory, and I/O resource management to backup and recovery mechanisms. We build self-tuning and advisory technologies to integrate all these separate components together in order to provide complete solutions to our customers. We have developed technologies in Oracle Database to automatically speed up execution time of a SQL and to self-diagnose performance bottlenecks in slow-running systems (even high-powered clustered database environments), all in a fraction of the time it takes to do so manually.

We are currently expanding these offerings to cover exciting new problems such as cross-tier performance diagnostics, automated self-tuning for emergency situations, and building data interfaces for innovative UIs to empower DBAs to navigate the wealth of performance data captured in the database. Our group tackles such challenging problems, constantly exploring fresh ideas and always focused on providing a complete solution to help customers unleash the full potential of Oracle Database. We take charge, work with seasoned architects, and are part of the entire development process, from investigation to design, coding, and release. We seek intelligent, motivated engineers to help build world-class solutions, having fun as part of a team!

Database Test and Productivity Tools Development

For complex, extremely widely used products like Oracle’s, it is a serious but fun-filled challenge to predict customer expectations, simulate real-life problems, and test and ensure that customers get the highest quality database. In our group, headquartered in the US, engineers from top schools like Stanford, Harvard, Cornell, UC Berkeley, MIT, and IIT are facing this challenge daily.

Our Database Test group works on upcoming releases of Oracle, enveloping a wide range of technologies including RDBMS, security, XML, Real Application Clusters, data access, data warehousing, grid computing, replication, Oracle GoldenGate, gateways, advanced queuing, messaging, multimedia, data storage, backup, recovery, high availability, COM+, .Net, and more. With our state-of-the-art development infrastructure and practices, we help shape technology that has been important for a large number of Fortune 2000 companies.

Our Productivity Tools Development Team focuses on design and development of various productivity tools, such as measuring database server code coverage or identifying memory leaks and security holes. We work closely with development and product management teams. We learn new technologies while reviewing functional and design specifications, validating new Oracle database features by developing applications that simulate expected usage scenarios, and developing tools as needed. We also are responsible for ensuring continuing high quality in existing database features.

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Database Upgrades and Utilities

New England Development Center

Nearly every Oracle customer has a need to move huge volumes of data at extreme speeds into, between, or within Oracle databases—and this is the group that makes it happen. We work with technologies such as Hadoop, Real Application Clusters, and multiple varieties of parallel processing to achieve world-leading performance and help customers meet their mission-critical processing demands. A dynamic branch of Oracle Product Development, the New England Development Center is located one hour north of Boston in Nashua, New Hampshire, the city twice rated “Best Place to Live in America” by Money Magazine. At this software development center, hundreds of developers work on all facets of many Oracle products using a variety of technologies discussed throughout this book.

Enterprise Replication (Oracle GoldenGate and More)

The Enterprise Replication group within Oracle RDBMS is chartered to deliver the base platform for all of Oracle’s logical replication products, including Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Data Guard Logical, XStream, LogMiner, Oracle Audit Vault, and Oracle Change Data Capture. Oracle GoldenGate enables real-time, continuous movement of transactional data across operational and analytical business systems. It supports heterogeneous replication and real-time information sharing across different operating systems and different database vendors. GoldenGate gives you the ability to use a single technology for multiple needs. This includes flexible high availability with Active/Active configuration for continuous availability, operational reporting for data warehousing and real-time business intelligence, query offloading, and data distribution/partitioning for horizontal scalability. GoldenGate is the strategic platform for enterprise replication and the future of data integration.

Oracle Data Guard Logical provides zero-data-loss full database replication and is the platform for zero-downtime upgrade of Oracle databases. Oracle XStream provides a new, unique way to stream data changes into and out of the Oracle database with high through-put and low latency. XStream has been designed to minimize client/server round trips for optimal performance. Based on an incoming data stream, XStream automatically computes the transactional dependencies in the stream and uses massive parallelism to keep up with ever-increasing user workloads from the source database.

Future projects include building a highly scalable, reliable platform for deploying Oracle GoldenGate, secure authentication, encryption, obfuscation, a massive parallel apply infrastructure for any database (for example, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2), zero-downtime application/database upgrades, database consolidations and hardware migrations, extensible infrastructure for supporting additional operating system platforms and database vendors, and more. We have hundreds of Oracle GoldenGate customers with thousands of implemen-tations across Fortune 500 companies. We are one of the RDBMS groups with the most patents filed. If you would like to solve challenging problems in systems and invent new enterprisewide solutions using replication technology, please join the world’s leading Systems and Replication R&D Team!

Exadata Development

Exadata is one of the hottest products at Oracle. With Exadata, we are integrating hardware design and software design to create a new platform for running the Oracle database that provides the world’s best performance for both OLTP and data warehousing. We are using the most advanced technologies, including grid architecture, flash storage, InfiniBand networking, and most importantly, smart scale-out storage. We are doing something simple

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to conceive but actually quite challenging and interesting to execute. For time immemorial, the disk farm has been populated with simple creatures: “I seek, I read, I write, I write, I read, I seek... DEE-Dee-dee...” Our basic idea is to make the disk farm intelligent.

We want to populate the disk farm or grid with intelligent appliances that are inexpensive, maintain data redundancy for each other dynamically, spread workload amongst each other without the intervention of administrators—even as appliances, or drives within, are added or removed from the grid. It’s designed for exabytes. Most importantly, we are making these appliances application-aware, and in their first incarnation, we are offloading a lot of heavy-duty grunt work from our most important application, the database engine, and giving it to these now-smarter storage appliances to do so much more efficiently with the disk drives plugged into them. There are an ever-growing number of cooperative processing optimiza-tions between our world-leading database server and our new storage appliance that we want to implement, and you can help us. Once you get the concept, the possibilities are limitless for innovation.

We work cooperatively and frequently with our collegial hardware engineers, enriching our experiences. These are the technologies you will learn and use in a hands-on hardware and software environment: SAS, SATA, SSD, FLASH, SES, SAF-TE, SMART, IPMI, I2C, Java EE, SNMP, RDS, C/C++, IB, UDP, HA, LVM, RAID, 10GE, TOE, RDMA, CHAP, IPsec, OFED, SDP, IPoIB, Linux, Solaris (and we haven’t mentioned anything proprietary). You will have the opportunity to become knowledgeable and work in layers ranging from operating systems up to SQL planning and execution in parallel clustered environments. You will experience a wide architectural range. We also use Web technologies for systems management functions.

Oracle Information Retrieval Platform

We are responsible for developing the Oracle Text product which has been Oracle’s search, information retrieval, and natural language processing platform for more than a decade. Oracle Text provides all the necessary building blocks for users to easily and quickly develop applications. Such applications range from the simple kind such as keyword search to the more complex kind such as automatic e-mail response. Oracle Text technology is used today by customers in multiple industries, including e-commerce, intelligence agencies, data warehousing, text mining, content management, enterprise search, and more.

As a platform, Oracle Text includes a multitude of technologies, from fundamental such as full-text indexing to more sophisticated such as natural language processing, entity extrac-tion, data mining, relational and hierarchical data modeling, document format conversion, ontology, visualization, and more. New technologies planned for development are signifi-cantly faster full-text search and graph search algorithms, advanced natural language processing, and more machine learning-based solutions like information filtering for person-alization and recommendation.

Oracle Text is also part of Oracle Database and therefore includes support for traditional database features as well, such as transactionality, high availability, concurrency, scalability, backup and replication, security, and self-tuning. Thousands of external customers use our platform. Dozens of Oracle products, such as Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, are also developed using Oracle Text. For more information on Oracle Text, visit us here: oracle.com/technology/products/text/index.html ...

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Manageability & Diagnosability Infrastructure Team

Managing the Oracle database can be challenging. It’s a very sophisticated software product, it’s often expected to be available 24x7, and more and more features are added in each release. In the Manageability and Diagnosability Team, our goal is to create a self-managing and self-diagnosing database. We develop the infrastructure that supports that goal.

For manageability, we have provided features including a repository that automatically collects run-time performance data with minimal impact to the actual performance of the database. Automatic advisers use this repository to provide tuning recommendations to users.

For improved diagnosability, we provide a state-of-the-art diagnosis engine that provides dynamic, flexible first-failure analysis of software errors. These technologies are considered first of their kind, leaving our competitors to play catch-up. Our tools enjoy high visibility and are very well-received by our customers.

We are faced with many problems that require creative thinking and new solutions. We have filed many patents for those solutions, and our engineers have published papers at different academic conferences describing our findings. Other Oracle products such as Oracle Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications also use our infrastructure, making us a key component for managing and diagnosing problems across the entire enterprise technology stack.

Members of our team enjoy solving challenging technical problems involving concurrency, multithreading, efficient access to shared resources, portability, and tight integration with the Oracle Virtual OS layer. We work hard to provide efficient and elegant solutions. We have many exciting projects planned for the future, and we seek intelligent, highly moti-vated engineers with a strong technical background to help build them. We work close to the OS layer, so we require our engineers to possess strong knowledge of OS concepts.

As a member of our group, you will be expected to take ownership of different projects and work on the entire development cycle, from requirements analysis and investigation to design, coding, and unit testing. During this process, you will have the support of our architects and other team members. As different database components and other Oracle products integrate with our infrastructure, we constantly interact with other teams and have stimulating technical discussions across the organization... Why not join the discussions?

Maps and Spatial Location-Based Technologies

New England Development Center

Oracle has produced the world’s first, most widely used database system that supports spatial objects as native concepts within a database. Oracle Spatial stores and manages geometries, such as points, lines, and polygons. It indexes geometries with fast R-tree structures. A table that contains business information about a customer, facility, supplier, technician, and so on, can also contain the location of individual entities. A table about land parcels, regions, or pipelines may contain topologies, polygons, networks, lines, and points.

Oracle Spatial supports numerous spatial operators, including distance from a point or a line, containment, abutment, distance along streets (linear reference), and more. It supports spatial maps for Java and Ajax-based visualization and embedding of enterprise data within maps. Technologies continue to evolve to include spatial analysis, georaster imaging, 3D data structures (point clouds, TINs, DTMs), and location-enabling of Oracle’s packaged applications and BI offerings. We use C, Java, XML, and SOA Technologies.

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Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer is a Java EE map server that supports advanced interactive and thematic mapping capabilities and Web map services with Java and JavaScript APIs. For maps and spatial development, we seek developers with skills and interest in geospatial data management, location-based technologies, map visualization, and operations on maps.

Multimedia, Medical, and GeoSpatial Imaging

New England Development Center

Oracle Database has native support for image and other multimedia content, including common document image formats, the medical imaging standard DICOM, and geospatial imagery. DICOM, or Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, is widely used by clinical and research institutions, along with pharmaceutical companies. For example, customers may need to develop large repositories of DICOM content, from CTs to MRIs, x-rays, ultrasounds, pathology images, and more. Using C, Java, XML, database, and application server technologies, Oracle is developing native database capabilities both to meet the requirements of users of DICOM and to address the needs of geospatial imaging use cases (raster, remote sensing, aerial and satellite imaging) through Oracle Spatial GeoRaster technology. GeoRaster is used with data from any technology that captures or generates raster data and images, such as remote sensing, photogrammetry, and thematic mapping. It is used in a wide variety of application areas, including location-based services, geoimagery archi-ving, environmental monitoring and assessment, geological engineering and exploration, natural resource management, defense, emergency response, telecommunications, transporta-tion, urban planning, and homeland security.

For more about DICOM and multimedia features, please visit oracle.com/technology/products/multimedia/index.html ... For more about Oracle Spatial GeoRaster, visit oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/index.html ...

Net Services

We provide network programming interfaces (NPIs) used by products throughout Oracle, including the RDBMS, middle-tier and client-side products. Some major consumers of these NPIs are data access, distributed databases, heterogeneous services, and RAC users. Every client/server or n-tier interaction in Oracle goes through the network layer. We work with developers throughout Oracle, provide networking expertise to various divisions in Oracle, and work with OS/hardware vendors to enhance database connectivity, scalability, and security. Achieving high network throughput on a broad variety of platforms and exploiting new technologies is important to maintaining Oracle’s leadership position in the Database and Application Server markets. We constantly evaluate the latest networking and OS technologies, such as InfiniBand and IPv6, and incorporate them into the Oracle network layer.

The network stack provided by our group is portable. It transparently integrates a wide variety of clients, servers, gateways, and network protocols to deliver a conglomerated information resource. This network stack includes support for several services critical to effectively managing large-scale, enterprisewide, distributed computing environments. The network stack spans various OSI model layers. Session Layer Abstraction provides full-session management capabilities with security and encryption support and other advanced features used for enterprise grid computing. It also supports various name-resolution techniques, such as filesystem and NIS, along with industry-standard directory (LDAP) servers. Transport layer provides a generic pluggable framework for supporting various Interconnect technologies. In this area, we continuously collaborate with major networking vendors.

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The OSI application level components provided by our group include the Listener and Connection Manager. Listener brokers the client’s request to an appropriate server (such as a database server, HTTP server, or e-mail server). The Listener also performs load balancing, failover, and multiprotocol support. Connection Manager is a multipurpose networking solution that offers increased scalability, multiprotocol translation, firewall/proxy support, and secure network access control.

If you enjoy solving complex problems and learning about new technologies, consider us!

Online Analytical Processing

The OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Option is used to turbocharge applications with advanced analytic calculations and dramatically enhanced query performance. It’s the analytic brains behind the Sun Oracle Exadata database machine. Oracle OLAP’s multidi-mensional cube technology makes business intelligence (BI) applications smarter and faster. It’s the only OLAP technology in the world that is embedded within an RDBMS and blends relational and dimensional models with support for SQL query of multidimensional cubes. Large organizations worldwide use Oracle OLAP and leading BI applications to understand their businesses and markets.

If you are looking for an interesting, challenging engineering opportunities in a world-class development organization that is part of Oracle’s BI strategy, consider the OLAP technology group. We have three teams; our combined efforts yield a full OLAP stack, from GUI Administration to cube storage management.

The OLAP Modeling Team is responsible for the development of end-user tools used for designing and maintaining OLAP cubes. A major focus is integrating our current tools with Oracle SQL Developer, presenting a seamless development environment for DBAs and application developers. This integrated environment will enable them to easily extend their data warehouses with OLAP cubes for enhanced query performance and advanced analytics.

The Unified API Team is responsible for maintaining the rich OLAP multidimensional object model in the Oracle data dictionary, as well as the development of a sophisticated SQL generator that is used for a wide range of functions. These include cube-based materialized views where all possible summary combinations are maintained as a single database object, yielding uniform query performance and simplified summary maintenance; a complete SQL-like language for expressing standard business calculations in dimensional terms; and automatic generation of parallel cube build scripts based on OLAP hierarchical partitioning.

The Core Engine Team does highly sophisticated work spanning a broad range of technologies, including database storage, parallel processing, multiuser caching, complex business calculations, security, compression, and integration with the SQL language. We work on state-of-the-art OLAP areas such as advanced indexing techniques for managing highly sparse data and support for a transaction model to support what-if analysis in conjunction with standard SQL operations.

PL/SQL and Compiler Technologies

The PL/SQL Team provides complete programming language systems for application development, debugging, and performance tuning in the Oracle database. We build languages, compilers, and virtual machines. We create grammars, parser generators, compilers, code generators, optimizers, byte-code interpreters, debuggers, and developer tools. We write and manage large utility libraries. In short, we provide everything a customer could want in the way of programming technology.

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Our multinational customers run business applications with terabytes of data. Their systems must run 24x7 and be robust in the face of the largest disaster. From data warehousing to data mining, semistructured data storage, application and database consolidation, and heterogeneous data management, companies exploit every new database technology. They demand our help. Customer requirements propel us to invent new ways to minimize application and database downtime, parallelize applications, exploit distributed systems, develop new language features, improve application performance, and increase developer productivity. We are in a rare position: We solve real-world problems with unique computer language design and compiler tools. Oracle’s huge installed base immediately uses all that we build. We know when we’ve done something important!

Some of our recent projects include the following:

• Online patching of applications. This groundbreaking database infrastructure allows online patching of application code and data.

• Native code generation for PL/SQL. This project creates machine code generators for popular chips and platforms. PL/SQL’s idiosyncrasies make this a challenging task.

• PL/SQL Conditional Compilation. This project invented novel language techniques to let developers manage one body of source for deployment on many platforms and versions of the Oracle Database.

• Hierarchical PL/SQL performance analysis. This project helps application developers zero in on performance bottlenecks.

Future work includes profile feedback code optimization, support for event-based program-ming, support for XML and XQuery embedded in PL/SQL, a development framework for SOA applications, the introduction of proven features from other languages, and additions to the SQL language. Most development is done in C and PL/SQL on Linux.

Product Development Information Technologies

The Development Operations group within Product Development Information Technologies (PDIT) is responsible for the implementation, operations, and support of the infrastructure necessary to build, test, and release the entire Oracle product line. This infrastructure supports the development of all our applications (E-Business Suite, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Agile, and so on), all our middleware (such as JDeveloper, WebCenter, SOA Suite, Enterprise Manager, Enterprise Content Manager), and platform technologies (Exadata V2.0, Database, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Virtualization Manager, Solaris, and more).

The Business Operations group within PDIT is responsible for the implementation, opera-tions, and support of the infrastructure necessary to run Oracle’s business. This infrastructure supports the applications for managing the product lifecycle, supply chain, marketing, sales, consulting, finance, human resources, product lifecycle, and field service processes. Also, it supports the corporate e-mail, content management, and collaboration technologies.

Some of the key initiatives currently underway include enterprisewide implementation of Enterprise Manager 11g with Sun OpCenter, WebCenter Suite, universal content manage-ment, secure enterprise search, Identity Management Suite, supply chain management, product lifecycle management, Field Service, GoldenGate, Application Test Suite, Real User Experience Insight, Sun Open Storage, Intel Westmere servers, and much more. Finally, we are always working closely with product development teams to improve the functionality and

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performance of our products such as Exadata V2 for collaboration, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and data warehousing.

If you ever wanted to work with the most advanced set of technologies to ensure that our products are developed faster in a cost-effective, controlled manner, take a look at PDIT. With the breadth of technologies, you will have the opportunity to let your innovative spirit take flight, see new technologies that deliver business efficiencies, and contribute directly towards Oracle’s continued market leadership.

Replay Technologies and Workload Intelligence

Technological progress is rapid and inevitable. Hence, change in modern IT environments is the only constant. Companies must stay up-to-date to maintain competitive systems as technology progresses. However, the reality is that adoption of new technology can be cumbersome and risky. Not many effective tools can reassure companies that new technology adoption will not negatively impact day-to-day business operations. The Oracle RDBMS is the only RDBMS that provides effective tools to help with new technology adoption.

Our mission is to provide tools to allow IT infrastructure operators to answer the following questions with high confidence: Will my system continue to function properly after I apply change X? How much better performance can I expect if I adopt feature Y? To accomplish our mission, we have developed technology that allows the recording of production workload containing the full content of real user interaction with a company’s IT infrastructure. Using the production workload, our features in Oracle Database allow the replay of the user workload on a system that represents the new technologically more advanced system. Repeated replay sessions can identify and remedy problems. Starting from Oracle 11g, features such as Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer give Oracle customers a competitive edge in new technology adoption and a glimpse of the exciting future work in the replay technologies area. Using SPA, the user can proactively assess the impact on individual SQL of any change in the RDBMS infrastructure. Using Database Replay, the full force of a production workload can be unleashed on a staging system that uses new technolo-gies that need to be proven reliable before deployment in production. Replay technologies closely collaborate with Database Manageability to fine-tune operation of autonomic technologies using real workloads.

Our group filed at least 10 patents for the technologies released in Oracle Database 11g; we regularly publish papers in well-respected database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB); and we have many fun outings (annual ski trip, rafting, go-karting, and more). We are constantly exploring groundbreaking ideas. Many problems still are unsolved; a lot of research is still ahead. In our group, you get to take charge and be involved in the entire development process, from research to design, coding, and release. We seek intelligent, highly motivated engineers to help build unique technological solutions and have fun doing so as a team.

Secure Enterprise Search

Google may be known for delivering search technologies to the individual user, but Oracle excels in enterprise search.

“One of our biggest announcements in many, many years.”—Larry Ellison, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, introducing Oracle Secure Enterprise Search at OpenWorld Tokyo 2006

Would you like to join a team of search experts and change the way everyone in the world finds information inside their enterprise? Enterprise search is a nascent field which is growing rapidly, and Oracle is poised to take advantage of the strengths of our enterprise

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platform and our Information Retrieval (IR) platform to present a simple, yet powerful search paradigm to the enterprise. We seek software developers to develop the next-generation architecture for search.

Enterprise search has challenges beyond standard Web search—unique issues with accessing all the content, auditing, deployment, and administration in the enterprise. For example, page citations are typically less reliable for enterprise search, as Web page cross-referencing is not as prevalent in the intranet, and therefore alternate techniques must be applied. We quantify precision, recall, and hit rank based on both objective and subjective measures of relevance. Based on these quantifications, we identify and implement algorithms and heuristics that improve search quality for enterprise search. We also work on a wide range of relevancy improvement techniques such as social search and personalization based on your role within the enterprise. We constantly publish papers and develop intellectual property in the field.

One unique challenge in the enterprise is security. Secure search capabilities place Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ahead of the competition. Tough to solve: how to deliver highly relevant results quickly in a secure fashion, honoring access privileges of information sources, and using user identities and roles to further improve search quality. Our applications are developed using SOA, making use of Web Services and associated Web technologies. From an application perspective, we focus on high performance through distributed computing techniques. We also use emerging technologies such as Ajax to devise unique visualization techniques for bringing a highly intuitive and useful enterprise search experience to our customers. In addition to developing the search application, we work closely with other Oracle IT to deploy search solutions throughout the Oracle intranet, tapping into real-world experiences to improve our product offering.

For more information about Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, visit us here: oracle.com/us/products/database/secure-enterprise-search/index.html ...

Semantic Web Database Technologies

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Semantic Web database technologies make data smarter, allowing machine-driven under-standing of the relationships between data and discovery of new relationships. The W3C has introduced languages to standardize the representation, vocabulary, inferencing, and querying of relationships in the data. Semantic technologies are evolving quickly and moving from the domain of early adopters to general use in a variety of industries. Oracle Database provides native semantic data-management capabilities to do the following:

• Store rich relationships with data that go beyond traditional rows, columns, table joins, and Boolean relationships. This allows users to better model and discover complex real-world relationships in the data to obtain more semantically complete information for decision- making. It is accomplished using the W3C standard RDF graph data model and the rich relationship semantics of the RDFS/OWL languages, integrated and optimized on the Oracle object-relational model for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

• Natively inference among the predefined relationships in the data to discover new relationships, guided by ontologies of related terms and concepts, and use RDFS/OWL and user-defined rules. This new inferred data is persisted in the database for faster querying.

• Query based on patterns of relationships, using the W3C SPARQL query language with partner and open source tools or relational SQL queries containing SPARQL-like queries.

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Work is ongoing with C, Java, XML, SOA, database and application server technologies, and W3C standards to address the needs of a broad range of industries, including government, defense and intelligence, life sciences, clinical medicine and research, banking, publishing, and telecommunications. Oracle works with leading third-party semantic technology tools, applications and services providers, open source technologies, and active participation in the W3C standards body to meet our customers’ business-critical application needs. We seek developers familiar with W3C graph data languages, including RDF, OWL and SPARQL; reasoning, including first-order logic and description logic; network analytics, visualization, and management of graph data; and domain ontologies, taxonomies, and vocabularies.

Server Technologies Performance

Performance is critical to all customers; our group helps make Oracle the world’s fastest database. We are responsible for improving, measuring, and analyzing the performance of Oracle Database. We focus on database algorithms but also investigate operating system, compiler, and hardware issues that affect database performance. We look at all kinds of work-loads, including transaction processing, decision support, data mining, OLAP, ERP and CRM applications, Java, and customer workloads. Our projects range from low-level, path-length optimizations to high-level algorithm changes that allow Oracle to scale well on the largest systems. We also produce performance-related white papers and demonstrate record-setting benchmark results. Are you interested in getting the best out of the latest hardware architectures—SMP, MPP, NUMA, or clusters—using the most sophisticated database technology? Do you want to work with the latest and greatest hardware under development? If so, this is the place to be.

Storage Engine (Space Management, Data Storage, Transaction Processing)

We design and develop the storage engine for Oracle Database. Work in this area is a confluence of systems (particularly file systems and clustered-server systems), algorithms, and database technology. We provide the unique opportunity to develop new algorithms and then apply them in the world’s most successful server product. You can solve extremely complex, challenging problems that draw on every aspect of your computer science back-ground. This is hard stuff, and we do it better than anyone else in the world. If you are excited by the challenge posed by difficult problems and the creative satisfaction from being an innovator, consider us. Within the Storage Engine group, we have three core teams:

Space Management Team. People want to store everything on disks—books, pictures, health records, music, videos, everything. Disks are getting bigger. Disks are getting cheaper. But disks are not getting much faster or easier to manage. At the core of Oracle’s business is its ability to store data and do it in a high-performance, scalable, reliable, and manageable way. Now consider that we need to do this just as well for an exabyte of data. Disk space manage-ment is a fundamental component of the RDBMS that provides an abstraction to the database storage subsystem.

Disk space requirements for the database are primarily of two kinds—temporary scratch space required to store multimedia results generated in the database and persistent storage used to store user data. From managing the temporary space for sorting a terabyte of data to finding the best slot in the petabyte volume disk for storing the next piece of employee payroll information, intelligent disk space management is one of the foundations for high-performance OLTP and data warehouse systems.

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an efficient storage management component that works for all data types and also scales for several hundred thousand concurrent users will be one of the toughest challenges we face. To explore these and many more challenges in the area of self-managing space management at Oracle, check us out.

Data Storage Team. The data storage group is a core R&D group in Oracle RDBMS that designs storage and access structures for the entire database. The storage layer is responsible for the storage and retrieval of all data stored in Oracle—relational, XML, OLAP, warehouses, files, and more. We organize data inside disk blocks and create and manage efficient struc-tures from which those blocks are accessed (for example, a B-tree, bitmap index, LOB, cluster, and more) and methods for accessing data from these transactional data structures. We have some intractable problems to solve in the area of distributed systems.

SecureFiles is the world’s fastest and most feature-rich file system. It is a next-generation file system built in the database—designed with specialized algorithms for next generation Solid State Disks as well as next-generation, terabyte-sized memory and 1000 core multicore systems. Some of our recent efforts have been in areas related to compression, deduplication, encryption, sliding inserts for efficient XML storage, snapshots, file system caching and performance, and scalability in clustered server environments. We are also working on providing an intelligent storage subsystem for Exadata so that the database can push predi-cate evaluation, projection, and aggregation to the storage layer, effectively pushing the logic to the data as opposed to pulling massive amounts of data to the CPU.

Our group has the charter of doing R&D of next-generation compression technology, both for file compression as well as DB compression, including advanced compression and Exadata hybrid columnar compression (EHCC). EHCC is a new column-major storage structure that caters to the business intelligence world for processing petabytes of information.

Our group has been on the forefront of technology R&D. We seek people especially interested in joining a group where they can make a big difference. The work is exciting, challenging, and rewarding. This is a core area of the database providing tremendous opportunity to learn and contribute at the same time and giving you a platform to build a solid foundation for your career from which to launch. If you are interested in the challenge of algorithm design and the satisfaction of building a core engine that powers most of the world’s databases, consider our group.

Transaction Processing Team. Our group is responsible for the core transaction processing engine within Oracle RDBMS. We provide support for the ACID properties of transactions, row-level and table-level locking, multiversion concurrency control (also known as consistent-read), and transaction isolation levels. We also implement and support distributed transac-tions (two-phase commit logic) that help midtier application servers manage several resources like databases and message queues. Even though we work deep down in the Oracle kernel, we implement user-visible features like AS OF queries (flashback queries), flashback data archive (change history for tables), flashback transaction (unwinding committed transactions), and continuous queries (used in event processing).

As a group closely allied with the data storage layer of Oracle, we are privy to on-disk block formats and work on implementing scalable locking solutions and increasing concurrency. Beyond our own immediate groups, we also contribute to groups like the recovery and buffer-cache groups (readable standby databases, cross-platform standby databases) and Exadata (processing blocks of tables on the storage servers). Some of our ongoing projects include lightweight capture of database change history, highly scalable

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logging infrastructure, enhancements to undo space management, and a whole host of contributions to other groups within Oracle. Our work is part operating systems, part databases, part distributed and parallel systems. We are looking for candidates who are eager to contribute to one of the core development groups of the Oracle kernel. Our group is a great place to build a solid foundation in transaction management principles and work across both the database and middle tier.

TimesTen In-Memory Database

Oracle TimesTen is the industry-leading in-memory database management system. It is intended for applications that must be instantly responsive, highly scalable, and highly available. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database supports all the basic functionality of a traditional database. However, TimesTen shakes all the assumptions of traditional disk-based databases by taking for granted the fact that memory is inexpensive and plentiful and thus relying on having all data in main memory. This assumption results in a simplified design, which in turn results in much higher performance than is possible for a traditional database system.

Oracle TimesTen Database can be used in standalone mode as the only database used by applications. The database code can also be directly linked into the application for far greater performance than a traditional client/server configuration, as network roundtrips are eliminated. Such configurations are ideal for achieving real-time performance. As the need to handle events and analyze data in real time grows rapidly, so do exciting technical challenges in achieving the associated scalability, throughput, and fault-tolerance requirements.

Oracle TimesTen can also be used in cache mode with Oracle Database, where it plays the role of a front-end cache to Oracle Database. This combination is also very exciting from a strategic perspective, as it provides a unique synergy of capabilities: fast in-memory access and real-time capabilities of Oracle TimesTen combined with the vast arena of advanced function-alities supported by Oracle Database. You can think of Oracle TimesTen as a high-perfor-mance turbocharger on top of the sophisticated Oracle database engine to greatly accelerate the end-user performance experience of an Oracle application.

The TimesTen Team is a small, talented team. We seek creative engineers who like a challenging environment in which individuals can play leading roles in developing and defining technologies for any aspect of in-memory data management, including query processing, storage management, indexing, logging, recovery, replication, high availability, caching data, user interfaces, and performance evaluation. This is an opportunity to be a significant part of emerging technological trends and to help define the vision for future database technologies. For more on Oracle TimesTen, visit oracle.com/timesten/index.html.

User Productivity Kit

Organizations maximize applications investment, increase employee productivity, and mitigate risk through all phases of the project lifecycle using Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK). UPK provides a simple, comprehensive content development, deployment, and maintenance platform specifically designed to be used by project team members and line-of-business owners. With these tools, the project team will dramatically reduce the time to deployment and ensure end user adoption—the single biggest barrier to enterprise application success.

Supporting applications from Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft as well as all other enterprise applications, UPK helps organizations receive the highest return on their enterprise application investments.

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UPK provides a collaborative development environment to create system-related assets. Organizations can rapidly produce materials that provide value throughout all phases of the software lifecycle—from test scripts, system process documents, and interactive simulations to job aids, instructor manuals, and in-application performance support. UPK enables one to cre-ate engaging interactive transactional and conceptual content with enhanced sound recording, editing, and playback capabilities to enhance knowledge transfer and ensure best practices. With the ability to produce multiple outputs through a single recording session, Oracle UPK reduces content-development time and cost. You can rapidly produce interactive transaction simulations, classroom and Web-based training materials, and in-application performance support. With the creation of user test scripts, the system transactions can be defined and tested before go-live, providing the necessary materials to ensure user adoption. Oracle UPK is key to increasing productivity and reducing overall software implementation costs.

The UPK Development Team has a global presence. The various departments that make up this team, from development to strategy, product management, and testing, work together to provide a world-class solution. Our customers expect the best, and our goal is to consistently deliver innovative solutions to address their needs. We understand the marketplace, follow trends, research new technologies, and anticipate our customers’ needs before they do. Our developers and engineers design, implement, and support the lifecycle of our user adoption solutions. They are responsible for translating requirements into a world-class product.

Product strategists and managers closely monitor marketplace trends, working closely with our user base to define business requirements, design functionality, and establish methods and best practices for implementing and deploying an effective end user adoption program using UPK. Additional responsibilities include product marketing and sales field enablement. As an Oracle UPK group member, you will join a team of seasoned development experts focused on delivering innovative next-generation solutions today. If you seek a highly visible, dynamic environment designing valuable solutions for increasing user productivity, please contact us.

Virtual Operating System

Achieving high performance on a broad variety of platforms and exploiting new technologies are important to maintaining Oracle’s current and future leadership positions in the database market. The Virtual Operating System (VOS) group is an important part of Oracle Database Division, providing a portable, high-performance platform for Oracle Database. We build modules that provide process/thread management and scheduling, memory management, syn chronization support, CPU and I/O resource management, intercluster and interprocess communication, high-performance file I/O, and more. We ensure Oracle Database is a market leader on all platforms, from clustered Linux blade servers to the largest NUMA servers.

We define interfaces to the platform-specific layer that exploit OS-specific functionality, such as NUMA-aware memory allocation, dynamic reconfiguration, user-mode threads, and virtualization. Our evaluations of leading technologies such as InfiniBand as a high-through-put, low-latency interconnect and leading-edge microprocessors such as Niagara, Power, and IA-64 often lead to enhancements that result in record TPC benchmark results. We work with operating system and storage vendors to introduce new interfaces for Oracle Database. We collaborate with hardware/OS/storage vendors to understand their roadmaps and to propose improvements that lead to better database performance and functionality.

Responsibilities for a developer in the VOS group include interfacing with other database developers to gather requirements for improving the database kernel, designing and develop-ing kernel modules to introduce new functionality or improve performance, collaborating

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with OS/hardware vendors and the performance group on high-profile benchmarks, and providing systems expertise to the Database Division.

We seek strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coursework in operating systems and computer architecture, and proficiency in C or C++. If you enjoy solving complex problems and learning about new technologies, talk to us!

Windows Technology

Do you want to be on top of cutting-edge technologies developed by Oracle and Microsoft? This is your opportunity. Our group seeks highly talented, motivated software engineers and product managers experienced in Oracle technology. Software engineers are responsible for designing and building various features for Oracle Database on Windows platform. Product managers work closely with customers, partners, and field organizations to define product requirements and are responsible for product strategy, competitive analysis, product definition and enhancements, product positioning, collateral development, management of beta pro-grams, product readiness, roll out, and customer interactions.

The products and components developed in this group make Oracle a well-integrated product with Windows OS and with .NET technologies such as ADO.NET. Our group is also focused on making Oracle on Windows highly scalable and provides products tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET for quick database application development. We work closely with several development teams at Microsoft and Intel to make Oracle the best on Windows. We have highly educated professionals from top schools. Several of our group members have been working with the group since they arrived fresh out of school. Working as a team is our basic philosophy.

Responsibilities include evaluating Microsoft .NET technologies and operating systems; performing competitive analysis, defining product direction, and rolling out Windows products; designing and developing new products and components and taking advantage of Microsoft .NET technologies; and interacting with documentation and QA teams.

Team members should be proficient in C/C++ and have strong software design skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to innovate, understand, solve complex problems, and think out of the box. For more details about the products we develop and group activities, please visit our Windows Technology Center at Oracle Technology Network (located at oracle.com/technol-ogy/tech/dotnet/index.html and oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/index.html).

XML Database Group

The XML Database Group extends database technology beyond structured data and builds the infrastructure for managing unstructured and semistructured data in the database. Our group provides native XML support in the database as well as a content management platform. We are defining an architecture for the companywide adoption of XML as a building block for content management rather than simply as a data interchange format. This architecture allows applications to use the latest technologies to enhance the benefits of XML and provides new fundamental mechanisms beyond relational technology to store and query XML data. With the development of standards such as XML Query and XML Schema, XML is well-established as the lingua franca of the semantic Web.

Our group ensures that Oracle products stay at the forefront of the XML era. Part of the XML database is the content repository that provides efficient hierarchical abstraction to data stored in the database. We are currently working on a range of projects, including semantic-Web-based information grids, complex XML indexing techniques, advanced

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XML-based search technologies such as XQuery and agent-based technologies, to name a few. The software we build must be well designed and have high performance and scalability characteristics. If you program in languages such as C and Java, and if you are interested in cutting-edge programming languages, consider our group!

ORACLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Fusion MiddlewareOur Middleware Annually Generates Revenue in the Billions...

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a huge success story at Oracle since its inception in 2001. We have built out a complete set of market-leading middleware products annually generating product revenues in the $ billions. Fusion Middleware continues to be among the fastest-growing product areas at Oracle and is also the development platform for the next-generation Fusion Applications. Oracle continues to invest significantly in Fusion Middleware, with high-profile acquisitions such as AmberPoint, GoldenGate, and Sun’s Java, Identity, and Application Server products.

Oracle Middleware Strategy

Oracle has focused on delivering a full-featured, top-quality, open, modular, modern infra-structure and set of tools that can serve as the foundation for applications delivering strategic business value. This platform is used in Oracle’s current and planned application portfolio and has been adopted as a standard by many tier-1 system integrators and ISVs.

Oracle’s Fusion Middleware platform represents the most comprehensive set of middleware products, each of which is considered top in its area by analysts and independent evaluators, such as Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave. Some key components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform include the following:

• A Java EE 5.0-based Application Server with support for Platform as a Service (PaaS) computing, high-end transaction processing, and advanced Web services capabilities

• Enterprise integration services for systems and business process automation

• Real-time data integration and warehousing across heterogeous OLTP environments

• Business process management solutions for modeling business requirements, orchestrating flows across multiple systems, and implementing human workflows, business rules, process monitoring, and optimization

• Enterprise User Interaction platform that delivers a task-oriented, context-based, user-centric experience with Web 2.0 collaboration services, integrated content management, and support for mobile devices

• Business Intelligence (BI) tools to integrate, organize, query, analyze, and report on enterprise data; prepackaged BI applications covering horizontal lines of business needs as well as vertical BI applications

• ECM solution to create, publish, share, archive, retain, and manage documents; manage information-access rights to documents; and implement document-centric business flows within the enterprise

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• Security and identity management services to provision users in enterprise applications, manage user information, manage user access to systems, enforce consistent policies, and ensure compliance and ability to be audited

These solutions share the following:

• Unified development framework and tool for developing modern applications—applica-tions that are composites of business processes, workflows, analytics, information or page flows, and business rules

• Common grid computing infrastructure, enabling deployment on large numbers of low-cost, modular servers, and storage with high-performance scalability and performance

• Common security and user management infrastructure unifying security administration

• Common systems management infrastructure to centrally monitor and manage systems and applications

With Oracle Fusion Middleware, organizations can better predict and respond to market dynamics, enhance productivity, and radically simplify and improve IT environments. Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to be modular, open, and pluggable—even with another vendor’s products—and to deliver fundamental innovations in the software infrastructure space. We have had a comprehensive focus, particularly in areas of cloud computing, extreme transaction processing, Web 2.0 in the Enterprise, and support for mixed sourced models. Oracle is distinguished by our degree of openness and extent of standards support. We also have a commitment to natively support a mixed IT environment where you can use third-party components instead of Oracle ones (for example, run natively on third-party applica-tion servers, messaging systems, directories, and so on). We have shown a deeper level of commitment to heterogeneous systems than any of our competitors.

Fusion Middleware Platform Product Management

We define the product strategy, cross-platform common architecture concerns, and the product lifecycle of Oracle Fusion Middleware. We define go-to-market strategy, including sales initiatives such as cross-selling into users of other Oracle products. We develop product positioning, product packaging, and pricing for product suites and bundles. We are respon-sible for product readiness and sales enablement worldwide with dedicated international teams in Europe, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, and Japan. We work closely with customers and partners to gather feedback for our developers. Feedback is converted into requirements for developing the next release of our product. Product managers recruit customers and partners for the beta program and coordinate customer training and beta testing. When the product is rolled out, we present product positioning to customers and partners through a variety of channels. Our motivated professionals use project planning, management, execution, and communication skills; have a strong grasp of Internet and related languages/technologies like Java, XML, SOA, and BPM; and understand middleware, Enterprise Java, and application integration. We work closely with analysts, press, and other external influencers to evangelize the Fusion Middleware platform. We also coordinate cross-platform competitive analysis for the primary Fusion Middleware competitors—both to support the product teams and guide sales teams to compete better with the other platform vendors.

Oracle Application Development Tools

Are you interested in joining an elite development team working on cutting-edge develop-ment tools and frameworks? Are you eager to put the latest technologies to use in a

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fast-paced environment? If so, consider Oracle Application Development Tools. Tens of thousands of the most successful companies worldwide use Oracle’s development tools. These companies rely upon our tools to rapidly develop and maintain their critical business applications. Oracle’s development tools also form the basis of Oracle Fusion Applications, empowering our application developers to develop top-notch ERP and CRM applications. Using our tools, Oracle delivered the first Internet-based application suite in the market-place—years ahead of competition.

Drawing motivated and creative talent from all over the world, we boast a solid mix of programming and communication skills. Our professionals produce innovative technical solutions and enjoy using the latest technologies. We are constantly seeking new talent in the areas of software development, product management, quality assurance, technical writing, and curriculum development. Candidates should be bright, creative, and eager self-starters who are highly motivated, are quick-learning, and know how to have fun!

The Tools Division is primarily based at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California; however, our opportunities are distributed throughout the USA and Europe. The key development centers outside of Silicon Valley include Burlington, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; and Reading, UK. Across these centers, staff have the opportunity to work on many exciting areas of development and research:

IDE Development

The Oracle IDE family comprises three distinct Java-based development tools, each with its own unique flavor, following, and user community:

Oracle JDeveloper is our flagship development tool, featuring premier Java, Database, and Web Services development environments for both the code hacker and the business application developer. JDeveloper has an emphasis on visual and declarative development, leading the IDE pack in terms of modeling, framework-based development, and unique tooling for SOA mainstays such as BPEL and BPM.

NetBeans. The award-winning NetBeans IDE is the premier open-source development tool on the market. Developed fully in the public domain, NetBeans provides cutting-edge support for all of the latest and greatest features of the Java platform. Everything is covered, from Java EE and Swing to Java ME and JavaFX. NetBeans also leads the way in its support for dynamic languages such as PHP, providing an extensible platform used as the basis for many non-IDE tools.

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. A unique set of plug-ins provides industrial-strength Eclipse tooling for working with key Oracle technologies such as Oracle WebLogic server and the Oracle Database. The Eclipse Development Team at Oracle also spends much of its time working on the core open source components of Eclipse. We are key contributors and drivers of projects such as the Web Tools Project, Dali Tools, and Database Tools.

It’s safe to say: if you are interested in working in IDE development, then the Oracle Applica-tion Development Tools group has something for everyone.

Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF)

A key part of Oracle’s overall development strategy, Oracle ADF is a unique Java EE frame-work that makes Enterprise Java and service-oriented development accessible to the broader application development community. Oracle ADF is used by many large corporations and—as the cornerstone of the Oracle Fusion Architecture—is a key asset for the company.

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The Oracle ADF Team encompasses various subareas of specialty:

User Interface Development. Oracle’s primary technology for rich internet applications is based around the JSF standard, and our team produces an unmatched variety of components for rich interactive user interfaces with the ADF Faces rich client components, Apache Trinidad, and the ADF Data Visualization components. This toolset provides much more than basic UI components, with hugely powerful charts, mapping components, pivot tables, schedulers, calendar controls, active data, and much more. This is an area of technology in which Oracle both defines and leads the market in innovation and technical prowess. If you are interested in modern Web UI development using Java, Javascript, Flash, Ajax technologies, and DHTML, and you would like to work with some of the best in the business, then our highly motivated team may be the perfect fit.

Mobile Solutions. The world works on the move and so does Oracle. The ADF Mobile Team works on solutions for both browser-based and native on-device applications. These frame-works allow enterprise developers to seamlessly extend their applications onto the latest generation of mobile devices with ease. This is just the place for smartphone junkies!

Desktop Integration. The ADF Desktop Integration Team marries the disparate worlds of C# and Microsoft Office development with standards-based Java Business services and Java EE programming. Not for the faint-hearted: engineers in our Desktop Integration Team work at the interface of the two main modern programming camps. A true challenge.

Object-Relational Mapping, Bindings, and Task Flow. A key part of any Enterprise framework is the glue that brings the architectural layers together. For many years, the ADF Team has been defining the gold standard with innovative solutions to the age-old problems of data access and process control. Awaken your inner architect and get to work on some of the truly big problems in enterprise development.

User Experience and Developer Productivity. It’s not all about IDEs and runtime frameworks in the Application Development Tools Division. Sometimes developers need a little support, so we have teams working on team collaboration and continuous integration to provide the tools to help automate and simplify those little tasks that developers would rather not do. And last but not least, we have an extensive User Experience Team concerned with product usability and design.

Application Server, Application Grid

Coupled with the power of Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a reliable, scalable, and secure middle-tier application server designed to run all e-business applications and deploy Internet, extranet, and intranet portals. Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is based on a powerful, scalable Java EE 5.0 infrastructure server and provides an integrated environment for development, deployment, and management of enterprise applications, portals, and Web services needed to run the e-business. Designed for grid computing, Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and offers a variety of methods for generating Web content, including Java EE-based APIs such as Java Servlets and JSPs, JSF, PL/SQL and PL/SQL Server Pages (PSPs), and Perl. Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g conforms to existing (and evolving) standards such as Java, Java EE, and CORBA and both uses and contributes to open source de-facto standards from groups such as Spring, Eclipse, and Apache. We not only work with cutting-edge underlying technologies, but we also work on areas such as high availability (reliability, availability, and scalability), transactions, security, and performance to ensure WebLogic continues to differentiate itself for mission-critical applications based on the quality of service it is capable of delivering.

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With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle expanded its Oracle Fusion Middleware product offerings with GlassFish Application Server, the premier open source-based Java Application Server, as well as the Java EE 6.0 reference implementation. Oracle’s commitment to middleware and the success of our middleware customers is reflected in our comprehensive portfolio of products, our adoption of standards, and our customers’ ability to run, secure, adapt, and expand their businesses with the world’s fastest-growing family of middleware products. For additional information, please visit oracle.com/sun.

Oracle and Sun technologies and talent have together opened a fast path to innovation and opportunity in the combined server teams. We define and drive the application server marketplace and provide the foundation middleware technology for all Oracle products and more than 100,000 customers. Application server products and technology are undergoing major changes today that present major challenges:

• The emergence of platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud computing. Oracle has advanced work and deliverables in this area, and we are rapidly adapting our existing products to support this new model of application server deployment. The impact of cloud computing on application server infrastructure is fundamental. It opens up new opportunities in terms of product packaging, lifecycle, and development process.

• New architectures for improved performance. Java EE has been the workhorse for providing scalable solutions for Internet applications, but the emergence of SOA and Web 2.0 in the marketplace has created new demands on infrastructure. Today, application server experts at Oracle lead the way in defining and delivering new server infrastructure to take advantage of advanced data caching and next-generation, high-availability, event-driven architectures.

• Open source. Oracle’s major commitment to open source development is most visible in our team in such projects as EclipseLink in the Eclipse community. The addition of GlassFish and NetBeans products from the Sun acquisition further reinforces Oracle’s commitment. Our open source work is delivered in commercial quality in our licensed products and is meshed with our internal development cycles and processes.

• Developer outreach. We believe in developer outreach and offer opportunities to present at technical conferences and share your experience with the enterprise developer community.

• Standards evolution. Java, Web services, SOA, and grid standards are changing rapidly. Now as the custodian of Java, Oracle has added responsibility and opportunity to drive innovation in these standards. The Application Server Team drives many standards in these areas, cooperating with other companies and individuals across the world. Our products are built on standards and compete through best-of-class implementation and differentiated features.

We are passionate about our products and take great pride in the quality, leadership, and unique features they deliver. Virtually every Oracle product depends on the deliverables of our team. It’s an exciting and demanding place to be a developer—with unique opportunities in the industry.

Business Intelligence (Technology Platform and Analytic Applications)

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is one of the fastest-growing segments of the Enterprise Software Industry. Analysts, executives, and business managers use BI to obtain information they need to make critical, strategic decisions in today’s fast-paced, rapidly changing business world. Oracle has a tremendous amount of momentum and is a thought leader in the BI software market with its comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products addressing the full

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spectrum of BI requirements, including interactive dashboards and scorecards, rich ad hoc query and analysis, proactive and actionable intelligence and alerts, enterprise reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, interactive visualization, and mobile analytics. Oracle offers a BI technology foundation for building enterprise BI solutions by extending insight to a wide range of users and delivering intelligence that is “hot-pluggable” with existing data sources and operational systems. Oracle BI also includes market-leading analytic applications built on this foundation covering a wide range of industries and business areas, including financial services, human resources, order management, and marketing.

Our software development professionals work with cutting-edge technologies to build this broad range of products. We have a tremendous amount of experience in relational and multidimensional data structures and systems, as well as object-oriented design, and well-designed, extensible, and reusable components. We are seeking self-motivated individu-als to help us design and build the next generations of our product lines using the latest and upcoming technologies. We appreciate and reward technical creativity and engineering excellence. Our customers are often business users who are unfamiliar with data storage and software technology, so we focus on building intuitive user interfaces (UI)—in rich client technologies such as Ajax, Flash, Java, HTML, and DHTML—that anyone can use to retrieve and analyze data. Behind the UI, the Oracle BI Server includes innovative technologies for rapidly accessing and manipulating large amounts of data from disparate data sources.

Are you a bright, energetic person who enjoys technical challenges and responsibility? Do you want to join a global team of talented professionals working for a world-class organiza-tion? We work in exciting areas in software development, including user interface and visualization development, relational and multidimensional analytic server development, ana-lytic applications content development, mobile platform development, and systems manage-ment development. We design, develop, and implement our products using a large variety of technologies, including Java, C++, Flash, and XML. We emphasize teamwork to create clean, extensible, object-oriented designs and implementations. As an Oracle BI developer, you will work with product managers on feature requirements; with user experience design-ers on usability; with the world’s best commercial software engineers to design, implement and write code; and with quality assurance professionals on the final testing of features.

Business Process Management

Business process management (BPM) is all about managing the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes throughout the organization by modeling, automating, managing, and optimizing any business process. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is dramatically changing the way software vendors and enterprises are composing their applications and solutions. The new generation of BPM systems is based on open standards, provides extensi-bility and reusability using Web services/XML, and allows flexible interfaces for being a good citizen of the SOA-based composite application. Oracle is developing the most comprehensive Java EE and Web service standards-based software product for BPM. With our aquisition of BEA, Oracle added the industry-leading Oracle BPM Suite to our product portfolio. With the combination of BEA and Oracle components, we have an unmatched position in the industry. Some key components of the BPM Suite include the following:

• BPM Studio is a user-friendly environment for process and forms design. With BPM Studio, business analysts and IT can collaborate on process models and simulate them before deployment.

• BPM Server is for executing business processes, rules, and rich human workflow on a highly scalable and reliable platform.

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• Business Process Analysis Suite is for process architects to build cross-department business processes and publish models to other process stakeholders.

• Business Activity Monitoring is for real-time process monitoring and alerts using Ajax-based technologies.

• Process Spaces provides social BPM capabilities through rich collaboration and content sharing between process stakeholders. This brings various Web 2.0 technologies to enterprise users in the context of business processes.

Oracle BPM Suite empowers business users to participate effectively in various phases of process design and implementation. We work on innovations such as business user-friendly process modeling tools, a process engine based on BPMN and BPEL4people standards, process portals using Web 2.0 technologies, rich process monitoring, and use of complex event processing for process optimization and analytics.

The BPM Group offers the unique opportunity to be involved with Oracle technology, applications, and industry groups. As a member of our group, you will be able to participate in new product initiatives, learn the latest Web technologies/standards, work with the best architects, and build the next-generation application platform. The BPM Engineering Team is spread all around the world in four continents; we provide a full range of opportunities and challenges to apply your skills and grow your career in this new and exciting arena.

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Oracle Complex Event Processing

Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a critical part of the AS Integration Suite of products and is being developed on Linux using Java. CEP is an approach that correlates and aggregates information from distributed and seemingly unrelated event streams in real time to discern patterns and trends that would otherwise go unnoticed. It can be used to correlate, aggregate, enrich, and detect patterns in real time over high-speed streaming data. CEP is currently hot both in the research community and in the industry and is expected to become a critical infrastructure with a broad range of applications across technology (examples include BAM, RFID, and security) and industry domains (finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and so on).

The Challenge. Our approach to CEP has been to build a generic stream data processor and a declarative interface to CEP in the form of a continuous query language (a language similar to SQL with some extensions). The key components of such an engine include the following:

• A full-fledged compiler and query processor for CQL (continuous query language). This is similar to building a database-query processor and includes modules such as a parser, semantic analyzer, query plan generator, optimizer, and an execution engine. New patent-pending techniques specifically designed to handle real-time computing requirements and streaming data are used in these modules.

• Real-time scheduling algorithms (similar to OS scheduling algorithms) to deal with quali-ty-of-service (QoS) requirements.

• A storage management subsystem to deal with high-speed streaming data. This will involve cache-management techniques, including aging-out policies.

We have created a solid foundation based on a strong theoretical framework and have added

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several exciting features to the product based on many patent-pending ideas. Included in this is the first commercial implementation of an emerging ANSI standard extension to SQL that deals with regular expression-based pattern matching over streaming data. During this time, we have also strongly influenced the standardization efforts towards a language for stream processing. As we move into the next phase, we have even more exciting and challenging problems to tackle. We expect to work on query processor and optimizer enhancements to improve performance and scalability, real-time data mining over streaming data, newer ideas related to regular expression-based pattern matching, real-time scheduling algorithms, and cache-aging-out algorithms as well as clustering support.

The Opportunity. Work on an emerging area using modern techniques from research to contribute to an emerging high-value product from Oracle. Work on exciting technologies such as query processing, compilers, data mining, automata theory, and pattern matching, online/approximation/randomized algorithms, data structures, real-time operating systems, Java, Java EE, Web services, and XML. There are also opportunities to influence standardiza-tion in this space and enhance the state-of-the-art in research. Team members will own modules and participate in the complete lifecycle of new features. This provides excellent opportunities for career and personal growth. Also, as a part of this group, you will get to work with an expert, diverse group of engineers across multiple geographies.

Oracle Data Integration

Oracle delivers market-leading data integration products that cover a complete range of business needs for our customers. Data integration is the infrastructure software that makes it possible to get trusted information at the right time and at the right place. Oracle’s products for data integration include Oracle GoldenGate (OGG), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Data Quality, Oracle Data Profiling, and Oracle Data Service Integrator. At the heart of these solutions, ODI automates and simplifies integration of data from an array of sources and enables users access to the data warehouse platform through a Java-based GUI. As the data warehouse and data integration market expands its reach into operational systems, the demands for real-time data integration are higher than ever. Oracle GoldenGate supplies the real-time data integration capabilities that enable businesses to ensure maximum availability of their databases and up-to-the-second accuracy of their data warehouses. Oracle combines the market-leading data integration capabilities of OGG and ODI with complete functionality that ensures information quality, metadata management, and data modeling.

Because Oracle data integration solutions integrate with many core database features, a developer position on the Data Integration Team provides opportunities to learn about a wide range of Oracle and non-Oracle technologies. Developers learn about database features such as partitioning, parallel load capabilities, Oracle Real Application Clusters, analytic SQL, OLAP, and data mining. Oracle’s Fusion Applications will also use ODI and OGG as an enabling technology. Experience working with data integration software provides a wealth of professional software development skills. Oracle data integration products are developed using Java, C++, and all the latest technologies used for high-performance enterprise infrastructure software. We also use SQL, PL/SQL, UML (Unified Modeling Language) object modeling, HTML, and XML technologies within the development environment. You will also get to work with a global team: while Data Integration develop-ment is centered at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, we have teams with opportunities in the United Kingdom, India, China, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. Our talented, highly motivated team members use the latest technology to deliver high-quality, feature-rich releases of a complex, strategic product to our customers at a fast pace. If you

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would enjoy working in an exciting team on a product central to Oracle’s data integration and data warehousing platform, consider joining us. You are guaranteed to explore leading-edge technology and to develop new technical and professional skills, working in a dynamic environment at the world’s premier enterprise software company.

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a critical element of information management—balancing the explosion of unstructured digital content such as electronic documents, e-mails, images, and video with the need to manage, secure, and retain that information as part of business practices or to meet regulatory guidelines. Oracle Enterprise Content Management is the industry’s leading unified content management platform, providing all aspects of ECM—document management, Web content management, digital asset manage-ment, records management, and image management—within a single application. Using the service-oriented architecture of the Oracle content management platform, organizations can effectively manage, secure, and retain critical information.

The Oracle ECM Team seeks talented developers who understand the key technologies and methodologies of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack (Java, Java EE, JSF, XML, SOA) and are interested in helping drive the next generation of information management at Oracle. As the ECM platform is largely based on the acquired technologies from Stellent, many of the projects on the ECM Team relate to bringing the high-value services of the ECM system into the broader Oracle Fusion Middleware stack so they can be used across Oracle applications. Our team also seeks product managers (PMs) who understand the technology of Oracle Fusion Middleware and are eager to learn the quickly changing markets of ECM, rights management, and records management. ECM PMs serve as both product and industry experts, and with our unified platform, we strive to have not only the broadest ECM capabil-ity in the overall ECM market but also the deepest in any specific functional or specialty area. For more information on Oracle Content Management, please visit us at oracle.com/products/middleware/content-management/index.html ...

Java Products Group

We develop the Java server infrastructure for Oracle products, including database and middleware. Virtually every software product delivered across Oracle uses the mission-critical code developed by our team. For middleware, we deliver the core Java EE 5.0 container, the Web services and SOA infrastructure, the reliable in-memory data grid infrastructure, Coherence, from the recent acquisition of Tangosol, as well as the TopLink Object Relational mapping framework and tools. For Oracle Database, we deliver the Oracle JDBC drivers that implement the latest JDBC specifications and Oracle-specific extensions to support Java persistence on Oracle Database; the embedded Java VM runtime to support Java in the database; and the Universal Connection Pool to support all Java connections types, as well as furnish high availability, load balancing, and connections affinity in Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Data Guard environments.

Our group reflects the dynamic nature of global software development today in that we are geographically distributed across multiple sites, each with significant ownership and responsibilities in the Java stack. We have development groups at Headquarters in Redwood Shores; Burlington, MA; Ottawa, Canada; Raleigh, NC; Moorestown, NJ; Portland, OR; and in Oracle’s India Development Center. Our strategic responsibility and broad scope of technologies furnish exciting and rare opportunities in system-level software development, product design, and product management. We take the lead in driving open source projects and strategy in the Java world (such as Eclipse Dali project, Java Persistence API in Project

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GlassFish, and Java EE server integration with Spring). We also work closely with other companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and SAP in defining and establishing standards in the areas of Web services and interoperability. Finally, we coordinate with multiple teams across Oracle.

Security and Identity Management

The worldwide Identity and Access Management market is estimated to grow to $5.3 billion by 2012. Increasing regulatory compliance and security needs are driving the need for customers to buy and deploy centralized identity management infrastructure. Every applica-tion needs security to succeed, and this need is being further amplified as more applications move to the cloud and social networking becomes more mainstream within the enterprise. The Security and Identity Management organization creates the software that enables all applications to be secure. Known for secure products, Oracle is now a provider of security products for the enterprise. Significant investment in development and acquired technolo-gies has positioned Oracle as the recognized leader in a quickly growing space, as recognized by every major industry analyst firm. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the largest provider of identity management technologies in the market. In addition to using the latest security and development frameworks, we interact with many other Oracle and industry technologies, such as major enterprise applications, middleware, and databases. Our develop-ers focus on key product areas such as the following:

• Web Services Security ensures that access to Web services is properly authenticated, authorized, and managed. Projects include integration of the Oracle Web Services Manager product (OWSM) with the Oracle SOA Suite (including Web services development, business process and workflow management, enterprise service bus, business activity monitoring, and runtime environment); integration of OWSM with the user interface and monitoring functionality provided by Oracle Enterprise Manager; integration of OWSM with Oracle Access Manager to provide an end-to-end security solution from browser to portal to networks of Web services deployed in an SOA; and implementation of key industry security standards (WS-Security, SAML, WS-Policy, and other WS-* specifications).

• Access Management and Federation provides Authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), Federation, and Authorization services and moves key security decisions from application logic into the service layer. We develop products using Java/Java EE, LDAP, PKI, XML, Web Services Security, WS-Trust, Federation (SAML, Liberty Alliance/Kantara, WS-Federa-tion), XACML, RBAC and other standards and leading technologies.

• Security Infrastructure and Java Platform Security provide common security infrastruc-ture across Java EE Application Server, Web Services, and Enterprise Applications and define security direction for various other Oracle products. Key projects include Java2 security Java Authentication and Authorization (JAAS), Java EE Application Server Security, Integration with Enterprise Single Sign-On systems, LDAP, RBAC, PKI, Web Services Security, XML Security, Audit Framework, Cryptography, Network Security, and other security technolo-gies. We distill requirements from various groups within and outside Oracle, keep track of the latest Java and security standards, and architect and implement key components of the Application Server security infrastructure.

• The Oracle Identity Manager Team is responsible for the design and development of a product line that helps our large enterprise customers do identity administration, role management, user provisioning, and compliance automation. The worldwide customers for this product line span Global 2000 companies, the public sector, midsize companies, and educational institutions. As a member of the development organization, you will have an opportunity to evolve the Oracle Identity Manager product to its next-generation highly

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available/scalable SOA architecture. You will be building advanced user interfaces and back-end algorithms for identity management, security policy definition and enforcement, business process definition, and execution using state-of-the-art Java EE technologies such as JAAS, JMS, JCA, JMX, Web Services, and Ajax for a rich user interface. You will also use industry standards such as XACML, SPML, BPEL, and SAML. Our software plays a key role in helping customers enforce consistent security policies across their entire application infrastructure. This gives you an opportunity to gain an architectural understanding of all other Oracle products as well as enterprise applications from our competitors.

• Directory services provide access via key standards such as LDAP and SOAP to important enterprise identity and entitlement information. Directory services at Oracle includes two market-leading LDAP servers, a virtual directory, and a metadirectory. Key projects include the development of next-generation identity virtualization services, a next-generation user interface unifying the administration across the directory services components, and improve-ments in replication technology and overall performance and scalability.

• Fine-grained entitlements is one of the hottest trends in the identity-and-access-manage-ment market as the need for flexible, powerful security mechanisms rapidly grows following the growth in complexity of services and applications. Oracle Entitlements Server provides both distributed policy enforcement and centralized policy management by externalizing security logic embedded in services and applications. Join developers in our team to work on cutting-edge security technologies and solve challenging tasks associated with building high-performance, enterprise-quality distributed systems capable of handling tens of thou-sands of security decisions per second. You will develop a product that is used by customers in all vertical industries, as well as by many other Oracle product teams. You will learn about and have hands-on experience with a broad range of technology standards, including XAC-ML, SAML, JAAS, LDAP, RBAC, PKI, X.509, and SSL.

• In our products, Oracle implements key security and identity management standards to ensure interoperability with third-party identity management environments. We have a team specifically dedicated to enhancements of existing identity management and security stan-dards such as SAML, WS-Security, WS-Policy and to helping create new standards focused on application-centric security such as the Identity Governance Framework.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Integration Products

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is dramatically changing the way software vendors and enterprises compose their applications and solutions. Standardization of data (XML/XSD), interfaces (WSDL), transformations (XSLT/Xquery/Xpath), orchestration (BPEL) and messaging (JMS) have changed how distributed systems are integrated and composite applications are built. Standardization is also pushing metadata-based declarative program-ming models, which in turn are fostering visual modeling tools and dynamic adaptation to changing business needs. Oracle SOA Suite has the complete set of tools to address this new programming methodology. The main suite components are JMS for messaging, ESB for routing and transformation, BPEL for orchestration, BPA for business process modeling and simulation, BAM for monitoring, and Business Rules. The group also works on components such as RFID and CEP to support Event Driven Architecture (EDA). To facilitate communi-cation across enterprises, we have B2B components that support EDI, ASN, HL7, and RosettaNet protocols. We offer the unique opportunity to be involved with all of Oracle’s technology, applications, and industry groups. Development teams and product managers work closely with large corporate customers and Oracle’s internal groups. Our product managers (PMs), experienced in Oracle technology, influence product design and future

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direction by analyzing the competitive landscape, gathering functional requirements, and creating high-level business requirements and functional designs. PMs also serve as product experts, product evangelists, and product marketers, ensuring that Oracle is presenting a persuasive and consistent message both internally and externally.

Our developers are at the forefront of advances in software engineering, using the latest Oracle tools and technology to build our products and solution sets. They participate in many exciting initiatives, building user-friendly HTML and Java-based user interfaces, designing XML-based Web services, and working side-by-side with our world-class architec-ture team to improve products across Oracle.

We work in an exciting, challenging environment. Every person is empowered to show initiative, be outspoken, and be proactive. We provide extraordinary opportunities and challenges to apply and develop skills and grow your career in this new arena.

WebCenter Suite and Enterprise 2.0

Discuss… collaborate… mash up… share… interact… connect… chat…

Enterprise 2.0 has arrived in the workplace, and Oracle WebCenter Suite is right in the middle of it. Wikis, blogs, enterprise application mashups, social networks (think Facebook for the enterprise), and team spaces are familiar examples of Enterprise 2.0 applications. Enterprise 2.0 is all about the use of Web 2.0 technologies and usage patterns in the enterprise to foster a next-generation, collaborative workplace that is Internet powered, user focused, and community centric to improve the productivity of internal and external business processes. This workplace connects people, ideas, content, processes, systems, and other enterprise artifacts.

Oracle WebCenter is an integrated suite of technology and services designed for creating dynamic, highly productive user work environments that take advantage of an SOA and enable business users to bring complete context to their daily work tasks. Oracle WebCen-ter combines the standards-based, declarative development of JSF, the flexibility and power of portal technology, and horizontal Web 2.0 and Social computing services.

Together, these tools and services provide a unique ability to build applications and portals that eliminate context shifts, enable enterprise mashups, and maximize productivity. WebCenter portals and applications allow users to interact directly with services like instant messaging, documents and content, activity streams, discussion forums, and wiki and blogs to form active social networks within their organizations and across partner and customer communities. The user can easily share information with others and take advan-tage of tagging or linking of information to provide a more productive way for all the team members to work together. Commenting and rating the work that people are sharing provides users with real-time recommendations that makes use of a rules-based personaliza-tion engine to help them focus their efforts around the task at hand. The team also delivers a set of Mobile interfaces, including our iPhone & iPad Spaces application, to ensure users can get and share information wherever and whenever they need it.

Now is a great time to join the WebCenter Development Team and be a part of taking the product to even greater levels of market success. We seek highly motivated self-starters to help design and implement Oracle’s next-generation user interaction products that continue to set the future user experience directions for Oracle and the Software Industry. Our developers use the latest Web 2.0 and Java EE technologies to engineer innovative designs and architectures that meet customer requirements. We constantly seek new ways to build a

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better product by researching, pioneering, and taking advantage of the latest emerging standards and technologies. The team has many innovators that lead and participate on several industry standards groups, including JSR-168 & 286, WSRP, JSR-170, CMIS, JSR-227, OpenSocial, and OpenStream, and we are working to influence and refine these standards based on our direct experience and growing customer requirements.

Development projects range from low-level technical infrastructure projects requiring creative, innovative architectures that pay special attention to performance, scalability, and security requirements to projects that revolve around solving complex user interface challenges by using the latest JSF, JSP, and component UI technologies. Developers can uniquely design and implement functionality that will ultimately be exposed to customers through an SOA-based development framework, a set of RESTful interfaces, or a set of APIs that can all be used through a rich collection of tools and applications.

Most development positions are located in the United States (San Francisco, CA and Washington DC) and India. We work in close-knit teams in a casual, collegial, and fun-loving environment. Our multinational, distributed development groups have the common thread of enjoying a challenging and demanding work environment. Our people are talented, highly motivated, and ready to work alongside other like-minded people on exciting, critical, innovative projects that play a major role in Oracle’s strategic direction.

Oracle Service Bus

Traditional enterprise applications are often designed with a specific purpose, but inevitably, they need to work together with other applications. Ad hoc integration solutions create brittle systems and are hard to reuse or repurpose as businesses evolve over time. SOA addresses this problem and is an improved approach for building applications out of compo-nent services. A key part of an SOA is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to facilitate dynamic integration of the application services. Oracle Service Bus (formerly BEA’s AquaLogic Service Bus) provides an ESB, supporting ways to virtualize services, route, and enhance messages flowing between applications, and build loosely coupled systems. By combining service-oriented principles with best practices for application integration, the Oracle Service Bus is an industry-leading ESB product that plays a central role in Oracle’s SOA portfolio. If you are interested in joining a leading-edge middleware technology product team in a rapidly growing business, take a look at the Oracle Service Bus Team.

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ORACLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT:

Systems and Applications Management Manage It All: Virtualization, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Manager...

Imagine joining a company as large as Oracle and working with nearly every product and technology Oracle builds. That’s what you will be doing in the Systems and Applications Management Division. We build Oracle’s central, Web-based management solution, Enterprise Manager, and we are responsible for providing slick, end-to-end, cutting-edge management for every Oracle product. So, if you don’t want to choose a single technology on which to work, we want you. We’re looking for creative, hard-working, energetic engineers who want to make an immediate impact in every system management area, from business performance monitoring to cloud computing. You’ll work with Java, Java EE (JSF), Ajax, Perl, Python, C, PLSQL, XML-RPC, REST, HTML5, Flex, Flash, and XML. You’ll apply your work to application servers, databases, operating systems, networking, storage systems (SAN and NAS), and virtualization. Our developers are some of the industry’s best in rich user interface technologies, advanced Java EE and SOA, and writing complex and high-per-formance algorithms. Step up and take the challenge—you don’t want to pass this up.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Team

Our group provides solutions for customers to build their own private clouds. Setting up private clouds is highly complicated, tedious, and error-prone, but we build the solutions that automate the entire process. We also provide end-to-end solutions for our customers —solutions that give our customers the ability to expose their infrastructure as a service for their end users. Imagine building products that let customers dynamically provision prepackaged or customized virtual environments and appliances, define policies for the amount of computing resources (compute power, storage, memory, and so on) to allocate across user communities, and charge users for resources consumed and for self-service administration. This project will test your engineering, creativity, and product design skills. We’re a young team working on one of the hottest areas in technology today. Check us out!

Enterprise-Ready Infrastructure Team

Do you have what it takes to manage your manager? We mean managing the Oracle Enterprise Manager product, which in turn manages all of the products Oracle develops. If you thought the previous sentence was too deep a nested logic to be good programming practice but not deep enough to fluster your programming skills, then we need you. When you join the team, you’ll work with a global team based in the US and India on developing everything from back-end core pieces to front-end UI; at the same time, you will find yourself challenged trying to solve a puzzle in recursion that your team threw at you—a recursion on something about managing your manager!

We build cutting-edge, customer-facing front-end applications, and that means we are always on top of the newest technologies. As a result, your skill set will keep growing along with industry trends. You will be challenged to learn domain knowledge, including databases, storage, and configuration, and to become an expert in system management products. You will create a suite of sophisticated sensors and tracers to help diagnose, analyze, and troubleshoot a range of enterprise products, from Oracle Databases and Oracle Fusion Middleware to Oracle Applications.

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diagnostics tools inform customers as quickly as possible of critical application or system issues, which systems are affected, and which tools they can use to fix it. EM has customers with complex topologies of 10,000+ (largest at 70,000) entities that raise anywhere from 3,000 to 40,000 events per hour. We identify the most serious events, prioritize and correlate events from disparate sources, and communicate the most pertinent set of issues to the customer. “Your Web site is down because some genius decided to run a monster report on your database in the middle of the day.” Ok; we are usually more polite than that.

So, in short, if you are interested in a robust, fault-tolerant, and scalable system capable of processing large numbers of events extremely quickly and providing correlated information to customers, consider us. This is an extremely visible area as it is the first, most fundamental feature that is used in EM and it has to work flawlessly in order for customers to even bother with trying anything else. To quote one of our customers, “Without notifications, Enterprise Manager is useless.” No pressure.

Our challenge is to continue improving our correlation model and reduce the time to inform customers using newer channels to communicate to customers while improving our scalabil-ity and reliability. So if you think you have the right systems and modeling background to work on the framework end or pride yourself on a sensibility to build crisp and intuitive UIs, or both, we would love to talk to you.

Knowledge Management

We are the Knowledge Management Development Team of My Oracle Support, responsible for providing the most relevant, accurate content to solve our customers’ issues in the most efficient, fastest possible way. We provide rich experience through better understanding of our customer’s environment, technology innovation, and rigorous content management. At the core of our solution is a highly knowledgeable group of engineers embarking on provid-ing the next-generation search experience. Our solution is beyond search engines, as we offer secure, customized content based on intent, information, and customer needs.

We are investing in new search technologies such as semantic search, decision-based search engines, and enhanced content engineering. We have the shortest time period from dreaming an idea to users enjoying the benefits of it. Our technologies include Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Oracle Text, Flash, Java EE, ADF, HTML, XML, Ajax, and SOA. Two goals that we constantly drive towards are precision and performance of our search.

We’d like to hear from you if you want to be part of and share the experiences of a truly world-class team that operates in all major worldwide time zones, drives solutions to understand customer’s intent through advanced Web analytics, enhances search precision through use of advanced search technologies, and enjoys solving complex problems through teamwork and knowledge sharing.

Application Management

Oracle Enterprise Manager manages business-critical applications in their entirety, from the business view (including transactions, real user experience, and SLAs) to all the infrastructure components that support the application: databases, application server and other middleware services, hosts (physical and virtual), and more. We work closely with all the teams delivering industry-leading business applications to ensure Enterprise Manager delivers unparalleled visibility, productivity, and reliability for the world’s most critical business applications. The result is a product used by the largest companies worldwide. We address concrete, real, and challenging issues for demanding customers, allowing them to run their business more effectively and reliably than competitors.

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Middleware and Application Performance Management

Unlike other management software vendors, Oracle Enterprise Manager works hand in hand with the industry’s leading middleware product team. From Oracle WebLogic server to SOA, coherence, identity management, and many other components, Oracle Fusion Middle-ware provides a complete platform for enterprise applications. One of its key differentiators is the rich set of management capabilities provided by Enterprise Manager for the middle-ware infrastructure and the applications running on it. Going beyond basic monitoring, we collaborate from the early stages of product design to provide a management experience that is richer, deeper, optimized, and well-integrated with all other aspects of the IT infrastruc-ture. We provide a unified view of business transactions across all tiers of the composite application. We use advanced technology and innovative methods to efficiently observe, collect, and process performance information that allows administrators to diagnose and correct complex performance issues. In addition to supporting expert-mode investigations, we also automate much of the work and deliver personalized recommendations. The move towards cloud computing only increases the strategic importance of integrating management with the application infrastructure, and Enterprise Manager is where this is taking place.

Enterprise Configuration Management

As a key member of the Enterprise Configuration Management Team, you will use your problem-solving and analytical abilities to deliver real-world management solutions to the enterprise. These solutions create real bottom-line IT cost savings and keep companies in compliance with in-house security practices and external frameworks and reporting measures like ITIL, SOX, and PCI. These solutions track, enforce, and report on system and applica-tion configuration information, including a comprehensive configuration management database (CMDB). If you want to work for a fast-paced, technologically advanced, socially responsible organization, talk to us.

Software Provisioning and Installation Technologies

Join our team and develop the next-generation adaptive IT management infrastructure. Today’s datacenters deploy tens of thousands of systems needing efficient use of resources and highly automated deployment lifecycle support. This difficult software architecture and design problem requires a management solution that scales and is extremely reliable. The products we build deliver a very high degree of automation and pinpoint accuracy in problem detection. Our software management tools deliver an intelligent management system that deploys, configures, optimizes, and protects system resources and therefore reduces cost of complexity of IT operations. Applications we are developing include provi-sioning, security, patching advisers, and a datacenter designer and BPEL-based automation framework that can quickly and easily maintain a standardized environment and enforce security best practices with adaptable policies... Be part of the team that defines the initial customer experience when using Oracle products. We build the Java-based tools which are used to install and configure all Oracle software on systems which range from large clusters to single machines. If you want to work on software that every customer, every press analyst, every expert will use and will evaluate, this is the place for you.

Ops Center

With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle isn’t just a world-class software company—we are a world-class hardware company too. And that means we need to deliver world-class manage-ment for the hardware, firmware, and operating systems running our software. Fortunately, the people who spent years perfecting management of Sun systems are now part of Oracle’s Systems and Applications Management Division, and we are working to bring the entire

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management solution together, unlike any other vendor in the business. If you want to learn more about the physical machines that are the backbone for nearly every Fortune 100 company’s datacenter, join the Ops Center Team. Be on the team taking Enterprise Manager to the next level.

Performance

Our customer-focused Performance Team ensures that Enterprise Manager operates in an efficient, optimal manner. This team performs reliability, robustness, performance, scalability, and stress tests in large-scale environments to ensure the product meets customer require-ments. As a Performance engineer, you will be looking at all aspects of performance from a holistic angle, providing analysis and recommendations with performance and scalability in mind. In a nutshell, without this team, we wouldn’t have the loyal customers we have—cus-tomers confident to move to the next version of a precision-performing and scalable product. If you are looking for constant new challenges, you won’t be disappointed; don’t look further—this is your team.

Quality Assurance

Our Quality Assurance (QA) engineers routinely work on testing one of the most complex pieces of software in the industry, rolling their sleeves up and getting busy finding the nastiest bugs in-house... all so our customers stay happy! Enterprise Manager’s distributed architecture creates an amazing opportunity for technical growth. Daily, our QA Teams in the US, India, and China work together on myriad activities, including writing test plans for new product features, coding automated regression test scripts, and executing manual and automated tests across the various types of complex, distributed environments supported by the product. Enterprise Manager is certified for our customers in many different configura-tions/operating systems. We take great pride in our record of assuring excellent product quality in this highly complex, feature-rich environment through close collaboration with our development organization and our state-of-the-art QA practices. And we have serious fun while we’re at it! Mission Impossible? Not at all! Talk to us if you want to learn more about joining the QA Team in the Systems and Applications Management Division.

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ORACLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT:

CollaborationSocial Media Technology...

Recognizing the need to bring cutting-edge social media technology into enterprise companies, Oracle launched the Collaboration Technologies Division. We architected, developed, and support a number of products across the Oracle brand, including Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server, Beehive Enterprise Messaging Server, Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration, Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration Connec-tor, and Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration. We have also developed a new product offering planned for availability in 2011, Oracle On Track. Every member of our division is dedicated to redefining the collaborative software market.

Our division has redefined not only Oracle’s collaborative software architecture but also the software development process. Run and managed like a start-up and starting with a service-oriented architecture (SOA), small engineering groups are mapped directly to the architec-ture in order to promote an agile methodology.

Our iterative development process enables changes to be made based on feedback early and throughout the development cycle. Developers, quality assurance engineers, and product managers all work tightly together to ensure that we deliver richly featured, high-quality, market-driven products. We have expertise in a wide variety of technologies, including DHTML, Web Services, XML, and the latest in Java technologies (including JAAS, JDBC, JCA, JMS, Java EE, EJB, standard protocols, and Java APIs). We use important areas such as pattern recognition, visualization, and simulation—all needed to build products that are feature-rich, user-friendly, scalable, high-performing, secure, and highly available.

Following is a brief description of each of our products. For more detailed technical informa-tion about our products, go to oracle.com/otn.

Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server & Oracle Beehive Enterprise Messaging Server. Oracle Beehive is the only unified collaboration platform built for the enterprise. Its cross-platform, open standards-based architecture supports familiar clients like Microsoft Outlook and can coexist with legacy servers like Microsoft Exchange. Oracle Beehive was designed for the enterprise to provide the highest level of scalability, manageability, and security while reducing the cost of deployment and administration.

Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration. This new kind of collaboration technology goes beyond how people should collaborate to address who should be collaborating when and why. With its unique connection brokering capability, WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration ensures the right people participate in key business activities at the right time by tapping into the knowledge, expertise, and social networks that exist throughout the organization.

Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration. This improves efficiency and productivity by enabling users to connect and collaborate with others via Web and voice conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and chat rooms. As an enterprise social software product, it allows users to have direct interaction and immediate response from colleagues regardless of their location. Real-time collaboration is about connecting people across the globe while providing the most cost-effective, scalable and enterprise-grade solution for conferencing and instant messaging.

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Oracle On Track. This enriches group interactions with active BI, annotated content, voice, video and application sharing. Aimed at the enterprise, On Track is a premise or cloud-based application that integrates with Oracle’s Fusion Applications, Applications Unlimited, and WebCenter offerings. It provides a facility for the lightly structured collaboration needed around any business process, while retaining the content for future use and discovery.

We hope you can join us in the Collaboration Technologies Division as we redefine and create the enterprise market’s collaboration tools!

ORACLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: SERVICESInterested in a role that will connect you with people working on various products and services across Oracle? You may find just the ticket in one of the following teams: Demon-stration Solution Services, Server Globalization Technology (SGT), Server Technologies Curriculum Development, or Server Technologies Information Development...

Demonstration Solution Services

The DSS (Demonstration Solution Services) Group builds, administers, and supports hosted demos for Oracle’s sales consultants. These realistic, enterprise-class demos showcase Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, Oracle Applications, and Management products to potential customers. DSS is in a unique position where we routinely interact with a wide range of development and sales groups within Oracle. If you like to work on highly visible projects that directly impact sales of Oracle products, then this is the group for you! Our develop-ment/build team works with sales consultants and the base product groups to build demos that promote the business benefits of Oracle’s products. Our technical services and support teams, spread across the globe, ensure our mission-critical systems are always fully operational and provide 24x5 assistance to Oracle sales consultants worldwide.

Server Globalization Technology (SGT)

Never has there been a more exciting time to be working on the forefront of the latest advances in globalization technology. Nowadays, globalization is more than just a buzzword but a sweeping trend that no successful e-business can afford to ignore. It is estimated that more than 70 percent of Internet users speak a language other than English. Building globalized Internet applications that service a diverse world population with vastly different cultural and linguistic conventions has become a key factor to creating a strategic advantage in today’s dynamic global economy. The emergence of the Unicode Standard has made it possible to develop centralized server applications that support multiple languages simultane-ously. Meanwhile, the quickly growing multilingual market keeps posing challenges ranging from storing and processing texts in different languages and character set encodings to formatting information in the user’s local conventions, collating data in the native linguistic order, rendering complex scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew, and providing multilingual content management, just to name a few.

Oracle is the industry leader in delivering the most comprehensive and reliable globalization solutions for the e-business model. Our team is the central provider of globalization infra-structure and expertise for all products and technologies under Oracle Technologies, includ-ing Oracle Database, Application Server, Collaboration Suite, and Enterprise Manager. Our responsibilities cover the entire product lifecycle. Our Product Management Team interacts with internal and external customers to refine product definitions and requirements and leads product evangelism. Our Consulting Team ensures all projects initiated within Oracle

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Technologies comply with our globalization standards and adhere to our architectural guidelines. We also work closely with Oracle Consulting and Support to address specific customer issues.

Our Development Team designs and implements the globalization runtime library and development kits (C, Java, and JavaScript) forming the foundation of Oracle’s globalization features. This team also supports a variety of utilities and new language technologies used by all product stacks. The Quality Assurance Team certifies all Server Technologies products for the global market and builds testing tools and frameworks to improve the testing process and efficiency. We also offer training and participate in standards activities to promote the best globalization practices. If you enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies in a team of talented and highly motivated individuals to create innovations that reshape global computing, this is the place for you.

Server Technologies Curriculum Development

Knowledge is Power. In today’s knowledge economy, the only way to stay ahead and be successful is to keep on learning new skills, technologies, and more. By enabling our customers, partners, and Oracle personnel to successfully and rapidly deploy Oracle products, we aim to increase the adoption of Oracle products. We create technical training content that enables technology professionals to quickly get up to speed with Oracle Server Technol-ogy products. By working very closely with product development (from early on in the product release cycle), we gain a solid understanding of new features and enhancements. This allows us to create comprehensive instructor-led and online training content in a timely manner to meet the needs of our internal and external stakeholders. Also, because we work with the products in a hands-on manner, we are able to provide feedback to development on product usability and functionality.

Our team covers a wide variety of products and technologies, including Oracle Database Server, Fusion Middleware, Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Collaboration Suite, ECM, Java, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Modeling, and Secure Enterprise Search. This, coupled with the fact that we usually provide the first (and often only) source of technical training material (for Oracle staff, customers, and partners), guarantees constant learning and results in an interesting and stimulating work environment. Some of the tasks we commonly work on include creating courseware and course practices, testing practices against product builds, writing questions for certification exams, training the trainers, and transferring technology to the field. We are also a close-knit and global team filled with folks who are always willing to lend a helping hand and ensure that we succeed as a team. And in the spirit of self-improvement, we are constantly exploring opportunities and tools that improve our processes and productivity.

Server Technologies Information Development

Our highly technical Documentation Team writes documentation for diverse products and audiences. We are responsible for Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation. As an integral part of the development effort, from functional and design review to product delivery, we use our technical knowledge as well as our writing skills. We focus on making information easy to find, so products are easy to use. We provide information online, in books, or through online help integrated with products. An example of the results of our creative spirit is the Web-based search tool that lets you search for product information across the entire documentation library and construct a “virtual book” that covers only information relevant to your needs. We are constantly seeking new ways to improve our documentation.

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SYSTEMS HARDWARE, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTServer and Storage Systems from Sun, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Oracle...

Software. Hardware. Complete. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now offers thousands of development opportunities in hardware and even more opportunities in software. Several of the newest teams at Oracle bring years of experience in Sun technology and are described here. Read on to learn about exciting new opportunities now available to Oracle developers.

Developers, Performance, and ApplicationsThe Developers, Performance, and Applications (DPA) group is an integral part of Oracle’s Hardware Systems Engineering business unit. The group helps deliver on Oracle’s Software. Hardware. Complete. vision by ensuring that Oracle’s Sun systems are highly optimized and integrated with the entire Oracle software portfolio, including database, middleware, and applications. DPA engineers focus on performance and work with Oracle Solaris engineering and other product development groups across Oracle, as well as processor design groups. We regularly publish industry-standard benchmark results, including many world records, on the full range of Oracle Sun systems and across the spectrum of major industry applications. We also work with independent software vendors to bring major industry applications to the Oracle Solaris platform and ensure that they are well-optimized and supported. And, we develop and support the suite of developer tools, including compilers used across Oracle’s product lines based on SPARC and x86. DPA is well-respected within the Oracle Systems community, and our engineers have opportunities to engage in a range of challenging, enjoyable projects. We are eager to talk to engineers who can join us in adding significant, tangible, and customer-perceived value to Oracle Hardware Systems products.

MicroelectronicsDesigning today’s leading multithreaded, multicore microprocessors puts the “hard” in hardware. That’s exactly why we like it! We like solving complex problems. It’s not easy to create something the size of your thumbnail with a couple billion transistors and connections so small that thousands of them would fit into a single human hair. Oracle’s Microelectronics Team uses the best silicon technology to develop microprocessors and ASICs that keep Oracle’s Sun systems in the lead on database and other high-performance computing and networking tasks. Our innovations result in some of the most reliable, scalable, and energy-efficient systems in the industry. These systems are the core building blocks for enterprise, Web, and high-performance computing infrastructures.

Companies that design high-performance microprocessors are few and far between. An even smaller number of companies develop products that span the entire software/hardware stack, from application software to operating systems to compute servers using their own micropro-cessors. Integrated circuit design requires the expertise of people in many specialty areas, such as microprocessor architecture, logic design and verification, circuit design and verification, emulation, design for test, design automation, and more. Our team’s tremendous diversity extends beyond technical roles to the women and men from around the globe who enjoy working together to build more powerful and more efficient microprocessors.

What do we like about our work? Read on for what some of our Microelectronics engineers have to say.

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• “This is exciting work, more complex than most. I’m developing in the latest technology with good, smart people.”

• “I have the opportunity to try new ideas. There’s more flexibility here, and I know that the work I do has direct impact.”

• “The challenge is complexity. I like being part of a team building complex things and making them work. We’re always asking, ‘is there a better way?’”

• “I have the opportunity to innovate.”

• “Verification of large-scale architectures is different every day. I enjoy the learning experience.”

• “This group has the best balance—to be business-focused and allow innovation, to define not just what to do, but how to do it.”

When you accomplish a tremendously challenging task, it’s rewarding. Our day-to-day accomplishments reward us with the ultimate pride from all the individual contributions merging to create new products with far-reaching impact. Do you like challenge? If so, join our team and create future generations of industry-leading microprocessors.

Netra Systems and NetworkingOur mission is to deliver the best networking solutions and to provide a competitive advantage to Oracle’s computer systems. During the last 25 years, our engineers have invented new networking protocols, architected and designed leading-edge networking products, and delivered value to our customers with best-performing solutions.

Whether you are calling your mom on your cell phone or browsing the Net using your iPhone, chances are that sooner or later an Oracle server will be involved in connecting your call. The Netra Systems and Networking product group develops and builds specialized computer systems for the telecommunications industry, based on stringent requirements for high availability and ruggedness. For the enterprise and the high-performance computing markets, our group develops state-of-the-art system network connectivity and datacenter infrastructure hardware and software products and technologies, such as Ethernet, InfiniBand and TCP/IP. If you have an interest in communication and you have a passion for computer architecture and system design, then this is just the right place for you.

As a member of our Engineering Team, you will be at the leading edge of technology innovation in both communication and computer systems design. You will have the opportunity to acquire functional knowledge and hands-on experience in a broad range of networking disciplines, such as network and product architectures, networking protocols, performance optimizations, and silicon design. Our group provides the unique opportunity to jumpstart your career through development of our next-generation products and technolo-gies in telecommunications systems and networking.

Open Storage Systems Are you ready to change the face of storage? Does the thought of holding a world record excite you? Do you want to work with storage systems and software that run on platforms

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that do everything from serving up your favorite Major League Baseball game to playing the latest episode of an HBO movie in 196 different formats and streams? Does the thought of improving the most robust and stable operating system in the world keep you up at night? Do you care deeply about latency, next-generation storage, flash, analytics, and the ability to analyze usage patterns and preserve data that may persist eternally?

Open Storage Systems includes 400 of the best storage and operating systems engineers in the world. We write file systems, tiered storage systems, and archive solutions that are used at organizations as big as the Library of Congress and the United States Army. We are working with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SAS, and SATA, as well as InfiniBand, to deliver I/O to tape, disk, and flash-based storage devices. We care deeply about secure data, data robustness and accuracy, as well as massive scale. We are currently world record holders in transaction based processing, and we have engineers writing software for organizations of massive scale.

The Oracle Open Storage Systems Division focuses on developing enterprise storage products that drive the next generation of data architectures for Oracle’s customers. Our storage systems support use with any type of application and are also optimized for deployment with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Virtualization, and the Oracle Database and applications. In the past year, the breakthrough ZFS Storage 7000 product line developed by this group has become one of the fastest-ramping product lines at the company.

The Storage group includes opportunities for engineers to develop at all levels of systems technology and most importantly to work on projects that span the boundaries between these layers. Much of our work on storage is also shared with core development on the Solaris operating system kernel. Our core Development Teams work on the following areas:

• Core I/O infrastructure: kernel engineering and device drivers in areas such as Multipath I/O, SAS, SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSER, SRP, FCoE, and the core kernel device driver APIs

• Backup and archive: next-generation backup, restore and archive technologies spanning development in the kernel and development in userland software to manage data

• Protocols and Interoperability: file protocols such as NFS and SMB stacks in the kernel for both server and clients and interoperability with Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, and other related areas

• Clustered filesystems and distributed data: next-generation clustered storage technologies including large-scale distributed data architectures for high-performance, and distributed multinode management of storage clusters

• ZFS: Oracle’s industry-leading ZFS filesystem and data management architecture, which is the core of our storage product line and also used in Solaris

• Flash and storage hardware: next-generation storage enclosures, Flash controller design, and firmware connect these physical layers with our core software investments

All the simple problems in storage are solved. As a member of our Engineering Team, you will be working on technology that is going to enable storage and storage directions for the next twenty years. The technical problems we solve are some of the most difficult storage problems in the world. We work with the best and the brightest minds in the storage industry, and we are in the midst of a storage revolution. If you have a keen mind, a desire to change the world of storage, and a need to work on problems that make other engineers whimper, you have found a home. We are the face of Open Storage. Game on. Let’s go.

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Platform Software TechnologiesIn Platform Software Technologies (PSWT), we develop the essential software stack for SPARC servers, blades, and rack systems, as well as large enterprise-class servers and more. These powerful machines have hundreds of CPU threads, providing world-record perfor-mance in database, Web, and Java applications. We also develop Predictive Self Healing support for SPARC and Intel systems in addition to Solaris kernel scalability enhancements. Our technology areas include host firmware, CPU bringup, SPARC Hypervisor, virtualiza-tion, sun4v Solaris, SPARC power management, platform scalability, I/O, and fault manage-ment. As the key core software development organization in these areas, we influence change in both the CPU designs and operating system architecture in ways impossible at any other computer system company. This level of freedom and creativity not only generates world-class performance but also makes for a very challenging and exciting work environment. We seek self-motivated fast learners to work with talented and experienced professionals on several upcoming platform designs. If you are up for the challenge, we want to talk to you.

Solaris Operating SystemThe Oracle Solaris Operating System delivers enterprise-grade performance, stability, and security. One OS, supported on more than 1,000 SPARC and x86 platforms, can span the Web tier, the data warehouse, and the most demanding technical compute applications. Solaris is the base for supporting general-purpose computing as well as running an opti-mized Oracle software stack. Solaris is known for innovations such as the Zones Application Containers, the Crossbow Virtualized Networking stack, the zfs File System, Predictive Self Healing, as well as dtrace. Before Sun joined Oracle, Sun and Oracle worked together for more than two decades to make Solaris a highly optimized database and application deploy-ment platform, ideal for Oracle Applications and more than 10,000 other software packages.

Solaris Zones OS Virtualization

Long before virtualization in the datacenter became mainstream, Solaris introduced the concept of Zones. Zones are virtual environments that provide a secure application develop-ment environment with excellent performance, scalability, and observability, but without the performance and management overhead of virtual machines. One can easily create hundreds of zones even on a low-end laptop. Rather than seeing the black box like one would with virtual machines, with zones, administrators have fine-grain observability of processes and networking traffic at their fingertips. Zones are the preferred application deployment solution for a lot of Oracle customers today. The combination of zones with the zfs file system as well as the Crossbow network virtualization capabilities in Solaris sets zones apart from all other virtualization solutions in the industry: zfs allows instant creation of a zone by cloning another zone. Crossbow allows you to create a datacenter in a box with both virtual compute as well as networking elements that emulate very accurately a physical network topology. If you are interested in OS virtualization and like to drive innovation in the IT industry, our group is the place to be.

Solaris Core Kernel

Solaris is the preeminent operating system in the world. With world-class features, it is incredibly scalable with great performance across multiple system architectures (X86 and SPARC). Our team is responsible for ensuring that the Solaris kernel provides the support for the latest hardware innovations, continues to easily scale as the era of multicore processors blossoms, and provides new features. We are always looking for ways to improve the existing

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subsystems as well as thinking of the next big thing in operating system innovation. We work on areas in the kernel such as virtual memory, affinity awareness, I/O, scheduling, power management, boot, CMT/NUMA optimizations, libc improvements, and many more. The Solaris Core Kernel Team is the perfect place for creative, driven engineers to innovate new solutions to complex problems in the world’s preeminent operating system.

Solaris Security

Solaris is one of the most secure operating systems in the world. Our security solutions at the operating system level are critical in meeting regulatory or information-protection require-ments for enterprises and protect the system from unauthorized access and modification. With Solaris, security administrators can enable the strong mandatory access controls required by governments and the Finance Industry; verify integrity using file verification; reduce risk by controlling access rights; simplify administration by using standards-based Solaris cryptographic and key management frameworks; and configure various enterprise-grade authentication mechanisms while knowing that data on a Solaris system is protected whether the data is at rest or in flight.

We are responsible for most of the features that empower Solaris to be such a secure operating system, including cryptography, authentication, network security, roles, auditing, trusted extensions, and much more. We are working on leading-edge projects in these critical and exciting technology areas to make Solaris even more secure than it is currently. We work closely with many partners both across Oracle and within the industry and are pioneers in standard-setting bodies and security-related consortia. Our organization is ideal for passionate engineers who worry about the security threats to the operating system and are interested in coming up with innovative solutions to protect against these threats.

Oracle Solaris Modernization Team

We are responsible for Solaris’ life-cycle management, including packaging, installation, system configuration, and upgrading. We drive innovation through development of the next generation of packaging, install, and system configuration infrastructure and tools to meet the demands of customers with increasingly complex systems and datacenters. We also deliver highly integrated, optimized solutions to Oracle’s customers. We seek highly motivated, creative engineers with varied interests and expertise. We need expertise in kernel develop-ment, networking, install and packaging (especially Java and Python expertise), and system configuration/management. We offer opportunities for engineers to deliver innovation that may benefit all Oracle customers.

Solaris InfiniBand

InfiniBand (IB) is the latest high-speed fabric interconnect technology with applications in I/O, IPC, storage, and networking interconnect. By combining world-class fabric intercon-nect performance with Solaris’ enterprise-class power, reliability, and security, users can achieve a best-of-all-worlds computing environment. The basis of InfiniBand is to provide applications with a flexible and powerful transport service. It provides scalable connection speeds and intelligent host adapters that offload much of the computing load from the host CPU. This service can be used to communicate with other applications or processes or to access storage without making any expensive request of the operating system’s resources. Solaris IB engineering projects span the range of development from low-level device drivers and infrastructure to Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) development to application-access mecha-nisms to user-level commands and utilities. This offers the widest set of opportunities to engineers wanting to be involved with the hottest I/O technology available.

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Some specific technologies of IB in Solaris include device drivers and InfiniBand Transport Framework (IBTF), the infrastructure on which the IB products are built; networking capabilities, including IP over IB (an implementation of IP protocol over the IB fabric providing connected and connectionless transport); reliable datagram service (a ULP that Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Exadata Storage Servers use); Socket Direct Protocol (SDP), an IB protocol maintaining the TCP/IP socket interfaces; and storage products; InfiniBand is a critical technology of Oracle storage products, including the 7000 series of Unified Storage Systems and the Exadata Storage Server. IB is becoming ubiquitous, the fabric of choice for all datacenter activities. The pace is increasing to expand Solaris’ IB capabilities while preserving quality and maintaining maximal product performance. We offer engineers opportunities to develop the newest, best I/O fabric in Solaris, using skills at all levels of the system to keep Oracle and Solaris at the leading edge of the datacenter.

Solaris Networking

The demands for networking bandwidth have grown tremendously over the last few years: not too long ago, people were pushing Kbit/s of data through their modems, while today, we have 14 Mbit/s available to us on our smart phones. The same has happened in the datacen-ter, where the capacity of networking cards connecting servers to the network has grown from 100 Mbit/s 10 years ago to 10 Gbit/s and soon 40 Gbit/s. At the same time, virtualiza-tion and cloud computing pose a whole new set of challenges for networking.

The Solaris Networking group is focused on anticipating these challenges and staying ahead of the curve by creating innovative concepts such as virtual network cards (VNICs) and networking bandwidth control that were introduced through Project Crossbow recently; see hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+crossbow/. With Crossbow, we are able to create virtual network lanes within a Solaris host that allow us to transport traffic independently through so-called hardware lanes with dedicated bandwidth capacity independent from other hardware lanes. This architecture takes advantage of the latest hardware features in modern network cards and allows us to scale up far beyond 40 Gbit/s. Combined with Solaris Zones, Crossbow allows you to create a datacenter in a box with both virtual compute as well as virtual network elements combined to a virtual topology emulating very accurately a physical network topology. We have filed 40+ patents and published several papers (SIG-COMM and LISA) related to Crossbow over the last few years.

In addition, we are working on implementing the latest networking protocols, such as Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). We are also focused on introducing new observability tools that provide fine-grain observability down to the hardware lane level. If you are interested in networking and like to drive innovation in the IT Industry, our group is the place to be.

Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition

Oracle Solaris Cluster is Oracle’s premiere solution for providing end-to-end availability for mission-critical deployments running on Solaris servers. Our product supports a large, ever-increasing portfolio of industry-leading applications at all service tiers and monitors and reacts to software and hardware faults to maintain services even during problems. Banks, financials, healthcare, auto makers, telcos, retailers—these are the types of customers who trust Oracle Solaris Cluster to keep their businesses running. To provide end-to-end avail-ability for complete solutions, we’ve become experts in a wide range of technologies and applications. Our product is written primarily in various scripting languages, such as Java, C, and C++. It makes use of and integrates key virtualization technologies such as containers and LDoms and Solaris kernel components such as networking.

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Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition connects dispersed Oracle Solaris Cluster deploy-ments to create a disaster-recovery solution that enables businesses to keep running even during large-scale problems. For example, a cluster in San Francisco could be protected by a cluster anywhere else in the world—a cluster that would quickly take over San Francisco’s IT role in the unfortunate yet hopefully avoidable event of complete site unavailability hypo-thetically caused by a disaster such as an earthquake. Our team is as diverse as the solution space, with engineers in all parts of the world, and expertise in distributed systems, test creation and execution, the Solaris kernel, virtualization technologies, user interfaces, storage management, application deployment and management, data replication technologies, and more. Our expertise is reflected in numerous patents and publications and through presenta-tions and live demos at key industry events such as Oracle OpenWorld.

Oracle Solaris OS Platform Software Engineering

The Solaris OS environment represents a highly stable, scalable foundation enabling thou-sands of applications to run 24x7 in datacenter environments. The Platform Software Engineering Team serves the critical role of creating device driver software and conducting OS bringup and enhancements for the ever-changing server hardware landscape.

Spread across several continents and states, the R&D engineers in the Platform Software group work closely with OEMs, ODMs, internal Oracle server hardware design teams, and many silicon chip vendors to weave a complex web of Solaris OS support for booting, device configuration, device drivers, power management, fault management and analysis, hardware signaling, and interrupt resource control.

Oracle’s term for OS Platform Software Engineering is also known to some as Systems Software and Embedded Device engineering. What attracts some students to this area is that it represents a rather fascinating transition zone between the electronics (hardware) and the OS software, where the programmer’s lines of code can actually command the physical hardware to move a disk head, send a packet over a network, and turn on cooling fans, controlling nearly every aspect of what the chips, wires, and peripherals do in the system.

Solaris Information Documentation & Globalization...Solaris Documentation

Our skilled and talented Documentation Team provides a wide range of content enabling the Solaris administrator and developer to be successful. We are responsible for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Solaris Cluster, and Oracle Solaris Studio technical product documentation. Integral to development, from functional and design review to product delivery, we work closely with engineering and use our technical knowledge as well as our writing skills to write technical content. Our group also includes media designers and technical editors who contribute to documentation quality.

Building from creative analysis techniques and a keen focus on our highly sophisticated technical audience, we develop an information set that paints a conceptual picture and the step-by-step details that our customers need. This includes user and reference manuals; man pages; online help; release, install, and what’s new documents; and how-to information. We deliver information online, in books, or through documentation integrated with products. Additional documentation is delivered as retail books or to wikis and blogs.

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Solaris Globalization

The world is flatter than ever, and so is Oracle business. In the Systems Globalization group, we push the envelope to reach out to every part of the planet by providing technologies to meet users’ cultural needs and remove language barriers. We develop multilingual comput-ing framework, character input/output technologies, global system management facilities, and global information access technologies in Oracle’s Systems product stack such as Solaris operating system. We also focus on quality engineering to ensure that the Systems product stack is global-ready. With these technologies and the integration effort, we make Oracle Systems products multilingual/multicultural out of the box. We literally work globally, interfacing with many parts of the world and many groups in product engineering. We look for talented engineers interested in both engineering and global dynamics.

Solaris Curriculum

The innovation, flexibility, and dedication necessary to build truly dynamic companies is credited to well-trained, supported employees. The Oracle Solaris curriculum group provides training for the Solaris 10 system administrator and other datacenter roles using the Oracle Solaris operating system. Our training provides real-world scenarios and hands-on labs, enabling learners to understand important concepts and practice job tasks. The Solaris curriculum group creates instructor-led and Web-based training for Solaris, including Solaris technologies such as Oracle Solaris ZFS, Oracle Solaris Zones, security, and networking, along with courses on high-availability Oracle Solaris Cluster.

SPARC Enterprise SystemsThe SPARC Enterprise Systems group has a long history of developing the most successful families of servers in Sun’s history. Our products range from mid-range 4 socket servers to some of the industry’s largest servers with 64 sockets. The systems are used by Fortune 500 companies to power the core of their businesses, as well as to provide services to their own employees and customers. With Solaris, these systems provide the best scalability in the world, along with industry-leading RAS (Reliability, Scalability, and Serviceability). We work closely with the SPARC Microelectronics group to define chip sets that can scale to a very large number of processors.

Our engineers regularly deal with new challenges around cooling, dense packaging, signal integrity, and power. Our customers demand power-efficient and space-efficient systems, as well as competitive-price performance. Our engineers work with other groups within Oracle to optimize our systems and architectures with all the other parts of the software stack to produce a truly integrated system. We innovate from the silicon up in developing our new systems, something that is rare in the industry today. Our engineers get great experience in developing state-of-the-art systems and solving real engineering problems. If you want to apply your creativity, we have the environment and challenges to provide you with experi-ence you can’t get elsewhere.

SPARC Volume Systems Our multifaceted SPARC Volume Systems engineering organization brings to market the prolific, successful line of Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers and blades based on chip multithreading (CMT) technology. The System on a Chip CMT processors have the industry’s highest core and thread counts, provide increased system use, and deliver record-breaking

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performance. On-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet and cryptographic acceleration capabilities deliver a fast, secure, reliable Web experience to millions of users. Systems provide the highest levels of space and energy efficiency, incorporate innovative Flash storage technologies, and enable consolidation to solve a range of demands faced by datacenters already splitting at the seams. Hardware, integrated with software, provides virtual-machine capabilities through Oracle Solaris containers and Oracle Virtualization Manager for SPARC.

Our end-to-end development organization is responsible for the definition, architecture, design, engineering, program management, integration, validation, and delivery of systems. Several functions in this organization also provide support to other Systems hardware organizations in specialties such as PCB design; mechanical, thermal, acoustic, power, and packaging engineering; product documentation; and regulatory testing.

Giving a datacenter more work capacity while using less space and energy is the challenge that our engineers master every day. We define products and then design, integrate, and validate hardware, software, and firmware components, as well as the complete systems. One of the keys to our success is the delivery of reliable, stable new product prototypes to all development partners. Experienced program managers are a focal point for developing new products and sustaining them in coordination with partners in other organizations.

Systems Technologies, PCB Design and Tools Engineering, and Publications

Our Systems Technologies, PCB Design and Tools Engineering, and Technical Publications groups extend their expertise in a range of specialties to various other Systems hardware groups. Our test infrastructure and processes ensure that our products can perform as designed and can be manufactured efficiently. Engineers implement and support a variety of custom and third-party tools for the system design environment. Our Publications Team drives content design and delivery strategies, both online and in print, for customer-facing product documentation supporting all SPARC hardware products. These three groups within the SPARC Volume Systems Division are an integral part of any product development cycle. If you want to work with talented, innovative individuals on cutting-edge technologies that span Oracle’s hardware and software product lines, SPARC Volume Systems might just be the place for you.

Systems Revenue Product EngineeringWe are in some ways the engineering equivalent of the special forces. Our members investi-gate the most complex unresolved cases. Unlike our pure development cousins who focus on specific areas, we have to draw on both breadth and depth of experience to analyze the data, assess the evidence, and identify the culprit (i.e., the product defect that caused the problem). Once the root cause is identified, we are responsible for correcting the offending code and integrating the fix back into the product. This technically challenging role can involve working under pressure, especially when we’re called in to extremely hot issues that have visibility at the highest executive levels. While many of our staff are highly experienced engineers with many years under their belts, we do look for recent graduates or junior engineers who demonstrate strong potential. Those who have superior learning agility and technical aptitude, together with commitment and enthusiasm, will thrive in our organiza-tion. Our portfolio includes most of Sun’s software technologies, including the Solaris OS and kernel, file systems, networking, clustering, and more. You will be immersed in these technologies at the deepest level, combining special knowledge in some with an in-depth knowledge of many. You will be or become an expert in C, UNIX, operating system inter-nals, and more. Others come to us for help; the buck stops here!

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Tape TechnologiesThe Tape Storage organization at Oracle develops the latest tape enterprise data storage products. These products cover the complete archive and backup solutions for customers who require the utmost in performance, usability, and reliability. The portfolio contains tape drives storing over a Terabyte of data on a removable tape cartridge, tape libraries capable of managing up to 100,000 tape cartridges, and virtual tape storage products for mainframes that store data dispersed geographically around the world.

These tape systems are being deployed by customers for data protection and long-term digital preservation. Customers are found in areas such as internet applications, media and entertainment, finance, high-performance computing, climate modeling, research labs, and large libaries. If you want to be part of this dynamic team, we seek highly motivated people with skills in robotics, mechanical design, servo implementation, magnetics, recording theory, ASIC design, firmware development, as well as test and reliability engineering.

BUSINESS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTOracle Applications... Information-Driven Products

There has never been a more exciting time to join the Oracle Applications Division—a global organization defining, developing, and delivering high-quality, information-driven products for the 21st century. We are moving into the number one position in more and more market segments, and each quarter, we get closer to our ultimate goal of becoming #1 in Applications.

Our applications strategy of Complete, Open, and Integrated registers with our customers. They understand that Oracle is offering complete suites of products that work with their other investments. They see that that the products work in heterogeneous environments because we build on open standards. They hear our senior executives talk about integration across the applications and between our technology stack and applications. They know that Complete, Open, and Integrated is real.

Applications Unlimited: Oracle has acquired dozens of significant companies, including PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, BEA Systems, Primavera, Agile Software, Hyperion, Demantra, i-flex Solutions, and Retek. Successful acquisitions have allowed us to bring together the best and brightest industry talent, advanced technologies, and state-of-the-art products to produce an incredible applications product portfolio. Applications Unlimited consists of these product families: Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World, and Oracle’s Edge applications (in the supply chain management area), including Oracle Transportation Management, Value Chain Planning, Agile, and AutoVue.

In the portfolio, we offer enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications in areas such as manufacturing, financials, human resources, supply chain, and more. We also offer customer relationship management (CRM) applications including sales, marketing, and service, as well as highly regarded industry solutions.

Oracle gained applications customers through each of its acquisitions, which continue to produce cross-sell and upsell opportunities. Today, 80 percent of our business is derived from existing customers, who have remained loyal to us because of our Applications Unlimited promise to continue to offer differentiated capabilities in all the product families. We are

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delivering on this commitment by producing new releases of the acquired products and offering lifetime support to protect the investments that customers made.

It has taken vision and discipline to build our solid applications foundation and to bring so many pieces together for our customers. Now we’re at a critical juncture as we offer Oracle Fusion. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, introduced Oracle Fusion at a major customer event in San Francisco in November 2009.

Oracle Fusion is Oracle’s next-generation, service-oriented platform and applications suite. It brings together next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and services, including Oracle Applications and Oracle Middleware, to fundamentally change the dynamics in the applications marketplace and revolutionize business. When Oracle Fusion is released, we believe that the vast majority of customers will start by adding a few modules to their existing Applications Unlimited product lines to take advantage of some new capability. No one will be required to rip out and replace an existing system to adopt Oracle Fusion. Instead, we are giving our customers a sensible bridge to the future by letting them choose to stay on their heritage Oracle products or move to the fully integrated benefits of Oracle Fusion Applications when the business need arises. As the interest grows in Oracle Fusion, we hear customers expressing a willingness to branch out from their original products because they see us integrating the applications and unifying them on a common technology foundation. They also like what we’re doing with business intelligence, risk, compliance, and much more across the product lines.

The area of applications is one of our fastest-growing businesses. Customers demand adaptive software that responds quickly to dynamic market conditions. We can deliver a business applications suite for organizations large and small, across any geography and industry. We offer information-driven applications, adaptive business processes, and improved total cost of ownership. None of the competition has the range of applications that Oracle has, nor a footprint with similar breadth and depth.

Business applications software is not simply about accumulating technology and piecing it together. It is about having the insight and design skills necessary to build a platform of common services that will address the most challenging business requirements. We offer customers a buffet of choices within our broad applications portfolio. This dramatically increases the value proposition of Oracle Applications, especially when one factors in the strong technology product portfolio. We are responding to customers’ enthusiasm and willingness to pick up more pieces from Oracle’s broader portfolio by incorporating innova-tion from the technology layers and offering results quickly and efficiently.

Opportunities: We offer many opportunities to work in areas that match your particular interest or expertise. We seek talented people with skills ranging from software analysis and design to applications development, testing, and documentation using the latest technologies for product development. We also have groups seeking user experience designers, demonstration consultants, DBAs, implementation consultants, project managers, and a variety of other challenging roles. There are many exciting career paths and opportunities for growth and advancement.

Our customers have embraced our applications strategy—they are making plans and invest-ments based on it. We’re changing the way the business world operates. As part of the Oracle Applications Division, you will have a chance to use and define the latest industry standard technology—and help us continue to deliver high-quality, innovative releases. We need spirited thinkers and doers like you.

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Oracle Application Product LinesFusion, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World

Oracle Applications includes these product families: Oracle Fusion, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle’s JD Edwards World, and Oracle’s Edge Applications (in the SCM area), including Oracle Transportation Management, Value Chain Planning, Agile, and AutoVue.

Oracle Fusion

Our customers need greater business agility at lower cost. They need to improve customer satisfaction, attraction, and innovation, to streamline processes, to make better decisions, and to strengthen regulatory compliance. They need a superior ownership experience. Oracle Fusion enables breakthrough increases in user and organizational productivity at significant-ly lower cost by combining the best software capabilities and business practices across Oracle’s applications product-line portfolio with leading technology. Our SOA offers organizations more flexibility in defining business processes. The open, flexible architecture of our industry-leading middleware orchestrates these business processes. Our standard, shared toolset for developers, customers, and partners provides sustainable extensibility. And, Web 2.0 concepts native to our enterprise application workflow facilitate collaboration and continuous improvement.

Oracle Fusion is a revolutionary, new, service-oriented, Java-based architecture and enterprise software suite. Our goal is to deliver a superior ownership experience, scalable business process automation, metadata capabilities, built-in business intelligence, and industry-spe-cific capabilities—and the lowest total cost of ownership of any software vendor.

Oracle E-Business Suite

Enterprises must innovate quickly in the face of global competition, financial pressures, and increasingly complex regulation. Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) enables businesses to protect existing investments, extend the value of applications, and evolve to the next generation of business applications. With Oracle EBS, enterprises manage asset lifecycle management, CRM, ERP, product lifecycle management, SCM, procurement, manufacturing, and more.

Oracle E-Business Suite is a fully integrated suite of enterprise business applications designed for functional best practices and industry-specific capabilities and enabling businesses to adapt to change and compete more effectively. Whether customers implement one module at a time, multiple modules, or the complete suite, Oracle E-Business Suite provides better business information for effective decision-making and enables optimal responsiveness.

PeopleSoft Enterprise (Pleasanton, CA)

Oracle is committed to continued enhancement of the PeopleSoft product line development and delivering high-quality support to PeopleSoft customers. To accomplish this, Oracle has established a distinct PeopleSoft business unit with a Development Team dedicated to PeopleSoft solutions. The PeopleSoft Team mission is to ensure organizations can optimize business performance at lower costs using PeopleSoft solutions. We enable customers to increase the value of their PeopleSoft investments through the delivery of high-value software enhancements and to innovate through the adoption of next-generation Oracle technologies incorporated into the PeopleSoft product platform.

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PeopleSoft Development. To accomplish our goal of providing business value to customers, we seek talented resources for our PeopleSoft Team. We work on all major components necessary to deliver complete, documented PeopleSoft solutions. Applications development is the cornerstone of this organization and is responsible for the design and creation of PeopleSoft applications in the following areas: Human Capital Management (HCM), Financial Manage-ment (FMS), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), CRM, and SCM.

PeopleTools Development Team. In this team, we also create cutting-edge solutions for some of the most challenging development problems Oracle faces. PeopleTools is the technology platform upon which PeopleSoft applications are built. Team members investigate how PeopleSoft applications can deliver better, simpler, and more interactive user experiences. Additionally, we aim to take advantage of Oracle’s complete software and hardware portfo-lio—including next-generation solutions—to deliver greater value to PeopleSoft customers.

Our developers work cross-functionally with product manager, quality assurance experts, and documentation and curriculum developers. Our product managers work with customers and industry analysts to identify PeopleSoft application enhancements that will deliver the greatest benefits to customers. QA is mission-critical to PeopleSoft; delivering enterprise software requires an effective, innovative testing methodology that begins early in the product’s design phase. Many of Oracle’s best and brightest resources work on the QA Team and are chartered with ensuring the delivery of a high-quality product to customers. Finally, no PeopleSoft product is complete without a comprehensive set of reference documentation. Our documentation and curriculum developers create and package customer-facing content, including prerelease notes, release notes, product documentation, and training courses.

Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

More than 5 million users worldwide in organizations of all sizes depend on Siebel solutions to transform how they identify, acquire, retain, and serve customers. Oracle’s Siebel CRM products are the world’s leading solutions for delivering immediate business results and long-term competitive advantage to customers. Siebel’s multichannel offerings allow organizations to intelligently manage and coordinate all customer interactions across the Web, contact center, field sales/service force, branch/retail network, and indirect and partner distribution channels. Siebel solutions draw upon top capabilities in CRM, business intelli-gence, and customer data integration and can be deployed as licensed software or as a hosted service. Siebel solutions are tailored to the unique needs of more than 20 industries and incorporate industry-specific business processes, best practices, and business insight. They are the product of more than $2 billion in R&D investments and reflect more than 15 years of experience with more than 4,000 organizations. With Oracle’s extensive global network of partners, Oracle’s Siebel resources provide the people, processes, and technology expertise critical to driving business value from the deployment of customer-facing solutions.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (Denver, CO)

Thousands of companies of all sizes, nonprofits, and governments around the globe use Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne business applications. These solutions encompass the management of a company’s finances, people, customers, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, and assets including real estate and capital equipment. We are based in Denver, Colorado at the second largest Oracle facility in North America. In the midst of the Denver Technology Center, Colorado’s second largest employment area, our developers engage in a broad array of technologies encompassing every significant platform, operating system, and database. We also collaborate with Oracle developers in India and worldwide.

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Our applications are developed for multiple platforms using various databases, operating systems, and major browsers. A common architecture with robust tools created and continu-ally enhanced by the Development Team enables JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to readily support these different choices and gives customers a common look and feel across all applications—a key competitive advantage when firms evaluate our products. Our develop-ers work on a variety of development areas, including ERP applications development and integration with Oracle products. We are actively adopting Oracle’s next-generation Fusion Middleware. Our primary objective is to create an integration suite with native JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Web services capability based on open technologies such as Java, SOA, BPEL, ESB, and standards-based interfaces.

JD Edwards World

Oracle’s JD Edwards World, built for the IBM System i platform (formerly iSeries), offers midsize businesses a reliable, functionality-rich, Web-enabled ERP environment for world-class management of plants, inventories, equipment, finances, and people as a synchronized, integrated whole. It is tightly integrated and prebundled on a single database, reducing implementation cost and complexity. The JD Edwards World line of products is specifically designed to support complex business operations with minimal maintenance. Oracle’s goals are to increase the quality of customers’ total ownership experience, support the complexities of managing for success in a global economy, and reduce overall IT costs. Our division is colocated in Denver with the EnterpriseOne organization, so we can share resources and skills. We offer development, strategy, marketing, a global support center, QA program management, customer loyalty, a remote site in Argentina, and remote teleworkers.

Applications Development ITRunning Oracle Itself...

Once you’ve successfully developed products for a few years, you qualify for a special group within Oracle Applications called Applications Development IT (ADIT). We are largely responsible for making Oracle’s business run. What do we mean by this? It means we intentionally use our own products. At Oracle, this is not only true; it has also been instru-mental to our continued success.

To call ourselves simply an IT group is to fail to capture the scope of our mission. Located firmly within the Applications Development organization, our group has been responsible for the $1B savings goal Oracle achieved around CY2000 and for successfully integrating more than 70 acquisitions into Oracle systems. We have also been responsible for some of the most important enhancements made to Oracle’s applications products. And that is because our mission and explicit charter is to implement, run, and improve all of the products Oracle itself uses.

We are the ones who truly make products work before they get into the hands of our countless customers. And we do this by running products before they are ready, upgrading products first, and trying every conceivable new technology that can provide us with competitive advantage.

We also design and build extensions that become features or whole new products. Our group comprises developers and functional experts who have grown tired of product release cycles that can take years—and have now sought out a faster-paced, more-customer-connected development experience where new challenges await us each and every quarter.

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Although we typically shy away from newcomers, we are looking for a few top-tier candidates to join us. We offer a breadth of experience and scope of mission that few can match. Consider meeting us to learn more.

Oracle Application Development TeamsCustomer Relationship Management... ERP... Financials... HR... Manufacturing...

Numerous application products are offered through the product lines already introduced in this book and are also available in various packages or individual modules. The choice of functionality offered by all our product lines is extensive; it covers the range of horizontal applications in addition to many industries. Here, we introduce a small sample of the many teams delivering leading functionality and working on various areas of Oracle Applications.

Cost Management

Our team’s mission is to build innovative application software solutions allowing customers to manage and optimize their working capital, costs, and profits in a global, Internet-driven economy. Our engineers architect, design, construct, test, and deliver world-class applications using the best available technology and development processes. Our projects are challenging and provide opportunities to acquire and use a broad range of business, technical, and collaboration skills.

Advanced business skills are critical in today’s world and key to a successful business career. If you wish to acquire and expand your business knowledge, our team is uniquely suited for you. Oracle Cost Management handles transaction costing along with accounting and valuation analysis to provide customers with cost and profitability insights required for performance evaluation, decision-making, and financial reporting. We traverse the worlds of SCM and financials, interacting with products such as inventory, distributed order orchestra-tion, shipping, purchasing, payables, receivables, and general ledger.

Cost Management makes full use of the latest and greatest in the Fusion technology stack, including advanced features of Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware. But great tools alone do not solve the technical challenges of churning large amounts of transaction data from across many products. As part of our team, you will be working to come up with creative ways of making the best use of these tools, from writing the most optimized SQL to crunch this data to developing the snappiest UI that can display this data.

Oracle is a global company. But as part of most product teams, do you get to work with people from across the world on a daily basis right off the bat? As part of Cost Management, you do. We have team members spread across the US as well as India. Armed with advanced online collaboration tools, you will be ready to take your collaboration skills to the next level, jumping not just geographical but also cultural boundaries.

Join the team that hires only the best and cares about your personal development as much as project delivery. Jumpstart your career by acquiring advanced business skills and functional knowledge in key business areas while applying your technical skills and learning new ones in a fun, fast-paced environment.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

CRM software is one of the fastest-growing segments in the Software Industry. Organiza-tions worldwide, large and small, commercial and public sector, use Oracle CRM

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applications to run mission-critical business operations. As companies strive to maintain competitiveness and drive new levels of performance in the global, Web-enabled business environment, they need applications to engage customers, increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and automate increasingly complex business processes.

Oracle CRM Teams are seeking the best and brightest graduates to deliver the next-genera-tion CRM product suite while continuing to evolve and extend existing product lines. The footprint of Oracle’s CRM product suite is broad and deep, covering all facets of the custom-er experience, from marketing to loyalty programs, field and telesales, customer service and contact center, Web self-service and e-service, e-billing, order capture, and customer hub, to name just a few. From handling customer inquiries through e-mail, chat, or the phone to dispatching field technicians to remote locations, Oracle’s CRM applications are vital to the success of businesses worldwide.

Oracle CRM offers the unique opportunity to be involved with all of Oracle’s technology, application, and industry groups. No matter your role in CRM, you will find yourself in an exciting, challenging environment where every person is empowered to show initiative, voice opinions, and be proactive. Oracle is dedicated to the continual growth and development of our staff, striving constantly to strengthen our expertise while developing new skills.

CRM Teams provide a full range of opportunities and challenges to apply your skills and grow your career within the heart of Oracle Applications and at the forefront of the CRM Applications Industry through roles such as the following:

• Engineering. Our engineers are some of the most innovative in the Software Industry, working daily with the most exciting technologies and top software development tools. CRM developers are at the forefront of advances in software engineering, using the latest Oracle tools and technology to build our CRM solutions. We participate in many exciting initiatives, building user-friendly HTML and Java-based user interfaces, designing XML-based Web services, becoming database performance experts, and working side-by-side with our world-class Architecture Team to improve products across Oracle. The technologies alone will keep you at the top of your game. We use the latest features of Oracle Database and Application Server, Java, XML, JSP, Web Services, and JSF. Our products are architected based on open Java EE standards and MVC design principles. Our wireless and mobile applications also use technologies such as VC+, Embedded VC++, J2ME, and Visual Basic.

• Product Strategy. Product strategists set the design and future direction of products by analyzing the competitive landscape, gathering functional requirements, and creating high-level business requirements and functional designs. Product strategists also serve as product experts and product evangelists and work to both deliver product messages to customers and gather feedback on our product plans, designs, and strategy. Our product strategy experts work closely with customer advisory boards and business professionals to define the next generation of product requirements. We enjoy project variety and career advancement opportunities in an intellectually stimulating atmosphere offering a range of experience, backgrounds, and expertise.

• Technical Publications and Education. These specialists work with product management and engineering to create all the functional and technical documentation, help systems, and course materials intrinsic to our product offerings.

• Program Management. Our program managers are responsible for managing and planning all the new releases under development. We set the master schedule and milestones and define the overall release process. We coordinate the deliverables across all other

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organizations involved with developing new releases, from engineering to product manage-ment, product marketing, technical publications, and QA.

• QA. Our QA specialists work very closely with product management and engineering to develop detailed test plans for new releases under development. QA experts then execute the test plans and report all the defects found, working closely with product management to prioritize the defects. QA plays a critically important role in assuring product quality.

We take pride in our global organization: all above functions are performed by people located in North America, India, and other locations worldwide. If you seek a unique challenge and a chance to be at the forefront of technology and business applications development, consider Oracle CRM.

E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Relentless globalization of industries and economies has made supply chains an ever-more critical component of businesses large and small worldwide. Heightened competition from abroad, along with a need to look overseas for both new markets and lower-cost sources of supply, make extending the supply chain globally an imperative. The strength of globally integrated supply chains that provide visibility, flexibility, and risk management can eliminate enormous costs and help companies grow revenue substantially. Our developers support the high-tech/electronics, automotive, project/aerospace and defense, medical devices, general discrete industries, and more, from manufacturing and facilities and plant mainte-nance to utilities, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, banking, public sector, telecommunications, energy (oil, coal, natural gas), retail, waste management, education, mining, construction, transportation, IT, and farming.

Do you want to have fun while developing business software to help companies save money? If so, this may be the ideal team for you. We work hard and play harder. Team outings with entertaining events and team members with diverse talents always keep things interesting!

Our division works on the Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management (R12) family of applications, a complete solution to power information-driven value chains. Companies build and operate world-class value chains for profitable growth, gaining the ability to predict market requirements and risks, adapt and innovate in response to volatile market con-ditions, and align operations across global networks. Our family of applications integrates and automates all key supply chain processes, from design, planning, and procurement to manufacturing and fulfillment.

A unified data model provides a single, accurate view of the entire supply chain. Companies manage their increasingly complex, global supply chains using lean, demand-driven prin-ciples for a customer-focused enterprise. And when Oracle SCM runs on Oracle technology, customers speed implementation, optimize performance, streamline support—and maximize ROI using product development, demand management, sales and operations planning, manufacturing, transportation, and supply management capabilities. Oracle open standards-based architecture enables process orchestration, allows for pervasive intelligence, and provides actionable information for the twenty-first-century enterprise.

Our developers and product managers participate in all software development lifecycle phases, from analyzing requirements to writing design documents, coding, testing, packag-ing, and maintaining product features. We interact regularly with customers, strategy, product management, QA, documentation, release, and support teams. We solve complex business problems, developing algorithms and heuristics to tackle operational issues of supply

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chain processes. With growth in outsourced manufacturing, many of the world’s most successful manufacturers rely on Oracle products and services to establish an efficient supply chain. Our cross-functional team works with customers, consultants, sales, and Oracle development teams and our technology partners to define and deliver efficient world-class supply chain execution solutions.

Our solution enables customers to exploit advanced technologies such as RFID, mobile computing, voice and touch screen-based transactions, and advanced systems such as automated guided vehicles and robots. Our solution uses a unique blend of technologies (Oracle RDBMS 11g, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Java EE, XML, EDI, ETL and WSDL/RESTful Services), intuitive business modeling, intelligent algorithms, and optimization techniques to run high-volume operations efficiently. We work with Oracle’s latest technology stack (ADF, BPEL, XMLP, SOA, Web Services) to develop next-generation solutions along the lines of Enterprise 2.0 applications.

Our development teams work on the following products:

• Advanced Procurement applications cut all supply management costs, reduce spending on goods and services, streamline procure-to-pay processes, and drive policy compliance. Procurement organizations are expected to substantially reduce overhead costs associated with procure-to-pay processes such as sourcing and supplier selection, product search and selection, ordering, tracking, receiving, managing inventory levels, receiving invoices, and paying suppliers. Working capital is yet another area in which procurement organizations are expected to contribute significant returns. Leading organizations are finding ways to eliminate excess capital by working with suppliers to identify measures for mutual cost savings opportunities. Standardizing and stretching payment terms, improving supplier reliability to enable lower inventory requirements, shifting inventory burdens to suppliers, and shrinking supplier leadtimes in support of shorter cash-to-cash cycles are all the ways in which our applications help corporate-level procurement groups deliver ROI.

• Asset Lifecycle Management helps customers manage their assets throughout the entire lifecycle, from purchase planning, acquisition, construction, installation, operation, mainte-nance, and replacement all the way up to disposal or sale of assets. Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, for example, supports sophisticated, condition-based maintenance strategies for property, plants, and public infrastructure. Its single-instance design ensures best practices and quality compliance globally; eliminates excess and obsolete spare parts inventories; promotes environmental, health, and safety policies; smoothes coordination of production and maintenance schedules; and improves both the responsiveness and accuracy of contracted maintenance.

• Oracle Contracts streamlines and automates the process of managing all enterprise con-tracts. Although most business transactions are governed by contracts, many companies do not have systems and processes in place to effectively manage the growing numbers of increasingly complex contracts. Effective contract management is critical in complying with new federal regulations enacted to combat corporate fraud. Companies rely on contract automation to define specific products and services they sell or buy; terms and conditions governing factors such as price, shipment, payment, and quality; and other mutual obliga-tions of involved parties. Web-based application modules work together to standardize contract processes, streamline contract creation and negotiation, ensure compliance of all business transactions, and provide global visibility into contract documents and key contract performance indicators. Oracle Contracts supports the end-to-end contracting process for both buying and selling of simple goods, services, or complex project-based work.

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• Oracle Logistics provides inventory visibility, ensuring adequate supply and management of goods within the warehouse and en route between sites. Warehouse workforce, planners, and facilities managers use our products to automate and optimize material handling and order fulfillment processes, reducing labor costs, improving facility use, increasing order accuracy, and providing innovative services to customers. Operators perform many common warehouse and shop floor transactions and inquiries from any location in the manufacturing facility through the use of handheld radio frequency (RF), PDAs, and lift-truck-mounted RF scanning devices. Our customers depend on us for on-time order fulfillment, real-time inventory accuracy, and warehouse labor management.

• Oracle Discrete and Process Manufacturing Applications allow manufacturers to maximize operating efficiency and flexibility by deploying the best manufacturing method for each product—discrete, assemble-to-order, engineer-to-order, repetitive, process, lot-based or Flow—at the right time. All methods can be supported by a single plan, in a single instance, referencing a single inventory database, all fully integrated within Oracle E-Business Suite. This enables companies to establish highly customized hybrid manufacturing environments where continuous improvement programs are linked to organizational goals.

Oracle provides manufacturers such as General Electric, Agilent, Cisco, Honeywell, Toshiba, Sony, Alcoa, and Posco with real-time information access and supports the transition to the virtual manufacturing environment. Oracle Process Manufacturing Applications provide an Internet-based solution for solving the complex business problems of process manufacturers such as Blue Bunny, Sherwin-Williams, PPG, Alcoa, Biogen, and others. Process manufactur-ers produce pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverages, metals, and forestry products. The product the company sells must be consistent. For example, chemical companies face challenges in reactions, active ingredient potency, and the effects of plant humidity. Pharma-ceutical companies have quality expectations and increasingly stringent FDA and other requirements to satisfy.

• Order Fulfillment. Customer orders drive all aspects of a business, from knowing what to manufacture and retain in the warehouses to figuring out how to ship to customers. Order Fulfillment applications streamline and automate the entire sales order management process, from order promising and order capture to transportation and shipment. Oracle Order Fulfillment captures multichannel demand, including EDI, XML, telesales and Web storefronts. Seamlessly integrated applications include order management, advanced pricing, deal management, configurator, warehouse management, mobile supply chain applications, and transportation management.

For example, Oracle Order Management (OM) manages the in-flow of orders from any source, such as Web or XML, and then communicates with all aspects of a business to ensure the orders are properly fulfilled. Oracle Configurator enables customers to dynamically drive the configuration of products. To configure a product or service that can be configured in various ways, you need rules that constrain choices, and you need software to apply those rules to create valid configurations. Oracle Configurator provides industry-leading, con-straint-based configuration technology, tools for modeling configurable products, and rule-based runtime user interface generation so salespeople or customers can select options to configure a product precisely for what is needed and valid.

• Master Data Management (MDM) solutions enable businesses to consolidate data from disparate systems to create a single source of clean data. Once cleansed, the data is shared across channels, departments, and geographies to improve reporting, decision-making, and operational efficiencies. MDM includes Product Information Management (PIM) Data Hub,

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Oracle Site Hub, and Oracle Supplier Hub.

Our Oracle E-Business Suite SCM division members are interested in business and tech-nology and have a strong technical education. Through an extensive functional training program, we can become experts in business information systems. Oracle offers professional certification in operations management, plant visits, technical training, and on-the-job activities, such as functional design and integration testing. We develop some of the most sought-after technical, analytical, database, and programming skills in the industry through development assignments. Are you ready to play an active role in this revolution? If so, contact our group and join the teams that hire only the best and care about your personal development and performance-based rewards as much as project delivery. We offer the chance to become part of a competitive, stimulating environment with tremendous career-growth opportunities. Now, you make the call!

Financial Management

Should a high-tech company acquire a small start-up—or build technology in-house? Should a brokerage firm raise capital by borrowing money or by issuing stock? Should a music company sign new artists or manage its current roster? Should an entertainment business invest more heavily in movies, electronics, or video games?

Companies make difficult decisions like these every day—decisions that will have a profound strategic and financial impact on their business, decisions requiring information and insights from people throughout the company. Oracle Financial Management applications are the tools they use to gather and synthesize financial information from across the entire company, making it possible to answer complex questions like these.

Oracle offers four Financial Management product lines to drive enterprise value with better information for targeting growth and a platform for sustainable compliance. These include Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Financial Management, and JD Edwards World Financial Manage-ment. Applications within these product lines automate and streamline financial business processes, taking advantage of key emerging technologies, including Web services and BPEL. They provide visibility into business-critical information via Oracle’s leading business intelligence technologies. They include a number of patented e-commerce applications, such as billing for various industries; deductions and trade promotions; credit and risk manage-ment; customer and credit integration; telephony and scripting; self-service bill payment and B2B e-commerce using XML; as well as the following:

• General Ledger. This comprehensive financial management solution dramatically enhances financial controls, data collection, information access, and financial reporting throughout the enterprise. General Ledger supports the highest transaction rates, largest data volumes, and smallest processing windows. It does this by providing desktop integration with spreadsheet applications, enhanced reporting using XML, extremely high-volume journal processing using advanced database-tuning techniques, and intuitive Java and XML-based UIs.

• Subledger Accounting. This integration technology tying together all of the financial applications provides consistent, centralized services to transform transactions into financial entries, thus forming the financial backbone of our customers’ enterprise architectures. When a company needs to know which customers have bought the most new products or which product line is most profitable, Subledger Accounting tells them.

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• Receivables. The cornerstone of Oracle’s order-to-cash solution enables companies to stream-line invoicing, receipts, customer deduction, and revenue recognition processing while improving cash flow, optimizing customer relationships, and providing strategic information.

• Collections. This bridges the gap between back-office transactional data and front-office customer management processes by providing an intelligent tool for collection departments to better understand and manage their customers. The system automatically tracks and pushes data on delinquencies, broken promises, assigned tasks, and strategy-related actions to the right collections agent at the right time.

• Payables. Our expenditure management product streamlines the procure-to-pay process while providing strong financial controls and strategic financial information. It improves margins, instills corporate and fiscal discipline, and optimizes business relationships to drive better decision-making, regulatory compliance, and optimized business processes at the lowest cost.

• Expenses. Oracle’s travel and expense solution streamlines and automates travel spend management for a dramatic, immediate return on investment with direct impact on the bottom line.

• Cash Management. Liquidity management is critical to the financial health of any company. This enterprisewide solution for optimizing liquidity and controlling cash enables you to manage bank relationships, monitor and forecast global cash requirements and transactions, and perform automated bank reconciliation.

• Commitment Control. Central features support budget entry and posting, funds checking and reservation, and encumbrance and liquidation management. It is designed to support transactions from HR, procurement, payables, expenses, receivables and cost management. Commitment Control delivers extremely flexible configuration options to let customers monitor and control their expenditure and revenue activity dynamically.

• Payments. The Oracle E-Business Suite payment engine provides disbursement and funds capture services to other Oracle applications. For example, when a customer credit card has to be charged for a purchase made on a Web store, Payments services the request. It is a payment factory, responsible for validating, formatting, and delivering payment instructions to third-party payment systems.

• Assets. As a key component of Oracle’s Asset Lifecycle Management solution, Oracle Assets strives to maximize return-on-capital investment. It simplifies management of capital investments with seamless integration, automated business flows, and flexible accounting rules. These processing efficiencies enable companies to reduce cost of ownership and improve accuracy of fixed assets accounting and compliance.

• Globalization and Public Sector. This supports business application functionality for three key market areas: global financial operations for commercial firms, financial operations for public sector firms, and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

• E-Business Tax. Oracle’s central solution for managing transaction-based taxes uses a service-oriented architecture. It provides the infrastructure for tax knowledge management and delivery using a global system architecture that is configurable and scalable for adding country-specific tax content. The architecture provides a configurable approach to integrate tax services from ecosystem players and help customers keep their tax content up to date and manage tax returns efficiently.

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Our Financials Division seeks engineers and product managers to work on our exciting products and help drive Fusion. As Oracle’s next-generation solution, Fusion exploits the most innovative technologies and provides challenging development projects from day one. Team members analyze, conceptualize, and articulate ideas with the highest level of compe-tency. We make use of strong intellectual and exceptional interpersonal skills and are adaptable, independent, and self-confident players. We are creative and visionary while staying detail-oriented and aligned with the big picture. Join a division that works on a critical market space for Oracle and that is charting Oracle’s long-term growth.

Functional Setup Manager (Fusion)

What does it take to lower the cost of setting up and maintaining an entire Oracle E-Busi-ness Suite application? It takes a new way of designing and building the entire application with the concept of setup with export/import across instances as an integral part of that design. Our group is responsible for delivering the new Oracle Functional Setup Manager (FSM) in Fusion that will dramatically improve the ownership experience by lowering the cost of implementation and maintenance. This product is designed to be completely integrated with the Fusion Applications, built with the latest Fusion Middleware technol-ogy, and completely standards-based. Oracle FSM is designed to offer a single user interface for executing all setup tasks in an organized, task-oriented approach. Customers will use FSM to set up their Fusion Applications, business intelligence, and even to orchestrate the migration from a legacy application like Siebel or PeopleSoft. Once the application is setup and running, Oracle FSM enables the export/import (and reporting) of all setup tasks and data between instances. This significantly improves SaaS deployment and enables our consultants, partners, and customers to quickly implement Fusion Applications at a much lower cost. We are a close-knit team of motivated, self-driven contributors working cross-functionally with all Fusion product teams. Consider joining our group and using the latest leading-edge technology to build Oracle FSM, the industry-leading setup application!

Higher Education, Student System

Our division develops an Internet-based student system to handle admissions, registration, enrollment, tuition payments, and financial aid processes for higher education. Sound familiar? We attract recent top college graduates like you to help Oracle develop the most innovative student system in the world. We also work closely with our development partners from various higher education institutions across the world to develop a flexible system. We are responsible for realizing a complete higher education solution across Oracle applications. Our team is responsible for product definition, design, enhancements, collateral develop-ment, and customer interaction.

We work closely with our customers and field teams to translate our vision into a product by using the latest Web-based technologies and tools from Oracle to build. Our talented application engineers not only design and develop the product but also participate in testing and training activities. The Oracle Higher Education Division responsibilities cover the entire product lifecycle of Oracle’s application development and release process. Team members are energetic self-starters who are interested in cutting-edge technologies, from business strategy to design, build, and release.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Human resource costs typically represent the largest single expense an organization faces, but the workforce is also its largest asset. Companies worldwide need HCM applications to help manage their employees, lower their administrative costs, improve and maximize workforce skills, compensate when competing for scarce resources, and provide managers with the right

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information to make good decisions. Oracle HCM’s next generation of standards-based applications (Fusion) takes advantage of an SOA to provide customers with better business insight, more adaptable business processes, and a superior ownership experience. As part of the HCM Development Team, you’ll work in partnership with strategic management, analysis, design, usability, development, user assistance, and quality assurance to build widely used HCM products offering a user experience that is second to none. The foundation behind our technology includes our best-in-class database and middleware that enables us to deliver industry-leading functionality. We also exploit the latest Oracle technology, such as grid computing and BPEL capabilities, combined with related products and services.

HCM Development is a people-oriented, global organization. You will work in a dynamic environment, meeting diverse people and collaborating across different time zones. Our team members are self-motivated individuals who learn quickly and can offer their strong interpersonal and teamwork skills. Technical challenges, career development, and training opportunities abound.

Lease and Finance Management

Executives of top tier, asset-based finance companies seek solutions to manage their equip-ment financing operations more efficiently to gain a competitive advantage. Lease and Finance Management uses Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) applications to standardize leasing processes and provide equipment financing solutions to efficiently manage all aspects of our customer’s lease and loan finance business: manage customer and vendor relationships, bill and collect payments, disburse funds to vendors and investors, track and account for assets and more—all from applications that are built on unified information architecture. This information architecture enables automation of business processes to share unified informa-tion across the entire leasing enterprise and make smarter decisions with better information. As part of Oracle EBS, Lease and Finance Management is in a unique position to provide integrated asset-based finance solutions.

To grow market share, financiers require the flexibility to offer multiple financing structures, including operating, direct finance, and sales-type leases and loans. They want to provide fixed and variable-rate leases/loans and revolving loans. Captive financiers frequently require the flexibility to bill revenue and charge costs based on equipment use. Many financiers are service providers who pass revenue billed on to their customers and require automatic billing and payment processing. Financiers who provide large-scale equipment financing require the ability to securitize financial instruments or manage syndication agreements with investors. Lease and Finance Management uses the power of Oracle EBS to help customers increase operation excellence and discipline, capture new markets, and optimize business relationships.

Our Engineering Team works in emerging technologies and uses the most recent develop-ment tools in the industry. Our product is architected on the Oracle database, standard Java technologies, and a variety of markup languages. If you want to use emerging technologies and deployment mechanisms like SOA, BPEL, SaaS, and cloud computing to develop solutions for the evolving Financial Services Industry, then your future starts here.

Manufacturing Operations Center

Manufacturing companies are constantly focused on continuous improvement and lean Six Sigma programs to reduce cost, reduce/eliminate waste and maximize use resulting in better margins. To identify these opportunities, they need shop floor information that can be acted upon in a timely fashion. The Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center Group focuses on building solutions for the rapidly growing market for business operations analytics and

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performance management. This allows for increased shop floor-to-top floor visibility within manufacturing companies worldwide across multiple industries. It provides a comprehensive framework to collect operations information in real time and present the information in role-based dashboards for the operations managers to make tactical and strategic decisions. Our group has also taken another key initiative to build a solution to monitor energy consumption and other sustainability aspects of a company’s operations. This will aid in identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption and the overall greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a positive environmental impact.

Using the latest technologies, including Oracle’s Fusion Middleware (OBIEE, BPEL, BAM, and SOA) and open-standards-based Java UI, we enable real-time processing of data, warehousing, and online analytical processing (OLAP). This allows us to complement and integrate to multiple Oracle product lines, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and other ERP solutions. Do you want to make a difference in defining and shaping the next-generation solution that supports continuous improvement and Oracle’s Green and Sustainability initiatives for the enterprise? Join our team of business and technology experts. We provide a challenging, stimulating work environment to further your professional and personal growth.

Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager

Did you know that counterfeit medicines are a worldwide problem and threat to public health and safety? This is a problem both in developing nations and developed nations. It is estimated that in the US alone, potentially 1 percent of the 3.5 billion doses of prescription medicines purchased annually can be counterfeits. The Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager group is building a solution with one key objective in mind—to safeguard the consumer from potentially harmful counterfeit drugs. Although designed with the objective of addressing life sciences challenges, the solution can be used in any industry where there is a need for serialization and anti-counterfeiting. With this solution, companies can manage the creation of standards-based, globally unique product serial numbers. These serial numbers provide the mechanism for verifying product authenticity as it moves through the supply chain.

Laws governing the prevention of drug counterfeiting are evolving and currently vary by state, country, and region. The solution needs to be responsive to multiple challenges—ongoing regulatory changes to combat increasingly sophisticated drug counterfeiting must make it interoperable with multiple transaction systems, enabling streamlining business processes, support of large volumes of data, and delivery of great performance. We use a variety of Oracle Fusion technology components, including ADF, ODI, OBIEE, SOA, and BPEL. We seek high-energy, self-motivated product managers and engineers who want a challenging career that has great professional and personal growth opportunities and who can also take pride in working to combat illegal counterfeiting.

Procurement (Fusion)

Do you want to develop business software and get exposure to dozens of different Oracle Applications that drive businesses like GE, Alcoa, and Visa? To be challenged every step of the way? To join an outstanding team of triathletes, badminton champions, cricket players, ping pong paddlers, ex-college football captains, organization presidents and dancers who also code on the side?! If so, join our division and develop products that help companies save money on everything they buy, from million-dollar items to pens and paper clips. Oracle Fusion Procurement is Oracle’s next-generation procurement solution that draws from and improves upon Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement and PeopleSoft Procurement solutions.

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Fusion Procurement is built using Oracle’s cutting-edge Fusion Middleware platform, an open, standards-based platform that makes use of latest technologies such as SOA, BPEL, and Ajax, as well as classics like Java, PL/SQL, and the Oracle RDBMS. It consists of several powerful components.

For example, procurement departments undertake various initiatives to deliver savings to the company. Some typical commodity strategies are to consolidate supply base or to find low-cost suppliers. Fusion Sourcing is the execution engine for such initiatives. Companies compare competitive bids and determine from whom to buy. They manage sourcing events, from simple reverse auctions through sophisticated multiround RFQs.

Fusion Sourcing includes cool technologies such as real-time graphical bid monitors and deci-sion support tools. Prices negotiated via Fusion Sourcing can be loaded into content-rich catalogs in Fusion Self-Service Procurement (SSP). Employees use SSP to identify and request the products and services they need to get their jobs done. Because so many employees use the application, we emphasize ease of use, system performance, and efficiency. As more suppliers provide specialized buying experiences in their Web stores and display negotiated prices, the users need access to those highly tuned stores. To meet this need, the application lets users shop with those Web stores and then continue the process in SSP. Because our customers have widely varying spending approval requirements, we’ve developed a flexible approvals solution that makes use of the latest Oracle technology.

Fusion Purchasing (PO) is the execution backbone of the Fusion Procurement suite. PO consists of powerful transaction engines and offers a reliable, highly scalable solution. Its predecessor products support the operations of many Fortune 500 companies. For manufac-turing companies, PO can directly accept the output of an MRP run, automatically directing orders to the right suppliers based on predefined sourcing rules. Purchasing integrates deeply with all the other Procurement products and with many other Fusion products, including financials, logistics, contracts, and projects. Once an order to buy is placed, Fusion Supplier Portal (SP) takes over. Companies deploy SP to offer their suppliers an easy, intuitive way to view orders, acknowledge and modify them, and access invoice and payment information. With direct links into receiving, inventory, and financial systems, SP reduces the administra-tive burden of managing a large supply base.

The Fusion Procurement Team continually innovates. We strive to combine our knowledge of technology and procurement business processes to provide the best solutions to our custom-ers. The team has numerous patents awarded as well as several pending.

Projects (Fusion)

In today’s services-based economy, project-based work and the ability to manage, track, account, and bill for that work are increasingly critical to the success of world-class compa-nies and organizations. Our team is building the next generation of enterprise applications that will create competitive advantage for our customers in project-driven industries such as professional services, engineering and construction, government, aerospace and defense, entertainment, retail development, and education and research. Through our mature Applica-tions Unlimited product lines, Oracle has greatly expanded our projects solution footprint from project accounting to enterprise project management, including resource management, collaboration, portfolio management, and business intelligence.

Our Oracle Fusion Projects Team is now unifying the best capabilities from each of those existing product lines in a new product suite based on Java and open standards. Our exciting and growing development group provides a fast-paced, challenging, and intellectually

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stimulating yet fun-filled work environment. We seek high-energy, self-motivated product managers and engineers to build next-generation software on the latest Fusion technology platform. Our diverse mix of technical staff ranges from patent-holders with decades of experience to recent graduates from top universities. If you are interested in the intersection of business and technology, Fusion Projects is a great place to make a difference.

Real Estate Management Applications

In today’s economy, real estate is no longer regarded as a fixed cost. Corporations are pressuring real estate executives to reduce the impact of occupancy costs on the bottom line and improve space management across the enterprise. Real estate organizations and investors must find new ways to increase tenant retention, streamline operations, and enhance portfolio management. Retailers are looking at inventive ways to better manage current obligations and strategically plan for growth while minimizing the overhead of store operations. Oracle’s Real Estate Management Suite has all the necessary components to support whole-life real estate activities, from acquisition or leasing through construction and facilities management, financial processing, and performance tracking.

The Oracle Property Manager Team is a group of energetic achievers who have acquired a strong working knowledge and expertise in designing and building easy-to-use, intuitive Web applications based on relational and object database design. Our team members have harnessed the power of a global organization to develop the leading enterprise real estate management solution. We provide excellent professional and personal growth opportunities as we define, design, develop, roll out, and support the products. As a product analyst, you will gather and analyze information to define and communicate product requirements, create design specifications, and work with other groups to ensure successful product release. As an applications engineer, you will be involved in the design and implementation of a large-scale system using relational databases and Oracle’s advanced Java-based technology stack. Join the team that drives and delivers the most comprehensive real estate management solution: the Oracle Property Manager Product Development Team! Are you a person who enjoys challenges with lots of responsibility? Would you like to have an immediate, important impact on a sophisticated software product? If so, we want to talk to you.

Supply Chain Globalization (Fusion)

The Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Globalization Group has one main mandate: we are responsible for addressing global, regional, and local requirements of non-US countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LAD), and Japan for the SCM Division. Our product managers, development engineers, and QA engineers are involved in a broad range of functionality and technology. We cover the full supply chain spectrum, including planning, procurement, logistics, manufacturing, and distribution, and we implement Internet-based solutions using diverse technology stacks, such as Java, HTML, XML, Oracle Development Tools, SQL, and PL/SQL. Part of the Fusion development organization, we focus on the latest, greatest technology, such as ADF, BPEL, Web Services, and XMLP, to provide the next-generation application to the marketplace. If your goal is to develop an exciting career and benefit from exposure to the latest technology and functionality within Oracle Applications, our group could be your next home.

Value Chain Planning

Oracle Value Chain Planning is a top-selling family of products and the world’s best solution for managing global supply chain networks. Oracle has acquired and continues to build outstanding products in supply chain network design, risk management, inventory

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optimization, real-time sales and operations planning, collaborative demand management and assumption-based forecasting, predictive trade planning and trade promotion optimiza-tion, holistic supply chain and factory planning, real-time production scheduling, global constraint-based order promising, trading partner collaboration, service parts planning, planning analytics, and rapid in-memory event-driven simulation planning.

With more than 5,000 planning customers across the world and more than 1,500 value chain planning customers spanning all industries, Oracle is an established leader in the supply chain planning field. Our products are differentiated in the market because they hide the typical optimization and statistics complexity behind user interfaces designed for planners. We use optimization techniques such as linear and integer programming, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing to develop top supply chain algorithms that optimize the use of material, cash, and resources (manufacturing, suppliers, carriers) in the supply chain. In addition, we use advanced Bayesian-Markov statistics and analytical engines in our demand management and predictive trade planning and optimization products. Exceptional design and programming language skills contribute to the competitiveness of our advanced plan-ning product offering. Built on an adaptive planning data model, our powerful components integrate tightly with other Oracle ERP, Oracle CRM, and Oracle Hyperion components, yet a sophisticated XML architecture also enables them to be deployed on a standalone basis for integration with non-Oracle ERP systems.

Oracle’s planning products are built using the latest technology advances in Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Java. All products meet the highest-quality standards and share the strong foundation of Oracle products, including components such as BPEL, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), WebCenter, ESSBase (OLAP), SOA, ODI, and XML. Team members understand optimization techniques and algorithms, Internet technologies such as Web/application servers, HTTP/HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, directories, messaging (XML), and firewalls; relational and object database design; and data warehousing.

The Value Chain Planning Team is moving aggressively forward with the latest Fusion technology, which includes technologies such as Java EE, DHTML, Web 2.0, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Database. Using time management, technical aptitude, problem solving, and communication skills, we enable new levels of intelligence, coordination, and quality for companies and their customers, suppliers, and carriers. We invite you to become part of our global and dynamic Value Chain Planning Development Team.

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ORACLE INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS

... AND PRIMAVERAWorld’s Leading Companies Rely on These Divisions...

Communications... Health Sciences... Primavera... Retail... Utilities...

With an increased focus into industries, Oracle has developed unique organizations that contain dedicated development, sales, consulting, market development, and product strategy teams focused on a particular industry. These include Communications, Health Sciences, Retail, and Utilities... In addition, Oracle has some new designated divisions that are not industry-specific such as Primavera, which offers enterprise project and portfolio manage-ment software for project-intensive industries. Each of these divisions engages in important development work. With Oracle Communications, the world’s leading communications and media companies manage their businesses better. Oracle Health Sciences focuses on health-care and life sciences. Oracle Retail improves retailers’ businesses through the latest Retail Industry technologies. Software from Oracle Utilities puts the world’s best utility companies (electric, gas, water) at an even greater advantage.

CommunicationsOracle Communications builds software that enables the world’s leading communications and media (CM) companies to manage their businesses more effectively for competitive advantage in the marketplace. Today, CM companies are rapidly evolving in a new digitally connected landscape. New market entrants are creating technology disruptions to traditional business models, creating rapid change and business model evolution. This brings with it no shortage of technology challenges and opportunities for innovation. Communications compa-nies are evolving offerings in significant ways: They are opening up their networks and continually expanding the portfolio of products they offer (voice, video, broadband, digital content, messaging, social networking, application stores) through a growing array of access devices; expanding geographically to provide coverage to more subscribers; and maturing their operations infrastructure to enable fast time-to-market combined with an efficient, predictable cost structure.

Market consolidation and acquisition play a strong role in executing their strategy. Whether buying other companies to expand their product portfolio or geographic coverage, CM companies are moving towards the convergence of services and markets. They must approach their operational infrastructure with a new mindset. Previously, the CM industries have primarily custom-built the operations infrastructure they deploy to meet their business needs (most IT spend is on man power to custom build and maintain). This leads to a tremendous opportunity for packaged software automation to change the landscape. Oracle is at the forefront of enabling this change and is accelerating the pace of this reality.

Oracle Communications combines and integrates market-leading software applications and CM experts from leading companies, including Portal Software, MetaSolv, BEA, SUN, Netsure, Net-4-Call, Sophoi, and HotSIP, into a single, unified division supported by the scale and technical expertise of Oracle. Companies globally must overcome many challenges. We are currently developing some exciting projects in collaboration with our customers.

• We help customers rapidly design and introduce new CM products through integrating the concept-creation and design-time aspects of creating products and automating the

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runtime aspects of selling and delivering new products.

• We enable our customers to open up their different networks and allow software develop-ers to build applications that interact with and use their network assets.

• We maximize revenue opportunity for digital assets by enabling intellectual property rights management and royalties, creating a content-rich partner ecosystem for digital assets.

• We support the launch of new prepaid and postpaid services and competitive business models through innovation in rating, billing, payments, and revenue management.

• We help customers develop new strategies through a better understanding of customer usage patterns, buying patterns, network congestion, and many other dimension of business intelligence extracted from communication provider network and application data.

Each of the above investment projects employ state-of-the-art technology, providing a dynamic, fast-paced development environment using the best software and hardware technologies. The Communications Industry is ever-changing and fast-paced, certain to keep you learning and growing professionally.

Health SciencesOracle Health Sciences (HS) is a specialized global organization focused on two key indus-tries: healthcare and life sciences. With the revolution in healthcare sweeping the globe today, our division is focused on how these two industries are converging to accelerate bringing better treatments to patients with the right outcomes faster. We deliver critical solutions to healthcare providers, payers, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. We discover, develop, and market innovative products and services that prevent and cure disease and enhance quality of life. Our leading, innovative solutions integrate R&D, clinical development, and key healthcare processes to enable our customers to move along the journey to personalized medicine. We are focused on retrospective and predictive analytics, offering a top industry solution for aggregating clinical and nonclinical data for analysis, reporting, and submission. Some of our recent projects include the following:

• Protocol Center. This real-time collaboration document authoring system enables the development of complete protocol documents. The end product can be sent directly to an IRB instructional review board for approval. It is based on ADF, a Java EE framework based on the Model View Controller architecture and promoting a service-oriented architecture. Protocol Center uses leading technologies and architectures such as SOA, Web 2.0, Java EE, BPM, BPEL, Oracle Application Integration Architecture, identity management, ECM, JDeveloper, and UX Design Patterns.

• Mobile Applications for Healthcare and Life Sciences. Focusing on the iOS4 and Android platforms, we are developing applications that allow healthcare and life sciences professionals to perform their jobs through efficient, mobile applications. Using new UI paradigms and leading mobile technology platforms, we are able to bridge the worlds of professional caregiv-ers and researchers and that of the patients and their families they serve. We use ADF Mobile Client capabilities for native publishing to multiple mobile platforms. We then use the iOS SDK 4.0.1 and Android SDK to develop native applications for platforms where this optimizes their utility for our customers and their customers.

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• Application Integration Architecture for Clinical Trial Management. This project delivers a pre-built Process Integration Pack for transferring and integrating data to Oracle’s life sciences applications. AIA is based upon industry reference models that optimize business perfor-mance though documented industry best practice processes. AIA is based on Fusion Middle-ware SOA Suite for maximum flexibility, maintainability, and reuse.

• The Cleveland Clinic Semantic DB project. Working with the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic and using Oracle SOA technology, we provide a solution and support for the study and reporting of outcomes for approximately 115,000 cardiovascular patients over a 30-year period. The application captures cardiology data and persists the data in a semantic structure in order to be able to perform cohort identification. We solve this challenge with technolo-gies such as SemanticDB rules languages and ontology languages such as OWL, RDF and XML.

If you are interested in working with highly talented individuals and pathbreaking projects, and want to make a difference in people’s lives, we want you on our team.

Primavera Project and Portfolio ManagementOracle’s Primavera is the world’s leading project and portfolio management software organization. Since 1983, Primavera has provided the software foundation enabling all types of businesses to achieve excellence in managing their portfolios, programs, projects, and resources. Primavera products have managed projects totaling an estimated $6 trillion plus in value. Our development group builds enterprise-level solutions for our customers in project-intensive industries. Our applications provide project and portfolio management, contract management, resource management, and risk management solutions used by customers worldwide. Our development practices include empowered teams, continuous build and integration, and a heavy emphasis on automated testing. Our product development is done in cross-functional teams including programmers, testers, and business analysts. Each team member tackles multiple aspects of the software development process, such as planning, requirements analysis, implementation, and testing. Teams are colocated, creating a fun and highly social environment that fosters team collaboration.

Our organization continuously adapts to stay competitive in a rapidly changing Software Industry. We use an agile development approach that incorporates regular retrospectives and process improvement to ensure that we are always building software in the most efficient, effective way possible. Our engineering team works with emerging technologies and the latest development tools in the industry, including Java, XML, BI, SOA, BPM, and Web Services. The ingenuity and productivity of our engineers is crucial to our success.

Prior to becoming part of Oracle in November 2008, Primavera was a small, privately owned company. As a division of Oracle, we are able to take advantage of the industry and techno-logical leadership of Oracle while still retaining the atmosphere of a small company. Oracle’s Primavera offers a highly collaborative, dynamic environment and a great mix of project management and software engineering opportunities.

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Retail Oracle Retail partners with the world’s leading retail companies to transform the economics of their business. Oracle Retail teams collaborate on product enhancements that continually improve retailers’ businesses by using emerging Retail Industry technologies. Oracle Retail is consistently introducing innovative new projects such as next-generation iPhone/iPad applications, science-driven models that determine optimal pricing, and the incorporation of social media methodologies into retail communications and messaging. Through an IT footprint that accelerates a retailer’s business and differentiates it from the competition, Oracle Retail solutions enable organizations to serve their customers better by applying insight into daily business decisions for more profitable results. Technologies such as Java, data mining, OLAP cubes, and Ajax help Oracle Retail customers process billions of transac-tions, make better business decisions, and increase productivity. The future of retailing requires that businesses adapt to changing consumer needs and use intelligence to drive repeat shoppers at each channel. Our many successful retailers include Abercrombie & Fitch, Wet Seal, Nordstrom, Stein Mart, and A.C. Moore.

Across Oracle Retail’s global locations, projects stem from our integrated suite of solutions, allowing retailers to do the following and more:

• Maintain a single, comprehensive source of consistent, accurate data across business functions and channels while also using retail functionality such as price management, invoice matching, trade management, sales auditing, and more

• Use analytical models and optimization routines that help in efficient planning, allocation, and replenishment of merchandise across a retailer’s enterprise

• Implement new concepts, including geospatial correlations of weather and retail data

• Enable true multichannel retailing by delivering a consistent shopping experience across all retail channels—at the store level, Web sites, and through catalogs or call center

• Apply store-level business functionality, including point-of-service at the register and inventory management through handheld devices

• Integrate systems using a message-based integration platform built on JMS technology that is preconfigured to meet the high-volume needs of the Retail Industry

For more information about Oracle Retail, visit oracle.com/us/industries/retail/index.html.

UtilitiesOracle Utilities builds software for the world’s utility companies (including electric, gas, and water) to manage their businesses more effectively. As utilities globally undergo a seismic shift in their operating model due to factors like climate change, renewable energy, and smart grid technologies, Oracle Utilities is their trusted software partner. Oracle Utilities provides the broadest suite of utility-specific software applications to the global market, pre-integrated and proven to scale to support the petabytes of data that Smart Grid initiatives will bring along with them. Oracle Utilities combines market-leading software applications and utility computing experts from leading companies, including SPL WorldGroup, Lodestar, CES International, Axion, and Synergen, into a single unified division supported by the scale and technical expertise of Oracle.

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The Utilities Industry is facing enormous challenges. A culmination of events, including climate change, rapidly increasing global energy demand, an aging workforce, greater public expectations, and rapid technology advances, are forcing utilities to transform their busi-nesses virtually overnight.

• Demand Response Management. Increases in peak consumption rates continue to skyrocket, forcing utilities to either invest billions on new infrastructure or undertake initiatives to reduce peak consumption rates and overall conservation programs. Understanding customer consumption patterns is key to altering behavior, and technology investments in Smart Metering programs enable utilities to truly understand how customers use their services.

• Increasing Operational Efficiencies. Optimizing travel paths for work crews not only increases their overall efficiency and reduces costs but also reduces their carbon footprint. Proactive maintenance work on assets can lead to reduced costs overall, as well as fewer power outages, improving customer satisfaction. Retiring expert staff means increased reliance on software to automate critical processes and provide guidance to less-experienced replacement staff.

• Management of Distribution Network. An increase in renewable energy sources in the wider community presents opportunities to minimize the effects of power outages in the surround-ing areas and hence increase grid reliability via the use of MicroGrids. Also, running power equipment at more optimized levels prolongs the life of the asset, potentially saving millions in capital expenditure costs while reducing outages.

• Customer Demands. Customer expectations are increasing based on their experience from interacting with other industries and living in a connected world. Utilities need to live up to the expectations of their customer base and provide various channels for communications, including social media. In addition, customers want greater control over their costs and their carbon footprint, which means utilities need to increase information availability through added technology investments.

Our task is to help utility companies globally to overcome these plus many more challenges. Some of the exciting projects we are currently developing in collaboration with our custom-ers include the following:

• Enterprise Business Intelligence. We are helping utilities turn petabytes of data into action-able information through Oracle technologies and a prebuilt data warehouse and analytics portal to support the Oracle Utilities suite of software applications. The Oracle Business Intelligence suite and Oracle Spatial technology will be at the core of this project.

• Customer Self Service. We are providing a pre-integrated communications gateway for the Oracle Utilities suite of software applications, allowing customers to interact with the utility when they want and in the manner they want (such as Web, phone, chat). This program will use Java, business intelligence, and consumer user experience technology.

• MicroGrid Controller. Knowledge of the physical network and the available distributed generation assets can enable sophisticated switching directions in order to protect the power supply for as many customers as possible during outage scenarios. This extends network management technology and will be on the leading edge of the Smart Grid evolution.

• End-to-End Integrated Business Processes. We are providing configurable business process automation across the Utility Industry’s broadest suite of mission-critical software. We plan to use SOA integration technology available within the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite.

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Each of the above investment projects will employ the best technology for a dynamic, fast-paced development environment. This technology ranges from development for Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers running grids, clusters, and other highly scalable, distributed architectures to applications built on Java standards and using open, Web Services-based APIs, delivered on Java EE application servers. Also, Web-based application user interfaces built on Ajax are delivered in configurable portals. Accessibility and efficiency are critical, so we take advantage of RIA tools, including international localization features, interactive maps, graphs, charts, and so on. Mobile client development uses rich mobile interfaces on handheld and other mobile technology. Shared data is managed by the Oracle relational database in the form of well-normalized data and XML-schema-based structures.

ORACLE SERVICE ENGINEERINGMaking the Complex Simple... US, India, Ireland, Romania...

Just as our On Demand and Customer Support businesses focus on Oracle’s customers to provide superior ownership experience, the Service Engineering division focuses on our process and technology to make our businesses more efficient and effective. Targeting areas that provide sustainable competitive advances, cost reductions, or service growth opportuni-ties, Service Engineering looks beyond current ways of doing things to bring paradigm changing and result-focused innovations to accelerate our businesses. It is our approach, methodology, and talent that make us unique.

Our organization spans the globe. Our Solutions Engineering, Systems Engineering, On Demand Platform, Advanced Customer Services (ACS) Platform, Emerging Technology, and Product Management Teams are based in four primary development centers: US, India, Ireland, and Romania. We deliver solutions that reach customers in the form of new services, optimized services, and product enhancements.

The ACS Platform and Solutions Engineering Team builds end-to-end engineered solutions for Oracle’s ACS and On Demand customers. We pull together the capabilities of multiple Oracle products into broader IT solutions built around service management areas such as monitoring, configuration, change, and problem management. This team has expertise across Oracle products and modern languages and architectures, such as SOA, Web Services, Java, XML, Adobe Flash, SQL, and PL/SQL.

The On Demand Platform and Systems Engineering Team defines and builds standard deployment architectures for Oracle products into Oracle On Demand and ACS. This consists of Oracle products on an optimized hardware, operating system, network, and storage platform. We build to minimize variance across customer environments and to gain full use from the platform. These architectures are built on state-of-the-art technology and are tested to meet the demands of enterprise application users. Our developers are systems engineers, knowl-edgeable about industry-leading enterprise hardware infrastructure and applications.

The Emerging Technology Team looks forward to ensuring we are ahead of the curve on technol-ogy innovation for Customer Services. The work covers a broad set of areas, such as innovative statistical methods for diagnosing and resolving problems, predictive monitoring, distributed storage management over heterogeneous platforms, and application energy utilization models. This team breaks through traditional barriers to innovation in IT, as we can develop and test directly against the real problems we are attempting to solve.

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We want to work on the edge of technology innovation but also want to ensure our efforts are applied directly to business problems.

Members of our Product Management Team are knowledgeable in the software services market, including collaborative solutions, assisted service solutions, and SaaS architectures. Product Management works across all facets of the company to help define new services and optimize the current portfolio.

ORACLE CHINAAsia Research and Development Center...

Oracle China Development Center was established in 2002 and became Oracle Asia Research and Development Center in 2005 with our expansion beyond China into Korea, Japan, Singapore, and India. Beijing and Shanghai centers were launched next. More than 800 developers work at three centers in Oracle China. Oracle China hires many recent graduates and welcomes many developers from Oracle’s recent combination with Sun.

OARDC China, Shanghai

OARDC Shanghai was established in July 2007 and is located in the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) with 14 neighboring major universities and colleges in Yangpu District of Shanghai. OARDC Shanghai conducts innovative R&D on current and emerging technologies for the Digital City. Research areas focus on RFID sensors; digital community; e-Government, and other location-based services.

OARDC China, Shenzhen

OARDC Shenzhen was the first Oracle R&D center established in China in 2002 and is located in Shenzhen Hi-tech Industrial Park, 12 miles to Shenzhen International Airport and 30 miles to Hong Kong International Airport. This is also home for our Partner Solution Center for Technology. Our mission is to provide a base for expansion of development into Asia; engage the market to understand long-term product requirements; support the Sales Teams with product knowledge and proof of concepts (POCs); support partners with better access to Oracle technology; and support customer/partner/government projects requiring a long-term focus.

To support our mission, we have many goals, including the following: We provide develop-ment infrastructure, including facilities, networks, systems, staffing/HR, and key processes; we manage product localizations; we engage in joint funding with license or product groups; we offer offshore services for the Japan market; we do testing and attend to other local requirements; we enable partner technology; we offer solutions centers, porting assistance, and architecture; we focus on long-term business development; we are tightly engaged with license and alliances and channels, and we are embedded in JAPAC (Japan and Asia Pacific). Our projects such as Digital Cities and Expo 2010 reach a national audience. We also collaborate with national governments, document and exploit unique local requirements, and research prototypes and collaborations.

We unveiled our new China campus in a ceremony held on March 12, 2008 in Beijing; the new campus is located at the Zhongguancun Software Park (ZPARK) in Haidian District. With the completion of the campus, it can accommodate Oracle (China) Software Systems Co. Ltd, Oracle Asia Research & Development Center, and the Partner Solution Center.

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ORACLE INDIAGurgaon

Oracle India is the only organization outside Oracle’s headquarters in California to represent so many divisions and lines of business, effectively mirroring Oracle’s global operations based in California. Our combined resources in India contribute to core software development across the entire Oracle product family. We work on new product design, development, technology and feature enhancements, quality engineering, documentation, curriculum for instructor-led and online training, and integration, as well as support and maintenance of existing products. Beyond software development, Oracle India hosts a number of functions critical to Oracle’s operations as a global company. Through the six facilities of Oracle India Private Ltd., headed out of Gurgaon near New Delhi, we offer sales, marketing, consulting, education, and support to local customers. We also host a number of global operations that make it possible for the company to conduct 24 by 7 consulting, finance and administration, support and sales operations, and software development.

India Development Centers

Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida

In recognition of the significant pool of highly educated software development engineers based in India, Oracle opened its India Development Center (IDC) in Bangalore in 1994. In 1998, Oracle established its second development center in Hyderabad. We also have a center in Noida. Today, Oracle India has a reputation for offering world-class software development skills and consistently on-time delivery of high-quality products. IDC has been recognized as one of the best employers for top talent in India. It is no surprise, therefore, that we have recently undergone significant investment and rapid growth in our overall operations.

The Bangalore center continues its focus on the development of Oracle’s core application development tools, server, and platform technologies, while the Hyderabad center is dedi-cated to developing e-business applications. We have made major contributions to the R&D of key focus areas for the company, including the future of grid computing, technology and applications deployment on Linux, security, Java application development, XML, and warehouse management systems, to name a few. We also significantly contribute to Oracle’s online developer community, Oracle Technology Network, showcasing new technology, best practices, sample applications, discussion forums, and white papers, while participating in global events. Our product strategy relies on our five principles of globalization, simplifi-ation, standardization, automation, and innovation.

The Global Team works with other Oracle development centers worldwide and is one of the largest offshore development centers outside the USA. We actively engage in complete lifecycle activities spanning product management, requirements, design, coding, testing, integration, documentation, curriculum, porting, release, and maintenance. Oracle IDC is proud to have more than a dozen patents since its inception in Bangalore. We work on key technology areas such as grid computing, life sciences, and scientific computing. Oracle offers an excellent work environment for developers to learn and innovate. We seek champions of change and team players with exceptional technical, functional, analytical, communication, and all-around people skills, along with initiative and a passion to excel! The technologies we use include many of those mentioned throughout this book.

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Advanced Customer Services, India

Bangalore and Hyderabad

Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) delivers expert services to help customers manage and maintain Oracle environments, enabling proactive service and problem avoidance. We provide a portfolio of expert, customer-focused advice and assist services to supplement and improve the management of business-critical Oracle database, middleware, and applications environments. ACS helps customers plan for system maintenance and enhancements and helps organizations prevent problems and minimize risk. Oracle offers advanced customer services from process support, enhancement, and improvement to technical assessments—including configuration and performance analysis—and online DBA services. Our focused Engineering Team supports key customers, such as Cisco, Fidelity, eBay, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Bank One, BellSouth, Boeing, Citigroup, Comcast, Merrill Lynch, and others. We seek DBA skills from Apps to Core and an understanding of Streams, RAC, and Data Guard.

Oracle Consulting in India

Bangalore and Hyderabad

As part of Oracle Consulting, Global Consulting in India comprises two specialized teams of consultants that deliver rapid, cost-effective solutions to Oracle customers worldwide: Global Support Delivery (GSD) and Oracle Solution Services India (OSSI). Located in Bangalore and Hyderabad, Global Consulting in India provides offshore consulting services spanning functional and technical areas of development, customization, migration, and implementa-tion across a broad range of industries, including automobile, biotechnology, energy, education, government, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications.

Oracle On Demand in India

Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida

Oracle On Demand is one of the fastest-growing lines of business within Oracle. More than 1000 employees over three geographies cater to customer demands of our approximately 550 customers. In most cases, Oracle hosts the servers and the technical infrastructure at our Austin Data Centre, which has close to 20,000 servers. Customers entrust Oracle with complete operations management of their critical business processes. As part of the delivery, Oracle On Demand follows the ITIL process and has divided the work into major functions and processes around areas of service desk, initialization and provisioning, incident manage-ment, change management, preventive problem management, technical assistance, release management, and escalation management. Our engineers work with customer service delivery managers to proactively detect issues, identify resolutions, and execute and manage the operations efficiently. We are currently more than 350 strong in India and are planning to expand the team. As part of our growth, we seek candidates with high technical compe-tence in a variety of domains. We also expect a high degree of self-motivation and customer-centric attitudes from our employees to ensure business success. We are in the process of creating a best-in-world-class Oracle Applications Operations Team and in defining superior service-level delivery in the On Demand business space in the industry. We are hiring for functional, technical, and management positions. If you see yourself as an Oracle Applica-tions DBA, Oracle DBA with RAC, PeopleSoft Applications DBA, Siebel Applications DBA, performance tuning specialist, Oracle Application Server specialist, Oracle Enterprise Manager specialist, OPM/Oracle Financial expert, Demantra administrator, or regression testing expert, our division may be for you!

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Oracle University in India

Bangalore

Oracle University (OU) provides customers with education, high-quality training, and certified Oracle courses across Oracle technology and applications. Training occurs from nearly 500 classrooms worldwide, and OU interacts with more than 250,000 students each year. Learn Oracle from Oracle: Oracle University ensures the greatest student satisfaction. In India, the Oracle Education Centers are located in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai. Oracle certified courses are also offered to students in India through more than 600 centers of many Oracle Authorized Training Partners and Oracle Workforce Development Partners across the country. Oracle also runs a highly successful program at the Oracle School of Advanced Technology at IIIT (International Institute of Information Technology), Hyderabad. Oracle University Global Shared Services, based out of Bangalore, India, predominantly provides back-end telesales, operations, and curriculum support to Oracle University. India’s team supports and services Oracle University at the country and divisional levels in a 24X7 shared environment in the following areas: back office operations, system support and development, curriculum development, and telesales and telemarketing.

Our highly motivated professionals work across a wide variety of technology areas through positions ranging from management to corporate training of DBA, D2K, Oracle Apps, and Java to roles as PL/SQL developers, Web designers, graphic animators, Web publishers, content writers, e-learning administrators, and education sales consultants.

Oracle Communications in India

Bangalore & Hyderabad

More than 500 people in India work as part of Oracle Communications, the #1 provider of innovative, technologically advanced software solutions for the Communications Industry. Oracle Communications was born out of the acquired companies of Portal Software, MetaSolv, Netsure, and more, and has recently absorbed the SDP assets and team members from the BEA acquisition. Worldwide, the organization comprises more than 1,500 people. An experienced senior management team is supported by Communications Industry specialists defining the product strategy/roadmap, highly talented product development engineers in various technologies, solutions engineers to tailor-make communications products for customer-specific end-to-end solutions, highly skilled sales consulting resources worldwide, and specialized marketing and support resources within the unit.

Oracle Communications delivers product-based end-to-end solutions into the Telco market. This enables a clear, differentiated focus on key transformational challenges that service provider customers have today: customer intimacy, operational excellence, and rapid service innovation. The product-offered solutions cover the Communications Industry primarily but are also expanding into other areas such as the Media and Entertainment Industry. Out of approximately 300+ customers worldwide for Oracle Communications, key customers include Vodafone, France Telecom, Orange, Swisscom, Atheeb, Bharti, Aircel, and SunTV; these customers have been using a wide range of products from Oracle Communications.

College graduates are offered roles as software engineers in the Communications Product Development Group based in Bangalore and Hyderabad and interact with technical archi-tects, functional specialists, and customers. Work involves developing exciting new commu-nications functionalities. Engineers get excellent exposure to all aspects of software develop-ment and to the latest technologies in Oracle, Java/Java EE, SOA, and middleware.

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Oracle Retail in India

Bangalore

Approximately 300 people work in India as part of Oracle Retail, the #1 provider of innovative, comprehensive industry software solutions for retailers. The Oracle Retail India Solution Centre works on product development and global consulting. With software that provides supply chain, operations, merchandising, store systems, optimization, as well as enterprise applications and infrastructure software, Oracle partners with the world’s leading retail companies, including 20 of the 20 top retailers worldwide, to transform the economics of their businesses. These applications provide retailers in key vertical segments—including fashion, grocery and hardlines—with added insight, integration, and value to drive customer relationships. Our customer base also includes 10 of the top 10 global fashion retailers, 20 of the top 20 global grocers, 10 of the top 10 European retailers and 10 of the top 10 North American retailers. Oracle continues to transform the economics of retail by providing innovative leadership in technology and delivering measurable results for retailers of all sizes. For details, please visit oracle.com/us/industries/retail/index.htm.

ORACLE MEXICO DEVELOPMENT CENTERWorld-class development for Oracle Database, Enterprise Manager, and several open source projects now occurs in Oracle’s new Mexico Development Center (MDC) in Guadalajara, also known as Mexico’s Silicon Valley. As we are located physically close to the US and in a US time zone, we have close relationships with our sister groups in the US and are able to attract interesting, challenging R&D projects.

We already host several exciting projects at the center. These include Oracle Spatial, providing advanced spatial features to support high-end GIS and LBS solutions; Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle’s top-selling database option; TimesTen, the leading in-memory database; Oracle Gateways, the leading solution to support heterogeneous distributed databases; VOS, featuring a portable database kernel; Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), provider of a comprehensive foundation for very large and complex backup and restores; Oracle OLAP, the multidimensional analytic engine embedded in Oracle Database; and Oracle Enterprise Manager, the leader in system management providing provisioning, installation, and performance management.

Research-oriented groups are also part of the center. Zorba is an XQueryP engine integrated with a new storage platform, and XAP is an application-development platform designed for building hosted applications. More information about many of these projects can be found throughout this book, especially in the Database Technologies and System and Application Management chapters. We at MDC strive to attract the best talent from both Latin America and those worldwide interested in living in a vibrant, young Latin American city with a fascinating history and mild climate.

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EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT CENTREIreland and More...

Oracle European Development Centre (EDC) is the Oracle flagship development and translation organization in Europe. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the EDC is a world-class product engineering and service development organization. We employ highly talented and dedicated professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds and are part of the thriving Oracle Ireland operation. Our core teams also have staff in Romania, Asia and other locations. We develop and deliver solutions on a range of hardware and software platforms to Oracle’s customers and partners. We seek professionals who can provide business solutions for thousands of traditionally supported customers. If you have a deep understanding of Oracle products, system architectures, and manageability frameworks, consider us. If you have an eye for improving serviceability for enterprise customers or a background in product localization, you will find EDC to be an exciting and challenging work environment.

Our Centre consists of the following groups:

Service Engineering Development. We are a highly technical engineering delivery organization providing leadership and expertise in delivering solutions to our On Demand and Advanced Customer Services businesses. Our global organization includes development centers in Ireland, Romania, India, and the US. The Dublin Team consists of architects, developers, and product managers and has ownership of a number of key technologies and solutions. For detailed information, please see the Service Engineering section in this book.

Translation Services. We provide turnkey translation solutions for all products within Product Development and Oracle University Courseware into over 35 languages including Asia Pacific, European, American, and Middle Eastern languages. Based in Ireland with employees in most of Oracle’s large subsidiaries (33 countries) and a vast network of translation vendor partners with Oracle expertise, we offer expertise in fields such as language quality, terminol-ogy, engineering, release management, finance management and vendor management, allowing Oracle to release quality translated products simultaneously with the English version.

Financial Services Applications Development. We develop industry-leading front office software solutions for banks worldwide. We focus on maintaining Oracle’s existing self-service (Internet banking) and assisted-service (teller) products, migrating these products to the Fusion Middleware platform, and developing new banking products for this platform. The team consists of architects, developers, and product managers.

Development of Database Developer Tools. This core development group focuses on building tools for database developers. We are responsible for well-known tools such as SQL*Plus, SQL Developer, Application Express, and the XE edition of the database. We aim to create easy-to-use development tools for people who use Oracle Database and reduce the technology learning curve in enabling users to be productive.

Porting and Certification Technology. We developers port Oracle products to a large number of operating systems and certify Oracle products on selected technology stacks.

Applications NLS Engineering. We deliver engineering solutions that resolve customer NLS, product installation, and translation issues. Our role is critical in the speedy resolution of cus-tomer issues, and we contribute significantly to the success of Oracle applications products and customer satisfaction.

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Product and IT Support. Our engineers provide technical support for Oracle products and customers. Our IT support staff provides pan-European support to Oracle internal customers.

USER EXPERIENCEOur Design Methodology

Several Oracle User Experience Design Teams provide comprehensive usability engineering and interface design support for divisional product lines. Also, centralized usability labs in multiple worldwide locations serve the entire corporation. Team members have experience in a wide variety of disciplines, including usability engineering, cognitive psychology, graphic design, interaction design, and computer science with a specialization in human computer interface (HCI) technology. Our professionals work in cross-disciplinary teams throughout the entire development cycle of Oracle products. These teams work closely with software development and product management teams.

They follow a user-centered design methodology that includes activities such as user requirements research; heuristic evaluations of existing products; definitions of user experi-ence through sketches and interactive prototypes; iterative development and usability testing of interactive and visual design solutions; and formal usability testing and competitive evaluations of products. In our extensive laboratories, we also conduct usability evaluation and research projects in areas such as information visualization.

We are responsible for the development and maintenance of Oracle-specific look-and-feel standards and cross-platform user interface consistency. Also, we identify and introduce or develop new products. The projects range from products designed for the construction and administration of large databases and database applications directed at highly technical users to end-user analysis and information visualization tools. We also work on enterprisewide application solutions, creating innovative designs that focus on future generations of Oracle products for the Internet. Designs produced by various groups have successfully made large amounts of information accessible to a broad range of users.

Advanced degrees are preferred for all positions. Internships in user experience research, usability testing, or interaction design in the software industry are a plus. Visit ui.oracle.com.

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CORPORATE ARCHITECTUREGlobal Product Security, Linux & Virtualization, Sun Labs, Sun Ray Thin Client...

Interested in global product security and open source? Seeking the opportunity to work with all Oracle products, along with the latest, most innovative technologies? If you want to add security or Linux technologies to your skill set, consider securing a path to your future success here. The Corporate Architecture Group oversees technical due-diligence of Oracle’s corporate acquisitions and monitors product development-related acquisition integration activities. We also advise executive management on technical matters, such as technical aspects of corporate policies concerning information security, privacy, product accessibility, inbound licensing, and other matters of corporate governance.

Global Product Security

The Internet brings hackers from all over the world right to the doorsteps and sometimes through the front door of every e-business. The news of a security breach or a security vulnerability can travel instantaneously, leading to significant monetary loss for businesses and damage to corporate images—as well as a threat to critical national infrastructure. The Global Product Security group, under the management of Oracle’s Chief Security Officer, is responsible for security assurance for Oracle products—the means by which security is built in, not bolted on—and coordination of cross-product security activities. We write and enforce the Oracle secure coding standards. We manage the formal security evaluations of Oracle products against standards such as the Common Criteria and FIPS-140. Our team includes ethical hackers who validate the security of our products using a variety of well-established security assessment techniques. We are responsible for product security program management across all lines of business—including acquisitions—which requires us to interface with many different groups within Oracle: all the product divisions, marketing, business develop-ment, sales, consulting, IT, and legal. We also work externally with the security research community, security vendors, and industry working groups as well as a number of interna-tional security organizations.

Linux and Virtualization

Oracle’s Linux and Virtualization Team is responsible for the Linux OS, server and desktop virtualization at Oracle. Our team works on open source Linux code to develop and to enhance the operating system for enterprise database workloads. We also work on the Xen hypervisor which provides the basis for Oracle’s x86 server virtualization offerings.

Our group began as a team of Linux kernel hackers who worked to make Linux perform better under Oracle workloads, and our core focus remains on developing open source products and improving the stability and performance of the OS. Our team made it possible for Oracle to migrate all production servers, several thousand developers, and datacenters to Linux. We have grown from our small beginnings to encompass QA, performance, testing, and support for Linux customers. Today, Oracle is a well-established and trusted source of Linux expertise, and close integration between Oracle product and Linux kernel experts enables greater accuracy in problem diagnosis and resolution.

Our latest challenge is bringing efficient, enterprise-class server virtualization to the datacen-ter through our latest product, Oracle VM. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to share a single piece of hardware, enabling customers to consolidate their datacenters and save on energy, lab space, and administration costs. Oracle VM is x86 server virtualization software using the Xen hypervisor which supports a wide range of Linux and Windows guest operating systems. Developers on the Linux Engineering Team contribute heavily to feature

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development and sustaining engineering for Xen mainline software, and Xen Summit North America was held on the Oracle campus in 2009.

In addition to fixing bugs in existing code, the Linux and Virtualization Team contributes to the Linux kernel and Xen hypervisor communities. Oracle’s kernel contributions include an open source fully featured cluster filesystem included in the mainline Linux kernel (OCFS2), the new btrfs filesystem project, implementation of the T10DIF data integrity standard on Linux, and two kernel-level debuggers for Xen development. A comprehensive listing of our open source projects can be found at oss.oracle.com.

Sun Labs

Our applied research group pursues several dozen projects chosen for their potential to have significant impact on Oracle products or services. Projects in the lab are small and risky; we aim to work on hard problems that entail more risk than would usually fit in with an engineering or product development group’s mission. Most projects focus on new technolo-gies that can be applied to existing products. For example, ever since Java was born (and we had a hand in that), we have worked on software technologies to improve the Java Virtual Machine, to use parallel computing for garbage collection, to simply use Java in distributed computing configurations, and even to modify CPU designs to suit Java program execution. We also work on new product ideas; SunRays started in Sun Labs.

A major current project is proximity communication, a technology for speeding up the commu-nication from one chip to another in a computer system. Today’s chip-to-chip signaling rates are a bottleneck in overall system performance. Proximity communication places two chips face-to-face and signals electrically through the capacitance formed by the adjacent face-to-face structures. This technique allows not only faster speeds but denser connections, i.e., more signals per square micron of chip area. Of course, placing chips face-to-face leads to packaging challenges to connect power to the chips and to remove heat. We have built prototypes that demonstrate speeds of several gigabits/sec, 40 micron connection spacing (about 20x current practice), and about 5x lower power than today’s connections. Our prototypes have not faced all the risks of this technology, which may yet fail to be robust enough for use in products. Sun Labs came to Oracle as part of the acquisition of Sun. We are currently adjusting our research portfolio to embrace the wider set of technologies needed for the combined companies.

Sun Ray Thin Client Technology

Sun Ray is a leading desktop thin client, employing ultra-low power (just 4 Watt) desktop clients and latency optimized protocols to allow users to connect individual clients to sessions running on Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Designed for security and performance, Sun Ray devices can be configured to use cryptographic smart cards and two factor authenti-cation to provide instant remote desktop access to existing sessions. Sun Ray developers work on firmware, server software, and device drivers, as well as Sun Ray hardware. Part of the industry’s most complete virtualization portfolio, Sun Ray clients are never managed individually. Instead, management is done with Sun Ray software or Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Large user communities comprising thousands of Sun Ray client devices can be managed from a single interface with enough individual control to provide a choice of desktop operating systems per Sun Ray client or per user, while still benefiting from virtual machine templates and multiuser operating systems to reduce management overhead.

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ORACLE ALLIANCES AND CHANNELSPartners and the Oracle Economy...

The Oracle Alliances and Channels organization manages Oracle’s relationships with various types of companies—from independent software vendors to systems integrators, hardware/ infrastructure providers, resellers, value added distributors, and hosting service providers. The reach and influence of these relationships are critical to the continued growth of Oracle and to our ability to provide quality solutions and services tailored to customers’ business needs. Currently, more than 20,000 companies worldwide partner with Oracle to provide customer solutions and services that integrate with, embed, or run on Oracle technology.

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the global business program through which partners do business with us. For our partners, OPN Specialized provides Oracle’s premier products and solutions, development resources, education, technical services, highly special-ized go-to market engagement, and a worldwide community of companies offering Oracle-based solutions and services. With the launch of the OPN Specialized program, partners can differentiate themselves and their offerings through specializations, be recognized for their expertise, and become preferred solution providers to Oracle customers.

Worldwide Alliances and Channels actively supports the OPN Specialized program in the following ways:

• Enabling partners to differentiate themselves by becoming specialized across Oracle’s portfolio of products

• Allowing Oracle to recognize partners investing in the Oracle portfolio and having the competency to support joint customers

• Providing customers with the ability to select preferred partners with validated skills and experience to provide the best solutions to business problems

To support Oracle’s partner community, our organization consists of highly motivated and dedicated people who perform the following functions:

• Build solid business relationships with our most strategic partners to increase Oracle and partner revenues and enable partners worldwide to reach out to new customer segments

• Understand partner business models in order to develop enablement strategies, benefits, and processes that help our partners grow their business and work effectively with Oracle

• Facilitate the development of strategic marketing and new business plans for all partners to meet or exceed assigned business goals

• Develop and maintain relationships with global counterparts to make use of corporate initiatives and to ensure adherence to Worldwide Alliances and Channel standards

• Develop, maintain, and enhance both our partner-facing portal and the back-office systems that implement our business practices

For more information about Oracle PartnerNetwork, visit partner.oracle.com.

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ORACLE ON DEMANDCloud Services Provider

Oracle On Demand is the premiere cloud services provider for Oracle systems (hardware and software) seeking to improve business performance. Industry analysts expect IT solutions provided via the cloud to be one of the hottest sectors of the IT marketplace over the next five years. Analysts expect Oracle to experience significant growth by providing solutions to meet these needs. Oracle offers hundreds of on-demand solutions, including hosting and managing applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle CRM On Demand, which is fast to deploy and configurable by business users. The Oracle On Demand portfolio forms one of Oracle’s fastest-growing businesses.

Oracle On Demand, with millions of users worldwide across all industries, has the global leadership position in the rapidly growing world of on-demand technology and business solutions. Oracle has built a solid reputation by focusing on world-class management of the IT infrastructure and software solutions. We give customers flexibility and choice when we host their solution and take responsibility for managing the infrastructure, including hardware, software, and related services.

On Demand customers are able to be more agile and adjust to quickly changing requirements in the ‘new normal.’

Oracle On Demand focuses on making IT costs more predictable and increasing the value for our customers. In order to accomplish this, Oracle has standardized its IT infrastructure to provide a utility-like cloud computing platform. Today, we manage networked storage and thousands of commodity servers. Oracle On Demand offers an exciting new way to do business, extending Oracle’s technology leadership by implementing best practices in the creation and deployment of the IT infrastructure, database, and application software. We offer a platform as a service (PaaS) in which we host the middleware and database products, as well as the entire range of Oracle applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand, Siebel CRM, and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise On Demand, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne On Demand, and JD Edwards World On Demand.

With CRM On Demand, customers can subscribe to, access, and use the application over the Internet. In this case, Oracle owns and manages all components of the solution and simply charges the user a subscription fee. This is the most complete hosted solution for rapidly unlocking the value of customer information over a true Internet-based application. Because it’s all delivered over the Internet, customers don’t need to invest in costly IT resources or prolonged deployment cycles. We can get the customer up and running in just days or weeks, not months. Now, companies can deliver the right products or services at the right time at the right price.

As this entire market space continues to evolve, Oracle will need motivated employees to continue to dominate this fiercely competitive segment. We seek professionals who enjoy daily interaction with technologies such as Java, XML, symmetric replication, network security and encryption, Internet procurement, Web exchange software, Web development, databases, 4GL programmatic interfaces, ERP, and CRM. As you begin your career, consider joining a group with significant growth opportunities and a winning track record.

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ORACLE SUPPORTCustomer Support, Consulting, Global Information Technologies...

Oracle delivers services so customers can plan, execute, and maintain effective implemen-tations. We developed our services with one goal in mind: to help our customers transition from buying and building technology to using and profiting from it. Please join an award-winning organization essential to the success of Oracle’s customers.

Customer Support

Oracle’s primary mission is to help our customers succeed by providing a superior ownership experience. We achieve that goal by providing products and support. Oracle Support is a customer-facing organization that sets the industry standard for product support for the information-driven enterprise by offering comprehensive problem resolution for Oracle technology and applications. Oracle Support provides customers access to one of the most advanced support organizations in the world, with more than 7,000 support professionals and 14,000 application and technology developers. No other support organization can match Ora-cle’s breadth and depth, technical expertise, advanced support technologies, or global reach. Oracle is the only enterprise technology provider to offer support for our customers’ entire information infrastructure: hardware, database, middleware, and applications. And because we built the technology, we support it like no one else. Our support engineers have an average tenure of 10 years, with extensive knowledge and in-depth technical skills in programming, database management, and computer operations. Oracle Support provides a range of services, from prerelease testing to maintenance of a 400,000-solutions knowledge-base to troubleshooting with state-of-the art proactive, automated diagnostic tools. We seek professionals with a desire to interact daily with customers for proactive technology and applications incident resolution. If you wish to join a winning team with a long history of innovation, industry recognition, and a proven track record of exceptional performance, Oracle Support Services is for you.

Consulting

Oracle Consulting exercises the best of its comprehensive abilities to ensure delivery of significant business value and predictable business outcomes from our customer’s Oracle investment. With the recent major acquisitions, Oracle Consulting applies our position as the premier services provider of information access and knowledge sharing, focused on the empowerment of all Oracle customers. Our success goes hand-in-hand with the success of our customers. When they win, we win. When they grow, we grow. Our customers have a deep operational relationship with Oracle, and we hold each other accountable for results. A leader with your education and talent deserves only the best… not to mention a stage to deliver your ideas. And there’s no bigger stage than the world. It’s no wonder that our Internet and Grid technologies dominate the e-business landscape. Our software delivers information on demand for industry leaders worldwide, from automotive to telecommu-nications, banking to healthcare, engineering to retail, and everywhere in between. It’s time to put your knowledge to work. Leaders unite… right here at Oracle Consulting.

Global Information Technologies

Oracle Global IT is responsible for continuously refining, automating, and institutionalizing the IT used globally across our company to enable Oracle’s employees, partners, and custom-ers to outperform their best competitors in providing value to customers. Oracle Global IT activities center around enabling business process optimizations; showcasing Oracle technolo-gies; providing an industry-leading infrastructure with a world-class, award-winning Tier IV

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datacenter that offers the highest availability, security, and performance for Oracle and its hosted customers; and developing IT best practices and thought leadership that will ulti-mately transfer to Oracle customers and partners.

Oracle’s Austin Data Center is listed by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a Green Power Partner, is a Climate Leader, and has been recognized as the Data Center of the year by AFCOM—the premier association for datacenter management professionals. The techniques and lessons learned in Austin will drive our new Utah Compute Facility to become the new standard for datacenters worldwide. Do not miss the opportunity to join Global IT at the most exciting time of Oracle’s and Global IT’s history!

Global IT Initiatives. Global IT is embarking on a series of initiatives to enable Oracle to create greater competitive advantage and maximize growth. We are currently deploying a cross-organizational business transformation project to enable industry-leading service lifecycle management. Oracle’s On Demand business is a thriving hosting environment for customer infrastructure and applications. Oracle Global IT supports this growing revenue stream by enabling new services for the rapidly expanding business. We are optimizing our compute utility and datacenter operations to maximize productivity of all lines of business. We develop, deploy, and share IT best practices and showcase Oracle’s use of Oracle technolo-gies to our customers to pique their interest in our products and improve customer satisfac-tion and value.

Global IT Functions. To support our core competencies and objectives, Oracle Global IT performs several key functions and is organized into seven teams within three areas: IT Business Management, IT Technology Management, and Global End User and Technology Support.

Global IT Business Management. Our Business Management Office is responsible for IT governance and strategy, financial management, resource management, service readiness, service-level management, all aspects of communications (intra-org, cross-company, external), CIO and customer engagement programs, internal customer satisfaction, executive reviews/reporting, strategic benchmarking/metrics, and organizational excellence programs. Our Service Delivery and Planning Office is responsible for the definition and delivery of our IT services to Oracle’s internal organizations. Our Program Management Office Team is responsible for project management and works very closely with all Oracle lines of business. Our Merger and Acquisition Team focuses on the integration of newly acquired companies and personnel.

Global IT Technology Management. Service Design is the centralized R&D engineering or “build” function within Oracle Global IT responsible for architectural standards across all technologies and engineering of new services to be delivered to our stakeholders. Service Design transitions new capabilities to the “run” functions, Service Operations and Service Support. These capabilities include our global network infrastructure, Voice over IP (VoIP), compute platform, storage, and the tools/automation used to optimize the delivery of these capabilities. Our Service Operations Organization is responsible for global datacenter management, command center operations, and On Demand infrastructural services. Our Risk Management Team is responsible for ensuring the integrity of Oracle’s infrastructure, internal applications, and IT compliance. The team works primarily with Oracle’s Global Information Security Team to implement and maintain security infrastructure.

End User and Technology Support. Global Support Services is responsible for global and local-ized/field client support, as well as network, voice, and desktop support. Production Services

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provides Global Service Desk (GSD) end-user support for all internal Oracle employees and Oracle University training.

Global IT Opportunities. Our greatest asset is our employees. We seek highly knowledgeable and motivated professionals across a wide variety of technology areas and welcome talent from several developing geographies. We also seek talented professionals with inherent business knowledge and competencies. Positions include business analysts, system adminis-trators, security engineers, DBAs, automation/application developers, network engineers, global and field service engineers, service desk analysts, project managers, and more. Individuals with Oracle product knowledge are desirable. We are committed to providing our employees with a work environment that is conducive to career satisfaction, develop-ment, and opportunity. Join us and be inspired with this world-class organization!

ORACLE UNIVERSITYCOMPLETE ORACLE TRAINING... LEARN FROM THE SOURCE...

Oracle University delivers superior training focused on 100 percent student satisfaction to enhance the adoption of Oracle technologies. As one of the largest corporate training organizations in the world, we help make technology strategies successful with complete, flexible, and customized learning solutions delivered worldwide.

Complete and Flexible Training Solutions

Oracle University can help customize a complete training plan that matches the require-ments of any organization. We train entire project teams according to their learning needs, timeline, and budget, or help individual learners find the right training by using our easy job/role learning paths. Our courses are available in a variety of formats to provide students with flexible learning options—in a classroom or through live virtual training, self-study, or custom training. Regardless of the training location or the delivery method, we give our customers the skills needed to succeed.

100% Student Satisfaction

Oracle University is committed to providing every student with world-class training and an unbeatable educational experience. We are so confident of your success that we back up all training with our 100% Student Satisfaction Program. No other IT training organization offers a similar guarantee.

Oracle Certification Program

Oracle certifications are tangible, industry-recognized benchmarks of experience and expertise that can help Oracle customers, partners, and employees succeed in their career. Our certifications can accelerate professional development, improve productivity, and enhance credibility.

Expert Instructors and Cutting-Edge Curriculum

When you select courses from Oracle University, you are assured of the best possible learning experience with the best instructors in the industry. In our evaluation surveys, more than 99 percent of students who completed our courses gave Oracle University training and instruc-tors their highest recommendation. Our courses are created with the guidance of the development teams that create the actual products—providing the most up-to-date and accurate Oracle courseware available. With more than 4,000 course titles, we cover all areas

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of Oracle software and hardware. Oracle University offers a variety of exciting job opportuni-ties—sales/marketing, delivery, instructing, project management, IT, operations, and more. We invite you to consider a career with Oracle University. Learn more about us today at oracle.com/education.

ORACLE MARKETINGDRIVING INNOVATION...

Oracle is proud to celebrate more than three decades of innovation, helping businesses and governments manage, share, and protect their most valuable asset—information. Founded in 1977, Oracle was built on the belief that relational database software held the key to storing and managing data more efficiently than the prevailing hierarchical database model. As businesses evolved, the market required new technologies to drive a growing global economy to new heights—and Oracle’s vision has met those demands at every turn.

Now, with recent fiscal year revenues of more than US$26 billion, 370,000 customers, and 20,000 partners, Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware solutions, empowering companies of all sizes in more than 145 countries around the globe.

Oracle Marketing plays a critical role in helping turn customer needs into product strategy. Oracle Marketing communicates with business leaders and customers to understand their needs, works closely with Oracle Product Marketing on product direction, creates content that explains our technical and business-oriented solutions, and evangelizes our innovative offerings. In addition to communicating with customers, our people are information experts who know how to communicate with partners, prospects, industry analysts, and business leaders. Part of this communication involves bringing these groups together at exciting events such as Oracle OpenWorld, which we plan and facilitate.

Oracle Marketing also oversees public relations, campaigns, product and industry marketing, hosted services marketing, global marketing, field marketing by country, and more. In each of these areas, we create messaging and positioning and execute relevant marketing activities. We develop the strategy for each of these activities and create supporting materials such as technical white papers, product reviews, online seminars, and press releases. We publish two award-winning magazines, Oracle Magazine and Profit, that are circulated internationally.

In addition to communicating with external stakeholders, we deliver product positioning and content to internal Oracle organizations such as Sales and Consulting. Our division members possess excellent communication, presentation, and team-building skills and are passionately interested in technology, marketing, and sales. Above all, we are committed and innovative. Oracle encourages its employees to defy conventional wisdom through our continuous drive to develop and advance products and services that enable customers to better manage the information at the heart of their organizations.

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Access Advisors and Database Designer 10Access Management and Federation 36ACS (Advanced Customer Services) 4, 79, 82ACS Platform and Solutions Engineering 79ADF 29-30, 41, 64, 70, 72, 75ADF Data Visualization 30ADF Faces 30ADIT (Applications Development IT) 4, 60Advanced Customer Services. See ACSAdvanced Procurement applications 64Advanced Queues. See AQadvanced technologies 14, 42, 56, 64, 83Agile 19, 44, 56, 58, 76, 90Agilent 65AIA 76Ajax 21, 32, 37, 40-41, 71, 77, 79Ajax-based technologies 33Ajax technologies 30Alcoa 65, 70algorithms 6-10, 12, 15, 21-23, 33-34, 37, 40, 63-64, 73 real-time scheduling 33-34Alliances and Channels 4American 85analysts 27-28, 31, 90Analytic Applications 31analytic applications content development 32Analytic Apps 3analytics, advanced 9, 18Android 7, 75Android SDK 75ANSI SQL 11APAC (Asia Pacific) 72, 80, 85Apache 30Apache Trinidad 30APIs 6, 8-9, 17-18, 30, 35, 39, 44, 49, 79appliances 15, 40application-access mechanisms 51application code 19application configuration information 42

application deployment 53application deployment platform 50application developers 4, 7, 10, 18-19, 29Application Development Tools 3, 30Application Express 85Application Grid 3, 30application infrastructure 37, 42application integration 6, 28, 39Application Integration Architecture for Clinical Trial Management 76Application Management 3, 41application performance 19Application Performance Management 3, 42Application Product Lines 4application products 61applications 2-13, 15-16, 18-19, 21-22, 24, 26-43, 45, 47, 49-53, 56-72, 74-79, 81-86, 90-92 centralized server 45 cloud-based 45 customer-facing front-end 40 database-centric 11 developing modern 28 dynamic volume management 6 efficient n-tier 8 financial 6, 66 grid 5 homegrown OCI 8 hosted 84 integrated 65 internal 92 intuitive Web 72 iPad Spaces 38 legacy 68 major industry 47 market-leading analytic 32 mobile 62, 75 mobile supply chain 65 native on-device 30 next-generation iPhone/iPad 77Applications Development 4, 57, 59-60applications engineer 72Application Server 2-3, 12, 17, 23, 27-28, 30-31, 36, 40-41, 45, 62 open source-based Java 31 secure middle-tier 30application server infrastructure 31Applications Management 3, 5, 40Applications NLS Engineering 85

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application software 47, 90applications portfolio 57applications strategy 56-57Applications Unlimited 45, 56Application Test Suite 19application upgrades 10AQ (Advanced Queues) 3, 5-6architects 16, 36, 85architectures, service-oriented 35, 44, 46, 67, 75archive technologies spanning development 49Asia Pacific (APAC) 72, 80, 85ASM (Automatic Storage Management) 3, 6ASM Cluster File System and Dynamic Volume Manager 3, 6ASN 37assets 59, 64, 67, 69, 75, 78, 94Audit Framework 36Austin Data Centre 82authentication 14, 36, 51, 88Automatic Storage Management. See ASMautomobile 82availability 3, 5-8, 11, 13-15, 24, 30-31, 34-35, 44, 48, 52, 54, 78, 92

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backup 10, 13, 15, 49BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) 33, 36-37, 70, 73Bangalore 4, 81-84banking 22, 63, 85, 91BEA 32, 39, 56, 74, 83Beehive Enterprise Messaging Server 44Beijing and Shanghai centers 80Berkeley Database and Mobile Server 3, 6Berkeley DB XML 6BI. See business intelligenceBI applications 18, 27biotechnology 75, 82BlackBerry 7blogs 2, 38, 53Boolean relationships 21BPA 37BPEL 29, 37, 42, 60, 64, 66, 69-73, 75BPM (Business process management) 3, 27-29, 32-33, 75-76BPM Studio 32

BPM Suite, industry-leading Oracle 32Burlington 29, 35Business Activity Monitoring. See BAMbusiness analysts 32, 76, 93business application developer 29Business Application Development 4, 56business applications 1, 10, 19, 29, 41, 57-58, 63, 70, 94businesses fastest-growing 57, 90 midsize 5, 60business information systems 16, 58, 66business intelligence (BI) 3, 5, 18, 27, 31, 57, 59, 66, 68, 71, 75-76, 78business knowledge 61, 93business operations 19-20business performance 58, 76, 90business practices 35, 58, 89business problems 63, 65, 80, 89Business Process Analysis Suite 33business process automation 27, 58, 78business processes 28, 32-33, 36, 45, 58-59, 69business process management 3, 32Business process management. See BPMbusiness process modeling 37, 46business relationships 67, 69business requirements, creating high-level 38, 62business rules 27-28, 37business solutions 85, 90business transactions 42, 64business users 32-33, 38, 90

C

C 6-12, 15-17, 19, 22, 26-27, 30, 32, 34, 40, 46, 52, 55, 77C++ 6-7, 9, 12, 15, 26, 32, 34, 52California 2, 29, 34, 81capabilities 24, 52, 58, 79, 92cardiovascular patients 76career 1, 3, 23, 33-34, 38, 48, 61-62, 72, 90, 93-94carriers 73Cash Management 67CEP (Complex Event Processing) 3, 33, 37change, climate 77-78channels 28, 41, 65, 77, 80, 89CHAP 15

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China 4, 34, 43, 80chips 53, 88Cisco 65, 82class 84Cleveland Clinic 76clients 7-9, 17, 44, 49, 88cloud computing 3, 5, 7, 16, 28, 31, 36, 40, 42, 45, 52, 69, 90Cloud Infrastructure Performance and Availability Management 3, 7clustered Linux blade servers 25Cluster High Availability and Manageability 3, 7cluster management 7-8, 11, 22-23, 53, 79Clusterware and Real Application Clusters 3, 8CMDB 42CO 4, 59Cobol 9code 11, 32, 53, 70, 88collaboration 3, 5, 19-20, 27, 30, 33, 43-46, 58, 61, 71, 73-76, 78Collaboration Suite 45-46Collections 6, 9, 67Colorado 2, 29, 59COM+ 13commands 9, 11, 53Commitment Control 67communications 4, 17, 28-29, 37, 48, 73-74, 78, 81, 83, 88, 92, 94Communications Industry 75, 83companies acquired 83, 92 global 61, 81 retail 77, 84compilers 3, 18, 22, 34, 47Complex Event Processing. See CEPcomplexity 12, 18, 26, 37, 41-42, 47-48, 51, 60compliance controls 12comprehensive configuration management database 42compression 7, 18, 23computers 2, 11concurrency 8, 10, 15-16configure 13, 42, 51, 65Connection Manager 18construction 63-64, 71-72, 86content 1, 20-21, 33, 38, 41, 45, 53, 94 tax 67

content management 2-3, 5, 15, 19, 26-27, 35, 41, 45continuous improvement 58, 69-70CORBA 30core engine 18, 23Cornell 13Corporate Architecture 4Cost Management 4, 61, 67costs 25, 42, 44, 60-63, 67-69, 78, 90countries 70, 83, 94courses 54, 93 certified Oracle 83CPU and I/O resource management 25CRM 4, 22, 29, 56, 58-59, 61-63, 73, 90CRM (customer relationship management) 4, 20, 56, 58-59, 61-62, 90Crossbow 50, 52cryptography 36, 51CSS 11cube storage management 18curriculum 81customer relationship management. See CRMCustomer Services 62, 79

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D2K 83Dali Tools 29data application 75 petabytes of 6, 77-78Data Access 3, 7-9, 13, 17, 30database 2-3, 5-26, 29-30, 33-36, 40-42, 45-47, 49-50, 59-62, 65-66, 69, 72-73, 79, 82, 84-87, 90-91, 94 distributed 17, 84 large 10, 86 self-diagnosing 13, 16 standby 11, 23database administration 8-9Database and Application Server 17database application development 26database applications 86 distributed 6database conferences, well-respected 13, 20database consolidations 14, 19database developers 25, 85Database Development Tools 3, 11, 85

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database engine, sophisticated Oracle 24database features 6, 13, 34Database High Availability and Recovery 3, 11database internals 8, 10database kernel 13, 25Database Manageability 20database management 7, 91database performance 22, 25Database Resource Manager 3, 12database restoration software 10Database Security 3, 12database server 8, 18Database Server Manageability 3, 13database software stack 6database technologies 5, 7, 9-10, 19, 22, 24, 26Database Test and Productivity Tools 3, 13Database Upgrades and Utilities 3, 14database vendors 14Data Center Bridging (DCB) 52datacenters 50-52, 55, 87, 92Data Guard 35, 82data integration 3, 14, 34data masking 12Data Mining Technologies 3, 9-10, 15, 19, 22, 34, 77data privacy 12Data Rescue 3, 10data security 12data storage 3, 13, 19, 22-23, 32, 56Data Warehouse and Language Technology 3, 10data warehousing 5, 8, 13-15, 18-20, 34, 50, 73DBAs 12-13, 18, 57, 83, 93DCB (Data Center Bridging) 52debugging 11, 18decisions 21, 58, 66, 69defects 63defense 10, 12, 17, 22, 63, 71deliverables 31, 62Demand 4, 79, 82, 90, 92Demand Platform and Systems Engineering 79Demantra 56, 82Demonstration Solution Services 4, 45Denver 4, 29, 59-60deployment, application server 19-21, 24, 28, 30-32, 44, 49, 59, 90

design 6-7, 11, 13, 16, 20, 22, 30, 32, 36, 38-39, 47, 55, 59-63, 68-69, 72, 86 object-oriented 32desktop 88developers automation/application 93 curriculum 59Developers, Performance, and Applications (DPA) 4, 47development center 80-81, 84-85development environment, secure applica-tion 50Development of Database Developer Tools 85development projects 1, 39, 68device drivers 49, 52-53, 88DHTML 30, 32, 44, 73DICOM 17Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine 17digital media 2Directory services 37disk farm 15disks 6, 12, 15, 22, 49disk space management 22dispersed Oracle Solaris Cluster deploy-ments 53documentation 26, 46, 53, 57, 59, 63, 81DPA (Developers, Performance, and Applications) 4, 47drive innovation 31, 50-52DSS 45

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EBS (E-Business Suite) 19, 58, 69e-business applications 4, 30, 45, 81, 87E-Business Suite (EBS) 19, 58, 69E-Business Suite Supply Chain Manage-ment 4, 63E-Business Tax 67Eclipse 29-31, 35ECM (Enterprise content management) 3, 35, 46, 75economics 77, 84EDA (Event Driven Architecture) 37EDC (European Development Centre) 4, 85EDI 37, 64-65education 62-63, 68, 71, 81-83, 89, 91

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EHCC (Exadata hybrid columnar compres-sion) 23Ellison, Larry 20, 57EM 41e-mails 15, 18-19, 35, 62embedded database access controls 12EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) 72emergency response 17energy 55, 63, 82, 87engineering 7, 11, 13, 16, 30, 34, 38, 43-44, 47-49, 51, 53-55, 62, 68-70, 72, 76, 82-83enterprise 2-3, 7, 20-21, 27-28, 32, 36-38, 42, 44-45, 47-48, 51, 58, 64, 66, 70, 72, 91enterprise application mashups 38enterprise applications 24, 28, 30, 36-37, 42, 58, 71, 79, 84Enterprise Business Intelligence 78Enterprise Configuration Management 3, 42enterprise content management 3, 35Enterprise content management. See ECMEnterprise Content Manager 19enterprise integration services 27Enterprise Java 28-29Enterprise Manager 19, 40-43, 45, 84Enterprise-Ready Infrastructure 3, 40Enterprise Replication 3, 14enterprise resource planning. See ERPenterprise search 2, 15, 20-21enterprise service bus 36, 39Enterprise Service Bus. See ESBEnterprise Single Sign-On 36enterprise software 58-59, 86environmental monitoring and assessment 17environmental protection 2, 92environments 10, 20, 28, 32, 54, 66ERP 22, 29, 56, 58, 60-61, 70, 73, 90ERP (enterprise resource planning) 20, 56, 58, 61, 90ERP and CRM applications 22ERP applications development 60ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) 36-37, 39, 60ESSBase 73Europe 28-29, 72, 85 Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 72European 85European Development Centre. See EDCEuropean retailers 84

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) 37event management 5exabytes 15, 22Exadata 3, 8, 12, 14, 18-20, 23, 52Exadata hybrid columnar compression (EHCC) 23expenses 67export/import 68

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FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) 49, 52features, applications share key 9Federation 36Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) 49, 52Fibre Channel 49Field Service 19, 93filesystem 17, 49, 88finance 4, 19, 33, 51, 56, 60, 69, 81, 85Financial Management 4, 52, 56, 59, 61, 66, 69, 71, 85, 92Financial Management (FMS) 4, 59, 66, 92Financial Services Applications Develop-ment 85firewall/proxy 18firewalls 12, 73flash 5-6, 15, 30, 32, 40-41, 49flash storage 14, 55Flex 40, 56FMS (Financial Management) 4, 59, 66, 92footprint carbon 78 projects solution 71Forrester 27Fortran 9Fortune 500 companies 5, 14, 54, 71foundation, solid 23-24, 33, 57FSM (Functional Setup Manager) 4, 68functionality, business application 10, 19, 25, 39, 46, 61, 67, 72Functional Setup Manager (FSM) 4, 68Fusion 2, 4, 58, 68-72Fusion Applications 4, 68Fusion Middleware 5, 27-28, 45-46, 85Fusion Middleware, Fusion Applications 6Fusion Procurement 71Fusion Projects 72Fusion Sourcing 71

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Gartner 27Gbit/s 52General Electric 65generalized linear models (GLM) 9generations 32, 35, 48-49, 51, 58, 62, 69, 71, 86geoimagery archiving 17geological engineering and exploration 17GeoSpatial Imaging 3, 17GlassFish 31, 36GlassFish Application Server 31GLM (generalized linear models) 9Global Consulting 4Global Consulting in India 82Global Information Security 92Global Information Technologies 91Globalization and Public Sector 67Global Product Security 4, 87Global Support Delivery (GSD) 82, 93GoldenGate 14, 19, 27governments 22, 51, 59, 71, 82, 94grid 15, 79grid architecture 14grid computing 2, 8, 13, 30, 69, 81grid servers 2grid technologies 5, 7, 77, 91GSD (Global Support Delivery) 82, 93Guadalajara 84GUI Administration 18Gurgaon 4, 81

H

HA 15Hadoop 14hardware 2-3, 8, 12, 42, 47, 52-53, 55, 75, 79, 85, 87, 89-91, 94Harvard 13HCI (human computer interface) 86HCM (Human Capital Management) 4, 59, 68headquarters 2, 29, 34-35, 81healthcare 33, 52, 63, 74, 75, 91Health Sciences (HS) 4, 74-75Higher Education 4high-performance file I/O 25HL7 37Honeywell 65

host 12, 24, 81, 84, 90HotSIP 74HS (Health Sciences) 4, 74-75HTML 11, 15, 17, 21, 24, 26, 32-35, 38, 40-41, 62, 72-73, 77HTTP 18, 73Human Capital Management (HCM) 4, 59, 68human computer interface (HCI) 86Hyderabad 4, 81-83Hyperion 19, 56, 73

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I2C 15IB 15, 51-52IBM 36, 60IBTF (InfiniBand Transport Framework) 52IDE Development 29Identity and Access Management 36Identity Governance Framework 37Identity Management Suite 19identity management technologies 3, 12, 36-37, 42, 75identity virtualization services 37IIT 13images 17, 35implementations 2, 12, 14, 19, 32-33, 36, 52, 68, 72, 76, 82, 88indexing 15, 18, 24, 26India 4, 11, 34, 39-40, 43, 61, 63, 79-85India Development Center (IDC) 4, 35, 81industries 2, 5, 8, 12, 15, 21-22, 31-33, 35-36, 42-43, 50-52, 54, 69-71, 73-78, 82, 87-88, 90-91industry groups 33, 37, 62Industry-Specific Solutions 4industry standards 37, 39InfiniBand 17, 25, 48-49, 51-52InfiniBand networking 14InfiniBand Transport Framework (IBTF) 52information and information management 1, 15, 20-21, 23, 28, 31, 33, 35, 38, 41, 46, 66, 69-70, 72, 84-86, 94Information Retrieval (IR) 3, 15, 21infrastructure 7-8, 12, 14, 16, 19-20, 26, 31, 36, 40, 42, 51-52, 67, 90InnoDB 5innovative technologies, most 68, 87integration 3, 36

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Intel 3, 5, 10-11, 13-16, 18-23, 26-27, 31-32, 42, 44, 50-51, 57-59, 62-64, 66-68, 71, 75, 77-78Intel Westmere servers 19intercluster and interprocess communica-tion 25Internet and Grid technologies 5, 28-31, 38, 45, 56, 73, 86-87, 90-91interoperability 36-37, 49intrusion detection 12inventories 60-61, 64, 71investments 24, 36, 56-58, 67, 69, 72, 81, 91I/O 12, 49-51iOS SDK 4.0.1 75IPMI 15IPoIB 15IPsec 15IPv6 17IR (Information Retrieval) 3, 15, 21Ireland 4, 11, 79, 85ITIL 42, 82

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JAAS (Java Authentication and Authoriza-tion) 36-37, 44JAPAC 80Japan 28, 72, 80Japan and Asia Pacific 80Java 3, 5-7, 9-11, 15-17, 22, 27-38, 40-42, 44, 46, 50-52, 62, 64, 69-73, 75-79, 83, 88Java application development 81Java applications 50Java Authentication and Authorization (JAAS) 36-37, 44Java EE 10, 15, 17, 27, 29-32, 34-38, 40-41, 44, 62, 64, 73, 75, 79, 83Java EE Application Server 36, 79Java EE Application Server Security 36Java EE technologies 38Java Foundation Classes application 7Java Messaging Service. See JMSJava Persistence API in Project 35Java Platform Security 36Java Products 3, 35Java server infrastructure for Oracle products 35Java technologies 44 standard 69

JCA 37, 44JDBC 9, 35, 44JD Edwards 4, 19, 56, 58-60, 66, 70, 90JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 4, 58-60, 90JD Edwards World 4, 58, 60, 66, 90JDeveloper 19, 29, 75JMS (Java Messaging Service) 5, 37, 44JMX 37JSF 30, 35, 38, 40, 62JSR-168 39

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kernel 49, 51, 55key components 16, 27, 30, 32-33, 36, 67key Oracle technologies 29key virtualization technologies 52KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Commu-nity) 80Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) 80Knowledge Management 3, 40-41, 67Korea 80

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LAD (Latin America) 28, 72, 84languages 11, 18-19, 21, 27, 33-34, 45, 85 continuous query 33languages/technologies 28Latin America (LAD) 28, 72, 84LDAP 5-6, 17, 36-37, 49LDAP Directory 6leader 2, 10-11, 31, 84, 91leadership extending Oracle’s technology 90 technological 76Lease and Finance Management 4, 69Liberty Alliance/Kantara 36license 80life sciences 22, 74-75, 81Linux 4-6, 8-9, 15, 19, 33, 79, 81, 87-88Linux and Virtualization 87-88Linux Engineering 87Linux technologies 87loans 69LVM 15Lynn, Larry; Vice President 1-2

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machines, virtual 12, 18, 50maintenance 18, 64, 68, 81, 86, 91Manageability and Diagnosability 3, 16management 1, 5, 22, 26, 28, 30, 35, 42, 53, 59, 63, 65, 67, 73, 82-83, 87-88manufacturing 33, 56, 58-59, 61, 63-65, 69-73Manufacturing Operations Center 4, 69Maps and Spatial Location-Based Technolo-gies 3, 16-17marketing 4, 18, 25, 29-31, 36, 54, 72-75, 80, 90, 94Massachusetts 2, 29, 34Master Data Management (MDM) 65Mbit/s 52MDC (Mexico Development Center) 4, 84MDM (Master Data Management) 65Media and Entertainment Industry 83Medical 3, 17, 63, 75memory 12-13, 24, 40messaging 13, 37, 73-74, 77, 94 instant 38, 44metadirectory 37MetaSolv 74, 83Mexico Development Center (MDC) 4, 84Microelectronics 4, 47, 54MicroGrid Controller 78microprocessors 47Microsoft 24, 26, 36Microsoft for Windows application develop-ers 9Microsoft Visual Studio 26Middle Eastern languages 85middleware 2-3, 5-7, 16-17, 19, 27-28, 30-31, 35-36, 39-42, 45-47, 57-58, 60-61, 68-71, 73, 76, 82-83, 90-91Middleware and Application Performance Management 42Minnesota 34MIT 13mobile 2-3, 5-7, 27, 30, 32, 38, 62, 64-65, 75, 79Mobile Applications for Healthcare and Life Sciences 75models application energy utilization 79 partner business 89monitoring, business activity 33, 36, 73

Moorestown, NJ 35Most Complete Business Software and Hardware Systems Company; Oracle 1MPP 22MRIs 17multifactor authorization 12multimedia 3, 13, 17, 22multiprotocol translation 18MySQL 5

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NAS (network attached storage) 6, 40Nashua 14native JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Web services capability 60natural resource management 17NEDC 3.NET 13, 26NetBeans 29Net-4-Call 74Netra Systems 4, 48Net Services 3, 17Netsure 74, 83NET technologies 26network attached storage (NAS) 6, 40networking 4, 10, 40, 48, 51-52, 54-55network programming interfaces (NPIs) 17networks 6, 16, 36, 48, 52-53, 74-75, 79-80, 85, 92Network Security 36, 51, 90network stack 17New England Development Center 6, 14, 16-17, 21New Hampshire 2, 14new technology adoption 20New York 2next-generation application platform 33next-generation Fusion Applications 27next-generation Oracle technologies 58NIS 17NMF (nonnegative matrix factorization) 9Noida 4, 81-82nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) 9non-Oracle ERP systems 73notifications 5, 41NPIs (network programming interfaces) 17NUMA 12, 22, 25, 51NUMA servers 25

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OARDC China 80OBIEE 70object database design 72-73objects, map Oracle 9OCCI 9OCI (Oracle Call Interface) 8-9ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) 9ODBC drivers 9ODI (Oracle Data Integrator) 34, 70, 73ODM (Oracle Data Mining) 9-10, 53OFED 15OGG. See Oracle GoldenGateOLAP 18, 22-23, 34, 70, 73, 77, 84OLAP Modeling 18OM (Order Management) 32, 65On Demand 2, 4, 79, 82, 85, 90-92Online Analytical Processing 3, 18Online patching of applications 19On Track 44-45Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 9open source transactional storage engine 5Open Storage Systems 4, 48-49operating system 2-3, 8, 12, 14-15, 22, 24-26, 34, 40, 42-43, 47, 49-51, 54-55, 59-60, 79, 85, 87-88operations global 81 thriving Oracle Ireland 85operations infrastructure 74OPM/Oracle Financial expert 82OPN (Oracle PartnerNetwork) 89OPN Specialized program 89Ops Center 3, 42-43optimization techniques 64, 73Oracle 1-94 savings goal 60Oracle Access Manager 36Oracle ADF 29-30Oracle Advanced Customer Services 82Oracle Advanced Queues 5Oracle Alliances and Channels 89Oracle and Sun technologies 31Oracle Application Development 61Oracle Application Development Frame-work 29Oracle Application Development Tools 28-29

Oracle Application Express 11Oracle Application Integration Architecture 75Oracle Application Product Lines 58Oracle Applications 24, 35, 45, 50, 56-58, 60-62, 67-68, 70, 72, 90Oracle Applications and Oracle Middleware 57Oracle Applications DBA 82Oracle Application Server 5, 82Oracle Applications Operations 82Oracle applications products 85Oracle Asia Research & Development Center 80Oracle Asia Research and Development Center 80Oracle Assets 67Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Change Data Capture 14Oracle Authorized Training Partners and Oracle Workforce Development Partners 83Oracle Automatic Storage Management 6, 8Oracle Beehive 44Oracle Beehive Enterprise Collaboration Server 44Oracle Berkeley DB 5-6Oracle Berkeley DB products 6Oracle BI 32Oracle BI Server 32Oracle BPM Suite 33Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) 31, 78Oracle Call Interface. See OCIOracle candidate 1Oracle Certification Program 93Oracle certifications 93Oracle Chief Executive Officer 20Oracle China 4, 80Oracle China Development Center 80Oracle cluster file systems 8Oracle Clusterware 8Oracle clusterware and RAC 8oracle.com/college 1, 3oracle.com/education 94Oracle Communications 74, 83Oracle Communications in India 83oracle.com/otn 44Oracle Complex Event Processing 33oracle.com/sun 31

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Projects at Oracle

oracle.com/technologies/bpm/index.html 33oracle.com/technology 17oracle.com/timesten/index.html 24Oracle Configurator 65Oracle Consulting 82, 91Oracle Consulting and Support 46Oracle Consulting exercises 91Oracle Consulting in India 82Oracle Content Management 35Oracle Contracts 64Oracle Cost Management 61Oracle courseware 93Oracle CRM 61-63, 73Oracle customers 14, 20, 50-51, 82, 89, 91-93Oracle Database 5, 7-9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-22, 24-25, 29-30, 35, 45-46, 49, 62, 73, 84-85 enterprise-class demos showcase 45Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware 5, 61Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata 12Oracle database kernel 9Oracle Database on Windows platform 26Oracle databases 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 69 business-critical 82Oracle Databases and Oracle Fusion Middleware to Oracle Applications 40Oracle Database Server 46Oracle data dictionary 18Oracle Data Guard Logical 14Oracle Data Integration 34Oracle Data Integrator. See ODIOracle Data Miner 9Oracle Data Miner features 10Oracle Data Mining. See ODMOracle Data Profiling 34Oracle Data Quality 34Oracle Data Service Integrator 34Oracle DBA 82Oracle developers 47Oracle developers in India 59Oracle development centers 81Oracle Development Tools 72Oracle Discrete and Process Manufacturing Applications 65Oracle EBS 58, 69Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 56, 58, 65, 67, 69-70, 90

Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle CRM 90Oracle E-Business Suite application 68Oracle E-Business Suite Financials 66Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement and PeopleSoft Procurement solutions 70Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management 63Oracle ECM 35Oracle Economy 4, 89Oracle Education Centers 83Oracle Enterprise Asset Management 64Oracle Enterprise Content Management 35Oracle Enterprise Linux 19, 49Oracle Enterprise Manager 36, 41-42, 82, 84Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation 46Oracle Enterprise Manager products 7, 40Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 29Oracle enterprise software stack 6Oracle Entitlements Server 37Oracle ERP 73Oracle European Development Centre 4, 85Oracle Exadata 12Oracle Exadata Storage Servers 52Oracle expertise 85Oracle Financial Management applications 66Oracle FSM 68Oracle Functional Setup Manager (FSM) 68Oracle Fusion 57-58Oracle Fusion Applications 29, 57Oracle Fusion Architecture 29Oracle Fusion Middleware 7, 27-28, 30, 35, 46, 73, 78Oracle Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications 16Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer 17Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform 27Oracle Fusion Middleware product offerings 31Oracle Fusion Procurement 70Oracle Fusion Projects 71Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Globalization 72Oracle Fusion technology components 70

Projects at Oracle

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Oracle Gateways 84Oracle Global 91-92Oracle GoldenGate, deploying 14Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) 3, 13-14, 34Oracle GoldenGate customers 14Oracle Grid Infrastructure 8Oracle Hardware Systems products 47Oracle HCM 69Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores 34Oracle Health Sciences 74-75Oracle Higher Education 68Oracle Hyperion 73Oracle IDC 81Oracle IDE family 29Oracle Identity Manager 36Oracle Identity Manager product 36Oracle India 4, 81Oracle India Private Ltd 81Oracle Information Retrieval Platform 15Oracle intranet 21Oracle JDBC drivers 35Oracle JDeveloper 29Oracle kernel 23-24Oracle Logistics 65Oracle Magazine and Profit 94Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center 69Oracle Marketing 94Oracle Mexico Development Center 4, 84Oracle Middleware Strategy 27Oracle Mobile Server 6-7Oracle network layer 17Oracle OLAP 18, 84Oracle OLAP’s multidimensional cube technology 18Oracle On Demand 4, 79, 82, 90Oracle Open Storage Systems 49Oracle OpenWorld 53, 94Oracle Order Fulfillment 65Oracle Order Management 65Oracle organizations, internal 94Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) 89Oracle partners 84Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager 70Oracle personnel 46Oracle portfolio 89Oracle precompilers 9Oracle Process Manufacturing Applications

65Oracle product and Linux kernel experts 87Oracle Product Marketing 94Oracle Property Manager 72Oracle RAC 8Oracle RDBMS 10, 14, 20, 23, 64, 71Oracle R&D center 80Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 5, 34, 52, 84Oracle Recovery Manager 84Oracle Retail 74, 77, 84Oracle Retail in India 84Oracle’s ACS 79Oracle sales consultants 45Oracle’s Asset Lifecycle Management solution 67Oracle’s Austin Data Center 92Oracle’s BI strategy 18Oracle’s CEO 57Oracle’s Chief Security Officer 87Oracle School of Advanced Technology 83Oracle SCM 63Oracle’s computer systems 48Oracle’s core application development tools 81Oracle’s CRM applications 62Oracle’s data integration 35Oracle’s development tools 29Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 15, 20-21, 41Oracle’s Edge Applications 56, 58Oracle server hardware design teams, internal 53Oracle servers 5, 9, 48Oracle Server Technology products 46Oracle Service 79Oracle Service Bus 39Oracle’s Fusion Applications 34, 45Oracle’s Fusion Middleware 27, 70Oracle’s globalization features 46Oracle’s hardware 55Oracle’s Hardware Systems Engineering 47Oracle’s headquarters 29, 81Oracle’s India Development Center 35Oracle’s infrastructure 92Oracle Site Hub 66Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 56, 58-59

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Projects at Oracle

Oracle’s JD Edwards World 58, 60Oracle’s kernel contributions 88Oracle’s life sciences applications 76Oracle’s Linux 87Oracle SOA Suite 36-37Oracle SOA technology 76Oracle software portfolio 47Oracle Solaris 47, 49, 53-55Oracle Solaris Cluster 52-53 high-availability 54Oracle Solaris Cluster and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 52Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 53Oracle Solaris Modernization 51Oracle Solaris Operating System 50Oracle Solaris OS Platform Software Engineering 53Oracle Solaris Studio 53Oracle Solaris ZFS 54Oracle Solaris Zones 54Oracle Solution Services India (OSSI) 82Oracle’s online developer community 81Oracle’s operations 81Oracle’s order-to-cash solution 67Oracle Spatial 16, 84Oracle Spatial GeoRaster 17Oracle Spatial technology 78Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise 56, 58, 90Oracle’s planning products 73Oracle’s portfolio 89Oracle’s Primavera 76Oracle SQL Developer 11, 18Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 11Oracle’s sales consultants 45Oracle’s search 15Oracle’s Siebel 59Oracle’s Siebel CRM 56, 58Oracle’s Siebel CRM products 59Oracle’s SOA portfolio 39Oracle’s Software 47Oracle’s stack 2Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise 54Oracle’s Sun systems 47Oracle’s Systems 42Oracle’s Systems product stack 54Oracle storage products 52Oracle Store 11Oracle Sun systems 47Oracle Supplier Hub 66

Oracle Support 41, 91Oracle Support Services 91Oracle’s vision 94Oracle’s WebLogic application server 6Oracle Systems 47, 60, 90Oracle Systems products multilingual/multicultural 54Oracle Technology Network 26, 81Oracle Text 15, 41Oracle TimesTen 24Oracle TimesTen Database 24Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 24Oracle tools, latest 38, 62Oracle Transportation Management 56, 58Oracle University (OU) 4, 83, 93-94Oracle University Courseware 85Oracle University Global Shared Services 83Oracle University in India 4, 83Oracle University training 93Oracle UPK 25Oracle User Experience Design 86Oracle User Productivity Kit 24Oracle Utilities 74, 77-78Oracle Value Chain Planning 72Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 88Oracle Virtualization 49Oracle Virtualization Manager 19Oracle Virtualization Manager for SPARC 55Oracle Virtual OS layer 16Oracle VM 87Oracle Warehouse Builder 34Oracle WebCenter 38Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration 44Oracle WebCenter Intelligent Collaboration Connector 44Oracle WebCenter Real-Time Collaboration 44Oracle WebCenter Suite 38Oracle WebLogic 29, 42Oracle WebLogic Suite 30Oracle Web Services Manager product 36Oracle workloads 87Oracle XStream 14orchestration 37Order Fulfillment 65Order Fulfillment applications streamline 65

Projects at Oracle

107

Order Management (OM) 32, 65Oregon 2organizations, procurement 64OSI application level components 18OS Platform Software Engineering 53OSSI (Oracle Solution Services India) 82oss.oracle.com 88OS technologies 17otn.oracle.com 7Ottawa, Canada 35OU. See Oracle Universityoverhead, minimal 11-12OWSM 36

P

packaging 51, 55, 63parallel clustered environments 15parallel processing 8, 14, 18partner.oracle.com 89partners 21, 26, 28, 38, 46, 51, 55, 58-59, 68, 85, 89, 91-94patents 8, 11, 13-14, 16, 20, 52-53, 71, 81patients 75payables 61, 67payments 64, 67-69, 75PCB Design and Tools Engineering 55PCI 42PDIT (Product Development Information Technologies) 3, 19-20Pedigree and Serialization Manager 4, 70PeopleSoft 4, 19, 56, 58-59, 66, 68, 70, 82, 90PeopleSoft applications 59PeopleSoft Applications DBA 82PeopleSoft Enterprise 4, 56, 58, 66, 90PeopleTools 59Performance 3-9, 12-14, 16, 18-28, 30-31, 34, 37, 39-43, 47-52, 54-56, 58, 61-64, 70-72, 82, 87-88, 90-92performance tuning 18, 82Perl 9, 30, 40pharmaceutical 17, 65, 82PHP 9, 29physical database design 11PIM (Product Information Management) 65PKI 36-37planning 62-63, 72-73, 76, 82platforms 8-9, 12, 14-15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25,

27, 31, 48, 50, 57, 59-60, 66, 79Platform Software 4, 53Platform Software Technologies (PSWT) 50PL/SQL 3, 9-11, 18-19, 30, 34, 64, 71-72, 79, 83PL/SQL and Compiler Technologies 18PL/SQL Server Pages (PSPs) 30PMs. See product managersPO 71podcasts 2polygons 16portal mashups 2Portal Software 74, 83portfolio, planned application 27portfolio management 4, 71-72, 76Portland, OR 35Posco 65power 11, 23, 25, 30, 38, 40, 46, 54-55, 63, 69, 72, 74power outages 78Precompilers 9preferred application deployment solution 50Primavera 4, 56, 74, 76Primavera Project and Portfolio Manage-ment 4, 76process manufacturers 65processor design 47Process Spaces 33process stakeholders 33procurement 4, 58-59, 63, 67, 70, 72Product Development and Oracle Univer-sity Courseware 85Product Development Information Technolo-gies. See PDITProduct Information Management (PIM) 65production workload 20Productivity Tools 13, 28, 38, 41, 44, 46, 76-77, 93product lifecycle management 19, 28, 45, 58, 68product managers (PMs) and product management 7, 25-26, 29, 32, 35, 37-38, 44, 59, 62-63, 68, 72, 80, 85product portfolio, incredible applications 56product positioning 26, 28, 94professionals 29, 50, 85, 90-91

108

Projects at Oracle

profitable technologies interest, most 5project accounting 71project/aerospace 63project and portfolio management 4, 74, 76project-based work 71 complex 64Project Crossbow 52project delivery 61, 66projection 23project lifecycle 24project management 57, 76, 92-94project planning 10, 28, 39, 75, 77, 79, 84, 92projects new btrfs filesystem 88 open source 35, 84, 88protection realms 12Protocol Center 75prototypes 88PSPs (PL/SQL Server Pages) 30PSWT (Platform Software Technologies) 50public sector 36, 61, 63, 67publish 1, 5, 11-13, 16, 20-22, 27, 33, 47, 52, 75, 83, 94Python 9, 40, 51

Q

QA (Quality Assurance) 3, 7, 29, 32, 43-44, 46, 59, 63, 69, 87QoS (quality-of-service) 12, 33quality assurance 3, 7, 29, 43, 69Quality Assurance. See QAquality-of-service (QoS) 12, 33queries 21, 23, 27query performance, enhanced 18query processor 33-34

R

RAC (Real Application Clusters) 5, 7-8, 13-14, 17, 35, 50, 52, 82radio frequency (RF) 65RAID 15Raleigh, NC 35RBAC 36-37R&D 8, 14, 23, 53, 59, 75, 80-81, 84, 92RDBMS 10, 13-14, 17-18, 20, 22-23, 64, 71RDF 21-22, 76

RDFS/OWL 21RDFS/OWL languages 21RDMA 15RDS 15Reading, UK 29Real Application Clusters. See RACReal Estate Management Applications 4Real User Experience Insight 19receivables 61, 67recovery 3, 8, 10, 13, 23-24Recovery Manager (RMAN) 84recursion 40Redwood Shores, California 2, 29, 34regression testing 82relational databases 5, 72, 79relational database software 94reliability 5, 21, 30, 41, 43, 51, 54, 56Replay Technologies and Workload Intelli-gence 3, 20replay technologies area 20replication 3, 5-6, 13-15, 24, 37, 53, 90repository 16research 7-8, 20, 22, 25, 29, 34, 71, 86resolutions, applications incident 91Resource Manager 12REST 11, 40, 51retail 4, 52, 63, 72, 74, 77, 84, 91RF (radio frequency) 65RFID 33, 37, 64, 80RFID sensors 80risks 51, 57, 63, 82, 88RMAN (Recovery Manager) 84Romania 79, 85RosettaNet 37routing 5, 37rules engine 5

S

SaaS 68-69, 80SAF-TE 15sales 19, 56, 63-64, 74, 81, 87, 94SAML 36-37San Francisco 39, 53, 57SAP 24, 36SAS 15, 49SATA 15, 49scalability 5-6, 8-12, 14-15, 17-18, 21-24, 27-28, 30, 34, 37, 39, 41-44, 49-50, 52, 54, 74, 77

Projects at Oracle

109

SCM (Supply Chain Management) 4, 19, 56, 58-59, 61, 63SDP (Socket Direct Protocol) 15, 52search technologies 20-21, 41secure configuration 12Secure Enterprise Search 3, 19-20, 46SecureFiles 23secure network access control 18Security and Identity Management 3, 28, 36-37Security Infrastructure and Java Platform Security 36security standards 36-37security technologies 5, 9, 13, 15, 17-18, 21, 28, 30, 33, 36-37, 42, 44, 50-51, 54, 81, 87-88Self-Service Procurement (SSP) 71self-tuning 13, 15Semantic technologies 3, 21-22, 26, 33, 41, 76Server and Storage Systems 4, 12Server Globalization Technology. See SGTservers 2, 5, 9, 12, 17-18, 47, 49, 52, 54, 81-82, 87Server Technologies Curriculum 4, 45-46Server Technologies Information Develop-ment 45-46Server Technologies Performance 3, 22Server Technologies products 46Service Bus 3, 36, 39Service Design 92service development organization 85Service Engineering 4, 79, 85Service Operations Organization 92Service Oriented Architecture 3, 37Service oriented architecture. See SOAservices 1-2, 4-6, 17, 27, 30-32, 37-38, 40, 45, 51-52, 54, 56-57, 64-65, 67, 74-75, 78-80, 88-92 application 39 location-based 17, 80 technical 45, 89services Oracle University 83SES 15Session Layer Abstraction 17sessions 88SGT (Server Globalization Technology) 4, 45Shanghai 80shop.oracle.com 11

Siebel 4, 19, 56, 58-59, 68, 82, 90Siebel Applications DBA 82Siebel CRM 4SIGMOD 11, 20Silicon Valley 29, 84Singapore 80Single Sign-On (SSO) 36SMART 7, 14-15, 48, 52, 77-78, 88Smart Grid 77-78SMP 10, 22SNMP 15SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) 3, 5, 16, 19, 21-22, 28-29, 31-32, 35-42, 44, 58, 60, 64, 69-71, 73, 75-76, 78-79SOAP 5, 37social networking 2, 36, 74Socket Direct Protocol (SDP) 15, 52software 1-3, 10-11, 27, 36-38, 42-43, 47-49, 52, 55, 62, 65, 74, 76-78, 84, 90-91software as a service (SAAS) 2software engineers 26, 83Software. Hardware. Complete. 2-3, 47Software Industry 38, 61-62, 86Software Provisioning and Installation Technologies 3, 42software stack, optimized Oracle 50Solaris 4, 9, 15, 19, 49-52, 54, 88Solaris Information Documentation and Globalization 4Solaris Networking 52Solaris technologies 54Solid State Disks 23Sony 65Sophoi 74source, open 31, 87-88source database, open 5SOX 42SP (Supplier Portal) 71space management 22-24, 72SPARC 47, 50SPARC Enterprise Systems 4, 54SPARC Volume Systems 4, 54-55Spatial Location-Based Technologies 3, 16SPML 37Spring 30, 36SQL 3, 7, 9-11, 13-15, 18-21, 30, 33-34, 61, 64, 71-72, 79, 83, 85SQL*Plus 9, 85SQL language 18-19SQL Performance Analyzer 20

110

Projects at Oracle

SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) 59SSD 15SSL 5, 37SSO (Single Sign-On) 36SSP (Self-Service Procurement) 71standards 22, 26, 30-31, 36, 39, 87standards-based Java Business services 30Stanford 13storage 2-8, 10, 12-15, 18-19, 22-25, 28, 32-33, 40, 48-49, 51-53, 55-56, 79, 84, 90, 92Storage Engine 3, 22storage layer 23storage technologies 8, 12 clustered 49 innovative Flash 55strategy 25, 35, 60, 62-63, 74, 92, 94streaming data 33-34 high-speed 33Streams 33, 38, 49, 82students 53, 83, 93Student System 4Subledger Accounting 66Sun acquisition and technologies 2, 31, 36, 42, 47, 50, 55, 74, 80, 88Sun Labs 4, 87-88Sun OpCenter 19Sun Open Storage 19Sun Oracle Exadata 18Sun Ray 88Sun Ray Thin Client 4Supplier Portal (SP) 71Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) 59suppliers 16, 64, 71, 73supply chain 19, 56, 59, 63, 70, 73, 84Supply Chain Globalization 4, 72Supply Chain Management. See SCMSupport 4support vector machines (SVMs) 9SVG 11SVMs (support vector machines) 9Swing 29Systems and Applications Management 3, 5, 40, 42-43Systems and Replication 14Systems Hardware and Software Develop-ment 4

systems management 15, 28, 32Systems Revenue Product Engineering 4, 55Systems Technologies 55

T

Tangosol 35Tape Technologies 4, 56technologies acquired 35-36 advanced support 91 advisory 13 agent-based 27 application server 17, 22 autonomic 20 building security 12 character input/output 54 cloud 5 component UI 39 constraint-based configuration 65 consumer user experience 78 cutting-edge 26, 32, 46, 55, 68 cutting-edge social media 44 database security 12 data-mining 9 data replication 53 emerging 11, 21, 66, 69, 76, 80 flashback 11 foundation middleware 31 hottest I/O 51 latest Fusion 73 latest Fusion Middleware 68 latest high-speed fabric interconnect 51 latest Web-based 68 leading-edge cluster 8 location-based 17 metadata 10 mobile 79 network management 78 new language 46 on-demand 90 open 60 open source 22 partner 80 platform 19, 81 portal 38 primary 30 proactive 91 programming 18

Projects at Oracle

111

providing grid 2 relational 26 replay 20 rich client 32 rich user interface 40 self-managing 13 various Interconnect 17technology investments 78Technology Management 92Technology Platform and Analytic Applica-tions 31Telco 52, 83telecommunications 17, 22, 63, 82TimesTen 3, 24, 84TimesTen In-Memory Database 3, 24TOE 15tools 7, 11, 16, 18, 20, 24, 27-30, 35, 37-39, 41, 46, 51, 61, 65-66, 68, 85 developer 18, 47TopLink Object Relational 35Toshiba 65TPC-H 11Traditional enterprise applications 39training 46, 54, 83, 93transactional data services, standard 6transaction processing 3, 5, 13, 22-23, 27-28transparent data encryption 12transportation 17, 63, 65trends, emerging technological 24

U

UC Berkeley 13UDP 15UI. See user interfacesui.oracle.com 86ULP (Upper Layer Protocol) 51-52ultrasounds 17UML 34Unified Modeling Language (UML) 34United Kingdom 34Universal Connection Pool 35UNIX 5-6, 8, 55, 79UPK 24-25Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) 51-52urban planning 17usability 32, 56, 69, 86user adoption 24-25user experience 4, 69, 86

user interfaces (UI) 24, 32, 36, 53, 73User Productivity Kit. See UPKUser Productivity Kit (UPK) 24-25utility companies and utilities 2-4, 14, 46, 51, 63, 74-75, 77-78, 92

V

Value Chain Planning 4, 56, 58, 72-73verification 47virtual directory 37Virtualization and Cloud Computing 3, 40, 52virtualization technologies 2, 4, 25, 40, 50, 52-53, 87Virtual Operating System (VOS) 3, 25, 84virtual private database 12visualization 15-17, 21-22, 30, 32, 44, 86VLDB 11, 20vocabularies 21-22voice 45, 64, 74, 92Voice over IP (VoIP) 92VOS 25, 84VOS (Virtual Operating System) 3, 25, 84

W

W3C 21-22W3C SPARQL 21warehouses 23, 65Web 27-28, 31, 33, 38, 44, 47, 50, 58-59, 65, 67, 73, 75, 78Web 2.0 27-28, 31, 33, 38, 58, 73, 75Web/application servers 73Web-based application user interfaces 79WebCenter 3, 19, 38, 44-45, 73Web Services 10, 21, 30-32, 34, 36-37, 44, 62, 64, 72, 76, 79 designing XML-based 38, 62Web Services Security 36Web stores 71Web Tools Project 29wikis 2, 38, 53Windows 3, 5-9, 26, 66, 79, 87-88workloads, enterprise database 87workplace 38WSDL 37, 64WS-Federation 36WS-Policy 36-37WS-Security 36-37

112

Projects at Oracle

WS-Trust 36

X

X.509 37XACML 36-37Xen hypervisor 87-88XML 3, 5-6, 11, 13, 16-17, 19, 22-23, 26-28, 32, 34-38, 40-41, 62, 64-66, 72-73, 76, 79XML-based search technologies 27XML Database 3, 26XML technologies 34XQuery 6, 19, 27, 37, 84XQueryP engine 84x-rays 17XSLT 37XStream 14

Z

zero-downtime application/database upgrades 14zfs File System 50zones 50Zones Application Containers 50Zorba 84ZPARK 80

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