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for Jd edwards users Have a question? Get an answer Post your JD Edwards questions in Quest’s online forums for both JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World customers. And if you see an unanswered question, offer your expertise! It’s easy – and it’s free! for oracle utilities users Oracle Announces – Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing Release 2.3 Enhancements Help Utilities Boost Customer Service, Further Support Smart Grid Initiatives, Reach New Markets and Lower Total Cost of Ownership. New Oracle Study - Testing the Waters - Smart Metering for Water Utilities “Smart grid” has received a lot of buzz in recent months – with electric utilities receiving most of the spotlight and launching initiatives that improve network reliability, enhance efficiency, and help drive more-informed consumption decisions. But, electric utilities aren’t the only ones facing aging infrastructures, sustainability challenges, and customer demand for better service. Read full story or download Oracle’s report. Sun Products are now part of Oracle’s Solutions for Utilities Oracle has broadened its utilities offerings with the acquisition of Sun, a leading provider of standards-based computing systems, service, and storage. Oracle’s Sun products for the energy and utilities industries are extensive and innovative. The acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems, enabling Oracle to engineer and deliver an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so that customers do not have to do the integration themselves. Utility customers can benefit as their system integration costs go down, while system performance, reliability, and security go up. dowNload “PuttiNg the BusiNess iN BusiNess iNtelligeNce” With this six-installment BI Whitepaper series written by Rick Beers, Quest International Users Group begins an expansion of the education provided to its members. As an addition to the traditional focus on Products and Technologies themselves, Quest is opening the door to an additional focus on the ways in which those products and technologies are used in the course of real work. These whitepapers will incorporate views, experiences and research from Quest customer and vendor members and, in the future, industry research organizations. They are intended to be collaborative, with participation from solution and service providers who will be offering valuable thought leadership (rather than focusing on their particular products, technologies and services). The intent is to deliver to Quest membership a truly balanced view of the impact that IT products and services are having on our businesses. Get Installment 1: A Business Overview of BI Get Installment 2: A Practical Approach to Business User Adoption 7
Putting The Business In Business Intelligence
With this six-installment BI Whitepaper series written by Rick Beers, Quest International Users Group begins an expansion of the education provided to its members. As an addition to the traditional focus on Products and Technologies themselves, Quest is opening the door to an additional focus on the ways in which those products and technologies are used in the course of real work.
These whitepapers will incorporate views, experiences and research from Quest customer and vendor members and, in the future, industry research organizations. They are intended to be collaborative, with participation from solution and service providers who will be offering valuable thought leadership (rather than focusing on their particular products, technologies and services). The intent is to deliver to Quest membership a truly balanced view of the impact that IT products and services are having on our businesses.
Get Installment 1: A Business Overview of BI
Get Installment 2: A Practical Approach to Business User Adoption
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