...11/26/12 The Surprising Winner in the HP-Oracle Slugfest (HPQ, IBM, INTC, MSFT, ORCL) The Surprising Winner in the HP-Oracle Slugfest By Cindy Johnson | M ore Articles June 27, 2011 | Comments (1) Don't let it get aw ay! Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service today. Sometimes the best way to win a fight is to work the sidelines. That doesn't seem to be lost on IBM (NYSE: IBM ) as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL ) go through the computer industry's version of a nasty breakup. As the Silicon Valley turns It started when Oracle tied the knot with Sun Microsystems in a January 2010 acquisition. Then HP sent former CEO Mark Hurd packing last August after -- long story short -- a Click Here Now contractor accused him of sexual harassment. Oracle's Larry Ellison rushed to publicly defend Hurd's honor and shortly thereafter offered Hurd a new home as co-president of the software giant. Now HP has sued Oracle, claiming its March 2011 decision to quit supporting Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC ) high-end Itanium processors is a breach of contract with HP. To be sure, Oracle wasn't the first software maker to stoke concerns about the future of Itanium -- and thus about HP's high-end systems. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) and Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHT ) previously pulled support. Used to play well with others HP uses Itanium in mission-critical computers that compete with Sun's SPARC-based and IBM's...
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...Food Giant Standardizes on HP for Infrastructure of Champions HP success story One of the largest food companies in the world, General Mills has one of the lowest IT spends per revenue dollar in the consumer packaged goods manufacturing industry. The company, which has long pursued a strategy of IT standardization and consolidation, operates its entire global enterprise on HP systems — from the HP Integrity servers that run its SAP ERP and Business Information Warehouse, to the HP iPAQ Pocket PCs used by its retail salesforce. In addition to cost savings, the simplified infrastructure has enabled quick response to business change — most notably when General Mills acquired Pillsbury, a company of near equal size, and integrated it into its infrastructure in just 16 months. General Mills markets 100 of the world’s best-loved food brands, including Betty Crocker, Haagen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Wheaties and Cheerios. It holds the No.1 or No.2 market position in virtually every category in which it competes. It also relies on a single vendor for its IT systems worldwide: HP. “We think that we’re extremely different in the way that we manage information systems at General Mills,” says Vandy Johnson, senior director of I.S. Operations, who oversees the $12.3 billion - dollar company’s business warehouse, data management, telecom, network, I.S. security, data center, and server and web infrastructure operations. General Mills operates the core of its business...
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...HP Universal CMDB Software Version: UCMDB 10.10, CP 13.00 Universal Discovery Content Guide - HP Integrations Document Release Date: November 2013 Software Release Date: November 2013 Legal Notices Warranty The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Restricted Rights Legend Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Copyright Notice © Copyright 1996 - 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Trademark Notices Adobe® and Acrobat® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. AMD and the AMD Arrow symbol are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Google™ and Google Maps™ are trademarks of Google Inc. Intel®, Itanium®, Pentium®, and Intel® Xeon® are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Java and Oracle are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Microsoft®, Windows®, Windows NT®, Windows® XP, and Windows...
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...Riodan Manufacturing Compared to the expansion and growth of business companies have witnessed throughout history, modern companies face many challenges and have some of the most advanced tools to be utilized. The invention of the modern day computer systems has revolutionized the way companies do business and allow for unprecedented growth. Unfortunately, the failure to embrace and understand this technology will lead to the down fall of even the largest corporate empire. Riodan Manufacturing is one of these companies. Riodan is an international company with locations in Georgia, Michigan, and Hangzhou, China. Having locations spread across the globe poses a challenge for the companies Information Technology Department. Having a good understanding of the company’s size and needs, the IT department helps ensure the company’s overall success. Riordan Manufacturing employs over 550 people, and has annual earnings of $46 million dollars. (Apollo Group, Inc., 2013) Riodan needs to find a way to align its IT Strategy and Business Strategies to ensure its future growth and profitability. The purpose of this paper is to identify the weakness in Riodan’s current information systems and make suggestions what improvements need to be made, leading to improved profits. The Financial and Accounting department will require several upgrades to both hardware and software to ensure the transition is not only seamless, but also easily upgradable in the future as well. After examining all of...
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...& Scanner Innovations (HP) 2011 Print from places you seldom thought possible Products like the HP Officejet Pro K8600 e-All-in-One (AIO) printer connect to the Internet, enabling key benefits such as ePrint—letting you print from virtually anywhere with a web connection by emailing the printer’s unique email address. Another benefit of web-enabled printing is print apps, which allow you to enjoy instant access to printable web content from your printer’s control panel. The ePrintCenter feature on the HP Officejet Pro K8600 lets you view printer status, add or remove print apps, use a host printer’s apps, and manage ePrint settings remotely and through any web browser. [pic] Scan more than just flat objects Scanners have traditionally been used primarily as a tool for scanning photographs and the document management, but the evolution of technology has opened the door to many new and exciting possibilities. The HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 is HP’s first web-connected color laser multifunction printer with the power to scan 3D objects, which can be used to create unique artwork and presentations. In addition to 3D objects, converting your paper documents into electronic form allows you to store, share, and use them more effectively. Considering document management with scanners like the HP Scanjet 5590 is just smart business. | |HP Officejet Pro 8600 |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus |HP Officejet Pro 8600 Premium...
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...HP Photosmart 5510 Series User Manual M. Raquel Medina ENG/221 August 14, 2012 Gregory Bontz Recently purchased, by the writer, was an HP All-in-One printer, scanner, and copier, the HP Photosmart 5510 series. A manual was provided in the boxed package but can also be viewed online at http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02983578.pdf. The manual provides simplicity, clarity, attractiveness, organization and graphical illustrations. It is a well written instructional manual for users of any technical level, although the length of the document is a little too long. According to Don Norman, “People do not want to read manuals — they want to do their activity. Help them get right to work, with minimum reading” (Norman, 2012). At times a reader can become confused and frustrated with a user manual that is too big. Keeping the manual clear and simple is important. Simplicity • Positive: The HP Photosmart 5510 series user manual is made simple because of the shortness in its index. There are only nine major topics that are covered in the manual but these nine are the key points to operating the device. The manual has each topic linked to the page so a simple point and click gets you to the information needed. • Negative: The Technical Information portion of this manual was not easy to follow. Although, technical information is not the easiest to make simple. Clarity • Positive: Clarity is important when reading a user manual because your...
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...Delphi: The bellybutton of the ancient world Look beyond simply the famed oracular priestess breathing in hallucinogenic gases and you find a place whose past speaks directly to the 21st century. That is the argument of Cambridge University's Dr Michael Scott who is researching how and why Delphi, a small Greek town and religious sanctuary perched on a difficult to reach mountainside, was for 1,000 years the proclaimed the 'bellybutton', the very centre of the ancient world. Famed for its oracle at the Temple of Apollo, he is also examining the evidence of Delphi's many other gods, athletic and musical games and the monuments to unity - as well as civil war - that crowded its religious sanctuaries. Dr. Scott uses the latest architectural plans of the temple of Apollo which reveal for the first time archaeological traces of what may have been the oracular priestess's consultation room inside the temple. He also argues that the town, which drew kings and emperors as well as cities and commoners from all corners of the Mediterranean world and beyond, still speaks as powerfully to us today as it did in the past. He said: "Imagine a place with the wealth of the Swiss banks, the religious power of the Vatican, the advertising potential of the World Cup and the historical importance of all the world's museums combined; that was Delphi. We would all like to know what the future has in store for us. In that, perhaps the most important thing Delphi teaches us is to look inward, to...
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...Diogenes of Sinope was known for being different from the rest of society. Diogenes was popularly known as a Kyon, which in Greek means “dog.” The word cynic derives from Kyon and was later associated with the philosophy of cynicism which is “The end of life is virtue, not pleasure, and it can only be obtained by independence of all earthly possessions and pleasures” (Philosophy.lander.edu) as well as living a “living a life full of virtue in agreement with nature”(Philosophybasics.com). Diogenes lives in a barrel, and he happily demonstrates that there is more to life than just power and riches. The fact that he lives in such a simple manner, shows that he doesn’t need materials to be happy. In Tendryakov’s Revelations next to a Philosopher’s Barrel, Diogenes of Sinope is an outcast in society. Although he was an outcast, he was very popular because of how differently he lived his life and behaved around others. “There was only one person in the city who did not even stir to cast a glance at Alexander, the Macedonian king. He himself was famous both in Corinth and without it—Diogenes of Sinope, the strange sage. (Translator's Private Collection).” Diogenes was not like the rest of the Greeks, he kept to himself and didn’t really care too much for people of power. In this quote, he was the only one to not care for Alexander the Great or anyone else for that matter. The idea of not having any ethical duties in society is hard to imagine. Diogenes was detached from everyday human...
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...Sony Barcelona Plant (A) This paper is written to analysis the case of “Sony Barcelona Plant (A)”. This case is mainly to discuss how was going on in new strategy plan in Europe plants. In this report, there have some of main topics will be discussed which are including that what factors causes STAR project difficult to complete smoothly, how to define a new strategy, what are Information system problems, what are the different opinions in changing the Information system and why to select Oracle ERP Suite. Then, some recommendations will be provided at the end as well. What factors causes STAR project difficult to complete smoothly? 1. According to different real situation or environment, there were different needs among the different plants which made it difficult to create the synthesis hoped for; 2.Not significant advances had been made and the real implementation of any application was not being planned; 3.The NTT consultants’ lack of experience; 4.A lack of commitment because the entire project team was centralized in one location; 5.Production information system was built base on the theoretical idea. How to define a new strategy? 1.Create more flexibility and economies of scale in the production process and in the procurement of common elements; 2.Reduce production time cycles; 3.Improving materials and resource planning and shortening the “time-to-market” and “time-to-delivery” cycles; 4.Reduce inventory costs and improve material planning; 5.Increase collaboration...
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...1. Before Maruti Suzuki adopted the Oracle suite their databases were because they were rapidly growing larger and the technology that hosted their data wasn’t keeping up with their growth. Their previous systems weren’t very flexible and were very inefficient. The systems required extensive training and offered low turn around times. 2. The advantages of the company moving to a single vendor is that all of their systems and databases will be compatible with each other which promotes flexibility and makes it easier for the company to expand. Possible risks of using a single vendor could include data loss if the system as a whole were to crash, also if the vendor goes out of business the system could go down. 3. The important business factors management used when evaluating Oracles offerings were, the need for the systems to be simple and easily scalable, the company needed the databases to run multiple processes on a single network, Oracles databases also had to be compatible with legacy systems. 4. Its important that a companies vendors can integrate with legacy systems because the company doesn’t want to pay more money to replace systems already in use, with the use of middleware the company can update old systems instead of crating new ones. 5. Some of the benefits management reported from using oracles suit of products included, data being available online almost immediately, as well as allowing multiple views of data and consolidating accounts which...
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...passenger car market, the fastest growing in world. Since 1995, Maruti Suzuki has built its IT infrastructure on Oracle database and technologies including Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Server and Weblogic. Maruti Suzuki has built its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system on Oracle E-Business Suite and added Hyperion Enterprise to further enhance financial consolidation and reporting efficiency.” L= 5:30. URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZWAzbRm-ms CASE “Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market. By 2007 Oracle ranked third on the list of largest software companies in the world, after Chapter 5 Case 1 Maruti Suzuki Business Intelligence and Enterprise Databases 2 continued Microsoft and IBM. Subsequently it became larger than IBM after its acquisition of Hyperion and BEA. The corporation has arguably become best-known due to association with its flagship Oracle database. The company also builds tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. The founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison, has served as Oracle’s CEO throughout the company’s history. Ellison also served...
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...people found him as a evil-doer and corrupter of the youth and that Socrates did not receive the same gods which whom the state received but instead he would introduce other new deities. The Athenian society felt as if everyone should believe in the same gods and anyone who did not or whomever taught that there could be something greater or even something different was considered an outcast and that they had to get rid of them in this case Socrates was this outcast. When Socrates has to present in court and to respond about his charges he is calm and plain spoken. Socrates explains to the courts that he has no experience with the court laws and he will speak the way he knows how. Socrates goes on to explain that his teachings come from the Oracle Delphi which he claims that he is the wisest man of all men. Socrates speaks of his ignorance and explains that he has to be wiser than other men only that he knows nothing. I believe that the premise would be when he explains his ignorance and that when he went to politians, poets and craftsmen and they too knew nothing. Socrates claims that society needs him and I believe that the premise would be when...
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...COMPANY PROFILE Oracle Corporation REFERENCE CODE: C0CB6D9E-4EFE-4621-B998-73B241B46317 PUBLICATION DATE: 23 May 2014 www.marketline.com COPYRIGHT MARKETLINE. THIS CONTENT IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED OR DISTRIBUTED. Oracle Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview..............................................................................................3 Key Facts...............................................................................................................3 SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................4 Oracle Corporation © MarketLine Page 2 Oracle Corporation Company Overview COMPANY OVERVIEW Oracle Corporation (Oracle or “the company”) is a provider of enterprise software, computer hardware products and services. The company operates in more than 145 countries across the world. Oracle is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and employed 120,000 people as of May 31, 2013. The company recorded revenues of $37,180 million during the financial year ended May 2013 (FY2013), an increase of 0.2% over FY2012. The increase in revenues was due to an increase in Oracle’s software business revenues. The operating profit of the company was $14,684 million in FY2013, an increase of 7.1% over FY2012. The net profit was $10,925 million in FY2013, an increase of 9.5% over FY2012. KEY FACTS Head Office Oracle Corporation 500...
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...professions and four computers. For the computers, I have chosen the Dell Inspiron Desk Top, the Hp Pavilion Slimline desk top, the Toshiba Satellite Laptop and the Hp Envy laptop. I have chosen author, educator and lawyer as my profession. I will pair the appropriate computer with its profession. An author may seem like they would not need much in the way of computers. Often times they do not even use computers to write, but instead prefer pen and paper. However, the work will have to put into a computer sooner or later. An author probably would not be in need for very much space. Their work will most likely be stored on portable storage devices so that they can transport it agencies. Because of this, I think that a suitable computer for an author would be the Toshiba Satellite laptop. It has memory and hard drive space, just not a lot. It is cheap and would serve its purpose for the author perfectly without having the extra features. Teachers and instructors have a little more of need for space. Again, however, they don’t need a lot. They would have to save their lectures and all their classwork saved on their computers as well as the students’ grades. All of this would indeed take up space, but not enough to warrant the extra money for the memory and hard drive. They would do just fine with the standard amount of space. For this reason, I suggest either the Dell Inspiron desk top or the Hp Envy series laptop. These...
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...WAN to tie all three KFF locations together. Make the internal network configuration in each store a WLAN, and add VOIP to the multi-store network. * Define which store will house the central servers. * Design the network to be expandable beyond the existing stores. The current specifics of the setup is as follows. La Jolla Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, Corporate SAP ERP SW, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 19 Dell Vostro Computers and 3 HP networked Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 19 VOIP Phones Del Mar/Encinitas Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 6 Dell Vostro Computers and 1 HP Laserjet Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 6 VOIP phones per store. La Jolla Diagram : Del Mar, Encinitas Stores (same set up) I find no current issues with the hardware, although I do believe software can be a small issue. The corporate SAP ERP SW software, should be available to the management at the other three stores as well. The standards that would apply to this system and the next system will of course be IEEE 802x depending on if the company has or will invest in developing their own standards. For the purpose of...
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