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Rate Your Company's IT Complexity

Take a short survey to find out if IT complexity is inhibiting innovation in your organization.

Companies say innovation is a critical ingredient in staying competitive, and yet most spend four times as many resources maintaining IT systems as they do transforming the business. Complexity keeps IT organizations consumed with the status quo instead of innovative projects. What factors contribute to IT complexity in your company?

This survey is designed for IT professionals with knowledge of their company's overall IT architecture and/or strategy. It has four sections, each with four to seven multiple-choice questions. For each section you complete, you will receive:

• Your company's IT complexity score on those topics
• Recommended best practices in that IT area
• A customized report outlining next steps for reducing IT complexity

Industry Insights, Executive-Level Networking

Hear from your industry peers and share your experiences at Oracle Industry Connect.

Join senior executives at Oracle Industry Connect as these leaders and peers in your industry share deep domain expertise, insights, and industry-specific best practices for Communications, Financial Services, Health Sciences, Retail, Utilities and Manufacturing industries. This flagship Oracle industry event features customer-led content delivered by industry leaders such as:

• Neiman Marcus - Karen Katz, CEO and President
• Sprint - Dan Hesse, CEO
• Bank of America - Cathy Bessant, Global Technology and Operations
• Quintiles - Tom Pike, CEO
• Makro South America - Ricardo Kandelman, CEO and Chairman
• Telefonica - Phil Jordan, CIO
• Lend Lease - Steve Wallisa, Vice President of Planning and Scheduling
• Proteus - Andrew Thompson, Co-Founder and CEO
• Green Mountain Power - Mary Powell, President and CEO
• Northeast Utilities - Tom May, CEO

Rich HR and Talent Solutions

Realize the full potential of your employees with the most complete set of HCM products--through the Oracle Cloud.

Strong Results, Positive Outlook

Customer adoption of Oracle Cloud sees strong growth.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that both fiscal 2014 Q2 GAAP and non-GAAP total revenues were up 2% to $9.3 billion. GAAP new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were unchanged at $2.4 billion, while non-GAAP new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were down 1% to $2.4 billion. Both GAAP and non-GAAP software license updates and product support revenues were up 6% to $4.5 billion. Hardware Systems revenues, including hardware systems products and hardware systems support, were unchanged at $1.3 billion.

Introducing Oracle's Most Powerful Engineered System

The new Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 offers unprecedented in-memory database and application performance with the highest levels of availability, scalability, and reliability of any engineered system. Combining Oracle Exadata Storage Server technology, Oracle's SPARC microprocessors, silicon network, highly secure virtualization, out-of-the-box platform as a service and database as a service management, Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 is the best example of Oracle's engineered systems vision thus far.

Watch this webcast and learn how Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 can help you:

• Increase performance by 10x to 20x over the performance of standard systems for new in-memory applications, legacy applications, and Oracle Database utilizing:
• Up to 384 microprocessor cores and 32 terabytes of high-performance memory in the most powerful and flexible system design Oracle has ever developed
• A complete set of Oracle Exadata technology for optimal Oracle Database performance and efficiency
• Realize rich multi-tenancy with near-zero overhead virtualization
• Implement platform as a service and database as service management out of the box

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