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Only Oracle provides all the key components—database, middleware and applications, all based on open industry standards—to transform your organization. Today, more than 1,500 public sector organizations run Oracle applications to increase efficiency and transparency, deliver citizen services, and improve revenue generation and tracking.

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arr Financial management: The road ahead - A Washington Technology eSeminar brought to you by Oracle
The government has accomplished several important milestones in improving the financial management of government agenices. Clean audit reports have increased, and the number of material weaknesses are down. View this Webcast Today

Originally broadcast May 22, 2008

arr Oracle Webcast: Cyber Espionage and Protecting Data from Insider Threats
The popular notion of information security is the outside-in threat: malicious hackers breaking into your network disrupting operations or robbing you blind. However, nobody breaks down a door if they can walk through it - or if they are already inside. View this Webcast Today

Originally broadcast May 8, 2008

arr Oracle Webcast: Save Costs by Improving Security and Performance Through Content Management
Learn best practices in content management which improve security as well as automate and improve critical business processes, such as assigning documents to reviewers, annotations, mark-ups etc. using workflow and collaboration via our informational Webinar. View this Wecast Today

Originally broadcast April 23, 2008

arr Oracle Webcast: Why Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Should Matter to Government Organizations - Protect Your Operations from Control Failures and Secure Public Trust
Increased demand on Public Sector administrations to demonstrate accurate financial reporting has revealed operational flaws. With government agencies now required to document, test, and sign off on their internal controls, federal, state, and local administrations must demonstrate better management practices. View this Webcast Today

Originally broadcast April 2, 2008

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arro Feds Seek Enterprise-wide Content Management
Enterprise content management solutions from Oracle offer a usable, manageable and hot-pluggable platform for improving both information accessibility and security. Click here to read how government agencies can automate the information management process and standardize content-intensive operations.

arrShifting Focus to Meet Changing Government Human Resource Demands
A shrinking workforce will create enormous challenges for federal agencies in coming years. By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 14 million fewer suitable candidates to fill the number of job openings available in the U.S. alone. Click here to read how learning management solutions are being used to develop and execute a strategy to better equip workers to meet agency goals.

ar Hosting Government Systems with Oracle On Demand Podcast
Oracle On Demand is successfully running Oracle software for US federal customers to simplify the management and operation of their IT systems. Click here to listen to this valuable podcast presented by Richard Cirigliano, Oracle Vice President, On Demand for the Federal Government Practice.

arro How the U.S. Government Can Cut Overhead
The federal government is saving tens of billions of dollars and learning they can dramatically enhance cost savings and performance through standardized and streamlined processes along lines of business such as Financials and Human Resources.Click here to read this insightful article by Kristine Rohls and David Mader of Booz Allen, which examines opportunities for administrative services optimization.

arrw Oracle's Austin Data Center Online Tour
Oracle’s Austin Data Center (ADC) houses the Oracle On Demand Grid—an advanced computing infrastructure that houses hundreds of Oracle customers’ applications and data as part of the Oracle On Demand program. . Join Oracle On Demand SVP Mike Beck for a tour of Oracle's Austin Data Center.

arrow Easing into Modernization, With Oracle’s Help
Despite the mass of legacy-based, stovepipe systems and processes lacking automation and integration that have taken root throughout the public sector, modernization will enable federal agencies to update legacy applications, lower costs, increase agility and avoid risks in relying on legacy skill sets and the need to continually react to legislative requirements. Click here to read about best practices federal organizations can take to jumpstart their IT modernization efforts.

arrow A Closer Look at Shared Services
Efforts to build shared services that can be used by other government agencies has grown out of the line of business initiatives created via the President’s Management Agenda. Click here to learn why you should consider a shared services model to manage your IT operations.

arrow Shrinking Security Threats From Within
The impact of a single individual with malicious intent can bring tremendous harm -- ranging from staff hours lost to ‘fix’ systems, to extensive negative publicity, severe citizen distrust and immense financial damages. Click here to learn how agencies can meet security, compliance and risk management challenges.

arro Shifting Focus to Meet Changing Government Human Resource Demands
A shrinking workforce will create enormous challenges for federal agencies in coming years. Click here to read how learning management solutions are being used to develop and execute a strategy to better equip workers to meet agency goals.

arro Feds Seek Automated Solutions to Boost Agency-wide Compliance, Efficiency
In the struggle to achieve regulatory compliance, most federal agencies and departments wrestle with disparate financial management systems, a lack of accurate and timely recording, weak IT security, inadequate reconciliation procedures and an ‘uneven’ adherence to federal accounting standards. Click here to learn how federal agencies are seeking new ways to present compliance information and conduct more flexible, real-time analysis and reporting.

arr Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Suite for Public Administrations: The Path to Strengthening Citizen Confidence
Learn how to achieve compliance using automation and ‘industry best practices’ via this online presentation. As government organizations wrestle with challenges such as accounting errors, weak security, a lack of financial systems integration and a lack of resources, the open, standards-based Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Manager can help automate the tasks associated with compliance management. Learn More.

arr Oracle Solutions for Public Sector
Public sector managers face constant pressure to do more with less to meet increasing expectations, despite a strong resistance to raising taxes. Oracle’s solutions for government provide a secure, scalable and reliable infrastructure that can help them improve operational effectiveness, integrate programs, improve fiscal management and maximize revenue collection. Learn More.

arr Drowning in Data: Find the Answers with Enterprise Business Intelligence for the Public Sector
Although organizations have tended to focus on front-end dashboards to improve business intelligence (BI), much like an iceberg, those dashboards only represent about 20% of the effort involved in presenting a unified view of enterprise information.. Learn More.

arrow Taxation Without Revenue Generation?
Building a consolidated view of taxpayers across all tax and revenue sources, reducing fraud and improving both compliance and responsiveness to taxpayer questions -- these are the clear advantages of enterprise taxation management. Learn More.

From the Pages of GCN Logo

Oracle flexes muscle for Xen, open source
As server virtualization continues to grow in popularity in government data centers, enterprise software provider Oracle will increasingly put its weight behind Xen open-source virtualization software, Charles Phillips, president at Oracle, told GCN in a recent interview. More.

Enterprise software field is shrinking
Earlier this month, Oracle announced it was planning to acquire BEA Systems, offering $6.6 billion for the company. BEA has thus far turned down the offer, though talks are ongoing. More.

Mary Ann Davidson - In defense of common criteria
THE COMMON CRITERIA Evaluation and Validation Scheme has been heavily criticized lately (GCN.com, Quickfind 850). Devised as an independent evaluation of security products against a set of standard criteria, Common Criteria has been faulted for being expensive and not providing a foolproof measure to increase security. Not everyone shares these views. Learn More.

arrow Raising the Government’s BI IQ
When it comes to business intelligence, the end goals are better decisions, more informed investments and more efficient processes. Find out how techniques including interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries, proactive alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence and disconnected analytics can raise any organization’s IQ. Learn More.

arrow Converting Case Files into Constituent Views
Centralized government contact centers enable employees to manage cases and workloads, providing agencies with a singular view of citizens. This can help achieve efficiencies via cross-agency collaboration and service delivery. Learn more.

From the Pages of FCW Logo

Georgia upgrades financial, HR software
Georgia has upgraded its enterprise resource planning software, purchasing updated versions of Oracle’s PeopleSoft products. More.

arrow Cashing in on the Oracle/Siebel Connections
Performance-driven government shifts processes to efficiently address citizen needs. Replacing cumbersome tools and inefficient, paper-based processes with Siebel Public Sector solutions from Oracle facilitates the delivery of ‘world-class’ services that will satisfy constituents, businesses, partners and legislators -- at the lowest possible cost. Learn More.

arrow Achieving All-Important Accountability
Increasingly stringent compliance requirements create an inescapable need for a solution to improve both the quality and effectiveness of government reporting, along with mechanisms to understand and manage risk. Learn More.

arrowChoosing a Transformation Leader
More than 1,500 public sector organizations run Oracle applications to increase efficiency and transparency, deliver citizen services, and improve revenue generation and tracking.
Learn More: Oracle's Public Sector Quarterly Newsletter



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