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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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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Georgia upgrades financial, HR software Georgia has upgraded its enterprise resource planning software, purchasing updated versions of Oracle’s PeopleSoft products.More.
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.
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.
Governments face increased expectations from citizens, businesses, elected officials, and employees. They are pressed to provide information and services quickly and cost-effectively, but are often saddled with information systems that fail to provide the enterprisewide view they need to meet these challenges successfully.
Oracle enables you to...
Redesign processes and adapt to changing government regulations
Reduce procurement costs and assure compliance
Integrate siloed information from multiple departments
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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. Oracle's shared services offerings augment and support the work of federal SSP providers. Click here to learn why you should consider a shared services model to manage your IT operations.
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. Oracle can help ensure public sector data is protected. Click here to learn how agencies can meet security, compliance and risk management challenges.
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
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. Based on 'best in class' solutions, Oracle can help agencies standardize on frameworks to meet evolving regulatory demands. . Click here to learn how federal agencies are seeking new ways to present compliance information and conduct more flexible, real-time analysis and reporting.
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
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
Easing into Modernization, With Oracle's Help Despite the mass of legacy-based, stovepipe systems and processes lacking automation and enterprise-wide 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 retiring legacy skill sets and the need to continually react to ever-changing legislative requirements. Oracle's solutions create a low-risk approach to modernization. Click here to read about best practices federal organizations can take to jumpstart their IT modernization efforts.
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.
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.
Getting at the data in various ‘silos’ can help agencies make better decisions. Oracle’s Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition brings the right information to users when they need it. Learn More.
Improve Efficiency and Responsiveness at all Levels of Government Faced with intense pressure to quickly and efficiently provide services and information, most government organizations are saddled with systems that fail to provide an enterprise-wide view. Oracle can help integrate silos, redesign processes and adapt to ever-growing constituent demands. Learn More.
Middleware Takes Center Stage Addressing integration challenges, while laying the foundation for deploying and maintaining a service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires a comprehensive middleware solution that does more than merely serve as the glue to link operational data and applications. Learn More.
Oracle On Demand for the U.S. Federal Government Reduce IT management headaches, speed implementation and problem resolution, lower risk and improve the ‘go-live’ experience with Oracle On Demand. Providing seamless access to support, software management and product experts, IT challenges can be resolved quickly, for the price of a predictable monthly service charge. Learn More.
An Extreme Government Makeover Better insights, adaptive processes, less costly operations -- turning these pipe dreams into reality requires next-generation enterprise applications. Public sector organizations are using Oracle’s Fusion middleware to streamline operations, make more accurate decisions and secure sensitive information. Learn More.
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Georgia upgrades financial, HR software Georgia has upgraded its enterprise resource planning software, purchasing updated versions of Oracle’s PeopleSoft products. More
Business Intelligence for the Masses In a perfect world, government knowledge workers would have immediate web-based access to a comprehensive and integrated suite of analytic tools that would enable them to see clearly into agency operations and assist in informed decision-making to further agency mission goals. Learn More.
Investigating Oracle 11g Today’s global economy depends on the ability to capture electronically, analyze and share information. Oracle 11g provides a single platform to consolidate all agency information onto one repository, and to manage, backup and secure that information for access by authorized users. Learn More.
Proactively Managing Government Content Storing and maintaining the spectrum of unstructured content -- from documents, graphics and Web pages to scanned images, e-mail and records is an ongoing headache. Find ways to minimize risk by controlling access to content, maintaining audit trails and automating content retention based on consistent policies. Learn More.
From the Pages of
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
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. More
Today's government managers are constantly addressing the challenges of being citizen-centric and results oriented. This has led to an increasing need for seamless collaboration among agencies across jurisdictions. Oracle's solutions enable governments to ensure quick and effective resolution of citizen issues by allowing for increased collaboration.
Oracle's Case Management and CRM Solutions help government agencies:
Enable centralized government contact centers
Provide a comprehensive view of citizens across departments and agencies
Manage cases and workloads
View these new resources
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. Oracle's shared services offerings augment and support the work of federal SSP providers. Click here to learn why you should consider a shared services model to manage your IT operations.
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. Oracle can help ensure public sector data is protected. Click here to learn how agencies can meet security, compliance and risk management challenges.
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
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. Based on 'best in class' solutions, Oracle can help agencies standardize on frameworks to meet evolving regulatory demands. . Click here to learn how federal agencies are seeking new ways to present compliance information and conduct more flexible, real-time analysis and reporting.
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
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
Easing into Modernization, With Oracle's Help Despite the mass of legacy-based, stovepipe systems and processes lacking automation and enterprise-wide 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 retiring legacy skill sets and the need to continually react to ever-changing legislative requirements. Oracle's solutions create a low-risk approach to modernization. Click here to read about best practices federal organizations can take to jumpstart their IT modernization efforts.
White Paper
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.
Brochure
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.
From the Pages of
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 .
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. More.
Case Study
New York Redefines Constituent Services How does a city of eight million residents gain access to non-emergency services? In New York, a consolidated 311 call center delivers quick, efficient access to the full spectrum of government services--from dealing with noise complaints to catching chickens running loose in apartment hallways. Learn More.
From the Pages of
Georgia upgrades financial, HR software Georgia has upgraded its enterprise resource planning software, purchasing updated versions of Oracle’s PeopleSoft products. More.
Brief
Plugging into SOA To overcome the complexity of their applications and IT environments, government agencies are turning to service-oriented architectures. SOA provides a more simplified IT environment that leverages existing technology, while delivering improved visibility, flexibility and speedier operations. Learn more.
For decades, tax authorities have had limited choices in acquiring software that met their jurisdiction’s requirements. They often developed it themselves, or they hired consultants and associated vendors to develop custom/transfer solutions. Today, legacy and transfer systems are unwieldy and expensive to maintain. Original developers have retired, and few understand what is inside the “black box.” As a result, simple changes turn into high-risk, high-cost projects. Oracle Enterprise Taxation Mangement is a vendor-developed, vendor-supported, COTS application that delivers a:
Consolidated taxpayer view across all tax and revenue sources
Increased first-call resolution of tax payer issues
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
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. Based on 'best in class' solutions, Oracle can help agencies standardize on frameworks to meet evolving regulatory demands. . Click here to learn how federal agencies are seeking new ways to present compliance information and conduct more flexible, real-time analysis and reporting.
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
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
Easing into Modernization, With Oracle's Help Despite the mass of legacy-based, stovepipe systems and processes lacking automation and enterprise-wide 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 retiring legacy skill sets and the need to continually react to ever-changing legislative requirements. Oracle's solutions create a low-risk approach to modernization. Click here to read about best practices federal organizations can take to jumpstart their IT modernization efforts.
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.
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.
From the Pages of
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.
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. More.
Brief
Defogging to Enhance the View Consolidating constituent data into a central location and establishing enterprise-wide data quality and integrity enables agencies to share information across government organizations to aid in making better decisions. Learn More.
Optimizing Revenue Collection Secure, tax-specific, commercial off-the-shelf software designed to enable tax and revenue authorities to optimize revenue collection, Oracle’s Enterprise Taxation Management provides a unified view of each taxpayer by consolidating information from legacy systems, helping agencies to bill, collect and manage funds. Learn More.
From the Pages of
Georgia upgrades financial, HR software Georgia has upgraded its enterprise resource planning software, purchasing updated versions of Oracle’s PeopleSoft products. More
Press Release
Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management Building on its established leadership in delivering mission-critical software solutions to the public sector, Oracle today announced the launch of its Oracle(r) Enterprise Taxation Management software suite.
Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management is a secure, tax-specific, commercial off-the-shelf software solution that enables tax and revenue authorities to optimize revenue collection. It provides a flexible, integrated alternative to custom-built systems that are expensive to maintain and difficult to adapt to new taxes and regulations. Read More.
