There is no one size fits all solution when it comes to improving data performance and no matter what type of business you are in and which technologies you adopt, maximizing performance for your customers and your enterprise requires careful analysis and planning. Follow these six steps to ensure you yield the highest performance from your IT systems.

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As Big Data grows by the second, all eyes are falling on CIOs to transform data from cost centres to competitive advantages. This Pythian white paper shows you how to organize for Big Data to unlock its value. It lays out key principles that will help organizations think through the challenge – from streamlining for internal collaboration to diversifying sources of expertise. It describes the various skill sets you need, from data scientists and stewards to cloud specialists, and it explores six common scenarios facing companies seeking to derive value from Big Data.

Importantly, this paper encourages businesses to begin by asking the fundamental question of why. Clearly identifying your goals for any given set of information will help companies select the tools, strategies and tactics to distill the value out of the digital noise. Companies that excel at mining Big Data will thrive.

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The rising tide of data complexity is a major challenge for all organizations today, whether your company is a multinational enterprise or a local business. This Pythian white paper discusses the growing trend to data outsourcing in an ever-diversifying environment where data volume and complexity grows by the day. It underscores the challenges CIOs face in maintaining in-house expertise while they grapple with the imperative of containing costs.

By establishing goals, companies can discern between types of outsourcing that best suit their needs. This paper provides tips on how companies can manage contracts and how to make sure performance and security are maintained. Real-world examples and scenarios provide in-depth illustration of how outsourcing has become a vital business function that helps businesses create and keep strategic advantages over the competition.

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Efficiently distributing load across the available number of RAC instances is the guiding purpose of Oracle database workload management. This paper focuses on details of internal implementation. It aims to guide you in troubleshooting and help you understand the technology better, so you can improve results for your own clients.

Oracle has done a nice job providing DBA’s and application developers with tools that allow automation of workload management in RAC. However, the task still requires careful configuration, planning and understanding of application workload patterns. This paper highlights the need for tight collaboration between developers and database administrators to achieve full integration of applications and databases.

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Upgrading from Oracle E-Business Suite 11i to R12 is typically straightforward. That said, your team should still be prepared to face any curves that come their way. This paper details how we responded to several challenges in an upgrade that contained complex peculiarities, while still delivering significant time savings for our client. We purged non-required data, dealt with Apache lock-file issues, fixed post-patch login problems, restored systems that had crashed, and resolved other issues.

The set-up challenges were numerous. We successfully configured SSL for the Apps R12 configuration using internally generated chained certificates. We implemented a load balancer (Cisco Content Switch). We found a configuration solution for Apps integration with NAM3. Lastly, a reverse proxy setup was required. Our production upgrade plan was successful, and the entire process came in at 48 hours–24 hours shorter than estimated.

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