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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. Oracle On Demand can provide government organizations with a complete set of managed services, at the lowest possible cost. Click here to listen to this valuable podcast presented by Richard Cirigliano, Oracle Vice President, On Demand for the Federal Government Practice.

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.

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. Find out how the ADC complies with the most stringent Federal NIST and DoD requirements in a secure Federal zone, enabling Oracle On Demand to host and manage Oracle software for Federal customers. 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. 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.

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.

Shifting 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. Public sector institutions are turning to internet-based learning management from Oracle. 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.

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 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Choosing 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

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.

Shifting 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. Public sector institutions are turning to internet-based learning management from Oracle. 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.

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.

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.

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 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. 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.

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.

Achieving All-Important Accountability-Oracle Universal Content Management
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.

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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.

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.

Shifting 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. Public sector institutions are turning to internet-based learning management from Oracle. 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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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.

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.