Chemotherapy Guide Pocket Protocol

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle Communications today announced that a productized integration approach that is based on the Oracle(R) Application Integration Architecture. This will be the communications industry's first pre-integrated business application platform, tailored to enable communications service providers to deliver world-class customer service, launch compelling services faster, and reduce implementation risk and operational costs.

As part of the Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Oracle plans to deliver Industry Reference Models, which will give customers and partners tools and documented business processes to create unique, integrated process flows across heterogeneous environments. With these models, customer and partners are expected to more easily adopt industry best practices and implement unique processes that meet specific business needs and should be protected through upgrade cycles.

Driving Profitability through Cost Network Intelligence

The CFO�s job is becoming more difficult because of the push for low-cost operating models that are considered critical to profitability. A plethora of factors, such as ineffective direct cost controls, revenue leakage and the inability to identify specific products� margin contributions, all plague operators. Inefficient network cost management has become an endemic disease. Network costs generally rank among a service provider�s two greatest expense areas. Typical network operators spend 40 percent of their revenue on network costs. Service providers continue to use inefficient network cost-control mechanisms, despite the fact that the error rate associated with intercarrier and supplier invoices is significant. Legacy invoice management processes and disparate billing and accounts payable systems make proper auditing difficult.

Ep 44: Australian Idol

IT WAS the closest final in Australian Idol history when Natalie Gauci beat 17 year old favourite Matt Corby. ttn talks to this years finalists.

Natalie won a recording contract, and her debut album is out in stores ready for Christmas. Natalie says that she wasn't expecting to win, instead focussing on what she was going to do after the excitement of the show had passed. "I did have an alternative plan if I didn’t win which included releasing a single and an album. But the experience of the being at the Opera House was a winning moment for both Matt and I." Matt says "I really want to watch the show back and just kind of try and I guess relive it because it went so quickly that I think we'll remember things that we've already forgotten." Matt says the highlights of being in Australian Idol include going to the Arias, performing a charity gig for Telstra Child Flight and Ronald McDonald House and meeting artists like Australian artists Katie Noonan and Darren Hayes.

Oracle Previews Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle today previewed planned features of its next-generation, modern application platform, Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g. The preview shows tightly integrated Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Grid Computing and new Enterprise 2.0 functionality into a single, unified, hot-pluggable and secure platform for building and deploying modern applications. Oracle previewed many of the significant enhancements planned for Oracle Fusion Middleware including new functionality for:

"This planned release of Oracle Fusion Middleware represents a significant opportunity for customers to further unify and secure the applications and processes that support their businesses -- while enabling them to drive the next generation of their own SOA, Web 2.0 and integration initiatives," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Server Technologies.