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Oracle Introduces Oracle Project Analytics
6th May
UKOCN
New Oracle Business Intelligence Application Designed to Track Performance Throughout Project Life Cycles.. more »
An Introduction to Oracle Beehive – An Oracle OpenWorld Presentation
5th May
Knowledge Base
An Introduction to Oracle Beehive – An Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Presentation Launched at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Beehive provides an integrated set of collaboration services built on a single, scalable, open, and... more »
Oracle Announces Enhanced Oracle® Beehive
4th May
UKOCN
Adding significant value to the only unified collaboration system built for the enterprise, Oracle today announced... more »
The Case for Information Management
30th April
Knowledge Base
Oracle White Paper on Information Management Many organizations struggle to build a convincing business case for the investments needed in information management. In this... more »
EPM Meets Enterprise 2.0
30th April
Knowledge Base
Business Management in the Age of Enterprise 2.0 In this white paper, Oracle advocate a new definition for Enterprise 2.0. They explain the business drivers and demographic changes... more »
Oracle Application Server/Middleware - News, Features and Updates
22nd April
UKOCN
Read the latest news, features and updates from your UKOCN group network. At UKOCN there are now thousands of Members and Intere more »
UKOCN – Hits 10,000 Interest Group Members
22nd April
UKOCN
This month UKOCN achieved a significant milestone as the number of Interest Group members hit the 10,000 mark. more »
Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy Systems to a Service-Oriented Architecture
21st April
White Paper
In recent years, the much-reported "democratization of IT"-as delivered by the PC platform and other midtier environments-has more »
Drive Down the Costs of Managing Your Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
21st April
News Aggregator
A comprehensive whitepaper on managing your Oracle Identity Management environment is now available on OTN. more »
Executive Leadership Roundtable - SOA - Live Video Webcast
21st April
Events Admin
Come watch leading executives share their insights for a successful SOA at this Executive Leadership Roundtable, a first of its more »
UKOCN - the fastest growing UK business network for the Oracle professional community!
21st April
UKOCN
UKOCN was formed in direct response to the more sophisticated demands of both the Oracle Users and Partner Community more »
Oracle buys Sun for $7.4bn
20th April
UKOCN
Oracle has announced plans to buy Sun Microsystems, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making Sun the latest company to be subsumed by the Silicon Valley giant. The deal comes just weeks after a reported... more »

I.T. Response to the Pre-Budget Report

Are high-tech companies going to lead the way to Economic Recovery? Intellect, the leading trade association which represent its members in the UK technology industry welcomed Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report but warned more had to be done and would like to see greater emphasis on innovation and technology. Especially, as this sector is seen as the future creator of high value jobs.

John Higgins, director general of Intellect welcomed the announcement that the government’s Technology Strategy Board would look at how to improve its support for innovation in time for the next budget in 2009 but urged the government to “act decisively”.

Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary outlined the need for diversified growth in the economy, fed by amongst others, the innovative high-tech sector. Other countries (eg USA) are already planning to act boldly to maintain their high-tech sectors. It is to be hoped that the Government’s £1 billion new Government Small Business Finance Scheme which will lend directly to small business, has an appreciable and positive effect.

Darling has urged retailers to pass on the VAT reduction immediately it comes into effect on Monday 1 December but IT advisory firm the Butler Group, feared this will challenge businesses and in particular their business management systems, financial management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. This could be especially difficult in the run up to Christmas when the changes will have a massive effect on Point of Sale Systems, Stock Control, Back Office Systems and goods already on the shelves.

To see the Intellect Press Release in full please click here.

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