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Ignite for Oracle Helps E-commerce Platform Provider Meet its Stringent SLAs

Overview GSI Commerce is a leading provider of e-commerce solutions that enable retailers, branded manufacturers, entertainment companies and professional sports organizations to operate e-commerce businesses. On an outsourced basis, GSI Commerce provides a comprehensive, integrated and centralized e-commerce platform which includes technology, logistics, customer care and marketing services. Before Thanksgiving 2005, GSI Commerce noticed that a nightly process it used to update its merchandise databases was not performing as needed. To get to the answer, GSI Commerce turned to IgniteÃ‚Â™ for Oracle. Within 24 hours, the DBA team had installed, monitored, identified, and fixed the issue. Ignite identified the specific SQLs and the I/O bottlenecks causing the delays.

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Publisher	Confio Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2009	Downloads	12
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Transaction Management, E-commerce Security

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Low Rate Financing: Get competitive rates on virtually every IBM brand

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Publisher:
IBM

Tags:
infrastructure management

Get the facts about credit card security and PCI compliance

There's no way around it. No matter what size your business is or what industry you work in, if you accept credit cards, you must adhere to the safeguards mandated...

Publisher:
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Tags:
security standards

Case Study: WebSphere Product Center at Panasonic

In Europe's consumer electronics market, Panasonic Europe and its competitors are constantly updating product offerings due to changing technologies. With such fierce competition and short product lifecycles, Panasonic's level of...

Publisher:
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Digital Media Resolves Oracle I/O Bottlenecks, Accelerates Music Downloads

Digital Media develops and operates real-time delivery of multi-media content for retail delivery. Their system enables customers at a major mass market retailer to offer individual song downloads from their...

Publisher:
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Ignite for Oracle Helps E-commerce Platform Provider Meet its Stringent SLAs

GSI Commerce is a leading provider of e-commerce solutions that enable retailers, branded manufacturers, entertainment companies and professional sports organizations to operate e-commerce businesses. On an outsourced basis, GSI Commerce...

Publisher:
Confio Software

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Chips in everything

There are many reasons manufacturers and retailers welcome this technology. Our possessions are also identified through their RFID tags. To be identified instantly, to be tracked constantly and to have all my medical and other records available...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Wal-Mart cans 'smart-shelf' store trials

RFID chips are still too expensive for wide-scale use with consumer merchandise, according to Gillette spokesman Paul Fox. Privacy advocates have aired concerns about the technology and whether retailers and manufacturers would be able to monitor...

Channel:
Mobile & Wireless

Marks & Spencer starts tracking tag trials

Other retailers and manufacturers such as Tesco and Gillette have attracted criticism from privacy groups about the potential for data from the RFID tags to be used to track and monitor customers, even after they have left the store.

Channel:
SME Director

CIO Forum: Who's getting the RFID benefits?

Retailers are going to have to give manufacturers a bit of the cost. There's a big impact from retailers going 'we want to do it, we want to do it', and manufacturers saying 'you'll have to help us pay for it'.

Channel:
LANs
Tags:
retail,
cio forum,
rfid

Computing on the go

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RFID tagging tech gets privacy code

Miguel Lopera, CEO of GS1, said in a statement: "With the adoption of the recommendation, we now have clarity and a framework in which manufacturers and retailers can begin or expand deployments to deliver the benefits of RFID for consumers in...

Channel:
LANs
Tags:
rfid

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