Oracle, Moffitt collaborate on Cancer informatics system

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Slideshow: Health it stimulates the Patient Care, SafetyAs part of a continuing effort to provide patients with cancer more personalized care, Moffitt Cancer Center, and Oracle are working together on a new computer health system and research.

Scalable and secure, system built with Oracle health sciences technology, support of Moffitt Total Cancer Care program, which is a comprehensive approach to provide individualized, based on evidence for cancer patients.

This implies Moffitt-with the consent of the patients-grouping and analysis of data related to diagnostics, treatment, follow-up and bio-specimens and other sources clinical, thousands of individuals treated in 18 cancer treatment hospitals in the United States participating in the program of Total cancer care.

Among the Oracle products and technologies that are used by Moffitt for her "generation health and computer research system" are Oracle Health Sciences Enterprise Healthcare Analytics suite, Oracle Healthcare Master person Index, Oracle 11 g database and Oracle Fusion Middleware componentssaid Kris Joshi, Oracle VP of strategy of health care products.

Oracle and Moffitt are working on adding new information sources data model Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation, including sequencing DNA related to patient tissue, including malignant tumours.

This system will be also supports the analysis of data from DNA sequencing with several other sources of information on patients, including e-health records in the hope of obtaining an overview more rapid on the effectiveness of treatments, Joshi, said in an interview.

For example, the analysis could provide new findings on the efficacy of cancer treatments on patients with common biomarkers and other similarities, allowing researchers and clinicians more progress quickly treatments customized for other people. Work underway at Moffitt "gives an overview of the integrated future of cancer care" and the treatment of other diseases, for example, says Joshi.

Moffitt also uses the Oracle Data Warehouse Foundation Healthcare model to normalize and aggregate information so that the quality of the data is optimal for analysis. "You want to compare apples with apples, step of apples with oranges,"then that analysis of data on patients, Joshi said.""

For example, if two different laboratories performing the same express test results in different values, such a milligrams versus micrograms, the data must be standardized so that the statistical calculations are accurate analysis. "A doctor may look both test results and understand, they are the same, but once these different values on the whole, it is difficult to fix," he said. Oracle platform transforms and normalizes the data so that the analysis is correct, he said.

Moffitt, based in Tampa, Florida, is a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Oracle, Moffitt collaborate on Cancer informatics system

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Slideshow: Health it stimulates the Patient Care, SafetyAs part of a continuing effort to provide patients with cancer more personalized care, Moffitt Cancer Center, and Oracle are working together on a new computer health system and research.

Scalable and secure, system built with Oracle health sciences technology, support of Moffitt Total Cancer Care program, which is a comprehensive approach to provide individualized, based on evidence for cancer patients.

This implies Moffitt-with the consent of the patients-grouping and analysis of data related to diagnostics, treatment, follow-up and bio-specimens and other sources clinical, thousands of individuals treated in 18 cancer treatment hospitals in the United States participating in the program of Total cancer care.

Among the Oracle products and technologies that are used by Moffitt for her "generation health and computer research system" are Oracle Health Sciences Enterprise Healthcare Analytics suite, Oracle Healthcare Master person Index, Oracle 11 g database and Oracle Fusion Middleware componentssaid Kris Joshi, Oracle VP of strategy of health care products.

Oracle and Moffitt are working on adding new information sources data model Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation, including sequencing DNA related to patient tissue, including malignant tumours.

This system will be also supports the analysis of data from DNA sequencing with several other sources of information on patients, including e-health records in the hope of obtaining an overview more rapid on the effectiveness of treatments, Joshi, said in an interview.

For example, the analysis could provide new findings on the efficacy of cancer treatments on patients with common biomarkers and other similarities, allowing researchers and clinicians more progress quickly treatments customized for other people. Work underway at Moffitt "gives an overview of the integrated future of cancer care" and the treatment of other diseases, for example, says Joshi.

Moffitt also uses the Oracle Data Warehouse Foundation Healthcare model to normalize and aggregate information so that the quality of the data is optimal for analysis. "You want to compare apples with apples, step of apples with oranges,"then that analysis of data on patients, Joshi said.""

For example, if two different laboratories performing the same express test results in different values, such a milligrams versus micrograms, the data must be standardized so that the statistical calculations are accurate analysis. "A doctor may look both test results and understand, they are the same, but once these different values on the whole, it is difficult to fix," he said. Oracle platform transforms and normalizes the data so that the analysis is correct, he said.

Moffitt, based in Tampa, Florida, is a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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37% Of Oracle reports revenue growth

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Slideshow: Top 10 software stories of 2010Oracle reported that net income increased by 78% in the fiscal year third quarter due to strong sales of its traditional software and hardware that acquired in the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, there is more than a year.

The company said Thursday that profits for the quarter ended February 28, has increased from 2.1 billion, or 42 cents per share, from $ 1.2 billion, or 24 cents per share, the same period a year ago. Revenues grew 37% year to year to 8.8 billion of $ 6.4 billion, with sales increase of 30% or in all regions of the globe.

Total revenue software, including the software company of data base, business applications and middleware, grew by 19% to $ 6 billion. Revenues from new software licenses, considered a key for a software company metric, have increased by 29% to $ 2.2 billion.

Revenues from hardware, an Oracle market jumped in January 2010 with the acquisition of Sun, almost tripled to $ 1.7 billion. With gross margins on hardware up to 55% in the quarter, co-Chair of the Oracle Safra Catz says that the company is "completely confident" that his company of Sun exceeds the goal of a profit of $ Oracle 1.5 billion set for the current fiscal year.

Oracle material success is reflected in sales of its devices Exadata and Exalogic, which offers a tight integration between Oracle database software and business applications, respectively and Sun hardware. Revenue from two devices has increased by more than 50% since the second quarter, "and we expect to see a growth rate higher than for these two technologies change the game," Co-Chairman of Oracle Mark Hurd said in a statement.

In a teleconference, said Hurd financial analysts that the company also saw strong customer interest in Exalogic and Exadata. "I don't know what else say it," Hurd said. "" "". This is just good things. There is no secret here. The stuff works. ?

Sales of both products mean Oracle will likely receive future updates. This is because the very exclusive infrastructure products make it difficult for customers to move away, say analysts. Two appliances are targeted companies in the broad sense, not small and medium-sized businesses companies.

Strong sales of Oracle performance led its operating margin 34% to 29% a year ago. Catz said analysts that the company should go even higher and could exceed the level of the company had while he was just a software company. Software is in general much higher than the hardware margins.

"We believe that it will continue to rise," said Catz. "It will be clearly higher than Q4 last year and in fact, we do still see it in head or even close." I think that we have a few more points to go. ?

Hurd, stated the company 1,500 persons added to its unit sales in the last year and is looking to hire more add new customers and sell more products to current clients. "The best place for the second order is the place that you have obtained the first," said Hurd.

CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison, who often participates in Conference calls, was absent because the duty of the Board, said officials.

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Oracle integrates Crowdsourcing CRM

Oracle enables companies to add to their customer relationship management software through a partnership with Accept the power of crowdsourcing, innovation management application developer product.

In incorporating Accept360 Oracle CRM application and CRM to the request for the (PRM) partner relationship management, companies can capture ideas, regardless of their source, Bryan Plug, CEO of accepting, told InformationWeek. Without the addition of crowdsourcing capacity, a good idea runs the risk of disappearance to the source, getting confused along the way to the appropriate service, or be delayed so long that it becomes unnecessary, he said. In General, people have common ideas down on Post-It notes, added to Word documents or Excel columns, frequently said Plug-and.

"Many Oracle customers have great, great, great sale forces." They were not a mere ability to capture an idea that can come from their sales force, which may come from their support organization, or may come from their customers, "Plug-and-told InformationWeek." "Oracle customers were get flooded, positively, with a lot of ideas." "These ideas were captured everywhere and nowhere."

With the help of an API, Accept has integrated its ideation module in Oracle's CRM software. Four applets now appear on the homepage of Oracle CRM demand, on the tab of ideas. These applets allow users to see ideas from various points of view, including the most popular, most recent and watch lists. These ideas applets are configurable by the user and can show campaigns, accounts, opportunities, and contacts.

Oracle client can choose to support communities face internal and external and prioritize ideas and private form communities to further hone on the concepts of crowdsourced said Plug. Ideas generated by client automatically connect with their CRM profiles, kind of sales representatives and marketing managers can put ideas into better perspective, understand the point of view of each user, size of organization, current use and challenges to businessesfor example.

"The integration of Accept360 in our Oracle CRM to aggregate demand and CRM OnDemand for PRM platform will add valuable social ideation focused on collaboration to give deeper visibility in the market needs and create a single repository of ideas and product requirements" said Steve FiorettiVP of CRM Oracle strategy and management products, in a statement. "This will enable companies to capture and to rationalize the market, customer and partner on their product needs comments and is in context with objects CRM key campaigns, accounts and contacts."

Organizations can then measure the speed or the speed at which other users respond to the idea of posting a particular, and the reputation of the individual user online, said Plug. "" You must have a capacity to analyse this idea. "."You need to give priority against your business objectives, he said.

More and companies across vertical industries are turning to the crowdsourcing said Plug.

"The truisms of affairs was get close to your customer: understanding what your markets want, understanding what your markets need,"he told InformationWeek."."Very often it takes more time to plan a product that takes a product on the market. The old ways - we are going to take a product to Peoria and see how it makes - takes far too long. It for weeks and months, and is static. You get static information that may be useful to the point in time, but you received six weeks later. ?

Crowdsourcing, companies obtain information in a timely manner of a community has invested in the product, campaign, or the market, said Plug. While the respondents are often motivated because they want a particular item to succeed, companies can also add incentives ranging from gift cards and non-monetary benefits of the award as symbols of prestige as stars, privileged user rankings, an important post on the website, stars, or Foursquare-like badges, he noted.

The Government, for example, began to embrace the crowdsourcing. The Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) is crowdsourcing its challenge to design the derived crowd Combat support vehicle (XC2V), a support next generation combat vehicle.

New York City also turned to residents and workers of the city when he sought ideas on how to improve daily life and business in Manhattan.

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