IT Industry Updates

Oracle Unveils Exadata Version 2: The First Database Machine for OLTP

The world's first OLTP Database Machine was unveiled by Oracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison; and Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler.

The Exadata Database Machine Version 2, made by Sun and Oracle, is the world's fastest machine for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP).
 

Best Practice Guidelines - Direct Marketing Data

The Marketing Association’s Data Advisory Network (DAN) have designed the 6 Guiding Principles for Direct Marketing Data to provide data managers with guidelines to ensure personal information used for marketing purposes is collected, managed and maintained in accordance with best practice
standards.

8 Data quality best practices - eGovernment

Data quality requirements are extremely important from an interoperability perspective. Agreeing on the data structure that xNAL represents is only half of the problem. The other half of the problem is to agree on an acceptable level of data quality to achieve the data exchange without errors. Data Quality best practices

 

NZ out of recession

The New Zealand economy is technically out of recession, according to the latest gross domestic product figures from Statistics New Zealand.

GDP - a measure of economic activity - rose 0.1% in the June quarter.

 

New Zealand Post delivers $71.8M profit in challenging year

New Zealand Post has delivered a net profit of $71.8 million in a year of mixed results across its diversified group of companies.

Announcing the financial results for the year ended 30 June 2009, the Chairman, Rt Hon Jim Bolger ONZ, said that while parts of the Group, particularly Kiwibank, continued to thrive, others including Postal Services, Datamail and the courier joint ventures had been affected to varying degrees by the economic downturn. Read more