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Guide to Migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Oracle and PostgreSQL are the most powerful and popular object-relational DBMS. However, PostgreSQL has important benefit compared to Oracle: it is open source and has more liberal license than another database management system. Export Oracle data into CSV files (one file per table).

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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Alternatives to MySQL

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. Switch to PostgreSQL.

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But then … Oracle bought Sun. And just like the fears that many in the MySQL community have had about the future of MySQL under Oracle’s watch (Oracle shut down the OpenSolaris project, for example), people were worried about the future of OpenOffice.org. You’ll read about that one here.).

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Bloomerang Appoints Tammy Hammond and Steve Byrnes to the Executive Leadership Team

Bloomerang

He previously served as a VP of Sales at SPS Commerce and at Oracle Corporation. He spent the past three years as Chief Sales Officer for Ascentis, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company in the mid-market Human Capital Management space.

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Dreamforce: Four big reasons to attend the Salesforce annual conference

Nimble AMS

See the band rock out in Oracle Park, with general admission included with your Dreamforce registration. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Need we say more? The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be headlining this year’s Dreamfest, which is the official concert of Dreamforce. What Dreamforce sessions should you attend?

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Foundation opens volunteerism Web site to nonprofits - Harwich, MA - Harwich Oracle

AFP Blog

Foundation opens volunteerism Web site to nonprofits - Harwich, MA - Harwich Oracle: "Cape Cod —Cape Cod Volunteers, a Web site-based service that will link nonprofit agencies with potential volunteers, is open to nonprofits to post their volunteer opportunities.

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Cadmium names Jim Obsitnik as CEO and Mike Dunn as CFO after a Record Year of Growth

Cadmium CD

“Jim’s track record at industry leaders including Netscape, Commerce One, Everdream/Dell, Taleo/Oracle, & Capsilon/Ellie Mae has demonstrated a proven ability to create enterprise value organically and inorganically.  His

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Senior Salesforce Developer in the USA or Canada

Cloud 4 Good

Travel: Maximum 20% Qualifications and Education Requirements Minimum of three years Salesforce developer experience, including Apex classes and triggers, batch and scheduled jobs, API integration (REST and SOAP), Visualforce, and Aura (Lightning) components Javascript knowledge and experience with Lightning Web Components preferred Applied (..)

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Social Media and Cute Dogs Go Mobile And Other Cute Animal and Nonprofit Tales

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In September, they ran their 3rd social media challenge, in this case, the Oracle Online Action Challenge. Oracle made donations for all online actions (likes, comments, RTs, photos, etc) during Hunger Action Month , reaching a maximum donation of $25,000. Use visuals to tell our story and reach friends of fans.

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

NTEN

Still, it’s one that is supported by Open Source, adopted by large nonprofit-serving businesses such as Oracle/NetSuite and Unit4, and creating an opening (and teaching tool) for even new-to-nonprofit technology solutions to understand basic service needs for nonprofits as supported by data.

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Philgorithms: Two Examples of Data Mapping to Guide Donor Decisions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A team of four Google Fellows developed Delphi (named after the ancient Greek shrine that was home to an oracle who could predict the future) over the span of six months. In the past, they relied on media coverage, phone calls, on-the-ground searches, and information collected by other organizations.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. ’).

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Age of Automation and Nonprofits: Hiv.Gov ChatBot, Bots in Workplace, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AI at Work Study: Future Workplace, partnered with Oracle to interview 1,320 U.S. HIV.gov has written about the use of ChatBots in healthcare on its blog that offers best practices uses for healthcare, identifies current research, and suggestions for getting started.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup Blog

Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs.

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How World Wildlife Fund Used Segmentation to Activate Social Influencers for Their Cause

Connection Cafe

The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!” If the Oracle were speaking to nonprofits today, it might say “Know thy supporters!”. For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. These days, individuals receive a LOT of email and see a LOT of posts on their social media feeds.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. Marie is an active volunteer with the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, her daughter’s high school, and board member of SF Basque Cultural Center.

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3 Cool Things to Try in Excel 2016

Tech Soup Blog

or from basically almost any database type out there: SQL, Azure, Access, Oracle, and more. Excel's Power Query add-on is now integrated into the Excel 2016 core, so there's no need to install it separately anymore. With Power Query, you can get data from external sources (websites included!)

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Announcing the 2015 Digital Outlook Report

NTEN

Whether we''re talking about Oracle, IBM, or a charitable organization, how you deploy your human resources is the key to success. Digital is now, more than ever, an inherent component of effective organizations. Looking ahead, the report offers seven steps for nonprofit digital strategy success in 2015. "It''s

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup Blog

Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs.

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The Surge of "Software as a Service" and OnDemand technologies

NetWits

Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions.

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How to Host a Board Meeting Your Board Will Actually Attend

Tech Soup Blog

After graduating from MIT, Wan Lik Lee served as a manager in Oracle Systems Limited and a project team leader in Versant Corporation (formerly Versant Object Technology Corp.) As chairman of Azeus Convene Board Portal , Wan Lik Lee offers consultancy services and produces a meeting solution for boards and executives worldwide. spanhidden

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Remember Paint by Number? SAP Visual Intelligence: A Visual Treat for Reporting Data

Tech Soup Blog

Start off in SAP Visual Intelligence by pulling data from a broad range of sources: Excel spreadsheets ("personal data sources") as well as many types of databases (for example, Access, Oracle, SAP HANA, BusinessObjects). Users can input data in seconds with a couple of points and clicks.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s why it’s critical that all those young geeks have the best, geekiest time that ever they had because happy, fulfilled Campuseros translates into positive brand identification for Movistar, Microsoft, The Mexican government, Ibm, HP, Asus, Nokia, Motorola, Nec, Opera, Noiselab, Volaris, Cisco, Oracle, Zte.

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MPower Open Now on the Leaderboard! | Non-Profit Tech Blog

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. I use Oracle, and it is licensed by type and number of CPUs. That is what Oracle is increasingly doing even with its own products like Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning suite (ERP). The Oracle ERP has the same thing. Here is a cavea.

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How Many Donor Databases Are There?

Robert Weiner

Oracle/PeopleSoft. communitEbuilder. Oaktree Systems, Inc. Community Enterprise. community pearl. bromelkamp. Compass CRM. Compass Technologies. ContributorLink. Hill Systems. Contributor Relations. Cornerstone. Campus Management Corp. Synergy Development Systems. DenariOnline. Synergy Development Systems. DevelopmentLogic.

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gokubi.com

gokubi.com

Former Oracle exec: ‘We will destroy Oracle’ [link] Kingsley Joseph | Monday, 02 October 2006 at 9:42 am What do I get, if after the keynote, you do think that that statement was warranted? You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Very interesting plans, though, for the Appexchange. From Business 2.0

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. s not easy!

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It's ok to be wrong sometimes

Connection Cafe

Perhaps you are like me and are wondering if the Paul the oracle octopus will be right on his prediction for Spain to win the World Cup. I’m a huge NPR fan and not afraid to admit it. What I am often afraid to admit is when I am wrong - just ask my friends and family. He’s been right on so far. But he could be wrong.

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Increasing Social Influence to Drive Fundraising Efforts

NTEN

A seasoned software sales professional, JP came to RightNow from Oracle where he primarily focused on the state and local market. By doing this, your nonprofit can reap the benefits; with an increase in potential cause enthusiasts, influencers and enhanced member support.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup Blog

Austin, Texas: Oracle | NetSuite For Nonprofits. How to Broadcast Your Events to the World for Free. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Thursday, May 18, 2017. Seattle, Washington: Building Better Websites with Web Accessibility. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Friday, May 19, 2017.

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The Importance of a Connected Hospital

Connection Cafe

Places like the Stanford Design School’s approaches to journey mapping were adopted by companies like Oracle and Microsoft and this ‘structured empathy’ approach make incredible improvements to the customer journey. The commercial sector quickly applied the discipline and thoroughness of CX Design Thinking to their customer’s journeys.

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gokubi.com

gokubi.com

First they might have to deal with Oracle from here on, and second because the service is so bad! You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. 1 Comment Matt Cutsing | Monday, 11 February 2008 at 7:35 pm hahaha, this is to be expected! This would be the second reason why customers should defunct SFDC.

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Cloud Is Not a Technology Decision

Tech Soup Blog

What hardware, operating system, RAM, DRAM, SAN, UPS, NAS, SSD, IPV6, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, SAP, Oracle (and any other acronym you wish to come up with that I don't give a twopenny stuff about) do we need? As a manager, I don't care about the detail of the underlying technology.

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Philanthropy and Nonprofit Top 25 List - December 2008

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Oracle Education Foundation. National Public Radio, Inc. pbskids.org. Public Broadcasting Service. consumerreports.org. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. thinkquest.org. Associated Press. kidshealth.org. Nemours Foundation. archive.org.

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These are a few of my favorite blogs

Connection Cafe

I think of the Sea Change posts as communications from the Oracle at Delphi - rich in meaning, posing more questions than answers, with the goal of getting you to think about the question in relation to your strategy, rather than spoon-feeding you the answers. I don't know. I'll have to think about it, and I bet you will too.

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Mpower Open Now on the Leaderboard

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

Good candidates are: Foxpro, SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL for a backend. Uses known database backends. This is a huge issue to me. I don’t want nonprofits to end up supporting some horrible version of CenturaSQL or worse DBase. MPower Open uses SQL Server Express which is the free edition of SQL Server. Here is a cavea.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. The API is SOAP. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). Check out Understanding CiviCRM , an "open source book" written in 5 days using the Floss Manuals platform and methodology. .

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Blackbaud tries to sell itself off as Software As a Service. using Googles Knol | Non-Profit Tech Blog

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

You can choose to sell Model 1 and Model 4, which is what Oracle did. If you’re not a Blackbaud nerd like I am, you wouldn’t know that the Timothy Chou who wrote the article was the Timothy Chou who is on Blackbaud’s Board of Directors. He writes: You will have many choices.