Oracle Corporation


Big-Time IT for Small Companies

A few start-ups are teaming up with tech-industry veterans to help small companies rent high-powered software that they previously could not afford.  Read more

Oracle, Retail Pro Offer Business Intel Solution

Embedding an Oracle database with RetailPro  Read more

Sales Compensation More Complex

Global markets are making it tougher to use compensation plans to boost performance, a survey finds.  Read more

NetApp and Oracle To Offer New Enterprise Grid Software

Network Appliance has teamed up with Oracle to develop Direct NFS Client, a new enterprise grid software tool   Read more

Oracle’s Shopping Spree; Cities that Foster Innovation

Is Selling to Larry Ellison the New IPO? The Wall Street Journal has a front page story on a rare "shopping spree," in which Larry Ellison's Oracle...  Read more

Editor's Letter

The impact of Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

Inc. 500 Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Each year since 1981, Inc. magazine has named the fastest-growing small privately held companies in America. When companies first make the In...  Read more

Can We Talk?

A growing company is supposed to be one happy family, but your computers don't always get the message. Incompatible apps. Proprietary data formats. Feudin...  Read more

Satyam to Target SMBs with New SaaS

A new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform aimed at small and midsize businesses  Read more

What's Next: Upgrade Madness

Software makers offer new, allegedly better, versions all the time. Is it always smart to buy?  Read more

The Definition of Success

The numbers on this list are dazzling. There's a company with 5,958.3% annual growth, after all. Just remember: The numbers don't even begin to tell the whol...  Read more

Larry's Kids

NetSuite, Oracle, and SalesForce.com- all spawned by Larry Ellison- are entering a high-stakes battle to sell you software that gives you unprecedented contr...  Read more

Larry's Kids

NetSuite, Oracle, and SalesForce.com- all spawned by Larry Ellison- are entering a high-stakes battle to sell you software that gives you unprecedented contr...  Read more

Mergers and Acquisitions Looking Up for 2005

January 31, 2005 --A strong economy, rising stock prices and stockpiles of cash fueled mergers and acquisitions worth more than $800 billi...  Read more

Cisco WebEx, Oracle to Deliver CRM On Demand

Cisco and Oracle team up  Read more

What's Next: Software for Non-Dummies

Integrating new applications can be easy, if you let it be.  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: boning up on employment law; making the most of customer feedback; finding big-time IT for your small company; and streamlining the due ...  Read more

CRM Made Simple

New Software To Supercharge Your Sales.  Read more

Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

I always thought that expanding my business at a steady pace was a smart move. Now I worry that it could potentially kill us  Read more

2005 Inc. 500 Overview

Surveying the landscape of the Inc. 500 is a little like reading a science-fiction novel. It's populated with both the familiar and with strange new con...  Read more

Even Billionaires are Pestered By Their Accountants

If you hit it big--really big--how would you spend your money? We've known for years that the answer for Oracle's Larry Ellison is "Lavishly." But new cou...  Read more

Khameleon Releases Project Management, Accounting Software

Project accounting software developer Khameleon Software has introduced the latest version of its fully integrated Web-based project management and accoun...  Read more

Women Investors Are Finally Getting a Fair Shot

Now female CEOs can strut their stuff before throngs of well-heeled investors at a series of venture fairs collectively called Springboard 2000, which spo...  Read more

The Stock Pickers' Ball

Experts pick their favorite Inc. 100 stocks and offer some investment advice.  Read more

Oracle and HP to Offer Combined Solutions

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and HP (NYSE:HPQ)  have teamed to offer a complete suite of software, hardware, and service solutions aimed at midsize businesse...  Read more

The Ties That Bind

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can speed up work flow by uniting different corporate divisions under a single family of software modules. Now, smaller co...  Read more

Meet Rebecca. She's Here to Fire You

Consultants used to tell you to fire people. Now they'll do the firing for you.  Read more

#1: Working a Deal

A profile of the Inc. 500's number one company featuring how it achieved the title by working with larger companies.  Read more

What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?

Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983.  Read more

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo

There's an interesting story in today's New York Times about the anti-...  Read more

Inc. 500 All-Stars

A look at the companies that have achieved the distinction of appearing on the Inc. 500 a staggering 5 times. Plus: Household-name companies that earned thei...  Read more

What's Next: Data Disasters

If litigation requires you to produce every e-mail your employees have written about a given topic, could you do it? If not, you could be looking at jail tim...  Read more

What's Next: Data Disasters

If litigation requires you to produce every e-mail your employees have written about a given topic, could you do it? If not, you could be looking at jail tim...  Read more

Roll Out the Welcome Mat

It's the question that haunts every growth company: how do you quickly integrate new employees into an existing company culture? Start by enlisting the em...  Read more

NetSuite To Go Public

NetSuite, the California-based Inc. 500 software company, is filing the paperwork to go public, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The company, whi...  Read more

25 Years. 7,900 Companies. One Enormous Impact

For 25 years, the most exciting companies in America have been getting noticed here. Microsoft, Timberland, Jenny Craig--glad to be of service.  Read more

The Class of 1985

Some 1985 Inc. 500 companies are revisted in an attempt to see what happens to America's fastest-growing businesses.  Read more

What's Next: Software for Non-Dummies

Integrating new applications can be easy, if you let it be.  Read more

The Inc. 100

Overview of the Inc. 100 with a focus on general trends, profitability and stock performance.  Read more

Recruiting the Top 1 Percent

There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees.  Read more