LinkShare is one of the largest users of BI and Analytics for its innovative, E-commerce, Affiliate Marketing and Pay-per-Action services. It use OBIEE to gain insights into its own performance but also offers vast amounts of data and analytics to its customers on the performance of their marketing programs and campaigns. This session will highlight how creative firms can use BI to transform the products and services they provide to their customers and use BI as a competitive differentiator.

Charlie Hoffman, the recognized "father of XBRL" talks to Oracle's Performance Management Applications - Product Marketing Director, Nigel Youell and gives his perspective on the current state of XBRL and XBRL technologies for regulatory reporting.

Nigel Youell interviews Jeff Naumann, Assistant Director in the Office of Interactive Disclosure at the SEC, about XBRL. This podcast is a must for all public companies who will need to publish filings in XBRL over the next few years. Get the SEC viewpoint of the current requirements and some insight into what the future might hold.

Uncertainty sets the tone of business planning these days and past precedents, 'rules of thumb' and trading history provide little comfort when assessing future prospects. After 18 years of constant growth in GDP, planning is no longer about extrapolating past performance and adjusting for growth. It is now about constantly testing the temperature of the water, formulating scenarios, assessing risk and assigning probabilities. So how does one plan for recovery and improve forecast accuracy in such a volatile environment?

In this podcast, you'll hear from Lexy Martin, the director of Research and Analytics for CedarCrestone, and the author of a recent, in-depth Oracle white paper on HR Analytics, as she talks about current trends in HR and how firms are using analytics to gain insights on their HR operations and performance.

Coming out of the recession, many organizations need to build or re-build trust with key stakeholders by delivering more timely and accurate financial and operating results. In this podcast, hear about new capabilities Oracle is delivering through its Enterprise Performance Management products to help organizations coordinate and improve the extended financial close and reporting process, from closing the sub-ledgers to regulatory filings.

Understanding profitability and cost is fundamental to improving performance. Learn how Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management drives business performance by discovering the drivers of cost and profitability, empowers users with visibility and flexibility, and improves resource alignment.

Historically, the market has viewed Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) as separate processes and solutions. But these two worlds are coming together - in fact industry analyst firms such as Gartner believe that risk management will be part of every EPM discussion. Tune into this conversation with John O'Rourke, VP of Product Marketing for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solutions, and Karen dela Torre, Vice President of Product Marketing for Oracle ERP Applications to learn how EPM and GRC are converging, what the integration points are, and what Oracle is doing to help customers perform more effective risk and performance management.