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The Aug. 12 edition of GovLoop includes the follow article highlighting five ways to improve communication between information technology (IT) professionals and the business team members. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan, Group Vice President and Chief Technologist, noting that many projects fail due to an inability for IT professionals to explain and communicate their capabilities to the business side, and for the business to communicate back to the IT side, stating their needs and requirements to have a tangible impact on the outcome. The article goes on to discuss five starter questions and suggestions on how to best improve communication among a team.

Article discussing how semantic technology is now finding a greater role in a practical-minded government project, National Information Exchange Model (NIEM). The article includes comments from Peter Doolan, vice president and chief technology officer, O

Discussing the United States' natural and man-made disaster preparedness evolution. The article includes comments from Peter Doolan, vice president and chief technology officer, Oracle Public Sector discussing how preparedness consists of organizational

Article highlighting how Oracle is positioning itself as a leading cloud service provider to federal government clients tasked with major IT initiatives that include moving to the cloud with tight or declining budgets. The article includes comments from Oracle Public Sector's Peter Doolan's keynote address at a government IT conference, suggesting that service-oriented model Oracle is trying to bring to its database offerings could resonate with federal clients who are being asked to undertake major IT initiatives while seeing their budgets decline. Oracle's holistic cloud offering would eliminate the multiple vendors commonly involved in cloud deployments today, a streamlining that should translate into lower costs for customers, which might particularly resonate with federal CIOs. The article also notes that Oracle announced its cloud advancements at the recent Oracle OpenWorld conference.