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Overview:
As Expand Beyond’s CEO,
Kaplan was responsible for setting and executing the strategic vision of the
company, which was one of the leading pioneers of the mobile and wireless
business software market. As CTO, he was the driving force behind a talented
software development team focused on products within the Expand Beyond
framework that empower companies to manage their entire IT infrastructure
(databases, applications, servers, networks) from mobile consoles. Expand
Beyond raised over $16 million led by Menlo Ventures, retained an impressive
customer roster, executed OEM and partnerships with companies such as Teradata
and Microsoft, and was issued several broad patents in mobile software.
Kaplan is recognized as a
leading authority in the IT industry. He has architected and led some of the
most successful and visible data centers and applications for Fortune 500
companies including 3Com, Hallmark, Merck and the
He has been interviewed for
more than 200 print articles and TV segments, including the Today Show, CNN, the History Channel, USA
Today, BBC, Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, CIO, Los
Angeles Times, Red Herring, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld and eWeek.
Kaplan is a popular speaker
at national and international technology conferences including Comdex,
OracleWorld, the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, Wall Street Technology
Association, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, University
of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, and JETRO’s US-Japan Hi Tech
Partnership.
Kaplan is on the Swedish-Russian
Working Group on the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, investigating the
disappearance of the Holocaust hero into the Soviet gulag. He serves on the
board of directors for the Independent Oracle Users Group (as President and
CEO), the
Ari
Kaplan
in the News:
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Video of Ari
Kaplan and Charles Phillips during the Oracle Database 11g launch, NYC 2007
(Watch Segment 1 from minute 48-52), also on YouTube
History of Trenton
Computer Festival Keynote presenters
Trenton Times cover
story, October 1, 2006: Hero outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000 Hungarian
Jews but could not save himself
Trenton Times second cover story, October 4, 2006:
Remembering missing hero of the Holocaust
Feb 2006: 
Co-author
and editor of O’Reilly’s “Baseball Hacks”
Nov 2007:
Oracle Magazine Column: A Place for
Everything
Sep 2007:
Oracle Magazine Column: What’s New in
Oracle Database 11g
Jul 2007:
Oracle Magazine Column: An Oracle User
Looks at 30
May 2007:
Oracle Magazine Column: Oracle Fusion
Propels the Future
Mar 2007:
Oracle Magazine Column: New Strategies
Simplify Backups
Nov 2006:
Oracle Magazine Column: Asking the Right
Questions
Sep 2006:
Oracle Magazine Column: Storage Made Simpler
July
2006: Oracle Magazine Column: XML in Databases
May 2006:
Oracle Magazine Column: Applications for Real-Time Access
Mar 2006:
Oracle Magazine Column: Riding the Mobile Wave
Jan 2006:
Oracle Magazine Column: The Business Case for SOA
09/23/05: Information Week: Security
inside the database
03/29/05: Expand Beyond acquired
(InfoWorld) 
03/29/05:
Expand Beyond acquired (press release)
09/03/04:
Ari Kaplan awarded major wireless patent
01/08/04: Ari Kaplan in USA Today as “Tech Industry
Titan” 
08/01/02: 
DM
Review: Executive Interview
04/29/02:
Times of Trenton: Local Computer Prodigy Returns as Festival Speaker
09/01/01:
September 2001 From Contractor to CEO: The Career of Ari Kaplan
05/21/01:
Chicago Sun-Times: PocketDBA lets database chiefs work at remote site
07/15/00:
July / August Peer-to-Peer in Oracle Magazine
06/18/00:
Chicago Tribune (Front Page of Jobs Section): "Pick to Click" in the
Midwest
01/20/00:
Chicago
Daily Herald / Raoul Wallenberg Article
01/19/00:
Chicago Sun Times / Answers
sought on Wallenberg
10/01/99:
October's
cover story of Contract Professional Magazine. Order your copy today!
11/15/99
: ComputerWorld: "Hot Spots"
10/25/99
: ComputerWorld cover lead: "Extreme Techies".
Article on
BG&E project, for which Ari was Oracle DBA .
See various
articles on Ari's Baseball Research .
Ari Kaplan 's Co-Authored Books:
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Presentations and Papers:
Raoul Wallenberg:
AP story:
Scholars run down more clues to a Holocaust mystery, April 27 2008
Trenton Times
second cover story, October 4, 2006: Remembering
missing hero of the Holocaust
Trenton Times
cover story, October 1, 2006: Hero
outsmarted the Nazis. He saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews but could not save himself
Download the Raoul Wallenberg Report of the Swedish-Russian Working Group
Download the Development of Forensic Database Methods in the Search of “the
Disappeared”
Download the New
York Review of Books: THE TRUTH ABOUT
WALLENBERG
Download the 2006 Letter to the G8 Summit
Download the 2005 Letter to Vladimir Putin on
Raoul Wallenberg
Download AJC’s “The Last Word on Wallenberg?
New Investigations, New Questions”
Oracle:
Download the "Managing Your Enterprise in
a Mobile World” PowerPoint
Download the "Welcome to Oracle 10g Data
Dictionary and Initialization Parameters” PowerPoint
Download the "Life Without Tools
Monitoring Database Activity With the Power of SQL” PowerPoint
Download the "Moving to the Web: How to
Prepare for the Switch” PowerPoint
Download the "Introduction to Oracle”
PowerPoint
Download the "A Bag of Tips and
Techniques for DBAs and Developers” PowerPoint
Download the "More Tips and Techniques
for DBAs and Developers” PowerPoint
Download the "Password Management for Oracle”
PowerPoint
Download the Expand Beyond Powerpoint
Corporate Deck
Last updated: April 27, 2008