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• Gartner, Oracle's Demand Data Breakthrough
  (Publication: March 2008)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008
  (Publication: February 2008)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites, 2007
  (Publication: December 2007)
• AMR, Oracle To Acquire Interlace Systems, Expanding EPM Footprint to Operational Planning (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  We think Oracle made a good move with this acquisition. They are recognizing the need to tightly align operational and financial plans in a potentially heterogeneous application and data environment and have acquired product to support that vision.
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
  (Publication: October 2007)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007
  Distribution rights expire March 2009 (Publication: October 2007)
• The Forrester Wave: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2007 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2009 (Publication: October 2007)
  Forrester assessed 10 leading business performance solutions (BPS) vendors across 83 criteria in a product evaluation. Cognos, Oracle, and SAS Institute were found to lead the category with overall breadth of functionality and aggressive strategies for competing in this rapidly evolving market.
• Oracle Leads In Business Performance Solutions Following Its Hyperion Acquisition (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2009 (Publication: October 2007)
  Oracle is a Leader in our Business Performance Solutions (BPS) evaluation based primarily on its strength in the financial process solutions of planning and financial reporting.
• IDC, Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2007-2011 Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2007)
  Oracle is #1 in the business analytics software market.
• IDC, Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai: Enriching Database and Business Analytics Offerings (PDF)
  (Publication: August 2007)
  This IDC Flash takes a closer look at Oracle OpenWorld Asia Pacific 2007 that was held in Shanghai on July 30 - August 2, 2007. This event, which reportedly garnered more than 8,000 attendees, focused on three key themes: database, fusion middleware, and applications. Moreover, this IDC Flash closely examines the announcements and plans that relate to Oracle Database 11g and Oracle' s business intelligence (BI) road map.
• IDC, Worldwide Data Warehouse Platform Tools 2006 Vendor Shares (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  Oracle is #1 in the data warehouse platform market.
• Datamonitor, Evaluating Business Intelligence Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PDF)
  (Publication: May 2007)
  With its patient-centric applications Oracle is well positioned to provide the much needed data management and BI solutions required for translational medicine. The company is active in partnerships with AMCs and has a dedicated vertical sales team to support its pharmaceutical clients.
• The Forrester Wave: Enterprise ETL, Q2 2007 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2008 (Publication: May 2007)
  Forrester evaluated leading enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors across 68 criteria and Oracle Warehouse Builder is ranked as a leader. See below for detailed Oracle scorecard.
• Forrester Scorecard: Oracle Is A Leader In Enterprise ETL With A Free, Bundled Solution For Its DBMS (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2008 (Publication: May 2007)
  OWB is embedded in Oracle's 10gR2 database and is a no-cost to low-cost ETL solution optimized for Oracle databases and data warehouses.
• Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Intelligence Vendor (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2007)
  Datamonitor rates twelve BI vendors, and Oracle is one of only two vendors that are "short-listed". Oracle leads the market by combining excellent technology with a dominant position on both "user sentiment" and "market impact" assessments.
• IDC, A Focus on Intelligence: Oracle's Renewed BI Strategy (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2007)
  IDC discusses Oracle's #1 market share in IDC's $18.3 Billion Business Analytics market. IDC discusses the importance of Oracle's complete and open Oracle Business Intelligence Suite.
• WinterCorp, Latest Field Experience with Large-Scale Data Warehousing on Oracle (Note: If you would like a copy of this report, please send a request to peter.urban@oracle.com)
  (Publication: April 2007)
  Profiles four Oracle VLDW customers: (1) Financial - 67 TB (2) Retail - 70 TB (3) Telecom - 23 TB (4) CPG - 8.7 TB
• WinterCorp, Oracle's Top Ten Features for Large-Scale Data Warehousing (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2007)
  WinterCorp describes the key features that allow Oracle to support VLDWs: (1)Partitioning (2) Real Application Clusters (3) Parallel Operations (4) Materialized views (5) Intelligent Optimization (6) Bit-mapped Indexes (7) Table Compression (8) Oracle Warehouse Builder (9) On-Line Analytical Processing (10) Data Mining
• IDC, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Consolidation Round Two: Oracle Acquires Hyperion (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2007)
  This latest acquisition is a solid move by Oracle to strengthen its performance management offerings and expands its BI position.
• Bloor Research, Oracle Data Mining: Not Only Good But Affordable Too! (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2006)
  It comes as a very pleasant surprise to find that the Oracle data mining option is one of the great bargains available today because it is affordable and when you look at what you are getting it is a real Rolls Royce of capability and features.
• Forrester, Oracle Is Off To A Solid Start In Information Quality With Oracle Warehouse Builder (PDF)
  (Publication: September 2006)
  Oracle is wise to invest in IQ; combining data integration and IQ in a single product adds value to both. Enterprise architects should include OWB on their list of information quality (IQ) offerings to evaluate as part of enterprise information quality initiatives.
• Oracle Performance Management and the Path to Fusion (PDF)
  (Publication: June 2006)
  Oracle's decision to standardize its BI platform on Siebel Business Analytics does not impact Oracle CPM or PeopleSoft EPM customers in the near term. Over the next three years, more options will become available, giving customers numerous options as they chart out timing and related investments in the Fusion platform. But there is no pressure today to plan for a forced migration for some or all the analytic platform soon…and that's good news.
• Spotlight on Oracle: Key findings from the 2005 WinterCorp TopTen Program (PDF)
  (Publication: June 2006)
  Highlights Oracle's strong showing in the Winter Corporation 2005 "Top Ten" survey, which measured the world's largest databases. Four Oracle customers are highlighted: BPU Banca, Elsevier, UPS, Gas Natural.

• IDC, Oracle Announces Its Universal Online Archives Strategy: First Stop, Email (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2008)
  Oracle Universal Online Archive and Email Archive Service products are well-suited for organizations facing massive volumes of electronic messages and require unified management, retention, and disposition of and access to its various data. Customers will find Oracle's grid-based architecture attractive to meet its scalability, application performance and failover and redundancy requirements.
• Ovum, Oracle Addresses Archiving (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2008)
  In Ovum's opinion this announcement is another demonstration of the bringing to fruition the combined capabilities of both the Oracle and former Stellent teams, melding understanding of content types with that of high volume storage. Good move, very timely.
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2008)
  Forrester Consulting completed a commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on behalf of Oracle on the City of Ottawa. The City of Ottawa is anticipating a return on investment of between 143% and 152% with Oracle's Enterprise Content Management Suite. The benefit areas for realizing ROI come from reduced print cost, improved management of physical files, increase in productivity from content related processes, easier compliance with information retention regulations and improved citizen services.
• Ovum, The Future of Search (PDF)
  (Publication: February 2008)
  Ovum rates Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ahead of Microsoft and IBM for its breadth of functional scope and fit for the enterprise.
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Universal Content Management (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2007)
  Forrester Consulting completed a commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on behalf of Oracle on Emerson Process Management. In examining the economic impact and return on investment that Emerson realized by deploying Oracle Universal Content Management, Emerson was able to achieved a 177% risk-adjusted ROI and payback within 12 months of deployment of Oracle enterprise content management solution.
• IDC, Delivering Patient-Centric Care: Swedish Medical Content-Enables Its Electronic Medical Records with Oracle (PDF)
  (Publication: December 2007)
  Swedish Medical has also built an innovative, dynamic publishing application using Oracle Content Management that addresses the enterprisewide training needs of its 7,000 employees. The custom Pick-and-Pack application helped Swedish keep its electronic medical record rollout on schedule.
• The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2007 (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  Forrester evaluated 11 enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors across approximately 60 criteria and found that IBM, EMC, and Oracle lead thanks to suite breadth and a focus on enterprise information management needs. See below for detailed Oracle scorecard.
• Forrester Scorecard: Oracle Has Established ECM Suite Leadership (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  Oracle is an ECM suites Leader with a broad ECM technology base, interesting information rights management technology, and a strategy focused on making ECM a part of a broader information management portfolio.
• Ovum, Oracle Gets Serious About Records Management (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2007)
  Oracle is both on track with its stated roadmap for enterprise content management (ECM) development, and shows a good understanding of what is emerging as a major business challenge.
• The 451 Group, Oracle Gives Its Search Engine More Tentacles (PDF)
  (Publication: September 2007)
  Oracle recently revved its Secure Enterprise Search engine, adding many more connectors to non-Oracle data sources and expanding the security options.The work it's done with version 2 strikes us as more than enough to give high-end users beyond the Oracle stack a good reason to consider SES ahead of, say, Autonomy or FAST.
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007
  (Publication: September 2007)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, 2007
  (Publication: September 2007)
• The Forrester Wave: Web Content Management for External Sites, Q3 2007 (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  Oracle is a strong performer, and best positioned amongst the ECM platform peers such as IBM, EMC and Microsoft.
• The Forrester Wave: Oracle is a Strong Performer in the Web Content Management for External Sites, Q3 2007 (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  The future bodes well for Oracle Universal Content Management; enterprises can expect future integration with Siebel to help them deliver targeted, interactive customer experiences. Until then, Oracle’s WCM offering is well suited for organizations looking for good, broad WCM support for their internal and external site initiatives.
• Gartner, Oracle Gets Serious About Content Management
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Ovum, Oracle goes Universal on ECM (PDF)
  (Publication: May 2007)
  Oracle has revealed a 12-month roadmap for the delivery of ECM facilities within the Oracle platform. Ovum believes that this should give existing Stellent customers confidence in their investments so far, and shows that Oracle is determined to come from the back of the pack to be a major player in the ECM arena.
• Ovum, Oracle: Fusion through Search (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire July 2008 (Publication: February 2007)
  Oracle has not only created a highly credible enterprise search tool, but with its federated and embedded capabilities has positioned the product to be the conduit through which its Fusion applications are linked and integrated.
• Gartner, MarketScope for Records Management, 2007
  (Publication: January 2007)
• Butler Group, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Content DB and Records DB (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2006)
  In Butler Group's opinion, Oracle's lateness to the corporate collaboration market has afforded the company an opportunity to design the information worker solution of the future. While Oracle may be a leader in terms of clarity of solution, the company still has to acquire market share and build credibility in this area. The recent agreement to acquire Stellent makes this task easier, by providing Oracle with an established market presence in content collaboration.
• AMR, Oracle Buys Stellent (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2006)
  Oracle's initial push into content management brought it a significant seven-figure deal with Allstate, but it was still having difficulty establishing credibility in content management and serving various customer needs outside of core repository services. Stellent brings it more technology to meet end-to-end needs, from content capture and imaging to content publishing.
• The Forrester Wave: Collaboration Platforms, Q2 2006 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire August 2008 (Publication: May 2006)
  Oracle is a strong performer, and is an especially good fit for Oracle shops that have a Java orientation and want a unified collaboration platform.

• IDC, Grid Computing with Oracle Database 11g (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2008)
  IDC discusses the benefits of grid computing, and then reviews Oracle's Grid software including RAC, ASM, and EMGC. IDC then discusses the benefits of Oracle Grid computing by profiling four Oracle grid customers: Starwood, ESPN, Burlington CFO, Chesapeake Energy.
• Gartner, Oracle's Demand Data Breakthrough
  (Publication: March 2008)
• ESG, Controlling Storage Costs with Oracle Database 11g (PDF)
  (Publication: February 2008)
  According to ESG, The Oracle Database's ILM features including Partitioning, ILM Assistant, and Advanced Compression can reduce storage-related costs by 85%. ILM Assistant and Partitioning help to relocate data to an optimal storage medium based on age and business value. Oracle Advanced Compression shrinks data that is stored on disk, resulting in lower storage cost.
• IDC, Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source (PDF)
  (Publication: February 2008)
  Coupled with an industry-leading 19 independent security evaluations for the database alone, Oracle remains the choice for security-aware organizations.
• Echelon One, Security Criteria for Selecting a Database (PDF)
  (Publication: January 2008)
  The seven-point checklist of security criteria recommended here will help organizations make appropriate choices that lead to understanding a vendor's overall approach to security assurance.
• Ovum Summit, Oracle Real Application Testing – Business Agility Through Superior Testing (PDF)
  (Publication: January 2008)
  Historically, testing the impact of technology changes is a long, complex, costly process. Oracle Real Application Testing automates many manual and complex testing tasks, which can reduce system testing time and cost by 80% and 70%, respectively.
• IDC, Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2007–2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares (PDF)
  (Publication: December 2007)
  Oracle is #1 with 23.2% market share.
• Nucleus Research, Business Critical: Software-as-a-Service Vendor Strategies (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  Eight out of 10 SAAS vendors delivering business-critical applications run on Oracle.
• The Forrester Wave, Vendor Summary, Q4 2007: Oracle Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise Database Auditing; Tops Native DBMS Auditing (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2007)
  Oracle is a Strong Performer across the board in Forrester's evaluation, and tops the native DBMS auditing solutions. Oracle is the technology leader when it comes to databases, and Oracle gives database security and auditing the same level of commitment and focus as other database features.
• IDC, Oracle Database 11g: A Giant Step for Database Professionals
  (Publication: October 2007)
  With the release of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle has effectively driven a wedge of at least three years between itself and rivals IBM and Microsoft. As a commercial product with advanced practical functions, Oracle Database 11g also has a strong edge over open source databases in which immense future growth is predicted.
• Taneja Group: New Database Technologies Usher in New Approaches to Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
  (Publication: September 2007)
  With intelligent, database-centric disaster recovery and data protection technologies, storage teams now have additional choices to ensure availability and protection of their business-critical data. Oracle provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated suite of data protection, disaster recovery, and storage management capabilities of any of the major database vendors.
• IDC, Delivering Affordable Information Management Functionality: Oracle Database Standard Edition One
  (Publication: August 2007)
  Oracle has designed this configuration to be ideal for SMBs or departmental systems that run their applications on one to two socket servers.
• Ovum, Oracle 11g Whiz
  (Publication: August 2007)
  Database 11g's new features yield 200-300% DBA productivity gains. The Real Application Testing capabilities in the product are likely to disrupt the existing testing tools market. Oracle Real Application Testing beta customers report "massive" productivity gains - complex load testing activities are reduced from weeks to days.
• IDC, Oracle Multimedia Pushes DICOM into the Mainstream with 11g
  (Publication: July 2007)
  The vast majority of PACS vendors will see the latest release of Oracle Multimedia (formerly called interMedia), when combined with the significant performance features introduced in Oracle Database 11g, as a cathartic experience.
• IDC, Oracle Database 11g Uses Automation to Target Operational Costs
  (Publication: July 2007)
  Database 11g's focus on automating DBA tasks through features like Oracle Real Application Testing, Partition Advisor, and Automatic SQL Tuning shows that Oracle is responsive to customer demands to reduce operational costs. Further, new ILM features including compression tackle operational costs by reducing storage requirements.
• Gartner, Oracle Database 11g Could See Early Adoption
  (Publication: July 2007)
• Ovum, Making the Case for Oracle Database on Windows
  (Publication: July 2007)
  A significant number of customers have deployed Oracle's database software on platforms running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system.
• Gartner Says Worldwide Relational Database Market Increased 14 Percent in 2006
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Bloor Research, Oracle Data Mining: Not Only Good But Affordable Too! (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2006)
  It comes as a very pleasant surprise to find that the Oracle data mining option is one of the great bargains available today because it is affordable and when you look at what you are getting it is a real Rolls Royce of capability and features.
• Enterprise Strategy Group, Double Up with Database Data Protection and Disaster Recovery with Oracle Data Guard
  (Publication: November 2006)
  In its November 2006 white paper, Enterprise Strategy Group outlines how Oracle Data Guard, a feature of Oracle Database 10g, adds a level of protection that tape backup systems and simple remote-mirroring can't touch. "Oracle Data Guard represents a cost-effective solution for protecting enterprise data, going beyond the limitations of tape-based backup and recovery and remote-mirroring solutions with a native database capability that provides optimum data protection and availability." Profiled customers: Barnes & Noble, Swarovski Crystal, and Burlington Coat Factory.
• Ovum, Life Beyond the sleeping cat for Berkeley DB?
  (Publication: October 2006)
  Oracle has continued the development of Berkeley DB, maintaining a development path that targets the embedded and real-time environments. There is no sign of a lack of commitment to the future of the product, and Ovum anticipates functional and technical updates to continue in the future.
• Forrester, Oracle Application Express Helps Build Web Applications Quickly
  (Publication: July 2006)
  Over the past year, the adoption of Oracle Application Express has increased twofold mainly because it is easy to use, saves money when consolidating spreadsheets and desktop databases, and comes bundled for free with Oracle databases. Although Oracle Application Express is not a replacement for Java or.NET programming environments, it can help develop simple Web-based applications that access Oracle databases quickly.
• Ovum Summit, Oracle RAC has already become the clustering technology of choice for a growing number of SAP's customers
  (Publication: July 2006)
  Ovum Summit explores the history of the Oracle and SAP relationship and follows three SAP customers, Italy's Pirelli Group, Germany's Reno Fashion and Shoes, and Spain's Gas Natural, as they enhance their SAP applications with Oracle RAC.

• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q08
  (Publication: April 2008)
• BPMS Watch Ratings Q2 2008 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire April 2009 (Publication: April 2008)
  This report should be used in conjunction with "The BPMS Report: Oracle BPM Solution", recently published. This report rates Oracle as a leader in integration-centric processes, along with a good showing in human-centric processes.
• Forrester Wave: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2008 (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2008)
  Oracle emerges as the Leader with a solid portfolio of integrated products and a compelling, aggressive strategy with application-centric identity.
• BPMS Watch, The BPMS Report: Oracle BPM Solution (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2008)
  Oracle's BPM Solution, announced in Q3 2007 and reviewed here, combines BPA Suite and SOA Suite linked by shared metadata to support business-T alignment and collaboration in the process lifecycle. In addition, Oracle provides supporting infrastructure for a complete BPM solution, including a portal for collaboration and performance dashboards in Oracle WebCenter, content and image management, and BPM-enabling Oracle applications via industry-specific process templates.
• Butler Group, Oracle BPM Technology Audit (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  Fundamentally, Oracle BPM provides a top-down approach for companies that are working to deploy BPM, and its open services approach is complemented by the company’s already successful SOA strategy. At the heart of the solution are Oracle's strong back-end integration capabilities, which Butler Group believes combines well with the company's extensive modelling, human-and-systems integration, and process collaboration features.
• Nucleus Research, Business Critical: Software-as-a-Service Vendor Strategies (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2007)
  Eight out of 10 SAAS vendors delivering business-critical applications run on Oracle.
• Forrester, Embedded SOA Management Solutions (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2007)
  Although Oracle's solution is spread across multiple products, the full package offers a high percentage of what a standalone solution would offer. Although its SOA management features are not as deep as a standalone player, they are almost as broad. Oracle customers should closely evaluate Oracle's embedded SOA management features.
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
  (Publication: October 2007)
• Gartner, Introducing SaaS-Enabled Application Platforms: Features, Roles and Futures
  (Publication: August 2007)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007
  (Publication: August 2007)
• IDC, Worldwide Application Deployment Software 2007-2011 Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  
• Gartner, How to Maneuver Oracle Forms Into an Ideal Position for Next-Generation Challenges
  (Publication: July 2007)
• IDC, Oracle Getting To Who's Who In Identity and Access Management with Bharosa Buy (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  This acquisition beefs up Oracle's IAM capabilities and adds to its arsenal Bharosa's Virtual Authentication Devices and risk-based authentication capabilities.
• The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire January 2009 (Publication: July 2007)
  Forrester evaluated nine platform vendors (BEA, IBM, Magic, Microsoft, Oracle, PegaSystems, RedHat/JBoss, SAP, and Sun) against 175 criteria in five different use cases. Oracle is a Leader across the board in our evaluation of application server platforms.
• The Forrester Wave: Oracle Is A Leader In Application Server Platforms (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire January 2009 (Publication: July 2007)
  Oracle has built an application platform suite that challenges enterprise powerhouse IBM's broad features and beats it in cost economics.
• Butler Group, SOA Platforms (PDF)
  (Publication: June 2007)
  Oracle has established a very strong and broad coverage of the SOA infrastructure market, and has successfully integrated its several acquisitions to create a coherent suite of capabilities, with further enhancements to come.
• Butler Group, Oracle SOA Platform (PDF)
  (Publication: June 2007)
  The suite has a very broad target. It is required to support Oracle's evolving Fusion Applications suite, but also strongly targeted as a logical upgrade for Oracle's database and application-server customers, as well as targeting non-Oracle users. It can address the requirements of mid-sized organisations as well as large enterprises.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Integration Hubs, 2Q07
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Dataquest Alert: Top Five Vendors in PPMW Worldwide Drive Explosive Growth in ESBs
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, 2Q07
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Composite-Application Projects, 2Q07
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure, 2Q07
  (Publication: June 2007)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07
  (Publication: May 2007)
• Butler, X Marks The Spot (PDF)
  (Publication: May 2007)
  Oracle's recently-announced Application Integration Architecture (AIA), formerly known as Project X, is a clear demonstration that the point of value in integration is moving higher up the technology stack, and much more into the realms of the business.
• Ovum, Oracle Delivers Platform for Application and Process Integration (PDF)
  (Publication: May 2007)
  Oracle's AIA illustrates how the competition in the enterprise applications market is shifting from head-to-head face-offs of one vendor's application versus another's, to infrastructure-based offerings that provide easy integration of applications and support process flows across application silos and brands.
• Gartner, AIA Strengthens Applications Unlimited as a Viable Long-Term Strategy for Oracle Customers
  (Publication: April 2007)
• IDC, With Tangasol, Oracle Tackles Complexity Surrounding the Next Generation Data Center (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2007)
  IDC believes that this acquisition could be a real differentiator for Oracle as it drives more of its application portfolio to industry standard hardware, while helping to drive up platform utilization and take advantage multi-core based capacity.
• AMR, Oracle Application Integration Architecture: We Love It When a Plan Comes Together (PDF)
  (Publication: April 2007)
  The Application Integration Architecture will satisfy customer demands for integration of its acquired applications, while creating a gradual migration path to the future Fusion Applications. The Process Integration Packs combined with BPM tools will give customers an opportunity to implement cross-functional business processes and then create a unique competitive advantage on top of standard enterprise applications.
• Forrester Wave, Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2006 (PDF)
  (Publication: December 2006)
  This reports rates integration-centric BPM suite vendors across 85 criteria. Oracle is rated as a leader. See below report for a drill-down report on Oracle.
• Forrester Wave, Oracle Maintains a Leading Role in the IC-BPMS Market (PDF)
  (Publication: December 2006)
  Oracle has a comprehensive development roadmap that includes significant improvements in modeling, transformation, and repository capabilities.
• AMR, The Face of Oracle Apps: WebCenter Takes Center Stage (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2006)
  The vision is compelling, combining transactional, collaborative, and analytical modes of working into a single interface; rather than requiring users to jump back and forth between unintegrated enterprise, desktop, and web applications, each with its own look and behavior. Further, WebCenter gives developers complete control on how different elements are combined regardless of source, and allows interfaces to be personalized by business users at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
• Forrester, Oracle Makes Serious Move in Data Heterogeneity by Acquiring Sunopsis (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2006)
  Sunopsis' ability to connect a wide variety of data sources and targets will allow Oracle to address the heterogeneous data management environments its enterprise architect customers must contend with.
• Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services: The Next Big Thing in University Enterprise Computing (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: February 2006)
  This paper touts SOA and Web services as the next big thing in university enterprise computing, and highlights case studies from Oracle and PeopleSoft university customers.
• Summit, Oracle Fusion Architecture Eases the Adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: January 2006)
  Oracle's Fusion Middleware products perform the many functions necessary to support service-oriented architecture deployments, from service development through service management and optimization.

• Ovum, The Launch of Oracle 10g (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: Unknown)
  Ovum sees Oracle's 10g launch as a pragmatic, evolutionary step that plays to the challenges faced by today's CIO and hints at the potential for grids dedicated to business, constructed on simple clean lines reflecting the needs of business, as opposed to technology vendors.

• IDC, Enterprise Linux: How Oracle Differentiates Itself in a Commodity Market (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  Although several other organizations offer support services around Linux without offering a distribution directly, Oracle can offer a significant differentiation by integrating the support services for the operating system with support services for the Oracle database and/or for Oracle’s extensive applications suite.
• Forrester, Asia Pacific Customers Should Consider Oracle Red Hat Enterprise Linux Support (PDF)
  Distribution rights unknown (Publication: January 2007)
  All businesses running Red Hat Enterprise Linux are advised to explore Oracle's support.

• Forrester Wave: Identity And Access Management, Q1 2008 (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2008)
  Oracle emerges as the Leader with a solid portfolio of integrated products and a compelling, aggressive strategy with application-centric identity.
• IDC, Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source (PDF)
  (Publication: February 2008)
  Coupled with an industry-leading 19 independent security evaluations for the database alone, Oracle remains the choice for security-aware organizations.
• Echelon One, Security Criteria for Selecting a Database (PDF)
  (Publication: January 2008)
  The seven-point checklist of security criteria recommended here will help organizations make appropriate choices that lead to understanding a vendor's overall approach to security assurance.
• The Forrester Wave, Vendor Summary, Q4 2007: Oracle Is A Strong Performer In Enterprise Database Auditing; Tops Native DBMS Auditing (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2007)
  Oracle is a Strong Performer across the board in Forrester's evaluation, and tops the native DBMS auditing solutions. Oracle is the technology leader when it comes to databases, and Oracle gives database security and auditing the same level of commitment and focus as other database features.
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management, 2H07
  (Publication: October 2007)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 2H07
  (Publication: August 2007)
• IDC, Oracle Teams With Wipro to Provide Managed Identity Services (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  The Managed Identity Services offering is ideal for some organizations, enabling them to quickly onboard users across the organization and better ensure compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), PCI, and HIPAA.
• IDC, Oracle Getting To Who's Who In Identity and Access Management with Bharosa Buy (PDF)
  (Publication: July 2007)
  This acquisition beefs up Oracle's IAM capabilities and adds to its arsenal Bharosa's Virtual Authentication Devices and risk-based authentication capabilities.
• IDC, Silicon Image Demonstrates How SMBs Can Meet Compliance Demands with Oracle Identity Management (PDF)
  (Publication: January 2007)
  In this study, IDC profiles Silicon Image Inc., a leader in architecture and semiconductor implementations for the secure storage, distribution, and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing/display markets. The company is using IAM technology from Oracle Corp. to meet compliance regulations and increase security in an application-centric IAM environment.
• Butler, Customer Priorities in a Competitive Identity and Access Management Market Place (PDF)
  (Publication: November 2006)
  The report highlights the IAM benefits and compares Oracle's solution to Sun, CA, and IBM.

• Forrester, Understanding The End User Experience Helps Provide Better IT Services (PDF)
  (Publication February 2008)
  Oracle's dominance of the database and application market makes Enterprise Manager a potential leader in the APM space.
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Management Packs (PDF)
  (Publication February 2008)
  This study specifically examines the benefits of Oracle Diagnostic Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack for managing applications and Oracle databases. The report is useful for helping organizations estimate their own ROI an realize the benefits of Oracle Enterprise Manager including increased DBA productivity, reduced system downtime, and a reduction in capital spending on servers monitored by Oracle Enterprise Manager.
• Gartner, Oracle Strengthens Its Applications Management Capabilities
  (Publication: December 2007)
• Gartner, Oracle Delivers Virtualization on the Xen Hypervisor
  (Publication: November 2007)
• Forrester, The Forrester Wave: Appliance-Based End User Experience (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire June 2009 (Publication June 2007)
  Moniforce is a leader.
• Forrester, Moniforce Provides A World-Class End User Experience Monitoring Solution (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire June 2009 (Publication June 2007)
  Although Moniforce is a European vendor, it offers a world-class suite of Web application management solutions.
• Forrester, IT Operations And Systems Management: The Next Five Years (PDF)
  (Publication: October 2006)
  Understanding the components of an application or an IT service allows IT operations to be more efficient in their management of incidents, problems, and configurations, thus reducing either the number of potential problems or the resolution of infrastructure issues.
• Summit Strategies, A Business-Centric Approach to Application and Infrastructure Management (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: June 2006)
  To help IT get ahead of this complexity and extend IT's contribution to overall business value, Oracle has significantly enhanced Oracle Enterprise Manager and its flagship product Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control).