Oracle Database 10g Release 2 features increased availability, manageability, performance and security capabilities to assist customers and partners achieve a higher quality of service while helping to reduce the cost and complexity of information management. Beta program participants previewed enhancements to Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Real Application Clusters, as well as new features such as Oracle Secure Backup and Oracle XML Query.

Partners Benefit from Broad Range of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Capabilities
Cerebra is the leading provider of standards-based, enterprise-ready, semantic technologies. Cerebra leverages the W3C standard Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) to dramatically improve the way vocabulary, data, process, policy, and Web services interoperability are accomplished.

"As an Oracle partner, I am very excited about Oracle Database 10g Release 2," said Jeff Pollock, vice president, Technology, Cerebra. "The new RDF capabilities in Oracle Spatial bring enterprise-class scalability and performance to graph databases. Cerebra will work with Oracle to apply these strengths for joint customers using semantic technologies to enable the real-time adaptive enterprise."

InforSense is the leading supplier of integrative analytics infrastructure to support effective decision-making across the life science, healthcare and business domains. InforSense has collaborated closely with Oracle in testing and integrating the business intelligence and analytic capabilities of both releases of Oracle Database 10g.

"InforSense's technology is tightly coupled with Oracle technology," said Professor Yike Guo, CEO and founder, InforSense. "We welcome the new analytics in Oracle Database 10g Release 2, such as decision trees, providing our joint customers with a comprehensive choice of in-database processing capabilities for enterprise-wide integrative analytics."

A partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is best known for its broad array of products that capture data efficiently, reference imagery accurately, measure quickly, analyze easily, and present spatial information, even in 3D. Leica Geosystems has worked closely with Oracle to deliver unique and powerful spatial technology solutions.

"With Oracle Database 10g Release 2, Oracle now has the critical capability to store and operate against compressed geospatial raster data improving performance, helping to reduce storage and maximizing network resources," said Jim Farley, vice president, Business Development, Leica Geosystems. "This means lower costs for our customers in defense, national mapping and local applications in planning and Homeland Security among others."

Siderean Software provides navigation software that automatically organizes all digital information – structured and unstructured – into intuitive groupings that permit users to rapidly grasp the scope of what's available and to pinpoint precisely what they require. As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Siderean has worked closely with Oracle to deliver unique and powerful information aggregation and navigation technology.

"The future of information navigation will enable enterprises to access both structured and unstructured data seamlessly to find the exact information they need," said Bradley P. Allen, CTO and founder, Siderean Software. "The support of the RDF Data Model in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is a major step toward this vision. Combined with Siderean's Seamark Navigation Server, customers can now deliver a new generation of applications, where users navigate uniformly through all digital information, leveraging the inter-relationships of content to pinpoint results."

Tom Sawyer Software produces graph visualization, layout, and analysis component software that is designed for use by application developers. Tom Sawyer enables customers to reduce their development expenses significantly, shorten product cycles and add substantial new value to their applications.

"As a provider of products for the visualization of complex relationships, our experience shows that the database representation of data relationships as graphs is critical for accessing connectivity information," said Brendan Madden, CEO, Tom Sawyer Software. "We used the Oracle Network Data Model in Oracle Database's latest release for an application that is dedicated to the representation of large biological pathways and found that it greatly reduced our implementation effort and enabled a high level of performance."

About Oracle Database 10g
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