According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leader's Quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

"New industry trends such as regulatory compliance continue to fuel the growth of the volume of data businesses are required to manage and store," said Ray Roccaforte, vice president of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Oracle. "Businesses are looking to make better use of data that is spread across their many systems. Oracle(r) Warehouse Builder 10g enables the transformation and consolidation of that data into actionable information."

Oracle's combined strengths in data warehousing and ETL provide customers with a comprehensive platform to efficiently and cost effectively develop, deploy and manage highly scalable decision support systems. Demand for business intelligence solutions has fueled ETL tool adoption such as Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g -- which reads data from various data sources, extracts the desired data, transforms it into the required form according to user-defined data and process flows, and then automatically builds out the infrastructure for reporting and analytic requirements.

About Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g
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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 11, 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Extraction, Transformation and Loading, 1H05, by Ted Friedman, Bill Gassman, May 11, 2005.