Oracle today also introduced a broad range of secure connectors from partners currently engaged in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative. Available today these connectors enable Oracle(r) Secure Enterprise Search 10g's secure crawling of popular data sources such as BusinessObjects Universes, EMC Documentum Content Server DocBases, FileNet Content Engine object stores, IBM Lotus Notes databases, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Open Text's Livelink ECM, among others.

Partners Benefit from Oracle Secure Search Initiative
Through the Oracle Secure Search Initiative, Oracle and its partners develop a wide-ranging set of secure connectors to help reduce the complexity and cost of searching across various third-party data repositories. Oracle's secure connectors allow users to find relevant information that reside in disparate data sources and applications, launching a single query from a single interface within Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, without the need for separately searching each individual application and repository.

Working closely with Oracle, partners can decrease costs associated with development efforts and reduce time-to-market for secure connectors. In addition to developing connectors for data sources, partners can also develop extensibility and usability connectors that deliver enhanced functionality such as categorization, entity extraction and visualization capabilities.

Partners participating in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative receive immediate access to Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g information and services such as APIs, documentation, guidelines, and training. The initiative supports multiple types of extensibility technologies including secure crawl, secure federation and secure suggested content.

Partners can view details and requirements for the Oracle Secure Search Initiative through the Oracle Technology Network portal at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/partner/index.html .

Oracle, Leading ISVs and SIs Build Secure Access to Wide-ranging Data Repositories
Leading ISVs and system integrators have joined the Oracle Secure Search Initiative including Business Objects, Clarabridge, HCL Technologies, Inxight Software, Kazeon, MphasiS (an EDS company), Open Text, and Siderean. Their participation in this initiative and commitment to build connectors enable Oracle Secure Enterprise 10g to securely access a broad range of data repositories as well as the ability to incorporate greater usability capabilities. Partners delivering connectors include:

* Business Objects - Connector enables the secure search of BI reports and metrics from both structured and unstructured data sources;

* Clarabridge - Connector enables the secure search of reports from Business Objects, Cognos and MicroStrategy and presents search results with all the BI reports together to ensure that the user finds the precise report desired, no matter what the underlying technology;

* HCL Technologies - Various connectors enable the secure search of content and file servers such as Documentum, FileNet, Microsoft Exchange and Open Text;

* Inxight Software - SmartDiscovery Awareness Server connector, powered by Inxight's ThingFinder entity extraction, clusters search results on-the-fly, enabling users to filter their Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g results sets by people, companies, places, concepts and other information contained within them;

* Kazeon - Provides fast, scalable indexing and searching of file systems, email, archives, and backup repositories empowering customers to access critical data across the enterprise to address the requirements of legal discovery, compliance, and information security. The integration between the Kazeon Information Server and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g delivers unified search across all enterprise data sources; and,

* Siderean - Connector enables relational navigation to unify discovery, access and participation across internal and external information sources.

About Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g gives users rapid access to enterprise information while enabling users to enforce corporate security policies. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g indexes and searches public, private and shared content across internal and external Web sites, databases, file servers, document repositories, mail servers, enterprise content management systems, applications and portals. Its user-friendly Web interfaces return highly relevant results with rapid response times. For more information about Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, go to: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses .

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ISV and SI Partner Quote Sheet

Business Objects
"Business Objects and Oracle are both committed to helping customers unlock the power of information found in their extended enterprise," said Herve Couturier, senior vice president of product development at Business Objects. "By connecting our BI platform with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, joint customers will be able to quickly and securely find actionable information, including business intelligence reports and metrics, from both structured and unstructured data sources."

Clarabridge
"Oracle's inclusion of Clarabridge's BI connectors in Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g allows customers a direct and flexible, yet secure way to find relevant content and reports in their varied enterprise and departmental BI deployments," said Justin Langseth, president and Chief Technical Officer of Clarabridge. "Our participation in the Oracle Secure Search Initiative creates the ability to combine structured BI reports and unstructured information for decision making within familiar Oracle products."

HCL Technologies
"HCL is committed to building solutions and frameworks that will enable more efficient information dissemination across organizations. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g will usher in a new generation of compliance management and collaboration solutions," stated Sandeep Kishore, Senior Vice President, HCL Technologies. "By leveraging connectors to various content management repositories, enterprises will be able to effectively implement and control policies while making better use of their existing IT investments."

Inxight Software
"Inxight is happy to be part of the Oracle Secure Search Initiative," said Ian Hersey, senior vice president for corporate development and strategy, Inxight Software. "Our new Awareness Server for Oracle will save users time and money, providing secure access to Oracle Applications and external Web sources -- all with just a single query."

Kazeon
"The partnership between Oracle and Kazeon will help our customers solve the growing business challenge of finding information scattered across the enterprise in support of applications such as legal discovery, compliance, and information security," said Alex Kushnir, Founder and Vice President of Business Development, for Kazeon. "The integration between Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g and our Information Server delivers a unique solution for customers that need to search the enterprise."

MphasiS
"Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g plugs an important void in the comprehensive security architecture we implement for our Fortune 500 client base," said Jeroen Tas, Vice Chairman, MphasiS. "With Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, large companies can help ensure effective knowledge dissemination to the employees and partners in a controlled manner. We believe this is imperative for knowledge intensive industries like Finance and Healthcare as well as innovation intensive product companies, and we look forward to helping them in their implementation of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g."

Siderean
"With Seamark for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, users can have a bugs-eye view rather than a birds-view of enterprise information, tumbling across results on previously impossible data paths," said Michael Schmitt, President and CEO of Siderean. "The end result is a breakthrough discovery process that will greatly enhance the accuracy of information access."