Oracle Fusion Middleware: Leader in Middleware in Hong Kong
Overtakes Closest Competitor with
Triple-Digit Revenue Growth and Market Share Gains
Hong Kong , November 6, 2007 - Oracle today announced that it was ranked by Gartner as the fastest growing middleware vendor among the top three portal, process and middleware (PPMW) vendors in Hong Kong in 2006. In its recent study, "Market Share: Portal, Process and Middleware Software, Asia/Pacific and Japan, 2004-2006," Gartner reports that Oracle's PPMW software posted 245.1% revenue growth in Hong Kong in 2006 and more than doubled its market share while its two closest competitors lost share.(1)
In Asia Pacific, Oracle is the fastest growing PPMW vendor among the top three portal, process and middleware vendors in 2006, according to Gartner. With a worldwide growth rate of 45%, Gartner positioned Oracle as the fastest growing PPMW vendor, among the top five providers, in its Portal, Process and Middleware Software Market Share, Worldwide for 2006 report. (2)
Gartner's definition of the PPMW market segment includes general-purpose portal products, Business Process Management-enabling technologies, application integration and platform middleware.
A majority of the world's leading organizations use Oracle Fusion Middleware to run, secure, adapt and expand their businesses, including: 90 of the Fortune 100 companies and 29 of the 30 companies making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
"In Hong Kong, Oracle is gaining strong traction with customers,” said Leo Liang, Vice President of SOA Sales for Oracle Asia Pacific. "Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to solve their most critical business challenges while providing a clear path to Service-Oriented Architecture. Our commitment to delivering software that leverages the latest technical thinking, along with an open and hot-pluggable architecture, means our middleware customers in Hong Kong can benefit from a cost-effective offering to address their current and future needs.”
During Oracle's most recent fiscal year, Oracle enhanced a number of components of Oracle Fusion Middleware including Oracle Enterprise Content Management and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition through internal development and strategic acquisitions. It also delivered new products - Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, Oracle Communication and Mobility Server and Oracle Data Integrator - while expanding its Oracle Identity Management, Oracle SOA Suite and developer offerings, including Oracle JDeveloper. In addition to Oracle's acquisition of content management leader Stellent, the recently acquired Tangosol and Hyperion products round out advancements made to Oracle Fusion Middleware throughout 2007.
The definition and scope of middleware has changed significantly during the last three years in line with the need for greater flexibility, better information, productivity, and tighter controls. Comprehensive middleware offerings, such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, help deliver significant business benefits. With more than 50,000 customers, spanning the Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Transportation and Public Sector industries, Oracle Fusion Middleware helps organizations integrate their heterogeneous business systems, reduce total cost of ownership, and gain business insight that delivers competitive advantage. The product family's hot-pluggable and integrated architecture enables organizations to deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware in Oracle and non-Oracle computing environments.
Independent Industry Influencers Evaluate Oracle Fusion Middleware
Leading independent research firms have recognized Oracle Fusion Middleware, and its components, for market momentum and presence, features and functionality, and customer successes. Specifically, in its "Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007" report(i), Forrester Research recognized Oracle as a Leader across the board in its evaluation of application server platforms. In the July 2007 report, Forrester's Vice President John R. Rymer states, "This is the result of the broad range of development, deployment, and management features built into its Oracle Application Server and Oracle SOA Suite; its strong strategy; and its growing market presence."
Independent analyst firm Gartner positioned components of Oracle Fusion Middleware in the Leaders Quadrant for seven Magic Quadrants tracking the middleware market. These include Application Infrastructure(ii), Application Infrastructure for Composite Application Projects(iii), Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects(iv), Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Applications Projects(v), Business Intelligence Platforms(vi), Horizontal Portal Products(vii) and Web Access Management(viii).
Helping Oracle Applications Customers Extend Their Investments
With its hot-pluggable architecture, Oracle Fusion Middleware provides Oracle's applications customers with the foundation they need to extend the business value of their applications across user communities, lines of businesses and organization. The family of Oracle Fusion Middleware products is certified with Oracle Applications including the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Transportation Management, Oracle Retail, Oracle's Demantra and i-flex. In addition, leading ISVs are using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Applications with non-Oracle applications including 3i InfoTech, Ad Astra and Cerner.
Delivering Value to the Partner Ecosystem
Supported by 9,000 partners, including market leading independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers and system integrators, Oracle Fusion Middleware continues to deliver value to its network of partners. In January, Oracle announced that more than 20 ISVs were using Oracle Fusion Middleware to integrate with different components of the company's applications. More recently, Oracle and BearingPoint launched an employee "on-boarding" and "off-boarding" offering built on Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management. In June, Oracle doubled the number of partners participating in its Extended Identity Management Ecosystem.
About Oracle Fusion Middleware: Leader in Middleware
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware software spans portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables organizations to increase their capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance; and connect with customers, partners, and workers. More than 50,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including market-leading independent software vendors, value-added resellers and system integrators. For additional information visit: http://www.oracle.com/middleware.
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About the Magic Quadrants
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(1)Source: Gartner "Market Share: Portal, Process and Middleware Software, Asia/Pacific and Japan, 2004-2006”, Asheesh Raina, Joanne Correia, Michele Cantara, Fabrizio Biscotti, August 14, 2007
(2)Source: Gartner "Market Share: Portal, Process and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2004-2006”, Michele Cantara, Fabrizio Biscotti, Asheesh Raina, Joanne Correia, June 27, 2007
(i)"The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007"; John Rymer; July 11, 2007
(ii)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure, 2Q07"; Simon Hayward, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson, Yefim V. Natis; June 1, 2007
(iii)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Composite-Application Projects, 2Q07"; Massimo Pezzini, Michael Barnes, Kimihiko Iijima, David Gootzit, Yefim V. Natis, Daryl C. Plummer, Jess Thompson, Dale Vecchio, Janelle B. Hill, Simon Hayward; June 7, 2007
(iv)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, 2Q07"; Jess Thompson, Michael Barnes, Kimihiko Iijima, Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Roy W. Schulte, Simon Hayward; June 7 2007
(v)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07"; Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Michael Barnes, Daryl C. Plummer, Simon Hayward, May 31, 2007
(vi)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07"; Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann, Andreas Bitterer; January 26, 2007
(vii)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007"; Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes, David Gootzit; August 24, 2007
(viii)Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management, 2H06"; Ray Wagner; October 13, 2006
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