The Oracle Stack Advantage: the Benefits of an Integrated Product Stack
Too often, businesses using a combination of independently developed and supported products in their enterprise-wide application and database deployments grapple with high IT costs and complicated systems that fail to provide the information needed for critical business decisions. There is another way: The Oracle Stack Advantage, Oracle's integrated product stack approach.
With this innovative strategy, Oracle applications, including Oracle's Siebel, Peoplesoft, Oracle E-Business Suite, and JD Edwards software, are pre-integrated with Oracle Database and grid infrastructure to provide customers with a complete, integrated Oracle stack that offers better service and reduced system complexity. Total cost of ownership is lower because all the software is designed to work together, making it less complicated to manage.
Highest Quality of Service
Oracle's integrated product stack approach provides immediate service benefits to customers by delivering high availability and minimizing the impact to users if failures occur. Customers can upgrade the Oracle Database and grid infrastructure online, without incurring downtime. With built-in instrumentation, users can improve application performance and monitoring capabilities. Should failures occur, they would remain invisible to users thanks to features that quickly detect failures, transparently retry work, and automatically restart failed components. In future Oracle product releases, plans are being made to allow customers to upgrade applications online and transparently operate multiple versions of the same solution so users can gradually move to new versions without disrupting service.
Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
Enterprises always want to lower costs, and Oracle's integrated product stack strategy provides the lowest total cost of ownership, because it standardizes, centralizes and automates security and data management. Customers no longer have to struggle with redundant security and access controls. Instead, they can standardize on a single approach to data storage and retrieval. It is also easy to reduce development and maintenance costs because customers no longer have to support numerous skills sets required to manage multi-vendor solutions, and customers can take advantage of economies of scale with bundled pricing.
Reduced Complexity
Oracle's integrated product stack approach also simplifies IT management because the applications, Oracle Database, and the grid infrastructure are pre-integrated across the entire stack. Customers can easily leverage out-of-the-box configuration best practices, including intelligent resource management, as well as best-in-class security features, such as application-aware, fine-grained database security functionality. And should users need help, customer service is much less cumbersome with the integrated product stack strategy, thanks to a single point of contact for complete customer support.
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