On December 6, 2007, Oracle announced it has acquired Moniforce, a leading software vendor in the end-user experience management space. The combination of Oracle and Moniforce is expected to strengthen Oracle Enterprise Manager application performance management capabilities with real end-user monitoring.

Moniforce is a pioneer in real end-user monitoring with customers across key industries including financial, retail and government. Its solution utilizes network protocol analysis technology, a non-intrusive, passive and secure approach to measuring real end-user experience that ensures no impact on application or network performance and requires no instrumentation on customer production applications and systems.

Moniforce’s technology will become part of Oracle Enterprise Manager, which provides a single, integrated management solution for comprehensive insight into business application performance and rapid problem resolution anywhere in the technology stack. By adding Moniforce’s real end-user monitoring capabilities to our existing proactive user monitoring, Oracle plans to provide a single solution with comprehensive application performance management capabilities, including end-user performance monitoring, business transaction analytics and integrated application diagnostics. The combined solution will help businesses gain more value from their applications because it helps to deliver a better customer experience by enabling application administrators to proactively detect and resolve end-user experience issues before they become emergencies. Customers can expect to get better return on their business application investments through improved overall business performance and lower cost of managing web applications

Oracle partners are expected to benefit from this acquisition because it will provide access to channel-ready, comprehensive end-user experience monitoring that meets the needs of customers running packaged and custom applications on both Oracle and non-Oracle infrastructures. Moniforce technology will expand your opportunities to offer solutions and services related to Oracle Enterprise Manager, and provide your customers with the ability to work with a single vendor to address their requirements for end-to-end application performance and diagnostics management.

We are excited about this acquisition and how it will enhance application performance management. To learn more about the combination of Moniforce and Oracle, please visit oracle.com/moniforce.

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