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  • Ovum, SWOT Assessment: Oracle WebCenter Content 11g (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire June 2014 (Publication: June 2013)
    "Oracle was relatively late to the ECM marketplace when it acquired Stellent in 2006. Since then it has built a strong ECM portfolio through continued investment and expansion of the platform."
  • Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management
    Distribution rights expire October 2013 (Publication: October 2012)
  • Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
    Distribution rights expire September 2013 (Publication: September 2012)
  • Forrester, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management, Q4 2011 (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire May 2013 (Publication: November 2011)
    "Forrester evaluated 16 products. Oracle is a Leader. Oracle ranks as Leader in all content technology segments due to its broad set of capabilities."
  • Nucleus Research, ROI Case Study: Oracle Imaging and Process Management - Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: August 2010)
    "Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University expanded its Oracle Imaging and Process Management (I/PM) and Oracle Distributed Document Capture (ODDC) deployment from student records and admissions to support management of invoices and expense reports, reducing costs while accelerating processes and increasing productivity. Nucleus Research estimates return on investment of 180% with a payback period of 7 months and average annual benefit of $521,375 over a three year period for Embry-Riddle."
  • Martin Butler Research, The Business Value of Enterprise Search 2009 (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: July 2009)
    Martin Butler Research expects information search to become a major issue in all organizations as the need to reduce information costs becomes a more pressing issue. As information sources proliferate, so the need to present a single search interface will become more important. Recent research on the benefits of knowledge sharing reveal that costs can quickly exceed benefits. Expect information search to become a much larger component in your organizations IT armory, and with it will come a need for constant awareness of cost and value.
  • Basex, Building Collaborative Business Environments: The Buzz on Oracle's Beehive (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: July 2009)
    Basex evaluates Oracle Beehive and concludes that it clearly has functionality to enable Collaborative Business Environment to help organizations realize significant enterprise productivity and efficiency gains. Basex recommends that organizations consider Oracle Beehive as a comprehensive collaboration solution alongside the more traditional products from IBM (Lotus Notes/Domino, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Sametime) and Microsoft (Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint and Office Communications Server.)
  • Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Content Management (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2008)
    Forrester Consulting completed a commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on behalf of Oracle on the City of Ottawa. The City of Ottawa is anticipating a return on investment of between 143% and 152% with Oracle's Enterprise Content Management. The benefit areas for realizing ROI come from reduced print cost, improved management of physical files, increase in productivity from content related processes, easier compliance with information retention regulations and improved citizen services.
  • Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Universal Content Management (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2007)
    Forrester Consulting completed a commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on behalf of Oracle on Emerson Process Management. Emerson was able to achieve a 177% risk-adjusted ROI and payback within 12 months of deployment of Oracle Universal Content Management. The benefit areas for realizing ROI came from reduced headcount for managing content, reduced print and mailing costs, reduced third-party vendor costs and improved operational efficiency with content-oriented processes and better control over brand consistency.

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GRID
  • Winter Corporation, Increasing the Manageability of the Oracle Grid (PDF)
    Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: September 2009)
    Oracle Database 11g Release 2 has made significant manageability improvements to Oracle RAC manageability. WinterCorp concludes that the number of steps required to install a four-node Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC cluster has decreased by 40% over Oracle Database 11g Release 1. For installing a software patch, 90% fewer steps are required.

JAVA
  • IDC, NetBeans IDC 7.3: An IDE for All Seasons (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire October 2014 (Publication: April 2013)
    "The NetBeans IDE 7.3 release brings a lot of new candy on top of plain old syntactic sugar to developers of multiple ecosystems."
  • IDC, Java: Two and a Half Years After the Acquisition (PDF)
    Distribution rights expire August 2013 (Publication August 2012)
    "Oracle has navigated most decisions with a deliberate and decisive approach that should inspire the community's confidence in Java's long-term prospects."

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