Infrastructure

Oracle has rights to distribute these reports in their entirety. Using quotes—in press releases, marketing or sales collateral—still requires prior approval from the analyst firms. Contact the Analyst Relations Manager for your area for assistance with securing quote approvals. NOTE: The Gartner-hosted links work best when viewed with Internet Explorer.

• Ovum, Oracle advances its Advanced Analytics strategy (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2013 (Publication: March 2012)
  "The new offering is a conscious effort to enhance Oracle's analytics arsenal as well as sharpen its focus on Big Data analytics. It is also an attempt to put Oracle (through R) on the data scientists' radar."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platform
  Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication February 2012)
• IDC, Oracle Real-Time Decisions at Dell: Decision Management in Practice (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
  "The CRM team at Dell saw positive results shortly after the implementation of Oracle RTD."
• Ovum, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine: Engineered for Speed-of-Thought Analytics (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Oracle Exalytics reflects several technical trends in analytics today—in-memory, parallel database processing, and self-serve business intelligence (BI). These are converging to enable what Oracle calls "speed-of-thought" analytics, which Oracle markets and sells as a standalone appliance. However, Ovum believes Oracle Exalytics works best if paired with the company's Exadata Database Machine and its new Oracle Big Data Appliance."
• IDC, Energy Insights: Best Practices: Portugal's Way of Driving Electric Mobility - The MOBI.E Project (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Portugal's decision to take a national approach to the deployment of an electric mobility infrastructure is unique in its kind."
• MWD Advisors, Vendor Insight Customer analytics vendor profile: Oracle Real-Time Decisions (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD) combines data and business rules with self-learning predictive models to help organisations automate and optimise high volume operational decisions. In contrast to other popular approaches to implementing predictive analytics, RTD focuses on learning from each interaction and using these insights to adjust what is presented, offered or displayed to a customer."
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Real-Time Decisions (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: July 2011)
• Gartner, BI Platforms User Survey, 2011: Customers Rate Their BI Platform Vendor Cost of Ownership
  Distribution rights expire April 2012 (Publication: April 2011)
• 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.

• IDC, Oracle Debuts New Release of Oracle WebCenter Sites: Ease of Authoring, Social, and Targeting (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: May 2012)
  "With the acquisition of FatWire, Oracle made it clear that it intends to compete aggressively for Web experience management opportunities."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
• Forrester, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management, Q4 2011 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2013 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Forrester evaluated 16 products. Oracle ia a Leader. "Oracle ranks as Leader in all content technology segments due to its broad set of capabilities."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
• 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.

• Forrester, The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Real Application Testing (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2012)
• Ovum, Oracle advances its Advanced Analytics strategy (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2013 (Publication: March 2012)
  "The new offering is a conscious effort to enhance Oracle's analytics arsenal as well as sharpen its focus on Big Data analytics. It is also an attempt to put Oracle (through R) on the data scientists' radar."
• IDC, Oracle's All-Out Assault on the Big Data Market: Offering Hadoop, R, Cubes, and Scalable IMDB in Familiar Packages (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication: February 2012)
  "Oracle's comprehensiveness in approaching both the Big Data landscape overall and how the products fit together represents a formidable challenge to any vendor hoping to offer end-to-end business oriented Big Data solutions."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
  Distribution rights expire August 2013 (Publication: February 2012)
• Enterprise Strategy Group, Proven Value with the Oracle Database Appliance (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication: February 2012)
  "As a result of implementing the Oracle Database Appliance, the experience [of CallSource] with the tools and features were met and exceeded the expectations of the organization, both in cost savings and in better overall use of IT manpower."
• Ovum, Oracle mainstreams its Hadoop platform with Cloudera OEM deal (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire January 2013 (Publication: January 2012)
  "Clearly, Oracle's release of Oracle Big Data Appliance signifies a full commitment to Hadoop as a first-class citizen of the Oracle data platform."
• Winter Corporation, Big Data: Business Opportunities, Requirements, and Oracle's Approach (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: December 2011)
  "Oracle Big Data Appliance - in connection with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine - offers a new route for Oracle customers to leverage the business opportunities associated with "Big Data"."
• IDC, Maximizing Your Investment in Oracle Applications Software: The Case for Migrating to Oracle Database 11g (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "The reasons for upgrading to Oracle Database 11g are urgent and compelling. Its newer features and internal improvements effectively enable customers to address the mounting pressures on data management along three key dimensions": (i) Sheer database performance, reliability, and recoverability; (ii) Security, traceability, and retained data efficiencies; and (iii) Manageability."
• Nucleus Research, Oracle Database Appliance: High-Availability for the Mid-Market (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
  "The Oracle Database Appliance brings enterprise-class performance within their reach with an approachable price tag, simplicity, and flexibility. Partners that want to accelerate sales and delivery of applications to their customers are likely to benefit from the appliance as well."
• IDC, Energy Insights: Best Practices: Portugal's Way of Driving Electric Mobility - The MOBI.E Project (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "Portugal's decision to take a national approach to the deployment of an electric mobility infrastructure is unique in its kind."
• Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle ASM: A Frontrunner in Storage Management Solutions (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
  "Any technology that introduces simplified management and automation in support of data governance best practices - such the Automatic Storage Management (ASM) feature available in Oracle Database 11g--should be considered as a core enabler to address storage capacity management challenges"
• IDC, Oracle Builds Out Its Line of Engineered Systems (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "...Oracle reached an 18-month watershed at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, showing a family of engineered systems brought to market since it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010. [...] This is a strategy and approach to the business that will likely lead to a number of new reference architectures, and to an expanded series of engineered systems by 2012, IDC believes."
• Enterprise Strategy Group, Oracle Database Appliance: A Simple, Economical Option for SMBs and Independent Software Vendors (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "Oracle recently announced the Oracle Database Appliance, which offers small and mid-sized organizations a rapidly deployable, highly available platform at an affordable cost. With this new offering, Oracle's Engineered Systems family becomes more complete, with Oracle Exadata Database Machine supporting the needs of larger enterprises and Oracle Database Appliance supporting SMBs, departmental applications, and independent software vendors (ISVs)."
• Ovum, Oracle OpenWorld unveils an increasingly powerful portfolio (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire April 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "Oracle OpenWorld 2011 was no exception, with a number of major product releases highlighting that Oracle continues to relentlessly develop and innovate across its broad portfolio of hardware, database, middleware, and applications. However, more importantly, it is in combining these assets that Oracle is able to leverage significant added value for customers. Ovum believes the key message from 2011's Oracle OpenWorld is that the company is accelerating this process and, in doing so, is enhancing its strategic position in the enterprise IT market."
• Ovum, Oracle Applies for Database Simplicity (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "Ovum believes that this system [Oracle Database Appliance] will suit existing Oracle customers with mid-sized database deployments that are looking for consolidation options that will reduce management complexity."
• IDC, IDC Retail Insights, Best Practices: Faster Data Processing Supports Bokwang Familymart Expansion (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire August 2012 (Publication: February 2011)
  "Following the implementation of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Bokwang Familymart achieved significant improvements in its stock ordering process and also a relevant reduction of IT costs."
• Gartner, Oracle Exadata Database Machine Deployments Meet Expectations and Drive Interest
  Distribution rights expire June 2012 (Publication: June 2011)
• Forrester, Oracle Exadata Raises The Bar On Database Appliances (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2012 (Publication: May 2011)
  "Oracle customers looking for extreme performance, improved database availability, or a consolidation platform should consider Oracle Exadata."
• Gartner, Case Study: Database integration by Hokuriku Coca-Cola using a database appliance (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2012 (Publication: May 2010)
• Gartner, Introducing the Technology Dependency Matrix for Fabric-Based Infrastructure
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: April 2011)
• ESG, Oracle Storage: A Force to be Reckoned With? (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2011)
  "Oracle is getting increasingly active in the storage business and it looks to have the desire, resources, and products to become more of a factor in the overall marketplace. Although a non-traditional player in this space, its Sun/StorageTek acquisition, combined with its traditional areas of strength, are creating an opportunity for it to be a disruptive (i.e., successful) element."
• IDC, BNP Paribas Deploys Oracle Exadata to Accelerate Information Processing: The Hardware Perspective (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire April 2012 (Publication: April 2011)
  "Overall, BNP Paribas reported significant benefits in the additional features that the new system enabled. Oracle Exadata was not primarily selected as a way to lower costs or increase efficiency, but rather as an instrument to empower both database administrators and, more importantly, end users, to achieve more in their daily jobs analyzing structured data. Scalability has also been mentioned by the IT department as an advantage of the new architecture."
• IDC, Is Oracle the Apple of the Enterprise? (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2012 (Publication: March 2011)
  "If Oracle replicates its success with Exadata with the more recent Exalogic, then this is a company that is clearly going to change many of the market's current preconceptions."
• ESG, Oracle Database 11g Helps Control Exponential Database Growth (PDF)
  (Publication: March 2010)
  ESG customer surveys reveal that “managing data growth” is consistently a top concern. This whitepaper discusses the various features of the Oracle Database that assist with managing data including ASM, Advanced Data Compression, Data Guard, and Partitioning.
• 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.

• IDC, Oracle Debuts New Release of Oracle WebCenter Sites: Ease of Authoring, Social, and Targeting (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: May 2012)
  "With the acquisition of FatWire, Oracle made it clear that it intends to compete aggressively for Web experience management opportunities."
• Gartner, Market Insight: Next-Generation Service Delivery Platform Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2012
  Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication: February 2012)
• Gartner, Customers Rate Their Satisfaction with Data Quality Tools Vendors
  Distribution rights expire August 2012 (Publication January 2012)
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact Study Of Oracle Data Integrator (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: January 2012)
  "Forrester Consulting completed a commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on behalf of Oracle on a large global system for mobile communications (GSM) operator that operates in eight countries across Eastern Europe. This company was able to achieve a 167% risk-adjusted ROI and payback within 6.9 months of deployment of Oracle Data Integrator."
• MWD Advisors, Best Practice Insight: Maersk Line BPM Case Study (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire February 2013 (Publication: December 2011)
  "This case study details the extensive BPM program to transform core operational business processes within Maersk Line, the world's largest ocean shipping carrier. "Implement six core operational business processes using BPM technology across Global Service Centres (GSCs) and local offices, with the aim of driving standardization of work, reducing reliance on email for process communication and collaboration, and improving the efficiency of very large enterprise-wide processes."
• IDC Health Insights, Perspective document, "Perspective: Oracle OpenWorld 2011 - The Building Blocks for Accountable Care (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire July 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
  "Oracle's core capabilities in the areas of information management, business intelligence, and analytics, combined with proven CRM tools, will serve Oracle's customers well as they evolve toward more accountable and collaborative care model."
• Ovum, Oracle BPM Process Accelerators are ripe for deployment (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
  "Ovum believes that the announcement has promise for Oracle's BPM customers and prospects, and is also good news for the broader BPM industry."
• Ovum, Oracle WebLogic Server 12c spotlights the cloud (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
  "By assigning the suffix "c" to its branding, Oracle is declaring that the dominant theme for the next generation of Oracle Fusion Middleware will be support for the cloud."
• MWD Advisors, Best Practice Insight: BPM Case Study: Competency Center in a large Swiss bank (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
  "The bank's Workflow Competency Centre provides a range of services to project teams across the company, centred around the concept of a bundled 'platform' of configured technology and associated services and best practice guidance. It maintains a close working relationship with key personnel from the bank's strategic BPM technology provider, which among other things helps the Workflow Competency Centre get advance notice of new and potential BPM projects."
• Gartner, Oracle's Strategy for Identity & Access Management
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
• IDC, Oracle Builds Out Its Line of Engineered Systems (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "...Oracle reached an 18-month watershed at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, showing a family of engineered systems brought to market since it acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010. [...] This is a strategy and approach to the business that will likely lead to a number of new reference architectures, and to an expanded series of engineered systems by 2012, IDC believes."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
• Ovum, Oracle OpenWorld unveils an increasingly powerful portfolio (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire April 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "Oracle OpenWorld 2011 was no exception, with a number of major product releases highlighting that Oracle continues to relentlessly develop and innovate across its broad portfolio of hardware, database, middleware, and applications. However, more importantly, it is in combining these assets that Oracle is able to leverage significant added value for customers. Ovum believes the key message from 2011's Oracle OpenWorld is that the company is accelerating this process and, in doing so, is enhancing its strategic position in the enterprise IT market."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
• Gartner, SWOT: Oracle, Data Integration Tools, Worldwide
  Distribution rights expire September 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers
  Distribution rights expire September 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
• IDC, IDC Government Insights: Best Practices: A Prove IT Case Study--The City of Las Vegas Enables Better Business Decisions (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire August 2012 (Publication: July 2011)
  "The city of Las Vegas has successfully integrated business process applications as well as government-specific applications to better serve citizens and improve employee productivity. The additional steps that the city took to successfully implement this transformation include a vision of the future that is widely shared by city employees and a governance structure that was designed for optimum communications, enablement, review, and leadership."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools
  Distribution rights expire September 2012 (Publication: July 2011)
• IDC, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire July 2012 (Publication: June 2011)
  "Oracle was named a leader in this IDC MarketScape because of its technical functionality as a platform, sophisticated user interface, business functionality in its process layer, and business execution capabilities. We believe Oracle is a very strong option for enterprises investing strategically in BPM automation technology."
• Gartner, Introducing the Technology Dependency Matrix for Fabric-Based Infrastructure
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: April 2011)
• Forrester, The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: April 2011)
  "Forrester evaluated nine commercial and open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors across 109-criteria. Oracle is a Leader. "Oracle provides an industrial-strength ESB product."
• Gartner, Understanding and Measuring the Business Value of SOA
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: March 2011)
• IDC, Is Oracle the Apple of the Enterprise? (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2012 (Publication: March 2011)
  "If Oracle replicates its success with Exadata with the more recent Exalogic, then this is a company that is clearly going to change many of the market's current preconceptions."
• Gartner, Case Study: Challenges faced by Rakuten in achieving performance improvement and flexible architecture using DCP (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire May 2012 (Publication: January 2011)
• MWD Advisors, BPM Vendor Capability Comparison, 1H10 (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication April 2010)
  "Oracle is a Leader in MWD Advisor's latest vendor comparison of BPM vendors with Oracle BPM Suite 11g."
• MWD Advisors, BPM Vendor Capability Assessment, Oracle (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication April 2010)
  "Our assessment is that it's not too strong to say that in putting Oracle BPM Suite 11g R1 together, Oracle has made a lot of smart decisions to take the best of its new and existing assets and combine them. The Oracle BPM Suite now represents a very strong proposition indeed." Use this research note in conjunction with the BPM Vendor Capability Comparison, 1H10."

• 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.

• Ovum, Java relevance continues as Java 7 launches (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire August 2012 (Publication: July 2011)
  The outlook for enterprise server-side Java remains as strong as before, but the situation on the client side, including web and mobile, is less clear. The options are currently too fragmented—an issue the Java community needs to put right.

• Kuppinger Cole, Product Research Note: Oracle Database Firewall (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire March 2013 (Publication: March 2012)
  "Unlike most other products in that area, Oracle Database Firewall accurately analyzes database activity traffic over the network with very little latency and thus is able to intercept and prevent unauthorized database activities."
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning
  Distribution rights expire January 2013 (Publication: December 2011)
• Formulate a Database Security Strategy to Ensure Investments Will Actually Prevent Data Breaches and Satisfy Regulatory Requirements (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: January 2012)
  According to this commissioned study, many enterprises lack a comprehensive database security strategy and/or tend to focus on detective controls rather than preventive measures. Enterprises that implemented a comprehensive and integrated database security solution with a strong emphasis on preventive measures improved their security controls while delivering a higher degree of automation across the enterprise.
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance
  Distribution rights expire December 2012 (Publication: December 2011)
• Gartner, MarketScope for Web Access Management
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
• Gartner, Oracle's Strategy for Identity & Access Management
  Distribution rights expire November 2012 (Publication: November 2011)
• Gartner, MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-On
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: September 2011)

• Forrester, The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Real Application Testing (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: April 2012)
• IDC, Oracle: Maturing Its Position in x86 System Software (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire June 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  "Oracle's conference provided a waypoint that highlights how the system software layers are becoming an increasingly integral and integrated part of Oracle's larger software ecosystem."
• IDC, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Embraces the Cloud with Integrated Lifecycle Management (PDF)
  Distribution rights expire October 2012 (Publication: October 2011)
  Oracle is to be given kudos for raising the bar and actively including mission critical database, middleware and application self service provisioning and dynamic scaling in the corporate cloud management discussion.
• Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
  Distribution rights expire September 2012 (Publication: September 2011)
• IDC, Oracle Reaches for Quality Acquisition with e-TEST Suite (PDF)
  (Publication March 2008)
  Oracle's acquisition of the e-TEST Suite assets from Emperix is a step towards addressing the software lifecycle needs of its users. The e-TEST Suite includes e-Load for scalability, performance and load-testing while e-Tester delivers functional and regression testing.
• Forrester, Understanding The End User Experience Helps Provide Better IT Services (PDF)
  (Publication February 2008)
  Oracle's dominance of the database and application market makes Enterprise Manager a potential leader in the APM space.
• Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Management Packs (PDF)
  Distribution rights do not expire (Publication: February 2008)
  This study specifically examines the benefits of Oracle Diagnostic Pack and Oracle Tuning Pack for managing applications and Oracle databases. The report is useful for helping organizations estimate their own ROI an realize the benefits of Oracle Enterprise Manager including increased DBA productivity, reduced system downtime, and a reduction in capital spending on servers monitored by Oracle Enterprise Manager.