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Hardware and Software

Engineered to Work Together

Engineered Systems

Oracle's engineered systems are pre-integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of an organization's IT infrastructure while increasing productivity and performance.

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Engineered for Big Data

Oracle offers the broadest, most integrated product portfolio to help you acquire, organize, and analyze data—from blogs, social media, or sensors—and gain new insights.

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Data Center Transformation

Oracle provides solutions to help transform your data center, from best-of-breed components for custom deployments to engineered systems for turnkey deployments.

Engineered for the Cloud

Oracle offers a broad portfolio of software and hardware products and services for public, private, and hybrid clouds, enabling you to choose the right approach for your business.

Oracle Packaged Solutions

Oracle offers best-in-class packaged solutions for operational excellence that minimize risk, streamline business processes and reduce the cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure.

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Engineered for Innovation

Oracle Fusion Applications set a new standard by empowering people to drive innovation. These intuitive applications have embedded business intelligence and social networking.

Mobile Enterprise

Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile simplifies application development. You can write once and deploy to many platforms.

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Engineered for Insight

Oracle Business Intelligence solutions provide comprehensive business analytics designed for your role and responsibilities—and keep all your data in one place.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance

What's more key than focusing on compliance while reducing costs and risk? Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance is the business standard.

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Modernization

IT modernization supplements or replaces legacy applications and technology with newer, open options—while retaining existing business content.

Engineered for Industries

Oracle's industry solutions use our world-class portfolio to solve complex problems in your industry. The result is faster time to market, lower costs, and a competitive edge.

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Overview

Overcome Complexity; Unleash Innovation

Innovation and complexity are two critical topics on executives' minds. Innovation is what gives them a competitive edge; increased complexity is their greatest challenge. Complexity keeps organizations tied to systems that aren't as effective as they need to be and it stifles the ability of IT groups to support new ideas and gain a fresh perspective. So how can businesses unleash innovation? Watch the Slide Show.

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How Oracle Is Simplifying IT

Oracle is simplifying IT by engineering hardware and software to work together—from servers and storage to database and middleware to applications. The idea behind Oracle's integrated technology stack is that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. There are best-of-breed products throughout the stack, and every product and every layer of the technology stack is designed and engineered to work together. That's not all. Integrated solutions engineered for specific industries make delivering IT simpler. And when IT is simple, you can focus on business innovation. Watch the Slide Show.

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The Oracle Hardware and Software Stack

Applications		Featured Resources
Enterprise and Industry Applications More than 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete portfolio of enterprise and industry applications to achieve superior results. These enterprise applications include Oracle E-Business Suite; Oracle Fusion Applications; and PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World, Siebel CRM solutions. Oracle Applications provide a complete choice of on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid deployments, as well as a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances to extend business capabilities. Learn more about Enterprise Applications. Additionally, Oracle provides best-in-class solutions to address the unique problems faced by specific industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Financial Services, Healthcare, Public Sector, Retail, and many others. Learn more about Industry Applications.		White Paper: Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Keynote: Oracle Fusion Applications
Technology		Featured Resources
Middleware The middleware layer of the Oracle stack provides a software infrastructure for building, deploying, and scaling enterprise and Web applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation available today. Additional leading-edge middleware offerings include Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and the Java development platform. Learn more about Middleware. Database The database layer of the Oracle stack provides the grid infrastructure architecture that enables workload consolidation, higher scalability, and accelerated performance. Oracle Database is the world's #1 enterprise database, and that mastery continues with optimized engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata for large organizations, and Oracle Database Appliance for small and mid-size businesses. Learn more about Database.		Resource Center: Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications Resources Video: Oracle Exalogic—Do You Feel the Need? The Need for Speed? E-Book: Oracle Exadata Assesment Tool: Database Assessment for Midsize Businesses and Enterprise Departments Online Forum: Big Data
Systems		Featured Resources
Operating Systems The operating system (OS) layer provides the core for all layers in the Oracle stack. Oracle offers two world-class enterprise-grade operating systems. Oracle Solaris is fully optimized for the industry's two leading-edge architectures, SPARC and x86. With massive scalability, it delivers breakthrough availability, advanced security, efficiency, and performance to help businesses grow. Oracle Linux is the best Linux for enterprise needs, it is optimized for Oracle, and it is the only OS to offer zero downtime patching. Learn more about Operating Systems. Virtual Machine Oracle virtualization software goes far beyond simple consolidation, enabling businesses to virtualize and manage their full hardware and software stack. From the desktop to the data center Oracle's complete and integrated virtualization offerings increase efficiency, performance, security, and access. Learn more about Virtual Machine. Servers Oracle offers a complete portfolio of scalable, mission-critical servers engineered to deliver record-breaking performance, simplified management, and cost-saving efficiencies. Oracle servers, including the integrated apps-to-disk Oracle SPARC SuperCluster and Oracle Exadata Database Machine, are the ideal systems for Oracle and non-Oracle applications and solutions. Learn more about Servers. Storage The storage layer of the Oracle stack offers options including Sun FlashFire technology and ZFS storage appliances, as well as Oracle's StorageTek tape cartridges. Each option is designed to help you face the challenges of today's rigorous archiving requirements and unprecedented data growth. Oracle storage solutions accelerate databases and applications with higher transaction rates, shorter wait times, and more throughput. Learn more about Storage.		Online Forum: Oracle Solaris 11: What's New Since the Launch Assesment Tool: MySQL TCO Calculator Event: MySQL Innovation Day White Paper: The Most Complete and Integrated Virtualization: From Desktop to Data Center Video: The Value of Application-Aware Virtualization E-Book: Introducing the SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 E-Book: SPARC T4 Servers e-Book Guide: Server Virtualization for Dummies Guide E-Book: Oracle Storage Webcast: Oracle Storage Webcast Series Online Forum: Oracle Systems Webcast Center: Oracle Systems