Oracle Corporation - Enterprise Software

Oracle's business is information – how to manage it, use it, share it and protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organisations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.

After 30 years, Oracle remains the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world: the company is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. Oracle technology can be found in nearly every industry, and in the data centres of 98 of the Fortune 100 companies.

INTERNET-ENABLED ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100% internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, business applications, application development and decision-support tools.

Innovation drives Oracle's success: for example, we were one of the first companies to make our enterprise applications available through the internet – an idea that is now all-pervasive. With the release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle has begun debuting new products and functionality that reflect the company's goal; connecting all levels of enterprise technology to help customers access the knowledge they need to respond to market conditions with speed and agility.

Today, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle grid-computing, support for enterprise Linux and Oracle Fusion all fuel a commitment to innovation and results that has defined Oracle for 30 years.

OPEN-ARCHITECTURE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

Oracle unites the world's best enterprise software applications in an open architecture to provide:

• The most customer success
• The most complete offering
• The strongest strategic road map

Advantages of using Oracle and our enterprise software include:

• Gartner rated Oracle number one in CRM
• AMR Research rated Oracle as the number-one company in Supply-Chain Management (SCM) and human-capital management
• 37,000 customers have deployed our software
• We provide the most open, innovative and fast-growing application platform

ORACLE SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Oracle SCM is the complete, integrated solution that powers information-driven supply chains. With Oracle SCM, companies can predict market requirements, innovate in response to volatile market conditions, and align operations across global networks.

Oracle SCM provides industry-specific solutions based on best-in-class applications that span product development, demand management, sales and operations planning, transportation management, and supply management. Advantages include:

• Only Oracle provides the ability to sense, shape and fulfil demand with best-in-class demand management and real-time sales and operations planning
• Only Oracle provides best-in-class global transportation management and supply management
• Only Oracle supports lean, mixed mode manufacturing with integrated Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) that meet both discrete and process requirements
• Only Oracle's SCM applications are based on an open, complete and standards-based architecture
• Only Oracle delivers best-in-class capabilities including demand management, product design, analytics, and optimisation via strategic acquisitions including Demantra, Agile and 360Commerce

FUSION MIDDLEWARE SOFTWARE

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a pre-integrated portfolio of customer-proven software that spans from portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, and business intelligence. It is the industry's most comprehensive family of middleware, which enables organisations to:

• Increase their capacity for growth and change
• Improve insight into business operations
• Mitigate risk and drive compliance
• Connect with customers, partners, and workers

Oracle Fusion Middleware includes Oracle's comprehensive, best-in-class identity management to drive security and compliance. The industry's most comprehensive and integrated middleware, Oracle Fusion provides a clear path to service-oriented architecture.

ORACLE DATABASE GRID-COMPUTING

Oracle Database 11g delivers the benefits of grid computing with more self-management and automation, making it easier to:

• Change IT systems without risk using real application testing
• Partition and compress tables to store more data and run queries faster
• Securely protect and audit data, and enable total recall of data
• Integrate and manage the lifecycle of all enterprise information
• Run a business 24/7 with unique maximum availability architecture

According to IDC, is Oracle is the data warehouse market leader, while Gartner: rates Oracle as the number-one database, with a 47.1% market share in the year 2006. Oracle also holds world-record benchmark results on Windows, Linux and UNIX, and is the number-one database on Linux with more than 80% of the market share.