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Oracle(R) Database 11g Helps Customers Innovate Faster
Latest Release of Oracle Database Enables Customers to Take Control of
July 11, 2007: 09:30 AM EST
NEW YORK,
July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part of the
launch of the next generation of its flagship product (see today's related
press releases from Oracle), Oracle announced that customers from a wide range
of industries across the globe have successfully completed the Oracle(R)
Database 11g beta program. The beta program participants evaluate the full
spectrum of Oracle Database 11g features including, among others,
manageability, performance and scalability, high availability, and security.
Colgate-Palmolive, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., PB (Parsons
Brinckerhoff), and several members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)
are among the Oracle Database 11g beta program participants.
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"Oracle continues to
lead the industry in enterprise software innovation," said Ari Kaplan,
president, IOUG. "This latest product launch from Oracle is based on
strategic input from many of the IOUG members. With the IOUG's
recent annual conference survey indicating that 35 percent of our conference
attendees plan on upgrading to Oracle Database 11g within the year of release,
we believe that this latest Oracle product will be successfully leveraged by
our community of enterprise customers."
Colgate-Palmolive Tests New
and Enhanced Database Manageability Capabilities
Colgate-Palmolive, a leading
global consumer products company, tightly focused on oral care, personal care,
home care and pet nutrition, concentrated on the manageability features
including Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor, Automatic SQL Tuning, Partitioning
Advisors and Real Application Testing.
"Three new features in
Oracle Database 11g that really jump out are Automatic SQL Tuning, Partition
Advisors, and Real Application Testing," said Arthur Fleiss, IT Architect,
Colgate-Palmolive. "Those three things alone are
reason enough to upgrade. They improve the reliability and performance of the
database, yet do not take loads and loads of the database administrators
time to implement."
Innovating Faster is Key for
Fidelity
Fidelity National
Information Services, Inc. is a leading provider of core financial institution
processing, card issuer and transaction processing services, mortgage loan
processing and related information products and outsourcing services to
financial institutions, retailers, mortgage lenders and real estate
professionals. In addition to examining manageability and high availability
features, Fidelity National Information Services also evaluated Oracle Real
Application Testing.
"Oracle Database 11g
Real Application Testing significantly increases the speed at which we are able
to innovate," said Mike Amble, senior vice president of operations and
engineering, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. "By helping to
identify key transactions, extrapolating partial workloads to production
workloads and automating multiple steps in the development process, Oracle
Database 11g's Real Application Testing collapses months of development and
testing into days. As a result, we can quickly deploy incremental changes to
our applications to gain a competitive advantage."
With millions of mortgage,
title and escrow documents stored as large objects (LOBs)
in its database, Fidelity also favors Oracle Database 11g because it can manage
structured and unstructured information in a cohesive way-securely and with
encryption capabilities.
PB Tackles Engineering and
Construction Projects with Oracle Database Spatial
PB (Parsons Brinckerhoff) is
a leader in developing and operating infrastructure around the world, with
10,500 employees dedicated to meeting the needs of clients and communities in
the
"Planning and managing
some of the world's largest and most complex engineering and construction
projects requires sophisticated spatial data management and analysis that can
be seamlessly integrated together with all of our design and project data and
incorporated into our business processes," said Tim Case, Geospatial
Services Leader, PB. "The 3D Spatial capabilities of Oracle Database 11g
will deliver a sophisticated set of spatial capabilities on a standards-based,
Web services architecture, which will enable us to perform transportation
modeling and construction simulation using information stored in a single
repository. This will help us manage increasingly high volumes of 3D laser
scanning and other spatial data, while easily integrating spatial information
into our business applications, helping to ensure our projects are completed on
time, on budget and at a quality level that is second to none."
"Our research indicates
that commercial databases are tripling in size about every two years,"
said Richard Winter, president of WinterCorp.
"To maintain the performance of these databases exploding in size,
enterprises should consider a comprehensive Information Lifecycle Management
(ILM) strategy. Oracle Database 11g's enhanced partitioning, data compression
and ILM capabilities meet these demands by enabling enterprises to more easily
manage storage and streamline business processes related to their growing
databases."
For more about what
customers are saying about Oracle Database 11g ,
please visit:
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/mediakit/database-11g-launch.html
About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only
database designed for grid computing. With the release of Oracle Database 11g,
Oracle is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever;
enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly.
Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability,
security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage
and servers. Oracle Database 11g is designed to be effectively deployed on
everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of
all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy,
cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 11g's unique ability to manage all
data from traditional business information to XML and 3D spatial information
makes it the ideal choice to power transaction processing, data warehousing,
and content management applications.
About Oracle
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largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit
our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.
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