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Table of Contents
Services Manager, Oracle Business Rules Engine, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, and Oracle
Enterprise Service Bus. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed and orchestrated into
composite applications and reconfigurable business processes, reducing development time and costs and
increasing flexibility and response time. Oracle SOA Suite is hot-pluggable, enabling customers to easily
extend and evolve their architectures instead of replacing existing investments.
Enterprise Content Management Suite
Oracle Enterprise Content Management suite provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to create, publish,
share, archive and retain documents, manage business process flows involving these documents as well as
manage information access rights to these documents. It supports an extensive set of document and image
formats.
Applications Software
Our applications strategy is designed to provide customers with a complete industry business process
automation footprint, supported by a robust, standards-based technology platform. Central to that strategy is
our commitment to offer our customers that purchase software license updates and support contracts a choice
as to when they wish to upgrade to any of our existing or future technology offerings. Until our customers
upgrade, we protect their investments in their applications by providing them lifetime support, product
enhancements and upgrades. New technologies such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Business
Intelligence Suite, and Oracle WebCenter Suite are designed to help our customers extend the benefits of their
investment in Oracle Applications, to reduce their investment risk, and to support their evolution to the next
generation of enterprise software that best fits their needs.
Our applications combine business functionality with innovative technologies such as role-based analytics,
secure search, identity management, self-service, and workflow to deliver business intelligence and insights,
adaptive industry processes, and a superior ownership experience. Our applications enable efficient
management of all core business functions, including customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise
performance management (EPM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and industry-specific applications.
Oracle applications are offered as integrated suites or available on a component basis, and all are built on
open architectures and are designed for flexible configuration and open, multi-vendor integration. Our
applications are available in multiple languages, and support a broad range of location specific requirements,
enabling companies to support both global and local business practices and legal requirements.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
We offer a complete set of CRM applications that manage all of the business processes and associated
systems that touch a customer, including: billing and delivery; sales solutions that provide a single repository
for customer and supply chain information; and service solutions that increase customer satisfaction by
providing visibility into customer billing and order information.
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
We offer a full spectrum of open, industry-specific analytic applications with capabilities such as enterprise
performance management, interactive dashboarding, and embedded analytic functionality for delivering
insight across the enterprise. Our Siebel business analytics solution is tailored to 20 industries, giving
customers the ability to monitor, analyze, and act upon intelligence while providing end-to-end visibility into
company operations and financial performance. With our acquisition of Hyperion in April 2007, we added
complementary products to Oracle’s business intelligence offerings, including a leading open enterprise
planning system, financial consolidation products, and a multi-source OLAP server. Our acquisition of
Hyperion enables us to offer our customers an integrated, end-to-end EPM system that spans planning,
consolidation, operational analytic applications, business intelligence tools, reporting, and data integration, all
on a unified business intelligence platform.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Companies use our ERP applications to automate and integrate a variety of their key global business
processes including manufacturing, order entry, accounts receivable and payable, general ledger, purchasing,
warehousing,
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, June 29, 2007 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠