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Table of Contents
• Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise and Data Quality Options, which help customers design, build and
populate data warehouses with reliable, quality information from a variety of legacy repositories; and
• Oracle In-Memory Database Cache, a new option that improves application performance by caching or storing
performance critical parts of Oracle Database in the main memory of the application tier.
In addition to the four editions of Oracle Database, Oracle also offers a selection of specialized databases:
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a memory-optimized relational database that delivers low
latency and high throughput for applications requiring real-time performance;
• Oracle Berkeley DB, which is a family of open source, embeddable, non-relational databases that allows
developers to incorporate a fast, scalable and reliable database engine within their applications; and
• Oracle Database Lite, which is a comprehensive solution for developing, deploying and managing applications
for mobile and embedded environments. It consists of a small footprint relational database that runs on many
devices and platforms, a mobile server that synchronizes data between the mobile devices and Oracle Database,
and mobile application development tools.
We also offer products that are complementary to our database product offerings, including Oracle Enterprise
Manager and Oracle Audit Vault.
Enterprise Manager
Oracle Enterprise Manager is designed to deliver top-down applications and software infrastructure management.
Our customers use Oracle Enterprise Manager to monitor and manage their applications and underlying software
infrastructure, including both Oracle and non-Oracle infrastructure products. Oracle Enterprise Manager can be used
to manage packaged applications, such as Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite or custom applications
including Service-Oriented Architecture applications. In addition to managing Oracle software infrastructure
products including the Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager also supports our
recently acquired BEA Web Logic Server middleware product and other third-party infrastructure products.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is designed to monitor service levels and performance, automate tasks, manage
configuration information, and provide change management in a unified way across groups of computers or grids.
Oracle Enterprise Manager’s provisioning automates the discovery, tracking and scheduling of software patches and
allows IT administrators to apply patches without taking their system down. Additionally, IT administrators can
manage systems from anywhere through an HTML browser or through wireless PDAs.
Audit Vault
Oracle Audit Vault reduces the cost and complexity of compliance reporting and of detection of unauthorized
activities by automating the collection and consolidation of enterprise audit data. Oracle Database provides one of the
most advanced auditing capabilities of any database management system. With Audit Vault, security and database
administrators can manage audit policies across their enterprise and automatically collect audit data into a
centralized, tamper resistant repository. This secure repository is built on Oracle’s scalable architecture to allow
retention and aggregation of terabytes of audit data for analysis and reporting. Audit Vault analyzes audit data in
real-time based upon enterprise defined policies, issues alerts for unauthorized activities, and provides built-in reports
for demonstrating the IT controls required to comply with internal control assessments, including provisions of the
U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other data privacy and protection regulations.
Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a broad product family that forms a reliable and scalable foundation on which
customers can build, deploy and integrate business applications and automate their business processes. Oracle Fusion
Middleware includes:
• Oracle Application Server;
• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite;
• Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite;
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, July 02, 2008 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠