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Table of Contents
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 mobile
devices.
Oracle Audit Vault
Oracle Audit Vault is designed to reduce the cost and complexity of compliance reporting and 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
Oracle Audit Vault, security and database administrators can manage audit policies across their enterprise and
automatically collect audit data from Oracle and non-Oracle databases 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 family of application infrastructure products that forms a reliable and
scalable foundation on which customers can build, deploy, secure, access and integrate business applications
and automate their business processes. Oracle Fusion Middleware suites and products can be used in
conjunction with custom, packaged and composite applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware is available in
various products and suites, including the below functional areas:
• Application Server and Application Grid;
• Business Intelligence;
• Identity and Access Management;
• Content Management;
• Portal and User Interaction;
• Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management;
• Data Integration; and
• Development Tools
Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to protect customers’ IT investments and work with both Oracle and
non-Oracle database, middleware and applications products through its “hot-pluggable” architecture (which
enables customers to easily install and use Oracle Fusion Middleware products within their existing IT
environments) and adherence to industry standards such as Java EE (formerly J2EE) and Business Process
Execution Language (BPEL), among others.
By using Oracle Fusion Middleware, our customers increase their capacity to adapt to business changes
rapidly, reduce their risks related to security and compliance, increase user productivity and drive better
business decisions. Specifically, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to easily integrate
heterogeneous business applications, automate business processes, scale applications to meet customer
demand, simplify security and compliance, manage lifecycles of documents and get actionable, targeted
business intelligence, while continuing to utilize their existing IT systems. In addition, Oracle Fusion
Middleware supports multiple development languages and tools, which allows developers to build and deploy
web services, web sites, portals and web-based applications. Oracle’s Fusion Middleware is used to support
Oracle applications, other enterprise applications, independent software vendors that build their own custom
applications and business processes that span multiple application environments.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, June 29, 2009 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠