Oracle 2009 Annual Report Download - page 10

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Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence is a comprehensive set of analytic products designed to provide customers with the information they need to make better business
decisions. Oracle’s Business Intelligence technology consists of Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive query and analysis server; Oracle Essbase,
an online analytical processing (OLAP) server; Oracle BI Publisher, a self-service production and operational reporting tool; and Oracle Real-Time Decisions, a
real-time data classification and optimization solution. Users can access these tools from a variety of user interfaces including browser-based interactive
dashboards; ad hoc query and analysis; proactive detection and alerts integrated with e-mail; Microsoft Office integration including support for Excel, Word, and
PowerPoint; and mobile analytics for mobile and smart phones.
Identity and Access Management
Oracle’s Identity and Access Management products are designed to enable customers to manage internal and external users, secure corporate information from
potential threats and streamline compliance initiatives while lowering the total cost of their security and compliance initiatives. Our offerings include a
lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory service to store and manage user identities and policies; identity provisioning to provision users and roles
in multiple enterprise applications and systems; access management to manage access control and entitlements for customers, partners, and employees; and
identity analytics products to audit and identify users attempting to access systems for which they are not authorized.
Content Management
Oracle’s Content Management Suite is an enterprise content management platform allowing users to capture, manage, and publish information that is either
unstructured, not easily readable or has not been stored, including documents, images, audio, video, and a wide variety of other forms of digital content. Our
Content Management Suite provides customers with a highly scalable document management repository; web content management to publish information to
websites and portals; digital asset management to manage and deliver digital content; imaging and process management to capture and process paper documents
and document related business processes; and records management to archive and retain documents and electronic records. Oracle Content Management is
integrated with business applications to automatically capture and process electronic and paper documents such as invoices, accounts receivable receipts, and
sales order documents from these applications.
Portals and User Interaction
Oracle WebCenter Suite is a standards-based enterprise portal product that enables external and employee users to efficiently find the information they need from
websites and business applications within the organization; to create collaborative websites, online workspaces, discussion forums, integrated real-time presence
and web conferencing to share information with others; and to use a variety of emerging technologies such as really simple syndication (RSS) feeds, tag clouds,
linking and search to personalize information delivery. Oracle WebCenter Suite can be used to build a variety of web-based systems including extranet websites,
intranet portals, task-oriented collaborative applications, and team communities.
Developer Tools
Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated software environment that is designed to facilitate rapid development of a variety of different types of applications using
Oracle Fusion Middleware and popular open source technologies. Oracle JDeveloper provides support for developing Java applications; web services, composite
SOA applications and business processes; rich user interfaces using AJAX/DHTML and Flash technologies; and websites using popular scripting languages.
Oracle JDeveloper also provides comprehensive application lifecycle management facilities including modeling, building, debugging, unit testing, profiling, and
optimizing applications and is integrated with the Oracle Application Development Framework, which provides a declarative framework for building business
applications, and popular open source tools including Eclipse and NetBeans.
We also offer a selection of products that are complementary to our database and middleware products, including Oracle Enterprise Manager.
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