Oracle 2012 Annual Report Download - page 13

Download and view the complete annual report

Please find page 13 of the 2012 Oracle annual report below. You can navigate through the pages in the report by either clicking on the pages listed below, or by using the keyword search tool below to find specific information within the annual report.

Page out of 140

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
  • 131
  • 132
  • 133
  • 134
  • 135
  • 136
  • 137
  • 138
  • 139
  • 140

which increases application reliability, performance, security and scalability. In addition to Oracle WebLogic,
Oracle combines cloud infrastructure components into the Oracle cloud application foundation, including Oracle
Virtual Assembly Builder, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, Oracle Tuxedo and Oracle GlassFish Server.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder works with Oracle WebLogic Server to increase the efficiency of application
virtualization and to enable users to quickly and easily design and deploy multi-tier applications to virtualized IT
environments, both conventional and cloud. Oracle Coherence is an in-memory data grid solution that enables
organizations to predictably scale applications by providing fast and reliable access to frequently used data.
Oracle JRockit is a high performance Java Virtual Machine designed to run Java applications on multi-core
processors with higher and more predictable performance. Oracle Tuxedo runs legacy, mainframe and non-Java
applications written in the C, C++ and COBOL languages that have transaction reliability, scalability and
performance requirements. Oracle GlassFish Server enhances the value of Oracle Fusion Middleware software
for developers by accelerating development practices and decreasing application time-to-market.
Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management
Service-Oriented Architecture is a software development and architecture methodology that creates a modular,
re-usable approach to applications development; makes it easy to integrate systems with each other; and reduces
the need for costly custom development. Oracle SOA Suite is a suite of middleware software products used to
create, deploy and manage applications on a Service-Oriented Architecture including Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle
BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Rules, Oracle Business Activity
Monitoring and Oracle Service Bus. Oracle Business Process Management Suite is a suite of software that is
designed to enable business and IT professionals to design, implement, automate and evolve business processes
and workflows within and across organizations. Oracle SOA Governance is designed to maintain the security and
integrity of our customers’ SOA deployments.
Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is a comprehensive set of analytic software products designed to provide
customers with the information they need to make better business decisions. Oracle’s Business Intelligence
software products include Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive query and analysis server; Oracle
Essbase, an online analytical processing 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 software products are designed to enable customers to manage internal
and external users, secure corporate information from potential software threats and streamline compliance
initiatives while lowering the total cost of their security and compliance initiatives. These software products
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 to audit and identify users attempting to access systems for which they are not authorized.
Data Integration
Oracle’s data integration offerings consist of Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Enterprise
Data Quality products. Oracle GoldenGate is a high performance data movement and continuous availability
solution designed to capture transaction records on one system and to move and apply them to other systems with
low impact on system and network performance. Oracle Data Integrator is an extract-transform-load (ETL)
solution that enables users to extract data from one system, transform it from the source system’s format to a
target system’s format and load it into the target system (such as a data warehouse). Oracle Data Integrator also
9