REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 8, 2012) - Oracle (NASDAQ: [ ORCL ])

News Facts

• Oracle today announced the availability of [ Oracle Advanced Analytics ], a new option for [ Oracle Database 11g ] that bundles Oracle R Enterprise together with Oracle Data Mining.
• Oracle R Enterprise delivers enterprise class performance for users of the R statistical programming language, increasing the scale of data that can be analyzed by orders of magnitude using Oracle Database 11g.
• R has attracted over two million users since its introduction in 1995, and Oracle R Enterprise dramatically advances capability for R users. Their existing R development skills, tools, and scripts can now also run transparently, and scale against data stored in Oracle Database 11g.
• Customer testing of Oracle R Enterprise for Big Data analytics on Oracle Exadata has shown up to 100x increase in performance in comparison to their current environment.
• Oracle Data Mining, now part of Oracle Advanced Analytics, helps enable customers to easily build and deploy predictive analytic applications that help deliver new insights into business performance.
• Oracle Advanced Analytics, in conjunction with [ Oracle Big Data Appliance ], [ Oracle Exadata Database Machine ] and [ Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine ], delivers the industry's most integrated and comprehensive platform for Big Data analytics.

Comprehensive In-Database Platform for Advanced Analytics

• Oracle Advanced Analytics brings analytic algorithms to data stored in Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata as opposed to the traditional approach of extracting data to laptops or specialized servers.
• With Oracle Advanced Analytics, customers have a comprehensive platform for real-time analytic applications that deliver insight into key business subjects such as churn prediction, product recommendations, and fraud alerting.
• By providing direct and controlled access to data stored in Oracle Database 11g, customers can accelerate data analyst productivity while maintaining data security throughout the enterprise.
• Powered by decades of Oracle Database innovation, Oracle R Enterprise helps enable analysts to run a variety of sophisticated numerical techniques on billion row data sets in a matter of seconds making iterative, speed of thought, and high-quality numerical analysis on Big Data practical.
• Oracle R Enterprise drastically reduces the time to deploy models by eliminating the need to translate the models to other languages before they can be deployed in production.
• Oracle R Enterprise integrates the extensive set of Oracle Database data mining algorithms, analytics, and access to Oracle OLAP cubes into the R language for transparent use by R users.
• Oracle Data Mining provides an extensive set of in-database data mining algorithms that solve a wide range of business problems. These predictive models can be deployed in Oracle Database 11g and use Oracle Exadata Smart Scan to rapidly score huge volumes of data.
• The tight integration between R, Oracle Database 11g, and Hadoop enables R users to write one R script that can run in three different environments: a laptop running open source R, Hadoop running with [ Oracle Big Data Connectors ], and Oracle Database 11g.
• Oracle provides single vendor support for the entire Big Data platform spanning the hardware stack, operating system, open source R, Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Database 11g.
• To enable easy enterprise-wide Big Data analysis, results from Oracle Advanced Analytics can be viewed from [ Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite ] and Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine.

Supporting Quotes

• "Oracle is committed to meeting the challenges of Big Data analytics. By building upon the analytical depth of Oracle SQL, Oracle Data Mining and the R environment, Oracle is delivering a scalable and secure Big Data platform to help our customers solve the toughest analytics problems," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle Server Technologies.
• "We work with leading edge customers who rely on us to deliver better BI from their Oracle Databases. The new Oracle R Enterprise functionality allows us to perform deep analytics on Big Data stored in Oracle Databases. By leveraging R and its library of open source contributed CRAN packages combined with the power and scalability of Oracle Database 11g, we can now do that," said Mark Rittman, co-founder, Rittman Mead.

Supporting Resources

• [ About Oracle Big Data ]
• [ About Oracle Advanced Analytics ]
• [ About Oracle Big Data Appliance ]
• [ About Oracle Big Data Connectors ]
• [ About Oracle Exadata Database Machine ]
• [ About Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine ]
• [ About Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation ]
• [ About Oracle Database 11g ]
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