SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 2, 2012) - ORACLE OPENWORLD -- Oracle (NASDAQ: [ ORCL ])

News Facts

• Further enhancing the industry's #1 business innovation platform for the enterprise and the cloud, Oracle today announced that it continues to drive innovation across its [ Oracle Fusion Middleware ] product suite.
• With more than 2,000 new customer-driven innovations delivered over the last 12 months, Oracle continues to enhance components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware, including [ Oracle SOA Suite ], [ Oracle WebLogic Server ], [ Oracle WebCenter ], [ Oracle Business Intelligence ], [ Oracle Identity Management ] and [ Oracle Data Integration ].
• Delivering best-in-class offerings across every product line, Oracle Fusion Middleware is the only middleware that provides a complete, open and integrated approach across social, mobile and cloud technologies.
• More than 125,000 customers from across nearly every industry use Oracle Fusion Middleware to maximize the processes and applications that drive their businesses and to provide a foundation for future innovation.
• More than 10,000 partners around the world are building and deploying innovative solutions that use Oracle Fusion Middleware to help cut costs and reduce complexity. 
• Oracle Fusion Middleware enables enterprises to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximizing IT efficiency through full utilization of modern hardware and software architectures.

Supporting Quote

• "Oracle Fusion Middleware is powering innovation for our customers across the globe, enabling them to drive new business opportunities utilizing mobile, social and cloud technologies," said Hasan Rizvi, executive vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java products, Oracle. "Oracle Fusion Middleware is also the technology powering the Oracle Cloud driving the next generation of innovations for Oracle and our customers."

Oracle WebCenter

• [ Oracle WebCenter ] is the engagement platform powering exceptional experiences for customers, employees and partners. It connects people and information by bringing together the most complete portfolio of portal, web experience management, content, social, and collaboration technologies into a single integrated product suite.
• Available since May, the latest version of [ Oracle WebCenter Sites ] helps organizations drive customer acquisition and brand loyalty by simplifying the creation, management and optimization of interactive and social experiences.
• Independent research firms consistently recognize Oracle WebCenter as a leader in Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management and Portal technology.

Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite

• Today, thousands of customers are using innovations in [ Oracle SOA Suite ] and [ Oracle BPM Suite ] for new and emerging social, mobile, and cloud implementations.
• Part of Oracle SOA Suite, [ Oracle Event Processing (OEP) ] is a complete solution for building applications to filter, correlate and process events in real-time so that downstream applications, service oriented architectures and event-driven architectures are driven by true, real-time intelligence.
• The industry's most social, unified and complete Business Process Management (BPM) solution, Oracle BPM Suite delivers flexibility, performance and manageability needed for enterprise-class business processes. 
• Oracle Process Accelerators, pre-built, best practices processes, further help simplify and accelerate time-to-value for customers' business process management initiatives.

Oracle Data Integration

• Oracle Data Integration delivers a complete and modern solution for integrating data continuously, pervasively, and accurately across technologies, as well as third-party systems. 
• With the recent release of [ Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2 ], Oracle made major enhancements in performance, manageability, efficiency and reliability, to its comprehensive real-time data integration solution.
• Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2 features support for high-volume systems, global implementations and heterogeneous platforms, while enhancing data capture and security.
• [ Oracle Data Integrator ] is a critical element in Oracle's big data offerings, helping customers to efficiently load and transform unstructured data using technologies including Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS.

Oracle Identity Management

• In July, Oracle announced the next evolution of the Oracle Identity Management platform -- [ Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 ] -- with new and enhanced features optimized to simplify identity lifecycle management and secure the new digital experience from any device for all enterprise resources both within and beyond the firewall. Using Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2, organizations can more securely embrace cloud, mobile and social infrastructures and expand their reach to user communities to help further extend and develop their businesses.
• To help ease adoption for customers and partners, Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 brings together Oracle's entire portfolio of Identity Management offerings, consolidating them into three main categories -- [ Oracle Identity Governance ], [ Oracle Access Management ] and [ Oracle Directory Services ].
• Additionally, this year Oracle announced [ Oracle Privileged Account Manager ], delivering highly-secure and simplified management and control to sensitive shared accounts such as DBA and root, which typically provide access to elevated privileges and highly sensitive information.

Oracle Developer Tools

• Oracle offers the industry's most complete and integrated set of tools for application development, database development, and business intelligence to support any development approach, technology platform, or operating system.
• [ Oracle Application Development Framework ] (Oracle ADF) is a standards-based, strategic framework for Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle ADF is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies application development by providing out-of-the-box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience. 
• Based on a next-generation hybrid mobile development architecture, the new Oracle ADF Mobile is an HTML5 and Java-based framework for developing mobile applications and is being previewed at Oracle OpenWorld.
• Part of the [ Oracle Cloud ], Oracle Developer Cloud Service gives customers a complete development platform for managing the lifecycle of their applications in a collaborative way, with services that include source control, issue tracking, and build automation, all provisioned in the cloud.

Oracle WebLogic Server

• [ Oracle WebLogic Server 12c ] is the #1 application server for conventional systems, engineered systems and cloud environments and the underlying application server infrastructure for the new Oracle Java Cloud Service.
• Part of the [ Oracle Cloud ], Oracle Java Cloud Service gives customers self-service, subscription-based access for rapidly developing, testing and deploying standalone applications and extensions to Oracle Cloud Application Services. Oracle Java Cloud Service can run any standard Oracle WebLogic Server Java application, and developers can easily move applications from the Oracle Cloud to other deployment environments and vice-versa.
• Oracle is announcing a free developer license for Oracle WebLogic Server, allowing developers to build Oracle WebLogic Server applications on their desktop at no cost. All versions of Oracle WebLogic Server [ hosted on OTN ] are available with this license, which also includes [ Oracle Coherence ], the industry's leading in-memory data grid offering. Oracle WebLogic Server 12c brings to market a modern, lightweight and efficient [ Java ] development platform that supports the latest [ Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) ] and [ Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) ] standards.

Supporting Resources

• [ Oracle Fusion Middleware ]
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• Learn more on the [ Oracle Fusion Middleware blog ]
• [ Oracle OpenWorld 2012 ]
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About Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco is the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners. This information technology event is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. The conference, which draws more than 50,000 attendees from over 140 countries, offers more than 2,100 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 450 partners and customers showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure -- all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is being held September 30-October 4 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information please visit [ www.oracle.com/openworld ]. Watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions and more live on [ YouTube ]. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on [ Twitter ], [ Facebook ] and the [ Oracle OpenWorld Blog ].

About Oracle
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