Database Systems
Technology Overview
Enterprises in every industry are gathering and managing more information than ever. Oracle technology helps your organization consolidate, manage, use, share, and protect that business information with reliability and security at a low cost.
Oracle offers the industry's widest range of infrastructure software — from databases and middleware to enterprise management. Regardless of your organization's size, Oracle technology enables you to better manage all your information, so every employee can make better, more informed decisions.
Oracle Database
The First Database Designed for Grid Computing:
Oracle Database 10g runs on all industry-standard platforms and moves from a single instance to Grid Computing without changing a single line of code. As a result, you can adopt Oracle grid technology with minimal investment, zero disruption, and fast ROI. Oracle Database 10g lowers the cost of ownership through automated management while providing the highest possible quality of service, making it the ideal choice for large enterprises and small and midsize businesses alike.
Availability and Scalability with Real Application Clusters:
Oracle Database 10g delivers the response times your users demand and reduces the cost of downtime. Only Oracle offers non-stop availability, scalability, and low-cost clustering with Oracle Real Application Clusters, the foundation for Grid computing.
Industry-Leading Security:
Oracle Database 10g has unique security features that address privacy, regulatory compliance and data consolidation requirements, including row-level security, fine grained auditing, and transparent data encryption.
Lower Costs with the Self-Managing Database:
Oracle automates time-consuming, error-prone administrative tasks, so DBAs can focus on strategic business objectives. Studies from the Edison Group prove Oracle Database 10g offers superior manageability and significant cost savings over both IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of leading, standards-based, and customer-proven software products that spans a range of tools and services including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management.
This comprehensive and well-integrated family of products offers complete support for development, deployment, and management of Service-Oriented Architecture. Oracle Fusion Middleware's hot-pluggable architecture allows you to leverage your investments in any existing application,
system, or technology. And because maximum uptime is good for business, the unbreakable qualities of Oracle Fusion Middleware's core technology minimize the disruption of planned or unplanned outages.
These unique attributes enable Oracle Fusion Middleware customers to:
Streamline and optimize business and IT operations.
Increase the accuracy and timeliness of business decisions.
Secure information and drive compliance — minimizing business disruption.
It works with what you have today so you don't have to start over. Over 26,000 customers around the world have moved their business forward by starting in the middle with Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Oracle Enterprise Manager
(10g Release 2 Now Available!)
Manage Virtualized Grid Resources:
Manage your grids as a single entity by using improved tools such as new service modeling, broader support for service protocols, and comprehensive policies and templates. Virtualized application component resources, as well as virtualized infrastructure components, are transparently monitored, diagnosed, and provisioned.
Best Quality of Service at Lowest Management Cost:
Unique service management features such as graphical service topologies and service dashboards provide the right information to high-level decision makers and lines of business managers, so they can better understand system and service-level quality and plan effectively. Robust automated provisioning and patching functionality give IT administrators the power to make efficient, error-free changes.
Higher Value Through Wider Breadth of Management:
Increased management scope for IT infrastructure products provide customers with improved insight into every aspect of service performance — including application servers, firewalls, operating systems, load balancers, and storage components. Customers can easily detect and resolve issues throughout a grid as well as monitor and manage key non-Oracle products in the data center environment.