Oracle Extends Business Innovation Platform For The Enterprise And Cloud

Enhancing its platform for the enterprise and the cloud, Oracle has announced that it continues to drive innovation across its 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.

With 125,000 customers from across all verticals, Oracle needed to enable them to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximising IT efficiency through full utilisation of modern hardware and software architectures.

“Oracle Fusion Middleware is powering innovation for our customers across the globe, enabling them to drive new business opportunities utilising 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.”

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Oracle Data Integration claims to deliver 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.

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