Oracle News & Articles

Discussion around the evolving role of enterprise CMS and the software that aims to do that are almost a weekly phenomenon. This week’s discussion comes in the shape of the Forrester Wave for ECM Suites for Q4, which highlights a number of issues that we already saw in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise CMS last week.

Enterprise content management is a 2.7 billion dollar industry with just a hand full of vendors competing for market share. Documentum was once the master of the content management space, the de facto product for most companies looking to automate their processes and get control over unstructured data. After the dot-com bust, Documentum’s presence wavered and was eventually purchased by EMC. EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s recently announced on an EMC’s earnings call that the Information Intelligence Group at ECM was down 5%. Oracle’s, on the other hand, is expecting to show an impressive 20% growth. And it has come up with a plan it thinks will help Documentum customers.

If the release of an iPad app that gives users access to Big Data analytics and Cognos was interesting in the mobile space, the announcement that IBM is making Info Sphere BigInsights on SmartCloud should have the effect of shaking up the big data market a little bit.

In yesterday’s look at this year’s Gartner’s enterprise CMS Magic Quadrant, we saw how growing pressure on enterprises to achieve better productivity has seen many turn to enterprise content management systems to achieve that. Today we look at the companies that made it into the Leaders Quadrant as well as their strengths and weaknesses.

Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for the Enterprise Content Management industry confirms what many suspect: The content management landscape is changing quickly, and changing dramatically. Today we look at the market changes identified in the Gartner report, while tomorrow we will look at which vendors it has identified in the Leader's Quadrant.

After announcing the acquisition of Endeca last week, Oracle unveils new plans for buying customer service cloud provider RightNow.

In a hands-on, sneak peek of Oracle’s upcoming Big Data Appliance due to ship Q1 2012, the company is making available for download today its Oracle NoSQL Database with Enterprise Grade support that was announced in early October. 

The technology represents a shift for Oracle. We’re talking “massive amounts of data” including data maintained by social networks, and other dynamic schemas including web log, plus sensor and smart meter data and data gathered for personalization.

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Today Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to buy Endeca, a privately held company that provides unstructured data management, web commerce, and business intelligence (BI) solutions. 

When Oracle picked up FatWire it was immediately thought that the two would complement each other, while creating a bit of overlap in Oracle's existing product line-up. At this year's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager Joe Duane and Mariam Tariq of WebCenter Product Management shed a bit of light on the subject. 

While attending the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco last week, I had an opportunity to discuss the many different Oracle announcements with customers. The general theme from my conversations can be summed up as “Wow, that’s really cool, but how can it help me?”

If you thought Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's announcement of the Oracle Public Cloud and general Salesforce.com bashing was as good as it got yesterday, you're in for a surprise. At the end of the keynote he introduced the Oracle Social Network, an unexpected and brand spankin' new platform that's integrated with Fusion applications. And guess what! It looks nothing like Facebook. 

Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison announced the Oracle Public Cloud today at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Billed as an enterprise cloud for business critical applications, the company's standards-based addition aims to knock other players -- both established and hopeful -- clear out of the race.  

It’s a busy week everywhere, with Oracle and SharePoint’s annual conference. And there’s been a lot of document management too. Xerox has upgraded DocuShare, Oracle’s E-Business Suite has new invoice security, Autonomy has upgraded WorkSite, there’s mobile document management for iPad from NewSoft, while Colligo and NewsGator have teamed up for SharePoint functionality.

Oracle’s OpenWorld has finally kicked off with the customary keynote from CEO Larry Ellison. Leaving aside the fact that many are saying this was his worst keynote ever, for those in enterprise computing the launch of the Exalytics analytics appliance is the one most will be watching.