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Press Release
Oracle® Enterprise Content Management Momentum Continues
Independent Report and Inclusion in the EContent 100 Build on Recent Third-Party Accolades for Oracle Content Management, a Component of Oracle Fusion Middleware
Redwood Shores, Calif. – December 4, 2007
• “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2007,” recognized Oracle as a leader in Enterprise Content Management and cited Oracle’s, “well-rounded suite with strengths in document management, records management, and WCM.”1
• The Forrester report follows on the heels of Oracle Universal Content Management 10g’s rating of “Excellent” in an InfoWorld product review that praised Oracle Universal Content Management 10g as a “deep product” that “makes a lot of sense for large enterprises.”
• Oracle was included in EContent magazine’s EContent 100, a list of the 100 “companies that matter most in the digital content industry.”
• Oracle was also named to the leaders quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007,”2 which was released in September 2007.
• Oracle Content Management delivers an integrated and comprehensive content management offering, which provides a superior user experience spanning the entire spectrum of unstructured content types from files and documents to records and digital images.
Supporting Quotes
“Oracle Content Management offers unparalleled functionality and ease-of-use for customers seeking to gain control, manage access and help ensure compliance across myriad forms of enterprise content. Additionally, as a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Content Management provides seamless integration with Oracle Applications, which enhances the value of the software by extending the breadth of content under management and generating new opportunities for organizations to empower knowledge workers, automate and accelerate business processes and eliminate redundant data entry,” said Terry Butler, chief solutions officer, ImageSource, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
“As the regulatory and litigation climate puts increasing pressure on companies’ records management capabilities, we see high value in a comprehensive system, like Oracle’s content management software, to manage security, retention and destruction for both paper and electronic records. Enlightened companies are integrating Oracle’s software with their physical records management software and archive systems to help ensure consistency and control for all media and for the entire lifecycle of a record,” said Michael Karp, executive vice president, North American Sales, Iron Mountain, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
“Regulatory compliance and the need to better store, share and access content of all kinds across an organization is making content management a mission-critical application for enterprises of all sizes. Recent third-party recognition of the value Oracle Content Management provides is a reflection of our commitment to deliver the industry’s most integrated, comprehensive and easy-to-use content management software,” said Frank Radichel, vice president, Software Development, Oracle.
Supporting Resources
Analyst Reports
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2007
Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007”
Media Recognition
InfoWorld Product Review – Oracle Universal Content Management Lives up to the Name
EContent 100
Online Product Demonstrations
Oracle Universal Content Management
Information Rights Management (flash, 2 min.)
About The Gartner Magic Quadrant (Magic Quadrant Disclaimer)
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007, by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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1 “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q4 2007,” by Kyle McNabb, Forrester Research, Inc., November 9, 2007
2 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007,” by Karen M. Shegda, Toby Bell, Kenneth Chin, Mark R. Gilbert, Gartner, Inc., September 21, 2007
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