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Major Oracle BI Launch Next Month
IDG News Service — Oracle (ORCL) is planning to release one of the most significant updates to its BI (business intelligence) platform in years at a July 7 event in London, according to the company’s Web site.
Company President Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development, will deliver presentations at the event.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g will include improvements in analytic processing, reporting, scalability, performance and system management, according to the blog post. The release also delivers an “unrivaled” end-user experience, according to Oracle.
A rundown of breakout sessions planned for the event provides further clues to the release’s feature set, which appears to foster tight connectivity between BI and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems.
Attendees can learn about an “industry-first innovation that connects business intelligence directly to your business processes,” according to a statement. “You can spot an opportunity or issue, and immediately initiate appropriate action directly from your dashboard.”
Oracle has indicated that its next-generation Fusion Applications, which are supposed to surface this year after a long delay, will incorporate pervasive BI capabilities.
Users have been hotly anticipating the OBIEE 11g product launch, with some even participating in a betting page on the general availability date.
Oracle’s announcement does not specifically state such a date, although it would presumably closely coincide with the launch event. An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment.
The product should live up to the hype, with “game-changing” enhancements that no other vendors have, said Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson.
Evelson declined to elaborate further, citing a nondisclosure agreement with Oracle.
DoJ questions Oracle’s Phase Forward buy
Phase Forward, the top maker of programs that help drugmakers run clinical trials, said in a regulatory filing on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice asked for additional information as it reviews the acquisition to see it hurts competition in the software market.
Oracle spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger declined to comment on the government’s request. Officials with Phase Forward could not immediately be reached to elaborate on the disclosure, which was made in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Had the government not made the request, it would have been obliged to approve the deal within 30 days of Oracle and Phase Forward’s first filing for anti-trust approval. The companies have not said when they filed.
Buying Phase Forward would help billionaire Larry Ellison’s Oracle expand its portfolio of programs that help drugmakers boost the efficiency at a time when they are anxious to slash costs.
Drug companies are looking to offset revenue declines, as many profitable brand-name drugs will soon face competition from low-cost generics.
Phase Forward is the top producer of programs for managing clinical trials, ahead of Medidata Solutions Inc (MDSO.O) and Oracle.
Healthcare is one of several key areas where Oracle has focused on building a portfolio of software specific to an industry’s needs.
Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, and Sybase Databases Have More Cloud Security
Database cloud safety has risen to a new level as Cirrhus9, a privately-held cloud computing and consulting firm, and SecuCloud, a leader in database security and compliance solutions, have joined together. The C9 SecuCloud system:
- Runs on major databases Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL, and Sybase via Amazon Web Services and 3Tera’s Applogic cloud computing platforms
- Provides quick protection from data theft, privacy breaches, and non-compliance
- Allows users to generate regular reports with effective tools to make sure database audit requirements are met
- And is cost effective
Oracle beefs up database security with Secerno acquisition
Oracle has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire database security firm Secerno.
“Organisations require a comprehensive security solution which includes database firewall functionality to prevent sophisticated attacks from reaching databases,” Oracle said in a statement.
Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed, but the acquisition is expected to close before the end of June.
Analysts said the deal will put Oracle in a stronger position to compete against IBM, which made a similar acquisition in December when it bought Guardium.
“The Secerno acquisition is in direct response to increasing customer challenges around mitigating database security risk,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice-president, Oracle Database Server Technologies.
“Secerno’s database firewall product acts as a first line of defence against external threats and unauthorised internal access, with a protective perimeter around Oracle and non-Oracle databases,” he said.
Oracle buys eServerGlobal’s mobile billing system
Oracle has announced plans to acquire the Universal Service Platform from eServGlobal, a provider of transaction management software for mobile communications firms.
The move could be a response to SAP’s recent decision to buy mobile commerce software company Sybase earlier this month.
The Universal Service Platform comprises a pre-paid charging application, network-services platform and messaging gateway, and is already in use at more than 25 tier-one customers.
Oracle will look to combine these with its own communications applications, such as Communications Billing and Revenue Management, to offer what it claims will be a flexible and easy to deploy system with a lower cost of ownership.
“The majority of mobile phone users worldwide use pre-paid plans, and that number is growing,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products at Oracle Communications.
“Oracle communications applications combined with the pre-paid software assets from eServGlobal will provide highly available and scalable carrier-grade, pre-paid software on an open, convergent platform.”
Maxwell claimed that customers will be able to deliver traditional pre-paid voice services and easily introduce hybrid pre-paid and post-paid plans with targeted pricing, promotions and service bundles that include voice, data and network services.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of this year.
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