• · Real Application Clusters

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), is an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition and included with Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition (on clusters with a maximum of 4 sockets). Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers—providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability with no application changes necessary. Analysts are taking note of RAC's growing importance in a wide range of customers across all industries for transaction processing and data warehousing applications.

                BENEFITS

1. 24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications

2. On-demand scalability—Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster

3. Lower computing costs—Use low-cost commodity hardware and reduce cost of downtime

4. World record performance—Runs faster than the fastest mainframe

5. Grid computing—Oracle RAC is the foundation for grid computing

• · Real Application Testing

Agile businesses want to be able to quickly adopt new technologies, whether it's operating systems, servers, or software, to help them stay ahead of the competition. However, change often introduces a period of instability into mission-critical IT systems. Real Application Testing—with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change. Real Application Testing combines a workload capture and replay feature with an SQL performance analyzer to help you test changes against real-life workloads, then helps you fine-tune them before putting them into production. Oracle Real Application testing supports older versions of Oracle Database. Customers running Oracle Database 9i and Oracle Database 10g can use it to accelerate their database upgrades.

                BENEFITS

1. Uses real workloads—Replays real workloads, not synthetic or artificial loads

2. Comprehensive—100% coverage for entire change lifecycle

3. Scalable—Requires similar effort for small and large changes

4. Predictable—Transfers exact resolution of changes from testing to production

5. Cost efficient—Reduces testing effort by up to 80%

• · Active Data Guard

Oracle Active Data Guard—an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—enhances Quality of Service by offloading resource-intensive activities from a production database to one or more synchronized standby databases. Oracle Active Data Guard enables read-only access to a physical standby database for queries, sorting, reporting, web-based access, etc., while continuously applying changes received from the production database. Oracle Active Data Guard also enables the use of fast incremental backups when offloading backups to a standby database, and can provide additional benefits of high availability and disaster protection against planned or unplanned outages at the production site.

                BENEFITS

1. Increase performance—Offload unpredictable workloads to an up-to-date replica of the production database

2. Simplify operations—Eliminate management complexity that accompanies traditional replication solutions

3. Eliminate compromise—Reporting replica is up-to-date and online at all times - not possible with traditional storage mirroring technology

4. Reduce cost—An Active Data Guard physical standby database can also provide disaster recovery and/or serve as a test database - no additional storage or servers required

• · Advanced Compression

Oracle Advanced Compression—with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—helps you manage your growing amounts of data (that on average are tripling every couple of years) in a cost effective manner. Oracle Advanced Compression compresses any type of data, including structured and unstructured data such as documents, images, and multimedia, as well as network traffic and data in the process of being backed up. As a result, Oracle Advanced Compression helps you use resources more efficiently and lower storage costs.As seen in the Wall Street Journal and other major publications, Oracle is proud of the energy and space savings that Oracle Advanced Compression delivers. It helps Oracle Database 11g use much less the disk space and power, while it runs faster than ever before. With Oracle Advanced Data Compression, Oracle customers are making the planet a little greener.

                BENEFITS

1. Lowers storage costs

2. Reduces disk space requirements for all types of data

3. Improves application performance

4. Can be used with any type application without application changes

• · In-Memory DB Cache

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache enables you to improve application transaction response times and throughput by caching performance-critical subsets of an Oracle Database in the application tier. Automatic data synchronization between the cache and the Oracle Database ensures data consistency. By bringing data closer to the application and processing queries in an in-memory database, your applications are able to access, capture, or update information many times faster. The In-Memory Database Cache option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is based on Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database.

                BENEFITS

1. Increase performance—Manage frequently accessed Oracle data in memory

2. Real-time cache—Dynamic caching maintains freshness by automatically loading and aging-out cached data

3. Faster deployment—Out-of-the-box integration with the Oracle database reduces development time

• · Total Recall

Regulatory oversight such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel-II as well as internal audits, require companies to keep historical data available for long periods of time. Oracle Total Recall, part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions, with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition helps companies store this data in a secure, tamper proof database while keeping it accessible to existing applications. Total Recall requires no application changes or special interfaces and provides the optimal storage footprint. Managing historical data should no longer be an onerous task. Oracle Total Recall provides a secure, efficient, easy-to-use and application-transparent solution for long-term storage and audit of historical data.

                BENEFITS

1. Easy to implement

2. Centralized, integrated and query-enabled

3. Highly storage and performance efficient

4. Provides automatic, policy-based management

5. Reduce the costs of compliance

6. Can be used for compliance, internal auditing, and human error correction

• · Enterprise Management Pack

Oracle provides an integrated management solution for managing Oracle database with a unique top-down application management approach. With new self-managing capabilities, Oracle eliminates time-consuming, error-prone administrative tasks, so database administrators can focus on strategic business objectives instead of performance and availability fire drills.Oracle Management Packs for Database provide significant cost and time-saving capabilities for managing Oracle Databases. Independent studies demonstrate that Oracle Database is 40 percent easier to manage over DB2 and 38 percent over SQL Server.

                BENEFITS

1. Maximize performance & availability—Automatically monitor the entire database environment and proactively resolve issues before they turn into emergencies

2. Elevate administrator productivity—Give your administrators the tools they need to manage more databases, more effectively while increasing their value to the organization

3. Eliminate failures from human error—Take control of your IT environment by addressing the #1 cause of unplanned downtime through extensive out-of-box automation, configuration and, change management capabilities

            PRODUCT

a. Change Management Pack

b. Configuration Management Pack

c. Data Masking Pack

d. Diagnostic Pack

e. Provisioning Pack

f. Tuning Pack

• · Partitioning

Partitioning enables tables and indexes to be split into smaller, more manageable components and is a key requirement for any large database with high performance and high availability requirements. Oracle Database 11g offers the widest choice of partitioning methods including interval, reference, list, and range in addition to composite partitions of two methods such as order date (range) and region (list) or region (list) and customer type (list). Oracle Partitioning—an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—is also foundation of Oracle's Information Lifecycle Management strategy, which aligns the business value of information to cost-effective storage tiers for large data warehousing and transaction processing applications.

                BENEFITS

1. Faster Performance—Lowers query times from minutes to seconds

2. Increases Availability—24 by 7 access to critical information

3. Improves Manageability—Manage smaller 'chunks' of data

4. Enables Information Lifecycle Management—Cost-efficient use of storage

• · Content Database

Oracle Content Database Suite is a highly scalable content management solution based on Oracle Database 11g—the industry's fastest, most reliable, and secure database. It enables organizations to control and manage large volumes of unstructured content such as documents, spreadsheets, and images in a centralized repository that is easy to access and maintain. Oracle Content Database Suite—an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—is tightly integrated with the other components of the Content Management portfolio.

BENEFITS

1. Centralized information access—Replace dispersed file servers and archives with a single repository

2. Lower administrative costs—Leverage your existing IT infrastructure and resources

3. Rapid deployment—Quickly reach a broad audience of users

4. Highly scalable—Supports large data volumes through Oracle Database 11g

• · OLAP

Oracle OLAP—an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—is a calculation engine that supports the entire spectrum of advanced analytical applications including planning, budgeting, forecasting, sales, and marketing to help identify key business trends and model complex business scenarios. OLAP cube materialized views in Oracle Database 11g dramatically improves the performance of complex analytic queries accessing multi-dimensional data.

BENEFITS

1. Reduced Data Movement and Latency—With Oracle OLAP, you no longer have to replicate data into a stand-alone, proprietary OLAP server because all of your multi-dimensional data is stored directly into the Oracle Database relational engine. Decision makers benefit from much faster access to higher quality information.

2. Lower IT Costs and Complexity—Oracle OLAP enables you to reduce costs and dramatically simplify your IT environment. With Oracle OLAP, you eliminate the need to purchase additional hardware and you only have to maintain a single server and security model. Oracle OLAP also supports SQL access to multi-dimensional data types, so you can leverage your existing investment SQL tools, applications, and skills.

3. Enterprise-Scale Analytics with Grid Computing—Simply providing decision makers with access to data is meaningless if the data is unavailable. Oracle OLAP and Oracle Real Applications Clusters together provide the foundation of Very Large Multi-dimensional Databases (VLDM) which can provide thousands of concurrent users with continuous access to information.

• · Data Mining

Oracle Data Mining (ODM)—an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—enables customers to produce actionable predictive information and build integrated business intelligence applications. Using data mining functionality embedded in Oracle Database 11g, customers can find patterns and insights hidden in their data. Application developers can quickly automate the discovery and distribution of new business intelligence—predictions, patterns and discoveries—throughout their organization.

• · Retail Data Model

• · Database Vault

Oracle Database Vault, part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions, helps organizations address regulatory mandates and increase the security of existing applications. Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and similar global directives call for separation-of-duties and other preventive controls to ensure data integrity and data privacy. With Oracle Database Vault, organizations can pro-actively safeguard application data stored in the Oracle database from being accessed by privileged database users. Application data can be further protected using Oracle Database Vault's multi-factor policies that control access based on built-in factors such as time of day, IP address, application name, and authentication method, preventing unauthorized ad-hoc access and application by-pass.

BENEFITS

1. Pro-actively safeguard application data stored in the Oracle database—Restrict access by unauthorized database users - even privileged users - by using powerful access controls built into the Oracle database.

2. Address regulatory requirements—Implement separation-of-duty and other real-time preventive controls.

3. Restrict ad-hoc access to application data— Prevent application-bypass with multi-factor policies that are enforced in the database for high security and performance.

4. Deploy with confidence—Use certified default policies for Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle Siebel CRM applications.

• Advanced Security

  Oracle Advanced Security, part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions, helps organizations comply with privacy and regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as numerous breach notification laws. With Oracle Advanced Security, customers can transparently encrypt all application data or specific sensitive columns, such as credit cards, social security numbers, or personally identifiable information (PII). By encrypting data at rest in the database as well as whenever it leaves the database over the network or via backups, Oracle Advanced Security provides the most cost-effective solution for comprehensive data protection.

                        BENEFITS

• 1. Protect all application data quickly and easily—Encrypt the entire tablespace or specific sensitive columns without making any changes to existing applications.

  2. Comprehensive—Transparent encryption for Oracle database traffic, disk backups, and exports.

  3. Cost-Effective—Leverage secure, built-in key management and integration with industry leading Hardware Security Modules (HSM) or other enterprise wide key management solutions.

  4. Highest Level of Identity Assurance—Support for PKI, Kerberos and RADIUS-based strong authentication solutions.

  · Label Security

  Oracle Label Security, part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions, is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for classifying data and mediating access to data based on its classification. Designed to meet public sector requirements for multi-level security and mandatory access control, Oracle Label Security provides a flexible framework that both government and commercial entities worldwide can use to manage access to data on a "need to know" basis in order to protect data privacy and achieve regulatory compliance.

                  BENEFITS

  1. Restricts access to those with appropriate clearance—Allows administrators to classify every row in a table, ensuring access to sensitive data is restricted to users with the appropriate clearance level

  2. Enforces regulatory compliance—Provides a policy-based administration model that enables organizations to establish custom data classification schemes for implementing "need-to-know" access for their applications

  3. Flexible—Labels can be used as factors within Oracle Database Vault command rules for multi-factor authorization polices. Oracle Label Security integrates with Oracle Identity Management, enabling centralized management of policy definitions, and is part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of database security solutions

  · Spatial

  Included with every Oracle Database edition, Oracle Locator provides the features and mapping needed to location-enable many business applications. Oracle Spatial—an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition—includes full 3D and Web services support to manage all geospatial data including vector and raster data, topology, and network models. It's designed to meet the needs of advanced GIS systems for applications such as land management, utilities, and defense/homeland security. Oracle's open, native spatial format eliminates the cost of separate, proprietary systems, and is supported by all leading GIS vendors. Only Oracle delivers industry-leading security, performance, scalability, and manageability for mission-critical spatial information assets.

                  BENEFITS

  1. Save administration and infrastructure costs—Consolidate your spatial data assets with Oracle Spatial

  2. Streamline business processes, improve quality and service—Integrate location intelligence into your applications

  3. Provide enterprise-wide spatial access—Enable all stakeholders to use spatial data without additional software

  4. Manage spatial information with maximum security, scalability, and performance—Leverage your Oracle technology and skills investments