04/18/2007

Oracle today announced its planned roadmap for quickly delivering significant new product releases across its entire content management portfolio. Since completing the acquisition of Stellent in December 2006, Oracle has integrated Stellent's industry leading technology and is now ready to deliver a new generation of advanced content management products that are integrated components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family.

ebizQ received the following:

Oracle is expected to deliver significant new releases for all of its content management products within the next 12 months and also plans to offer an integrated suite that includes three of its most important content management solutions. The integrated suite, Enterprise Content Management Suite is expected to include Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Universal Records Management, and Oracle Imaging and Process Management.

Oracle's comprehensive content management portfolio is expected to address all aspects of ECM from archiving and imaging, to web content and document management, to records and retention management in a highly integrated suite of products. Oracle's content management architecture is hot-pluggable, providing simultaneous, out-of-the-box support for Oracle and third-party repositories, identity management systems and enterprise applications. At the same time, Oracles' new content management solutions are expected to leverage the unmatched scalability, security and reliability built into the Oracle technology stack. Oracle content management product portfolio is expected to include Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Universal Records Management, Oracle Information Rights Management, Oracle Imaging and Process Management and Oracle Content Database. As part of the company's commitment to delivering industry-leading solutions, Oracle plans to deliver significant new releases of each of these products within the next 12 months.

"We are excited that we were able to quickly integrate the content management solutions we acquired last year with Oracle's industry-leading technology stack to create products that have unequalled scalability and security along with broad support of 3rd party systems," said Thomas Kurian, Oracle Senior Vice President, Server Technologies. "The new Enterprise Content Management Suite will offer an exceptional opportunity for organizations to standardize on a single content management platform that provides web content, document, digital asset, and records management along with highly scalable imaging capabilities pre-integrated with enterprise applications all backed by one of the true leaders in the information management."

"Oracle is committed to providing our customers with the industry's most comprehensive and unified content management platform," said Dan Ryan, senior vice president, Oracle Content Management Development. "In our information age, content management software is mission- critical. Content management is used to directly build and deploy applications, as well as provide content and content services to other enterprise applications. Organizations are looking for strategic partners who can support their complete range of content management needs. Only Oracle has this capability, and only Oracle has the ability to support their broader information management needs addressing all types of information both structured and unstructured. "