Oracle® Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 Makes Solid Move Into Information Quality Market


REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- According to the recently published Forrester Research report, "Oracle is Off to a Solid Start in Information Quality with Oracle Warehouse Builder," Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) now occupies a place at the table among IQ (Information Quality) software vendors.(1)

This report, written by Forrester Senior Analyst J. Paul Kirby, assesses the features of Oracle® Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, made generally available July 2006. According to the report, Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 combines extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) capabilities with IQ functionality. In addition, the report outlines the key IQ features of Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2 spanning custom format standardization, multi-algorithm matching, ongoing auditing and monitoring and enhanced data profiling capabilities.

In the report, Kirby states that Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, "includes significantly more information quality capabilities than previous releases," and that the tool, "will be attractive to customers because of its functionality and price. Enterprise architects should include [Oracle Warehouse Builder] on their list of [IQ] offerings to evaluate as part of enterprise information quality initiatives."

The report also features a pricing evaluation, and highlights that Oracle Warehouse Builder offers customers, "a genuine bargain," providing both IQ and ETL functionalities at no additional cost to customers with an Oracle Database 10g license. The study concludes with Kirby's assessment of Oracle's strategy within the IQ market, "Oracle is wise to invest in IQ; combining data integration and IQ in a single product adds value to both."

Forrester's report "Oracle is Off to a Solid Start in Information Quality with Oracle Warehouse Builder" is available for download from: www.oracle.com/corporate/analyst/reports/infrastructure/bi_dw/quality- owb.pdf .

About Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g

Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g is Oracle's industry leading enterprise business intelligence integration design tool. It provides data quality, data auditing, fully integrated relational and dimensional modeling and full life cycle management of data and metadata for Oracle Database. Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g delivers all this functionality in an easy to use, graphical environment that allows for the rapid design, deployment and management of data integration projects and business intelligence systems. For more information on Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, go to: www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/index.html .

About Oracle

Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at www.oracle.com/ .

(1) "Oracle is Off to a Solid Start in Information Quality with Oracle Warehouse Builder," J. Paul Kirby, Forrester Research, Inc., September 6, 2006

Source: Oracle Corporation

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