Software delivers content management where it's needed.
Press Release Summary:
As options to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle® Content Database and Oracle Records Database enable secure content management that can be deployed to users dealing with all enterprise business processes and applications. Both facilitate management of Office documents, PDFs, image files, and other unstructured content. Supporting regulatory compliance, solutions have Services Oriented Architecture and assist in content-enabling enterprise business processes and applications.
Original Press Release:
Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle® Content Database and Oracle Records Database
New Database Options Facilitate Integration of Content and Records Management Into All Enterprise Business Processes and Applications
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 20 -- Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle(R) Content Database and Oracle Records Database. These options to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition enable secure, easy-to-use content management that can be deployed broadly to users dealing with content in all enterprise business processes and applications.
Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are designed to facilitate low-cost management of Office documents, PDFs, image files, and other unstructured content, which comprises 80 percent of organizational information(1). Upon implementation, these products deliver secure, highly usable content management that can be broadly deployed to users who are now dealing with content in largely unmanaged environments, thereby improving corporate productivity while helping to reduce cost and risk, and supporting regulatory compliance. Through a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), these products also assist content-enabling of enterprise business processes and applications. As a result, independent software vendors (ISVs) such as Kofax are building deep, vertical content applications using the robust infrastructure of Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database.
Announced in June 2006 as part of Oracle's next-generation content management strategy, Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database deliver content management everywhere it's needed -- across the enterprise. Oracle Content Database enables organizations to consolidate their unstructured content into a highly scalable, reliable, and secure Oracle Database repository. After content has been successfully created and published, Oracle Records Database manages the retention and disposition portion of the content lifecycle.
"Regulatory compliance, information discovery, and information security are driving customers to store their documents in the highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure provided by a database," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle. "Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database were designed specifically to ease enterprise-wide adoption and to help reduce the risks associated with information discovery and information loss. Oracle Content Database fits seamlessly into the current end-user content creation environment, and appears as just another desktop drive for use from everyday office applications. Web services interfaces make it easy to integrate Oracle Content Database into business processes and enterprise applications."
Pricing and Availability
The production versions of Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are available now on most Oracle Database platforms. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database software is available for download at: www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/contentdb/index.html .
Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are both priced at $50,000 per processor. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are options for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. Additional information on Oracle Content Database is available at: www.oracle.com/database/contentdb.html . Additional information on Oracle Records Database is available at: www.oracle.com/database/recordsdb.html .
About Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database
Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are options for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are the first content and records management solutions capable of managing the wide range of diverse data and metadata in a single database to enable organizations to more easily control and manage the rapidly growing volume of unstructured content. Built on the industry's most scalable, reliable and secure database, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database facilitate cost-effective, enterprise-wide deployment of content and records management to help customers increase productivity, meet regulatory compliance mandates, and reduce business risk.
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(1): Source: Financial Insights, an IDC company, Information Management Compliance: Get Your Information in Order, August 2004
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