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Integrating content formats and management

Sunday, 18 November 2007


Oracle has been positioned in the leaders quadrant in the recent Gartner report, "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007." The report that evaluates vendors for their ability to execute and completeness of vision states, "Enterprise Content Management is an 'umbrella term' and represents a framework and vision for integrating a broad range of content management technologies and content formats."
It also states, the market for enterprise content management in 2007 is approximately $2.9 billion, based on worldwide total software revenue. Total software revenue from the worldwide ECM market has been predicted to grow at a compound annual rate of 12.9 percent through 2011.
As part of the hot-pluggable, standards-based family of Oracle® Fusion Middleware products, Oracle's enterprise content management software offers the industry's easiest-to-use and most comprehensive platform for securely managing, sharing, storing and retrieving structured and unstructured content across heterogeneous IT environments.
Oracle provides an array of enterprise content management software including Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Universal Records Management, Oracle Imaging and Process Management, Oracle Information Rights Management, and Oracle Content Database Suite.
"The explosive growth in unstructured content managed by organisations, combined with greater concerns over intellectual property, information privacy and government regulations, has made enterprise content management a mission-critical issue for both the private and public sector," said Andy MacMillan, vice president, Content Management, Oracle.
Oracle Content Management is the industry's most unified enterprise content management platform that enables customers to leverage industry-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records management functionality to build their business applications. Building a strategic enterprise content management infrastructure for content and applications helps customers to reduce costs, easily share content across the enterprise, minimise risk, automate expensive, time-intensive and manual processes, and consolidate multiple