Comprehensive Platform Delivers Best-in-Class Data Integration with Service-Oriented Architecture, Master Data Management

Dubai, UAE, February 09, 2008: Oracle today announced the immediate availability of Oracle® Data Integration Suite that provides a comprehensive end-to-end data integration platform that connects heterogeneous data sources and applications and delivers clean, accurate, and timely data across the enterprise.  Oracle Data Integration Suite is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, industry's fastest growing, most standards-compliant, and best-of-breed technology foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture.

Built on open-standards, Oracle Data Integration Suite components enable a consistent and open framework for data integration across heterogeneous data sources and applications that include IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle Database, and Oracle and other ERP Applications.

Oracle Data Integration Suite offers fully-integrated, best-in-class capabilities that address the data integration needs of an organization by coupling leading new technologies for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with conventional data management components like extract, load, and transform (E-LT), data quality (DQ), data profiling (DP) and master data management (MDM).  Oracle Data Integration Suite combines Oracle's core strengths in SOA-based Business Process Management (BPM) and change management with Oracle Hyperion's Master Data Management capabilities.  In addition, the platform also offers broad data movement and delivery services, broad data connectivity, data integration core services and metadata services.

By unifying BPM, MDM, DQ, and DP capabilities in its core E-LT foundation; Oracle can provide businesses with the most comprehensive and powerful end-to-end data integration solution - in a modern, open and standards-based SOA framework.

Oracle Data Integration Suite optionally incorporates in-memory data grid technology as an option.  Also, there are two new products, Oracle® Data Profiling and Oracle® Data Quality for Oracle Data Integrator, which are jointly developed with Harte-HanksTrillium Software. The Trillium Software System® is embedded into Oracle Data Integrator.

"Oracle is committed to delivering an integrated and comprehensive data integration platform," said Amlan Debnath Vice President, Oracle Server Technologies.  "This approach is critical for lowering total cost of ownership and reducing the need for support and maintenance for companies facing today's data integration challenges.  This announcement demonstrates Oracle's commitment to helping customers manage data integration challenges across heterogeneous systems and deliver clean and accurate data across the enterprise."

"The Trillium Software data quality and data profiling capabilities that are now available within the Oracle Data Integration Suite offer Oracle customers a strategic foundation for data quality in conjunction with Oracle's ELT foundation.  Together this solution provides a strong toolset for data integration projects," said John Nicoli, Managing Director, Trillium Software at Harte-Hanks.  "We worked closely with Oracle to embed Trillium Software's flagship data profiling and data quality products into Oracle's ELT foundation. We believe the resulting Oracle Data Integration Suite provides comprehensive data integration for the platform so customers can take advantage of one powerful end-to-end integration solution."

"In the e-commerce world, it's very important that you have a tool that can unify or bring together all your data needs, and in one holistic view, and Oracle Data Integrator was really the solution," said Kadima Longi, eCommerce Director for JCrew, "Oracle Fusion Middleware is our platform for data integration."

Availability and Pricing

Oracle® Data Integration Suite is available immediately at a base price of $60,000 per CPU which includes Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, Oracle Application Server, Oracle|Hyperion Data Relationship Manager, Oracle B2B Engine, and Oracle Business Rule Engine.   

Oracle® Data Integration Suite options are priced separately and include Oracle Data Quality for Data Integrator, Oracle Data Profiling, Coherence Data Grid, Legacy Adapters, Applications Adapters, B2B Adapters and Unstructured Content Adapters.

Additional information on Oracle® Data Integration Suite is available at: http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/oracle-data-integrator.html

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Aly Rifaah
Oracle Middle East
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