World Renowned Companies Harness the Power of Oracle Database 10g

Early Adopters Spanning Industries Use Simplified, Self-Managed Database to Increase Value of IT Systems

BPU Banca Group, CERN, Deutsche Post, and Prolexys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly Myriad Proteomics) are among more than 100 organizations worldwide that have successfully beta tested Oracle Database 10g, which is now available.

Oracle Database 10g, the world's most affordable, self-managing database software, introduces advanced capabilities that eliminate hundreds of complex, repetitive administration tasks such as performance diagnostics, application tuning and memory management. The database also provides companies with a grid computing infrastructure to achieve the highest levels of efficiency from their existing information technology (IT) investments.

Companies spanning multiple industries - consumer-packaged goods, financial services, government agencies, life sciences, retailers - have adopted Oracle Database 10g as their preferred database for simplified database administration and management.

Deutsche Post Uses Oracle's Self-Managing Database to Improve Customer Service Improving product quality and customer service, while reducing operating costs and IT complexity are among the top priorities for retailers and consumer packaged goods companies. Rob Leaman, understands daunting IT systems. He is the manager for the database department in the Business Information Management Systems Division at Deutsche Post IT Solutions GmbH (DPITS). With 400 projects under way, Leaman and his team at DPITS develop applications ranging from sorting mail and bar coding to monitoring movements of container cargo and airfreight.

"Customer service is among the top criteria upon which we are evaluated," said Leaman. "With Oracle Database 10g, we can let the database manage itself and focus on issues that directly impact our business such as improving customer service. Because the new software automatically captures workload information and learns about how it's being used, it can help troubleshoot by diagnosing problems ahead of time, as well as solve problems faster."

BPU Banca Group Uses Oracle to Keep Customer Assets Safe Stringent new regulations and increasing global competition challenge financial services providers to grow profitably. These demands emphasize choosing the right database for 24/7 high availability, reliability and security. BPU Banca Group is integrating technology best practices to provide the highest quality of customer service.

"Our clients trust us to manage their assets, so it's critical that their data is secure and that our database never goes down," said Gianfranco Lorusso, CIO, BPU Banca Group. "As an early tester of Oracle Database 10g, we're using the simplified management features. Because the database is intuitive, our DBAs can think more strategically about the business and spend their time developing market analysis to make more informed business decisions."

Today, governments are evolving to meet increasing public demands, legislative mandates, and economic and political pressures to be more responsive, efficient and accountable to their citizens. Organizations such as New Mexico Department of Transportation and University of Arkansas' Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) are some of the agencies that tested Oracle Database 10g's new spatial and location-based technology.

Harry House, director of the Powell Data Center in the Wisconsin District of the Geological Survey's Water Resources Discipline, looks forward to implementing Oracle Database 10g for its ease-of-management and simplified administration features. "We are currently supporting multiple national and regional data systems for the USGS and other agencies. With only one DBA to manage over 40 servers in a mixed environment of Linux and Windows platforms, it's extremely important that our database be easy to manage. With its new self-managing technologies, Oracle Database 10g will help our DBA and developers automate memory and index tuning, space management, and other tasks that, in the past have, proven time consuming or were not performed optimally."

About Oracle Database 10g

Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small servers to the biggest SMP servers and from clusters to enterprise grids. It features automated tuning and management capabilities that make it easy and cost effective to operate. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to natively manage all data - from traditional business information to data mining, XML documents, and spatial/location information - make it an ideal choice to power Online Transaction Processing, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Content Management applications.

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