Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager Delivers New Application Configuration Management Capabilities

Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager Delivers New Application Configuration Management
Capabilities

Unique Features for Managing Application Configurations Enhance Broad
Configuration Management Capabilities

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts

-- Today, Oracle extended the comprehensive configuration management
capabilities of Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager. The new features focus
on
managing application configurations. The added capabilities help to
further simplify configuration management, improve service levels and
enforce compliance for business-critical applications.
-- These new features join other recently announced configuration
management capabilities in Oracle Enterprise Manager, including
real-time change detection; policies for key industry standards and
best
practices; and comprehensive compliance reporting.

-- Oracle Enterprise Manager's "top-down" approach to
application management enables customers to reduce complexity and
increase efficiencies in their IT environments and optimally run their
enterprise applications.

Providing a Broad Configuration Management Solution
The new features add integral capabilities that contribute to four key areas
of Oracle Enterprise Manager's comprehensive configuration management
solution.
-- Discovery and tracking of IT assets and components - helps customers
identify IT assets and their relationships to quickly remediate
configuration issues;
-- Simplified management - with a rich portfolio of more than 100 Oracle
and non-Oracle configuration management templates, including templates
for Linux, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM WebSphere, customers can more
efficiently implement configuration management across the entire
application deployment lifecycle;
-- Real-time change detection of unauthorized changes - enables customers
to easily meet industry and regulatory compliance requirements;

-- Easy integration in complex environments - allows customers to fully
utilize existing IT investments, for example, by enabling closed-loop
reconciliation on change requests across heterogeneous IT
environments.

Going Beyond Today's Configuration Management Solutions
Oracle Enterprise Manager goes beyond current configuration management
solutions to provide unique insight into the Oracle software stack, enabling
the deepest and richest configuration capabilities for Oracle products
out-of-the-box.
-- Advanced template-driven application configuration management -
includes
more than 30 application templates including templates for Oracle's
Siebel, Oracle's PeopleSoft, Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic
Server - simplifies the management of even the most sophisticated
application environments;
-- Real-time configuration change detection - forms the basis of a robust
compliance framework, with out-of-box policies for popular industry
and
regulatory compliance requirements, helping to enforce corporate
standards and mitigate risks with automated IT compliance controls;

-- Complete configuration management of virtual environments -
accelerates
the adoption of virtualization technologies while maintaining firm
control over physical IT configurations.

Supporting Quotes
-- "Tracking and managing the dependencies between application
components and their associated configurations are some of the most
extreme challenges in today's IT environments. Oracle Enterprise
Manager's new application configuration management capabilities can
help customers achieve solid control over such challenges helping
customers to increase operating efficiencies while improving service
levels and reducing management costs." said Richard Sarwal, Oracle
senior vice president Product Development.

-- "Well-managed change, configuration and release processes are
critical to delivering new products and services for strategic
capability and competitive advantage. Better coordination between
development and production across these processes enables the IT
organization to deliver reliable and timely changes at increased
frequency and complexity, while optimizing costs and improving service
quality." Ronni Colville, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner.
Source: Gartner, From Development to Production: Integrating Change,
Configuration and Release, March 3, 2009.

Supporting Resources
-- Free Webcast: Taking Configuration Management to the EXTREME
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager
-- Oracle Configuration Management Pack Datasheet
-- Follow Oracle Enterprise Manager on Twitter
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager Customers

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