Oracle Unveils Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager 11g

REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Apr 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

-- Delivering the industry's most comprehensive business-driven IT
management capabilities, Oracle(R) Enterprise Manager 11g helps
maximize business agility and productivity through an integrated
approach to IT management.
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g introduces:
-- Business-driven application management -- enables IT to be more
responsive to business priorities and deliver greater business
value by managing to key metrics for user experience and business
transactions.
-- Integrated application-to-disk management -- simplifies management
through eliminating the need to use multiple tools at every layer
of the stack -- from packaged applications through middleware,
database, operating system, virtualization, and hardware -- and
helps maximize return on IT investment.
-- Integrated systems management and support -- allows IT to be more
proactive than ever before through knowledge sharing with Oracle
support and the broader Oracle community, which translates into
more satisfied and productive users and more efficient IT
operations.

Business-Driven Application Management; Delivers Greater Business
Value

-- Provides IT with an in-depth business perspective, with the ability to
directly monitor and manage the experience of business users, their
business transactions and application interactions.
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g enables improved business productivity,
and helps IT to fuel business innovation and growth through:
-- User Experience Management: The new release 6.5 of Oracle Real
User Experience Insight, a key feature of Oracle Enterprise
Manager 11g, provides performance and usage statistics for real
and synthetic transactions, as well as integrated diagnostics for
Oracle's Siebel CRM, the Oracle E-Business Suite and Java
technology-based applications -- all accessible from a single
console.
-- Business Transaction Management: Automatically discovers
transactions, including the business content from the transaction;
provides end-to-end visibility for in-flight transactions that
span different IT tiers and different applications, including
long-running transactions; provides crucial context to understand
business impact and enables proactive issue resolution.
-- Business Service Management: Comprehensive service dashboards
automatically discover business services, such as billing and
shipping, and provide end-to-end performance analysis and
diagnostics through a deep understanding of service
implementations.

Integrated Application-to-Disk Management; Simplifies Management
Environment; Enables Improved ROI

-- Complete management of the Oracle stack, including tools to manage
Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle
Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, and Oracle's Sun Servers.
This enables IT to quickly identify root cause and, in many cases,
automatically resolve issues.
-- Additionally, these capabilities help eliminate multiple point tools,
for a simplified management environment and help customers achieve
faster return on IT investment.
-- Highlights include:
-- Comprehensive Middleware Management: This release delivers
enhanced support for managing Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g,
including full configuration management and provisioning for
large-scale Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server
environments. Oracle WebLogic Server is often used in an
"application grid" environment, or as the foundation for a private
cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g can greatly simplify the
management and provisioning of such deployments.
-- New Database Management Capabilities: Providing full support for
Oracle Database 11g Release 2, including compression, change
detection, partitioning, diagnostics, and tuning. Oracle
Exadata-aware SQL monitoring and I/O resource management for
Oracle Exadata Version 2 is also featured.
-- Extensive Hardware, Virtualization and Operating System
Management:Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, for managing Sun
hardware and Oracle Solaris, covers the entire lifecycle of
physical and virtual Sun environments including Oracle VM for
SPARC (formerly known as Logical Domains or LDoms) and Solaris
Containers, enabling customers to maximize the utilization of
their Sun systems.
-- Application Quality Management: New Oracle Application Testing
Suite Release 9.1, automates test script generation based on real
user actions; provides access to middleware diagnostics during
load test to help identify performance bottlenecks; provides a new
testing accelerator to simplify testing of applications based on
Oracle ADF; and offers a new test starter kit for Oracle
E-Business Suite R12 applications, to help reduce testing effort.

Integrated Systems Management and Support; Enables More Proactive IT

-- The integration of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g's console with Oracle
Support Services allows proactive management of critical business
systems.
-- New components include:
-- Smart Configuration Management: Offers complete configuration
lifecycle management and discovery with real-time change detection
for compliance. It can simultaneously analyze millions of customer
configurations and provide IT professionals with real-time
notification of potential problems.
-- Automated Workflow: Enables the selection, validation and
deployment of patches across the entire IT environment, allowing
IT to help reduce the risk and effort needed to implement
recommendations and fixes.
-- Community-Based Console: Facilitates best practice sharing and
knowledge exchange with other members of the IT community.

Supporting Quotes

-- "Traditional systems management products don't address the
complexities of modern data centers. They create islands of automation
but do not provide a holistic, integrated picture of the health of the
entire IT stack," said Richard Sarwal, Oracle senior vice president
Product Development. "Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g helps IT deliver
greater business value, in addition to greater IT efficiency and
productivity. With the ability to closely support business goals, IT
can become a strategic value-add to the success of an organization."
-- "In order to optimize its costs while maintaining the quality of IT
services... IT will have to behave as a distinct corporate entity --
the IT enterprise -- rather than a pure divisional cost center within
the enterprise. These new initiatives will require information that
supports global business-based decisions instead of limited tactical
technology ones. Consequently, the IT management software market will
have to evolve from its pure operational role to a more strategic and
business-oriented one," as stated in "Market Projections For 2010: IT
Management Software," Forrester Research, Inc., February, 2010.

Supporting Resources

-- Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g microsite

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Contact Info

Letty Ledbetter
Oracle
+1.650.506.8071
letty.ledbetter@oracle.com

Teri Whitaker
Oracle
1.650.506.9914
teri.whitaker@oracle.com

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