Gartner Positions Oracle in Leaders Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data Solutions

REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Jan 16 (Marketwire) --
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

-- For the fourth consecutive year, Gartner, Inc. has named Oracle as a
Leader in its "Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product
Data Solutions." (1)
-- Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports position vendors within a particular
quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
-- According to Gartner, "Leaders demonstrate strong results and delivery
capabilities. They typically possess a large, satisfied customer base
(relative to the size of the market) and enjoy high visibility in the
market. Their size and financial strength enable them to remain viable
in a challenging economy. Leaders have mature offerings and track
records of successful deployments, even in the most challenging
environments, across all geographies and in many industries. Leaders
have the strategic vision to address evolving client requirements;
however, they are not always the best choice."
-- "MDM is a technology-enabled discipline in which business and IT staff
work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship,
semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official,
shared master data assets. Master data is the consistent and uniform
set of identifiers and extended attributes that describes the core
entities of the enterprise, such as customers, prospects, citizens,
suppliers, sites, hierarchies and chart of accounts," according to
Gartner.
-- Gartner continued, "Gartner's Magic Quadrant for MDM of Product Data
Solutions provides insight into the portion of the constantly evolving
packaged MDM systems market that focuses on managing product data to
support customer and product oriented strategies spanning supply chain
management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-Commerce,
Procurement and product life cycle management (PLM) applications."
-- By enabling organizations to consolidate product information from
heterogeneous systems, Oracle Product Hub creates a single view of
product information that can be leveraged and shared across functional
departments in the enterprise, as well as externally with trading
partners.
-- The Oracle Product Hub leverages Oracle Enterprise Data Quality to arm
organizations with high quality, trusted data for any enterprise
application that drives better business decision-making and enables
companies to bring new products to market faster, manage product
information efficiently and provide a consolidated view across the
enterprise.
-- Oracle Product Hub is part of Oracle Master Data Management that also
includes Oracle Customer Hub, Oracle Supplier Hub, Oracle Site Hub,
Oracle Data Relationship Management, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
and their vertical variants. It is the most complete, best-in-class,
MDM offering on the market, and helps customers consolidate and
maintain complete, accurate, and authoritative master data across the
entire enterprise.

Supporting Quote

-- "In any product company, accurate product information is a foundation
for all major business initiatives, and this requires a robust,
comprehensive and flexible product MDM solution," said Jon Chorley,
vice president, supply chain management product strategy, Oracle. "We
believe Oracle's position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Master Data
Management of Product Data Solutions highlights our ability to provide
best-in-class functionality across the industry's most complete MDM
portfolio. By using Oracle MDM solutions, companies can obtain a
high-quality, common enterprise product record and are better able to
support their key business initiatives."

Supporting Resources

-- Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Product Data Solutions
-- Oracle Master Data Management
-- Join the Oracle Master Data Management online community: MDM Blog

(1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of
Product Data Solutions," by Andrew White, Bill O'Kane, November 21, 2012

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Oracle
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