Oracle's Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions Drive Leadership in Business Analytics

As part of Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle announced that its Business Analytics family of products continue to lead the industry.

Oracle's strengthened its Business Analytics position as the industry leader in vendor share, growth, performance, partner ecosystem and developer communities through continued commitment to delivering innovative products.

Business Analytics. according to a major industry analyst firm, includes the following four primary segments: Analytic Applications, Business Intelligence Tools, Data Warehousing Platform Software, and Spatial Information Analysis Tools.

Rick Shultz, Oracle Vice President, Technology Marketing, said:

"Customer adoption of Oracle's Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions continues to outpace the overall market sector.

"Organizations in both the private and public sectors are standardizing their BI and EPM initiatives on Oracle in order to help improve enterprise decision-making and increase financial and operational performance."

Oracle showcased the success of Business Analytics throughout the OpenWorld event. In the past year alone, Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) have maintained their status as first in Financial Performance Management, rated as leading products by industry analysis reports. In 2009, Oracle has delivered seven new category-leading products into the Business Analytics family, and completed the integration of BI tools, BI Applications and EPM Applications with all of its packaged Business Applications. Testament to these successes is the number of partners gained by Oracle this year; Oracle trained over 7,000 practitioners as partners on Oracle BI and EPM software in 2009 alone.