Bangkok--7 Nov--PC & Associates Consulting Oracle today announced that it has been positioned in the leaders quadrant in the recent Gartner report, “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007.” 1 The report evaluates vendors for their ability to execute and completeness of vision. Gartner states, “Enterprise Content Management is an ‘umbrella term’ and represents a framework and vision for integrating a broad range of content management technologies and content formats.” Gartner also states, “The market for enterprise content management in 2007 is approximately $2.9 billion, based on worldwide total software revenue. Gartner predicts that total software revenue from the worldwide ECM market will grow at a compound annual rate of 12.9 percent through 2011.”1 As part of the hot-pluggable, standards-based family of Oracle? Fusion Middleware products, Oracle’s enterprise content management software offers the industry’s easiest-to-use and most comprehensive platform for securely managing, sharing, storing and retrieving structured and unstructured content across heterogeneous IT environments. Oracle provides an array of enterprise content management software including Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle Universal Records Management, Oracle Imaging and Process Management, Oracle Information Rights Management, and Oracle Content Database Suite. 1 Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007,” by Karen M. Shegda, Toby Bell, Kenneth Chin, Mark R. Gilbert, September 21, 2007 “The explosive growth in unstructured content managed by organizations, combined with greater concerns over intellectual property, information privacy and government regulations, has made enterprise content management a mission-critical issue for both the private and public sector,” said Andy MacMillan, vice president, Content Management, Oracle. “We believe Oracle’s position in the leaders quadrant for Enterprise Content Management is further confirmation that our customers are able to increase productivity and enhance the value of enterprise applications while reducing information management costs and simplifying regulatory compliance by using Oracle’s comprehensive and integrated enterprise content management software.” For a complimentary copy of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007” report, visit http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/oracle/150426.html. About Oracle Content Management Oracle Content Management is the industry’s most unified enterprise content management platform that enables customers to leverage industry-leading document management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records management functionality to build their business applications. Building a strategic enterprise content management infrastructure for content and applications helps customers to reduce costs, easily share content across the enterprise, minimize risk, automate expensive, time-intensive and manual processes, and consolidate multiple Web sites onto a single platform. For more information about Oracle Content Management, visit http://www.oracle.com/goto/contentmanagement. About Oracle Fusion Middleware: Leader in Middleware The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware software spans portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables organizations to increase their capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance; and connect with customers, partners, and workers. More than 50,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including market-leading independent software vendors, value-added resellers and system integrators. For additional information visit: http://www.oracle.com/middleware. About The Gartner Magic Quadrant (Magic Quadrant Disclaimer) The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted September 21, 2007, by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Oracle Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. 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