Oracle Database Insider Blog

Graham Wood provided the keynote at last week’s customer event detailing how Oracle Database 11g features help lower the costs of managing a database. I (Jeff) caught up with him soon afterwords to get a recap of his talk.

Gartner is still pulling in good attendance at its BI Summit series, and that’s a good thing for Oracle.

According to the Oracle Database Insider’s eyes and ears at the summit, marketing director, Kimberly Billings, Gartner reiterated Oracle's "full stack" message in its session evaluating mega vendors IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. “Gartner’s message was that competition and consolidation will favor mega vendors rather than pure-play vendors,” says Billings. “Gartner noted that Oracle is the only mega vendor on that list with a complete stack and that Oracle is way ahead as the data warehousing market share leader.”

Oracle’s most anticipated and well attended presentation featured Oracle BI and data warehousing heavyweights John Kopcke and Bob Stackowiak outlining the Oracle’s complete, integrated BI/DW offering, from storage to scorecard.

It Just Works
Oracle customers Paul Hartley, General Manager of LGR and Scott Fenton, CIO of Wind River, shared their experiences using the HP Oracle Database Machine and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications respectively. Both customers underscored that Oracle products provide business value, are extremely stable, and "just work." “I saw lots of interest in learning more about HP Oracle Database Machine and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications,” says Billings.

The Gartner event left Billings with the impression that companies of all sizes are looking for ways to differentiate themselves during uncertain times, and that high-quality BI backed by powerful, efficient data warehousing is one of the key ways they hope to do it. Overall, it was a message that played to Oracle’s strengths.

The Database Insider team has learned that Oracle's own Mark Townsend is scheduled to speak at an Oracle-Sponsored, Intelligent Enterprise WebCast entitled, Lower Data Warehousing Costs with Oracle Database 11g.

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Duration: One Hour

For any organization, disk storage is one of the largest IT costs, and it's a cost that continues to grow year over year.

In this webcast, you'll get a chance to hear from Mark how Oracle Advanced Compression can reduce disk storage requirements and improve query performance. You won't have to change your applications, and you can store more data, keep it online longer, and access it faster using your existing storage environment. He will also cover how Oracle Partitioning can reduce the total cost of ownership of your data warehouse, enabling a "tiered archiving" approach for keeping older relevant information online using low-cost storage devices.

To Register - click here