Oracle Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024

Oracle has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024. To us, this recognition acknowledges Oracle’s commitment to providing advanced data solutions across hybrid and multicloud environments, our expertise in mission-critical enterprise workloads, and our focus on continuous innovation—all to help enterprises gain the full value of their data.

According to the Forrester report, “Translytical data platforms are next-generation data solutions built on a single database engine to seamlessly support transactional, operational, and analytical workloads without compromising data integrity, performance, or real-time analytics. They also offer support for distributed data architectures, multimodel capabilities, generative AI (genAI)/ML, vector search, cloud integration, and advanced workload management.”

We believe Forrester’s description of translytical platforms closely matches Oracle’s converged database approach. Indeed, Oracle Autonomous Database received the highest rankings in both the current offering and strategy categories compared to other evaluated vendors. Based on these rankings, Oracle was positioned as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Translytical Data Platforms shown below.

Oracle’s Recognition in The Forrester Wave™

The Forrester Wave™ report noted the following on Oracle’s offering, including:

• Cutting-edge data platform: "Oracle continues to deliver a cutting-edge, high-performance translytical data platform. Oracle has consistently demonstrated success in the category through an ongoing commitment and sharp focus on translytical, as well as continuous evolution of its platform. Recently, it has made significant investments in genAI, global and distributed deployments, and advanced autonomous capabilities."
• Strong product vision: “Oracle’s strong product vision emphasizes a distributed, intelligent, and automated data platform supporting AI applications and insights. The vendor’s roadmap suggests advancements in data intelligence, advanced genAI, autonomous global transactions, and extreme scalability and resilience across cloud and hybrid environments.” 
• High-performance data access: “Oracle is especially well-suited for enterprise customers requiring high-performance, low-latency access to data across diverse workloads, particularly in a hybrid cloud environment.”
• Several strengths: “Oracle shows strength in several areas, including architecture, data security, multimodel, data model, in-platform analytics, access control, workload management, performance optimization, transactions, and global transaction processing.”
• Praise from reference customers: “Reference customers praise Oracle’s platform for its reliability, robust performance, extensive features, ease of use, flexibility, and exceptional technical support.”

Expanding Oracle Autonomous Database in Multicloud

As enterprises accelerate their cloud strategies, many have chosen a multicloud approach leveraging the best services of two or more cloud providers. What’s common across enterprises is that their critical data is stored in Oracle Database. With Oracle’s multicloud strategy, Oracle Autonomous Database is now available at leading cloud providers, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Organizations can deploy Autonomous Database and their data where their applications reside, enabling seamless connectivity, consistent security, high performance, and high availability. 

With Oracle Database@Azure and Oracle Database@Google Cloud, customers benefit from a fully managed, high-performance Autonomous Database experience within their preferred cloud ecosystem, with low-latency interconnects and unified management. As Oracle Database@AWS expands geographically, it will further demonstrate how Oracle’s commitment to deliver best-in-class multicloud database solutions will help customers around the world. 

Additionally, customers can create an Oracle Database 23ai instance within Autonomous Database, gaining access to the latest AI-driven innovations, enhanced automation, and performance optimizations. With built-in AI capabilities, customers can leverage vector search, machine learning, and natural language querying to accelerate insights and streamline application development.

Experience Oracle Autonomous Database

Oracle Autonomous Database enables organizations to gain the full value of their data. Key benefits include:

• Autonomous Operations: Automates critical tasks, freeing IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
• Built-in AI and ML: Accelerates appdev with integrated AI and in-database machine learning (ML) to enhance apps with text and image analysis, speech recognition, or personalized recommendations.
• Enhanced Security: Protects data with robust security measures, including automatic patching, always-on encryption, and advanced role-based access control.
• Consolidated Platform: Simplifies data management with a unified solution for all workloads.
• Multicloud Support: Accelerates innovation and supercharges database applications on OCI, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and soon on AWS.
• Reduced Costs: Reduces operational expenses through automation, optimizes resource utilization, and lowers licensing costs through elastic scaling.

Embrace the future of data management with Oracle Autonomous Database. Learn more today and discover how our innovative platform can transform your business.

• Read The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024
• Learn more about our Oracle Autonomous Database
• Start by trying Oracle Autonomous Database for Free
• Or try the built-in AI capabilities of Autonomous Database in our workshop on the power of natural language queries with Select AI.

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