Oracle Press Release
Oracle Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Most Recent Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant

Redwood Shores, CA - February 3, 2010
News Facts

Gartner’s 2010 “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms” positions Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant, Oracle announced today. (1)
Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision.
According to Gartner, “leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprise wide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis.”
The Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation offers comprehensive analytic and BI capabilities for ad hoc analysis, OLAP, interactive dashboards, advanced reporting and publishing, proactive detection and alerts, mobile analytics, and more. Its hot-pluggable design enables organizations to extend BI capabilities to existing Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and applications including SAP.
The Oracle BI Foundation serves as the technical foundation for Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) system as well as Oracle BI Applications. Oracle BI Applications are complete, prebuilt solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle applications that enable customers to achieve fast time to value by reducing deployment time and help lower overall total cost of ownership.
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“We believe Gartner’s placement of Oracle in the Leaders Quadrant recognizes our work to deliver a complete, open and integrated BI platform that helps organizations proactively make informed, actionable decisions and drive toward optimized performance across the enterprise,” said Paul Rodwick, vice president of Product Management, Oracle Business Intelligence. “Organizations around the world are making Oracle’s BI platform their enterprise standard.”


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(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,” by Rita L. Sallam, Bill Hostmann, James Richardson, Andreas Bitterer, January 29, 2010
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 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.
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