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MARKET OVERVIEW
June 26, 2008
Oracle Focuses On Business Value
SWOT Analysis: Oracle Enterprise Manager, Q2 2008
by Jean-Pierre Garbani
with Thomas Mendel, Ph.D., Reedwan Iqbal
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Length: 4 pages
Oracle today presents a management portfolio that addresses the core Oracle solutions: application management, middleware management, and database management. This focus provides Oracle clients with immediate benefits. It is also a stepping stone for Oracle's enterprise management strategy: Instead of putting together a portfolio of infrastructure management solutions, Oracle intends to build on today's portfolio to address the next generation of management solutions and the all-important articulation of business services. As infrastructure management solutions are increasingly commoditized, Oracle believes that the next generation of IT management solutions will have to provide business value by addressing the integration of existing solutions and by providing a complete IT life-cycle integration of IT services into business processes. This could very well make Oracle the fifth major vendor of IT management software within the next three years.
FORRESTER'S IT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SWOT
The IT management software market has gone through a wave of acquisitions over the past few years.(see endnote 1) Once again, clients are particularly interested in the capabilities of the larger, more integrated vendors in the space as they prepare to make strategic decisions around such topics as business service management (BSM) and the configuration management database.(see endnote 2) Forrester publishes separate research reports on the ...