Oracle has announced new versions of its five major product lines that according to the company offer role-based analytics, comprehensive application management, integration, search, master data management, and XML-based reporting capabilities.
In the latest version of its E-Business suite, the company has released 18 new products and 2443 new enhancements.
Its PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9 contains two new products and 1478 enhancements that apparently offer customers a standards-based platform to address the challenges of disparate technologies and applications.
Meanwhile, the new release of the Siebel CRM suite offers ten new products and 366 enhancements that comes bundled with a new task-based user interface, enterprise search capabilities, SOA-enabled CRM and embedded intelligence driving real-time insight at the moment of customer interaction.
The first major release of JD Edwards World in ten years, this new version offers four new products and 1297 enhancements. The company also outlined Oracle Fusion Applications, a complete standards-based, SOA built application suite.
Said Charles Phillips, president, Oracle, "Additionally, with the "Applications
Unlimited" program, we are also giving our customers the choice as to when they upgrade without having to re-license their applications, which is a first in the software industry."
The announcement came in the wake of its global "Applications Unlimited" event held across six continents over 24 hours.
