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Finance: "REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today announced its position in the
leader quadrant in Gartner's ETL 2004 Magic Quadrant. Oracle is the
only database vendor listed in the leader quadrant.
One of 18 vendors in the extract, transform and load (ETL) market
evaluated by Gartner for this year's report, Oracle was recognized
based on its vision and ability to execute. The affordability of
Oracle® Warehouse Builder, and its alignment with the feature-rich
Oracle Database 10g, has helped Oracle grow its ETL customer base to
include more than 3,000 companies. According to Gartner, "leaders" are
performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and can
execute on that opportunity.
"Many of the world's largest companies are using Oracle Warehouse
Builder for their most pressing ETL needs," said Ray Roccaforte, vice
president of Server Development, Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp.
"Industry adoption of ETL will continue to be fueled by the widespread
deployment of business intelligence solutions. Our ETL tool is an
excellent option for companies implementing such solutions."
Oracle Delivers Powerful Data Warehousing and ETL Offerings
In May 2004, Gartner listed Oracle in the 2004 Data Warehouse DBMS
Leaders' Quadrant for completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Oracle's combined strengths in data warehousing and ETL provide
customers with a comprehensive offering to efficiently and cost
effectively develop, deploy and manage highly scalable decision
support systems.
Business Intelligence market growth has fueled ETL tool adoption such
as Oracle Warehouse Builder that reads data from a database, extracts
the desired data, transforms it into the required form according to
predefined rules, and then loads into a data warehouse for reporting
and analytic requirements.
About Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g
Oracle Warehouse Builder enables the extraction, transformation, and
loading of heterogeneous data to produce quality information in Oracle
Database 10g. It is the only enterprise business intelligence design
tool that manages the full life-cycle of data and metadata integration
for Oracle Database 10g."
Read more
here including a
diagram of the Gartner ETL Magic Quadrant. This is obviously based
on the new Paris release of OWB, which is a step change in terms of
functionality and performance above the 3i and 9i-generations of OWB.
What's probably particularly helped in this release is features such
as the ability to load non-Oracle databases (revealed in
Paul Narth's
presentation), the data profiler and close integration with Oracle
OLAP. Good to see our choice of ETL tool vindicated.
