Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
October 28, 2009

Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.

News Flashes

Altova Adds Support for Health and Financial Industry-Specific Regulatory Standards

Altova, a data integration vendor, has included Health Level Seven (HL7) and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standards support within MapForce Version 2009, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools.

Embarcadero DB Optimizer 2.0 Reduces the Complexity of SQL Tuning

Embarcadero, a provider of multi-platform database tools, is adding more graphical capabilities to DB Optimizer to make it easier for developers and DBAs to do SQL profiling and tuning. DB Optimizer, which supports Oracle, IBM DB2 for LUW, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase, helps eliminate performance bottlenecks by identifying data-intensive or frequently executed queries, focusing on specific SQL statements through query statistics (CPU, I/O, wait times), and fine-tuning problematic statements.

HiT Software Adds Configuration and Tracking Features to Allora Data Transformation Product

HiT Software, a provider of products for database access, integration and replication, has announced Allora 6.0, the newest version of the company's data transformation product.

Melissa Data Showcases New Data Quality Platform at Oracle OpenWorld 2009

Melissa Data, in partnership with Acme Data, is expanding its data quality offerings, creating a "lite" version of DQ*Plus, its data quality solution for cleaning and consolidating enterprise data. The company introduced the lite version, called DQ*Plus Basic, at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009.

Noetix Introduces Noetix Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite

Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence content from enterprise applications, recently introduced Noetix Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite, a packaged analytics solution that greatly speeds the process of implementing a data warehouse. Noetix has been providing content for real-time reporting for Oracle applications for 15 years, and the addition of packaged analytics now enables them to deliver an end-to-end business intelligence solution for Oracle applications.