Oracle Named a Leader in Business Process Management

In its “IDC (News - Alert) MarketScape: Business Process Platforms 2011” report, IDC has named Oracle as a leader.

Due to its technical functionality as a platform, sophisticated user interface, business functionality in its process layer, and business execution capabilities, Oracle was named a leader in this IDC MarketScape, according to the report. IDC believed Oracle (News - Alert) is a very strong option for enterprises investing strategically in BPM automation technology.

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“This is a critical area as business processes are at the heart of what makes or breaks a business, and what differentiates it from the competition,” said David Shaffer, vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware. “IDC’s comprehensive analysis demonstrates Oracle’s leadership in the business process management market, and it is rewarding to achieve top marks in a number of areas. These results validate our commitment to providing customers with the industry’s most complete and unified business process management solution.”

This IDC report sheds light on the ability of vendors to support mid-range to complex process improvement scenarios. To improve and automate a wide range of processes and support advanced use cases around orchestration, case management, process interoperability, end-to-end process monitoring, and event-driven process management, BP platforms provide development and runtime environments. This means BP platforms are capable of combining people- and system-centric use cases, the company stated in a press release. 

Recently, the company denied the charges made by HP about its decision to discontinue software development for Intel (News - Alert), saying that the formal agreement with HP does not include a guarantee of continued support for Itanium-based servers. Additionally, the world’s number-three software maker claims that Itanium maker Intel has been planning to phase out the processor for some time and that HP is aware of this development. Incidentally, the Itanium processor was jointly developed by HP and Intel.