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Oracle Performance Tuning and Optimization
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): Edward Whalen
ISBN: 067230886x
Publication Date: 04/01/96

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Oracle Applications

Oracle has many applications built around the Oracle RDBMS system. The most well-known of these are the Oracle Financial applications. Oracle also offers many more applications including Oracle Office, Oracle Media Server, and Oracle ConText.

Oracle Financial Applications

Oracle provides a rich set of financial applications used extensively in businesses around the world. These applications are sometimes known collectively as Oracle Financials. The Oracle Financials application set is built around the Oracle RDBMS and includes applications such as Oracle Human Resources, Oracle Payroll, Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Assets, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Order Entry, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Bills of Material, Oracle Engineering, Oracle Master Scheduling, Oracle Work in Progress, Oracle MRP, Oracle Capacity, Oracle Project Costing, and Oracle Project Billing.

These applications are used to run many of the world’s mission-critical businesses. These applications are available on most platforms.

Oracle Office

Oracle Office provides a solution for today’s office needs. Office provides a GUI office environment as well as several mail gateway products. The Oracle Office environment includes the following components:

  Enterprise-wide messaging
  Enterprise-wide scheduling
  Personal calendar
  Personal organizer
  Proofreader

These components, in conjunction with other Oracle products, can be used to seamlessly integrate office and database applications and functionality.

Media Server

Oracle Media Server provides high-performance, scaleable, and reliable multimedia library functions on a wide variety of general-purpose systems. Media Server handles the storage, retrieval, and management of movies, music, photographs, and text articles.

ConText

When integrated with any text system, Oracle ConText can analyze and provide text filtering and text reduction for speed reading and summary viewing. Oracle ConText returns detailed grammatical assessments of the text it processes, checking for grammatical errors and rating the quality and style of the writing.

Oracle WebServer

The newly introduced Oracle WebServer is designed to provide front-end services that allow World Wide Web access to an Oracle database. This product allows Web users to retrieve information directly from an Oracle database rather than from traditional flat files. This product can be used to enhance the performance and functionality of your Web server. Performance is enhanced through the use of indexes and data caching. With the flexibility of the Oracle RDBMS, the functionality of your Web server can be enhanced through the use of language-sensitive context and other features.

Oracle Services

Oracle Corporation complements all its products with a wide variety of services. These services include worldwide consulting, support, and education.

Oracle Consulting

Oracle has a staff of more than 3,000 professionals highly skilled in Oracle applications and products. These specialists can work at your site to ensure quick deployment and support of Oracle applications. Oracle consulting supports the entire life cycle of your application: from re-engineering to deployment and administration.

Oracle Support

Oracle’s worldwide support organization provides comprehensive product support as well as multivendor support. Oracle has cooperative support agreements with key vendors to provide mutual support of customer environments. This arrangement enables quick responses and solutions for multivendor issues.

Oracle Education

To round out Oracle’s services, the company offers a wide range of educational programs from computer-based training to advanced classes taught at many Oracle training centers or at your site. The hands-on courses are designed to have you working with Oracle products quickly. Oracle also offers custom classes designed around your needs. Oracle Education offers many options, including these:

  Classroom training. These classes are offered around the world at Oracle training facilities.
  Onsite training. Oracle Education can come to your site for training.
  Media-based training. This includes options such as computer-based training (CBT), CD-ROM, and video training.
  The Oracle channel. This new option allows for face-to-face contact with instructors and other students using satellite connections.

Summary

This chapter provided you with a sample of the wide range of products and services Oracle offers. I hope it didn’t sound too much like an advertisement for Oracle, but I believe that you should have an idea of the broad range of products and services available. Many of these products are not mentioned anywhere else in this book; after all, you bought this book to learn how to improve performance.

You should realize that Oracle is constantly moving into new areas as well as improving its existing products. As computers get faster and less expensive in the next few years, I’m sure you will see the RDBMS evolve to accommodate these changes.


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