REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 29, 2005 -- Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, a comprehensive suite of collaboration products that offers robust functionality for businesses to better manage and deliver content and communications throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g adds compelling enhancements to Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration and Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging, and introduces new features with Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces.

Built on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the first collaboration offering in the market to support seamless management of all structured and unstructured enterprise information on a single architecture. As a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is designed for seamless integration into business applications and processes to drive greater levels of organizational efficiency. This enables enterprises to improve agility, enable faster decision-making, and reduce costs and risks to diverse technology environments.

"Oracle Collaboration Suite has raised the bar for collaborative software by enabling users to manage and deliver the right information to the right people in the context of their current activity," said Greg Doherty, vice president, Oracle Collaboration Suite. "The integrated tools enable users to communicate from anywhere, at any time and with any device-making collaboration a far more valuable corporate asset."

"Businesses are hungry for collaboration tools that enable them to focus on connecting internal teams and communities, while processing content and information in a secure environment," said Mark Levitt, research vice president, IDC. "Such tools are vital for organizations in moving toward contextual collaboration and the enterprise workplace."

"Because of our expanding mission requirements and technological growth, we needed a solution that delivered secure user integration across department components, product lines and technologies," said George Albinson, director of knowledge management and chief information officer at the US Army, RDECOM, ARDEC. "Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g offered us the perfect fit for an environment based on individual scientists and engineers who work on multiple Integrated Product Teams for a wide variety of customers. Especially attractive to us is Oracle Collaboration Suite's ease of use and the security offered by Oracle applications and database products. It is an ideal platform for secure, controlled access with process and product innovation and integration."

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services offers enhanced content management functionality for all users throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services is a robust platform priced and designed for enterprise-wide records management, business process automation and integrated file and document management. With unstructured data accounting for more than 80 percent of existing enterprise data, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services is the first offering that enables customers to manage unstructured data and mitigate risk across all of the users in an enterprise while improving productivity and reducing costs.

Formerly known as Oracle Files, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services enables customers to gain control of their enterprise information and policies to support regulatory compliance and mitigate risks associated with poorly managed content. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services offers enhanced file management and sharing capabilities and adds new document lifecycle and records management functionalities and business process automation capabilities.

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces introduces new capabilities for team collaboration that enable project teams to easily organize and manage documents, messages, meetings, tasks and discussions within a cohesive secure environment dedicated to a specific project or process. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces leverages all the services of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, including email, calendar, content services, discussions, presence, web conferencing, and instant messaging.

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces provides enterprise users with tools to be more productive when engaging in project-based work than with the traditional tools like email. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces captures in one location all activities, discussions, meetings, actions, tasks and emails that revolve around a document. This enables users to capture, manage, find and utilize all the knowledge involving the document. At the same time, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Workspaces leverages the power of the Oracle Database 10g to manage unstructured information and ensure that assets are properly managed for policy, records and as corporate knowledge assets.

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration now offers instant messaging, voice chat and presence in addition to enhanced web conferencing capabilities. With Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration, users can instantly locate individuals and groups across an enterprise and communicate in real-time, while seamlessly transitioning from instant message to voice chat or to a Web conference. Communication is secure, while retaining auditable records to help meet corporate governance and regulation needs. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration is designed for integration into enterprise business applications and processes.

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging provides a unified platform for managing email, voicemail and fax messages in the highly scalable and reliable Oracle Database 10g. Enhanced features of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging include the new Oracle Web Access, which brings together a user-friendly design with rich features to offer a desktop-like user experience in a browser. By supporting standards like the Push-IMAP protocol, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging enables the delivery of emails to a variety of wireless devices over public networks, reducing the cost of deploying this solution.

Availability, Packaging and Pricing

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, comprised of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services, Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Real-Time Collaboration and Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Unified Messaging, is available for $60 per user. Licenses for each of the three individual products are available for $45 per user. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Records Management is an add-on option for Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g or Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Content Services, for an additional $100 per user in the enterprise.

About Oracle Collaboration Suite

Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the first enterprise-class collaboration product built on the right architecture: Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g. The result is a solution that is secure, reliable, highly scalable and enables organizations to drive down total cost of ownership. It is built on service-oriented architecture that allows collaboration to become a seamless part of the application infrastructure, helping drive higher efficiencies and levels of productivity. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g is the foundation for the collaboration-enabled enterprise.

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