As business operations become more complex, the demand for change in IT increases accordingly, complete with associated risks that must be mitigated. Today professionals are being asked to manage more information, and deliver that information to their users, with ever increasing quality of service, in a timely manner. And, in today economic climate, IT is additionally tasked with reducing budgets and deriving greater value out of their existing investments.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers. By deploying Oracle Database 11g Release 2 as their data management foundation, organizations can utilize the full power of the world ʼs ITʼsʼs leading database to:

• reduce server costs by a factor of 5
• reduce storage requirements by a factor of 10
• improve mission critical system performance by a factor of 10
• increase DBA and Developer productivity by a factor of 2
• eliminate idle redundancy in the data center, and
• simplify their overall IT software portfolio. This white paper identifies the key capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable IT professionals to successfully deliver more information, with higher quality of service, and at much lower cost, than they have ever been able to do so in the past.