Enterprise operations rely on the management, understanding, and efficient use of vast amounts of information. Increasingly, business value and operations depend on in-depth information analysis that is not readily accessible without human or machine-based interpretation. The ways in which different types of information are managed vary, based on how the data is created and used, whether it is on the office desktop, mega-sized government or academia files, in the public or health sectors, or in the science and pharmaceutical research industries. This paper explains how the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes a wide range of capabilities that allow for intelligent management and analysis of these forms of information.