In the quest to generate revenue now and in the future, the alignment of information technology with business and mission has never been more important, and the integration of everything from applications to databases to systems to storage is vital to top-line revenue as well as the bottom line. Traditional IT models have often left integration as a task for the customer, or to third parties. Unfortunately, this integration model has often proven overly complex and costly – in terms of both acquisition and maintenance costs and the time required to time-to-deploy new applications and services. Complexity ultimately drives to both risk and cost, and more complex integration models are not only more costly to support, but they ultimately expose even the most carefully planned deployments to unforeseen risk. Many opportunities for true integration were also often lost in the well-intended but complex interactions of vendors and partners.

Oracle presents an entirely new opportunity for unprecedented levels of integration that contributes directly to the top-line benefits of IT technology can bring to the business, as well as bottom-line efficiencies and cost savings.