News Facts

--  Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, demonstrated planned capabilities of a
future release of Oracle(R)
Enterprise Manager, including support for managing Oracle's
next-generation Fusion Applications and new integration with Oracle's
support services, at his Oracle OpenWorld keynote on October 14, 2009.
--  The demonstration showed Oracle Enterprise Manager dashboards for
Oracle Fusion Applications, which are being designed to make it easy for
administrators to monitor and manage all aspects of Oracle Fusion
Applications. 
--  The keynote also previewed a planned integration with My Oracle
Support, Oracle's next-generation online customer support experience.
This integration aids cutomers in the time-consuming task of patch
management providing proactive patch recommendations and patch automation,
helping them ensure their systems are continuously up-to-date.  It also
provides increased visibility into production environments, enabling a more
efficient means for meeting regulatory, compliance and governance
requirements. 
--  Oracle Enterprise Manager is a comprehensive product family of
management software for applications and IT infrastructure resources.
Delivering management that spans applications, middleware, database and
virtual infrastructure, Oracle Enterprise Manager provides top-down
application management for the enterprise application stack comprising
Oracle and non-Oracle software. 
--  My Oracle Support is Oracle's recently released next-generation support
experience and provides supported customers with unprecedented
personalized, proactive and collaborative support capabilities in one
place.  Through this exclusive Web support portal, customers have instant
access to the latest support information, forums, communities and product
alerts enabling a superior support experience.

Comprehensive Application Management Extends Superior Ownership Experience

--  Oracle Fusion Applications customers can benefit from the following
planned capabilities:
--  End-to-end application performance management - Integrated application
performance management from user experience monitoring down to the
infrastructure management without requiring the use of multiple tools,
manual set up or other customization.  With these planned capabilities,
many application performance problems may be prevented while others will
take significantly less time to diagnose and remediate, all within Oracle
Enterprise Manager.