Oracle readies 2 launches

Oracle is gearing up for the commercial launch of its two offerings - Data Vault and TimesTen - in India, the beta version of which is already available in the country.

The relational database management solutions major expects the offerings to hit the market before the end of the current financial year.

"We are very confident on the country's market potential and the commercial launch of the new offerings is to consolidate our position in the Indian BI (business intelligence) market. The new offerings will also complement our existing solutions in the Indian market," Sundar Ram, senior director, database pre-sales (Asia-Pacific region), told Business Standard here today.

Oracle Data Vault is a specialised database platform that integrates new security technologies and access controls, and addresses security requirements in areas of regulatory compliance, corporate governance, privacy, information consolidation and information sharing.

TimesTen is a solution that provides real-time applications to increase customer loyalty and new customer acquisition, streamline operations, and avoid the costly alternative of proprietary software development.

The company is successfully running its beta version and the commercial launch is just the natural course ahead, sources in the industry said.

The software major is looking at expanding into the Indian market with its recently launched Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), a free database software.

The new edition of XE offers application developers, database administrators and students a free starter database to develop and deploy their applications.

It is also freely available for independent software vendors and hardware vendors to distribute or embed with their applications and products.