Oracle Corp. announced the availability of Oracle(R) Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2. This latest release of Oracle Audit Vault introduces key new reporting and alerting capabilities that streamline and help reduce the cost of the database audit process. Complete Solution for Database Auditing and Activity Monitoring Delivers New Reporting, Alerting, Compliance Features: Oracle Audit Vault Release 10.2.3.2 automates the database audit process with new features including: Report scheduling, notification, attestation and archiving capabilities that can help organizations lower the cost of complying with internal and external data privacy and protection mandates; Entitlement reports with up-to-date snapshots of Oracle Database users, Privileges and profiles, which allow auditors to track changes to database access; Compliance reports to specifically address the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) regulatory requirements for database activity monitoring and audit; and, Automated cleanup of audit trail data from supported Oracle and non-Oracle databases once that audit data has been securely consolidated in the Oracle Audit Vault repository which helps reduce the operational costs of database auditing. To further help organizations streamline the database activity monitoring and audit process, and respond to security and regulatory exceptions rapidly, the latest release of Oracle Audit Vault also introduces support for email alerts as well as an automated interface to BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, a leading solution for ITIL-aligned service management processes. According to a recent Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) 2009 Data Security Report, over 70% of respondents use native database auditing to monitor database activity. Oracle leads the DBMS industry in native database auditing capabilities including support for auditing privileged and database users. With Oracle Audit Vault, audit data is automatically consolidated into a highly secure, centralized repository based on Oracle's proven data warehousing technology. As the audit data is consolidated in the Oracle Audit Vault repository it is analyzed in real-time against enterprise-defined policies. Unauthorized activities are immediately detected, and IT staff notified to help ensure database security. Oracle Audit Vault features numerous built-in and easily customizable reports to help organizations save time and costs related to compliance reporting. Powerful report customization capabilities include filtering audit data, highlighting rows with condition values as well as generating charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared within the enterprise or with external auditors. Oracle Audit Vault is part of a comprehensive and proven portfolio of database security solutions, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, Oracle Data Masking and Oracle Total Recall, that help organizations transparently safeguard against data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance without requiring changes to existing applications.

Oracle Corp. announced Oracle(R) GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate delivers fast real-time data integration and bulk data transformation, and also provides reliable data quality, instant Business Intelligence (BI), higher Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) performance, and 24x7, continuous data availability for mission-critical systems. Fully integrating technology from GoldenGate Software into the Oracle Data Integration suite of solutions, Oracle GoldenGate delivers low-impact real-time data integration and replication technology to Oracle Fusion Middleware and provides a comprehensive, heterogeneous data integration platform. Oracle GoldenGate allows real-time data movement between heterogeneous source and target systems with minimal overhead on the IT infrastructure, enabling real-time BI solutions, multi-directional data synchronization for distributed systems, zero downtime system upgrades, disaster recovery and migrations between heterogeneous databases, OS platforms and servers. Key benefits of Oracle GoldenGate include: High Performance, Reliability, Heterogeneity. In addition, Oracle GoldenGate also offers Oracle GoldenGate Veridata, high-speed data comparison software that identifies and reports on data discrepancies between heterogeneous databases without impacting their availability; and Oracle Management Pack for Oracle GoldenGate, a solution that enables easy management of Oracle GoldenGate deployments across the enterprise.

Oracle announced PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1. Developed closely with feedback from more than 40 customers, PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1 introduces over 100 new features, 20 new Web services and two new products across Sales, Service and Marketing. More than 4,000 PeopleSoft CRM pages are enhanced in CRM 9.1 to deliver a next-generation Web 2.0 user interface and experience enhancements. PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.1 users can leverage new collaboration tools such as chat, wikis, discussion forums, blogs and tagging to help them engage and connect with others in their knowledge network and increase productivity. The latest release of PeopleSoft CRM includes drag and drop interactivity, partial page refresh, modal search windows, simpler navigation, as well as contextual, embedded insight for increased user effectiveness. Redesigned user interfaces and streamlined business process flows help dramatically reduce clicks and page transfers, resulting in less time on an inquiry and more time for involvement with customers. Enabling Lower Cost of Ownership PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 is built on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, the PeopleSoft Enterprise technology platform, which offers a highly-flexible development environment for customers to manage, customize, integrate and support their PeopleSoft applications. Compatible with previous application releases, PeopleTools 8.50 helps reduce the total cost of ownership by providing customers valuable enhancements without requiring an upgrade to core CRM applications. PeopleSoft CRM delivers even greater application configuration specifically for Sales and Marketing user interfaces and workflow, which can dramatically reduce customizations. More Complete End-to-End Business Processes. Marketers can more effectively leverage lower cost marketing channels and expand marketing reach through new channels like SMS messaging and Events with Event Management.