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Market leading software companies to build on capabilities of Oracle Collaboration Suite

Posted: 26 February 2003

Scansoft, Symantec and Wingra Technologies Among Top Companies To Integrate with Oracle to Capture Collaboration Market Share

Dubai — Oracle Corp, the world’s largest enterprise software company, announced that software industry leaders in files and email system management plan to work with Oracle to enhance file and storage management, content security, virus protection and anti-spam capabilities of Oracle® Collaboration Suite. Scansoft enhances file management offerings, while partners such as Mailshell and Symantec extend the email capabilities of Oracle Collaboration Suite. BrightMail, Feith Systems, LEGATO Systems, Inc. and Wingra Technologies have plans to complete integration later this year.

Today’s business environment demands increased productivity through improved collaboration and decreased costs of administration. Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first product that leverages a relational database to offer a secure and reliable way to simplify communications and consolidate information with a suite of applications including file management, email, voicemail, calendaring and search capabilities.

Scansoft provides Oracle Collaboration Suite customers with an integrated scanning, optical character recognition, and desktop document management capability. Feith Systems plans to deliver a robust government-certified document solution integrated with Oracle Files.

Brightmail, Mailshell, and Symantec, pioneers in the anti-virus and anti-spam markets, will lend unprecedented security assurance to Oracle Collaboration Suite. Elements of LEGATO's EmailXtender Family will provide Oracle Collaboration Suite email with auditing and policy-based archiving and eradication solutions, capabilities that are vital to regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector. Another partner, Wingra Technologies, intends to extend Oracle’s email migration and co-existence tools to ensure Oracle Collaboration Suite customers can seamlessly migrate from Exchange, Notes, Groupwise and other legacy email systems. All of these companies are active members of the Oracle Partner Network.

“The same way that it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village of partners to help an integrated collaborative product grow into a mature offering,” said Mark Levitt, vice president for Collaborative Computing at IDC. “With these partners, Oracle’s Collaboration Suite is developing into the type of well-rounded offering that can appeal to enterprise customers.”

“By combining the Oracle Collaboration Suite with Scansoft’s PaperPort Pro Suite, businesses and organizations can efficiently convert their paper documents into files that can be managed electronically,” said Robert Weideman, chief marketing officer at Scansoft. “For examples, a law office can rapidly take reams of legal documents and quickly scan and upload these to Oracle Collaboration Suite files instead of saving paper files.”

“The Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine's support of emerging standards and its simple-to-use architecture allowed Oracle to integrate Symantec's industry-leading virus protection with the Oracle Collaboration Suite in a robust, scalable manner,” said Greg Gotta, vice president, product delivery at Symantec Corp. “Symantec is committed to providing enterprise customers with effective, scalable virus protection for enterprise messaging infrastructures.”

About Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first product that leverages a relational database to offer a secure, reliable and scalable way to simplify business communications and consolidate information – reducing hardware, software and administration costs. Leveraging the Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server infrastructure, Oracle Collaboration Suite offers customers a suite of enterprise-class messaging and collaboration applications that enables organizations to reduce total cost of ownership while increasing user productivity. It provides users with access to integrated email, voicemail, calendaring, file sharing and search capabilities from popular desktop clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Web browsers and a wide range of wireless devices including PDAs and cell phones.

For more information visit www.oracle.com/me

 
     

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