Gartner ranks Oracle as fastest growing middleware vendor

Oracle announced recently that it was ranked by Gartner as the fastest growing middleware vendor among the top three portal, process and middleware (PPMW) vendors in the Philippines.

In its recent study, “Market Share: Portal, Process and Middleware Software, Asia-Pacific and Japan, 2004-2006,” Gartner reports that Oracle’s PPMW software posted 170 percent revenue growth in the Philippines in 2006, grew seven times faster than the market as a whole, and more than doubled its market share while the top two vendors lost share.

In the Asia-Pacific, Oracle grew 70 percent, the fastest growing among the top three portal, process and middleware vendors in 2006, according to Gartner.

With a worldwide growth rate of 45 percent, Gartner positioned Oracle as the fastest growing PPMW vendor, among the top five providers, in its “Portal, Process and Middleware Software Market Share, Worldwide for 2006” report.

Gartner’s definition of the PPMW market segment includes general-purpose portal products, Business Process Management-enabling technologies, application integration, and platform middleware.

Majority of the world’s leading organizations, including 90 of the Fortune 100 companies and 29 of the 30 companies making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, use Oracle Fusion Middleware to run, secure, adapt and expand their businesses.

“In the Philippines, Oracle is gaining strong traction with customers,” said Leo Liang, vice president for SOA sales of Oracle Asia-Pacific.

“Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to solve their most critical business challenges while providing a clear path to Service-Oriented Architecture. Our commitment to delivering software that leverages the latest technical thinking means our middleware customers in the Philippines can benefit from a cost-effective offering that meets their current and future needs,” he added.

During its most recent fiscal year, Oracle enhanced a number of components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including its Enterprise Content Management and its Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition through internal development and strategic acquisitions.

It also delivered new products — Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, Oracle Communication and Mobility Server, and Oracle Data Integrator — while expanding its Oracle Identity Management, Oracle SOA Suite and developer offerings, including Oracle JDeveloper.

In addition to Oracle’s acquisition of content management leader Stellent, the recently acquired Tangosol and Hyperion products round out advancements made to Oracle Fusion Middleware throughout 2007.

The definition and scope of middleware has changed significantly during the last three years in line with the need for greater flexibility, better information, productivity, and tighter controls.

Comprehensive middleware offerings, such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, help deliver significant business benefits.

With more than 50,000 customers spanning the financial services, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, transportation and public sector industries, Oracle Fusion Middleware helps organizations integrate their heterogeneous business systems, reduce total cost of ownership, and gain business insight that delivers competitive advantage.

The product family’s hot-pluggable and integrated architecture enables organizations to deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware in Oracle and non-Oracle computing environments.