Oracle Named a Leader in 2017 Analyst Evaluation for Enterprise BI Platforms with Majority Cloud Deployments

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that Forrester Research has named Oracle a leader in its "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms with Majority Cloud Deployments, Q3 2017" report. This placement confirms Oracle Analytics Cloud as a leader in the analytics space.

"By offering a single, integrated platform capable of serving all of an enterprises' analytics needs, including self-service data visualization, data preparation, embedded machine learning and predictive analytics, Oracle Analytics Cloud helps businesses improve efficiencies and drive innovation," said Rich Clayton, vice president of product management, Oracle. "Our unique, comprehensive platform can address the needs of executives, analysts and data engineers while helping reduce the time and financial resources necessary to integrate and optimize a plethora of technologies for data-driven innovation."

In Forrester's 22-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence platforms with majority cloud-deployment providers, Forrester identified the 10 most significant vendors and researched, analyzed, and scored them.  

Forrester notes: "With Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle supports the complete spectrum of BI needs at enterprise scale, ranging from self-service analytics to complex requirements leveraging Essbase's powerful MOLAP engine. The vendor can also support hybrid scenarios. Comprehensive advanced analytics capabilities and natural language functions round out the offering. Customers of Oracle's other applications (e.g., CRM or ERP) can gain additional benefits from the Common Enterprise Information Model, as the semantic layer extends across products. Existing Oracle customers will also welcome the increased licensing flexibility. With Oracle Day by Day, Oracle has made a fresh start on mobile, focusing on users' information needs rather than on simple BI delivery."

Part of Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle Analytics Cloud provides the industry's most comprehensive cloud analytics in a single, unified platform, including everything from self-service visualization and powerful inline data preparation to enterprise reporting, advanced analytics, and self-learning analytics that deliver proactive insights. With support for more than 50 data sources and an extensible, open framework, Oracle Analytics Cloud gives customers a complete, connected, collaborative platform that brings the power of data and analytics to every process, interaction, and decision in any environment – cloud, on-premises, desktop and data center. Oracle Analytics Cloud has experienced significant growth in 2017, tripling adoption in the last 12 months. In addition, Oracle recently introduced two innovative mobile applications – that leverage machine learning and natural language processing – Oracle Analytics Cloud Day by Day and Oracle Analytics Cloud Synopsis. Respectively, these applications deliver proactive analytics and visual analysis to mobile devices, helping ensure the right information is always available and actionable.

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