ARC Rates Oracle's MDM

ARC Advisory Group, an independent research firm in manufacturing and supply chain management, has named Oracle (News - Alert) the "leading supplier in the worldwide master data management market."

In ARC Advisory Group's recently published report, titled "Master Data Management Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2011," Oracle is characterized as "the clear MDM industry leader with 39.8 percent market share of total MDM software and services, and year-over-year growth of close to 50 percent.

IBM (News - Alert) placed second with 8.8 percent market share.

"Oracle MDM is a core 'Fusion' technology that will enable them to integrate their diverse portfolio of acquired solutions (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, etc.) and allow them to work together much more effectively," according to Steve Banker, ARC's Service Director and author of the MDM report.

MDM is -- evidently -- a key component of Oracle's middleware strategy to "aggressively target heterogeneous environments -- products running on different databases, operating systems, and using different data warehouse or analytical products," the report said.

Oracle sells ERP and CRM applications, "but more broadly," the report notes, "they are a provider of core platforms that help pull together and harmonize all a company's IT assets."

According to ARC Advisory Group, Master Data Management provides the ability to consolidate and federate master information from disparate systems and lines of business into one central data repository, or hub.

A couple weeks ago Oracle agreed to buy Hyperion Solutions (News - Alert) Corp. in a cash tender offer of $52 a share, or about $3.3 billion.

Hyperion is in the business intelligence software field, and commenting on the move, The Wall Street Journal said Oracle was "looking for the best fit with its own business-intelligence products, which help companies collect, analyze and share data about how their businesses are performing."

Last October Hyperion, which sells Business Performance Management software, announced new capabilities in Hyperion System 9 Release 9.3.

Company officials said at the time Hyperion was "augmenting its existing data management services with a new module for data integration" for integrating Hyperion applications with "ERP, CRM, and other transactional systems."

David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page.

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