Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's leading supplier of software for information

management, and the world's second largest independent software company. With annual
revenues of more than $10.1 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application
products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145
countries around the world. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the first
software company to develop and deploy 100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software across
its entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, and application
development and decision support tools.
Oracle is the only company capable of implementing complete global e-business solutions that
extend from front office customer relationship management to back office operational
applications to platform infrastructure. Oracle software runs on PCs, workstations,
minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers, as well as on personal digital
assistants and set-top devices. As more and more companies transform themselves into ebusinesses, Oracle's Internet-enabled solutions provide a cost-effective way to expand market
opportunities, improve business process efficiencies, and attract and retain customers. By
replacing expensive, unwieldy client/server computing models with the efficiency and reach of
the internet, companies can deploy a wealth of innovative applications that can be accessed with
a Web browser.
The only software company to offer a full suite of e-business products, Oracle provides:
An Internet-ready platform for building and deploying Web-based applications
A comprehensive suite of Internet-enabled business applications
Professional services for help in formulating e-business strategy, as well as in designing,
customizing,
and implementing e-business solutions

Oracle: Past, Present and Future

The beginnings.
When CEO Lawrence J. Ellison and a few associates formed
Oracle in 1977, they were out to prove wrong the prevailing
theory that relationship databases could not be commercially
viable.
Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates found Software Development Laboratories. Inspired by a
research paper written in 1970 by an IBM researcher titled " A Relational Model of Data for Large
Shared Data Banks", the three decide to build a new type of database called a relational database

system. Their orginal project is for the government and is titled Oracle. The founders believe that
Oracle, meaning source of wisdom,
would be an appropriate name for their project and receive permission from the CIA to use it.
What's in a name?
In 1978, Software Development Laboratories moved from their office in Santa Clara to a new one on
Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, the heart of Silicon Valley. In an attempt to explain what their
company does, they changed their name to Relational Software Inc., or RSI. The newly-christened
company shipped its first commercial SQL-based database, V2, in 1979 (V1 was never officially
released). In 1982 RSI changed its name to Oracle Systems Corporation, which later become Oracle
Corporation.
Tapping the Internet.
In 1983, Oracle decided to make RDBMS portable, and introduced V3 - the first portable database to
run on PCs, mini computers and mainframes. Today, Oracle targets high-end workstations and mini
computers as the server platforms on which to run its database systems. Along with few others,
Oracle has long been a champion of network computers. It now boasts that is was the world's first
software company to develop and deploy 100 percent Internet-enabled enterprise software across its
entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, applications development and
decision support tools. In fact, CEO Ellison has said, "If the Internet turns out not to be the future of
computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."
A phenomenal success story.
Today, as proof of their success, they've parlayed an initial $2,000 investment in the company into an
annual revenue exceeding $10.1 billion. Based in Redwood shores, California, it has more that
43,000 employees worldwide and does business in over 150 countries. Oracle (ORCL) is publicly
traded on the NASDAQ.
Little known facts about Oracle
Oracle is ranked among the 10 best companies for a six-month return on equity.
Oracle's relational database was the world's first to support the Structured Query Language, now an
industry standard.
Today, the Oracle DBMS is supported on over 80 different operating environments, ranging from
IBM mainframes and DEC VAX minicomputers, to UNIX-based minicomputers and Windows NT
platforms.
Oracle spends nearly 13% of their revenues for research and development.
Oracle V1 ran on PDP-11 under RSX, 128 KB max memory and was written in assembly language.

Oracle created the first database to run on a massively parallel computer.

All 10 of the world's largest Web sites- from Amazon.com to Yahoo! - use Oracle.
65% of the Fortune 100 use Oracle for e-business.
ORACLE
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation
headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. The company specializes in
developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products
particularly its own brands of database management systems. As of 2011, Oracle is the secondlargest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.[4]
The company also builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software,
enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM)
software and supply chain management (SCM) software.
Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle, had served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history. On
September 18, 2014, it was announced that he would be stepping down (with Mark Hurd and
Safra Catz to become co-CEOs). Ellison will become executive chairman and CTO.[5] He also
served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. On
August 22, 2008, the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid chief executive in the
world.[6][7]
ERP
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows an
organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate
many back office functions related to technology, services and human resources. ERP software
integrates all facets of an operation, including product planning, development, manufacturing,
sales and marketing.

SAP
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a system for managing a companys
interactions with current and future customers. It often involves using technology to organize,
automate and synchronize sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support.[