Oracle's packaged software lacking, report says
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Oracle's packaged business applications portfolio comes up short in the areas of content management, architecture and development, and the software giant is not focusing enough resources on the management and security elements of the IT infrastructure either, according to a new analyst report.
...The Forrester report goes on to predict that Oracle -- which has acquired 23 companies, including CRM giants PeopleSoft Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc., in a $19.5 billion, three-year buying spree -- will ultimately fill the gaps by using some of its $8.3 billion "cash hoard" to purchase software firms that focus on content management, business intelligence (BI) and the development lifecycle.
...Companies that want to consolidate to fewer software vendors should first take a good hard look at their priorities and business objectives -- and remember that some "gaps" in a software vendor's portfolio may not be as important as others to reaching those goals, Yankee's Kingstone advises.
"I don't think companies are going to make decisions based only on whether Oracle has a content management system or not," she said. "People are making decisions based on line-of-business needs and not just IT needs, and so those have to be taken into consideration."
