With the new releases, Oracle now offers role-based analytics, comprehensive application management, integration, search, master data management, and XML-based reporting capabilities, with the introduction of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0, Siebel CRM 8.0, JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 and JD Edwards World A9.1,.

In developing these new releases, Oracle consulted directly with customer user groups to define customer-driven enhancements and ensure these products effectively address customer needs.

"Today is an important day, as we release five significantly enhanced product families. These releases are proof that Oracle is delivering on its strategy to protect and extend customers' current investments in Oracle's leading horizontal, specialty and industry suites," said Oracle President Charles Phillips.

"Additionally, with the 'Applications Unlimited' program, Oracle is providing best-in-class infrastructure technology that delivers next-generation capabilities today, and we are giving our customers the choice as to when they upgrade without having to re-license their applications. This is a first in the software industry," Phillips continued.

In the latest version of its E-Business suite, the company has released 18 new products and 2443 new enhancements.

Its PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9 contains two new products and 1478 enhancements that apparently offer customers a standards-based platform to address the challenges of disparate technologies and applications.

Meanwhile, the new release of the Siebel CRM suite offers ten new products and 366 enhancements that comes bundled with a new task-based user interface, enterprise search capabilities, SOA-enabled CRM and embedded intelligence driving real-time insight at the moment of customer interaction.

The first major release of JD Edwards World in ten years, this new version offers four new products and 1297 enhancements.

Delivered in the spring of 2006, the latest release of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne delivered 5 new products, including a new Operational Sourcing and three new modules for the food and beverage industry, as well as 291 enhancements.

A key component of Applications Unlimited is delivering value to customers by allowing them to leverage next-generation technology within their current investments through integration and certification with Oracle's leading database and Oracle Fusion Middleware technology.

Also at the event, the company outlined Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle's next-generation application suite. Based on Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Fusion Applications are designed to be the industry's first, complete standards-based, SOA built application suite. Leveraging Web 2.0 design principles, Oracle Fusion Applications intend to deliver dramatic increases in both user and partner productivity, while delivering significant reductions in cost of ownership.