Oracle Customers Access to DigitalGlobe Imagery

18 October 2007, 10:48am

Longmont, Colo., October 18, 2007 – DigitalGlobe, the provider of the world’s highest-resolution imagery and geospatial information products, today announced that Oracle and DigitalGlobe will offer satellite imagery to Oracle® Database 11g customers. Sample imagery of the city of San Francisco is now available and is downloadable through the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/htdocs/spatial_partners_downloads.html#data.

“In today’s global business environment, we are seeing a dramatic increase in demand for Earth imagery and spatial technology in business applications,” said James Steiner, senior director, server technologies, Oracle. “Our relationship with DigitalGlobe will enable our end-users to incorporate spatial data and positional information from the world’s highest-resolution satellite and aerial imagery into mission-critical applications and decision support systems used by Oracle’s customers in commercial, public sector and regulated industries.”

Oracle Database 11g delivers the next generation of enterprise information management, helping customers tackle the demands of rapid data growth, changing environments, and the need to deliver higher quality of services while reducing and controlling IT costs. The location features in Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Spatial 11g enable Oracle to manage all data from traditional business information to XML and 3D spatial information and make it the ideal choice to power transaction processing, data warehousing and content management applications.

Via Oracle Spatial, DigitalGlobe will provide real-time access to its extensive image library for applications such as logistics, supply chain, mobile field services, business intelligence and asset management. With the release of Oracle Database 11g, DigitalGlobe allows advanced access to sample imagery data via OTN enabling Oracle customers to test-drive imagery in their business applications before making a purchase decision.

“DigitalGlobe maintains a strong commitment to providing a new level of decision support to our enterprise customers across all industries,” said Marc Tremblay, vice president and general manager of DigitalGlobe’s commercial business unit. “Our work with the Oracle Spatial team will provide a host of new capabilities to our DigitalGlobe and Oracle customers in the public sector and commercial markets. With integrated geospatial data from DigitalGlobe, Oracle customers now have a standardized way to easily include imagery in their decision support systems. This allows ‘image-enabled’ Oracle applications users to make faster and better-informed decisions from the applications that run their business.”

DigitalGlobe is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

www.digitalglobe.com

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