Market-leading software companies to build on files, e-mail capabilities of Oracle Collaboration Suite

Oracle Corp, the world`s largest enterprise software company, announced that software industry leaders in files and e-mail system management plan to work with Oracle to enhance file and storage management, content security, virus protection and anti-spam capabilities of the Oracle Collaboration Suite.

Scansoft enhances file management offerings, while partners such as Mailshell and Symantec extend the e-mail capabilities of the Oracle Collaboration Suite. BrightMail, Feith Systems, LEGATO Systems, Inc and Wingra Technologies have plans to complete integration later this year.

Today`s business environment demands increased productivity through improved collaboration and decreased costs of administration. Oracle Collaboration Suite is the first product that leverages a relational database to offer a secure and reliable way to simplify communications and consolidate information with a suite of applications including file management, e-mail, voicemail, calendaring and search capabilities.

Scansoft provides Oracle Collaboration Suite customers with an integrated scanning, optical character recognition, and desktop document management capability. Feith Systems plans to deliver a robust government-certified document solution integrated with Oracle Files.

Brightmail, Mailshell, and Symantec, pioneers in the anti-virus and anti-spam markets, will lend unprecedented security assurance to Oracle Collaboration Suite. Elements of LEGATO`s EmailXtender Family will provide Oracle Collaboration Suite e-mail with auditing and policy-based archiving and eradication solutions, capabilities that are vital to regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.

Another partner, Wingra Technologies, intends to extend Oracle`s e-mail migration and co-existence tools to ensure Oracle Collaboration Suite customers can seamlessly migrate from Exchange, Notes, Groupwise and other legacy e-mail systems.

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All of these companies are active members of the Oracle Partner Network.

"The same way that it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village of partners to help an integrated collaborative product grow into a mature offering," says Mark Levitt, vice-president for Collaborative Computing at IDC. "With these partners, Oracle`s Collaboration Suite is developing into the type of well-rounded offering that can appeal to enterprise customers."

"By combining the Oracle Collaboration Suite with Scansoft`s PaperPort Pro Suite, businesses and organisations can efficiently convert their paper documents into files that can be managed electronically," says Robert Weideman, chief marketing officer at Scansoft.

"For example, a law office can rapidly take reams of legal documents and quickly scan and upload these to Oracle Collaboration Suite files instead of saving paper files."

"The Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine`s support of emerging standards and its simple-to-use architecture allowed Oracle to integrate Symantec`s industry-leading virus protection with the Oracle Collaboration Suite in a robust, scalable manner," says Greg Gotta, vice-president, product delivery at Symantec Corp. "Symantec is committed to providing enterprise customers with effective, scalable virus protection for enterprise messaging infrastructures."