Oracle has announced that it won four Intelligent Enterprise 2005 Readers' Choice Awards, including "Best Customer Data Integration Application," "Best Database Management System," "Best XML Database," and "Best Business Process Management System." The wins reinforce Oracle's position as the premier provider of data management and data integration products.

The fight in certain categories were close and resulted in a tie.  Oracle shared the 'Best Database Management System' Award with Microsoft and 'Best Business Process Management System' with Computer Associates and Microsoft Business Solutions. It shared the 'Best XML Database' award with IBM and Microsoft. However, it was a clean win in the 'Best Customer Data Integration Application' category.

As evidence of its continued excellence in product development, Oracle is the incumbent winner for the "Best Database" and "Customer Data Integration" honors, and doubled the number of awards it won in 2004 by capturing the "Business Process Management" and "XML Database" titles this year. Oracle has received the Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award for "Best Database" for five consecutive years.

Every year, Intelligent Enterprise polls its readers to determine which vendors are most deserving of praise in each technology category. The results serve as an industry benchmark on how technology products are perceived and utilized by users.

"Our readers vote for the companies that create the most value for their organizations in building successful IT infrastructures and transforming data into business-critical intelligence," said David Stodder, Editor-in-Chief at Intelligent Enterprise. "Oracle has consistently captured top honors in the data management categories. We congratulate them on keeping user needs in mind and providing outstanding products."

"It is an honor to be recognized by Intelligent Enterprise readers for our strengths in business process management, data management and data integration," said Robert Shimp, vice president of technology marketing at Oracle. "It is testament to our ability to enable enterprises to integrate, manage and process data efficiently and turn that information into a business advantage."