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25 IT Investment Research Facts You Need to Know about Oracle: A FY 2006 Year in Review with FY 2007 Outlook
IT Investment Research, Aug 2006, Pages: 86
This is a complete review of Oracle's FY 2006 results and future plans based on Oracle's recent 10-K filing,which Oracle released in July 2006.
Oracle's dependence on its database management software business as cash cow, although important, does not even make the top 5 of Oracle's top 25 Research facts outlined in this analysis. What is more important to understand about Oracle revenue flow, as hidden in footnotes and cross references in the Oracle July 21, 2006 SEC 10K filing is that Oracle's real revenue growth for the past few fiscal years has been in the single digits despite (or maybe because of) its multiple acquisitions.
This Oracle IT Investment Research Finding is ranked number one in importance in this analysis. When acquisition accounting rules no longer mask Oracle's below average performance (vs. the IT Top 12 as a group), the company is going to have to ratchet up performance with real “new' business or suffer among the IT investment community.
Another factor for investors to consider is the implication of the number of application architectures Oracle supports (eight), compared to other relevant IT Top 12 suppliers (two for SAP and Intuit, and four for Microsoft). Because “Oracle has a highly diverse application product line architecturally” (Oracle Research Finding 2), it faces much higher research and development (R&D) and ongoing product license update and support costs than these competitors.
In addition, Oracle began to promote a two-architecture approach to deployment middleware in June 2006 before the release of their FY 2006 10K; we believe Oracle already (as of July 31, 2006) realizes that such a marketing message is self defeating vis a vis the whole Fusion message but if a two-architecture middleware code set is a technical as well as marketing reality (that is, one based on Oracle's Ironflare-heritage J2EE container and one based on its Sandia-Labs-heritage Rules Engine), Oracle will face increased R&D and support costs in this area as well. Oracle bought Datalogix Gemms in 1996 and executed the same kind of integration it now needs to accomplish Vis a Vis PeopleSoft, Siebel and so forth over the period 1997-2001. That it might take four years to accomplish this larger task is not surprising but Oracle's implying that the company is close to completion of the activity—makes this an issue in the market.
'25 IT Investment Research Findings You Need to Know about Oracle' reviews all of the key sections from Oracle's July 21, 2006 10K SEC filing in detail and provides both;
- Technical explanations that I think investors will find helpful, and;
- Opinionated analysis, where warranted, that investors may find actionable.
The two leading Oracle Research Findings mentioned above are explained in more detail along with 23 others.
We urge you to read a company's SEC and like material in detail if you are considering investing in any information technology (IT) company including Oracle. Reading SEC and like documentation has two advantages:
- First, it is the most accurate description of the opportunity and risk (guys are going to jail for lying in these filings and like material so most executives are going to great length to ensure accuracy)
- Second, the documentation is very complete in terms of describing both the financial and technology aspects of an investment opportunity.
However the detail is technically complicated for many investors. The purpose of this analysis is to explain the most relevant technical aspects of the investment opportunity in terms investors can better understand. This deliverable also explains the technical statements' relevance to the other information provided in the SEC and like documentation.
My analysis is NOT investment advice nor does it attempt to explain the financial aspects of the investment (although some revenue claims are explained in order to put the IT investment opportunity in context).
About the Author
Dennis Byron has more than 30 years experience researching and analyzing all areas of information technology (IT) and information-systems use. He conducted software and systems industry research and analysis at the Datapro division of McGraw-Hill from 1991 to 1997 and IDC from 1997 to 2006. At Datapro he was involved with the creation of, and later managed, the Client/Server Analyst research service. Byron joined IDC in 1997 to manage research into industry-specific applications, and initiated IDC research into eCommerce, retail, and professional-services applications, and the automation of the services supply chain. In early 2003, he moved to conduct the IDC's analysis of application and integration server software and related middleware, and the emerging market for business process management (BPM) software. Before he began research and analysis for Datapro, he spent 20 years in information-technology marketing at Bull SA and the former Data General Corporation.
He has consulted in the deployment and marketing of technology ranging from CICS to simple RPC decomposition tools to the first ORBs to later generations of Tuxedo, to DCOM and IBM's Project San Francisco. Some of this research supported the commercial marketing of Multics in the 1970s, the launch of the 'Soul of A New Machine' in the 1980s (the ‘machine,’ not the book), and business process reengineering (BPR) software in the 1990s. He has conducted over 500 specific information-systems case studies. Mr. Byron also was a columnist for Application Development Trends magazine and has written extensively on the I-T industry standards movement, from the early use of PARS to the de facto and de jure agreements behind the burgeoning use of web services architectures and SOA.
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