It offers site independence. When a downed communications line can't stop the business, replication may be the answer. It's an option for users who are on the run and need access to applications and their data. Oracle Advanced Replication improves application performance by not requiring users to access information over slow data lines. It improves uptime by making applications resistant to WAN outages.
Advanced replication helps power a mobile sales force with laptops or PDAs.
Oracle Advanced Security Oracle Advanced Security is designed to improve data privacy, data protection and security authentication across the enterprise. It allows for a design that better approximates real-world business entities. Using an object-oriented approach can make applications and their interactions with business processes easier to understand. Oracle Objects also allows for better code reuse and a single point of storage for business rules. All of this means more rapid development, reduced maintenance cost and reduced cost to integrate with other systems.