The highlight is addition of a new dedicated use license for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, which backs up records management with a facility that searches for other instances of similar or related information within the organization.
The new release also adds some policy options, such as the ability to put a hold on data that would normally be purged or archived. The idea is that, when there is an issue such as pending litigation, the retention status of pertinent records should not change.
And, befitting that this is now an Oracle product, adapters to other Oracle systems such as its own Image and Process management (IPM) have been added.
Oracle’s Universal Records Management is aimed at heavily secured environments such as military installations, rationalizing retention of and access to sensitive records across one or more repositories. It spans both structured and unstructured data.
Oracle announced its roadmap for the former Stellent products last spring, and released a new version of the flagship product Content Management barely weeks after the roadmap was disclosed. This is the second major release from that roadmap, which also covered Information Rights Management, Imaging and Process Management, and the existing Oracle Content Database.
Oracle Universal Records Management 10g Release 3 is available now.
