Oracle.com to Utilize KnowledgeStorm SW Solution

KnowledgeStorm, the Web's most comprehensive research engine for finding and evaluating IT solutions, announced it will provide a software solutions directory for Oracle.com, a new portal designed for the business user that provides access to online business services and information.

With one of the largest registered vendor databases and best qualified registered users in the industry, KnowledgeStorm continues to broaden its reach to simplify the IT product selection and marketing process. Allowing Oracle.com users access to the KnowledgeStorm directory is an ideal way to for users and OracleÒ customers to more easily identify and evaluate technology products as an added value to the other services and information provided through Oracle.com.

"Today's announcement is an important step toward delivering on the need for a Web-based standard research engine for IT solutions," said Greg Kemp, president and CEO of KnowledgeStorm. "KnowledegeStorm is proud to be the software research engine behind Oracle.com and we strongly support Oracle's efforts that allow users to access valuable information sources in a unified, consolidated view."

Users are able to customize their main viewing page to determine what informational content they wish to display. To select KnowledgeStorm content to be viewed on their personalized view of Oracle.com, users simply select the "Research" category when adding portlets to their main viewing page. By selecting KnowledgeStorm as a portlet, users are then able to access the company's comprehensive directory of software solutions and detailed reports.

"Oracle sees the KnowledgeStorm partnership as a way for Oracle.com users to more easily identify and evaluate technology products and services," said Mark Jarvis, chief marketing officer for Oracle. "We are pleased to be working with KnowledgeStorm to simplify the IT product search process for users who can now have access to a global IT product directory."

KnowledgeStorm simplifies the information technology decision-making process. The company's research engine enables business and IT professionals to identify all available products and narrow their search according to user-defined features, constraints and requirements. Working one-on-one with the KnowledgeStorm team, IT vendors listed in the KnowledgeStorm directory can include detailed information about each of their software solutions.

About KnowledgeStorm

As the Web's only IT research engine, KnowledgeStorm simplifies the information technology solution selection and marketing process by connecting IT researchers and providers via an online, searchable database of more than 20,000 software solutions, from more than 3,500 registered vendors. KnowledgeStorm is the exclusive software and services directory for Yahoo! IT Software Marketplaces and ITworld.com. For more information, please visit www.knowledgestorm.com.