Share tips: Reliable 'big data' service provider

This market-leading provider of database software rarely disappoints, and looks a great long-term buy, says Paul Hill.

Twitter generates 90 million messages a day, Wal-mart logs one million transactions per hour, and Facebook stores 30 billion bits of content on its website. Welcome to 'Big Data', the capacity to collect, decipher and analyse Himalayan quantities of information at the touch of button. Used correctly, Big Data allows organisations to stay ahead enabling them to react immediately to upcoming trends.

That's where Oracle comes in. As the world's largest provider of database hardware and software, it has a 48.6% market share more than twice that of its arch-rivals Microsoft (17.5%) and IBM (20.9%). CEO Larry Ellison is seeing "strong" demand for its recently launched line of Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics and SuperCluster software and servers.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.