Oracle is the world's leading supplier of software for information management and the world's second largest independent software company. The group’s new software license business licenses database technology software and applications software. The software license updates and product support business provides customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases, Internet access to technical content and to technical support personnel. The consulting business, meanwhile, assists customers in the design, implementation, deployment, upgrade and migration of the company's database technology and applications software.