Middleware enables users to SOA-enable IT environment.
Press Release Summary:
Built on hot-pluggable architecture, Oracle® SOA Suite provides standards-based set of middleware products to build, deploy, and manage Service-Oriented Architectures. It enables organizations to seamlessly connect, extend, and evolve existing IT system to rapidly deliver new business services. Suite is interoperable and supports Oracle and non-Oracle application servers and messaging buses, including WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss Application Servers.
Original Press Release:
Oracle Unveils Industry's First Hot-Pluggable Service-Oriented Architecture Suite
Plugs Into Oracle(R) and Non-Oracle Middleware to Help Extend Customers' Existing Middleware Investments
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 12 / -- Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced availability of the Oracle(R) SOA Suite, a comprehensive, standards-based set of middleware products used to easily build, deploy and manage Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The suite's hot-pluggable capabilities enable customers to take advantage of the many benefits SOAs provide, while leveraging their current middleware technologies.
Using the Suite, organizations can seamlessly connect, extend and evolve their existing IT systems to rapidly deliver new business services. Built on a hot-pluggable architecture, the Suite allows customers to SOA-enable their existing IT environment without requiring a costly rip and replace project. Comprised of the best-in-class SOA components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, the Suite is interoperable and supports Oracle and non-Oracle application servers and messaging buses, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and JBoss Application Servers.
The Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed and orchestrated into composite applications and business processes. The result is closer alignment of IT and business execution for faster response to new customer requirements, competition and changing market conditions. The Oracle SOA Suite consists of the following:
-- Oracle BPEL Process Manager, the first native Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine for Web services orchestration that allows organizations to design, define and execute business processes;
-- Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, a standards-based product that connects existing IT systems and business partners as a set of services;
-- Oracle Web Services Manager, provides a single console for defining and enforcing Web services policies;
-- Oracle Business Rules Engine, provides facilities to define and manage business rules;
-- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, delivers real-time insight into business operations;
-- Oracle Enterprise Manager to deploy and manage service oriented applications in an operational environment; and
-- Oracle JDeveloper 10g, an integrated development environment for creating and composing applications that also acts as a unified toolset for all components in the Oracle SOA Suite.
Oracle also provides a broad variety of connectors to access legacy systems such as CICS, VSAM, and IMS and packaged applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle e-Business Suite, and Siebel via Web services. For more information, please visit: www.oracle.com/soa.
"Feedback from industry analysts, customers and partners tells us our Oracle Fusion Middleware products make building SOAs simple and successful," said Oracle's Executive Vice President, Server Technologies, Chuck Rozwat. "Given that Oracle already offers a combination of these best-in-class technologies, it makes sense to bundle them together to make the Oracle SOA Suite a standard package organizations can use to tap into the power of Service-Oriented Architectures."
Oracle Jumpstarts SOAs for ISVs
Complementing today's introduction of the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle launched a series of hands-on workshops designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with the tools and skills needed to help their customers build, deploy and leverage SOAs. The six-city tour will kick-off on Monday, Feb. 6 in Redwood Shores, Calif. For additional details, please visit: www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=2931347&Act=99 .
Pete Gillard, CTO for retail banking at Misys Banking Systems, market leader in core banking technology, which is using Oracle BPEL Process Manager, stated, "A bank's core banking system is mission-critical. Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a component of the Oracle SOA Suite, enables us to create a solution that combines the robustness of our enterprise-class back-office system with the flexibility that BPEL provides. This allows our customers to meet the increasing demands of regulatory compliance and empowers banks to differentiate themselves in the market through support for changing processes and policies."
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