Oracle® Fusion Middleware Drives Global Customer Success
Customers Benefit From Comprehensive, Integrated, Secure SOA Platform and Hot-Pluggable Architecture
ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 -- Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced that 35 of the 50 largest companies in the world use Oracle Fusion Middleware to solve a variety of IT challenges for departmental and enterprise wide deployments. Auto Insurance Specialists (AIS), Consip, France 3, FTD, INRA, Posco, ResortQuest, Shanda Entertainment, U.S. Script and Wind River Systems represent some of the more than 26,000 customers that have selected Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware, the world's fastest growing middleware suite, due to its support for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and best-of-breed functionality.
Further indicating Oracle Fusion Middleware's success, today nine of the world's 10 largest high-technology companies; seven of the world's 10 largest financial services companies; nine of the world's 10 largest telecommunication companies; eight of the world's 10 largest diversified conglomerates; eight of the world's 10 largest automotive companies; six of the world's 10 largest retail companies; eight of the world's 10 largest manufacturing companies; and seven of the world's 10 largest health care companies use Oracle Fusion Middleware. Additionally, many of the world's leading government and public sector agencies also currently use Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Global Customer Adoption
Customers across the globe have embraced Oracle Fusion Middleware with more than half of the 50 largest companies in the U.S., Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa using one or more components of the product family. Organizations have selected or implemented Oracle Fusion Middleware to address key business and IT challenges, simplify SOAs, gain a single source of truth for all enterprise data, secure access to data and applications and deploy J2EE applications on a powerful and scalable J2EE engine.
"Oracle Fusion Middleware was designed specifically to meet growing customer demand for tightly integrated, comprehensive middleware components that help improve business agility and IT operations," said Oracle's Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Development, Thomas Kurian. "We are committed to bringing value and excellence to middleware products that scale, secure and manage Web services and SOAs that can be deployed in virtually any computing environment."
Customers Highlight Success with Oracle Fusion Middleware
AIS -- the Auto Insurance Specialists, the largest automobile insurance broker in California, leverage Oracle Fusion Middleware.
"We simplify the complexity of buying insurance by offering our customers an intuitive and easy-to-use Web-browser that accepts Web transactions 24/7," said AIS's Senior Vice President, Kevin Schrage. "Oracle Fusion Middleware ensures that our systems run continuously, provides us with development tools that are second to none and makes certain that our infrastructure will easily scale allowing us to continue to deliver excellent customer service as we grow."
FTD.com, the Internet and telephone marketer of flowers and specialty gifts for FTD, Inc., turned to Oracle to provide a scalable and reliable middleware platform to process more than 100,000 daily order entries.
"Given the mission-critical nature of our applications, we needed a highly available platform that would enable us to dynamically scale to meet our changing processing requirements," said FTD.com's Vice President of IT, Pat Anderson. "Oracle Fusion Middleware is the only platform that has cost effectively met our stringent requirements for availability and scalability. Since deployment, we have easily met all of our fluctuating processing demands."
INRA, the National Institute for Agricultural Research in France is responsible for guaranteeing consumers high-quality food, ensuring that agricultural and agro-food companies are competitive and contributing to integrated land development and sustainable management of natural resources. Capgemini worked with INRA to use Oracle Fusion Middleware to build a workflow for a national databank of plants genomics.
"To create a national databank of plants genomics we needed to synthesize various sources of information, be it from internal systems or partner's data banks. We selected Oracle BPEL Process Manager to create asynchronous and technical workflows with internal and external data. During this process we worked with Capgemini, which provided the Oracle expertise to ensure a successful implementation," said CNRGV's Systems Information Manager, Stephane Cauet, and CNRGV's Director, Dr. Helene Berges.
The fastest growing online entertainment company in China, Shanda Entertainment is using Oracle Internet Directory, a component of Oracle Identity Management to authenticate its global users.
"As the fastest growing online entertainment company in China, the rate of customer acquisition for Shanda is undergoing rapid growth. Oracle Fusion Middleware provides Shanda with a high performance, highly scalable and highly reliable user repository based on a clustered deployment of Oracle Internet Directory, which helped maintain Shanda's player community ready for growth," said Ph.D. and Shanda's Vice President of Platform Development, Gary Chang.
About Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware software is a comprehensive middleware product family comprised of the company's industry-leading SOA and middleware products including: Oracle Application Server 10g; related Oracle Application Server products and options such as Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle COREid Products, Oracle Portal and Oracle Integration; Oracle Data Hubs; and Oracle Content Services 10g, Oracle Real Time Collaboration 10g and Oracle Unified Messaging. This family of proven middleware products helps organizations achieve greater agility, make better-informed business decisions and more easily integrate data and processes across disparate IT systems - including technologies from Oracle and other vendors. Oracle Fusion Middleware software also provides customers with comprehensive lifecycle support for service-oriented applications and delivers unparalleled interoperability with enterprises' existing IT infrastructure due to its unique hot-pluggable architecture. Additional information can be found at http://www.oracle.com/middleware.
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