Oracle® Fusion Middleware Generates Unprecedented Global Partner Support
Leading Solutions Providers Increase Business Opportunities With Comprehensive, Hot-Pluggable, Standards-based Middleware Platform
ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 -- Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced that more than 7,500 market leading independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers (VARs) and system integrators (SIs) use Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware to provide their customers with the industry's most comprehensive, integrated middleware solutions.
Capgemini, Computer Associates, Dell, Deloitte Consulting LLP, FileNet, Fujitsu, Hyperion, Mercury, Network Appliance and Novell are some of the leading solutions providers citing Oracle Fusion Middleware's breadth of functionality; degree of integration; support for heterogeneous technology environments; scalability, reliability and security as key factors in the platform's remarkable success. The world's fastest growing middleware platform, Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a significant opportunity for Oracle partners -- with indirect revenue representing 41 percent of the platform's overall revenue for fiscal year 2005.
Oracle Fusion Middleware's unmatched technology integration enables SIs to spend less time integrating systems and more time solving customers' business problems while creating repeatable solutions that can be leveraged across their client-base. Resellers benefit from the ability to market and position an entire family of products to increase average deal size. Thousands of VARs today build industry specific solutions for enterprise customers using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Further enabling VARs to build pre-packaged solutions for small business customers, Oracle recently introduced Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One.
Oracle Fusion Middleware's Global Footprint
Deloitte Consulting offers a full spectrum of professional services ranging from strategy design to technology implementation. As an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner, the firm is intensely focused on helping Oracle customers to generate measurable business value from their solution implementations.
"Oracle Fusion Middleware offers the type of comprehensive, scalable enterprise architecture that our clients have been seeking," said Deloitte Consulting's Oracle technology practice leader, Pasquale Russo. "Deloitte Consulting's access to global resources allows the firm to provide services to clients around the world who are looking to leverage the benefits of an SOA-enabled enterprise. Combining Deloitte Consulting's industry experience and cross-functional services with the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family allows us to tailor solutions to our client's issues and help them create shareholder value."
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading information technology consulting, services, business process outsourcing and engineering services organization, utilizes a variety of Oracle Fusion Middleware components.
"TCS has been working with Oracle since 1987, and as a Global Systems Integrator to Oracle, we have the capability to conceptualize, architect, deploy and maintain large and complex solutions based on Oracle Fusion Middleware technology including Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Portal," said Tata Consultancy Services America's President, Mr. Surya Kant. "We have already deployed such solutions worldwide. We look forward to using Oracle Fusion Middleware to help our customers get the most from their existing and future applications."
Hardware and Infrastructure Providers Embrace Oracle Fusion Middleware
The standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products runs on a broad set of platforms, architectures and operating systems and integrates well with partners' standard system management packages and storage solutions. Hardware and infrastructure platform providers around the world that are actively supporting Oracle Fusion Middleware include: AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, NetApp, Novell and RedHat.
"As an industry leader in open, standards-based server systems, HP's close collaboration with Oracle helps us to drive the benefits of an Adaptive Enterprise to our joint customers," said HP's Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Solution Alliances, Ron Eller. "The unified technology structure of Oracle Fusion Middleware combined with our industry-leading systems and services can help increase customers' business flexibility and adapt quickly to changing business needs. Together, we're simplifying the complexities of designing, deploying and managing SOAs as a fundamental enabler of the Adaptive Enterprise."
"Providing solutions that are simple to use with integrated management tools is the core reason that Oracle customers choose NetApp for their storage needs," said Network Appliance's Vice President of Products and Partners, Patrick Rogers. "The new standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware extends our level of cooperation and collaboration in developing complete application solutions. NetApp is proud to be an Oracle infrastructure partner and looks forward to supporting the customers who choose this innovative product."
Leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware's Scalability and Flexibility
Oracle Fusion Middleware provides ISVs with a J2EE 1.4-compliant application server to run sophisticated enterprise applications; standards-based business process management technology to connect ISV applications to other systems including Oracle's packaged applications; and business analytics, enterprise portal and identity management technology to build scalable, flexible and secure business applications.
North America
Some of the key partners supporting Oracle Fusion Middleware throughout North America include: Agile Software Corporation, Applied Biosystems, AppWorx Corporation, BIO-key, ChemWare, Inc., BMC Software, Inc., Business Objects, Cerner Corporation, Citrix Systems, Cognos, Computer Associates, Egenera, Elsevier MDL, EMC Corporation (for the EMC Documentum platform), Enterra Solutions, EPL, Fair Isaac Corporation, FileNet Corporation, Hyperion, Interwoven, Ipedo, Marc Global, Mercury, Micro Focus, nCipher, NextLinx Corporation, Quest Software, RSA Security, sabrix, SRS2, SunGard SCT, Syncsort Incorporated, SYNORAN, Waters Corporation and Webify Solutions.
"Healthcare is delivered 24x7x365, it's beyond mission critical, it's life critical. Millennium solutions not only have to be reliable and available to meet the demanding needs of healthcare, they also have to deliver end user performance. Oracle Fusion Middleware has helped us meet these expectations by allowing us to focus on building life-critical healthcare solutions and less on building infrastructure," said Cerner Corporation's Vice President Engineering, Owen Straub.
Asia Pacific
Key partners throughout Asia Pacific supporting Oracle Fusion Middleware include: 3i Infotech Pte Ltd., Boon Software Consulting Pte Ltd., China Software, Digital China Limited, eBao Technology Co. Ltd., i-flex Solutions Ltd., Infosys Technology Ltd., Longshine, Neusoft Co.Ltd., Nucleus, QR Retail Sdn Bhd., System Access Limited, Taiji Computer Corporation Ltd., TeamSun and Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd.
System Access, a leading banking software provider, uses Oracle Fusion Middleware to provide customer-centric universal banking solutions for financial institutions worldwide.
"We are extensively using key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware to create a SOA-based SYMBOLS banking product that meets the various business processing needs of back-office, middle-office and front-office applications," said System Access Limited's Senior Vice President and Head of Global Sales, Product Research and Development and Marketing Aravinth Kumarasamy. "Using a single integrated middleware platform for our SYMBOLS product, our customers can more easily manage IT systems while improving productivity and reducing costs."
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Partners based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa that are benefiting from Oracle Fusion Middleware include: aquila, AttntiV Systems, Axiom Systems Ltd., Campus IT, CGI Group Inc., e-vita as, Enonic as, Escenic AS, ifactory solutions CC, IFS, Intec Telecom Systems PLC, Integrated Tertiary Software (Pty) Ltd., Inter-Access, Kerridge Computer Company Limited, Misys Banking Systems, Mysoft ASA, PortalUniverse, Prodatis AG, Prologic and SIV AG.
IFS, a leading global business applications supplier with sales in 45 countries worldwide, uses Oracle Fusion Middleware.
"Oracle Fusion Middleware is important to us as we already have customers deploying IFS Applications on Oracle Application Server. The BPEL functionality is a natural fit for IFS Service-Oriented Component Architecture and makes integration with IFS Web services a plug and play exercise. The management tools and other features introduced with Oracle Fusion middleware make it a compelling technical infrastructure for our customers," said IFS, Chief Technology Officer, Dan Johansson.
"Oracle Fusion Middleware is a solid success story that Oracle should highlight to more people," said Capgemini's Global CTO, Andy Mulholland. "Oracle really gets the point that its not just what you do -- the Oracle Applications part -- but how you do it -- the Oracle Middleware part -- that makes for success. Given the pressure for regular change in business today, and the need to have 'anything-to-anything' integration immediately available, it's just as important that the 'how' is easily repeatable and standards-based. It's a great technology set that will provide the underpinnings for Oracle and third party applications integrations."
Latin America
Oracle Fusion Middleware partners throughout Latin America include: AB Systems, Arango Software International, Data Team Consulting SA de CV, DOMINIOTECH S.A.C., Grupo Luthe, Innersoft Limitada, Jotafi S.A., Legadmi Sistemas CA, Mastersaf, Matera, Neitek, ODEA SRL, Sistemas Integrados Delta, SIS ORGANIZACION CONSORCIO S.A. DE C.V., Socase and Softway/Softcomex Informatica Ltda.
"The Mastersaf solution, as a tax compliance solution, requires data from most information sources. Normally this information is dispersed in different platforms and technologies, and integrating these sources is always a critical issue in Mastersaf's implementation. Using Oracle Fusion Middleware we are now able to develop all interfaces in a single tool, minimize development, maintenance and deployment costs, while reducing development time, increasing flexibility and compliance with our customer's business practices," said Mastersaf Brazil's Technology Director, José Lopes dos Santos Neto.
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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