Oracle Announces Oracle(R) Business Integration, a Comprehensive Enterprise Integration Offering

Oracle Announces Oracle(R) Business Integration, a Comprehensive Enterprise Integration Offering

Standards-Based Solution Integrates Systems, Data and Applications

ORACLE(R) OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oracle(R) (NASDAQ:ORCL) today announced a new business integration offering that includes an Enterprise Service Bus, Business Process Management (BPM), enhanced Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), B2B technologies and new Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) capabilities. The comprehensive offering, Oracle Business Integration, is designed to meet the different types of challenges customers face when integrating enterprise systems and applications while moving to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Grid infrastructure.

As companies shift from complex, legacy EAI technologies, they are adopting simple, more flexible and open architectures based on SOA and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) processes, to reduce complexity and lower the cost of integration. Oracle's offering delivers increased flexibility to users while preserving customer investments by supporting existing EAI technologies, as well as leveraging BPEL and SOA technologies.

Oracle's Business Integration offering provides a broad range of capabilities including:

-- Data Integration and EAI facilities with an Enterprise Service Bus and
suite of Data Hubs;
-- BPM based on SOA and BPEL to automate Enterprise Business Process and
Workflow;
-- Complex Event Processing and BAM to monitor organizational performance
and improve business process performance;
-- Comprehensive Connectivity with mainframes, TP-monitors, databases,
messaging systems, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel,
Microsoft and others; and,
-- Comprehensive industry-certified Business-to-Business integration
capabilities with support for RosettaNet, HL7, EDIFACT, AS2, UCCNet and
SWIFT.



Built on open standards with integrated development and management tools, Oracle Business Integration enables companies to reduce the overall costs associated with integration projects. Now, organizations can go to a single vendor for a complete business integration solution rather than assembling point products from various niche vendors.

"Organizations throughout the world face a multitude of integration offerings, which forces them to spend time and money integrating their integration technology. With Oracle Business Integration, we have put together a comprehensive solution designed to reduce complexity and cost for our customers," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Server Technologies, Oracle Corp. "By offering the most complete and open integration solutions based on SOA standards, Oracle enables customers to complete integration projects easier and faster, while decreasing overall costs."

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CONTACT: Rebecca Hahn of Oracle Corp., +1-714-445-4611, or
rebecca.hahn@oracle.com; or Marcie Hatch of Zeno Group, +1-415-369-8120, or
marcie.hatch@zenogroup.com, for Oracle Corp.

Web site: http://www.oracle.com/


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