Oracle Fusion Middleware
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Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) consists of a portfolio of software products from Oracle Corporation. OFM spans multiple services, including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management. OFM depends on open standards such as BPEL, SOAP, XML and JMS.[1] Many of the products included under the Oracle Fusion Middleware banner are not themselves middleware products: "Fusion Middleware" essentially represents a re-branding of many of Oracle Corporation's products outside of Oracle's core database and applications-software offerings. According to Oracle Corporation, by 2006 over 30,000 organizations had become Fusion Middleware customers, including over 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the BusinessWeek Global 1000, with OFM also supported by 7,500 partners.[2]
Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to support the development, deployment, and management of Service-Oriented Architecture. It includes what Oracle calls "Hot-Pluggable" architecture, which allows users to leverage existing investments in applications and systems from other software vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and SAP AG.[3] Oracle will also leverage its configurable network computing, (CNC) technology acquired from its combined PeopleSoft and JDEdwards purchase in 2005. Oracle Fusion Applications are under development based on Oracle Fusion Middleware.
HP, in order to provide standards-based software to assist with business process automation, have incorporated OFM into their Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) portfolio.[4]
In January 2008, Oracle Universal Content Management won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for "Best Enterprise Content Manager", with Oracle SOA Suite also winning the award for "Best Enterprise Service Bus".[5]
In 2007, Gartner said "OFM has reached a degree of completeness that puts it on par with, and in some cases ahead of, competing software stacks", reporting revenue from the suite of over $1bn US during FY06, estimating the revenue from the genuinely middleware aspects at $740M.[6]
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[edit] Oracle Fusion Middleware Components
- Enterprise application server
- Integration- and process-management
- BPEL Process Manager
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Business rules
- Business Process Analysis Suite
- Business process management
- Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)[7]
- Enterprise connectivity (adapters)
- Enterprise Messaging Service
- Enterprise Service Bus
- Oracle Application server B2B
- Service registry
- Web Services manager
- Development tools
- Business intelligence
- Business Intelligence 10g[8]
- Business activity monitoring
- Oracle Discoverer
- Data hubs
- Oracle BI Publisher
- Oracle Reports services
- Systems management
- User interaction
- Oracle Beehive collaboration software
- Oracle Portal
- Oracle Webcenter
- Real-time collaboration
- Unified messaging
- Workspaces
- Content management
- Identity management
- Grid infrastructure
- Services registry
- Application server security
[edit] Integration, pricing and bundling
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[edit] See also
- Configurable Network Computing the scalable middleware developed by JDEdwards in the mid 90s, some of the elements of which Oracle may[original research?] incorporate into Fusion Middleware.
[edit] References
- ^ "Oracle Fusion Middleware", Oracle Corp.
- ^ "Oracle Marks Key Milestone With Siebel Certification Roadmap for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware", prnewswire, 2006
- ^ Oracle's page on its 'hot-pluggable' capabilities"
- ^ "HP & Oracle Fusion Middleware and Service-Oriented Architectures"
- ^ "Oracle Fusion Middleware Wins Two InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards"
- ^ Pezzini, Massimo; Barnes, Michael; Cantara, Michele; Iijima, Kimihiko (2007) " Oracle Fusion Middleware: On the Road to Service-Oriented Architecture (and Beyond)", Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00145119, Gartner, Inc.
- ^ Rittman, Mark. "An Introduction to Real-Time Data Integration". http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-odi.html?msgid=7689776. Retrieved on 2009-06-08. "Oracle Data Integrator, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, [...] is a Java-based application that uses the database to perform set-based data integration tasks"
- ^ http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/index.html
