Oracle Fusion Middleware
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Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM, also known as Fusion Middleware) 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]
Oracle Fusion Middleware provides software for the development, deployment, and management of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It includes what Oracle calls "hot-pluggable" architecture,[2] which allows users to make[weasel words]better use of existing applications and systems from other software vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and SAP AG[citation needed].
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[edit] Evolution
Many of the products included under the Oracle Fusion Middleware banner do not themselves class as 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 — compare Oracle Fusion.
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.[3]
In order to provide standards-based software to assist with business process automation, HP has incorporated OFM into its service-oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio.[4]
Oracle Corporation plans to leverage its configurable network computing (CNC) technology acquired from its combined PeopleSoft and JDEdwards purchase in 2005. It has started[when?] releasing Oracle Fusion Applications based on Oracle Fusion Middleware.
[edit] Assessments
In January 2008 Oracle Universal Content Management won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for "Best Enterprise Content Manager", with Oracle SOA Suite 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 USD$1 billion during FY06, estimating the revenue from the genuinely middleware aspects at USD$740M.[6]
[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)
- Oracle Enterprise Messaging Service
- Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
- Oracle Application server B2B
- Oracle Imaging and Process Management
- Oracle Service Registry
- Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
- development tools
- business intelligence
- Oracle Business Intelligence 10g[8]
- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM)
- 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
- performance
[edit] Integration, pricing and bundling
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Apart from selling licenses to run OFM components,[9] Oracle Corporation also markets a managed option via the SaaS Oracle On Demand service.[10]
[edit] See also
- Configurable Network Computing, the scalable middleware developed by JDEdwards in the mid-1990s, some of the elements of which Oracle may[original research?] incorporate into Fusion Middleware.
[edit] References
- ^ "Oracle Fusion Middleware". oracle.com website. Oracle Corporation. http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/middleware/index.html. Retrieved 2009-07-22. "Oracle's complete family of application infrastructure products — from the #1 Java application server to SOA and enterprise portals — are integrated with Oracle Applications and technologies to speed implementation and lower the cost of management and change."
- ^ "Oracle Fusion Middleware is 'Hot-Pluggable'". Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle Corporation. http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/hot-pluggable.html. Retrieved 2009-09-12. "Oracle Fusion Middleware's hot-pluggable capabilities enables customers to 'drop & deploy' various Oracle Fusion Middleware products into their existing IT environments." (Oracle Corporation's web-page on OFM's "hot-pluggable" capabilities.)
- ^ "Oracle Marks Key Milestone With Siebel Certification Roadmap for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware", prnewswire, 2006
- ^ "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 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
- ^ "Section II: Oracle Fusion Middleware" (PDF). Oracle Technology Global Price List. Oracle Corporation. 2009-07-01. p. 4–6. http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ "Get to Fusion Faster with Oracle On Demand". Oracle Information Insight. Oracle Corporation. October 2006. http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-insight/on-demand/oct-06/ondemand-path-to-fusion.html. Retrieved 2009-07-22. "Companies [...] can turn to Oracle On Demand [...] providing a smoother, lower-risk path to Fusion."
