Oracle Fusion Middleware
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Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) is a portfolio of software products, produced by Oracle, that spans multiple services, including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management. OFM is based 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 being a rebranding of many of Oracle's products outside of their core database and applications software offerings. According to Oracle, by 2006 over 30,000 organizations were 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 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 what is called configurable network computing, (CNC) techology that it got from its combined PeopleSoft and JDEdwards acquisition in 2005.
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 & Process Management
- BPEL Process Manager
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Business Rules
- Enterprise Connectivity (Adapters)
- Enterprise Messaging Service
- Enterprise Service Bus
- Integration B2B
- Service Registry
- Web Services Manager
- Development Tools
- Business Intelligence
- Business Intelligence 10g[7]
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Discoverer
- Data Hubs
- BI Publisher
- Reports Services
- Systems Management
- Enterprise Manager 10g
- Web Services Manager
- User Interaction
- Collaboration Suite
- Portal
- Oracle Webcenter
- Real-Time Collaboration
- Unified Messaging
- Workspaces
- Identity management
- Identity Management
- Enterprise Single sign-on
- Identity Manager
- Oracle Access Manager
- Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
- Grid Infrastructure
- Services Registry
- Application Server Security
[edit] See also
- Configurable Network Computing the scalable middleware developed by JDEdwards in the mid 90s and some of whose elements may be incorporated in the Oracle solution.
[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.
- ^ http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/index.html
