Oracle(R) Details Milestones for Oracle Fusion Architecture and
Oracle Fusion Applications
Oracle Executives Report the Company is Halfway through the
Oracle Fusion Applications Development Process
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 18-JAN-2006 -- At an event today hosted by
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in San Francisco's City Hall, Oracle
provided a progress report and outlined the next level of detail
for Oracle(R) Fusion Architecture and Oracle Fusion Applications.
Executives from the world's largest enterprise software company
reaffirmed their commitment to the company's diverse customer base
and further defined the roadmap for new functionality that will
help customers prepare for the upgrade to Oracle Fusion
Applications.
"We are already halfway through the development process of Oracle
Fusion Applications, and we remain on track for the 2008 target
delivery of the Oracle Fusion Applications," said Oracle President
Charles Phillips. "Our customers and partners participating on the
Fusion Customer Council have been enthusiastic about the
significant progress we've made in such a short period of time. We
have defined Oracle Fusion Architecture, certified all Oracle
applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion Middleware, which
includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the
Oracle Fusion applications. Additionally, we have defined the data
model and mapped the functionality that is planned for future
releases of Oracle Fusion Applications."
Laptop Battery "We have engaged our customer base in the Fusion development
process, and feel confident that 80% of our customers will be able
to upgrade to Oracle Fusion Applications and can plan to find
functionality they had in earlier application versions, as well as
new features coming from other applications," Phillips
continued.
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Thinkpad On the Path to Fusion
Oracle Senior Vice President of Applications Development John
Wookey detailed new functionality Oracle plans for release in 2006
that will lay the groundwork for customers who choose to upgrade to
Oracle Fusion Applications. Wookey discussed a Web Services
Repository intended to help customers integrate disparate systems
in a standards-based way, define business processes in their
existing applications and easily develop extensions. Leveraging the
Web Services Repository, customers could build custom composite
applications using Oracle Portal or any JSR168 compliant portal.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager will be able to leverage the Web
Services Repository to design and implement standards-based
adaptable business processes. Additionally, the Web Services
Repository helps expose the integration points of Oracle Fusion
Applications.
"Edmunds.com's Web site is just the tip of the iceberg. We are also an automotive resource committed to providing consumers and partners with easily accessible automotive information, " said Rob Patton, executive director, business intelligence and data architecture, Edmunds.com. "In order for Edmunds.com to expand our B2C and B2B industry leadership, we must continue to evolve. By building on the Oracle Application Server Platform Suite, in performance, reliability and flexibility required to handle our site's high volume of traffic and data."
Microsoft Wookey discussed new reporting capabilities that utilize Oracle
XML Publisher and can be used with the existing Oracle E-Business
Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise or JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
applications. The new library of reports is scheduled to be
available for download in 2006, and will augment existing reporting
capabilities. These are the same reports that are planned for
release with Oracle Fusion Applications, giving customers a chance
to move a key element of their business and applications system to
the Oracle Fusion structure.
"The numbers clearly indicate that Oracle made impressive gains in 2004 and widened the gap between itself and the nearest competitor, " said Robert Shimp, vice president of Technology Marketing, Oracle. "The growth is attributable to a number of factors including the availability of Oracle Database 10g, the success of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One, and the overall acceptance and adoption of our grid computing strategy by customers and partners. Oracle is enabling more customers to obtain greater utilization of their IT systems today."
Laptop Computers Finally, Wookey discussed the work the company has done to help
ease the upgrade to Oracle Fusion Applications. "We've already
developed the upgrade architecture and will begin working with a
customer advisory board later this year to help us determine the
best ways to automate and ease the upgrade process. A key priority
is for us to make the upgrade as automated as possible, and to
reduce cost and downtime," Wookey continued.
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Laptop Computer Protecting Existing Investments: New Releases of Current
Applications
Wookey reiterated Oracle's commitment to protecting customers'
current investment by continually developing enhanced versions of
Oracle applications in 2006: Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft
Enterprise 9 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12. In 2007, a new
version of JD Edwards World is planned. Additionally, in future
releases, customers will begin to see the benefits of Oracle Fusion
functionality designed to streamline their eventual upgrade to
Oracle Fusion Applications.
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Desktop Computer Oracle Fusion Architecture
Oracle Senior Vice President of Server Technologies Thomas Kurian
detailed Oracle Fusion Architecture, Oracle's standards-based
technology blueprint for Service-Oriented Architecture-based
enterprise solutions, and the benefits of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Organizations that build and deploy systems built on Oracle Fusion
Architecture will be able to realize key benefits from extending
their current investments by easily adding and integrating new
functionality, and reducing total Information Technology (IT)
ownership costs. Oracle Fusion Architecture is based on three IT
trends that provide business value to customers, including:
Notebooks * Service-Oriented Architecture - which enables flexible
business applications and processes.
* Enterprise Information Architecture - which provides
comprehensive business intelligence.
* Grid Computing Architecture - which allows deployment and
management of all key infrastructure components that power business
applications: databases, middleware and storage on low-cost
hardware and storage.
Lenovo Kurian also summarized the key benefits of Oracle Fusion
Middleware, Oracle's highly popular family of middleware software
that simplifies the development, deployment, integration and
management of applications. Available today in its seventh major
release, Oracle Fusion Middleware is the technology infrastructure
that powers Oracle Fusion Applications and has been broadly adopted
by a customer base of more than 28,500. Oracle Fusion Middleware is
also supported by a growing ecosystem of 4,500 partners, which
includes 2,500 ISVs and more than 28,500 consultants.
Hard Drive Customers who have been using Oracle Fusion Middleware will
continue to be able to:
* Integrate Oracle applications in heterogeneous
environments;
* Improve business agility with flexible business processes;
* Improve corporate performance with better business
intelligence;
* Improve business productivity with enterprise portals and desktop
integration; and
* Lower total cost of ownership with Grid computing and Oracle
Identity Management.
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