Indian customers choose Oracle Fusion Middleware as SOA foundation

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Business and IT decision makers in India are building their service-oriented architecture (SOA) with Oracle Fusion Middleware to better manage their business processes, increase enterprise agility, enhance informed decision making and reduce the cost of doing business.

Indian businesses and government organizations, which have recently adopted Oracle Fusion Middleware components such as Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, include Godfrey Phillips, Kolkata Municipal Corp., KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd and SREI Sahaj e-Village Ltd.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a pre-integrated portfolio of customer-proven software that spans from portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, and business intelligence. It is increasingly serving as the foundation for organizations' service-oriented integrations, enabling companies to run and expand their businesses using SOA. SOA facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated. Benefits include reuse, ease of maintenance and change, and improved business visibility.

Dr. Syed Sabahat Azim, Indian Administrative Service, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at SREI said: "We chose Oracle Fusion Middleware over competitive products as it met with the extensive requirements of our e-Initiatives program. Using Oracle's SOA framework, different applications from our various departments will be seamlessly integrated and a portal created to host a multitude of services for our rural citizens."

In line with the Indian Prime Minister's vision, SREI Sahaj e-Village will set up 10,000 Common Service Centers (CSCs) in the states of Bihar and West Bengal to provide information and services to citizens in the areas of governance, agriculture, education, vocational training, health, and hygiene. The largest projects of its kind in the world, the CSCs are part of the Indian Government's National E-Governance Plan.

"More and more organizations are recognizing the benefits of middleware for future business growth and competitive success. Middleware is not just about connecting applications and exchanging data -- it enables our customers to be more agile and better-informed, as well as to secure sensitive information and to streamline compliance initiatives," said Sunil Mehra, Director of Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales for Oracle India. "Our middleware customers in India are using Oracle Fusion Middleware to put in place a standards-based SOA."

Independent analyst firm Gartner positioned components of Oracle Fusion Middleware in the Leaders Quadrant for seven Magic Quadrants tracking the middleware market. These include Application Infrastructure , Application Infrastructure for Composite Application Projects , Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects , Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Applications Projects , Business Intelligence Platforms , Horizontal Portal Products and Web Access Management.