Integrate easily with Oracle's Fusion Middleware

NEW DELHI: As part of its commitment to help organizations integrate and manage enterprise complexity, Oracle has announced Oracle(r) Fusion Middleware and a roadmap for certifying PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications with this middleware offering.

Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a comprehensive, open, standards-based approach for deploying Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Using Web Services, an Enterprise Service Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to implement SOAs, customers can easily integrate heterogeneous business applications and automate business processes. Oracle's middleware is used to support the Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as other enterprise applications and thousands of Independent Software Vendors that use it as the basis to build their own custom applications.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is the newly created brand for Oracle's family of existing, world-class middleware products, which includes all of the products needed to integrate a number of diverse business applications. These products include the family of products in Oracle Application Server 10g - Application Development Tools and J2EE Application Server; Web Services infrastructure; Enterprise Service Buses and Integration; Business Process Management and Activity Monitoring; Business Intelligence Tools; Security and Identity management; Enterprise Portals and Mobile - as well as Data Hubs and Oracle Collaboration Suite.

Marking the next step in Project Fusion, Oracle plans to certify PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware products in Q2 and Q3 calendar 2005, respectively. The certification of Oracle Fusion Middleware for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications demonstrates Oracle's commitment to enabling customers to move to Information-Age applications today. Customers can use Oracle Fusion Middleware to support their entire enterprise including Oracle and non-Oracle business applications, custom applications developed by in-house IT staff and consultants and the emerging broad array of standards-compliant enterprise services. As part of Oracle's commitment to PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, Oracle is also continuing to support its PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product lines on platforms from other vendors including IBM and BEA.

"The certification of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards expands our ability to simplify the integration of heterogeneous applications and data," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle. "Instead of locking customers into proprietary systems, Oracle Fusion Middleware provides customers with a flexible and cost effective platform to fuse applications together."